Braves' Resilience & Royals' Surprising Success in Opening Month

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00:00What can you say?

00:01The Braves just have a great development system of offensive players

00:06and pitchers as well, which enables them, George,

00:09when they have some really bad luck to kind of hang in there,

00:12which is what they've done, and then they'll get their guys back,

00:15I assume, at some point.

00:17And by the way, Ozzie Albies, I assume, will start hitting

00:19and some of the other guys too.

00:20It's sort of crazy.

00:21Look, no one's going to be as bad as the Rockies,

00:24but you could look at the Braves and say with their start that they've had,

00:27their record should even be worse.

00:30Well, that's not wrong.

00:33You're right.

00:34It could be worse here.

00:35Now, we do get some good news here, right?

00:36Strider's going to have a bullpen today, and then they'll make a decision.

00:38He's going to go and rehab or maybe return to the rotation next week.

00:42So we're going to get back Strider by the end of the month,

00:44worst-case scenario here.

00:45We probably saw us sooner than that here.

00:48Now, our producer, Sam Yonnell, actually asked us this question about

00:51pick our ace of the week that we had, I guess,

00:54technically that we had on one of our rosters.

00:56And I chose Smith-Shoyer as well, but Craig got in there before I did.

00:59And I got news for you.

01:00Looking at my rosters, I couldn't find anybody else.

01:03All right?

01:03I'm having a tough time, Craig, with pitching in my leagues.

01:06I don't know why.

01:07It's a weird year.

01:08I just can't get consistent wins at all, quality starts,

01:11whatever I'm going for in leagues here.

01:13And it's a struggle.

01:16It's a struggle week in and week out for me.

01:18So the guy I chose, by the way, I do not have, all right,

01:20on any of my teams.

01:21But I couldn't find anybody on my roster, so I had to cheat a little bit here.

01:24And I chose Chris Bubik of the Kansas City Royals.

01:27Mainly, of course, is a guy that, all right, you might have known him

01:29before overseas, but you didn't expect to have these kind of numbers.

01:32His ERA is 1.69 this week.

01:35Comes off an excellent start here against the Chicago – I know it's the Chicago White Sox,

01:38which is why I bring up his season stats more than his week's stats, right?

01:43Everyone pitches well against the White Sox.

01:441.69, 1.1 whip here.

01:47He's got four wins.

01:48I mean, can't see Royals are playing well.

01:50Were they 16-2 now in their last 18 games?

01:53So they're playing out of their mind as well.

01:55I understand, once again, if you look at the Royals schedule,

01:58they haven't played the best of teams here during this 18-game stretch.

02:01But you know what?

02:02Got to beat who's on your schedule here, and they're taking advantage over here.

02:05So my ace of the week was Chris Bubik, but you stole my guy.

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