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00:52a cavalier so if you win the cavalier uniform if you win the tickets with the cavaliers if you win
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01:06cavalier basketball team and i'll agree with you say whatever you want within the boundaries of that
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01:24o'clock for the cleveland cavaliers in game five travis bazana is coming up everybody it's happening
01:30earlier than expected coming up some people said they'd be surprised if he came up before june he's
01:36here before he's here before may travis bazana is coming up he is going to be inserted into this
01:42lineup at some point uh how are we reacting to this are we this is obviously jubilation do you think
01:50it's so early because they've they've been scuffling because they have scuffled for the
01:55last couple of weeks and they've got some big question marks some of their their early levers
02:00have not really worked somebody i and i uh you want to talk about some of the bad mess some
02:06of the
02:07bad uh takes that we've had when i wanted to pay steven kwan holy potato salad i was that drunk
02:19no everybody wanted to pay him what do you mean oh no not everybody wanted to pay the guy in
02:22that
02:23room didn't want to pay i didn't want to pay him i didn't want to pay him what you guys
02:25want to pay
02:27but everybody would like him to still be a cleveland guy and i still kind of stand by that yeah
02:31i don't
02:31know if that's happening now boy who everybody wanted us to lock him up early because it looked
02:36like it was going to be a very promising career and now he's been one of the worst hitting outfielders
02:41in baseball over the last calendar year somebody found this stat i want to make sure it's somebody's got
02:45to find out whether or not it's true uh social media reactions brought to you by jive and jewelers
02:51cleveland's premier jewelry store a man named andrew who goes by manzo's mustache on on social media
02:57well it's got to be true well i don't know if it is so we got to find it out
03:01is it the actual
03:02but he put out there and i go man this is this is strong here says steven kwan has swung
03:08the bat
03:08slower every year since the stat has been tracked he also has the lowest average exit velo of his career
03:14by more than four miles an hour he writes seems like an easy fix just swing it faster well it's
03:19i never even thought of that that's a good yeah what are they telling him do we not have a
03:23hitting
03:23coach folks i regret to inform you that 28 year old steven kwan may be washed i'm going he's never
03:29had a serious injury like there's been banged like he's been banged up a little bit and this is not
03:35a good start this is not a good start to the season it's been not a good month but like
03:39whoa
03:42washed i'm sorry like i i was like i don't know i don't know if i want to go that
03:46far like this is
03:46disappointing and i i wanted to sign him to an extension it seems that that conversation has
03:51gone out the window here over the last year but when it comes to everything else it's like well
03:56wait now hold on here let's let's see because of any team that has to be patient it's the guardians
04:02that have to be patient right with leadoff hitters especially well the question is do you move them out of
04:06the leadoff spot right now is it that bad has it reached such a level who do you put into
04:11the lead
04:11off spot well there's two options there are two options one of them's the guy that you just you
04:19throw him wherever you can throw him right to get him in the lineup and that's travis or sorry not
04:23travis pazana it's uh daniel schneeman the other one's who needs who looks like he needs to absolutely
04:30play every day yeah it's just do you want to settle him into a role or will that screw up
04:36what
04:36he's doing right now where he plays in a different position every day and he finds out when he gets
04:40to the ball well that yeah that'll continue like that's that's not going to change i i saw people
04:45speculating hell there i saw people speculating yesterday pazana immediately yeah i don't know if
04:51well you gotta talk about some pressure at least it's a home game you don't start on the road
04:56it's april 28th at home you're right like if you're gonna do if you really wanted to do it
05:01of course then again i don't know okay let's think about this let's think about this reasonably here
05:10now steven kwan has been a good player for you for a long time he won another gold glove for
05:17the
05:17love of god here he's a four-time gold glove winner he's one of the best outfielders in the game
05:22he can play center field for you i think it's still it's it's still april my goal by the end
05:29of april is to be two games over 500 we still have that chance damn it we got today and
05:33tomorrow
05:33to be over 500 that was your goal yeah two games over 500 by the end of april i said
05:37oh no is that i said that i said that at the beginning that's just very that very specific
05:41because with the weather i just want to keep my head above water because the weather can be wild
