00:00Basayo is just, talking about somebody at 21 years old, boy, he belongs, man.
00:05Wow.
00:06And the crazy thing about him is, you know, people say he's hot.
00:10I don't think he's hot.
00:11I think this is who he is.
00:11I think this is who he is.
00:12Yeah, I agree.
00:13Yeah.
00:14He's not hot.
00:15He's just being Samuel Basayo right now.
00:18Yeah.
00:19I mean, he's had some 0-4 games.
00:22He's had some games where he had multiple hits.
00:25He's just steady Eddie.
00:27I mean, if you look at what he does, he doesn't have.
00:29I think the most 0-4 games he's had was two back-to-back the entire month.
00:34And that's it.
00:35He has a lot of power.
00:37He does.
00:38He does.
00:39He's up to, what, 267 right now?
00:42OPS of 810.
00:44Fastest catcher to, what did he say, over?
00:46If you take the games last year, he'd have 12 home runs.
00:48Fastest to reach that.
00:49Like, there's all these smaller things that he's doing that you don't consider him records or anything,
00:54but you're like, over the last month, he's hitting this.
00:57It just looks like everything's coming into form.
00:59I don't know if he's ultimately going to be a guy that hits for a high average.
01:03Time will tell.
01:03But I know the power's going to be there.
01:05I'll tell you who I think he is.
01:06I think he's Jordan Alvarez.
01:08I think if you look at who and what Jordan Alvarez is in Houston, I think that's Sam Welbesai.
01:14He's just got to show me that he can hit lefties the way that Jordan knows.
01:16Right.
01:17Because that's a big difference.
01:18Because he and Kyle Tucker, I've never seen guys that hit lefties the way they do being left-handed.
01:23I think he's one of those guys, Ed, that says, I don't have to hit home runs.
01:28I'll go the other way if that's what you want me to do.
01:30But if you give me a cookie like you did last night, I'm going to hit it over the right
01:33field porch.
01:34Yeah.
01:35And you know what?
01:36He can hit it over the left field porch, too, with that power.
01:38Yeah.
01:38If you get the right pitch.
01:39So he can go the other way, all the way.
01:42You know what's great is that the Yankees didn't sign him when we got him.
01:45So every time he goes up there, you know, they had him.
01:48They drafted him or whatever.
01:49They had the deal done and it fell through because of something else.
01:52And then the Orioles end up getting him.
01:53And now that he's here, like that's one that's one that you regret.
01:57I don't know if you've seen this before.
01:58There was like some of the guys that were drafted and went back.
02:01And I'm trying to remember what team it was.
02:03I was watching a game.
02:04They had four players that they drafted that turned out to be just absolute stud superstars.
02:09And they didn't sign two of them.
02:10And then they went elsewhere and then obviously had the success they've had.
02:13The great thing about it is he's the first guy to come out of that academy in the Dominican Republic.
02:19And a lot of goodwill because he comes up early.
02:22And it was 20, 21 when he came up.
02:26On top of that, you give him the extension.
02:28And while we think that's a cheap extension, folks in the Dominican Republic don't believe that's a cheap extension.
02:33They don't understand what it means.
02:35You're a kid playing baseball in the DR.
02:36You see that.
02:37You're like, okay.
02:38And you give him that guaranteed money up front.
02:41The bonus they gave him up front.
02:42I just think it's goodwill for them in the Dominican Republic.
02:47He doesn't have to do what Tatis did then.
02:50And by the way, the Tatis loan.
02:51I'll be talking about this in my shovel, believe it or not.
02:54You know, it wasn't for his first contract.
02:56It's the first 25 years.
02:58Like his 25 years, they get 10% of it.
03:01I don't think this is done.
03:02No.
03:03It's crazy, man.
03:05Wait a minute.
03:06It's for the first part?
03:08When he signed, they get 10% over the next 25 years of what he makes is what I thought
03:13the thing that I had read said.
03:16So let me look it up.
03:17So why are they saying he only owes $34 million?
03:20Now, because that's all he's signed for.
03:21I mean, when his contract's up, he signs a new one.
03:23I think they get 10% of that, too.
03:24Oh, hey.
03:25I mean, if that's what you agreed to, that's what you agreed to.
03:27But nonetheless, I think the key also, one of the keys with the Orioles, Ed, starting pitching.
03:32We forget about what Braddish did in that 13-inning game.
03:35But he did it.
03:36You know, six innings, give it up, one earned run.
03:39Last night, Jeremy's been saying this since they've traded for him.
03:42Shane Boz looked like the guy that Jeremy told us that he could be.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Yep.
03:47Against his old team.
03:48So he looked great.
03:49He just looked great.
03:51Long in the game.
03:52Shut them down.
03:53I have a lot of faith in him.
03:56You do?
03:57I do.
03:57In Boz, yeah.
03:59Because there are a lot of people who were just complaining about the money.
04:01You signed him for all his money.
04:03He's not doing this.
04:04I don't.
04:05And I said it to you before, and I'll say it again.
04:06And for a fan base that complains about their team spending money, when they finally spend
04:10money, they act like they just spent their money.
04:12Yeah.
04:13All the time.
04:14All the time.
04:14I find they just have something to complain about.
04:16Like, if you don't have faith in the guy, what fun is this for anybody?
04:20I do.
04:20I have a lot of faith in him.
04:21I think he's going to be real.
04:22I think he is good.
04:23I think he's going to be even better.
04:25Yeah, I think so.
04:26410-583-1057 is the number.
04:29Now, this month, we're not out of the month right now, but this month alone, Colton Couser is
04:34batting only 231, but his OPS for the month of May, 795 with three home runs, 11 RBI.
04:43Do you think, Jeremy, that he's coming out of it?
04:45I hope so.
04:46I mean, look, he's a, from what I've seen from the short time he's been here, it seems like
04:50he's very streaky.
04:52Yeah.
04:52Gets on these hot runs, and then all of a sudden, it's a cold run.
04:55Like, right now, the dangerous thing is when guys are playing with confidence, and I think
05:00he has a little bit.
05:00I think watching him laugh about some of the comments that, who is it, the Tigers broadcast
05:05was making about him.
05:07I don't know if you saw this in a post-game interview.
05:09Was it foul ball?
05:10Whatever.
05:10He was on one of the shows talking about it, and he was laughing.
05:13He's like, yeah, I heard what they said about me, and he just focused in on what he's doing.
05:16So, I think he's got some confidence now, and hopefully this is something he can build
05:19off of.
05:20And by the way, the numbers you gave out, if he's hitting towards the bottom of your lineup,
05:23I don't have a problem.
05:24The 795 OPS?
05:25I have no problem with those numbers at all.
05:27The one thing that does concern me about that, though, the one thing that concerns
05:31me, he has three extra base hits this month.
05:33He doesn't have any doubles.
05:35Just home runs.
05:36Just only home runs.
05:37That does concern me.
05:39I'd like to see him get some doubles to add to that.
05:41If he had two doubles, his OPS would be 825 or something like that.
05:46I mean, so, just get a couple of other base hits, extra base hits, other than home runs.
05:50But I think he's climbing out of that slump that he's been in.
05:54But just to let you know, in comparison, you know what his numbers were for the month
05:57of April?
05:58What?
06:00163 batting average with a 438 OPS.
06:04That's huge.
06:04Yeah.
06:05Huge.
06:06So, this has been a good month for him.
06:09410-583-1057 is the number.
06:12Shovels at 845, but on the other side, more Orioles baseball with Mike Bordick up next
06:17on The Fan.
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