This Team Makes No Sense

Every game raises more questions than answers. Sawyer and Vince break down why the Philadelphia Phillies keep finding new ways to disappoint and whether anything is actually fixable.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hello and welcome back to episode number two of season two of two average guys. Um, I wish I was starting this episode off with good news, but I'm not. The Phillies are on a six-game losing streak. They are playing horrible. Their offense is giving no run support, and their pitching doesn't look nearly as good as it does as it did last year. So yeah, no, that's really all I got. The Phillies are bad, man. Sawyer, take it away.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna go into like that. Our rookie is our our nine-hole is our best player right now, and it's just depressing to watch. Dude's actually batting great, like for a rookie, just got up 283 with a 377 OBP. So a little positive on the end. Had a guy who we were scared about, but he's good. Though everyone else is just disappointing. Odolis Garcia is barely batting above 200 right now, and I was praying he was gonna be at least okay. No, he sucks right now. It's so bad to watch him. Literally leading the team in nope. I sorry, Shorbert's leading the team in strikeouts like usual, but that's fair. The Shorbert's given us homers. Eh. Still only batting 213, but I don't know. What would it what do you think about Dolves right now?

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Just been pretty mid. Um I honestly, I think Cassianos looks better. I mean Padres. I think Cassianos actually doesn't look well. I wouldn't say he looks good, but he doesn't look terrible.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Hold on, I'm pulling up Cassianos' stats just to I mean, like, I'm gonna go to let's can we okay after Adoles, let's finish with Adoles and Castellanos.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Wow, Cassie's hitting a buck 63. Never mind, give me a dole.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

Yep, horrible.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

I didn't realize he was hitting that bad. I looked earlier, he was like 225, 230.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

Let's talk about Bohm.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

I'm telling you, bro, give me Sosa.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

133, dude. Like, this is horrible. Horrible. Like, where's what's Sosa's hitting? What's what's Sosa hitting right now? I mean 250. I mean, that's it's better than everyone else, if we're being honest.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

But think about it. Think about it. That's a guy, that's a guy that doesn't see pitching every single day. He comes in once every couple days to hit 250 coming off the bench where you're not seeing pitching. I mean, think about it how hard it is like for me and you, college kids, where we don't see pitching for a couple days. Oh back and seeing pitching after not seeing it for like a week, that's hard.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

Yeah, it's impossible.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

These are the best pitchers in the world. He's taking a week off and coming back and facing Paul Skeens, Derek Scrubel. Like I mean, to hit 250 when you're not given a chance to like he's got 28 A Bs. Yeah, and Marshawn has more A Bs than he dubbed.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

Oh my gosh, Marshawn, worst hitter. I like is he he's weighs one hit, one hit, one hit in 31 ABs.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

He's got two hits.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Oh, he got two? Okay, he got one the other day, still pathetic. 65.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

I'll tell you what. I the other rookie, Felix Reyes.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Uh I watched a little bit of him. He looked good, he didn't look bad.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

First plate appearance, one home run, ended up going one for three, and was the only reason we scored a run that game. I mean, I don't even remember the final score of that game. What was the final score of the game? It was like 5-1. Couldn't tell you, dude. We probably won 5-1, and our only run was Felix Reyes, rookie got called up first A-B, bing, gone. See you later. That was electric. I was like, I was so happy. Um, I'm not gonna lie, I didn't really watch his other ABs. I don't know what he did. Hold on, I'll tell you in a second.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

He went over, he is one hit.

SPEAKER_01 4:17

He's one I know he went one for three, but I don't I don't know what he did.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Uh strike out, and then uh I think he grounded out. He struck out once.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

So I mean, not horrible, but like I know it's early for war, but like we have one, two, three, four, five, six, six guys who are have a positive war. And by the way, though, it's only like point one or point two most of the time. Like, this is bad.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Yeah, I I really don't I really don't know what to do. Like, I I want to sit here and be like, there's a positive, like no, there's nothing. There's nothing.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Our pitching sucks. Lozardo, I don't know what happened to him. I had so much faith for him, and he sucks. He is so bad.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

It looks like he's like not, it doesn't look like he's tipping his pitches like he was last year, but he's producing the same as when he was tipping his pitches. Yeah, like he's got well, what's his what's his ERI?

