00:00By the way, Ken, your do-not-trade-Jaron Duran stance is getting some love as he hit his ninth
00:04homer in May alone.
00:06By the way, I had to kind of check and make sure this was true.
00:09Tied for the second most in the American League this month, the amount of homeruns.
00:12Oh, yeah, yeah, he's got nine.
00:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14Very nice.
00:15He hit 170 in April.
00:16He's up to hit 261 in May, five steals.
00:19He was four for 13 over the weekend.
00:21All of a sudden, I mean, you want to give the new manager a little credit, our man Trace.
00:25Yeah.
00:26His putting Duran, having faith in Duran and putting him at the top of the order has changed the direction
00:32of the team somewhat.
00:32Not saying they've turned it around, Ted.
00:33I know you're skeptical.
00:34The offense has been better.
00:36That's a great job by Tracy to just say, you're my leadoff guy.
00:39I'm riding you.
00:40He had faith in him and is paying off.
00:41What happens when Roman Anthony comes back?
00:43What's he do?
00:44Because it's easy to put him at the top and play.
00:46I mean, you guys understand this is his outbreak, his outbreak of hitting is concurrent with what?
00:53But the fact that Roman Anthony has not been playing.
00:56So when Roman Anthony comes back and Jaron Duran goes back to being, you know, off, you know, not playing
01:01every day, then he's going to go back to being the same Jaron Duran.
01:04No, honestly, at this point, Roman probably is your DH.
01:07Okay.
01:07And you just, you take the load off him.
01:09Injury, you ease him back in.
01:10We saw his arm anyway.
01:11He got exposed a couple times earlier in the year.
01:13He needs to work on his outfield mechanics or whatever.
01:15All right.
01:16I mean.
01:17Can I, can I just put a little pool, you know, cold water on, on your, on you guys a
01:20little bit though?
01:20If you bust on a Monday.
01:22They are, they are leading for the third of the season.
01:25The Red Sox averaged what?
01:26Four, a little over four runs per game, which is, was below the league average, which is four and a
01:30half runs per game.
01:32Right now in the last nine games, they're averaging 5.5 runs per game.
01:35There we go.
01:36Nice.
01:37And those nine games, they are three and six.
01:40Three and six.
01:41Played the Braves.
01:42I'm just, I'm just telling you.
01:43So you get all worked up about hitting.
01:45Oh yeah.
01:45Yeah, but is it leading to wins?
01:47Uh, no.
01:48Shot to the heart.
01:49Yes.
01:50How about my man, Baio though?
01:51After the second inning, gosh darn it, Friday night.
01:53Baby Pedro was back.
01:55All right.
01:55We got to, we got to talk about Brian Baio.
01:57This guy.
01:57So I don't understand how, why he needs a fluffer.
02:01Like why can't he start a game?
02:03Well, they, the last time they tried him, which was the right move, put him back in there.
02:08It was in Atlanta.
02:09Tough assignment against the Braves.
02:10He gave up a three run homer in the first.
02:11He said after the game through an interpreter, quote, I'm in a mode where I want to prove
02:15that I can start, that I can go five, six innings plus.
02:18What better way to do that in the role that was given me today, making the most out of
02:21it.
02:22But he wants to get back and be a starter.
02:24I like that.
02:25Yeah.
02:25If he's saying it, I mean, look, a lot of times you got to say it, baby.
02:28You got to just get that, get it out.
02:30If you, so that you believe it yourself, but he has not played well when he started.
02:33He has been terrible when he started.
02:35So we all agree that that's like a yips type thing, right?
02:39Total.
02:39Okay.
02:40It's all mental.
02:40You know what this reminds me of?
02:41Because I was trying to think, I was trying to remember or think of an incident that was
02:45somewhat similar to this.
02:46And obviously I've never heard of anything exactly like this, but I kind of thought of,
02:51remember how John Lester couldn't throw to first?
02:54Remember how for the longest time, like John Lester, I remember.
02:57Oh yeah.
02:58It was like, it was like for some reason he had a hard time throwing to first base.
03:03It was like one of the worst kept secrets like in a while.
03:05And someone finally asked him about it.
03:07Yeah.
03:07Like he had a hard time for a while throwing to first base.
03:10Which was really strange.
03:11He just abandoned any kind of pickoff throws for a while, or he would bounce the throws
03:15to first.
03:16And that's the only thing I, and there was even one time, I think he like tossed his glove
03:20with the ball inside of it.
03:21Do you remember that?
03:21I do remember.
03:22It was like a really weird stretch where he couldn't do that.
