00:00we are going to talk about the texas rangers so they finished all of april so like the first
00:05full month of the season for them observations re-evaluations and questions after the first
00:13full month of the season and i would like to start if you don't mind i dare you to start
00:20here's an observation i am no longer nervous and just enjoy watching degrom pitch pretty much all
00:29of last season thing right i was like yeah it's good it's good but like when he gets hurt and
00:36i
00:36hate thinking that and i know you could say that about any player but somebody with that kind of
00:40injury history i think i'm just now to the point where he's gonna pitch i'm like hell yeah and not
00:46just like hope for the best yeah and now that being said he's he's not zero run degrom for sure
00:56but kevin the thing that i learned last year i had so much fun watching the shapes of pitches
01:02last year not just for him but patrick corbin uh if all the all these dudes and when you say
01:08shapes
01:09you're like what do you mean some people might be like what do you mean by shapes of pitches
01:12when it comes out of their hand is it a fastball it's a straight line does it curve in does
01:17it curve
01:17out how the ball moves and quite honestly degrom with a fastball and a slider can eat you alive for
01:24an entire day uh and then if he throws another pitch in that you're like where the hell did that
01:28come from right but he is because of the sharpness of his pitches one of the most aesthetically
01:36pleasing pitchers to watch and there's a dominance there's no there's a competitive fire that like
01:41simmers in him all the time but you don't see a like you know all the time from that dude
01:48but that
01:49competitive fire just makes you as a as a viewer just sit there and simmer with him because you
01:54know the dude's cooking at a high level so yeah dude that's a really it's a really great observation
01:59are you interested at all in a non sequitur i am not quite sure what it means i i'm just
02:07gonna go
02:08sort of off topic for just a second i made the mistake of looking up degrom stats because i wanted
02:14to see his whip his whip it was sub one last year it's sub one again so far this year
02:19and then i got
02:20caught up looking at his 2021 season which was on pace to be one of the greatest seasons in the
02:25history
02:25of pitching and so i was going to look up who has the greatest single season war ever for a
02:30pitcher
02:31that was a mistake it was pud galvin in 1884 who beat out tim keith from 1883 and then they're
02:42both
02:43just ahead of old hoss radborn also from 1884 hoss radborn was one of the most amazing his story
02:51is pretty incredible the pud guy yeah pud galvin but the keith guy he's on righteous gemstones right
02:56that's the different that's a different keith keith yes that's a different person but yeah there's my
03:02non sequitur for you when pud galvin start started his career in 1875 he had an era of 1.16
03:12all right
03:12we need to do a deeper dive on pud yeah do you remember that song my name is pud pud
03:20pud pud pud my
03:22name is mud oh okay next statement dude he looks like babe ruth with a mustache i kind of feel
03:28like
03:28everybody back then used to look like that yeah yeah definitely because of the color of the uh the
03:33photos yeah yeah look at look at that doesn't he kind of yeah he also looks like he could be
03:38teddy
03:38roosevelt yeah yes he does put him on a horse all right why let teddy roosevelt very well known
03:46outdoorsman loved horses actually kevin could teddy roosevelt ride a horse he was a little heavier
03:52yeah did he meet the weight requirement yeah yeah because horses were tougher back i think he just had
03:56a bigger horse i think just like the rest of society horses have gotten soft they're like oh my
04:01gosh this grass is so easy to get to next statement wyatt langford and cory seager need
04:07to wake the f up i saw a really stupid comment on our twitter yesterday and i wanted to spotlight
04:13that comment but i muted that person also because they're an idiot so we were having critiques of
04:19cory seager so far and that guy responded is like oh sounds like these guys going to get rid of
04:26him not even yeah i saw that i was like yeah you nimrod that's what we said we said he's
04:31playing
04:31poorly and you've seen the heights of cory seager which are higher than anybody else offensively on
04:36this team so i would love for him to get it together and then we got the news earlier today
04:41that wyatt langford it sure sounds like he's hit a setback in his simulated game and he felt more
04:47tightness in his forearm who knows what's going to happen with that but it's been a rough start
04:53compared to where they usually are for those two i think that's kevin and i think we were we had
05:00a lot
05:01of ifs before the season regarding those guys uh being that level if they're this you know and the
05:09whole lineup had a lot of ifs i think my thing that the observation that i have is we are
05:15not a talented
05:16team it's that's not a hot take in my opinion yeah you're not a talented hitting roster uh that is
