00:00Red Sox are back in action, and it's the Blue Jays, and I don't know, maybe you're, are you back
00:06on board if they, if they are able to sweep Toronto?
00:09No, I told you, I need six straight.
00:11I think the, um, the athletic reporting is interesting with regard to Roman Anthony and to Craig Breslow.
00:18I don't know if anybody's up to speed on that.
00:20So I saw Alex Spear in the Globe talking, he was talking to some doctors about Roman Anthony's injury and
00:25how it could be up to, like, 12 weeks out.
00:28Yes, yes.
00:28But what are you talking about?
00:29I am talking about Breslow, the suggestion that Breslow went into this season expecting that Roman Anthony was going to
00:40be the bat that this team needed and relied on that and that only.
00:44And that is why the organization was okay with not going out and getting your guy, Pete Alonso, or were
00:54willing to say farewell to Alex Bregman or what have you.
01:00So, um, they felt like they, they were certain that Roman Anthony was going to be the guy.
01:05I think a lot of people had high expectations for him.
01:08I would say that that's not the smartest plan.
01:11I get the direction you're going in, but I would have still, you know, went out and got somebody that
01:17I knew was productive and has been productive in their career.
01:21Like, you know, we brought up Pete Alonso, somebody like that to pair along with Roman Anthony, but maybe they
01:27thought Wilson Contreras was going to be that.
01:29But, well, yeah, I mean, he has been, but it's certainly not enough.
01:33Right, right.
01:33Well, because Roman Anthony before the injury wasn't doing anything.
01:37And I do feel like there is a part of me, not in how they communicated it, not in how
01:42they dealt with the injury, but if this doctor that spoke with Spear is correct, and I have no reason
01:48to doubt him, that he's been an orthopedist for 32 years and he's never heard of a ring finger isolated
01:53CMC ligament tear.
01:55So, it wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world if the organization misdiagnosed it or didn't know what it
02:02was, if a guy that's been doing this specifically for a generation has never seen it.
02:07Sure.
02:08No, it sounds like it's something that is rare and that doesn't happen a lot and that the recovery is
02:14-
02:14Well, this guy says it's never happened.
02:17Yeah, he's never seen one.
02:19He's never seen it.
02:19He's never seen one.
02:20Right.
02:21And so, the recovery is a lengthy one.
02:25I mean, that's-
02:26Shut him down for the year.
02:27Everybody okay with that?
02:28That's horrible news.
02:29I think, I guess maybe you have to at some point.
02:32Yes, Megan?
02:32No, I'm just saying, I said this weeks ago, and they're, whoa, like this is a lost season for him.
02:38It feels like a totally lost season.
02:41What do you- you think that he's going to come back and he's going to be swinging better than
02:45he was before this injury?
02:46No, I just- I mean, I think if he's healthy and he can come back, it's really you want
02:52him to get at-bats and to see where he is.
02:56Like, you know what I mean?
02:56Like, because the jury was still out on him.
02:59The expectations, they had high on him, but, you know-
03:01But what's the point?
03:02Like, it's another- he's- he- let's say he's out another month, right?
03:06Like, which sounds ridiculous, but also based on the diagnosis, sounds completely legit.
03:12So, then what's the point of-
03:14Just so you can get swings, it's almost like, you know-
03:16But then he runs the risk of re-injuring it or doing-
03:21I mean, it's- I mean, I don't know.
03:24I guess if you want to shut him down until next spring training and now you're just going to be
03:28like, you know,
03:29you're going to kind of go into it with the same expectations.
03:31And if Curtis, if it goes into a lockout like you think it will-
03:34Right.
03:35When's the next time we see Roman Anthony out there active?
03:38He's not even going to be young anymore.
03:39Yeah, who knows?
03:41He could be married by then.
03:43No, let's not.
03:44But when you want him to, like-
03:46I mean, only if he-
03:47Anything could happen.
03:48Only if he is healthy.
03:49Does he seem like the marrying type?
03:51Not to me.
03:51I mean, early on.
03:52In the future.
03:53In the future.
03:54He's young.
03:54He's having fun.
03:55He's a young punk.
03:55But when you want, like-
03:57What does it mean that it's his ring finger?
03:59I don't know.
03:59Like God saying-
04:00Metaphorical.
04:01If he is healthy, wouldn't you want him to kind of like, you know, finish on a good note
04:05potentially if there is a lockout then he can build off-
04:08But you're assuming it's going to be a good note.
04:10He wasn't playing well before the injury.
04:12Right.
04:12He will maybe be out for 12 weeks and then he comes back and you think it's boom, he's
04:17going to hit the ground running?
04:18No, no, no.
04:18But now if you sit him out and he's done, now that lingers until, like you said, all the
04:24way until next offseason and spring training.
04:26But if there is a lockout, then it lingers even further.
04:29I don't know.
04:30I just think that if he is healthy and the team stinks, he's just going out there working
04:35on whatever it is.
04:37The Baio method.
04:38No pressure.
04:39Yeah, there's no pressure at all.
04:40There'll be zero pressure.
04:41And so whatever he does, he can kind of, you know, get through without having to be like
04:46the savior of this team.
04:48So when does the pivot begin?
04:50It's been, has it been five days since Sam Kennedy told us that the pivot might be coming?
04:55Yeah, I think that was Thursday.
04:56Right.
04:57So, uh, and he said two weeks.
04:59Did, did, did he, did he, did he allow for two weeks?
05:02He said 15 days.
05:04I mean, the pivot, the pivot needs to begin.
05:07Yeah, I think it is.
05:08It's time to start to pivot.
05:09What are they?
05:10Six games behind that third wildcard spot or five games?
