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Seth and Sean kick off the show by talking about the Astros' 9-7 loss to the Rockies last night, but Cam Smith hyping us up with an incredibly deep Home Run.
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00:00You know what made me angrier than anything yesterday?
00:02What?
00:02And this was before the Astros lost another game to a bad baseball team.
00:06Yeah.
00:07The fact that the Astros went up in the power rankings,
00:10because we were initially kind of peeved that the Astros swept the Red Sox
00:16and yet were below them in ESPN's power rankings.
00:19And then they go 1-2 versus a horrible baseball team,
00:24and they skyrocket up.
00:26They shoot up the charts.
00:27These damn baseball nerds, man.
00:29Yeah.
00:30They are dead set against using any early results to determine anything at all,
00:35and it bothers me.
00:37Yeah.
00:37I like the football meathead writers who basically the first three weeks of the season,
00:43the power rankings are just a reflection of the standings.
00:46Team starts off 3-0.
00:48They roll with it.
00:50They're the best team in football they are.
00:52Lean into it.
00:53Yep.
00:53They'll never lose again.
00:54Well, be prepared.
00:559 o'clock, we'll do a power ranking of the early baseball power rankings.
01:00So, I just want you to know that you may be agitated at 9 o'clock today.
01:03I just want you to circle that on the rundown.
01:08This Astros team is the most Big 12 football team I've ever seen in Major League Baseball.
01:14Beer softball league.
01:16Man, I said it yesterday.
01:17They are a beer softball league team.
01:19You look, hey, it used to be a time, back in my day, if you scored eight runs in a
01:23game,
01:23you had a really good chance of winning it.
01:24Yeah.
01:25Whereas, with the Astros, the Astros could have won three.
01:28They could have had eight runs in each of their last four games,
01:31and they would be one and three in those four games.
01:33They're 6-5.
01:34The over is hit on their last nine games.
01:37The over on total runs.
01:38A total run scored in a Major League Baseball game.
01:41Like, a high total on a game.
01:43Like, a very high total would be 9.5 or 10.
01:45They sail past that.
01:47Like, you know, the two teams combined in an Astros game.
01:50So, if you've been cashing in on the over, they're 6-5.
01:53You know, so it's a – but it's, yeah, losing to bad baseball teams.
01:57Losing the A – I don't know if the A's are necessarily a bad baseball team.
02:00I took the over on 75 wins on the A's, so I've got a little bit of belief in them.
02:04Yeah.
02:05But the Colorado Rockies are an unquestioned bad baseball team,
02:09and it looked like a softball game last night in the fifth inning of that game.
02:13And Jeremy Pena, you know, goal-glover Jeremy Pena,
02:17breaks the wrong way on a ball that would have ended the inning.
02:20They would have gotten out with a 3-2 lead out of that inning.
02:23If you went to bed last night and you missed it, the Astros, as you can probably tell,
02:28lost to the Rockies.
02:299-7 was the final score.
02:31I will say this about this Astros team, and we learned this on Sunday against the A's.
02:36I think we felt it again last night, even though they lost both of those games.
02:40They're never out of a game.
02:41Like, this – the way this lineup is hitting – you know, now Cam Smith is hitting too.
02:45You know, Cam Smith has the longest home run in Major League Baseball this year
02:51after a bomb to center field.
02:53462 feet last night to straightaway center field.
02:57And they – you know, and so they're getting it – you know,
02:59Joey Loprofito's doing some good things.
03:01Like, the lineup is extended here.
03:03And when Christian Vasquez plays, the catcher position actually does things.
03:06He didn't play last night.
03:07Yiner Diaz did.
03:08They're never out of a game.
03:10I mean, they had a rally that – you know, they had a rally the very next inning.
03:13They got guys on base and only scored one run.
03:15They loaded the bases in the very next inning after they went down 8-3
03:19and they let the Rockies bat around.
03:21They sent 14 batters to the plate that inning.
03:24And so, you know, they got a little rally going the next inning.
03:28They left a bunch of guys on base.
03:29They got something going in the eighth inning.
03:31And Altuve comes to the plate with, you know, one swing.
03:34He can take the lead, that kind of thing.
03:36And, you know, they just – they didn't come through.
03:39But they get some rallies together.
03:41I think the most significant thing about last night, Seth, is that – look,
03:46the final score being 9-7, we've seen scores like that for the last week and a half.
03:50The most significant thing about last night is Hunter Brown would have started last night.
03:54The Astros win that game if Hunter Brown is the starting pitcher.