05:45anywhere you go like we've had a couple of games like two what last week there was one where they
05:49were wearing the face guards and everything it was freezing outside so it with the weather being
05:53so wild if i can just be over 500 by two games it's like all right this is the central
05:58nothing's
05:59really crazy i know the tigers are supposed to be good but but honestly like if we can keep it
06:04don't get more than 15 and a half back you're fine yeah i yeah yeah as long as you don't
06:08get 16 back
06:09yeah that's some flexibility here um i think it's i i i don't know i for this organization i don't
06:18think it's the right thing to just rip stephen kwan from the leadoff spot because i i don't want to
06:23use the term moody but he i go back to that social media post he definitely is thinking of things
06:28if
06:29you have to start out by saying i don't want to use the term moody because you're definitely worried
06:32about him being too moody because i well not moody because moody's not the right word and i'm trying
06:36to find the right word don't post video that i said moody i'm not saying he's moody because i
06:42know what they'll do i'm not saying but he thinks of things and sometimes i think he thinks of things
06:47a little too much but at the same time i think of things a little too much i couldn't help
06:50but think
06:51of it i couldn't help but think about you're talking about d3 joey you have a guy yes a moody
06:54to know a moody you have exactly thank you very much but you have seriously you have a guy think
06:59about this you have a guy who's been thinking of his contract over the last four years yeah i mean
07:04how
07:04long ago was that he's been thinking of his contract he's been thinking of his contract for
07:08a long time he i think there is and i would probably feel the same way if i were a
07:13major league ball
07:13player i think there is a little little little resentment uh towards the team because they don't
07:18necessarily just give money to everybody involved i mean there's just there's jose ramirez and and to a
07:23smaller extent a couple of other guys and then that's it and everything else is like we're gonna get
07:28you to arbitration and you can fight us in arbitration and that's it they usually don't fight in
07:32arbitration but you can figure it out then like that's how they come off on this so i think that's
07:37kind of in his head and i don't want him to go really you're kicking you're kicking me out of
07:42the
07:42leadoff spot and you're bringing up this rookie who's number one overall pick and and for a lot
07:46of fans they go hell yeah but i'm just putting more pressure on a rookie here and i'm 15 and
07:5115 it's
07:52not like the world is coming to an end here we're not the red socks for crying out loud we've
07:57hit a
07:57little bit of a lull here this in the early part of the season it's a it's a marathon you
08:02can't just
08:02sit there and and make such crazy willy-nilly decisions so i would probably if i was putting
08:09bazan in the lineup i i would put him somewhere deeper in the lineup i don't think i would
08:13this quan's a vet i don't know if i'd be messing with it right now man i i'm hesitant i'm
08:18really
08:18hesitant to do such a thing well yeah brief on x says can someone just hand quan a lighter back
08:25it seems like they had to have thought of that right well no but if you swing a heavier bat
08:29doesn't the does it generate more the centrifugal force does but if you're take you through the
08:34zone if you're casting or you know maybe you're dropping your back your back shoulder that's a
08:39problem yeah see quan just needs to listen to these baseball gurus right now obviously and get it
08:46figured out uh just this i did not expect him to get the call up though bazana this quickly no
08:53uh i know there's there's always the debate about service time and super two with arbitration all
09:00the fun things we love about baseball and rookies and contracts and all that stuff which just is
09:05ridiculous that baseball still has this antiquated system compared to the other sports where
09:09hey you draft a rookie guess what you'll see the browns rookies in week one hey nba you draft a
09:13rookie high you'll get to see them in game one and it's awesome in baseball you gotta wait a little
09:18bit but bazana in this case you don't have to wait as long as we thought we'd have to see
09:22him which is exciting he was already with the team in in toronto uh so the acclimation process
09:28and uh you know i imagine his family getting the call probably they probably got the call a few
09:34days ago right then they set out in their journey how many miles upside down yeah yeah they got to
09:40figure that out toilets are different here everything's different big deal but it's it honestly
09:46curveballs break away from you is this the most yeah you wonder does it work like that down there
09:51is this the most excited you've been about a prospect coming up about a rookie from the
09:59moment they were drafted no i was more excited for chase the water oh i mean i'm excited for
10:05travis bazana but i was obviously more excited for it i mean let's go back to the tape i think
10:09i was
10:09a little bit more excited to chase the water uh i i find myself actually because the water is a
