Two Average Guys, One Philly Obsession: Season 2 Kickoff

Season 2 is here, and so is another rollercoaster start for the Philadelphia Phillies. We’re just two average guys reacting in real time, breaking down early wins, brutal losses, and everything in between.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hello and welcome back to episode number one of season two of Two Average Guys. Today, Sawyer is back on the podcast. He finally has time. No, I was just playing. Um, we had a couple guest appearances, but Sawyer's back, and opening day has come and gone. We are about 10 games into the season, and we're gonna kind of talk about some stuff that's happened in the MLB, but we're really gonna focus in on the Phillies. So, Sawyer, welcome back. You want to, you know, yeah, start us off?

SPEAKER_02 0:42

I'll start off, but so like I mean, opening series against the Rangers. I think I mean we two and one in the series, not bad. We got to see a lot of we got to see Justin Crawford just ball out, still going crazy. I mean, you you talked highly about him. I mean, I wasn't as like confident, but like, dude, he's kind of like our best hitter right now. Just kind of funny.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Just really, I mean, he hit over 300 every year in the minors. Yeah. Um, they went one and two against the Rangers. Rangers are a decent team, I guess. I mean, uh, they're always decent. I think the Phillies should definitely be better, but it always seems Oh, did I say one?

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Did I see two and one? No, yeah, you see.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Oh, my bad, yeah, my bad. It always feels like the Phillies start, you know, one and two. Like I'm pretty sure I saw a post that like the last six seasons the Phillies have gone one and two or something on on opening series. So I'm not too upset with that. I mean, like first 10 games. This is what game 12s going on right now as we're recording this.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

Yeah, betting like 320 right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

I think he's up higher than that.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

I think he's I mean, I I'm it's updated right now, 320.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Oh, is it 324? Yeah, with everything updated. Yeah. I mean, that's that's exactly what you want. Yeah, like first 11, 12 games, and that's what you're gonna get.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

That's like he's a he's a nine-hole guy, he's just there to get on, and he's doing a he's doing a great job of it.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Exactly that. He's got first walk-off, first hit, and I'm pretty sure. Um I think his first day being the majors was a single up the middle. And then, you know, he's really, really good. Another guy who's come in and been really good is Adolis Garcia. I don't okay, I won't say really good, but he's been good. Um he's played okay defense, but I know he's got I think he has two homers, and one of them was was jacked over 400 feet, I'm pretty sure. Um, so he's putting bad on ball. I don't know necessarily where his average is right now at this moment. I can check. Um he's playing today, he's batting 256, but honestly, if he can stay around 250 and hit some pumps like that, that are we talking about uh Adoles. Yeah, if he can stay around 250 and hit 30 plus bombs, like that's what we want from him.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

Yeah, I mean, what did he? I don't think he didn't have 30 plus last year at the Rangers, right? I don't think he did.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

That was a it was a bad year.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

Yeah, but I mean, yeah, great defense, like you said. I mean, we we knew that going in, getting him best one of the better defending right fielders in the league. But I mean, yeah, we're he's gonna need after seeing like him play, we're gonna need a lot of pumps out of him for him to make an impact.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Yeah, it the lineup hasn't been producing nearly as well as I thought it was going to.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Yes, I agree completely.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

I mean, um Schwarber's gotta get hot, Harper's gotta get hot, Bone's gotta get hot, Stott's gotta get hot.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

I mean okay. Bohm wasn't I he's injured right now, I thought he wasn't in the lineup the other day because of that.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

He wasn't injured, he's playing in the game.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

He's playing today, yeah. Okay, that makes sense then.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

And Otto Kemp goes on the left field and did not look good.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

He didn't?

SPEAKER_01 3:58

He he misread a ball very, very poorly that went right over his head.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Yeah, he's he's he's a liability out there, but I mean he could hit when he can hit, like yeah, and Brandon Marsh, I think, looks good. Uh Marsh has been great. I like I I still love Marsh. I think he's a very underrated guy.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

I that's not good. Marshawn, though. I I I'm semi-high on Marshawn. I think he's a decent player.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

I mean, yeah, he just like low-key like he hits as just as well as JT and is a way worse fielder than JT.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Yeah, I I'm I I wouldn't even say he hits as well as JT. I don't think he hits it.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

I mean I mean it helps that he's a switch hitter, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Yeah, it helps that he's a switchy.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

I mean he he's he's like the same or lower, yeah. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yeah, I don't know. Uh he'll do until JT comes back. Hopefully he won't be out too long. Seems like it wasn't that serious.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

Yeah, I think it'll be fine.

