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Seth and Sean overreact to how the Astros' series against the A's turned out.
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00:00Hello. Yeah. How are you? I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out. Start with the
00:09positives. The Astros are 6-4 and on pace for 97 wins. They're on pace. The pitching is a mess
00:14right now. For those of you who just took the weekend off altogether, just know this. Good for
00:18you. Good for you if you took the weekend off altogether. Know this. The Astros have some
00:26issues with the pitching right now. Hunter Brown is on the 15-day IL for a shoulder strain.
00:34For something that will for sure take longer than 15 days to heal. It usually takes the
00:39average because immediately when that came up, I saw somebody had told you that that's
00:43typically a three to four months recovery. A shoulder strain with a pitcher tends to be
00:4830 to 40 days. Can we be clear as to who this person was that told me this? It was
00:53a rando
00:53on Twitter. It wasn't a shoulder doctor. Yeah, he talked so like he very much was trying to
01:00big bro explain to you exactly how long it takes. Oh, and they're going to need to trade
01:03for a pitcher and this and that. Which might very well happen, but the only thing to know
01:08is that it's usually longer than 15 days when you see the word strain used. So it might be
01:1330 or 40 days. It might be less than that. Who knows? Could end up being two years.
01:17MRI is today. Yeah. So Spada said Hunter Brown wasn't too concerned about it, but we know it
01:25doesn't matter what anybody says with injuries with the Astros. That's right. But no, okay,
01:31this is just to frame everything. Just know that if the Astros had scored 10 runs per game
01:37in each of, if they had scored 10 runs in each of these last three games, they would still be
01:42one
01:42and two against the, against the A's. Yep. It's the damnedest thing. Every game against the A's
01:49has turned into that world series game against the Dodgers. That's right. We're just, all right,
01:55no, we're going to have to get to 15 first team to 15 wins. This is, this is where we
01:59are. And,
02:00and, you know, and Lance McCullers started a second game yesterday and some of it was okay until the
02:06fifth inning and the fifth inning is where everything just kind of unfolded in this game. It was still
02:11okay in the fifth inning until Jake Myers lost the ball in the sun. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
02:16they took him out for that. That wasn't Lance who gave that up. I understand. Yeah. So he,
02:21so it had started to unravel on Lance a little bit. Right, right, right. No, but it was still in
02:26terms of, okay, you can get yourself out of this. Yeah. Yeah. And then Okert came in and it was
02:31all
02:31set up for a fly ball in that ballpark too. It's a, remember the fly ball at the wall, isn't
02:37like you
02:37let up extremely hard contact or anything. No. Um, and Myers just lost the ball in the sun
02:42as like seven guys did this weekend at various times. Like, you don't want to wear sunglasses.
02:48Is it uncomfortable? Does it pinch your nose? Yeah. Well, I got a lot of that. I'm like,
02:51when that happened with Jake Myers, I just retweeted the play and I'm like, I'm not a Jake
02:55Myers guy. And I've never been a Jake Myers guy. And just watching him tumble into the fence
02:59on what at the time was a, was a game changing play. Now that made it like four to three
03:05or something
03:05like that, the game ended 12 to 10. So it's a footnote in the entire game. Like the whole
03:11thing was just a circus. It was a very entertaining baseball game. Uh, and it went all day. I like
03:16Amy and I, Seth, we, we were all over the place this morning. Welcome in everybody. Not really.
03:22Yeah. No, I mean, I feel all over the place. Yeah. And I, cause cause cause Amy and I, cause
03:29Amy
03:29and I, we, when that game, when the pregame started, we were sitting down to Easter dinner or brunch
03:35or whatever you want to call it at her parents' house, we were at our third different place.
03:40We went to after leaving Amy's and we left Amy's parents' house and like the set, like the sixth
03:45inning. And we were, we were in like our third place. We went to after that during the day,
03:50we just decided, Hey, you know, let's keep going. Let's go here. Let's go there. We ended up at
03:54Carrabba's eating pizza. And I'm like, this game is still going. And we'd been four different places.
04:00It reminded me of that, um, the playoff game against the Mariners back in 2022,
04:05the 18 inning game that I think you went to, didn't you? Didn't you go to like the first 10
04:09innings? I had to leave. Uh, I had to leave in like the 10th inning. Right. And it went eight
04:13more innings after that. I drove from Seattle to, uh, Tacoma and still ended up having plenty
04:21of time to watch the last few innings. Right, right, right. And so that game, I remember Amy and I,
04:25that was the Texans by week that year. And Amy and I were in Kansas city with a boss lady
04:30and her
04:30husband. And we went to literally six different places, including back to the hotel to shower and
04:37go out to dinner. And that game was going on. That's what that game felt like yesterday. It was,
04:41it was an eternity. Um, so Hunter Brown goes on the IL, the Astros off offensively are really,
04:48really fun to watch. The starting pitching is a huge question mark now without Hunter Brown and the
04:53bullpen is, ain't that great. Especially their closer, Brian Abreu, who sucks. He's terrible.