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Uh 794.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Nice. Yeah. So I mean, Sanchez has a 1590. He's Sanchez is the only redeeming light in the tunnel.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

You know what's sad, real quick? The guy who we thought that was the scariest, NOAA, is not even compared to the rest of everyone, is not even doing that bad.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Yeah, so our five starters, Painter has the second best ERA at a 442.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Yeah, I I mean I I I I like Painter, I'm gonna be able to do that. Yes, I've loved, I've liked watching.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

I'm okay with he's had a few rough starts, but I'm okay with that. He's a rookie. Nola has a 506. Even your Nola is not impressing me.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

I mean, but Loki, we knew what we were getting out of him. We expected that. Not a five ERA. I expected a five ERA. I'm sorry. I yes, I expected him to put up Lozard.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Even your Nola, that's gotta be at least a three or a four.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Not a three, not a three, it may be a four.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

And then, anyways, whatever. Screw that. Lozardo is a seven nine four, and then your boy Taiwan Walker has a nine-one six.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

Dude, I was so like, I had so much faith.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

So I remember seeing on the podcast like make Tywan Walker a starter, he's the best pitcher ever. Dude, dude, he looked he's getting railed, he's getting railed, he is getting balls are getting put wherever they want.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Dude, it's like so like dude, like I don't know, like second half him last year was amazing.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

Like he's given up six home runs, 19 earned runs, and 18 innings.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

And has a two whip. Leading the leading the team in whip.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

And the one thing that he hates to do is walk people, he's got 10 of them. Yeah. Horrible.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

I mean, actually, okay, we we should go to the pen a little bit. I mean, Duran's being Duran.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

I mean, I don't think the pen uh the pen's a little disappointing, but I don't think it's okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Brad Keller, I'm very disappointed in. I had I had him being lights out, very disappointing.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

I mean, yeah, he's he hasn't been great, but it's not like we've used him all that much.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

I mean, he's like a go-to guy.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

What I every time we're winning, for when we're winning, that was just happened. Yeah, that doesn't happen. He hasn't thrown. I don't when's the last time he threw? He probably hasn't thrown in a long time.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Uh couldn't tell you, but and then we go to Jose Alvarado.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Yeah, he threw the last time he threw was Saturday, and before that was Tuesday. He's done one time in the last week.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Yeah, it's crazy for a Penn guy.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

We're on a six-game losing streak, yeah. Terrible. All right, and then we threw an eight in our last ten.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Yeah, this is it's so bad. But then we go to our boy Jose Alvarado, who's even done even worse. Oh my gosh, don't even talk, don't even get me started about Osemple toy, don't even get me started posting a nine ERA out of the pen with seven innings pitch and giving up ten hits and seven earned runs.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

The only thing that like really um looks good to me is I think outside of his last appearance, Tim Mesa looked really good.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Uh yeah, I watched him a couple times. He he's been the he's just been the guy he needs to be. Just get in there, get out. Yeah, I agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Well, his last appearance was okay, but three appearances ago against the Cubs where he gave up three earned runs.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Yeah, I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

That was bad. But outside of that, I think he's been pretty good. Uh, I think he had like a he had like a zero, yeah, he had like zero URA until that guy.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

I mean, Kirk Ring, we haven't seen enough of him. I'm not even gonna talk about Kirk Ring.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Oh boy, he does not like Kirk Ring, dude.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

He's just like, I don't know. I'm not gonna talk about him. He hasn't even like we haven't seen him in a lot. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

It's just so we it's just so weird seeing everyone on the team look like they've never played baseball before.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Oh, yeah, it's so like I like our pen isn't, I don't even think our pen's the best part of our game right now, which is so sad. Is is that like crazy to say?

SPEAKER_01 10:04

I'm not sure that's crazy to say. Like everything's so bad.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Like, like, I mean, our starting pitching is iffy. Uh our our first four hitters can't do anything except Shorbert occasionally hitting a bomb. Like, sure, he has seven bombs right now. Is that who's leading the league numbers right now?

