- 6 weeks ago
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00I am ready. Welcome into Jones and Keefe, W-E-E-I. No Jones today or tomorrow. He is back on Wednesday.
00:07It's been a while since I've been in, so it is good to be back.
00:10Justin Turpin is in the house. Pure baseball with Turp.
00:14Let's do it.
00:15To start the show, it is a Patriots Monday, so you already heard Mike Vrabel on this morning.
00:20We will speak to Hunter Henry and Christian Ellis.
00:22Drake May will be in the afternoon program, I believe, sometime after 4 o'clock for Drake May and Marcus Jones as well.
00:32So stick around.
00:33But Rob Bradford will be in the house from 11 to 1.
00:36He was just in Yankee Stadium for the last four games as the Red Sox took three out of four from the Yanks and pretty much snatched their souls.
00:45I mean, that was a decisive victory.
00:48They couldn't complete the sweep, you know, ended on a little bit of a downer.
00:50But those first three games, Turp, was all Red Sox, and it was equally fun watching the Red Sox play well as it was the Yankees fall apart on themselves.
00:59Yeah, I mean, you wish they got greedy and got the final sweep there.
01:02What had it been done since 1912, the year the Titanic set sail.
01:05Look at this!
01:06And Fenway Park opened that year, so it would have been nice.
01:08He spent this entire morning just in Stat City.
01:11What an incredible drive!
01:13Turp with a Titanic reference at 10 o'clock.
01:15That's how long it's been. It was almost that close. It would have been wonderful.
01:18The year that Fenway was built? No.
01:20Probably the year it opened.
01:22Opened.
01:22It was probably built before.
01:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:24It opened in 1912.
01:25Probably the aliens built Fenway.
01:26Oh, yeah.
01:27Still looks the same.
01:28Fenway and the pyramids.
01:29They haven't had.
01:30Yeah, I think so.
01:31They're both great monuments.
01:33So, oh, there's a four-game sweep in Yankee Stadium.
01:36In Yankee Stadium, yeah.
01:37So it's tied their longest since 2008 or 2009, one of the two.
01:40Pretty crazy.
01:41With eight straight.
01:41Pretty crazy.
01:42And so I love the way the Thursday-Friday games go where you get Whitlock and Chapman
01:47just as, like, shut down eighth, ninth.
01:50And then you move on to Saturday's game, which was hilarious watching the Yankees fall apart.
01:55Because all year long, as good as the Red Sox have been, and they're the current number
01:59one wildcard team, we've still scratched our heads with some of the dumb things that they've
02:03done, whether it's, like, you know, running into outs or missing cutoff men and, like,
02:08throwing the ball around.
02:09And you're just, like, you're frustrated with them.
02:11But the Yankees have, like, a full-display meltdown on Saturday.
02:15You also expect that from the Red Sox.
02:16Like, this is a young team.
02:18Like, there should be growing pains with a young team when you have all these younger
02:21rookie players in the lineup.
02:23With the Yankees, it's a team full of veterans, guys.
02:25Those teams in the World Series last year, it looks like they forget how to play baseball.
02:28It is weird.
02:29It's weird to see them play that way.
02:30Aaron Boone's another guy that I'm like, I don't know if he's just going to be there
02:34forever.
02:34What dirt does he have on them?
02:37They've had Brian Cashman for as long as I can remember running the show.
02:41And then they've had...
02:43So Aaron Boone's first year was actually 2018.
02:45Feels like longer, doesn't it?
02:46It does.
02:47Much longer.
02:48Oh, that's...
02:48Yeah, maybe I thought he was...
02:49Because every year...
02:50And they've been pretty good.
02:52But obviously, last year was the first year they made it to the World Series, losing to
02:56the Dodgers.
02:57So then they signed a room extension.
02:58So he's going to be there for a little bit.
03:00And, you know, yesterday is an example of the Yankees at Yankee Stadium can be tough
03:06because that is like a little league field and they're just socking dingers all over the
03:10place.
03:11So they are capable of that.
