San Diego Padres Boost Bullpen and Lineup: Deadline Update

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00:00But if we do start with the San Diego Padres, you want to talk about bringing the heat, man.

00:03This was already one of the best bullpens in baseball, adds Mason Miller.

00:07And also, you know me, Tom.

00:08Like, I've been saying, boy, give me some bats in that, you know, Padres lineup.

00:11They pick up Laureano and also O'Hearn.

00:14I love what the Padres are doing.

00:15They really are trying to chase down the Dodgers.

00:19They really are.

00:20And at this point, you know, I talked about it with you the other day on the early night on Friday night.

00:24I think the play to make in the Padres at this point is to win the NL.

00:28And, you know, it's based on where their odds are right now because, you know, the top row is going to see the Dodgers.

00:34We're going to see the Mets, the Phillies, the Cubs.

00:36And now the Brewers are sneaking up.

00:37And obviously, all those teams aren't going to be making the NLCS.

00:40So when you make high-profile additions like a Mason Miller and then you add depth to the lineup,

00:45that was already pretty solid up top.

00:46But you had the bottom that's that much better with Ryan O'Hearn and Laureano.

00:50Like, we now have a well-rounded lineup on top of a great pitching staff.

00:53Michael King is expected to start making his rehab starts.

00:56So you have him plus Pavetta plus Dylan Cease.

00:59You have Darvish's back.

01:00You have the front-line pitching, the depth of the lineup, and now a great bullpen.

01:03You have it all.

01:05I really like it.

01:06Like, I do.

01:06Like, sometimes they get caught up in the Padres because of what they can be.

01:09And we don't know if that potential is going to be realized onto a Major League Baseball diamond.

01:12But what they add at the deadline, nobody in their right mind, Tom, is going to be like,

01:15oh, man, I don't like what the Padres did.

01:17It just wasn't enough.

01:17They were phenomenal at the deadline.

01:19We'll see if it pays off in the second part of this Major League Baseball season.

01:22And the one thing I do agree with, Tom, like, closers sometimes, you've got to catch lightning in a bottle.

01:27It's very rare, as I pointed out this past week.

01:28Like, you get Mariano Rivera.

01:30He's going to be great for 15 years.

01:31It's usually two, three, four years top of that heap.

01:34And for bad baseball teams, as we just talked about the A's trading Mason Miller,

01:38there's no point in Mason Miller closing games out for you this year or next year.

01:41You're not trying to win, which also goes for the Philadelphia Phillies

01:44as they pick up Duran here from the Twins.

01:46What was the point of the Minnesota Twins actually keeping anything out there

01:49in the scope of, hey, let's close games out.

01:52They move him to the Phillies, and he pays off right away.

01:54First night in Philadelphia, gets a save against the Detroit Tigers.

01:57I love the fact that teams going all in always get those top closers at the end.

02:03The Padres and the Phillies did that.

02:05Yeah, they really did.

02:06The Twins sold off not just Duran, but so many players.

02:11And their franchise is up to be sold at this point now

02:13because they're just going through a disaster of a season and disaster of a few years.

02:17So they traded away a ton of players.

02:19Their lineup is extremely weak overall.

02:21But seeing top-flight teams pick up those high-leverage closers

02:25is absolutely what we want to see.

02:26The Mets did it.

02:27The Phillies did it.

02:27The Padres did it.

02:28The Yankees did it.

02:30You know, those are the teams that we expect to see when it comes to late October.

02:33So it's great to see that address the needs that they have overall.

02:36And it's really shaping up to be a fantastic end to the season.

02:39And it is good for the teams of the Twins and the A's to at least operate rationally.

02:43Like, they know they're not in to win.

02:45We might as well get the assets back from those teams and get the prospects like Mick Abel going to the Twins.

02:51Like, he's a starting pitcher that they will need moving down.

02:54Moving down the line, I should say.

02:56Yeah, like guys like Nick Kurtz, right?

02:57You're not going to move that guy because he's going to be a cornerstone of your franchise for a decade.

03:00But a closer, there's no point in having a closer.

03:03You're not going to develop a closer that's already at the top of the market and say,

03:05Hey, man, we're really going to use you in the next three years.

03:07It makes no sense.

03:08So I do like what both of those teams did.

03:10Just sort of rebuild.

03:10And you're right about the Twins.

03:12I mean, that was an absolute fire sale at the deadline here.

03:15We'll see what they continue to do in the offseason.

03:17But they certainly are paring down their payroll.

03:19No doubt about it.

03:19Team not paring down their payroll.

03:21Love the move for the Mariners.

03:23Tom, for the first time in a long time.

03:24Like, I understand the Mariners started to hit this year, right?

03:26Cal Raleigh's been fantastic.

03:28A couple of those guys stepping back up.

03:29But the fact that they went out and got Eugenio Suarez where now you look at the Mariners,

03:33even though they play in such a great pitcher's ballpark,

03:35you can take them on a night-to-night basis and not just say,

03:38I hope I get a lot of strikeouts from the young pitchers and they score three runs.

03:41This team can explode in the right environment.

03:43And look at that lineup here.

03:44I love what I see out of the Mariners.

03:47Yeah, really, top to bottom, it's so much better.

03:50And it speaks to, like, okay, you had two players to a lineup.

03:54What does that do?

03:55Two players.

03:56And you're like, well, when you have so many leaders in a lineup that aren't great overall,

04:00when you add a Naylor and you add a Suarez, who are lefties and right, you know,

04:03lefties and righties specifically.

04:04I like the fact that they are different.

04:06On top of J.P. Crawford, who gets on base, on top of Cal Raleigh's having an unbelievable season.

04:11You know, we obviously have J-Rod in there, which is fantastic.

04:14And then you have a well-rounded lineup that brings you just more depth.

04:17Like, I always thought that, like, okay, you could just pitch around J-Rod and Cal Raleigh

04:21because the bottom portion of the lineup, eh, really wasn't that good.

04:23And the Mariners, if they scratch across three runs,

04:25their pitching staff will get a done in win games.

04:27Now you just add that lineup drops down just a few more.

04:30There's more dangerous hitters.

04:32On top of the pitching staff, this is a team you have to watch out for.

04:35And in a three-game series, Donnie, Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Brian Wu,

04:40that's a pretty good starting rotation to have on top of this lineup.

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