00:00Roman Anthony, after last night's bounce pass to the cutoff guy, and so nothing is going right for the Boston
00:11Red Sox.
00:12No.
00:14It's not.
00:16Those games, if you remember the Chuck Knobloch yips in the World Series, some of the best TV I've ever
00:22seen.
00:23Just laughing my ass off at the Yankees, and now it's karma.
00:26Is there concern for you when it comes to Roman Anthony, or is it just do we pause because he's
00:37young, or is there concern that maybe it could be a mental thing?
00:42Well, I do feel like there's been, you know, there's that mantle of the future and how great he's going
00:51to be and the number one prospect in the minor leagues.
00:56And I, but I have felt like when we've had the opportunity to speak with him or when you hear
01:05him, that he was well-equipped to handle that.
01:09But maybe that's, maybe he's not.
01:12Maybe he's, he is clearly now, it's back-to-back times we've heard from him post-game where he seems
01:18to be putting a lot of it on himself.
01:20And he speaks the pot well, but I wonder, speaking the pot well, and you probably know this, Mago, because
01:26you're in that, those locker rooms of clubhouse.
01:29Like, some guys can speak the pot well, but then they go out there and they're still thinking about it,
01:34and it affects their performance.
01:36You know what I mean?
01:37Where some guys speak it and then actually go out there and say, all right, the hell with this.
01:41I'm not going to have this happen again.
01:43There is nothing more fascinating to me in professional sports or any sports than the yips, the thing, whatever you
01:52want to call it.
01:53Because that, and that's what, that's what freaks me out about Roman right now is after the game, you got
01:59Alex Cora saying it's mechanics.
02:01He says he's totally healthy.
02:03Where did that come from?
02:05It's all mental.
02:06It's entirely mental.
02:07It has nothing to do with his physics.
02:08I mean, like physical ability.
02:09I mean, this is a guy who was on top of the world a month ago, is the face of
02:14the World
02:15Baseball Classic, being praised by the greatest players in the game, and now he can't hit a
02:19cutoff guy to save his life.
02:21It's just unbelievable.
02:23It is unbelievable that this team is 2-8 and the future superstar of the sport can't even
02:30throw a ball to the infield.
02:32Worst throw, 978 Texer wants an answer.
02:36Roman's from left field last night or Shime's spiral?
02:39Oh, I thought you were going to say, I thought you were going to say Drake made in the Super
02:43Bowl.
02:45The more you watch Shime's spiral, the more you see the flick of the wrist that he has,
02:49and that's my favorite part of it.
02:51That is.
02:52Had you ever held a football?
02:54Yeah.
02:55It was a short space.
02:56He was two feet away, and he was catching with one hand.
02:58I was trying to make it as easy as possible for him.
03:00This is Steve from Waltham.
03:04Good morning, Steve.
03:06Good morning, guys.
03:07Hey, I'm talking about Roman, Anthony.
03:09I don't think there's any place in him for the outfield.
03:11This is twice in the past, I think, four games where he's made a terrible throw to home play.
03:15I think one was against the Padres.
03:17I think the only future he has, if you want to get him in the field, is you've got to
03:20find a way to transition him to first base, coach him up over there, get him there, or
03:24he's just a DH.
03:24He doesn't have the arm for the outfield, in my opinion.
03:28I mean, this is the future of the entire franchise that you're talking about.
03:34He just looks awkward out there, too.
03:35I mean, when he's fielding a fly ball, he doesn't look natural.
03:37He doesn't look like a natural outfielder.
03:39I don't know what it is, but he doesn't have the arm for it.
03:42I don't know.
03:44That was quick.
03:45Time to move him to first base.
03:47He's had at least three of these kinds of throws, because he mentioned the one against
03:50the Padres.
03:51There was one in the Reds series as well, and Roman said himself that he thought it was
03:55like the fourth time that this has happened.
03:58I can only think of those three.
04:00The Cincinnati one was a throw to home that was way out.
04:05Yeah.
04:06Correct?
04:07Yeah.
04:07Okay.
04:07So it's just been off.
04:08But yeah, he did acknowledge four of them.
04:12So there's clearly some type of issue when it comes to that, right?
04:15You know, there's clearly an issue, which we had no clue of this, because obviously in
04:21spring training, they talked about how good the players were in the outfield, right?
04:25And we didn't know nothing about this.
04:27And a lot of that stuff, it comes down to the pressure.
04:31But this is at home.
04:33Like, imagine when he's at Yankee Stadium.
04:35Yeah.
04:35Yeah.
04:36That's going to add even more pressure.
04:38Red Sox stats, the account on Twitter, had the 2026 maximum throwing speed from outfielders
04:45and listed Roman Anthony as one of the top two with Willi Abreu.
04:49They were both 91 miles per hour.
04:51So that's where, like, again, to me, it's kind of scarier if it's not a physical thing.
04:56Like, if it was a physical thing where he's got arm soreness or something, then you could
05:00say, okay, sit him for a little while, get him right.
05:03But this is something else.
05:05Yeah, no, this is all...
05:06Do they have my first pitch at Fenway in there?
05:08They don't.
05:08They don't.
05:09I can dig a little deeper and see if they have that.
05:11They said, no, this is not slow motion.
05:13It was...
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