00:00How can you not be romantic about a gritty, gutty, one-run loss to the Rockies?
00:07I can easily be not romantic about it because I was not paying attention.
00:11Just positivity here. That's all we're doing. We're doing positivity, you know.
00:14Spurs, Thunder, Wings, Game 7 NHL.
00:19Putting the Rangers on that back burner.
00:21Oh, man. Behind the Wings.
00:24Well, box score watching. Box score watching. I was not watching the Wings.
00:28I was looking for AZ Fudd highlights.
00:31Don't let him lie to you. He was watching the Wings.
00:34I did not know where to find them.
00:37But no, I'm not going to sit there with all those other options and have the Rangers above them.
00:42Not right now.
00:43So this was bad for a lot of reasons.
00:46One, you lose to a Rockies team that was coming into the game, doesn't even have 10 wins at home.
00:52One of the only teams you felt like was definitely worse than you.
00:56Yeah, like I'd never go into a series thinking I have to sweep the series.
01:00I mean, you are 500.
01:01You're not a bottom three team.
01:03No, but it's one of those teams like with your offense, you're still confident you would beat them.
01:07You feel like you're going to beat them every time you go out there.
01:10Whereas other days, you're like, I don't know if we're going to score today.
01:12Actually, it is interesting that I was looking at the worst teams in baseball.
01:18And the worst teams, win-wise, have 17 and 19 wins.
01:23And the Rangers are there with 22.
01:25Right.
01:25You're right.
01:25We're still...
01:26So there isn't someone that's just stinking.
01:29Right.
01:29We're only 46, 47 games in, depending on who you are.
01:33Yeah.
01:33So it's not like you've got a lot of separation.
01:37Right?
01:38It's not like you've got a lot of separation yet around the schedule.
01:42So that's why you're going to see teams.
01:44Now, there are some teams like, you know, Tampa's got 31 wins.
01:49Atlanta's got 32 wins.
01:50So we have teams out there that have quite a bit of victories.
01:54But, you know, we still are a jumbled mess.
01:56But this thing was all about, you know, two things, really.
02:00One.
02:00Two things.
02:01McKenzie Gore leaving early.
02:05He...
02:05Man, Ranger fans took to Twitter to complain and crush the trade.
02:09Like, they wanted CY blood...
02:12Oh, no.
02:13...for the trade.
02:14No, absolutely not.
02:15There's nothing wrong with this.
02:16This has been a really nice trade.
02:19What's his ERA?
02:21It's a 4-7-8 now.
02:22But, I mean, the one run and...
02:24Two runs and one inning didn't help.
02:26I have to go see what it was before then.
02:29But there's nothing wrong with...
02:29McKenzie, for a guy who's near the back end of your rotation,
02:34who would be the No. 4 starter in a playoff series...
02:40I want to see if the fan text agrees.
02:42I'm just curious.
02:42This is not bad.
02:43It was 4-5-0 going into yesterday, by the way.
02:45Which, by the way, 4-5-0 means you have a quality start every game.
02:504-5-0 is six innings, three runs, which is the quality start stat.
02:53You think he's had a quality start every game?
02:55I don't think he's had a quality start every game,
02:57but I'm saying if you extrapolate it out to an entire season,
02:59a 4-5-0 ERA is like the baseline.
03:02Like, that's...
03:04You're not top of the rotation.
03:06We're not asking him to be top of the rotation.
03:08We got DeGrom and Evaldi, and hopefully later, which is all...
03:12But I'm expecting him, I mean, to be my possible three,
03:17like, locked into that.
03:20Well, Jack's the three, right?
03:22You know, and now, obviously, if the other guys get hurt,
03:24you're going to need somebody to fill in.
03:26Fire Chris Young on Twitter.
03:29Recap the trade breakdown, Mackenzie Gore.
03:31The Nationals got Gavin...
03:35Is it Fien who was?
03:36Gavin Fien.
03:37Now Washington's No. 5 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline.
03:41Alejandro Rosario, No. 11.
03:44Devin Fitzgerald, No. 12.
03:47Jeremy Cabrera, No. 17.
03:48And then Ortiz, No. 24.
03:51Oh, so nobody in Major League Baseball.
03:53He has a 6-1-1 ERA over the last six starts.
03:58That's enough of a sample.
03:59That's enough of a sample.
04:00There's no doubt about it.
04:01That's enough of a sample.
04:02And you wonder, because he is hurt now, with the lat,
04:05or with the, I guess it's more shoulder blade-ish.
04:08Screw you, Jared. Goodbye.
04:09And by the way, they said it did not happen on the diving attempt.
04:12Which you don't see pitchers make a whole lot of diving attempts,
04:15but there was a squibber down the third baseline
04:17that he made a diving attempt for,
04:19and they said that's not when he hurt it.
04:20He was already wild.
04:22They were already down 2-0 at that point.
04:24He couldn't find the plate to begin with.
04:27So that's bad.
04:29That's bad.
04:31Offensively, they were pretty bad in this one until the middle innings.
