00:00How can you not be romantic about Nasty Nate of Valdi?
00:07Nice. Now that's seven innings, seven strikeouts.
00:10I think Bassett was talking about, you know, not a lot of fastballs being thrown early on.
00:16And at one point, he had the strikeouts working because of the split.
00:23Mr. Splitty. Mr. Splitty was working big time.
00:27The first five of the seven strikeouts were on the split finger.
00:31So remember yesterday, Bobby, or maybe it was the day before.
00:33I think it was yesterday. We were talking about Jack Leiter only.
00:36And Bobby was at this game.
00:37Yes, I was. Thank you to Kyle Frazier from Frazier Roots and Gutters who had an extra ticket.
00:41Talking about Jack Leiter only getting like eight swinging strikes.
00:46Well, Nate had 20.
00:48Whoa. He was on fire yesterday.
00:5020 swinging strikes, 16 foul balls.
00:55So, I mean, that is 36 pitches that were either swung on and missed or fouled off.
01:03That's pretty good.
01:04And they had how many hits?
01:06They had off him four.
01:09So they took 40 swings and four of them ended up in play.
01:11How full was it for an afternoon game and how many Yankee fans?
01:15Four of them ended up as hits because he had another 16 that were in play.
01:19Like, I don't know, it was like half maybe.
01:25But it was, I wouldn't say that the Yankee crowd, it wasn't like you could hear them,
01:29but it wasn't like overwhelming.
01:30So I'd say it was still probably majority Ranger fans.
01:32And a Yankee crowd will get out of a game real quick.
01:36If things start going south, they will get out of there.
01:40Yeah, they got to get home to tweet about firing Aaron Boone.
01:42They get very negative.
01:43Nate goes seven.
01:45Then Latz with a nice job of finishing.
01:48Josh Young, your team MVP so far, doing it again.
01:53He now has 17 runs batted in in 24 April games with a .385 batting average and an .1115 OPS.
02:03Bad news, of course, Nimmo leaving with the right hamstring tightness.
02:08Yeah, that's bad.
02:09That's bad because now you don't know what the prognosis is long term.
02:13I mean, this could be something where he's back in the next game.
02:16He could be on the I.L. and we'll see him in June.
02:20There's no way of knowing with a hamstring.
02:22Yeah, and you, that's, I know he had been struggling lately in terms of he had cooled off from where
02:28he had been.
02:29But, yeah, that's the last thing you need right now with this offense.
02:32A lot of hit by pitches yesterday, too.
02:35The one on, uh, the one where Osuna got hit, that looked, he did not look pleased with that.
02:41It's almost like he thought that was on purpose.
02:42And I was looking up, I was like, it's like kind of a one-to-one strike-to-ball ratio.
02:44I just don't think this guy's good.
02:46Well, I think he's, I think he was a little bit wild.
02:47Um, his major league debut is probably a little nervous.
02:51But also, I think that was the inning after, uh, the Yankee guy got hit on the back elbow, Dominguez.
02:57Whoever was right after Osuna, so Osuna gets hit and then the very next pitch is inside on the next
03:01guy.
03:02Yeah, yeah, I think he just lost the strike zone.
03:04Like, he never really had it to begin with.
03:06Um, you know, but the Rangers did a good job of, like, you know, staying on, uh, Elmer Rodriguez,
03:12who was making his major league debut.
03:13And, and...
03:14He looked good.
03:15He did.
03:16He looked good.
03:16He looked good at times.
03:17He's got some good stuff.
03:18You can see why he was their pitcher of the year in the minor leagues last year.
03:22But, I mean, there's a big, as Bassett talked about at the very beginning,
03:24big difference between AAA and Major League Baseball.
03:27Or AA and Major League Baseball.
03:28And one of the meatballs told me they were worried, being a Yankee fan,
03:31like, we never hit Nate.
03:33We struggle against Nate.
03:34They don't.
03:34They do not ever really hit Nathan Evaldi.
03:38But in the last two starts, you know, DeGrom and Ivo out there, 13 innings,
03:42and they allowed one run.
03:44And that one run was in the first inning that DeGrom pitched.
03:48Yeah.
03:48And, I mean, it's still, still you get frustrated that you weren't able to win
03:53the start for DeGrom.
03:54But, I mean, yesterday being able to actually hit with runners in scoring position,
03:58because yesterday you were actually, like, 500.
04:00It was four for eight, I think, with runners in scoring position,
04:02as opposed to the, was it one for ten the night before?
04:05So, you're hitting it with runners in scoring position.
04:07Now you just need to figure out how to get your power going.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Because that is preached and embarrassing levels.
04:13Well, I'll figure it out.
04:14You better start thinking about what moves you're going to make.
04:17Like, the next time I was waiting to jump Brett Boone yesterday,
04:21I was going to shut it down.