03:12That's why home field is going to be so important.
03:14If this ends up being a playoff matchup, which it definitely could be.
03:19It would be awesome.
03:19Whoever has home field, you've got to assume has the advantage.
03:22And usually home field in baseball isn't the be-all, end-all like college football or
03:26college basketball is.
03:27But for these two teams specifically, I think it would be all the difference.
03:31I mean, the Red Sox have been one of the best teams in baseball at home.
03:34So, yeah, you definitely want that comforts of Fenway.
03:36And you saw last night, like you said, just them being able to sock dingers out of that
03:39park.
03:40That's right.
03:40When the Yankees are hitting home runs, I mean, this applies to every team, but the
03:44Yankees especially, when that team's hitting home runs, they're really tough to beat.
03:47Yeah, 100%.
03:47The Red Sox are 8-2 against the Yankees this year, 10 games.
03:53They've absolutely owned the Yankees.
03:55They do have three more games against them next month back here at Fenway on the 12th,
04:0113th, and 14th.
04:01So, they have dominated.
04:03Even if they get swept in that series, they still win the season series with them.
04:06They want to stay above them in the wildcard race.
04:08I've kind of ruled out the division.
04:10They're five games back in the Blue Jays.
04:11I've kind of let that one go a little bit.
04:13But dominating the Yankees the way they have is great.
04:16Also, in this series, Brian Baio on Friday night threw an absolute gem, and I believe
04:26that leads to the Terps stat of the week.
04:28It does.
04:28Yeah, it's time for a conversation about Brian Baio.
04:30Yes, it is.
04:31Since June 1st, he leads the American League in quality starts with 12.
04:35He's second in all of Major League Baseball over that stretch behind just Christopher Sanchez.
04:39And his ERA from June 1st is 275.
04:43Just for a reference point, Garrett Crochet is a 2-6-6.
04:46Jeez.
04:47So, the guy has been incredible.
04:48And it hasn't even just been this last two-month stretch here.
04:5114 of his 22 starts this year have been quality starts.
04:54He's one of only 25 pitchers to reach that mark.
04:57And for those listening that don't know the quality start, they have to pitch at least.
05:01The pitcher goes at least six innings, allows three-year-runs or fewer.
05:04But the guy is terrific.
05:04Pure baseball with Terp.
05:07No, that's wild on Baio because that's somebody that I have not ever fully believed in.
05:12And it probably is time.
05:14Even this year, people were hesitant to buy in on him.
05:16And it's just like, this is who he is now.
05:17And maybe it is credit to the Andrew Bailey pitching lab that they got him in.
05:21And this is a career year.
05:23And he seems more comfortable.
05:24He's been pretty open about it.
05:24Having his family here has been big for him.
05:27Cor has talked about that as well.
05:28But, I mean, if you're going to get this and him developing into a legitimate number two,
05:32it's just been so big for this team.
05:34Oftentimes overlooked because you're getting guys like Roman Anthony contributing.
05:37And Trevor's story is just so many people are contributing to this team.
05:40It's like you're not really looking at Brian Baio the way people maybe should be.
05:43Bradford had a tweet yesterday.
05:45And it felt like it was an attack on me because it was very, very specific.
05:50He said Brian Baio was 185 pounds when he made his big league debut.
05:55He is now 203 pounds.
05:57I think that legitimately mirrors me.
06:00I think when I first started in radio, I was 185.
06:02I'm probably 203 now.
06:04Difference being, Baio put on muscle weight.
06:07I put on just fat beer weight.
06:09So that's the big difference.
06:10It's all the same.
06:10Pounds are pounds.
06:11Height and weight were probably pretty similar.
06:13But, no, Brian Baio has been – and Nick even pointed this out like 10 games into this season.
06:19He was really good in the second half last year.
06:22Right?
06:22So it's been over a full – if you add the two together,
06:24it's been actually even more good Brian Baio than not.
06:29And I don't know because maybe it was all like the baby Pedro stuff
06:32and like all like the early like he's going to be the guy, he's going to be the guy.
