00:00Did you kind of, sort of, maybe just a little bit, think that the Rangers were going to make this
00:08the most epic sports night of all time
00:11and come back and win this game against a crappy team?
00:17They tricked me, yeah, and that was the frustrating part.
00:20I understand kind of how it all happened, though.
00:23It makes sense whenever your starting pitcher just has to leave the game.
00:28After the first inning, you're like, hold on, what happened?
00:31And now you've got to go in there and do some stuff, even if it's the Rockies.
00:34You'd hope to have the Jacob Latz moment or the emergency starter where Jakub Yunus goes out there and does
00:41his thing.
00:42He's kidding G-bag.
00:44And also, even if he did not leave with an injury, did it not appear as though Mackenzie Gore was
00:50in for a rough evening?
00:52Yeah, yeah, and you think this was not an injury?
00:56I felt like they were like, no, it is.
00:59I'm just saying.
01:00Fastball's down.
01:00It looked like he was in for a tough night either way, and then with his defense.
01:04Well, and I'll get to that in a sec, too.
01:06You brought up the idea that you saw the polar opposites of Mackenzie Gore in the last two starts,
01:14and that he was the greatest pitcher on the planet.
01:16Right.
01:17And then the next one, you're like, what happened to that guy?
01:20And sometimes that is the roller coaster, I guess, of him, because think about his season last year,
01:25where he was really good for a half and then not.
01:28Yeah.
01:28So that was tough last night on them.
01:30But again, it's Colorado.
01:34And they suck.
01:35You, but then again, hold on, do they?
01:37Yes.
01:38They had 18 wins going into last night.
01:40Yeah, and 29 losses.
01:43Hey, you can draw your own conclusions.
01:47Colorado is a crap team right now.
01:49So what are you saying?
01:50Well.
01:51Are you just saying I draw my own conclusions and you're not going to say it?
01:54I will say yesterday was a crap game.
01:56That was.
01:57How about that?
01:59Justin Foscue was the greatest hitter on the planet yesterday, though.
02:02I have to admit I am rooting for him.
02:05I'll take more Justin Foscue.
02:06But you can't have the type of mind-numbing errors that they had yesterday.
02:13And that made it even more brutal that this team is not playing clean baseball in the field.
02:23And then they're, like, you've brought it up many times.
02:25Hey, Corey, if they're going to have these close of a games, they can't do that.
02:30Yes, that's correct.
02:32Obviously, their offense has to be better.
02:34But they have to be a clean defensive team when you don't have an all-star player like Corey Seager
02:41in the field.
02:42That's one miss.
02:43And then the rest of the guys are struggling there, too.
02:47Yeah, I'm trying to find the specific way that I had phrased it in my notes.
02:52But I'm pretty sure two weeks ago when we talked with Skip Schumacher,
02:57that was one of the things that I had in my notes, is how just frustrating is it when you
03:05lose the game
03:06or you fall behind in a game in defense is one of the primary reasons.
03:11Oh, yeah, that's a good question.
03:13And you've seen it just too many times this year for a team that, like you just said,
03:19like we've said in the past, they don't have it like that.
03:22They can't overcome that.
03:23Yeah, and Ezekiel Duran struggled in the field but was able to put some hits and runs on the board
03:29yesterday.
03:29That's a good thing.
03:30If you're going to do it, make up for it a little bit.
03:33But you can't make those whenever the rest of the team hits the way that it does.
03:37But, Kevin, last year, that was a credit to this team.
03:41That was the one thing you said was a sterling thing.
03:45Seager had maybe his best defensive season ever.
03:48I realized how it played out.
03:51But I'm just saying, like, ignore the numbers.
03:53Just watching it.
03:54It might have been his best defensive season.
03:55Adolis, he was back to 2023 defensive form.
03:59Simeon was a great defensive player anyway.
04:02But I think that was the thing was we kept – I asked Boach maybe four times that year,
04:06where does that credit go to?
04:07And he was like, look, my coaching staff works their butts off.
04:11And they make sure that they get their work done when they're doing their defensive work out there.
04:17But guess what?
04:17It's not just them telling the players they have to.
04:20The players are pulling the coaches out there to make sure it's happening.
04:23So, like, at some point, I don't know where it lands.
04:26You've got to figure out what you're doing offensively.
04:29But also, at the same time, you've got to get that same defensive work in
04:32and figure out what it was to get back to that level.
04:35Maybe it is you just don't have that level of player in the field either.