SPEAKER_01 4:55

But but it's gotta get the guys hot. I mean, we're really just not hitting the ball.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

I mean, yeah, off the bat, like our run differential was horrible because we got killed by the Nats 13-2, and then I mean, then we won the next two at least, but it was only one run. Like, our run differentiable was horrible.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Yeah, so I mean, yeah, after the first series loss to the Rangers, we won two of three against the Nats, two of three against the Rockies, and we're split one and one right now with the Giants and playing game three of that series right now. Yeah, 0-0 right now. Six and five overall, not bad. Fourth in the division, really early in the division. Um, Mets and Braves, in my opinion, look good. I think both those teams look pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Yeah, I mean, it it it does make me feel better that Bo's not looking the greatest.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Yeah, that does make me feel a lot better.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

Yeah, he's not. I mean, but yeah, ever their whole team's doing great.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

He's up over 200. I'll say that. I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously, he was like 311 last year. So obviously he won him around 300, but for for how crappy he started being up to 212 is is definitely good.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Yeah, I mean, talking about so like Harper probably had one of the worst starts in MLB. I like read like after at first, like I it was a guy comparing like all the like the stars that are doing bad, like Nick Kurtz at first, like through five or like through five something games, had like he was like two for like and not five games, maybe a little more, like two for like thirty. Yeah, he had he had a really bad start, but um Harper. I mean, last game or two games ago, he he came out, he came out hot, had a really good game after just last game. Or it was last yeah, I didn't I was about to say it wasn't last year.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

He needs to like Harper he he had a bad year last year, and he really needs to step it up if he wants to do it.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

Say in a bad year. People are people are quick to say in a bad year. He still hit 280. He still hit 280. Um, yeah, the power was down a little bit. Yeah, you want the average maybe a little bit higher, but 280 is not it, it's respectable, but uh people are quick to say it was a down year. I think it was an okay year. Um, it definitely wasn't an elite year, and I want him to return to being elite Bryce Harper form. Yeah. Um, but you saw that in game one against the Giants, but uh he also said he liked playing in in Oracle Park, so I don't know if that was just Bryce Harper going off on some Bryce Harper stuff, or if that's if the ballpark really has a difference for him.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I want to go into Painter though. Uh like first game, first game going into it. I was so terrified.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

A live update, Rafael Devers just hit a three-run home run.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Okay, but let's ignore that. Uh damn it. Um who's pitching right now? Who's in?

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Nola.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Nola's he p he he pitched through the seventh.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

No, it's the bottom of the sixth.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Oh, it's still the bottom six. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

It's the bottom of the sixth.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Long ass, long ass inning. But um yeah, well, sadly that happened. But let's go right into uh painter though. Like we were we before before anything happened, we were all terrified. I mean, first first outing, phenomenal. Uh like one one earned run, which okay, he the guy when he came out was on second end. I forget who came in, but he kind of sold it for uh for painter, in my opinion. But great, I forget how many K's he had, but uh oh he had eight K's first outing, one run, phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

I mean, his next his next game was uh but yeah, no, so he's had two starts, um nationals. We ended up winning the game. He got the win by decision. Uh yeah, the one run on five and a third, like Sawyer said. Second game, four innings, nine hits, four earned runs, only one K. Um wasn't really good, but that's kind of in the story of our pitchers, in my opinion. At least with like Sanchez, they've had one good outing and one not so good outing, or like Lazardo, his two outings, his one outing, he went six innings, six earned runs, gave up two homers, and the next and next outing goes six and two thirds, only gives up one run and strikes out eleven. Like it feels like our pitchers are having like either a really good outing or a really bad outing, and right now they've given us one of each. Yeah, except for Taiwan Walker, who's back to being very not good.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

I was so uh disappointed. Like, he's been horrible every time.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

You were so high on him at the end of last year, you were like, Oh, this is the guy, put him in the rotation, and now he does not he does not look like the guy. He has two outings. Uh, the first outing was against the Nationals, where we ended up losing 13-2. He went four and two-thirds, gave up ten hits, seven runs, six of them earned, with only two strikeouts, and got the loss. And then he pitched in the game that we lost to the Colorado Rockies four to one. He went five innings, seven hits, four runs, four earned, gave up three home runs, two to former Philly Mickey Moniac. Uh two walks, struck out four.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Are we talking about uh oh who gave up the bomb to those that was game oh it was Walker?