06:35And then last year you're like Tanner Houck's better than him.
06:38Cutter Crawford's better than him.
06:39And then obviously those guys have been hurt.
06:40We haven't even seen them.
06:41But Baio's been nails and going into Yankee Stadium, seven scoreless innings, three hits, one walk, five Ks.
06:51Historically, he owns the Yankees.
06:53He owns them.
06:53Yeah.
06:54He's been awesome.
06:55But this whole year – and then to your point too, Terp, about the quality starts and how many guys have that.
07:01And even if you just take his season ERA – so forget about since June 1st or whatever –
07:07he is of qualifying pitchers, starters, 16th in baseball, right behind Joe Ryan and Brian Wu.
07:17Pretty good.
07:18Like that's insane.
07:18Everybody, we're going crazy, myself included, to like try to get Joe Ryan.
07:22They don't get him.
07:22He doesn't go anywhere.
07:24Brian Wu is leading the Mariners pitching staff, which everybody looks at as like one of the great staffs this year.
07:29He was an all-star and somebody that gets thrown around there, like he's not going to win the Cy Young,
07:35but he's going to be in like the conversation for the Cy Young.
07:37And he's like right behind those guys.
07:39And he's even thrown more innings than – nope, check that.
07:44He has not.
07:44He's closing in on Joe Ryan innings, for God's sake.
07:48So like he's right there with those guys.
07:49And he's not – when you're looking at the starts, he's not getting credit for what he did when he picked up the resumed game against the Reds in early July.
07:56Oh, yeah, good point.
07:56When he came in through – midway through the – the game was suspended to the rain.
08:00He picked it up in the fourth inning, threw five innings, allowed two hits, one run or whatever it was.
08:04Like he was terrific in that game as well.
08:06Yeah, he's been off the charts.
08:08So you feel pretty good.
08:10You feel – and then Garrett Crochet went out and had another gem.
08:12So Crochet and Baio as a one-two punch.
08:15The Baio thing is pretty funny because remember in the clubhouse when he was talking about Connor Wong?
08:19He was like, I have more than a two-seamer, dude.
08:21Every time he's been the one-seamer.
08:22You and I were convinced that it was like maybe Connor Wong just doesn't call a good game.
08:26Connor Wong basically only catches Baio starts.
08:29Those guys are best buzzed, maybe.
08:30He was huge on Friday night as well.
08:31I know.
08:31Had that big RBI knock.
08:33It's true.
08:33Well, Jones and I were at the game where he started to really hit some stingers.
08:36You guys turned it around.
08:37He had a double.
08:38He had his first extra base hit of the season.
08:39And then he hit a couple right on the screws.
08:41Right on the screws.
08:42Now they were outs, but he was turning things around.
08:44But a very positive weekend series, even though it ended on a loss last night for the Red Sox.
08:52Lucas Giolito.
08:54How are we feeling about Lucas Giolito at this point?
08:56I mean, he's another one.
08:57Friend of the show, Lucas Giolito.
08:58Hoss of the week.
08:59And reigning Hoss of the week.
09:00Big dude.
09:01I don't even think he was necessarily bad in his start earlier this week.
09:06I don't think he was necessarily bad.
09:07I mean, he's another one that's just giving you quality start after quality start for his team.
09:11And I mean, the reality is, if the Red Sox are going to make any noise in the postseason,
09:15it's going to be because of Baio and Giolito continue to pitch the way they have.
09:19And you mentioned it earlier with Baio.
09:20And I think the same thing applies to Giolito, where people were so hesitant to buy in on what they're selling.
09:25And it seems like, you know, this is who they are this year.
09:27And maybe, again, he's another product, possibly, of the Andrew Bailey pitching lab.
09:31He might be.
09:32Because, you know, last year they signed him.
09:35He's got to sit out the whole year.
09:36Comes back this year.
09:38And then didn't he get hurt in spring training again?
09:40And you're like, what has even happened to this guy?
09:43But, no, he overall has been really good and way better than I would have guessed.