03:24And I, and I, and baseball is such a mental sport.
03:27It just got me thinking, and there's like the Mackie Sasser thing.
03:31You know, I mean, everyone's heard about that where he couldn't throw the ball back
03:33to the pitcher, which was really strange, but just having to have somebody go in and just
03:40start the game for you.
03:42Sacrificial lamb, you know, and whoever they're putting out there isn't, that's not what they
03:46do.
03:46That's not, they're not starters.
03:48They're just, they're just asking to be told, being told to go out there and Hey man, do
03:51the best you can for one inning.
03:53We'll get out of there.
03:53That's not normal for them either.
03:55No, it's all weird.
03:56Did you say Stiz, we've got Chad Tracy being asked about that.
03:59Can I, can I hear that?
04:00Let's hear what he chat.
04:01I don't know that you can make sense of it.
04:03Um, I, the most important thing for me right now is that he looked great, you know?
04:06So, um, and also not only look great, but had a swagger about him on the mountain that
04:11we've seen in the past.
04:12So like, I'm just mostly very pleased to see how he threw the ball.
04:15They're just, they just, they're in denial a little bit, right?
04:17It's just, Hey, let's just bypass the question.
04:19Hey, Hey, I don't care about how it started.
04:21I just care about how he performed.
04:23Yeah, that's nice.
04:23But the reality is you're, you're, I mean, you're in a four hole right before he even gets
04:28in there to start the second inning and you don't even, you wouldn't, you lose four
04:30three.
04:31Yeah.
04:32That's crazy.
04:32Did they say Mac Jones had the yips there toward the end?
04:35What was, what was his issue?
04:36Arkand asked him about that.
04:37Do you have the yips or something like that?
04:39Oh, hang on.
04:39It was throwing left or something like he couldn't throw.
04:42Yeah.
04:42Was it, he couldn't throw.
04:44Yeah.
04:44Yeah.
04:44He did have something.
04:45I don't know that you mentioned that.
04:46I mean, a terrible year.
04:48Well, this was great.
04:49You're right.
04:49Ken, Arkand did ask him and this was great.
04:52He denied even knowing what it meant.
04:54Mac again, maybe a weird question, but do you think you now or at any point this year sort
04:58of had the yips?
04:59What's the, what is that?
05:01Likely story.
05:02What did they ruin Mac?
05:03He's, no, he's just.
05:04He's asking for trades here.
05:05Yeah.
05:06He asked for a trade.
05:06Nobody wanted him.
05:07So he's, he got a little bump in the salary, which is like by 50 grand, I think.
05:11Well, that was nice.
05:12But yeah, we digress.
05:15But Bayou is fixable, but I, I would give him one more start.
05:17If he stinks, send him down to AAA.
05:19He has options.
05:20Let him start there until he can do it.
05:22How about a different role?
05:23How about a different role?
05:24How about a long release?
05:25He's good.
05:25He retired like the last 12 Friday night.
05:27But he's so good.
05:28It's just like, he can't hear his name before the national anthem.
05:31Like there's something weird in his head.
05:34Maybe, maybe you simulate a first inning, like in the bullpen, like in, you know, out there
05:38where you prep.
05:39Oh yeah, there you go.
05:39It just, you know, like, Hey, you know, 15 hard pitches, you know, where he's got to like,
05:44you know, simulate a game.
05:45Just like if it's at Fenway.
05:47So then he goes into the first inning.
05:48It's really in his mind.
05:49It's his second inning.
05:50Have the people at Fenway, just change all of the numbers for him.
05:53Like make it say two instead of one when he comes out and mentally think it's the second.
05:58It is really strange.
05:59Like it's, it's one of the more otter yips I've heard of in a long time where he just
06:04needs someone out there for one inning.
06:05And then he is, he kills it.
06:07I think the only team that's ever done, it's like Tampa Bay used to do this.
06:09There were a lot of teams doing the openers, Tampa definitely.
06:12And they had success with it, but we don't have an opener.
06:14There's nobody on this team that can't open.
06:15Nobody can handle the first thing.
06:17Boy, that's a specialty right there.
06:18Yeah, that is.
06:19But the worst thing is the crochet news.
06:20That is very depressing.
06:22Yeah.
06:22I mean, for him to say the way he talked about it wasn't, he said it's very minor setback,
06:27but then he said, well, I wasn't even close to starting anyway.
06:30Yeah.
06:30Like just very dismissive.
06:32He's gone for multiple months.
06:34It sounds like.
06:34Yep.
06:34There's a little bit more news on that.
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