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ITL reacts to Correa addressing the injury and Imai’s upcoming start.
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00:00It'll be good for me.
00:01People will hate me for this.
00:02It's fair.
00:03You know the general manager of the Astros, Dana Brown?
00:05Yeah.
00:05He said that Tatia Imai will start during next week's series against Seattle.
00:10Of course he will.
00:12Tatia Imai, who yesterday only went three innings of baseball at AAA Sugar Land.
00:18He's going to start next week in the major leagues.
00:20Correct.
00:21What did he do last night?
00:22Three innings of...
00:24Five walks?
00:25Yes, he had a number of walks.
00:27He had not those strikes.
00:28He had five walks in one inning?
00:30I felt like he did, or at least four.
00:32It was a lot.
00:34And he is going to start in the majors next week.
00:37But this is indicative in my mind of, we just need people, man.
00:41We just need bodies out here.
00:43I think that's part of it.
00:44I don't think that's all of it.
00:45Let me give you the line.
00:46Three innings pitch, one hit, one earned run, which is not the worst thing,
00:48but five walks, three strikeouts, and 63 pitches.
00:52Did not throw as many strikes as he needed to.
00:5536 pitches and walked four batters in the third inning.
00:57So he just had a really, really bad third before he had to leave.
01:00And what did he say afterward?
01:04Oh, you want this audio here?
01:05Yes, I want this audio.
01:06All right, this is Tatsi Imai.
01:07This is the guy.
01:08This is Tatsi Imai.
01:10Starting major league pitcher.
01:12Yes.
01:12Yes.
01:13This is him talking through a translator about why it's been hard for him to throw strikes
01:17since joining the Astros.
01:19So I think that one of the reasons is in Japan, we don't have any pitch clock.
01:24And then I am able to take more time between pitches.
01:27And then also, for example, before games, in Japan, he can take some time every pitches,
01:36and then I can go to throw inside to the lefty, can get a first pitch strike with sliders.
01:45And then for here, we do scouting report, and we talk about the weakness of the hitters.
01:52All right, that's probably enough of that.
01:54Pitch clock.
01:55In Japan, we don't have a pitch clock.
01:57The dirt on the mound is a lot softer.
02:00The weather is better.
02:02What am I missing here?
02:03There's at least three or four more.
02:05What was the other one?
02:06The time I eat dinner.
02:07The time to eat dinner and all this stuff.
02:10I say this, and it's going to come across very, very harsh.
02:13ISO!
02:14Yeah, I'm staying away from this one.
02:16You guys always do this to me.
02:18ISO!
02:18You guys always do this to me.
02:20I ain't about to answer to Jim Crane.
02:21That's something you said on the radio.
02:23They don't care.
02:24They know what I do.
02:26Look, I say this as sympathetically as possible.
02:30He's way over there in the corner.
02:34As sympathetically as possible.
02:36Joe, where are we living in it?
02:37As mustering as much empathy as I could possibly muster.
02:43Just go home.
02:46Just go home.
02:48I mean, am I wrong there?
02:50When you look at all these excuses, all these reasons, air quotes, that he's not pitching well,
03:02some people are just wired differently.
03:04I ain't going to judge.
03:06I'm going to judge your performance.
03:08And I'm going to comment on some of these comments that give me this, and not just me, of course.
03:13I'm sure the text board is going to have something to say about this.
03:17Just go home, man.
03:18You know, you tried.
03:20Do you feel like this excuse is a valid excuse, though, for somebody like him with the pitch clock?
03:24If it were standing alone, if it was a stand-alone, I'm not quite yet used to the pitch clock.
03:29We could talk about it.
03:31You know?
03:32I feel like this is a valid excuse, though.
03:34If it was stand-alone, we could talk about it.
03:36Because I'm thinking to the point, I'm like, man, maybe he should have started off in the minors
03:40until he got adjusted to the pitch clock.
03:42I heard something yesterday.
03:45No, it was this morning because I was climbing the walls coming out of my skin when I heard this
03:49quote.
03:50I heard somebody say something about, well, the seams on the Major League Baseball are slightly different than the Japanese
03:56baseball.
03:56Sure.
03:57Just go home, man.
03:58You tried.
04:00All right?
04:00Yeah, my issue with the idea of this being valid, because I think all of these claims,
04:05and I'm definitely going to be the dude who is more lenient on this than others,
04:08all these claims have different levels of validity to them.
