Skenes vs. Merrill: NL Rookie of the Year Showdown

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00:00Let me go back to one thing with San Diego really quick and it's the Merrill

00:05Chase with skeins for that rookie of the year now

00:09I don't even want to guess that you're gonna tell me Merrill deserves it because I'm gonna reach through that TV and grab you

00:15By the ear pull your earlobe off because I like what skeins has captivated baseball this year

00:22The entire year and the all-star weekend was about him

00:28The all-star game was about him and he did a great job

00:31And then everybody said he was gonna get shut down and everything else and yet the only time that team ever

00:37Wins is when he's pitching and then the next night out they get no hit. I mean

00:42Do you think that the kid playing seven days a week Merrill is better than him?

00:47I still think that skeins is a bigger story because I don't think anybody now. I love San Diego

00:53You know that my kid goes to San Diego State, but no one gives a rat's ass about San Diego anywhere else

01:00Maybe I'll pull my own ears. You don't have to pull them

01:02I agree with you skeins and much bigger story love the whole Air Force Connection living on their first Academy for four years

01:10You know love but it's all about the Academy of Life. It's only the best story in baseball

01:16Rookie of the year. It's gonna be a runaway. It is gonna be you know, Jackson Merrill

01:21This kid has never played out film his life. It's home and spring training

01:25We don't have room for you at shortstop. Go try center field. He's by the MVP of that team

01:31He may get some you know lower MVP votes. I think he's gonna run away with the MVP

01:37Remember now he's doing this every single day

01:40Skeins has had what 18 starts 19 starts this kid played he's gonna play over

01:45145 150 games and been lights out. They would not be in the playoff position without him

01:51So, you know, it's not skeins fault. He plays for a team that's losing but you got to give

01:57This kid credit for helping a team get the playoffs

02:00I will never forget the game that they were up 10 to 3 and I had him on the run line laying a run-and-a-half

02:07And they gave up

02:09What was it like six runs in the in the ninth inning or something and they lost 14 to 10 to the Cubs

02:15I wanted to vomit