SPEAKER_01 10:23

I'm pretty sure it's um uh Jordan Alvarez. I think he has 10.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Okay, so Shorbert's really not doing that bad for Shorbert. Like, sure, he's batting like 210, but like that's what we get out of him.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Yeah, Jordan has 10, Judge has nine, and then Muncie, Max Muncie has eight, Ben Rice has eight. Ben Rice has eight, and then Jordan Walker has eight.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

Well sneaky, he's good. He's so he's he's really good. He's gonna be good.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Shut up. People say Munataka Marikami can hit uh VLO, and then he takes a 98 mile an hour fastball, like 430 feet for a grand slam. Oh, I saw that. I thought that was a really big like F you to all his haters.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah, like yeah, that's why he didn't get signed by so many places except the White Space.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Yeah, people thought he couldn't hit Velo and then he takes 98. I mean, it was like a middle-middle fastball, but he still takes it for a grand slam over the fence by 40 feet. I just I I really I don't even know. Like normally I'm sitting here and I'm like, okay, I have an opinion on what to do.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

I have nothing.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

I don't. I'm genuinely hoping Zach Wheeler comes back, looks like Jesus Christ, and saves our entire franchise, dude.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Dude, like he's just like he's looked iffy down there, dude. Like he's looked bad, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

It's like last, I think his last appearance, three earned runs, like yeah, he's looked bad, and the the uh Yankees prospect took him deep. Yeah, you know, it's been like the top prospect. Did you see his interview? They were like, What'd you think about the kid? And he was like, uh, he's pretty good, he's got a pretty good swing, hoping not to face him too many times. Zach, Zach, don't say that.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

That's Zach.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

I mean, to be fair, he probably won't face him ever again. Maybe, yeah, I doubt it. Wheeler retires in a year or two.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

Wheeler retires in a year or two. That guy's still in double A. Sure, he could progress up by next year. I don't think he makes it by this year.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Yeah, I agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

So maybe Wheeler faces him like once next year, but that's like it. So yeah, he probably won't ever face him again, but don't say that out loud.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

I realized we're cooked when JT's gone, like completely screwed. What do you mean? We got Marshall. Sorry, dude.

SPEAKER_03 12:55

I just can't get over it.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Dude, his expected, I'm looking at his his expected batting stats. His expected batting average is still 65. You know how expected works, right? Like this is crazy. Yeah, like I feel like Stubbs could put up better numbers than this.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

This is bad. I'm not gonna lie, I don't I don't know what expected batting average, how they calculate.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

It's like it goes based off like hard hit percentage and everything.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Like the basic calculates what they expect his batting average to be at the end of the year.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Uh no, no, like it does like how like it goes it it like so like oh it calculates like if he has a hard hit line drive, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Like that should be.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

Yeah, like you know, like 90% of the time that's a hit. Like it adds in that.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

His is the it's just still 0.65 or his is the exact same. Fire, so he's not even doing anything. Awesome. Um, I mean our fielding looks okay. Uh we have 15 errors. We're fielding at a 981 clip. That's pretty good. We're making 98% of the plays.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

That's the one good part about Adolis, bro. Like, he he's a canon in right field, and he's like a golden glover, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

He's only got one error on the season, he's fielding 970. That's elite, dude.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Like, the only like good part about this whole lineup is literally Justin Crawford, and I just like can't like Justin Crawford, by the way, is the only person that doesn't have an error. Like, this is ridiculous, dude. Like, he doesn't have the most hits, of course, because again, not getting as many played appearances, of course, Bryce Harper. Which, I mean, makes sense, Bryce Harper, but like this is sad. Like, this is so Turner's batting 240.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Also, shout out Dustin Crawford being the leader in average and not playing tonight. Dude, who do they have? Dude, do they have uh Marsh is playing center? Adoles is playing right, and he's a lefty on the mound.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

Felix Reyes is playing, who's on the mound?

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Shota. Shota Imonaga, left-handed pitcher.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

He's literally our best hitter against lefties. He didn't he lead the minor leagues.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

I don't know, but they put Felix Reyes in the four hole.

unknown 15:27

Oh my gosh, dude.

SPEAKER_01 15:29

He has three career at bats. He's in the four hole.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

I I I don't even know what they're doing anymore. Like, it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Also, I don't did we ever mention the the plus-minus?