04:23If he's like, just got to get him healthy, just got to this, just got to that.
04:27He didn't do it, thankfully.
04:28But I'm tired of hearing, I have no patience or tolerance anymore for stadium talk,
04:35for unlucky talk.
04:37I don't want to hear it.
04:39It's here.
04:39It's in front of our face.
04:40Let's stop BSing.
04:42It is what it is, and it's not on the roster.
04:45Period.
04:46So, I hope CY's got his list, his whiteboard, of things to do.
04:51Because it ain't happening.
04:52Well, let's hear about the park one more time.
04:54Going back to last year, the Rangers now have hit six baseballs over the fence
04:59in their last 573 played appearances at home.
05:02They are hitting a home run.
05:03Say that again.
05:05Evan Carter's got an inside the park home run of there.
05:06That's why I say baseball's over the fence.
05:08The Rangers have hit six home runs over the fence in their last 573 played appearances at home.
05:14They're hitting one every hundred played appearances roughly at home.
05:17There's been four Rangers players.
05:20If you don't include the Evan Carter inside the parker,
05:21four Rangers players have hit a home run at the ballpark this year.
05:25Dang!
05:26Meanwhile, Jock, Young, Seager, and then Higashioka.
05:29Meanwhile, the Yankees had four different home runs that traveled more than 400 feet in the series.
05:37That's, you know, and they had...
05:39That's juice.
05:39Their bats are juice.
05:40That's why it is...
05:42The park is not great, but to your point,
05:44they hit four over, like, that distance,
05:48or six over that distance.
05:49And that's why, at the end of the day, it is still...
05:51You don't have good enough players in your lineup to do it.
05:53What do you think the Rangers are in runs scored in all of baseball?
05:5823rd.
06:01They're 27th.
06:0227th on the dot.
06:03They've scored 120 runs.
06:06They're 19th in batting average.
06:07Listen, their runs allowed, I think they're 4th.
06:09So they're lucky.
06:11They're on the other end with that.
06:12I love to harp on...
06:14I love to harp on the stadium.
06:15I do think it is a problem.
06:17It's not the problem, but it is a problem.
06:21Boone Sight texted me yesterday.
06:22Whoa!
06:24He'll drop that name, just not the others in the expressway.
06:26Yeah, you said what?
06:27But you protect Grapevine.
06:29I'm going to protect the media member that he was going after in the text.
06:33For what?
06:34For saying that the stadium is not a problem or something like that.
06:39Not a problem?
06:39Not a problem.
06:40What did he say about Sean?
06:41Nothing.
06:42But...
06:43We can do it Wednesday.
06:44But, but, but, but, but...
06:46This is not...
06:47You remember you said...
06:48I think it's like a 450-game sample size or a 350-game sample size.
06:52Yeah, the offense just struggling, being bad.
06:53It's more like a 1,500-game sample size.
06:56This is their OPS ranks from 2020 until now.
07:0029th, 30th, 19th, 3rd, 23rd, 26th, 22nd.
07:07Do you care to take a guess on which year they won the World Series?
07:11I'm going to say the year they were...
07:13Third.
07:14Third, yes!
07:14Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
07:15You win the fabulous prize, Bobby Bell.
07:18That is...
07:19Walking stick.
07:20Six.
07:21That is seven.
07:22That is seven seasons of sample.
07:25That's 1,500 games.
07:27That's the Jets.
07:28That's the Jets on offense being bad for a decade.
07:30Maybe not 1,500.
07:31I can't really do math, but you get the point.
07:33It's a lot of games.
07:34It's a lot of sample right there.
07:37I know the common thing has been said all the time about, well, what do you want them to do?
07:40Because they're not spending.
07:41Like, that's what a lot of people have said.
07:43Or, like, you know, they don't have the money and they're doing the best they can.
07:45Tax.
07:45That can't be a good enough reason to just say they can't develop players, though.
07:50Like, where's that then?
07:51Because you drafted somebody and then you immediately traded them, by the way, this past year.
07:55So, like, you're not even holding on to people.
07:56I just...
07:57I understand it.
07:58Like, I've been a Rangers fan since I was seven years old or whatever it is.
08:03And I just...
08:03This is so frustrating as a fan that it's like everybody just seems content to be like, well, they're handcuffed.
08:09What are you supposed to...
08:10Because I don't...
08:11Somebody's got to answer for it.
08:12Because I compare it to the Cowboys offense.
08:16In our time here, I'm trying to think of a unit that...
08:20The units that will have been as wasted as this Rangers pitching.
08:25Like, Cowboys offense was wasted last year.
08:28Let's see if it happens again.
08:30Dak has had, you know, many a good seasons.
08:32But...
08:33We talk about the Dirk years, right?
08:35It's like Cuban didn't give him what he deserved to make another championship run and let it rot.
08:43Basically, at the end for Dirk.