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Yeah, yeah, he gave up two bombs to Mickey.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

I remember I literally remember seeing uh before that game, like he has like a two ERA against the Rockies. It was like a random thing, and now he's like not anymore. Yeah, it was horrible.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

He's got a seven point, or I'm sorry, he's got a nine point three one ERA on the season, which is horrible, and he's owing two, dude.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

I I yeah, I hooked him up a lot. I had so much faith in him, and now yeah, I don't know, but you did you definitely did hype. Dude, he was so he he he ended his season last season amazing, phenomenal, and I had so much faith, but yeah. I mean, yeah, I think the lineup overall just has to get hot right now, at least everything, because it's like the same, it's like the playoffs we had, like only like two guys were good, and then the rest just horrible. I mean, Turner's not having a horrible start.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Uh not what we want though. Yeah, but I just like uh it's it's Turner needs to be back to 300, basically. That's what I want. Yeah. By the end of the year, I want to turn it back to 300. I want Schwarber to be around 250.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

What is he at right now?

SPEAKER_01 12:28

220, like 200, just about that. Harper, I want to be 290.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Um, you know, is he batting like 260 right now?

SPEAKER_01 12:39

He's 230.

SPEAKER_02 12:41

Damn, he's not even in the 50 range.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

No, um, bohm, bone. I would like to see in the 270s.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Dude, okay. I call it crazy. I'm dude. Bone's been very like disappointing. Like the start too, like low-key chucking a Sosa.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

I you know how I feel about Edmundo Sosa. I I think he should, like, oh baby, Edmundo Sosa. Hey, he played the other day and was one of the Phillies' four hits. The other three people that have hits included Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, and Edmundo Sosa. Those were our four hits. So, you know, I think the guy deserved the guy at least earned a little bit of time. Like, one, yeah, I know Boehm, I know Bohm leads the team in RBIs and all that. Whatever. He's in the four hole. He's gonna have a bunch of chances to get RBIs with the top three guys in our lineup and Justin Crawford hitting super well. But Edmundo Sosa should play every day, and I don't think that's crazy. I don't think that's crazy at all.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think he should at least platoon more with maybe with stop more. I mean, he already does, but like, yeah, I do agree. Like, when when but when Bohm is cold, which is right now, I think he should be getting a lot more reps at third, at least.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

That's what I'm saying. Like, yeah, he leads the team in RBIs, but he's hitting fourth, where Crawford's hitting 300, and then you have Trey Turner, Schwab, and Harper. He's gonna have chances to get RBIs. Yeah, that's why he's leading the team. Also, team leader in RBIs. He only has like eight. Like we're not our our differential for through 11 games is is negative 10. It's still negative, negative 10. Well, we just lost 6-0 to the Giants.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Yeah, yeah, you could point.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Yeah, um, Dylan Moore got in at second instead of Stott. He didn't look good. Yeah, uh, he didn't look good. Auto Kemp didn't look good. Yeah, it's been uh so our really like our true only bench guy is Edmundo Sosa. Yeah. And I'm not even sure he should be a bench guy. I would put Edmundo Sosa in the left over Auto Kemp. I don't know if that's crazy, but uh Sosa because I really do think he's a good ball player.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Oh, I think he's I I think he's a very underrated guy.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

I mean, very underrated.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Nationals game, maybe you can't get it. Yeah, it might have been the Nats. Don't think it was the Rockies.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, it was 5-3, bottom of the ninth, Sosa singled to left, and we had two guys score. And I was like, oh my goat. Like, I was so happy. He pinch hit for Bryson's, and he went one for two with two RBIs. Like, what more do you want from a guy that just got plugged into the lineup and you know, whatever, and he got in the whatever. Like, and then he went out and played second base. This man plays every position, and he's a good bat, and he sits on our bench. I don't I don't get it. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

I mean, I don't know, yeah. I mean, what uh just Bohm's been there forever. Like, I I feel like, and like you know how like uh how uh or uh what's his name? Why am I blanking uh how our manager usually is like he just like favorites his guys a lot, which I mean it's fair, Rob. Yeah, I couldn't think of Rob.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

And honestly, one of the things that I wasn't not super excited about going into the year is our bullpen, who's been phenomenal.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

