00:00Red Sox did what they do every three to four games and lost another series.
00:05What the hell's going on with Dick Tracy?
00:06Did we not learn our lesson?
00:07We gave him the nickname Bull 10 Baio for a reason.
00:12To come out of the bullpen.
00:14When you start him, it doesn't work out well for him in the first inning.
00:19Do you guys know those basketball games where one team,
00:23it takes the entire shot clock in this crazy fadeaway jumper to score,
00:29and then the other team gets the ball and it's like three passes and they score?
00:33The Red Sox, when they win a game, it is almost miraculous like Saturday night.
00:40And then they lose every other game.
00:41To Chapman, basically won that game for you with a ball off his leg.
00:49And the errors like Durbin on Friday night, it's not even Major League Baseball.
00:57No, Curtis is right.
00:58It's like for them to win, it's like pulling teeth, a nail-biter.
01:01But most of the time, you're getting blown doors.
01:04But with Baio yesterday, you knew right away.
01:07You were like, oh, my God.
01:08Right.
01:09Oh, my God.
01:10They're going to eat him up right from the jump.
01:13Did I miss something here?
01:15Last two outings, he looks good.
01:17Yeah.
01:17You don't start him for whatever reason.
01:20The first inning is kryptonite.
01:22And then you do and then forget about it.
01:24I'd imagine because they're paying him like a starter.
01:26They're like, all right, his head is on straight again.
01:29Roll him back out there.
01:30Yeah.
01:31He's got it figured out.
01:32And he fell apart immediately.
01:33He looks like he has two pitches.
01:34Yeah.
01:36Like, I'm serious.
01:37Like, whenever Garrett Crochet comes back, and he was thrown in the bullpen a couple days ago,
01:42whenever he comes back, I think Baio's out.
01:45Who else are you knocking out of the rotation?
01:46No, it's definitely Baio.
01:48And every team that they play knows that he only has two pitches.
01:51But also, I mean, he's been around long enough, and people like Ken were calling him Baby Pedro.
01:58Right.
01:58So, I understand the organization being like, wait a second, dude.
02:03Like, you're supposed to be a starter.
02:05Yeah.
02:05They're paying him that way.
02:06That's why they want him to do it.
02:08Yes.
02:08And they're right about that.
02:09Yeah.
02:10I don't know.
02:10There's something going on upstairs because I end up, the thing about it is you couldn't even give him away.
02:16But, Wiggy, maybe they're doing this because they get to the deadline, and nobody's going to want bullpen Baio.
02:23They're going to want a guy that can start.
02:24So, maybe they use the prior outings as a way to say he can still do it.
02:28If we get two to three more of those actually in the starting role, we'll be able to get something
02:34in return.
02:35Problem is you can't get nothing from him when he starts.
02:37Right.
02:38But I don't think you're going to get – if he had continued being bullpen Baio, I don't think there's
02:43a lot of teams that are clamoring for that.
02:44But I just – also, Curtis, you bring up the deadline.
02:48What is going to be of value?
02:51That's a great question with Trevor Story right now.
02:55To anybody else, like, Trevor Story goes on the IL, and I think we all know what's going on there.
03:02Like, he – I mean, if that were a lingering – some sort of lingering injury –
03:06Don't do down this road.
03:09Well, sorry, but –
03:11So, he's tapping out.
03:12Yeah, I don't want to get – is Jaron Duran going to drive over here and roid-rage me if
03:17I say this?
03:17But I just –
03:19He is put together.
03:20It'd be a tough one, Greg.
03:21I'd have to jump in for that one.
03:22Take it out along the way.
03:23Somebody else say he can't be right.
03:24No, he'll just use mean words against you.
03:26That's what he does.
03:27So, what is – literally, what is of value?
03:32Chapman.
03:32That's it.
03:33Chapman's about it.
03:34I mean, when you think, oh, maybe Whitlock, you know, basically Slayton.
03:41So, basically, your seventh, eighth, and ninth pitchers.
03:45You're not going to – you're not – I don't think you're going to part – the organization's not going
03:49to want to part with the young guys.
03:51Like, they got them on the team-friendly deals.
03:54Right.
03:54So, it's not like you're going to part with Meyer or you're not going to part, I'm assuming, with the
04:01Roman Empire.
04:03So, I like – I don't –
04:04Sonny Gray, maybe.