09:48Now, after the game on Thursday, his season ERA is 3-7-2.
09:54Not amazing.
09:55I'm going to throw a parade for him.
09:57I think, ideally, he might be your number four starter.
09:59I still go back to that.
10:00I still am not going to let Breslow off the hook for the trade deadline.
10:03Like, they should have done more than what they did.
10:06But Brian Baio, being as good as he is, might bail him out a little bit.
10:09Like, you might not have been able to get a number two starter better than Brian Baio.
10:12And you know what really might bail him out at the trade deadline is Nathaniel Lowe, who has just been terrific.
10:16Yeah, my God, this guy.
10:17We have stats on him, too, if you want some more pure baseball.
10:20Yeah, I obviously do.
10:21So, six games, really small sample size.
10:23That's okay.
10:2320 plate appearances.
10:24He's reached safely in 10 of those with seven hits and three walks.
10:27Jeez.
10:274.38 average, slugging 7.50.
10:30Team high, seven RBI since getting here.
10:32One strikeout in 20 plate appearances.
10:33One strikeout.
10:34And this is a guy who played a big role in a World Series just a couple years ago with Texas.
10:38I mean, the fact that they were able to pick him up off the trash heap and just get him in and have a competent first baseman in this lineup is huge.
10:46Yeah, it really is.
10:47And I thought they were going to make a game of it, too.
10:50So, he comes in.
10:50He pinch hits last night.
10:52He had two hits in the game.
10:54He had two RBI.
10:55And in the sixth inning, after being down 5-0, it was 5-2.
10:59And I was like, oh, look out.
11:01Look out.
11:01Maybe we have a little something.
11:02But, yeah, good point.
11:03Like, that definitely was not plan A, B, or C.
11:06And yet they land on this guy.
11:08But you needed a first baseman, and you got one.
11:10I know he kind of fell on your lap, but that does bring the grade of the trade deadline up a little bit, I would think, right?
11:17Yeah, I guess.
11:18Now, another player you acquired at the deadline was Dustin May, who still is the favorite to be the show's Halloween costume coming up.
11:28But, yeah, not a great start for Dustin May.
11:30And I know some of that is Yankee Stadium home runs, but it's also you're pitching in Yankee Stadium.
11:35You know, so did Baio.
11:36So did Crochet.
11:37So did Giolito prior to that.
11:39So, last night, Dustin May goes,
11:42This guy stinks!
11:43Four and a third, five runs, all of them earned, three home runs.
11:48He also walked three and only struck out three.
11:52And so, combination last night, two of the cast-offs from the Dodgers.
11:57You start Dustin May, goes four and a third.
11:59Walker Bueller, now pitching out of the bullpen, goes two and a third.
12:03He also gives up a couple of runs and, you know, just wasn't their night.
12:07But I also feel like these guys aren't guys you can rely on come playoff time.
12:11And that's an issue, because especially when you look at what you gave Walker Bueller
12:14and you figured he was going to be a big part of this at the beginning of the season.
12:17And now Dustin May is your number four.
12:19You don't know who your number five is.
12:21I mean, tonight they got Brendan Bernardino as the opener and Richard Fitz taking the bulk
12:26innings after that.
12:26And we'll see what happens with Kyle Harrison.
12:27Yeah, what's up with Harrison, Nick?
12:29Where's your Harrison update?
12:30Well, he was actually scratched from his start the other day in case he had to pitch tonight.
12:35So why aren't they starting him tonight, I wonder?
12:37Cora didn't seem really glowing when he was talking about him over the weekend.
12:39He basically called him inefficient.
12:41I mean, he got off to a rough start.
12:43He did.
12:44He got a little better.
12:45Yeah, he got off to a real rough start.
12:46That's Nick's apartment, though.
12:47No, that is.
12:48The Worcester updates with Nick.
12:50He can fill us in on Campbell and whoever else.
12:53Although we got the password up here.
12:54Since I've last been up here, we got the password a little bit.