04:12The thing, especially with this one, is why this ain't come up early on when you were dealing with the
04:16pitch clock, right?
04:17This probably should have came up first.
04:18Yeah, this is probably one of the earliest ones that should have been, hey, man, I'm feeling real pressured by
04:24how quickly I have to throw these pitches.
04:24And people probably would have sided with it a little bit.
04:27100%.
04:27Maybe, yeah.
04:28This comes in a long line of, yeah, maybe.
04:30Yeah, maybe.
04:31But we all have that friend.
04:32Like, we really and truly all have that friend that it's always something.
04:36And Tatsuya Imai is, Tatsuya, it's always something Imai.
04:39Yes.
04:40That is where we are with him.
04:42And the problem is, I know that you're like, hey, go home.
04:45Sometimes.
04:45Hey, buddy, we need dudes.
04:47We need bodies, buddy.
04:48We've all been, you know, whether it's a friend or a girlfriend or whatever relationship it is,
04:55we've all kind of just shrugged our shoulder and said, you know, it just didn't work out.
05:00Tatsuya, it just didn't work out.
05:02Go home.
05:02Go home.
05:03You giving up on him already?
05:05Why would I not?
05:08Because I don't want to be lonely.
05:10Lonely is.
05:11I don't want to go to bed by myself.
05:13We need more.
05:14I need someone to go to brunch with.
05:16You know what I mean?
05:16That's right.
05:17I need someone to bring to bed with.
05:18I got a wedding in a month.
05:20I feel like at least hold on to you until you find somebody else.
05:24We don't want to fill the positions just yet.
05:26You know what I mean?
05:26Like, these are just going through the motions.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Which, by the way, full circle, they're kind of going through the motions by starting them against the Mariners.
05:34I mean, as empathetically as I can.
05:38Uh-huh.
05:38Just go home.
05:39It didn't work out.
05:41Well, home will be versus the Mariners in an Astros jersey.
05:44No, I mean, look, go home.
05:47You already paid him this money.
05:48Mm-hmm.
05:49We going to go down with the ship.
05:50Which is probably why he started.
05:51And here's, no, absolutely.
05:53You paid him his money.
05:53Yeah.
05:54And it's not like, if this was a good team, yeah, go home.
05:56Mm-hmm.
05:57Right?
05:57You bringing down the property values.
05:58Yeah.
05:59We're at the property values right now, right?
06:00It's just, what is the difference between starting him and starting a number of these other pitchers
06:06that also have had their issues throwing strikes and being able to get outs and being able to give you
06:10some length?
06:11How far are we?
06:12He fits right in.
06:12Given all that, and I promise you we're going to hear some Carlos Correa quotes because, you know, that's the
06:18big news today.
06:18But how far are we realistically from cutting bait with him?
06:24I think a season.
06:25The whole season?
06:26I think so.
06:26He has a player option next year.
06:28So that would make the most logical.
06:29That's the most logical thing.
06:30Yeah, but he would have to make that decision, obviously.
06:32And he would, I think.
06:34I think he would.
06:35To pay up the money?
06:36Yeah.
06:36Yeah, of course.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Yeah, no, 100%.
06:38So somebody said, does he have like $54 million guaranteed on his contract?
06:42Mm-hmm.
06:43Mm-hmm.
06:43There's a lot of money in there.
06:44Yeah.
06:44And the expectations are not landing, which, again, does not look good for Dana Brown.
06:50Not at all.
06:50Especially the dude who's supposed to be the scout that seeks these things out.
06:53He got sold a lemon.
06:55This one really, really hurts.
06:57So we'll see.
06:57We'll see what Tatsia Imai brings next week because he will be pitching for your Astros.
07:02Barring something unforeseen, like what happened with Carlos Correa.
07:06In fact, we take you to Carlos Correa talking earlier today.
07:08We found out that his season is done.
07:11Let's ask him.
07:12Let's have him hear it.
07:13Rather, have him say it.
07:15What happened Tuesday?
07:16This is cut two, if you don't mind.
07:17What happened Tuesday before the game in the cage?
07:20I was hitting the cage.
07:21Normal day.
07:23Feeling great.
07:23I went through a whole routine.
07:25Took a swing and just fell a pop.
07:27It just completely snapped on me.