04:39Yeah, I mean, we can go around the field if you want.
04:43Evan Carter is a fantastic defensive center fielder.
04:46I can't hit right now for –
04:50It's a struggle, dude.
04:51Yeah.
04:52It's a struggle for sure.
04:53And look, we were going to talk about it today.
04:55We'll actually probably go ahead and kick it down to tomorrow.
04:59But the overall numbers are really covering up how much Young and Nimmo have been struggling to.
05:05Probable starter for tonight's game is Tyler Alexander.
05:09Oh.
05:10According to Rangers PR.
05:12Okay.
05:13Interesting.
05:14Interesting.
05:15So.
05:17All right.
05:18We're going to be just fine, Kevin.
05:21Not – what happened to Rocker?
05:23I don't know.
05:25Texas Rangers PR retweeted by Sean McFarlane.
05:29Okay.
05:30All right.
05:30Maybe I – sorry.
05:32I'm just, like, drawing a blank.
05:33Give me a second.
05:33Maybe I just missed something.
05:35Yeah.
05:35Maybe I just totally missed something.
05:37All right.
05:38Well, to go along with all of this, Corey Seager has been put on the 10-day injured list, which
05:44we talked about this yesterday.
05:46It feels like that's the path that you go down so often where it's like, yeah, no, I'm doing okay.
05:52I'll probably be fine, blah, blah, blah, injured list.
05:55And I know the positive could be, yeah, well, it was injured list going retroactively back to the 15th.
06:02So, hopefully, he'll be back and ready to go by the start of the homestand at the start of next
06:08week.
06:08And I hope that is also the case.
06:10But, unfortunately, sometimes you feel like these things get a little bit worse, take a little bit longer.
06:16Michael Hellman will be in his stead.
06:19Sounds like Rocker will still pitch, according to Kennedy Landry.
06:23However, Tyler Alexander will be the opener.
06:26Okay.
06:27For Kamar Rocker.
06:28Interesting.
06:28Because Kamar Rocker has an 11.25 ERA in the first inning this season.
06:34So, they're like, you know what?
06:35What if we change that up a little bit tonight?
06:36We can't get jumped on early.
06:38Yeah.
06:38So, maybe in the first inning, you go out there and shut it down.
06:41And he'll take the rest of them.
06:42I hope that works.
06:44Yeah.
06:44I hope it's not just a first inning thing for him.
06:46I hope it's a, like, hey, you know what?
06:49In second innings, he's the best.
06:51I mean, look.
06:52Honestly, that makes sense.
06:54Does that bring about other concerns that you have about somebody who took, what, third overall?
06:59And I realize it's the package deal and everything.
07:01But if it works, hey.
07:03All right.
07:03In eight innings, he's given up ten earned runs.
07:08He's got 11.25 in the first inning.
07:10Okay.
07:10Eight first innings.
07:11Gotcha.
07:12Eight second innings, four earned runs.
07:15Okay.
07:16Seven third innings, zero earned runs.
07:19So, let's start him in the third, is what I'm saying.
07:22But my question here is, is that not a little bit about, like, the first part of the offense?
07:27You not being good at, like, maybe it's a second inning thing.
07:32Maybe.
07:32But it feels like that's your pitcher just not having the plan dialed in to start.
07:38And I don't know if that changes if you start him in the second inning.
07:41And that's weird, because you can't just say that's when he gets the back third of the lineup.
07:46Because if he's giving up that many runs in the first and even to the third and the second,
07:51by the time he gets to the third, he should be back to those brutal hitters that roughed him up
07:57the first go-around.
07:58That is fascinating.
07:59But when you're in the place that this team currently is, aren't you in try-anything mode?
08:06Yeah.
08:07I get it.
08:09Somebody said tank mode.
08:11I think it's try-anything right now.
08:13And Skip Schumacher doesn't look like he...
08:15First off, what are you tanking for?
08:17Okay.
08:18I'm going to say this now.
08:22I don't disagree with anything that y'all are saying.
08:27All right?
08:28So we can just run through these techs, like you just said.
08:31In trouble.
08:33Another 2-1-4.
08:34This Rangers team is done for the year.
08:38And it goes on and on.
08:39And you see a lot of those.
08:40I am not disputing any of those things.
08:43I think, and maybe we'll pick this back up tomorrow then,
08:46I think it would be a great idea for the big picture of things to look at what you could
08:54really move.
08:56Would you really want to move Corey Seager?
09:00Because if we get the money off the books to a certain extent, then you'll probably have to eat some
09:03of that.