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Uh no, we did not.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Did we mention that before we started talking? I don't think we ever mentioned.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

Yeah, no, we didn't.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Started recording. Phillies have the worst plus minus differential in the league. In the league, not the national league, the entire major league baseball organization.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Like, if you asked me like a month ago that like the White Sox would have a better run differentiable than us, like I would probably call you insane.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

The White Sox aren't even the second worst. They're not anymore. Is the Royals at minus 34? We're minus 42.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Dude, like, hear me out. Malcolm Wood. 2022 is coming back.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

There is only We fire Rob and then we There's only there are two teams that have scored less runs than us. One is the San Francisco Giants, the other is the New York Mets.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Shout out Matt Matt Bamonte. Mets suck. Spend as much money, spent more money and still suck. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Our friend Matt that came on the show. He's um how do I put this lightly depressed? Because the Mets are on an 11 game losing. They were seven and four.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

To start it off.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Yeah, they're seven and fifteen. Now, to be fair, the Phillies were just eight and eight. They are now eight and fourteen. We're not much better. But we're not the Mets.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

Also, I take back what I said about uh Justin Crawford against lefties. Burr's batting like 80. Well, I mean, he does have a lot of ABs against lefties.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

Probably because they're not playing him against lefties.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Yeah, he's one for 12, which but I mean he's not striking out a lot, like, against them. Like, so I don't know. Still probably I I would trust him against a lefty over a Dolas right now. Also, I have no faith in that dude.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Also, the people that we just played that put us on the sixth game losing streak or who we're about to play. Like, we played Cubs, lost two of three, played Braves, got swept in all three, and now we're back to playing the Cubs at their place, and then we're going to Atlanta to play the Braves at their place.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

Not looking forward to this.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

We I mean, six games already. We have six more games before we're home. Might be on a 12-game losing streak when we get back to Philly.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

By the way, we already lost more series than we did last year at home, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Yeah. See that crazy. Phillies lost three series at Sissens Bank Park last year. They've lost three series so far. We're not even in the last year. No, four. Yeah, four. And we're not even in May. Not even in May. What a joke. We have over a week left in April. I don't know what to do. Fire everybody. DFA the whole team. Get rid of everybody. You know what? We can keep Justin Crawford. We can keep Felix Reyes if he gets a hit tonight. Um Sanchez can stay. Wheeler. Yep. As long as you don't have any more blood issues.

SPEAKER_02 19:29

I'm fine with Painter. I'm fine with Painter.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Painter, clean it up a little bit, but I guess you're allowed.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

Duran? Duran.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Yeah, sure. Duran can stay. And outside of them, gone. See ya. Ah Schwarber. Schwarzer can stay like it. I like his bat. I like our one power guy. And then give me everybody in the miners. Call everybody up.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

Garrett Stubbs is back, bro.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Stubbs is playing shortstop. Aiden Miller's playing third.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

We might like Bohm needs to be like, he needs to go. Like, this is so bad. Watching him. Yes, dude. Like, are is Bohm still playing? Huh?

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Yes. Bryson's not playing today, Sosa's playing second.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

Okay, at least Sosa's getting reps in. They have been betting last. I mean, more fastballs for him, so I mean, I don't hate that. Yeah, I really don't hate that at all. He's basically he's a good second leadoff.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Do you know who are that has more than three at bat? So excluding Felix Reyes. You know what who has the highest average in our lineup today?

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Probably. It's your boy.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

It's your boy.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Wait, who's my boy?

SPEAKER_01 20:53

It's your boy. And he's a hitter. A little bit of a little JT.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

JT has wait, is Harper not playing?

SPEAKER_01 21:01

No, Harper's hitting 275. JT's hitting 280. Loki's not that bad. I didn't realize that. Yeah, I didn't either. I totally didn't see that. I didn't realize he was hitting 280.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Yeah, nearly 750 OPS for him. That's great.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

I will get I will actually take that. Oh, he's striking out on. I don't care. I don't care. He's hitting 280. I don't care. 280. If I have to celebrate because someone's hitting 280, we're in trouble. We're in trouble.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

Our average, our three, our our average OBP right now is 300.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

I mean, give give the whole freaking team a standing ovation.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

This is horrible. Our average is 220 as a whole team.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

When we go back to Philly after this six game road, well, it's seven games. We've already played one. So six game road streak that we're on. Philly fans clap the whole damn game. Give everybody a standing ovation. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe we'll win a game. We got Lazardo going tonight. It's either going to be Lazardo. Oh my God. It's either going to be seven innings of one hit ball or one inning of seven run ball. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Complete toss-up. Complete toss-up. Complete toss-up.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

Dude, it's like.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Oh, like, I really don't want to watch tonight now. Like, it's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

I really haven't sat down and watched the game. I I I it's gonna make me want to kill myself. I don't want to do it.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Yeah, I don't want to do either. I don't want to do it. It's so rough watching either.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

It's so bad. It's so bad. I they're given a 39% chance to win according to ESPN.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Maybe 39?