12:59Work in progress, obviously.
13:01That's actually what Cora called Kyle Harrison a work in progress.
13:05Yeah, but isn't that better than an opener?
13:07I feel like that's still better than an opener.
13:08Especially if you pitched last night.
13:10An opener who threw an inning and a third last night.
13:13Yeah, 18 pitches last night.
13:14He's only going to throw an inning, you'd imagine.
13:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:16I feel like very rarely has he thrown more than one inning when Bernadino opens.
13:19Because he's done it so much over the last two seasons.
13:21But then it is full bullpen game.
13:23And I heard Will and Lou on the game last night.
13:27This would be sort of best case scenario about Walker Bueller.
13:30They were like, could he be this year's version of Nick Pavetta?
13:32Where a guy is out of the rotation, you put him in the bullpen.
13:37Yeah, probably not.
13:38Doesn't look it to start.
13:39No, no, it doesn't.
13:40But Pavetta had some wild relief appearances.
13:43Remember, he'd pitch six innings and strike out like eight, nine guys.
13:46And then there was that year, what was it, 2023, I think, where he was doing both.
13:50Like, he'd be a starter one week and then be coming out of the bullpen the next.
13:53It was just amazing versatility.
13:55Yeah, I don't feel strongly about Bueller.
13:58No.
13:58You know, and I just wonder if they have enough.
14:02You know, Steven Matts, I guess the other player they acquired during the deadline.
14:06You know, it's been hit and miss with him as well.
14:09So there are, you know, on the high end.
14:11I think your top two starters and your two best relievers, you really can't feel a whole lot better about.
14:17Like, I'll take my chance.
14:18Like, if you know that it's Crochet, Baio, Whitlock, Chapman, I feel like you're winning all those games.
14:23Everything else, eh.
14:24I wonder what, when Tully figures into this.
14:28It seems like they're pretty open about possibly bringing him up just from listening to Cora and Breslau.
14:32True.
14:32They're not ruling it out.
14:34Where, remember when Roman Anthony, when the discussions of possibly bringing him up, it was kind of like a hard no.
14:38Yes, I haven't.
14:39Without saying just straight out no.
14:40They were kind of just deferring, deferring.
14:42It seems like they're opening the door, at least with Tully.
14:44Yeah.
14:45And as Merloni's already dubbed him, the Piglet.
14:47That's an awesome nickname.
14:48The Piglet.
14:48Oh, not to, I don't want to give it away now, but later on when Bradford joins us, I have a candidate for Haas of the Week that I think people are going to be really excited about.
14:57I feel like candidate, we might even just crown him.
15:00We might even crown him today.
15:01Already.
15:01It's Monday.
15:02Very excited.
15:02Yeah, it's a baseball Haas of the Week, but we'll get that with Bradford.
15:05Bradford's going to join us from 11 to 1 today and tomorrow.
15:09So, it's a Patriots Monday, so we're going to have Hunter Henry and Christian Ellis on the show.
15:14Roster cutdowns to 53 tomorrow by 4 o'clock.
15:19So, between now and then, I mean, they could be coming out during the show.
15:23The roster currently stands at 76.
15:25Right, 76.
15:26I believe.
15:27Kyle Duggar still clinging to his life right now.
15:31There's no way he's on the team.
15:33It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to move on from Kyle Duggar.
15:35I know the contract, and if you can get someone to take the contract, it makes sense.
15:39But, to me, it just doesn't feel like this team's in the position to be selling off good football players.
15:44That's just the reality of it.
15:45Same thing with Jennings.
15:46They are both good football players.
15:48I mean, Duggar might not be what he used to be, but we saw how bad the depth of this team is against the Giants.
15:53Yeah, there's very little talent.
15:55There's very little talent overall on the team, even though I say that, and then on the other hand, I'm like,
16:00I think they're going to win another 10 games.
16:02But I think Kyle Duggar, I don't really get it.
16:04Like, you're not saving money.
16:06That's not really what you're doing.
16:07You have 60 million in cap space.