I mean, okay, I was gonna actually have him up right now. The Orion Kirkering thing yesterday was hilarious. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Oh man. Orion Kirkering made his first uh first appearance since the game against the Dodgers in the playoffs last year. Moving on. Um, he made his first appearance, and in his only inning that he threw, like there was a comeback or hit right to him, and he jumped out of the way. So maybe a little bit of PTSD from the playoffs. Yeah, a lot, but maybe a lot of PTSD, and JT picked the ball up and or JT or Marshawn, I don't even remember who it was. It was JT. It was right. Picked the ball up and and made an arid throw that Harper couldn't get.

unknown 17:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

One of our two errors in that game. But uh we move on. I'm excited to see Kirk Ring back on the mound.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

Yeah. I I've liked everyone. Brad Keller, I thought would be like he's he's been good, just nothing like as I expected, though.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

I didn't know what to expect from him. He's been alright. I mean, he's done his job.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

5-4 ERA through five innings, five appearances, four or five innings pitch, four strikeouts. I mean, I really expected him to come out like crazy because he he was really good for the Cubs, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

He's been uh he's just gonna set up he doesn't have to do too much. Yeah, then Duran Duran's been Duran. So give us one-on-lead. That's all he's gotta give us.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

Yeah, I'm just gonna look at his stats. Yeah, one five. I mean, one five so ERA doesn't matter for closers that often, in my opinion. Seven strikeouts through five and a half inning or five point two innings. I mean, he's been great. Just Duran's gonna be Duran.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

I'm upset. I'm upset by a PED boy, bro. Jose Alvarado, yeah, I'm upset by Ozempic boy, Jose Alvarado, bro. He's not been good.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

Yeah, I mean, I saw uh when did I watch him against the I mean he didn't do bad against the Giants the other day. I don't think he did, yeah. He didn't do too bad when I watched him.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

He's like a nine ERA.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

That's just yeah, 9.8 with yeah, three innings pitch, a two whip.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

That's just not um he's pretty yeah. We are thir we're 11 games into the season. We've already had a position player pitch. Oh lord, who pitched?

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Oh, was that oh that was that was against the Nats, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Yeah, Dylan Moore got in.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Yeah, yeah, that's bad. But I mean, going down everything, I mean, um uh they have a Mundo Sosa. I'm just going down like the MLB's roster for the Philz. They have Sosa in second after stop for second, and then also second for third.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Well, yeah, he's the backup guy.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Also shortstop, yeah. He's literally everywhere. He plays he's not on the outfield, though. Not on any of the outfield.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Well, I'm not sure he's played much outfield. He has last year, I think. I think he did last year. I don't I just don't know what to do in in left field. I I honestly I think Brandon Marshall be an everyday player. I I'm not gonna lie, Autokemp was is not the guy for me.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Damn, you're hyping him up forever, ever.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Like I'm not sure I was. Autokemp's not the guy for me.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I'm with you on that. He's just a liability out there, and his bet's too iffy to actually like have that out there.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Like, obviously, he had multiple games. He had like a four-hit game last year. Like, yeah, I oh yeah, he did great. I know he's good. Obviously, he's playing in the freaking major leagues, but it to me, I think I think if you're gonna play him, it's gotta be a third base.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

And we have our third baseman, and we have our backup third baseman. Uh I'm not sure. There are a lot of people that could switch from like outfield to infield or vice versa, like Harper did coming in to play first.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Um I'm just not sure Otto Kemp is one of the guys that can play left field. I don't know if his range is like that. Like uh I I don't know. Uh it's just my opinion. I'm not I'm not huge on Otto Kemp. I would like to see Brandon Marsh be an everyday guy.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

Yeah, I agree with that completely. I mean, yeah, just Kemp's just a liability, in my opinion. And again, his bat's just not worth that liability.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

I would play, I would play Turner, Schwarber, Harper. I guess I'll play Bohm. I would I like I would play our normal lineup, but just play him every day.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Like don't put an auto. Don't but if you need a pinch hitter, it should be Sosa immediately. Shouldn't even think about it.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

I mean, it depends. I mean, yeah, I mean, who's our lefty off the bench? Why am I like blinking? Do we even have a lefty off the bench? I don't I don't that isn't out yeah, or that isn't uh is Dylan Moore switch fit?