04:35You know, they scratched across a couple of runs in the 5th and 6th
04:38and bust out for 3 in the 8th to make this a one-run game
04:41where they had the tying go-ahead runners at the plate
04:47in Higgy and Carter.
04:50And nothing.
04:51They weren't able to get either one of those runs home.
04:54Which stinks.
04:55You know, they didn't...
04:5838 degrees right now.
04:59You mentioned it.
04:59It was cold yesterday.
05:00It was rainy.
05:01It was cold.
05:02It was a tough place to play.
05:04They've got to win these next two, though.
05:05Like, it's...
05:06You go in to play Colorado,
05:08I'm not ever thinking that a team should have to sweep.
05:11I don't even think the Dodgers should expect to sweep Colorado.
05:16Sweeping a team is difficult.
05:18But if you're going to make a postseason run
05:21or you're going to have any question
05:22about whether or not you need to be buyers of the deadline,
05:26losing 2 of 3 to Colorado is a terrible start.
05:30I was just looking over his pitch log yesterday,
05:33like trying to see the actual individual pitches he threw Mackenzie Gore.
05:37And he has thrown this season by far his most common pitch
05:41is the four-seam fastball.
05:42That's like what he generally is throwing most of the time.
05:45It's like half of his pitches are the four-seam fastball.
05:47Yesterday, it was 11 of his first 16 pitches.
05:50His final 12 pitches, he did not throw a single four-seam fastball.
05:54Like, that had to have been right around there
05:55after he walked the back-to-back guys.
05:57He had to know something's off.
05:58Yeah, I don't have it.
05:59Because he went like curve, slider, curve, slider.
06:01That's all he threw the rest of the way.
06:02I mean, I assume he could tell if his velocity is down
06:05a handful of miles an hour.
06:06Like, does he not have a radar gun?
06:07Oh, he could see it anyway.
06:08The guns are all over the...
06:09The mile an hour is all over the stadium.
06:11So he'd be able to see what his velocity was at.
06:14He would know if it was down or not.
06:16Corey Seager.
06:18Before the game, moved to the injured list.
06:21Did the back spasm?
06:22Sat him out a couple of games.
06:24So now we're looking at a minimum.
06:26It was probably retroactive,
06:27but we're looking at about a week and a half more
06:30for Corey Seager to be out.
06:31Chris Young updating it on GBag.
06:35Yeah, Corey saw our back specialist this morning
06:38and confirmed that he's dealing with a little bit of inflammation
06:42in his lower back.
06:43You know, he's missed the last four days with this.
06:48And, you know, we decided that we're going to put him on the I.L.
06:51We feel like he's so important to our season.
06:54We need to get him right.
06:55We need to get him feeling better.
06:56And we are going to I.L. him with the idea that he'll be back
07:00the first game at home against Houston
07:02by the first day he's eligible to return.
07:04It's nothing that's overly concerning in terms of the diagnosis
07:08or the prognosis, but prudent that we put him on the I.L.
07:12to make sure we get this right.
07:13We don't want to rush it.
07:14We want to make sure that he's 100 percent.
07:16And he's just too valuable and important to the rest of our season.
07:19So not great news, but nonetheless, I think the right course of action.
07:24And, you know, our anticipation is this will give him a chance
07:27to reset mentally.
07:28He's certainly pressing in terms of the offensive performance.
07:32And, you know, if we just get the good version of Corey Seager
07:35coming out of this, we'll be in a good spot.
07:38Throwing out the certainly pressing.
07:41Like, that's not just a – that's C-Wide talking,
07:44not just about the injury then.
07:45Yeah, I wish that Skip – not I wish that he had –
07:49you've got to say the truth.
07:50I wish I had heard from Schumacher that this started before last Saturday,
07:54and that would have put in my mind this is the cause of the struggles.
07:58But when he said it just kicked up on Saturday, I'm like, damn.
08:01It was something else.
08:03Yeah, because, I mean, he was in at 0 for 27,
08:05which that means that we are talking about this thing would have started
08:10nine, ten days prior to that, because that's about 27 at-bats.
08:14The way this team hits, you only get three at-bats a game.
08:17So that would have been about nine games.
08:19And, you know, you're not playing necessarily every day,
08:21so it might have been ten days prior.
08:23That's going on three weeks then almost, or two and a half weeks of how long
08:28this would have been lingering.
08:29And that's about how long these back injuries – if you get, like,
08:33an inflammation, it takes about seven to ten days to heal anyway.
08:37So we'll see him.
08:39We'll see him before Memorial Day or before the end of May, I should say,
08:43not Memorial Day necessarily.
08:44There's so many odd things that, like, this is probably a Sandler or a Bassett
08:49question, but, like, when you go look through, for instance, his advance numbers
08:54and different things like that, and they'll start, like, showing you his bat
08:56tracking or his stance or whatever else.
08:58Like, I always look at it and go, like, all right, why is his stance, like,
09:01the distance between his feet, why is he, like, significantly wider in his stance
09:04now than he was four years ago?
09:06Like, and why is it increasing every year at the same time that he seems to be
09:10having issues increasing every – like, is there just something that he's not
09:12comfortable with at the plate and he's changing up his stance and he's, like,
09:15tweaking some things or should he be going back to some of the stuff he was doing
09:18a few years ago?
