00:00Earlier. It's early, Curtis, to say that, but maybe, just maybe.
00:04And you know who has called the show? The great baseball Brett.
00:08Brett, good morning. It's been a while.
00:10Good morning, Greg. How are you?
00:11What's up?
00:13Well, I figured we got 16 games to go, and it's looking like we got October baseball,
00:17so I figured I'd call in and talk some Red Sox with you guys.
00:21Very encouraging. 11Ks, five innings from the guy you brought up.
00:25I mean, that's good news.
00:26Yeah, yeah, and I shined it on earlier and talked about the prospects and the trade deadline.
00:34Just understand that you can't have both.
00:36You can't complain about the Red Sox not being aggressive enough
00:39and then talk about them bringing up their young prospects who are contributing
00:44because these are all the prospects that you would have to trade at the trade deadline.
00:50So if you wanted to make it – go ahead, Courtney.
00:52I was just going to say, is it lightning in a bottle, though?
00:54Is that, like, first-time luck, or do you think that this rookie can actually keep it going?
01:00Yeah, he's got good stuff.
01:02The Conninger early kids got good stuff.
01:03So does Peyton Toley, but they're not – they're young.
01:07They're just so young.
01:08It's kind of like – it's not really the way that the guys are developed in the old days.
01:14It's kind of a new approach.
01:15They're being very aggressive.
01:17The Red Sox need to have four starters for the postseason.
01:20And these guys, I think the early kid and the Toley kid will combine to be their fourth starter.
01:26So they have three established starters that will go one, two, three.
01:30And then these two kids, I think, are going to combine to be their fourth starter.
01:34If that makes sense, they'll throw – you know, just kind of give them what they have to be the fourth starter.
01:41But in the postseason, you just got to get in and kind of throw it all at them and figure it out from there.
01:47Brett, why –
01:48But, yeah, I do think it's lightning in a bottle.
01:49Why wasn't Breslow more transparent about this, though, at the deadline?
01:53Like, if he had just been like, yeah, we're really confident in our young guys.
01:55They're making a lot of progress really fast.
01:57That's why we're not going to, you know, sell the house for, you know, your Joe Ryans
02:01or even trade this kid for Merrill Kelly.
02:04We like where we're at with those younger guys.
02:05Why weren't they more transparent about that?
02:07It's like – just like, I don't know, let people know that this is the plan.
02:11Yeah, because I don't think you need to.
02:13I think the public – you can say that, and 50% of the public is going to agree with you,
02:17and 50% of the public is not going to agree with you.
02:19So, like, what's the point?
02:21Plus, you're putting expectations on the young kids.
02:24Let them develop when they develop.
02:25If you're going to have that approach, that's fine.
02:28I think they thought they'd get more out of Walker Bueller,
02:31and I thought they actually think they could get some stuff out of Dustin May,
02:35and it just hasn't happened yet.
02:37If Walker Bueller pitches decent, they don't do this.
02:41They don't need – they're not forced to do this.
02:43They've kind of been forced to do it because of injuries and some poor performance
02:47and having to get aggressive with their young kids.
02:51It's a good question, Chime.
02:52I just – I think if you say that, I think people – the public perception is,
02:56well, Bresmo's not being aggressive enough.
02:58You know what I mean?
02:59Push all your chips in.
03:00Get it done for Joe Ryan.
03:02Joe Ryan's not pitching great right now.
03:04His last four starts, he's had four tough starts in a row.
03:08You just never know.
03:09When you trade for guys, you never know.
03:11If they got Dustin May and he pitches three or four great games in a row,
03:16you say, wow, Bresmo's a genius.
03:19But they bring the young kids up, and maybe you have something,
03:22and maybe you can kind of piece it together.
03:24Maybe the upside, Brett, is that they didn't make one of those trades
03:27that they were trying to make at the deadline,
03:29and guys that they would have slow played because of service time
03:32got here ahead of schedule,
03:33and now you kind of have the best of both worlds.
03:35You have a guy that's under your control for a long period of time,
03:38and you see him in the big leagues at a rate that he would not have been there
03:43otherwise had they done more at the deadline.
03:46Yeah, it's a great point.
03:48And, again, the two kids they brought up right now won't affect service time,
03:52so you'll have these two pitchers for six years,
03:54controllable for six years after now.
03:58And, plus, you can kind of showcase them.
04:00You can see what you have.
04:01If you like what you see, you can kind of build them in for future.
04:06If they pop and you think you can get more value out of it,
04:10maybe you end up trading one of these kids who pops at the end of the year.
04:13Maybe you do trade him for Joe Ryan or someone down the stretch.
04:17I think you're right, Curtis.
04:19They don't affect service time, but I think they come up,
04:23and if they can contribute, then they're good.
04:26But I don't know.
04:27Who would have thought the Red Sox have the third best overall record
04:31in the American League with 16 games to go?
04:33And, Greg, if you had said that the Red Sox with 16 games left
04:36were going to have the fifth or sixth best record in all of baseball
04:39and have the same amount of wins as the Dodgers,
04:42what would you say going into the offseason?
04:44Curtis has them winning the World Series, and he stands by that.
04:48Shohei has them winning as well, which makes me more confident.
04:53His ball guy is rotten in jail.
04:56He's out here just dominating.
04:58You know, Greg, this is what the cool part about baseball is.
05:02You get into the postseason, and anything can happen.
05:06And, you know, I think with the Yankees coming to town this weekend,
05:12I kind of think you're going to start to ramp up the baseball postseason.
05:18I think we'll start to get ramped up.
05:19The energy, I think, will start to get ramped up a little bit.
05:22You hear a lot more going on about, you know,
05:24people wanting to go to the ballpark for the Yankees series
05:26and kind of getting energized and excited about the end of the year.
05:29And after watching Sunday's, you know, performance down in Foxtrot,
05:36I thank God for the Red Sox because I think it's going to be a long football season,
05:40and I think the fans have something to be excited about with the baseball program.
05:44True.
05:45All right.
05:46I don't – can somebody explain the – there are some in the Twitch chat
05:50who get all triggered when baseball Brett calls the radio show.
05:56Like, he's not an insider.
05:58He's not – he's like anybody else who calls the radio show.
06:01What is wrong with these people?
06:02He's a fan, and he's not Greg's son.
06:05He's a diehard.
06:06No, he's not my son.
06:07Oh, he's a diehard.
06:08He's like any other listener.
06:09I just think they're really mad that you have a friend.
06:11Is that what it is?
06:12Yeah.
06:13It's a rough place in there.
06:14It's so bizarre.
06:16Like, Butter Guy can't stand him.
06:18Really?
06:19Yeah.
06:19We love Butter Guy.
06:20Butter Guy can.
06:21I don't know if that's the real Butter Guy.
06:23He has great knowledge about the game of baseball.
06:25I don't understand.
06:26I mean, he's a baseball fan.
06:27He's like a Derek the Steelers fan or Angry Principal Dave or 1940s European soccer star David.
06:35I mean, he's a –
Comments