SPEAKER_01 21:50

No, he's a righty.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Yeah, I didn't think he was. Um Yeah, I mean, I except uh except Marshawn. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 21:59

Yeah, we don't really have Wow, yeah, we don't really have a gotta.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah. I don't know. A lot of righties, but I mean, if we're being honest, when's the last time we've had like a cre we've never had a crazy pitch hit or like appearance ever? We usually just keep our lineup throughout the whole game. Like, I don't know. No matter what the matchup is. Unless it's like Stot against a lefty bottom nine. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Uh it's it's just it's been a very lackluster start, but every year I watch the Phillies, I feel like I say this.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

Like I always sit here and go, Oh man, they should have been so much better to start the year. And then they always end up as a 80-90 win team.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Yeah, it yeah, yeah. We always start off slow. I mean, it happened last year, and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Hopefully they can pick it up looking towards the next couple series.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

I mean, yeah, we're gonna be we're gonna be 500 after today's game, probably, right? Yeah, 500 or no, we're below 500.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Well, yeah, oh yeah, wait, we're oh, oh yeah, we're six and five, so we'll be six and six.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Yeah, I was about to say, yeah, we're five.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you meant, but I'm with you now.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Yeah, but I mean, yeah, and then who Lazardo's pitching tomorrow?

SPEAKER_01 23:22

It is Lazardo. Lazardo.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

Yeah, Lazardo. So I mean, I don't know. Hopefully he comes out hot. That'll be that'll be cool to watch.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yeah, well, except we're facing Michael Soroka, who's 2-0 with a 0.9 ERA.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

I believe in us.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

So hopefully we can raise that ERA. Yeah, I mean, and then it's the Diamondbacks, like the Diamondbacks. In that game, we got Taiwan Walker. Uh he's and then Painter.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

Okay, and then not a not not a bad series. I mean, uh, Taiwan kind of ruins that one for me.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Oh, that's funny. We go, we go Arizona, then we go Chicago, then we go Atlanta, then we go Chicago, then we go Atlanta.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

We have two series that early with Atlanta already.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Yeah, we're Chicago at home, Atlanta at home, Chicago on the road, Atlanta on the road, and then we host San Francisco Giants at home. Oh we play, we just keep repeating teams to start the year.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Interesting. Yeah, that's why do we re yeah, that's kind of odd. Okay, but I mean I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

I I just thought that was funny. I'm looking at the yeah, um, it looks like it's gonna be a good National League East.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

Yeah, I mean, very I mean, Mets are one right now, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Mets are one seven and four, yeah, and then Braves, Braves are seven and five, Miami six and five. Surprising. I mean Sandy has been amazing. Yeah, he's yes, amazing.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

It's like it looks like his old self back in his prime.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

And yeah, he almost went, he almost went, he went complete. He did a he didn't shut out. He was supposed to.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

Well, he had a complete he had a complete shutout this year already.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Oh, does he?

SPEAKER_02 25:17

Yeah, he did. All right, look, I like remember seeing it. I saw like the highlights and everything.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Yeah, his first outing was seven innings, zero earned runs, five K's. Then he went then he went CG, three hits, seven K's, and his last outing, he went eight and a third.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

Yeah, he's been disgusting. Like it's wow, he's been fun to watch. I'll say that. It's like it's like his old self back in uh what was the year that he went crazy? It was in the teens, like I think it was like 2018.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

No, it wasn't that far back, it was only a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

No, it wasn't in the 20s, uh it might have been 21. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

You can look that up. I thought he was pretty good a couple years ago. Um Miami's lineup though, it doesn't seem that crazy, but they're they're they're playing good ball, but I'm not sure. They started the year against the Rockies, I think. Yeah, they started against the Rockies and then played the White Sox.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

So it's not good. He won uh he won uh in 22, uh Cy Young.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Yeah, I was gonna say, I thought it was only a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Eight four out of the pitcher. Um, so they started with the Rockies and then the White Sox, then went to the Yankees and the Reds. So I mean the Yankees were really their only well, let me not say that. The Reds, I guess, are halfway decent.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

They are below 500.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

No, they're not. They're not? No. They're eight and three, they're leading the central.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

The Reds? I mean, I haven't watched the Reds. Low key, I just watch straight Phillies.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

I I just kind of look at yeah, I just kind of look at you know, standings all the time. Um, the Dodgers are nine and two. I mean and the Dodgers players and even their superstars. Their best players right now has been Andy Paez.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