07:28And then it fell to the ground and couldn't put weight on it.
07:30It was just when you landed.
07:33Normal swing.
07:33It was a normal swing.
07:34It was just, I felt like a loud pop.
07:37I heard it and felt it.
07:38And right away, I knew something was wrong.
07:41Man.
07:41That's bad luck right there, man.
07:43It's bad luck, but it also feels like that was maybe one of those inevitable injuries.
07:47It was going to happen.
07:48It just happened to happen.
07:49In batting practice.
07:50In batting practice.
07:51Right?
07:52I mean, I guess.
07:53I imagine so.
07:55It's a normal swing.
07:56It's a normal swing.
07:57Normal landing, he said.
07:58Didn't take a big swing, which I can't imagine you taking a big swing.
08:00Big hacks.
08:01They throw the ball like 70 miles an hour.
08:03Yeah.
08:04So, goodness gracious.
08:06Give me a cut five here.
08:08Because, you know, obviously we know the timetable, six to eight months.
08:12He says that he got, well, actually, let me get cut three here.
08:14Him talking about getting other opinions.
08:16Because, I mean, he found out yesterday that he gets scratched before the game.
08:19And now we know that he's gone.
08:20Like, what were the processes that were undertaken here, Carlos?
08:23Do you know yet when you're going to have surgery?
08:25Not yet.
08:25We're going to wait for some other opinions and all that, you know, go through what we
08:30all go through when we have this type of injuries.
08:32And just make sure that surgery is the right move or it's a complete tear.
08:36So, most likely we'll have surgery at some point this week.
08:39Complete tear.
08:40Complete tear.
08:41He knows.
08:42I mean, he's getting other opinions, you know, for, and we've said it multiple times,
08:46you don't get a second opinion when it's a good prognosis.
08:48And so, he's probably just getting options more than opinions, you know, options of
08:52like different doctors, different, you know, paths that he can take, that kind of thing.
08:56And finally, I think that this hits me because, remember, Carlos Correa, one of the things
09:00in bringing him back was not just getting the bat, not just getting a dude who can handle
09:03that left side of the infield, whether you need him to slide into short, but obviously
09:07holding down third base, was I think that bringing back some of the gravitas, some of
09:11the leadership was there.
09:12And so, this was the type, this is the type of question that you're supposed to ask to
09:15Carlos, how tough are all the injuries piling up on this team?
09:18Well, you know, I'm on my own plate, so I know that I might not understand it now,
09:23we might not understand it now, but I'm going to keep moving forward, trusting the Lord's
09:28plan, and, you know, I'm going to keep a positive attitude, and, you know, even though it comes
09:32at a moment where, you know, I'm falling in love with baseball more than ever, and I
09:37have a great group of guys, so I got to understand that, you know, he's in control, and I'm going
09:40to keep moving forward and focus on the rehab.
09:42My brother turned to God.
09:44Yes, he did.
09:45He immediately was just like, hey, man, it's so bad.
09:48We're just putting prayers up, man.
09:50He's going to be 32 years old next season.
09:53He already had some deals with, was it the Mets and Giants turned away because of his
10:00other ankle.
10:01Now he has this ankle, torn tendon.
10:05What are the prospects?
10:08It's going to be really hard.
10:09Like, this feels like this is the prospect.
10:11It felt like this is the spot in large part because of the, you know, the returning home
10:16aspect to it, the love that he has in this place.
10:19Yeah, this also is another kind of thing that you have to think about in that future context
10:23with him.
10:24Yeah.
10:24But right now, I don't even think you have the opportunity to because what is in front
10:28of you is so dire.
10:29Yeah.
10:29Yeah.
10:29Get well soon.
10:30No, 100%.
10:31That's about all you can say.
10:32No, without question.
10:33So that is the, uh, that is all of the bad that has happened that has made today and
10:37yesterday together.
10:38Now, what a day, a terrible, terrible Astros day.
10:42What an awful Astros day.
10:45Yikes.
10:46And they just, they just won a baseball game.
10:47Yeah.
10:48They have their best win of the year, by the way.
10:51Yes.
10:51Yes.
10:52And now, now they lose Carlos Correa.
10:55Tetsuya Emi is making his way back after still not looking all that great.
10:58And then they play baseball at a 110 PM versus the Dodgers with Lance of colors on the mound.
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