03:58I'm pretty confident in saying that.
03:59They scored seven runs in the game.
04:02Hunter Brown probably gives you six innings against a bad team.
04:05You're not handing it over to Ryan Weiss, who – the victim of some bad luck,
04:09but also the victim of not being a great pitcher.
04:12And so this is – this is the first morning you and I are coming in and feeling the pain
04:19of Hunter Brown being on the injured list acutely.
04:21They would have won the game last night if Hunter Brown pitched.
04:24We're feeling the pain of that.
04:25And I guess there's a part of it where I'm not angry with any of these losses
04:32because the situation is what it is and everything that you just laid out is 100% correct and true.
04:38I don't get mad at Cody Bolton.
04:41I'm more mad at Cody Bolton because I called him Colton Gordon at least seven times in the last 24
04:49hours.
04:50Yeah.
04:50I mean, including twice to you, and you didn't correct me.
04:52It was off air.
04:55But, like, you don't anticipate or expect greatness out of them.
04:58You hope for it.
04:59But the rest of the guys that you need to play well are playing so well that it's more just
05:05a malaise right now.
05:07You know what helps me?
05:08I look at the standings.
05:09Way too early to be looking at the standings.
05:11And yet, this early on, the only team that's clearly out in front of anybody else is the Yankees
05:19because they're 7-2.
05:20So by winning percentage, they're way better than everybody else.
05:22But everybody else has six wins or less.
05:25So, like, the Yankees have one more win but three fewer losses than the Astros, the Guardians, anybody else.
05:33Everybody's kind of feeling their way right now.
05:35Yeah, like the Guardians are 6-5.
05:37The Astros are 6-5.
05:38The Angels are 6-5.
05:40And then you've got the Yankees at 7-2.
05:41So it's just there's not a whole lot of harm or damage done.
05:46But at some point, the Astros are going to start facing good baseball teams very soon, this week, in fact.
05:51Yeah, this week against – yeah, you lose these games against the A's and the Rockies.
05:55And now, all of a sudden, like, these games against the Mariners are – for an early season series are
06:00massive this weekend.
06:01Mariners are 4-7 at least.
06:02Yeah, no, the AL West looks like the old AL West again in the standings.
06:06It's not great right now in the division.
06:09So, yeah, so they lose last night.
06:12The –
06:13It really, by the way, just real quick, I mean, that – and that's the – that's the entire AL
06:18right now.
06:18Yeah.
06:19It's the – which that's early, obviously.
06:22Like, I hate myself for even going through this exercise.
06:26But it's my balm, Sean.
06:27No, that's okay.
06:28It's a salve that I'm using to get over losing to the Rockies.
06:31Well, I think, again, like, Hunter Brown not being there last night is a big story, which then segues into
06:36tonight, Mike Burroughs.
06:38And then, like, this start for Christian Javier tomorrow is massive.
06:43I mean, he's been – he has been trash the first two games of the year.
06:48And he is among your highest paid – he's your highest paid starting pitcher.
06:54He's making more money this year than Emi's making.
06:57You're about the same.
06:58They're both getting $21 million this year.
07:01So, Christian Javier's start tomorrow is big.
07:04Yeah, I don't want to hear any more about slippery baseballs, okay?
07:08No, we didn't hit that yesterday.
07:10You're not, Emi, coming over from Japan where there's a definite difference in tackiness between Japanese baseballs and American baseballs.
07:18Javier has been pitching with the American baseball his entire life, damn it.
07:21Yeah.
07:22Well, he was talking, too, like he was throwing the same baseball the whole game.
07:25Like, no, there's like 60 baseballs in a major league game.
07:28Like, they were all slippery.
07:29The part of it that makes me nervous is that, okay, out in Colorado, sometimes the dry air ends up
07:35being a factor for pitchers.
07:36Oh, yeah.
07:37Because that changes the texture of the ball as well.
07:39Yeah, yeah.
07:39I didn't like last night that you had Correa and Alvarez, Jordan, hitting balls on the screws that died in
07:50that 415-foot center-field cavern that they have out there.
07:54It was.
07:54So, and they looked like exactly the same hits.
07:58If you thought that, it's because Alvarez's went 414 feet.
08:03Correa's traveled 413 feet.
08:05They were both outs, obviously.
08:08But this is a weird thing from Matt Kawahara.
08:12In the last three seasons, there were just three batted balls that had at least a 103.5-mile-per
08:17-hour exit velocity, a 27-degree launch angle, and at least 413 feet of distance that resulted in outs.