09:04And you want to move him out before he has a cross-the-board, no trade clause, and you still
09:11think you could get something for him.
09:12Or it can be about whoever you want and replenish the farm system, which is in a bad way, and
09:19ride out this season.
09:21I understand the logic in the big picture of all of that.
09:24Here's why it's not going to happen for a while.
09:28If the season ended right now, the Texas Rangers are in the playoffs.
09:32That sounds insane, right?
09:35That makes sense.
09:36It doesn't.
09:36And it sounds like I'm just randomly saying things that don't actually.
09:41Yeah, that's fair.
09:42Because you're like, no, this team is three games below .500, and I've seen them play, and they're not good
09:47at baseball right now.
09:49And they're especially not good at hitting.
09:51All of those things are fair.
09:52But they're one game out of first place in a garbage division this year, all right?
09:59And also, you would be a wild card team if the season ended today.
10:04So if you want them to tank it out, to sell, sell, sell, I don't disagree with that logic.
10:10You're not getting it for at least a month or so.
10:14I think maybe at the beginning of July.
10:17Best case scenario, end of June.
10:19Because it makes no sense.
10:20It's how are you – think about it if you're CY.
10:23Maybe you think the owner doesn't care.
10:25But let's go off the assumption that he does care about how this team finishes.
10:29If you're Chris Young and you go into sell mode, and what do you say when you go to the
10:34owner who was like,
10:36hey, we're about to be – we would be in the playoffs right now.
10:39Why are you getting rid of all of these players?
10:42And you're like, well, we need to rebuild.
10:43And he's like, and then you'll be back when you need my money again.
10:46But I see you sending Corey Seager out the door and we're footing half that bill.
10:51How does that make sense?
10:54Yeah, unless you had told him a plan earlier.
10:57You were like, hey, if this doesn't work, we're going to need to do this.
11:00Like, here are our options.
11:02But I'm not going to – honestly, I'm not going to go sell to my boss the plan that is
11:08for a backup for failure before it starts to fail.
11:11Right.
11:12You know, like, I just don't want to – unless I want him to be prepared.
11:14Look, this thing – if you're not going to give me this money, we're going to have to patch this
11:19thing together.
11:19But this could be an option here.
11:22So you're saying, Kevin, to the public – your message to the public right now is endure a month more
11:29of hoping that they can turn this around?
11:32And then we can revisit this conversation.
11:34Okay.
11:34That's fair.
11:35Because otherwise, I think – otherwise it's –
11:37I don't think that's unfair at all.
11:38Yeah.
11:39And otherwise, it's a Jerry shouldn't be the GM conversation, right?
11:42Which you can't do anything about.
11:43Where you're like, rock on, man.
11:45Nothing's going to change.
11:46And so it's the same thing.
11:48For the next month of baseball, I don't think they're going to do anything to sell, and then we'll see.
11:55Well, I would say during the level of concern today, you're going to have to answer a level of concern
12:04question about this team.
12:05Oh, okay.
12:05Be ready.
12:06And yeah, from the 214 and the 817, hey, last time we were a wildcard team, we won the World
12:11Series.
12:11True.
12:12Now, if you want –
12:13Every time we were a wildcard team, we've won the World Series, right?
12:17I do not –
12:18The answer's no, Kevin.
12:19I was going to say, I do not believe that's accurate.
12:21The answer's no.
12:22And if you wanted to go apples and apples, that team started 40-20.
12:25This team is 22-25.
12:27We could end 40-20.
12:29Hey, that's true.
12:31And in this division, that probably means you win the division by 12 games.
12:35Yeah.
12:35Because this division is the worst.
12:37Stinks.
12:37And so take that for whatever you will.
12:40Maybe it's a positive because you get into the playoffs, right?
12:43Or maybe it's a negative because it gives you false hope.
12:47Is the division leaders in four of the six divisions have records that are at least 10 games above 500.
12:56At least.
12:58Which would already put the Rangers six and a half back.
13:00But then you have the AL Central and then you have the AL West, which is clearly the worst division
13:05in baseball.
13:06You're the worst division in baseball.
13:07Maybe that gets you into the playoffs.
13:08Maybe it doesn't.
13:09Or maybe it prolongs your hope to the point where you can't really regroup and restock the farm system by
13:16selling like you probably should have.
13:17I'm just telling you, you're going to have to wait a month or so.
13:20I'm sorry.
13:21But to the 601, that's the way baseball go.
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