09:19Because it's very – almost every metric they have looks different this year
09:24compared to the last three.
09:25What I asked Brett Boone last Wednesday, well, was – so, like, how does the Rangers'
09:32current hitting coaches address this with him?
09:37Well, they don't.
09:38You know what I mean?
09:39Like, how do you – he's got his own team and he does his own thing.
09:42So, does that mean, like, don't come around me, like, off limits?
09:45Like, I got the ropes up at the VIP.
09:50Like, go talk to them.
09:52Don't come – like, how do you address it?
09:54Do you go, Corey, I know that this is what your team is saying.
09:57This is what we're seeing.
09:59Like, does that interaction occur with him?
10:00I'm genuinely wondering.
10:01Yeah, it's – I do want – I don't know how it works at the major league level,
10:04obviously, because it's a tug of worry about the youth level because a lot of
10:08these kids – you know, my kid, they have their own – you know, my kid's got
10:11his own pitching coach.
10:12Whoa!
10:14And his own hitting coach.
10:16And when you have your other coaches that – and because you don't – what you
10:22don't want is you don't want this coach telling you to do one thing.
10:25Right.
10:25And then this coach telling you to do another thing.
10:27Yeah.
10:27And they don't marry.
10:28They're not – you know, they're not, you know, connected to each other.
10:33So you don't want that.
10:34It's going to throw you off.
10:36And, like, I doubt – obviously, the Rangers probably know this.
10:39Do they feel comfortable enough to coach them and adjust them?
10:42Or you're just like, hey, Corey, maybe today you might want to think about this.
10:47Yeah.
10:47This is what our video – can you do a video session with Corey Seager?
10:51And I know – I'm not trying to make it seem like he's T.O.
10:55and just, you know, doing his own thing in the corner of a locker room.
10:58No, but is he digs?
11:00Like, is he digs?
11:00Is he somebody who just – he's got his own view on what his medical should be and
11:03how his – like, hey, I'm playing for you and, like, I play within your scheme or
11:07whatever and I play within your vision.
11:08But I – in terms of how I handle me and get myself ready, I've got my own team that
11:15handles that and you guys aren't going to get in the way of that.
11:16My assumption is his hitting coach deals directly with the Rangers hitting coach at times.
11:26Because, you know, organizations have a philosophy on how they want to approach the game.
11:31I mean, did Alex Guerrero?
11:33Right.
11:34Did he talk with New England's people?
11:35I don't think so.
11:36Now, that was – was that – but that was more training.
11:40So what?
11:40It's the same thing.
11:42Yeah, it's the same thing, wouldn't it be?
11:43Well, it's like his own training program and this is Corey's own hitting program.
11:47Right, but I'm talking about the philosophical way they want to hit.
11:50Like, some teams are more, like, pull heavy or we want to do this.
11:52You know, we want to swing.
11:54You know, we want to – we want more home runs.
11:56We want more contact.
11:57You know, each team has their own philosophy.
11:59I mean, imagine if, like – imagine if the Mavericks had to go through Holger to talk to
12:04Dirk or if, like – or Dak works with John Beck at 3DQB.
12:08Imagine if, like, the Cowboys, if they wanted anything mechanically, well, you go through
12:11John.
12:11You know, don't come talk to me.
12:12Like, almost like it's an agent representation, which I don't know if that's what Seager does.
12:16I don't know.
12:16But if that's the case, that seems like a problem.
12:18I'm not trying to tiptoe.
12:20Sometimes on the show, we say things and we're like, we're hearing this.
12:23This is really true.
12:24If we just can't come out and say it.
12:25I'm genuinely wondering.
12:26Yeah.
12:26So, I'll expect to say on their phone call here in the break.
12:29Very good.
12:30Real quick, are the Rangers a little too conservative in their challenge system?
12:35They have the second-best challenge percentage from hitters in Major League Baseball.
12:38Only Kansas City has a higher percentage of their challenges being correct from the hitters.
12:43That said, none of their catchers are in the top 20, nor are any of their pitchers.
12:48So, they're losing out on strikes while on defense a little bit.
12:52And, you know, yeah, they do platoon catchers a lot, but sort of a lot like Minnesota and Miami.
12:56Both have both of their catchers on this list in the top 20 in terms of challenges.
13:02And we have two of the, you know, two catchers that have a pretty good percentage of getting those calls
13:10corrected.
13:12Jansen has done a great job of winning these challenges.
13:15And I don't know they're taking advantage of it enough.
13:18And maybe it's just that they haven't had the opportunity where their obvious misses.
13:22That totally plays into it, too.
13:24But, I don't know.
13:25I just love them to keep an eye on.
13:28I wonder, like, I'm sure somebody's going to start tracking this stat.
13:31The times you don't challenge and you would have gotten it overturned or whatever else.
13:35And, like, how often that directly leads to runs or an inning being extended.
13:38And how many games do you need to really worry about that?
13:41Only 47 games in.
13:43You know, do you wait 100?
13:45Diamond Cavs on your home for Rangers baseball.
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