05:13I hate that too.
05:14They're like, they're double digits under 500.
05:18That's all you need to, I don't care about the third wildcard spot or the, but that's
05:21more important than being the seventh entry draft position, which is still available.
05:26That's still, you know what they care more about than either of those things.
05:30And it's the run differential.
05:32So like they believe that that, and if you want to get into projected win loss totals and
05:37all that stuff, and I really don't, that's the, the metric utilized by organizations and
05:41analytical departments that figure it out.
05:44So right now there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight teams in the American
05:49league with a worse run differential than the Boston Red Sox.
05:52So they view that as the team is better than their record has suggested.
05:58I don't believe it.
05:59I don't, but so they're, to me, like they're playing the Blue Jays, right?
06:04Yeah.
06:05They win the series at home.
06:07That's consecutive series wins at Fenway Park.
06:09First time all season.
06:11And they will likely have a positive run differential entering the weekend.
06:15Right.
06:15But it's still not enough though.
06:16They need to go.
06:17But they're not going to sell now because there's nothing to sell.
06:19Are they going to delude themselves into being like, oh, look, look, look, as I'd use one
06:24stat as Curtis is saying that matters to them and say like, look at us.
06:28And until they can prove, I think, I believe, and Tracy said it before, and I think even
06:34talking to Sam Kennedy, until they can show that they can rip off seven in a row and really
06:39put themselves in a position where they're like a legitimate arms reach away from one of
06:45them wild card spots, then you're basically, all you're doing is prolonging it.
06:50Right.
06:50But we're saying that we're not saying, or at least I'm not saying, let's speak for
06:53Mexico, that I don't think they're going to buy today.
06:55No, no, no.
06:55But I also don't think they're going to sell today.
06:57No, no.
06:57I don't think they're going to sell today, but I think they're going to sell come trade
07:00deadline.
07:01Could they sell Roldis Chapman and keep everybody else?
07:04And kind of like ride the fence a little bit that way.
07:06If you're going to sell Chapman, you have to sell Gray.
07:08Yeah.
07:09I think if you're going to, yeah, I think you're selling Chapman, you're probably going
07:12to sell to Curtis's point, Sonny Gray, and you're probably going to sell Durant.
07:16Right.
07:17So those are the three guys I would definitely see them selling.
07:19Please, please, please keep Will.
07:22Fleming.
07:22Fleming.
07:23Yeah.
07:23And Middlebrooks.
07:24Yeah.
07:25I mean, I, would you hang on?
07:28You have two years left with Contreras.
07:30Wouldn't you hang on to him the way he's played?
07:32I would.
07:33Yeah.
07:34I mean, he might be one of the only guys that you get something significant back for if you're
07:38looking at like really rebuilding or not even rebuilding, but just having something for
07:42the future.
07:43Right.
07:43So they probably would look at seriously during it, dealing with their sellers.
07:49But if you're going to look at, look at it positionally, you have no idea what Tristan
07:53Cassis is going to be or what he's going to do.
07:56Yeah, I do.
07:56He sucks.
07:56Where, where, where he's going to be.
07:58Or so I would hang on to Wilson Contreras.
08:01He's been excellent.
08:03But the problem is you just brought up, or maybe Megal brought it up.
08:06What if there is a lockout?
08:08So now when Contreras comes back, it's.
08:11Well, that's going to be the same with every single player in the entire.
08:15Right.
08:15But he's only, he's only on what a two or a three year deal.
08:18But, but I don't think he can do business expecting that there is, or isn't going to
08:22be a lockout.
08:23Well, don't you have to, don't you have to go into it knowing like.
08:26Well then if, then if you were going to assume that there's going to be a lockout, then
08:31everybody, anybody who is not anywhere near being in it would just sell every single
08:35thing that they have.
08:36Like every entire thing that they have.
08:38Well, that's what I expect.
08:39I expect the teams that are going to go for it this year are really going to be big, big
08:43buyers.
08:43Okay.
08:44And then if there isn't a strike or a lockout, you're absolutely screwed.
08:48Yeah.
08:48So.
08:48But what, I guess in the world of baseball.
08:51Well, we're kind of screwed right now.
08:52In the world of baseball.
08:53Yes.
08:53Do you, do you, what do you think the front office people, the owners, the owners say the percentage
08:58of a lockout is, I have no idea what they do.
09:00I would, I'm not saying do you have an idea, but a percentage wise you go, there's a 70%
09:06chance.
09:06We're probably going to have a lockout.
09:07I have no idea.
09:09Do they have stats on that?
09:10I'm not privy to the information.
09:12But if you're.
09:12That seems low.
09:13I would say a 99.9%.
09:15And I would, Wilson Gutierrez is on pace for 38 home runs this year.
09:21Yeah.
09:21When was the last time the Red Sox had a player that hit 38 home runs?
09:24I think it was Devers maybe hit 35.
09:26Maybe.
09:27Yeah.
09:27I mean, but I don't know if anybody's ever hit, like the last guy hit 40 must have been
09:31maybe.
09:32Yeah.
09:32I don't know who, yeah.
09:33Hang on to the man.
09:34Hang on to him.
09:35All right.
09:36Well, anyway, Red Sox back at it with the Blue Jays.
09:39You can talk about that this morning.
09:41It looks like Brendan Soresby will not be playing for Texas Tech.
09:45Shyam, you addressing that in your lead?
09:47I sure am this morning, Greg.
09:48All right.
09:48Okay.
09:49And the head coach of Texas Tech is also going to be the father from Ipswich because they both
09:53made asses of themselves for no reason.
09:55Just the head coach.
09:56I think the entire Texas Tech school made a bunch of asses.
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