04:06You know, a guy that could – a team could be looking for a starter that's a playoff contender and
04:11that could be looking for a veteran.
04:13But you really don't – unless, you know, you're willing to maybe sell off some of those young pieces.
04:20When I say young pieces, I mean, like, Sedan, Raphael, Willia, Abreu.
04:27Just, you don't have much to really sell off.
04:30Yeah, Buster only had a good tweet over the weekend from ESPN where he was essentially like,
04:34it's kind of impossible to add power to your lineup in the middle of the season.
04:40And the Red Sox don't even have pieces they can move.
04:43Because, as you said, they don't have any veterans who are attractive enough to other teams.
04:47And they're not going to part with their young guys because they have them under financial control.
04:51And it's the only hope they have for anything in the next couple months.
04:54Yeah.
04:54And I wouldn't be ready for Roman Anthony anytime soon because he told Chris Cotillo of MassLive,
05:00I'm out of the brace and got to do baseball activity today.
05:03Woo-hoo!
05:04Was that like doing –
05:05Who speaks that way?
05:06I got to do baseball activity.
05:07Like a robot.
05:09That's why Breslow's keeping them.
05:11It's just so clear.
05:11This is what I'm allowed to say.
05:13Right.
05:13This is what I can do.
05:14It's not like I got to throw today.
05:16And what is baseball activity?
05:17You could say the wave.
05:18You could say singing sweet Caroline.
05:20Like, I don't know.
05:21That's very vague.
05:22So, positive signs.
05:23I'm feeling good based on the way I felt today.
05:27Hoping to get swinging a bat very soon.
05:30I don't have a timeline on what they want from me or the plan.
05:34Well, we got two months until football season.
05:36Don't rush it, bud.
05:37Wait, they don't have a timeline?
05:40Quote, unquote, I don't have a timeline on what they want from me or the plan.
05:44Wasn't Breslow on here a couple weeks ago saying day to day?
05:47Yeah.
05:48They were like, he'll be in the lineup against the Tigers.
05:51Maybe he's back this weekend.
05:52Should be back this weekend.
05:53But now I think it's probably like in a smart move to just keep him until he is 100%.
06:00Because what are you bringing him back to a crappy team for?
06:03Well, they're trying to bring him back, Wiggy.
06:04Like, they did give him a cortisone shot, right?
06:07I saw the report of that.
06:08You don't do that unless you're trying to play through pain.
06:10Right, but, you know, I guess it's very difficult to play through.
06:16And I don't know, but I'm guessing with Major League Baseball with, you know, them having three and four game
06:21series.
06:22A cortisone shot is good to get you through a game.
06:25But now you're going to have to get through a series of plays.
06:27Oh, a cortisone shot will get you through a series.
06:29Oh, will it?
06:30Yeah, that'll get you through a month.
06:34All right, I know that.
06:35If you'll get you through a month, the issue with the cortisone shot, you can only have, I know this
06:40from my own experience, you can only have the cortisone shot three times in one local area.
06:45Okay.
06:46For the rest of your life.
06:48Oh, for the rest of your life?
06:50Otherwise, it starts breaking down the structure around whatever you're shooting there.
06:54Oh, okay.
06:55All right, so, I mean, if it can get him through the month and deal him with the pain, because
06:59now isn't it really a pain tolerance thing for him?
07:01Yeah.
07:02How can he go out there and play through some of this pain?
07:04And then if you're the organization, is it worth him to push through the pain on a team that stinks?
07:10So it's kind of like Botox.
07:12No, Botox you can have for the rest of your life.
07:15It's the opposite.
07:16Have you seen the seaport, Greg?
07:17Yeah.
07:18All right.
07:19Well.
07:20But isn't that, isn't the cortisone shot, so it's not that he's going to do further damage to something.
07:25The cortisone shot gets you through a pain.
07:27Yeah, that's right.
07:27It's just, but the issue is when you, as I was told, because I've gotten cortisone shots in my feet,
07:34if you get them more than three times, then it starts breaking down the muscle and the ligaments and everything
07:41around it.
07:42I didn't know that.
07:43Right.
07:43But my point is, is that, so, for those that said Roman Anthony had this real injury that was serious,
07:48if the team is letting him shoot it up, he's not, they would not allow him to jeopardize.
07:52I agree with you.
07:53That's what I'm saying.
07:54I think the team thinks that he should get back to the field.
07:58And I think we kind of heard that the other day.
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