00:00How do you feel about how the Astros are handling Cam Smith?
00:06Their young player, Cam Smith, how do you feel about how the Astros are handling him?
00:10He has played in over 70 games this year.
00:14He's hitting 218, 303, 356, that's his slash line, OPS under 660.
00:21He's got seven homers, 10 doubles, 26 RBIs, and he does have eight stolen bases and has
00:26only been caught once.
00:28But he is the young guy, I think, especially in that trade with Kyle Tucker.
00:35Like he's, Paredes has come on, we'll see about Hayden Wisniewski whenever he gets back.
00:40But Cam Smith was the one you thought, ooh, he could be a star.
00:45He could be maybe one of the next ones to come through.
00:50Your thoughts in year two, how they have handled him?
00:53He's out there every day, but he is, he does kind of move up and down in a lot.
01:00Yeah, now if he, if you're going to move anybody up, which we've seen, we've seen guys that we
01:06didn't know who they were two weeks ago.
01:08We've seen them batting a four-hole, five-hole.
01:11We've seen Taylor Tramiel batting the four.
01:12Like, to me, if you're going to break up the top five or six hitters on this team, Cam
01:18Smith, this is my only complaint, Cam Smith should be the guy that does that.
01:22Like, the left-right, left-right thing shouldn't take priority over Cam Smith getting to hit
01:27in between a couple of really good hitters and get a little bit of protection and see
01:31if seeing better pitches doesn't help him a little bit.
01:33Like, it seems like Cam Smith is getting the Jake Myers-Yiner-Diaz treatment where it's...
01:39Within the lineup, yeah.
01:40Yeah, well, we're going to play you.
01:42We're going to play you in the field.
01:43But, yeah, here's a good point.
01:45He's not getting, he's not getting rotated.
01:46Yeah, he's playing, he's playing damn near every day in the right field.
01:49Yeah, right, right.
01:49But, but I guess what I meant was more in the lineup of like, may bat eighth, may bat sixth,
01:55may bat, you know, may bat, maybe, maybe, you know, he's, he is shown some consistency
02:03from time to time and then all of a sudden he starts dropping back and forth again.
02:08It just, it, not only complaint would be like, I would like to see him treated like a future
02:14star here instead of Loprefito hitting fourth or instead of Taylor Tramiel hitting fourth or
02:20like, like, let's see if Cam can't do, see if he can't, you know, take advantage of those
02:25kind of opportunities.
02:26That'd be my only...
02:27I don't know if they're testing him.
02:30I don't know, like, I don't know if this is, I don't know exactly what they're doing.
02:34I think it is.
02:39I hate, I hate how they're messing with his confidence in some of the stuff that they're
02:46doing.
02:46Like, there's no way Lamont Wade Jr. should come up and immediately jump him in the lineup
02:51and he's, and he's not played a, a, a game in the majors this year and was in AAA in
02:57another
02:58organization and not lighting it up in AAA.
03:01There's no way that should happen.
03:02Taylor Tramiel should not be hitting ahead of him.
03:06You said Joey Loprefito should, like right now, he should know, he should have an idea
03:11where he is hitting.
03:13Like right now, Tyler, you watch it, where do you, that lineup is going to come out.
03:17Where do you, I know Cam's probably going to be in it.
03:19Where do you, if you had to get, where do you think he's going to hit tonight?
03:24Towards the bottom of the order.
03:25You just, but you don't even know, right?
03:26Like if you had to hit, like you should know.
03:28There's been no consistency with the spot as lineups.
03:31I think he's put out more day-to-day Astros lineups and variants comparatively to anyone
03:37else in the league this season.
03:38We've seen more variants in this lineup for the Astros than maybe any other squad.
03:42But specifically with him, like you know where, you know where Jeremy Payne is hitting tonight,
03:46right?
03:46Mm-hmm.
03:47He's leading them.
03:47We know, we know where, where Yordan is hitting.
03:50Mm-hmm.
03:52Cam, Cam Smith with everything.
03:54I'm not going to sit here and tell you that he's earned it with his, I mean, he's hit 218,
03:59303, 365.
04:00I mean, come on, Joe.
04:06Come on, Joe.
04:07Come on, Joe.
04:08That ain't good enough.
04:09But.
04:09That ain't good enough.
04:11He needs, he needs, he needs to know.
04:14He should be one that knows exactly where he is going to be every day with every, with
04:20everything else.
04:21Yeah.
04:21Right?
04:22It's Trammell.
04:22He's fighting against Jake Trammell.
04:24Trammell, uh, Shea Whitcomb is up here sometimes, uh, Brandon Shoemake was hitting in front
04:31of him.
04:32Um, well, I mean, there's, I mean, I'm sure there's other eight, eight other guys we can,
04:36we, we can roll through.
04:37They've, they've had Lamont Wade.
04:39I mean, he's had most, I thought Delgado may jump him.
04:42He might tonight.
04:43He might.
04:44But I, I just, the way that they are handling Cam, Cam right here is Jordan Alexander.
04:48I'm with you.
04:49Cam should be in the sixth spot behind Altuve every game.
04:53Let's go.
04:53Because there's not anybody until, until somebody just goes off.
05:00Nobody, nobody has done anything to show that he meant, but I, but tonight he might bet
05:05seventh.
05:05He might bet eight.
05:07I don't know.
05:08He might bet six, but somebody else will be in a five hole.
05:10Cause we're resting somebody.
05:11One of the top five hitters.
05:13But, but yeah, but that, that's my only complaint about the kid.
05:16I love the fact that he's playing a lot, but I would like to see him, especially in a time
05:20where you've had so many injuries, you've got more of a reason to lean into Cam Smith and
05:28see what he's gotten and give him some level of consistency.
05:31You got more reason to, to, to do that now than you do when everybody's completely healthy.
05:36So that's, yeah, I just, I would like to see him made a little bit more of a priority.
05:41Yes.
05:41And I just think his future, the conference, I mean, look guys, they have Paredes and Altuve
05:46out.
05:47Joey Loprefito hit cleanup.
05:51I mean, that's gotta be Cam.
05:53Oh, I agree.
05:54I mean, I just think for a confidence and everything wise, cause nobody, I mean, Joey, Joey, God
05:58bless him.
05:59He ain't doing nothing where you feel like you got to have him in there ahead of him.
06:02He's playing every day.
06:03He should know where he's.
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