SPEAKER_01 22:55

I'd give us a 10.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Loki might take that. I have faith in us.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

How long? Here's a question for you. When was the last time that the Phillies scored more than two runs in a baseball game?

SPEAKER_02 23:16

At least a week ago.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Yes, exactly a week ago. Last Tuesday. And they scored four.

unknown 23:25

Four.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

Was that against the how's against the Cubs?

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 23:31

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Who's pitching at least? For the Cubs.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Tonight?

SPEAKER_02 23:37

No, no, no. Then if you don't have to go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

When he scored four runs, they threw uh Colin Raya.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

Yeah, okay. It doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Who cares? Well, they threw an opener and then they threw Colin Raya. Colin Raya just I'm pretty sure he pitched last night and he kind of cooked. Yeah, six and two thirds. Five K, six hits, two walks, one earned run. Anyways, uh, when did Shota pitch against us? Did he pitch against us? No, he didn't pitch that game. Did he pitch the third game? Oh, yeah, he did. We gave him his first win. His last stat line was six innings, three hits, one earned run, one walk, and eleven strikeouts.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Dude, can I see it's gonna be a bloodbath of just like it's I it's like you said earlier, it's literally gonna be either Lazardo throwing a gem or he's giving up 10 runs. Like I have zero faith. PCA bats seventh now, and I've and I have faith, I have faith that Lazardo will give up a home run to PCA than our whole team actually doing something tonight. Like, this is like ridiculous. They put him down that far now. Loki crazy.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

I mean, he's not that good at hitting, but crazy, but Nico Horner, he's looked pretty good. Yeah, I just this is such these guys' averages off of Jesus Lazardo. 294, 308, 125, 200, 500, 0, 263, 600, and 333.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

We're cooked.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Let's look at our averages against uh Imanaga. 400 00 not applicable 500 0200 0200.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

Dude, it's just not gonna be like I like I don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Do you think we should fire Rob Thompson?

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Dude, like the this could be another like two 2022 play. Like it I don't know who we would hire put Rob Mattingley, put Mattingley. I want him as our manager. I want Mattingley. Did you say put who? Mattingly, our bench coach.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Don Mattingley.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

I think I said Rob at first. I'm at Don't.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

I I thought you said Rob, so I thought maybe I heard you wrong.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

Sorry, that's on me.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Yes, put Tom Didn wasn't he am I tripping, or did he coach for the Cubs?

SPEAKER_02 26:30

He no, he coached for uh LA for a while. The Dodgers for the Cubs, I forget. Uh I think he coached for Colorado for a little bit. Uh it may it might have been. I don't know. So wouldn't hate it. I love Rob, but this is depressing. This is horrible. Like, if this happens, if this goes on for a month, I think we should. Because we need something. We need something. This is like horrible to watch. Speaking of, Otto Kent, Batic 100. Shout out, shout out auto.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

But he's got like no, he's got 20 ABs. Really? He's up to 20? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

And he's done horrible.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Just I don't know what to say.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

By the way, almost a 50% K rate by Autokempt. By Autokemp. Almost a 50% K rate, which is crazy. 50% K rate. Yeah, he has nine strikeouts and 20 ABs.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

That's fire. That's my left fielder.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Like. Again, I have no words. Like, I really don't.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

I really like. And I don't want this to be super negative.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Like, there's nothing to positive to talk about.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

You know what? Positive light. Jordan Romano still sucks.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Wait, how bad is he doing on the age? I've ever seen in my entire life.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Yeah, last time I checked, he was pretty bad at uh for that.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Shout out the Phillies for getting rid of him. That's the only good thing they've done this year.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

We did a job. Wait a minute. Zach Wheeler will be reinstated from the 15-day injured list to start Saturday in Atlanta for.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

He's starting Saturday in Atlanta for um Holy crap. For Taiwan Walker.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

Yeah, reinstated.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

They're gonna use him as an opener and then go to Taiwan.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

Yeah, this was literally, I just got the notification. Yeah, Wheeler made his fifth. I mean, dude, five ERA in the minors.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Or wait.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Yeah, he's starting Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Starting Saturday?

unknown 29:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

Oh no, it says said Saturday in Alano, which dude.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