05:27at the moment the the the toughest thing is looking at this roster and saying am i just hoping they're
05:37all good dudes there's good dudes on this roster but am i just hoping that they play at their best
05:42and we get the best out of it and that's what you're doing though the reality is when it comes
05:48to being a talented power hitting roster or doubles hitting roster this isn't it and that's that's why
05:56when you look at somebody like cory seager you know it's crazy too he's only missed one game so far
06:02so he's played 30 of the 31 games but even with that he's on pace for the lowest war he's
06:09had since
06:102020 you know why because 2020 was the year we only had 60 games so other than that you have
06:16to
06:16go back to 2018 where he missed most of the season right now he's on pace for his lowest ops
06:21of his
06:22entire career lowest on base percentage of his career lowest batting average by a lot of his career
06:28he has gotten off to a horrid start but he's been out there like there's always which was what we
06:34asked yeah because we thought if he was out there that he'd be more effective exactly it's kind of like
06:38last year's sad mike trout season where he played most of the year and he just wasn't that good i
06:44never would have envisioned a scenario in which cory seager plays most of the year and he's just not
06:50that good now still plenty of time to turn it around but him and wyatt you got to get something
06:55going
06:55um can i add another one please
07:00kamar rocker is a good fourth pitcher
07:03might even be a good third pitcher
07:06right now he's a good fourth pitcher and i don't i think you've said this a couple times some of
07:12his
07:12outings you look at the stats at the end of it and you're like well maybe those stats don't tell
07:17the
07:17complete story i think more him than any of our other starters and most of the time the stats might
07:22look like a bad story but then you look at him you're like actually that turns out okay yeah
07:26sometimes it's like man he got out of the game before it could turn bad right but listen to this
07:32six innings pitch six innings pitch four and two thirds five innings five innings
07:37for a fifth pitcher doing all right only give it up a couple runs there yeah and obviously i think
07:44it's
07:44the pittsburgh game right that evan carter really bailed you out yes but still yeah no i i'm
07:51i here's what i wanted from kamar rocker this year not go out there and wow me it is kind
07:56of
07:56starting to get time for you need to be a legitimate pitcher in major league baseball
08:01but i wasn't saying go out there wow me i was saying go out there every day or every five
08:06days
08:06and pitch and give yourself a chance and give the team a chance so far i feel like he has
08:12so i'll take
08:14i'll take what kamar rocker has given me so far this season and that's my observation on him
08:19okay i like that by the way weird coincidence i'm actually reading the theodore roosevelt
08:24biography horseback in the morning right now by david mccullough onward in your face alec
08:29all right question go ahead and give me cut number seven will you please because this next one
08:36will include audio
08:39want to fly ball to left here's a well hit ball deep right center field gel off going back on
08:44this
08:45it carries well and it's into the bullpen home run for josh young
08:50the jungle cat bites in 24 games in april josh young 17 rbis hit 381 with an ops of 1
09:00.103
09:01is this josh young's real breakout season
09:09because it felt like 23 was it you know what no i'm not gonna say that okay because here's what
09:15i
09:15need to see him at this level when everybody else is too right now i feel like he is at
09:21this level
09:22because he he is playing at a certain level that he realizes they need it but whenever everybody else
09:29is that he doesn't they don't need it where is he and so i need that dude to be playing
09:34at this
09:34level when the rest of the group is playing at this level too so whenever i see that kevin that's
09:40when
09:40i will claim this for you okay i appreciate this okay it's recognition of what josh young's doing
09:46and what he's doing is as good as it gets but when everything sometimes you kind of get in your
09:54own
09:55head as the other people are having success and maybe you're not how does he respond to that that's
10:01what i want to see from him evan carter still can't hit lefties but he's healthy in the prototypical
10:08defensive center fielder do you know what he's hitting against lefties this year
10:15um 121 zero what oh he hasn't had any at bats obviously false okay he is 0 for 18
10:24with two walks and eight strikeouts okay as an on base percentage of 100 he needs more he needs
10:32these at bats though right like you're right they don't have any choices but to do it because of
10:37white langford's injury but yes he needs these but at some point he's got to turn a corner especially
10:44when you watch him out there in center field he continues to make really extreme plays look rather