I mean, Otani's still been good though.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Otani's yeah, but their best player has been Andy Paez. Yeah. I promise you, he leads that team in so much, and he bats seven.

unknown 27:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

That that's oh, Shohei just went six innings, four hits, two K's today. He's a zero URA.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Wow, two appearances.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

This is his third. This is his second appearance.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Oh, it's second, okay. I was right.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Both times he went six innings. He's given up, he's giving up five hits in 12 innings.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Again, I said this other day, he's going to be an eight-time MVP.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Nah, I never mind. Let me not say that. I was gonna say he might win a uh Cy Young, but he could he doesn't get enough volume for it.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Yes, I agree. He's never gonna win a Cy Young, but he's just gonna keep winning the MVP.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

I'm not sure he'll ever pitch more than six innings. I'm not sure they'll I'm not sure they'll ever stretch him to seven. Yeah, now that they got Alex Vestia and Edwin Diaz, they're they're bullpen's deep enough where they don't need to stretch him.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

Yeah, good point. I mean, but still the guys if the guy's cooking, you're gonna leave him in. But no, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

And okay, I'm not I'm I'm never saying never. Like there might be a couple instances where he does take the ball into the seventh and go seven, maybe even eight, but I don't I don't see him ever doing like what Yamamoto does. Um I don't see him ever going nine innings or anything like that, like Yamamoto does.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

I forgot about Yamamoto.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Um or doing what Sandy's doing right now and throwing, you know, 20 20 some innings and three starts.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

It's crazy that the Dodgers are still probably gonna win this year.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Oh, 100%. They're like the there's like a there's like a 50% chance the Dodgers win the world series. Oh, yeah. I saw that post. It was like they have they have a plus 35 run differential.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Already, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

They have 72 runs scored and 37 runs against. Yeah, it's absolutely insane.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Their GM has the right mindset, just spend as much money until everyone gets pissed.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

All right, look at this one, right? The Dodgers are nine and two, they're on a five-game win streak, and in their last ten, they're eight and two. The Cincinnati Reds are eight and three, they're on a five-game win streak, and their last ten, they're eight and two. The Dodgers have a 30 plus 35 run differential. The Reds have a plus one.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Yeah, this is yeah, that's a joke.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Milwaukee's in second in the central at 8-4 with a plus 24 run differential.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

Dude, Milwaukee, Milwaukee looked gross yesterday against the Red Sox. Yeah, no, Milwaukee's a team that could be that could definitely be.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

I want to watch one of his games, but yeah, he's he went five and a third, 10Ks. Um four walks, though.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Yeah, I mean, he okay, he's a he's a kid who throws a hundred. He's not gonna he's gonna walk people.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

Yeah, but uh I get what you mean.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

He's in his two outings. Oh, I'm sorry, he has three outings. In his three outings, he has a combined nine walks and twenty-eight strikeouts.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. His team's winning. So, I mean, sometimes you know you gotta look away from the walks, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

The K's make up for it, but uh he's one and one on the season. We'll see how it goes. I think the Brewers are another team, like they they should be as good as last year. Well, probably not as good as last year. I don't think they're gonna be as good as they're still gonna be as good as last year, but they're gonna be good. Yeah, the Dodgers are of course gonna be good. I mean, it seems like a lot of our predictions from what we said. The only thing that I'm seeing is the Braves look like the team that a lot of people think the Braves are gonna be, where they're gonna come back healthy and and be very competitive. I wasn't so sold on that. I don't know about you.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Uh I I I had I I I think they were gonna go into the season a lot better because last year I don't know what happened, but they could not hit for anything. Like, stride. I mean, I'm really I'm hop I'm I'm hoping to see how Strider does this year because last year was horrible watching him. It looked like he couldn't do anything. Like, I'm sorry, like he was horrible last year.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

Yeah, I I I mean I wouldn't say horrible, but I definitely agree with what you're saying. He he has looked way better.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

Yeah, I I've been watching him this year, so I'm not 100% sure, but yeah, I like to see him do good at least, and I don't want to see him do good, at least against us, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