I mean, that makes sense. Who's gonna open for us tomorrow? We don't even know.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

We've oh Zardo Peener.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

No, no, no. It's supposed to be Taiwan Walker, but we're we're oh yeah, oh yeah, they don't know yet.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Loki wouldn't wouldn't heat just like I don't know, a little pen game.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Probably Zach Pop. No, no, they'll go to Taiwan after an inning or probably an inning. Yeah, and then Taiwan will give up 86 runs on 39,000 hits and two walks, and then they'll pull him. Yeah, and then the Phillies will lose one billion to nothing.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

And lead the league for for the lowest run differentiable.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

I mean, I'm so glad the Mets suck because if they didn't, I would this would be the worst season all oh dude, this would be horrible. And the Braves, shout out the Braves for huge turnaround, huge turnaround, huge turnaround. Shout out the Braves for being the only team in the division above 500.

SPEAKER_03 30:29

How bad it is?

SPEAKER_01 30:31

The worst team in the NL Central would be the second best team in our division by a long shot. By like four games.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Milwaukee's the worst team in the NL Central. They're 12 and 9.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, a little interesting. Never would have thought the pirates are higher than them, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Yeah, pirates are 13 and 9. Reds are 15 and 8. Dodgers have the best record in the NLB. It's 16 and 6. Of course they do. Um yeah. Really, really quite an interesting year so far.

SPEAKER_02 31:28

It's coming off 2022 fives.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Need the need the Phillies to step it up a lot. We need a more hitting coach, get a new pitching coach, get a new coach coach, get a new uh no, I want Don.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

Keep Don Mattingham.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

Third baseman, get a new left. Actually, I like Marsh, Crawford, and Garcia.

SPEAKER_02 31:56

Yes, I okay. Not a huge fan of Garcia.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

I'm okay with him.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

He's gonna yeah, that's fair. That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

And then Sosa third base, call up Garrett Stubbs. We need to bring back Bryson Stott's walk-up song.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Dude, yeah, I don't know why he got rid of it. Um like we're it's we're we're done, dude. He needs to bring it back.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

Needs to bring it back, it's gotta come back. We need to, you know, figure out how to not TFP practice for Orion Kirking. Yeah, he's still terrified, still still really, really scared. Um teach Lazardo how to not tell the other team what he's throwing, and give up homers, teach Tywon Walker that he plays for the team in the field, not the team up to bat. Um give Christopher Sanchez all the money in the world.

SPEAKER_03 32:55

Yep, he he deserves both.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

I don't care, figure out some other cool, you know, technical thing to do for Duran's walkout.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

Um, Samoros empic and pray to God Zach Wheeler doesn't shit the bed for Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Pray to God that Zach Wheeler wins the Cy Young because I uh I was gonna say Lord help us now, but I'm not even sure he can do anything, yeah. Like but you know what? That's my team, and we're gonna win the World Series.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

I have no faith right now, nothing until until we generally like I have zero faith.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Watch how many games in the season are we? We're eight and fourteen, we're 22 games in. Yeah, not even lose another game the rest of the year. We're gonna end 148 and 14. Best record of all time. No one's ever seen a win streak. Like, what's about to happen?

SPEAKER_03 34:01

Dude, that would be insane, though. Like, there's no way it's possible, but okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

Turner's gonna end the year batting 800.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

Uh Shorbert's gonna hit 100 bombs.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Shorbert's hitting 150 tanks. Um all of our pitchers are never giving up another run.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

Not all perfect games.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

We're throwing 140 perfect games. We're throwing we're throwing 980 straight perfect innings.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

I can't, bro. I can't. I just can't, dude.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

This is so bad. Only good thing to come out of this is ticket prices are like 10 bucks. Oh, yeah, dude, it's it's stupid. We'll be in a bunch of games over the summer. Oh, dude.

SPEAKER_03 34:51

Yeah, free, like after work, easily front tailgate, have a good time.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

Yeah, spend all the money on food, like drive down to Citizen Bank Park, grab a grab a lawn chair, sit out, maybe throw some cornhole.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

Um any of us have a truck. Nah, never mind. I was gonna say we bring up the table.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

No, um, that would be fun. But it's hopefully not, you know, cry. We need like a song, like dancing on my own.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Okay, but that's only for playoffs, Loki.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

Sorry, like song is low-key like what the season feels like. Like that's that sad song is what the season feels like.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Yeah, I mean that's a good that's a good comparison. I mean, we just yeah, we need something that's gonna change something. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Like, and of course, we we kept um we kept our staff how it is, and we got rid of Mick Abel, and Mick Abel looks really good.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

How good is he right now for the twins?