04:59So I, we wake up this morning, Seth, to tell Houston, you are basically rooting for a beer league
05:05softball team right now. Right. For this moment. Yes. You are a beer league softball team. And you're
05:10going to watch a lot of 12 to 10s. That's what you're going to watch. Cody Bolton is going to
05:13start
05:14tonight. Beyond that, it's unclear. Uh, if you're wondering why spirit, why Spencer Arrighetti
05:19isn't, uh, starting already, it's cause he pitched on Friday night, had a really good performance on
05:25Friday night. Yeah. But yeah. And the, in terms of just the overall pitching, even in blue ball came
05:30in and I'm really optimistic about it. Blue ball and excited. He lets up, was it three runs or four
05:35runs? I lost a bunch. And, uh, yeah, this, there's such everything about the hitting. You should feel so
05:43good about because so much of it is based on substantial stuff. Their judgment of the plate
05:50has just been immaculate, especially when you compare it to what it was before. Jose Altuve
05:55has turned into a wise old man in terms of just picking and choosing and showing maximum patience
06:02at the plate. All of these things that are real. I don't, yeah, small sample size, beginning of the
06:06season and everything. I don't know exactly how it's all going to shake out, but I feel much,
06:10much better about that part of them just changing systemically the way they've done things. But the
06:16pitching, it could go a million different directions right now. And there's some guys that
06:20you feel really good about chief amongst them, Hunter Brown, except for the fact that he's got a
06:25shoulder strain and nobody knows what the hell it happens with an Astros pitcher. Once the S word
06:29is. Yeah. If we were, that's the thing, man, if we were to do a circle of trust, we did
06:35our first
06:36circle of trust of the season for the entire team on Friday. And there's like five or six guys in
06:41it.
06:42Most of them are everyday players. If we were to do a segment and maybe we will at some point,
06:48just a pitching circle of trust for the Astros, where we just literally went one through 13.
06:53Do we trust this guy to either start a game or come into a game and do their job? It
06:59is a short
06:59list right now, man. It is a, it is a really short list. And Hunter Brown was one of the
07:06only guys
07:07who would be a definitive yes on that list. He was, he is your, he is your most irreplaceable guy
07:14on this team. This team has enough offense right now where I think even if you're not Alvarez went
07:19out, I feel decent enough about the starting lineup top to bottom, especially the way, you know,
07:25some of the outfielders are playing early, you know, or hitting camp. Smith had a big, a big hit
07:29yesterday to tie the game at nine. Um, you know, I think you could get by. No, Cam and Loper
07:35Fido.
07:36Yeah. Great. Yeah. Allen was great in this series. Yes. Yeah. So, so all, so all of that, like
07:41offensively, like the everyday line, I mean, Jordan is the most irreplaceable guy in the everyday
07:45lineup, but you're scoring runs right now because he's got that transformative effect. You got nobody
07:49that can do what Hunter Brown can do for you. Right. Right. Well now this is where, I mean,
07:53Emai, Emai looked incredible. So there's that. And for reasons for optimism for this very
08:02jostled up pitching staff right now, Emai really just settled down and pitched his game. And
08:09he was amazing. At some point, Josh Hader is going to come back and afraid you, isn't going
08:13to be your closer because he's not supposed to be your closer. I'd much rather have Brian.
08:17Brian King is your, for all intents and purposes, is your closer. He's your most trustworthy
08:22reliever right now. Yeah. So here's, here's Josh Hader from an appearance a couple of days
08:27ago on how he feels right now. Ultimately, it's trying to break that tissue up, make sure
08:33it's recovering well. My bullpens have been really well. My last bullpen I touched in the
08:37nineties. So that's exciting for me. I've never touched 90 in a bullpen even when I was healthy.
08:43So that's a testament to the work that we're putting in. As far as when you talk about feeling
08:49right now, is there any discomfort, any pain, or do you feel like, okay, I'm past that. It's
08:55more so about making sure that we're at 100% before we actually return. Exactly. That's it. It's making
09:01sure that when I come back, there's no, you know, setbacks on that. It's when I'm in there,
09:05I'm, I'm there to the world series and I'm going to be there to, you know, give it every day
09:11as I
09:12can and be a hundred percent. Does that make you feel any better? Um, yeah. Yeah. A little bit.