08:46Luka, supporting cast, had been questioned.
08:48This has to go right at the top, if not the top.
08:51Given the way that this pitching staff has started off a second straight year of dominance on the mound.
08:57Yeah, I mean, honestly, it's probably the inverse of it.
09:00Which was the Rangers offense in like 0-3, 0-4, 2008.
09:04Like, they were a, like, dynamic offense.
09:07And they just could...
09:08They'd finish 500 because they'd give up 12 runs.
09:10So 15 and 16.
09:12So are the Tigers.
09:13That's who they will face tomorrow.
09:16Tomorrow, after the day off today, right here on 105.3 The Fan.
09:20The bad news is Detroit is 10-2 at home.
09:2310-2 at home, and then especially this time of year, you can get some squirrely weather up there.
09:28You know, you have no idea what it could be like.
09:30It could be snowing.
09:31You know, we...
09:32A good shot.
09:33Love going up to Gaylord, Michigan.
09:36Arima tomorrow.
09:37Recapping stars, previewing Tigers.
09:39Yeah, there you go.
09:40It could be 70 degrees today.
09:42It could be snowing.
09:42There's no way of knowing what happens.
09:45By the way, somebody suggested...
09:48What do you guys think of this?
09:49I know you guys...
09:49By the way, we're missing Scooble.
09:52That's good.
09:52That's very good.
09:53That's very good.
09:54So it's just like a WBC game for him.
09:56Not going to bother playing.
09:58What do you guys think of this?
10:01So, if part...
10:02And we know that the colder it is, the less the ball travels.
10:05Yeah.
10:05I'm going back to the stadium here.
10:08What if we boosted the AC to, like, 80?
10:15Is that a real thing?
10:16Yeah.
10:17So, I'll take...
10:19Interesting.
10:19I'll take golf, for example.
10:21Ray Davis would be all in to save on a bill.
10:23Save on the AC.
10:24I know when I play golf and it's 80 degrees...
10:26He's going to shut off lights in the stadium.
10:28Who leaves these lights on?
10:29Turn them off until the players go in the field to warm up.
10:32I know when it's 80 degrees out, my golf ball will travel three to five yards further
10:36than when it's 65 or 70.
10:39Man, this is a really interesting suggestion.
10:41Like, I mean, is it possible to, like, recreate the...
10:45Like, that's the atmosphere, right?
10:46You're hitting the ball outside.
10:48So I'm saying, is it possible just with, like...
10:49To recreate outdoor...
10:51To recreate that effect just by turning up the heat in the stadium.
10:53I don't know, but all I know is, and, you know, if you...
10:56In order to get your house to 70 degrees...
10:58I'm going to go in real quick.
10:58In order to get your house to 70 degrees, your AC is putting out about 50 degree air.
11:03If you're ever to take a thermometer and shoot it at your AC unit, that temperature's coming
11:09out at about 50 degrees in order to get the house to 70.
11:12Well, what's it doing to get that big, giant building with a metal roof in 100 degree weather?
11:18What's it doing to get that temperature to 75 degrees or 70 degrees?
11:22If you bump it to 80, would the ball not fly more?
11:28I don't know.
11:28Need a scientist.
11:30Need a San Francisco 49er specialist and scientist.
11:34There you go.
11:34Interesting.
11:35And then one more thing, and we mentioned this earlier.
11:37The average time of a game has gone from 237 to 243 through 421 games.
11:44There are five more pitches per game this year.
11:47So the walk rate is up, which means more hitters, more people batting.
11:51Pitchers are also bleeding the pitch time or more.
11:54So the batter has to be looking at the pitcher with eight seconds left.
11:58The pitcher would throw the ball with five, six seconds.
12:01Well, now they're doing it with one or two seconds left in the pitch clock.
12:05Just bleeding the pitch clock a little bit more.
12:08Hitters are more comfortable playing under the timer.
12:10So they're not necessarily rushing to the box and getting set with 15 seconds to go.
12:15They're waiting until nine, ten seconds left.
12:18And then more pitchers are being called for the dugout.
12:20Marlins and Rockies are not letting their catchers call pitches.
12:24Each pitch takes about a second and a half extra.
12:27So if you're throwing 150 pitches per game, it's about four and a half minutes extra.
12:31Just on looking and getting the signs.
12:33You remember that David Hulse, he fouled the ball four times in a row into the Angels dugout, that famous
12:38thing.
12:38That went viral on TikTok recently in the comments.
12:41And they were talking about, gosh, the game was so slow back then.
12:43To throw those four pitches, it was two and a half minutes without anybody calling time.
12:48It's crazy.
12:50And now they're trying to get back to it.
12:51But to me, this is fine.
12:53It's not time of game.
12:55It's action.
12:56Yep.
12:57Right?
12:58The faster, the quicker they're pitching between, that's more action.
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