08:24Last night, the Astros had two such hits that were outs in a three-batter sequence.
08:31It was just, and again, you're playing the Rockies.
08:33If you were playing the Yankees or something and this was happening, you'd think, ah, the bastards.
08:39But this is early in the game.
08:41You'll figure, okay, they'll figure it out.
08:44Cam Smith, a couple innings later, ends up hitting that bomb, which is the longest home run of the Astros
08:50of the year in Major League Baseball.
08:52Yeah.
08:54Jordan Alvarez is the only one who's hit one that hard and that far since 2021 for the Astros.
09:00Okay, here, I've got the list right here.
09:02Yeah.
09:02Chandler Roan posted the list.
09:04Cam Smith's 462-foot home run.
09:07Let me pause right there.
09:08Seeing Cam Smith hitting the way he is the last week or so and getting this power stroke is very
09:13exciting.
09:14He's one of the guys, Seth.
09:16It's one thing for Christian, I'm talking about the long-term view for the Astros, like beyond this year.
09:21It's one thing for Christian Walker to be hitting.
09:23Christian Walker will not be here beyond 2027.
09:26Cam Smith is supposed to be one of the foundational pillars of what we hope is the next great era
09:32of Astros baseball.
09:34So seeing him on this list is really nice.
09:36So Chandler Roan says this.
09:37His 462-foot home run is the longest one hit in MLB this season.
09:42The ninth longest, it's the ninth longest home run hit by an Astros player since StatCast began tracking in 2008.
09:52Here are the eight players that hit longer home runs than Cam Smith did yesterday since the StatCast era began.
09:59Counting down.
10:00Number eight, Jordan Alvarez, back in 2022.
10:04Hit a bomb of 400, hit a bomb against the A's.
10:09I won't go through the distances.
10:10They're all just longer.
10:11Number seven, Jake Marisnyk.
10:15Marisnyk hit one set.
10:16Oh, yeah.
10:17Yeah.
10:17In 2017 against the Red Sox.
10:22Carlos Correa, number six.
10:24Jordan Alvarez, another one at number five.
10:26And then three of the longest four home runs in the StatCast era.
10:31Brandy, get your coffee out.
10:32Get ready to put a little alcohol in your coffee.
10:34George Springer, number four.
10:35Number three, Carlos Correa, number two.
10:38And then George Springer, the longest one.
10:40George Springer hit a 476-footer against the A's back in 2018.
10:45Okay, so this entire exercise was marred the instant you mentioned Jake Marisnyk.
10:49This is like whenever a rookie quarterback gets off to a hot start.
10:54Gardner Minshew.
10:55Yes.
10:56You knew exactly where I was going with it.
10:57But no rookie has done this except for Joe Montana, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Gardner Minshew, and C.J. Stroud.
11:07Yeah.
11:08All right.
11:09Thanks for the cautionary tale, bro.
11:11I thought you'd be excited about Jake Marisnyk being on this list.
11:13I was excited, but no, Marisnyk.
11:14I'm grateful Marisnyk being in there because, as we know, Marisnyk, not a great offensive baseball player.
11:18Right, right.
11:19But it's a cautionary tale.
11:23All right, don't read too much into this just because you see these all-stars up there that he's got
11:28some work to do.
11:29A lot of Springer in there, though, man.
11:30Those are the good old days.
11:32Yeah, I don't know.
11:33Maybe at some point early in the season, Jake Marisnyk in his career had an OPS above 1,000 like
11:40Cam Smith does right now.
11:41Yeah.
11:41But probably not.
11:43Is Cam above 1,000 right now?
11:45He's 1,017.
11:46Oh, my goodness gracious.
11:49Hitting .297, my friend.
11:51I love it, dude.
11:51I love it.
11:52It's big, man.
11:54It's big.
11:54I mean, honestly, the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my entire life happen last night.
12:03What's that?
12:03And it was just the perfect symmetry that shows the growth of a player in overcoming all the old labels
12:14he's had on him.
12:15Free-swinging Jose Altuve.
12:17Yeah.
12:18Notorious, known, notorious for swinging at the first pitch.
12:22Yeah.
12:23Sits and watches the first pitch of the game.
12:26Challenges it.
12:27Call overturned.
12:28Yeah.
12:29That was a tone setter.
12:30Yeah.
12:30Yeah.
12:31That is your Jose Altuve, my friends.
12:34He's just not swinging at the first pitch no matter what.
12:36I wonder what happens over time as pitchers start to really realize that, okay, Altuve's not operating the same way.