09:20Yeah. Yeah. A little bit. I mean, it sounds like, sounds like things are progressing. It just sounds
09:23like they're being super, super cautious. Right. Yeah. Right. So at some point that's going to
09:28rectify itself. And then we've got Brian, Brian, I'll let you get to email. Brian Abreu has not had a
09:34single good outing yet. Not one. Not one. I know he struck the side out in the afternoon game last
09:40week that I was at. He gave up a home run, right? He gave up a home run and then
09:44struck the, you
09:45can't do, you have no margin for error when you're the closer. He sucks right now. He does terrible.
09:50With this, what we get with, right. So at some point, the only thing I know about Brian Abreu is
09:53that at some point he'll swing back into the point where a month from now, people are going to be
09:57saying, this is how it happens every damn season. Sean will get upset to an extreme degree about
10:03Abreu because he has these erratic stretches. He's going to get it together and he's going to
10:07look incredible for a while and people act like you were overreacting or something. And then he's
10:12going to dip back down into this. Yeah. So a hundred percent, like you can't be leaning on Brian
10:17Abreu as the guy that's going to make you feel great about these games. No, no, no. About these
10:21situations. You were going to talk about Emi and I interrupted you. Emi. So Emi has this slider that
10:27looks like a screwball and nobody's ever seen anything like it, including pitch
10:31tracker, which is it's us versus the machines at this point, Sean. We know, we know AI is
10:37coming for all of us at some point. It's a mad scramble to what happens in the, in the
10:41aftermath of the AI takeover. For now we have Emi who is confounding the pitch tracker.
10:47Here's a pitching coach, Josh Miller talking about just how crazy his slider is.
10:52You know, I'm reading the swings of the guys, especially with the sliders. It looked like
10:55if they're really getting frustrated by some of those pitches. Yeah. I was giving
10:58them fits, you know, it was doing some weird stuff and you know, they were, they were
11:02taking some, some healthy hacks and coming up short and they look a little frustrated.
11:06Yeah. There's been quite a few misclassified pitches in his two outings. He did use the
11:11split and the change up some today, but most of those were slaps. That is that a new
11:15thing now that Josh Miller was made available after a game? Like that's, I don't recall that
11:19ever happening before. Not as often. It seems like we've heard from the position
11:23coaches a lot more. Yeah. I don't, I don't even know. I didn't even know what Josh Miller's
11:28voice sounded like. I just, I was watching the post game. We had the post game on a,
11:33on a separate TV. We were watching the basketball game at that point on Saturday, the day the
11:38Astros actually won against the A's 11 to nothing. So we were watching the college basketball,
11:43but we had the post game show on one of the other TVs and I'm watching and I noticed two
11:47things. One, Josh Miller doing a media availability. I'm like, okay, well that's, that seems new.
11:51I don't remember hearing from the pitching coach. I think it's cool to hear from. That was a great
11:55cut right there. Listening from Victor Rodriguez. Have we heard from him? Yes. I haven't seen that
11:59yet. The other thing I noticed is just how, how ratchet the whole A's situation is. It looked like
12:06spring training, didn't it? When there was that Josh Miller interview, I thought they were in West Palm
12:10beach. It was like from outside the men's room or something like that. Like Joe Espada is doing a
12:16media availability in front of a wall in the sun. I like the environment out there though. I don't
12:21know. Other than the sun, other than the sun screwing everybody up all the time. Remember Lance
12:26in the first inning had that pop-up that three guys converged on and it dropped and they ended up
12:31getting out of the first inning without any, without any runs scored. But the sun was the enemy
12:36in this, in this series. I guess it's because the park is, it's just, it's only one. It's not
12:42multi-level like, Oh yeah. So the sun's not blocked out as much. Right. That's what they,
12:46that's what they say. Well, yeah, but when the evening game on, on Friday night, there was an issue
12:50too. So the lighting, Oh, that was the liner Friday night was the liner missing the pop-up.
12:54Yup. Um, and, but I'm guessing the lighting isn't all that great either. So you can probably lose the
13:00ball in the darkness. Probably a ball goes off into the void more often than it does. They make it.
13:05Well, it just, it happens so much in that ballpark. It's gotta be something to do with the
13:08ballpark and the, and whatnot. So anyways, um, who's got, you know, he's got an answer for,
13:14um, the Astros low lighting situation is Jake Berger from the Rangers. He's wearing these
13:22freaky red contact lenses. Oh yeah. They're supposed to help him in low lighting situations.
13:27How about Jake Meyers not wearing any shades at all in center field? What the hell man,
13:31dude? And then he loses it. The fact that it's Jake Meyers and Brian and Bray, I don't want to
13:36say
13:36anything mean, but the blank stare on both of their faces when they're failing is just like
13:42Brian, the look on Brian Abreu's face as he's coughing up games is just infuriating to me.