10:15guy
10:15who can't hit for power i know it's been it seems the eons since the last home run but i
10:19mean he got
10:20on base with a what it was a double yesterday and uh my tv was cutting out so i was
10:25upset because
10:27he gets on base and then man's art man's art is just not a fast runner that's all there is
10:31to it so
10:31i i didn't blame him for for holding up just needed to push one more across and they weren't able
10:36to do
10:36and they lost last night three two and parker messick was great again and then rookie of the air
10:41it sucks but it's the way it goes um but i was i when it comes to delauder i was
10:48like all right he
10:49could just stay healthy if he could stay healthy this could be a difference making player for us
10:52bazana obviously can be a difference making player for you he's a number one overall pick
10:56but there's been so much trash that's been talked uh from a national perspective about like why isn't
11:04so now i find myself a little bit more pensive oh okay well okay let's just ease him in get
11:10him
11:11used to things and let's let's do this the right way because there's been a lot of pressure put on
11:17him because other guys have been called up earlier and not that they've necessarily just been met with
11:22a thousand percent success from that draft class and how well they've done but there have been people
11:27critical of the guardians and taking travis bazana over a couple of like the continent and all the
11:32other things they've been a little bit critical of the guardians for taking bazana over those guys i
11:35think it's i really think it's uh it's in hindsight but there have been those writers exisa and a couple
11:43other ones who have been pretty critical so i i'm excited to see him but it's not this unbridled
11:51enthusiasm the way it was with chase delauder i should say last year in the postseason like man this guy
11:57if he can if he can swing a big stick and then this year when he starts up his first
12:01regular season
12:01uh with the guardians so it's it there's an there's some excitement there but it's it's not
12:07overwhelming but i think you know what i bet i'm in the i bet i'm in the minority i bet
12:11i'm in the
12:11minority not to poo-poo him coming up i i just think that i was more excited for chase delauder
12:16coming up
12:16than i am uh with travis bazana but it's still an exciting thing they just they're very exciting
12:21they are are desperate right now even though they're they're 500 team and we talk about the schedule that
12:26they've gone up against and the lineups their pitching staff has gone up against so far this year
12:30they they are scuffling with some of these guys in the order big time whether it's you know bo nailer
12:36valera since since the call up you know it hasn't been great uh hoskins kind of looks like this
12:42experiment might be coming to an end sooner rather than later it looks like it's hoskins yeah and
12:48obviously manzardo who's um you know you he's he's he's sitting there he's up from 059 earlier in
12:55the month he is that's true you gotta take the good with the bad he is surging he got that
13:00going for
13:00you all right 216-474-0092 andrew and dayton home of the dragons you're next up on the fan
13:06hey how you guys doing this morning doing well andrew go ahead um this bazana call up is necessary
13:12i think you hit the nail on the head talking about kwan first i mean you got your leadoff hitter
13:16with a
13:16500 something ops um i think they're just transitioning from the guards ball of old to a more aggressive style
13:23with guys like the lauder and bazana and they may be i mean you yeah you have to do it
13:30you have to do
13:31it because you have guys like kwan who's struggling right now and then david fry the last good thing i
13:36can remember him doing is getting hit and hit in the face with a baseball so i mean when you
13:40got
13:47god in heaven i don't think that's a good thing but he up until the the thing he said i
13:53was going
13:53to say the shot at david fry but it seems to be a little bit too much there uh the
13:57the knock on david
13:58fry up until then i kind of agreed with him i know that grant fink has been a more aggressive
14:02type of
14:02guy over here over the last couple of years uh working with austin hedges we talked about that but
14:06i mean with other guys um i i think that they are a little bit more aggressive i was with
14:11them up
14:11until the david fry part of the call about maybe they are transitioning a little bit and how they
14:16how they do their business and i think that maybe the the major league baseball player has changed in
14:20keeping up with everything and in in trying to be on the cutting edge i can i can certainly understand
14:24that it will be interesting to see though because i mean again they are not a team that's quick to
14:30knee-jerk reactions knee-jerk moves no making big moves and challenging guys mentally
14:36uh it is not that way so if they were to take stephen kwan out of that spot and put
14:42in a rookie
14:42like we we got a conversation to have tomorrow about that we certainly do
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