00:00You and I talked earlier, another announcement today.
00:03I believe one and only Mike Trout has been activated from the IL.
00:08He is back in the starting lineup tonight for the Angels.
00:11Is that correct?
00:13I believe that he is.
00:14We can double check that.
00:15That game comes up at 8 o'clock.
00:17They're on the road to take on Mackenzie Gore and the Rangers.
00:20But convenient timing as they are, as we're just a few days away from the All-Star break in Philadelphia,
00:26where he would presumably be starting in his, quote-unquote, hometown.
00:34He is in the starting lineup here tonight at Texas.
00:37Go figure.
00:38Wow.
00:39Not that that's going to help.
00:40Although, Urena has been, Walbur Urena has been really good for the Angels, this rookie.
00:46Another guy that's got plenty of swing and miss.
00:48He's been good.
00:49His numbers are good.
00:50His underlying metrics are good.
00:52He started 14 games.
00:53I don't know what to think with Mackenzie Gore, except for something tells me Philadelphia was not that far off,
01:00thinking, ma, might be a time to move away from him.
01:04I don't know what to think.
01:05He just does not.
01:07It should be worse than what it has been.
01:09But he is just not the pitcher that I thought he was here, Tom.
01:15Yeah, been traded for, you know, traded two and four, a couple teams, a couple, two, a couple teams at
01:20this point in his career.
01:21We've got to remember, he was involved in the Juan Soto deal, going from, to the Nationals.
01:27Like, he was one of the prized prospects, along with C.J. Abrams.
01:30Okay, Mackenzie Gore being traded for Juan Soto, but he seemingly doesn't put it all together.
01:35He has starts where he can push to 79-10 strikeouts, but then there's other starts where he's given up
01:40too many home runs,
01:41and he's struggling with walks, and I'm not saying that the Angels are a good lineup,
01:45because we know that they're not, but he's not a pitcher that I'm willing to back at.
01:49What is this, you know, minus 136 isn't terrible when it's all said and done,
01:53but I would lean on runs here more than I lean on the Rangers.
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