13:49Jake Meyers doesn't frustrate me as much as Brian Abreu because Brian Abreu is screwing up at the
13:54thing he's supposed to be doing well, where at least with Jake Meyers, well, okay. Jake Meyers is
13:59doing the same thing, which is screwing up the thing that he's supposed to be doing well,
14:02which is fielding, but it's just, it was so obviously a sunlight situation. Yeah. I saw,
14:09I saw jabronis on Twitter trying to explain to Jake Meyers about the proper approach and everything
14:15and not, not extending your arm out before you. Well, yeah, he gets that part of it. He's a very
14:20good center. He was a finalist for the gold glove. Yeah. Because in that situation, because he didn't
14:25know where the ball was, he had his arm extended like a little leaguer who kind of runs with his
14:29arms
14:29straight out and everything. Like, no, that's not who Jake Meyers is. Um, so like, that's a,
14:34that's a blip on the radar for me for Jake Meyers. Yeah. I just don't know how you don't
14:38wear sunglasses out in center field. I don't know when it comes to direct glare from staring
14:43directly at the sun. I wonder how much it actually helps compared to versus you're not used to wearing
14:47them. Yeah. I'm being more inquisitive than I am like blaming Jake Meyers. Um, I've never been a Jake
14:54Meyers guy. Like I'll, I'll be kind of happy when we're done with the Jake Meyers experience
14:58overall. Um, but I, yeah, I just, I'm literally wondering like, would shades, would shades have
15:04helped him there? Or is it such a, is it such a pain in the ass to flip them? Cause
15:08you know,
15:09they get a certain type of sunglasses that you wear out there that you normally like
15:12have to adjust and whatnot. So anyways, um, so, so how are we feeling about this team?
15:18I mean, as far as, okay. Oh, offensively. Yeah. I mean, remember a lot of times last
15:23year, it seemed like there was nobody on the team that hadn't above average OPS where
15:27now you've got three guys who are in the thousands. Yeah. I mean, you get down. Okay.
15:33Let's I feel Walker, Walker, Walker, Yordan and Altuve are killing it this year.
15:38This is the one part that you have to wonder how sustainable this is and how, but I think
15:42it is evidence of their new approach at the plate. The fact that Christian Vasquez right
15:45now has a nine 78 OPS. That's, that's not going to last, but man, it's impressive.
15:51I wonder when the last time he actually, even in an early in a season or something where
15:55he might've gotten off to a hot streak, had no PS quite like that.
15:58It was probably on the Red Sox at that point, like back in five, six years ago.
16:01I mean, honestly, we talk about the outfielders, Cam Smith and Joey Loprofito so far, so good.
16:07And they both made incredible plays defensively, but Cam's at an eight 85, Loprofito's at an
16:13eight 54, you know, Loprofito's batting three 20 right now. And you get to, so just anywhere
16:19between seven 20 or seven 40 or so is usually average. They've got one, two, three, four,
16:25five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 10 guys that are seven 17 or higher right now.
16:30Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And then Nick Allen's sitting there at a, or, um, Jake Myers is at
16:35a 700. Yeah. Still like just a little bit below average.
16:38I like your point early that, you know, from 10, 15 minutes ago, right out of the shoot where
16:42it's like, this does feel more sustainable because of how disciplined that they are as
16:46a team seemingly. I mean, 11 walks again yesterday and it will see, I mean, the A's are not a
16:50good baseball team. They're going to play the Rockies the next three games. That's not a
16:53good baseball team. The big test will be Seattle this weekend and they're going to have to go
16:58up there and they're probably going to be attacking that series with a front four. You know, I haven't
17:05looked to see how the pitching shape shakes out over the next few. I, you know, I just haven't
17:10looked ahead yet at the probables for who's going to be pitching other than we know that
17:14Cody Bolton is going to be opening tonight. I doubt, I mean, I'm guessing they're trying
17:17to get three innings out of him tonight and then hand it over the bullpen and hoping the
17:21bullpen's kind of beleaguered and tired. You shut down a bad team, you know? So, so I,
17:26so I don't know what it looks like for Seattle this weekend. I just know you got no Hunter
17:30Brown. So your, your front four are, I mean, Mike Burroughs is your, you know, just by name,
17:36you know, by, by chronology is your number one right now. Right. Well, I mean, we're going
17:40to get Spencer Arrighetti back. So Arrighetti is going to be one of them. And I think he
17:45might look, he might look, he might look incredible when he was out there. So I'm optimistic about
17:49that. It's really, we knew we were going to have to see what we have in Arrighetti at
17:54some point. So here we go. And, um, and, uh, beyond all that. Yeah. There were a lot of
18:00question marks, a lot of question marks.
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