12:42Like, everything's going to have to balance out a little bit when they start pitching to him more and not
12:47trying to dupe him.
12:48Yet at the same time, that's going to mean that he's going to have more pitches to hit.
12:51Yeah.
12:51Yeah.
12:53Yeah.
12:55It's the chess game, man.
12:56Yeah.
12:56Yeah.
12:57It's the chess game.
12:57It's unbelievable, man.
12:59It's so cool to watch.
13:00It is.
13:01It's fun.
13:01It's when all of a sudden, you run into that old friend you haven't seen in like a decade.
13:06Yep.
13:06And you're like, oh, my gosh, he's wise all of a sudden.
13:09What the hell happened to him?
13:10And you find out, you know, he's got divorced, his wife is dead.
13:16Yeah.
13:16It happens.
13:17Yeah, he's been through some stuff.
13:18It happens, man.
13:18It happens, man.
13:19Altuve went through some stuff.
13:20That's exactly right.
13:21I can relate.
13:22Yes, absolutely.
13:24Text message to the Base Power text line, listening to you two clowns is always awful.
13:29And then I checked, and it was from 12 hours ago.
13:32So that must have been to Ron and Clint.
13:38That's what I'm going to do from now on.
13:40Whenever I get insulted, I'm just going to pretend that that was actually for Ron and Clint.
13:43It was for the afternoon show 12 hours ago.
13:45No, the only text so far that I can see is the one that says, pitching is trash.
13:50The pitching is very unbalanced right now.
13:54The trash is very trashy.
13:56Like Christian Javier, trash.
14:00Brian Abreu.
14:02Trash.
14:04Not trash human beings, but they are pitching like trash right now.
14:07That's not what you were saying off air.
14:09Yeah.
14:10That's not true.
14:11I just want to be clear.
14:13That is not true.
14:14You're such a jerk.
14:14That is not true.
14:15I didn't say anything off air about them personally.
14:17They're just not pitching very well.
14:19Now, you know who's playing well?
14:20Jordan Alvarez.
14:21Player of the week, Seth.
14:22Player of the week in the American League.
14:24Jordan Alvarez.
14:25And I will say this.
14:27He's been with the Astros since 2019.
14:29That was his rookie year.
14:31We know he missed the whole COVID year.
14:33We know he's missed a bunch of time at various points throughout pretty much every season.
14:38That's only the fourth time Jordan Alvarez has won Player of the Week.
14:41This is his eighth year on the team.
14:46That surprised me a little bit that that's only the fourth time he's been playing.
14:50He's had some big weeks before, man.
14:52That's only the fourth time.
14:53Probably in any given week, there's a good chance that Aaron Judge also had a good week,
14:57and they had to be sure to give it to Aaron Judge.
14:58It's not easy to win.
14:59I get it.
15:00Yeah, but there's whatever, 30-something weeks every season.
15:03He's only won four.
15:04As far as the pitching goes, they're currently 28th in ERA.
15:08Yeah, that sounds about right.
15:09That matches the eyeball and the nausea test.
15:125.75 ERA.
15:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:17I mean, well, look, when you're a team who plays in games that go over the run total
15:23in nearly every game this season, you give up a lot of runs.
15:28It is going to be fun.
15:30Mariners are currently fourth in ERA,
15:32so it is going to be fun to watch these guys and their new approach at the plate
15:36and everything go up against a team.
15:38Also, the Mariners are pitching really well,
15:39so the irresistible force meets the immovable object this weekend.
15:43We might have to settle for like six or seven runs per game in that one.
15:47Yep.
15:48All right, so we're off and running on a Tuesday.
15:52Payton Pendergast with you.
15:53They're back at it tonight.
15:54Mike Burroughs tonight.
15:54Man, it's just a shame.
15:56It would have been so nice to steal a would-be Hunter Brown start last night.
16:02You know, that's – because when you lose a starting pitcher, it's different.
16:06You lose an everyday player.
16:07You know, you lose Jordan, let's say.
16:09He's gone.
16:10He's not in the lineup.
16:11Every single game, there's a void there.
16:13If you can put together big offensive outputs in the games where Hunter Brown would have pitched,
16:20you can win the game with Cody Bolton out there, you know, like he did last night.
16:25It's just unfortunate the way that things unraveled.
16:27The ball bouncing off a base in the fifth, it was just – paying him, making two mistakes in the
16:32field.
16:32It was just weird.
16:33So they're back at it tonight.
16:35As we say all that to say, they're back at it tonight.
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