And then the only other division I want to take a look at real quick is the AL East, where you thought that not you, but like in general, there was a thought that the Yankees were gonna be good, the Red Sox were gonna be good, Toronto was gonna be good, Baltimore was gonna be good, and then the Rays were gonna be okay. Like a lot of people, honestly, I will say, including myself, thought this was easily going to be the best division in baseball. I thought it, I thought that this was easily going to be the best division. I didn't even think it was gonna be that close. And you have the Yankees at 8-2, the Orioles at 6-6, the Rays at 5-6, Toronto's at 4-7, and Boston's at 4-8.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Yeah, they they keep hyping up Roman Anthony, but Lord.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

I'm high on Roman Anthony.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

Okay, okay. I I don't know. His arm it's so funny, it's so bad. Like, it's horrible, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

I'm personally very, very high on Roman Anthony. I think he's good.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

I think they hyped him up a lot going to this season, and I knew it was crazy to hype him up that much.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

I'm curious to see how the I mean I'm curious to see how the whole league progresses, but the American American League East specifically, in my mind, is a division that I want to keep my eye out for because I want to see in my head it was Yankees, Toronto, Boston, Baltimore, and Tampa Bay. That's what are I had going into the year. I just kind of want to see if you know, we have a very small 10-game sample size. I want to see if as everything progresses, we get kind of the evened out, what we thought Boston gets back over 500 kind of kind of feel from from the MLB, especially that division.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

Well, we're talking about remember you said Cece, you didn't think he was gonna do good at all. Like, I mean, I wouldn't say at all. I mean, uh, he's going against the White Sox MA's. I mean, he I thought he was gonna be okay. Like, he's only let up three runs this this uh this season, nine innings pitch, three runs, eighteen K's.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Oh, yeah, I mean he's a strikeout machine. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean strikeout dean, but it that's two appearances where we only went nine innings. I mean yeah, five and four.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

Like yeah, uh yeah, one he won four, yeah. One he won five.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

Yeah, yeah, it's not ideal. I mean, it plays like the blue jays just need guys to throw, but they're they're reliant, they're they're pretty hitting reliant, yeah. Um, but uh I don't know. See also like his highest ERA is against the ALE's. Like I was just kind of taking the facts that we had.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

But um, you know, you play those guys 10, 12, 15 times in a year. You're gonna learn how to pitch them. You might make a few mistakes, um, but you're gonna learn how to pitch them. So he he should definitely adjust and be good. Um, strike out a bunch of guys, probably be over 200 K's again. I mean, oh easily, easily, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

Yeah, he's on pace nearly 20 through two appearances.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

Yeah, he's on pace to strike out two guys every inning. Yeah. Um, which is incredible.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Yeah, I mean, just got to update Giants up 4-0 now.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Oh, sweet. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 36:14

So it's just throwing a it's throwing like just put in someone random. Just put on Rafi, just put Rafael on the mound. No, he's he's catching, actually. It's five zip now.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

That's what I just saw. Devers with his fourth RBI.

unknown 36:31

Damn.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Off of who's Alvarado, man?

SPEAKER_02 36:35

They put in Alvarado, dude, and he comes in and just sells every time. I I mean, he gives up he gives up two hits in a run. I mean, yeah, this okay, time let's hell. I don't know, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

Yeah, we're just you know, this was uh uh an update 10 games into the season. We'll keep you guys updated as the season progresses with more Philly stuff, more just MLB stuff in general. But this was we wanted to touch on opening day. We want to touch on you know the young guys, Painter, Crawford, kind of touch on the the stars that need to get back to their star-like form. And we're just gonna roll with the season and hopefully everything pans out.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

Yeah, hopefully. Uh I'm I'm looking forward to the diamondback series. Hopefully we can lock in. We don't have our we don't have our best pitchers out, but we have like the middle to end of the rotation, so hopefully it's good.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Yeah, and honestly, real quick, we didn't even touch on wheeler, who's gonna be coming back soon.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Oh, yeah, good point. Yeah, I'm I'm scared.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

But I'm not, I think he looks all right. I think we're not gonna have prime wheeler, but we're definitely they wouldn't bring him back unless they thought he was ready.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

Yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

That's not something you rush. He's I he's gonna be he's gonna be wheeler, or they wouldn't bring him back. Yeah, so that'll be a great addition to the bullpen, uh, or great addition to the rotation, and hopefully Tywin Walker can get out get out of there.

SPEAKER_02 38:02

Um chill on, chill on my guy.

SPEAKER_01 38:05

No, we'll we'll we'll keep you guys updated as as the season progresses with everything, and yeah, that's that's about it for the for the first week of MLB updates.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Yeah, we'll see ya.