SPEAKER_01 36:03

Um actually he's a 398 ERA, better than most of our starters, so 23 strikeouts, 20 and a third innings pitched, 22 hits, nine earned runs. You don't hate that one five seven whip.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Don't like that.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

Three games started, two quality starts.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

Yep, actually, don't yeah, not bad.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Compare that to any of our pitchers, better than everyone, Christopher Sanchez.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Yep. Why can't Christopher Sanchez just throw every game?

SPEAKER_01 36:40

That's not okay. I'll tell you what, though, there's gonna be a new Cy Young this year, dude. I like it's either Scooby and Skeens.

SPEAKER_02 36:55

Okay. Scoobyl, I think, is gonna win it.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

It's not gonna be well, okay. I'm not saying it's gonna be two completely new ones. I think one of them might win, but I don't think they both win.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

I mean, Skeens is not off to a hot start.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

I mean, I don't think Scoobul wins the AF. You heard him for the Los Angeles Angels called Jose Soriano. No 0.33 ERA. Absolute demon. 0.43 win.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

Can we talk about a big positive? Mike Trout looks amazing.

SPEAKER_03 37:28

Mike Trout's back in his prime. Like, I know I love it. But he's hitting some nukes.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Yes, like he's swinging the bat well. The eight have at least two redeeming things. Mike Trout.

SPEAKER_02 37:43

Yeah, he's not back. He he's still batting like 230.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

But like not back.

SPEAKER_02 37:48

That's not what I meant, but not nearly one 958 OPS.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

Hey, no, like amazing.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

Oh my bad. Jose Soriano has a.280 RA. Give this man the Cy Young now.

SPEAKER_02 38:08

You know what's crazy? My traut's batting like a whole, like, more than uh he's batting 300 away and then batting 29 or two or one two one 129 at home. Sorry, he's batting 129 at home and 300 away. Make that make sense.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

You know what? You know how last year I always joked with you guys that like the Phillies were so bad, I was gonna become a Tigers fan.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

I remember you saying that like every day.

SPEAKER_01 38:37

This might be the year. It might be. You know what? You know who I really like is the Tigers catcher, Dylan Dingler.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Dylan Dingler is a dog. I love him.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

I think he's so good. And no one brings his name up. Another catcher I think is pretty good, Shea Langaliers.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

Sure, Shay Langlear, he's having a great great season already, I think. Well, I remember seeing him up.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

Yeah. He's he's hitting some tanks.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

I can't play fantasy baseball. That's too much. I mean, I can. Yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

But like I'm excited because Shea Langaliers is is he's getting me excited.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

I don't know. It's just I have like no words for the fills.

SPEAKER_01 39:26

I thought you were gonna say something. Uh it's gonna be silence, it's just silence because Swirr was gonna say something and forgot what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

Sorry, I just can't. Like the Phil's just are so bad.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Uh, I don't know. I'm so like energetic about the fact that the Phillies are so not energetic. Put me in the dugout, I cheer them up. Come on, guys, one of you has to get a hit today. We can't get no hit. There's no way, dude.

SPEAKER_02 40:00

Like, can you bet on like a team getting no hit? Like, it's gotta be like a crazy stat, but like if you put like calling a no-hitter, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

But like five bucks on it, that would be insane.

SPEAKER_02 40:19

Just like I legitimately have zero words for the fills anymore. Like, I can't, just can't.

SPEAKER_01 40:28

Uh yeah, I don't know. I I mean honestly, I'm not sure there's much else to say. I think this about wraps it up. The Phillies are bad, the Phillies are bad. Andy Pajes has got himself, and hopefully the Phillies get better. Yeah, those are my four takeaways from this episode. Yep, it's all we can say because, yeah, that's about it, guys. Yep. Um, I mean, we'll we'll jump on again next week, and if we're you know alive, alive. Um hopefully the Phillies aren't on like a 12 game losing streak the next time we call. But yeah, I mean at the end of the day, go fills, but wow, that that's just so bad.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

Okay, well, yeah. Yep, we'll see ya.