10:50routine at times he's so fast he's a prototypical defensive center fielder and i love that even if
10:58he still can't hit left handers statement is he a i'm sorry you say defensive is he just a defensive
11:06center fielder against righties or is he a threat against righties in your opinion i think that's what
11:12we should probably at some point really take a a breakdown on what we consider a like at the plate
11:19he has potential he still has the potential and i firmly believe this to be a threat against
11:24right handers yeah and so that's we're not there yet okay all right now statement you tell me if you
11:30disagree well the bullpen's era is really good the lack of high velocity pitchers and swing and miss
11:36stuff is going to catch up to the rangers bullpen soon uh i think that and just overuse early here
11:44in
11:44the season because they have to go to them so frequently yeah this happened last year kevin
11:50last year the the starting pitching started to catch up in the bats started giving you some more
11:56runs later in the season not enough more runs but some more runs and the bullpen was like we're
12:02exhausted guys and so i think this is very similar to the way things happened last year where you were
12:06like man i really didn't expect the bullpen to be this this season but yeah i do think the like
12:13you
12:13need dudes that walk in there and mason miller the hell out of an inning and you have not a
12:18single
12:18one of them but you have some dudes that can trick you uh into getting outs now would you like
12:24another
12:25non sequitur this one is gonna go in a wild direction all right yeah oh this is i don't like
12:35it
12:35cory he said a wild direction it's not about hockey okay that's fair okay but this is definitely not
12:40middle of the earth right non sequitur the middle of the earth line that's the non-equator okay if
12:48you were looking for that non-equator for the three two one nimrod is a hunter kevin i will not
12:54stop
12:54this fight against misinformation and slander you keep spreading about the name nimrod so i decided to
13:00investigate you don't want to get things wrong now it is true that nimrod started out with that if you
13:07look in the marion webster dictionary the it is a slang for a jerk or an idiot however that's not
13:16the kind of research we stop at on the knc masterpiece so we took it a little further we took
13:23it to
13:23gemini in night no i did not in 1948 daffy duck referred to elmer fudd as my little nimrod
13:33and so that was the first kind of usage or one of the first usages in popular culture however it's
13:39on gemini by the way and this is i'm not using gem i am this is where it's gonna get
13:45weird bugs was
13:47using the name ironically though yes then we go to reddit and the first recorded unambiguous non-hunter
13:55linked use of the word nimrod as an insult is found in the 1981 canadian thriller movie happy birthday to
14:02me where one character yells hey that nimrod owes me 20 bucks the reason why i wanted to bring that
14:08up
14:08is i have seen happy birthday to me i have watched it in the last year or so it's not
14:15great but once
14:16again the ending to that movie is wild so if you like horror movies and you're not totally concerned
14:24about how good they actually are go watch the 1981 movie happy birthday to me i would slot it below
14:30sleepaway camp but still if you do not value your time like i don't worth your time the ancient times
14:38to the 1930s kevin it was the mighty hunter slash king in the biblical heroic ladder in literal senses
14:45from the 1940s to the 1980s sarcastic hunter pop culture transitionary and then from the 1990s to now
14:53it's been considered fool slash idiot slang informal so there we go on the uh the the i like it
15:00the table
15:00of content context is what i'm going to call that and then one more back to the rangers have we
15:07all
15:07vastly overrated how good the catchers would be now evan grant has pushed back against this idea this
15:15morning so danny jansen in april had an ops of 627 but mr grant who's also a great follow for
15:22rangers information has pointed out that danny jansen is traditionally a terrible april hitter do
15:29you know his ops for his career in march and april is 595 this is the best ops that he's
15:37had in the
15:37month of april for any season in which he's played at least 10 games career first half ops 687 second
15:44half 783 so he's gonna get better which begs the question why not just play higgy in the first half
15:49and then go to jansen in the second half of games no of the season okay but what about games
15:56uh you
15:57know what i'll tell you what you watch all of happy birthday to me i will discuss that you're a
16:01four and a
16:01half inning catcher is what i would tell each one of them that would be really confusing but yeah if
16:08it
16:08worked to be awesome oh for sure like many i'd be like look at skip where did he get this
16:13idea yeah
16:13he's a genius that in the the ninth at bottom of the ninth all the time gatorade yes or the
16:20time
16:20that you said lamar odom was a trojan horse
16:22you
16:22you
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