16:08You have so much cap space.
16:09The morning show was sort of split.
16:11They think there's going to be a big trade that happens between now and the start of the season.
16:15I would love that to be the case.
16:16I just don't know who that would be.
16:18I mean, everyone's looking at the three big holdouts around the league.
16:23I don't know.
16:23I don't know if this team, when have they really shown the willingness to both trade a second or a first-round pick and then immediately sign to it a huge contract?
16:33And which of those three are actually going to move?
16:35I don't see the commanders letting Terry McLaurin go after the year that Jaden Daniels had last year.
16:39Maybe Parsons?
16:40You see him taking a snooze on the sideline during the game?
16:42I did see that.
16:42Yeah, Sean Hammer was so thrilled about that.
16:44Did you see him walking in?
16:45He was walking in, and somebody was like, come to the Falcons.
16:48And he gave up the little call me sign with his hand.
16:50So he's very open about wanting out.
16:52He wrote it on Instagram.
16:53I think he for sure wants out.
16:54McLaurin, I feel like, is going to stay.
16:56I guess I could see Hendrickson going.
16:58That's a mess with Hendrickson.
16:59Yeah.
16:59Is the guy even in the state?
17:01No.
17:02That's a mess.
17:03But I don't think the Patriots are in on that.
17:05Because he's really good, and I think he's got another couple years left in him.
17:09But he's a little bit older, and that's going to be a ton of money.
17:11And with the money, they have tied in with the defense already.
17:13Yeah.
17:14So you might want to lean a little bit more towards the offense.
17:16McLaurin's probably the worst player out of those three, but he's the biggest need on
17:20this team.
17:20He's also the oldest.
17:21So in terms of if you're looking at just how the contracts will age, and you're not really
17:25worried about that.
17:26But you have to consider, this team's going to eventually have to pay Drake May.
17:29They're going to have to pay Christian Gonzalez.
17:30So that cap space is going to go pretty quickly.
17:33So I think it does like, it sounds like to me, just listening to Vrabel and Wolf, that
17:36they're going to be active on guys that get cut.
17:39Like, who can they pick up off waivers?
17:40Scrap heap guys.
17:41I mean, at the point of, like, where they are in their rebuild, they feel good about
17:45the guys they have, like, in their starting lineup.
17:48But you're not going to go from being a bottom four roster last year to immediately being
17:52like a top 15 roster.
17:54And I think, you know, people expected that to happen a little bit quicker.
17:56Yeah.
17:57Because you hear like, oh, they might win eight or nine games, which sure, they have a
17:59good start.
18:00They have good players in their starting lineups.
18:02But if anything happens, look at the tight ends, for example.
18:04Josh McDaniels offense, you're probably going to see a lot of double tight.
18:07What happens if Hooper, Hooper, Henry go down?
18:10Scraping.
18:10You know what?
18:10Jack Westover?
18:11Yeah.
18:12Westover.
18:12Yeah.
18:12Yeah.
18:13Like, I don't know.
18:14It's like, you just don't feel great about the depth on this team, which brings you back
18:16to the original point.
18:17Like, why would you get rid of good players in Duggar and Jennings?
18:19It's just.
18:20Yeah.
18:20He doesn't seem like he's a problem either.
18:21I could see like a guy who was a longtime starter, has a decent contract.
18:24And then you kind of reduce his role and he's like a big headache.
18:28And you're like, how are we going to win?
18:29But he playing in the last preseason game in the second half, like he didn't like walk off
18:33the field or anything.
18:34It seems like they're trying to re-drum up the interest with the Rappaport tweet yesterday.
18:37It's like, oh, this is all the Patriots are shopping Duggar.
18:40They felt like he's back to himself.
18:41Yeah, you're not going to get it.
18:42He played in like the fourth quarter of the third preseason game.
18:43He's playing behind the Eraser and Jalen Hawkins.
18:46Like, I don't think his trade value is very high right now.
Recommended
2:19
|
Up next
7:23
16:52
2:00
4:37
Be the first to comment