00:00Let's get this out of the way, B. Scott.
00:02The Astros got walked yesterday.
00:04They did.
00:04And I don't mean walked in the literal baseball sense.
00:07I mean walked as in the dog walk sense because they got absolutely whooped
00:11in this rubber match in this final game of a three-game set versus the Nationals.
00:16The Nationals, mind you, are a team that can score runs.
00:18But I guess I'd still been, and wrongly, obviously, in the mindset,
00:23especially Eric Gettys, one of your better ones.
00:25You know, you have an opportunity to hit, hit, hit, hit, hit.
00:28Like, it just wasn't good.
00:30To the point where I will start this with a question that is very unfair,
00:32but does Eric Gettys stink now?
00:35He has come back down to earth.
00:37Like, he has turned back into a pumpkin.
00:39I heard Luke in the morning show talking about Jason Alexander going from last year
00:44to, like, kind of this savior or this revelation to turn it into a pumpkin this year.
00:49Well, this is that to the umpteenth degree in power with Spencer Eric Gettys
00:54for the simple fact that no one ever confused Jason Alexander
00:57for being a top-of-the-rotation guy.
00:59Whereas Spencer Eric Gettys, for a time there, was looking like he was going to be that.
01:04Like, May was not that long ago.
01:06We're only in July.
01:07And this was the American League Pitcher of the Month for the month of May.
01:12And now, this guy has given up or has at least allowed eight runs for the second time in three
01:19starts.
01:20And apparently, do you want to know what his ERA is over his last seven outings?
01:25I don't, but you're going to tell me anyway.
01:28Since, Ben, I know you love numbers.
01:30So I'm going to give you an advanced number.
01:31This is one that we can all digest together, okay?
01:33I don't like the way you said that, but okay.
01:34No, no, I'm just saying I want to be inclusive.
01:36You and I both like advanced stats, but we want to be inclusive of all the people, okay?
01:40Okay, Spencer Eric Gettys, since being named the American League Pitcher of the Month for the month of May, owns
01:47a 8.7.
01:49Correct.
01:50Let's repeat that.
01:52He owns an 8.74 ERA over his past seven outings since being named the American League Pitcher of the
02:00Month for the month of May.
02:01And I think that, like, we know enough about ERA and baseball to know 8 ain't good.
02:06It's not good.
02:06Numbers are hot.
02:07Thank you, ma'am.
02:08I don't know your name.
02:09I would like to learn it soon.
02:11I know it.
02:14Mind you, in that particular five-star, or you said seven starts, right?
02:20Yeah, it's past seven outings.
02:220-4.
02:24Yeah.
02:24So no wins there.
02:25No wins.
02:260 means winless.
02:27Three no decisions, and I imagine you felt great in no decision circumstances.
02:32Yeah, man, this is a problem, right?
02:35Like, he had a fantastic month of May, literally an ERA of 0.93, and then he followed up with
02:42a month of 9 ERA baseball.
02:45Like, this is just, this is deeply problematic, and what sucks is that when you were doing the math on
02:49the Astros rotation,
02:50as you were trying to fight your way back into level contention, he was one of the ones that you
02:55were checking.
02:55And I understand we were, now, we were doing that in the midst of this happening, right?
02:59But we, I guess you'd look at it and you'd go, oh, man, there's probably some bad outings, he'll bounce
03:03back.
03:03I think we're beyond, like, the bounce back portion of this.
03:06Seven straight outings of bad baseball?
03:10Like, I got you in that, right?
03:11Well, I think that, so, to answer that question, we have to ask another one, and that is, what does
03:16bounce back look like?
03:17Like, do we have to now curve our expectation a little bit, curb your enthusiasm just a little bit when
03:24it comes to Spencer Eric Getty?
03:26Because you're probably not, like, is the AL pitcher of the month still in there somewhere?
03:31I think it's probably safe to say that that was a little bit of fool's gold, and you're doing yourself
03:36a disservice to, like, be hoping that he returns back to that.
03:40But the point now is that it just can't be this, right?
03:44Correct.
03:44It can't be this because now we're doing a whole different sort of calculation on what the rotation even looks
03:51like.
03:52You got to the question.
03:53Like, we're having a conversation of, like, who are the guys?
03:56And, like you said, we would pencil in Spencer Eric Getty, Hunter Brown once he's healthy, and now he is.
04:01And even Hunter Brown has had some outings where I go, hey, buddy, you want to get back to being
04:05Hunter Brown again, big dog?
04:06And that's just a journey you're going to have to walk on.
04:08Like, you're just going to have to walk down that road with Hunter Brown.
04:12Spencer Eric Getty, not so much.
04:14And so now we're really just talking about Spencer Eric Getty, or I'm sorry, Hunter Brown.
04:19Correct.
04:20As, like, the for sure.
04:21Yes.
04:22And I think.
04:22Shout out to Peter Lambert, who is name number two now.
04:25Yeah.
04:25Like, unquestionably, that is name number two now.
04:28But that has to bother you a little bit.
04:30You don't think so?
04:31That has to.
04:31And when I say a little bit, I mean a whole hell of a lot.
04:35That's what I mean when I say a little bit.
04:36Correct.
04:36It has to bother you a lot that after Hunter Brown, who is a bona fide, certified ace, even
04:41if he's struggling at times, you've got Peter Lambert and Tatsuya Imai.
04:46Shout out to Peter, not Paul and Mary Lambert.
04:48You mentioned Tatsuya Imai.
04:50Eric Getty as a potential fourth, as like a fourth name, is there.
04:55Like, between Imai and Eric Getty, I go, man, do I have to pencil either of these guys in?
05:01Because.
05:02You need at least one of them.
05:03You do have Renaud Blanco coming back.
05:05We've talked about him, right?
05:06Lance McCullers Jr., they're going to try it.
05:08They're just going to try it.
05:09I think we know the Astros well enough to know they're going to try it.
05:11I don't think it's going to work.
05:12It's your homegirl that's like, yeah, but I love him.
05:15It's like, girl, I done heard all the issues that you've told me about him.
05:18But she can't quit him.
05:19You can do it if you want to.
05:20But no, we're going to be back here having this conversation again.
05:23That's Lance McCullers Jr. with all due respect to him.
05:25Hayden Wesneski is supposedly coming back.
05:26But again, coming back off of Tommy John.
05:28How do you feel about that?
05:29Christian Javier in the pen right now, he could be a starter.
05:31Like, there's a lot of – you know what this is?
05:34If we're betting spades, there's a lot of possible books.
05:37Yeah.
05:37No guaranteed books.
05:38No guaranteed.
05:39It feels real ragtag.
05:41And I don't mean that as a disrespect, but it feels like after you get past Hunter Brown,
05:46even with all due respect to Peter Lambert and what he has been,
05:50the revelation that he has been for you,
05:51and Tatsuya Imane starting to kind of figure things out.
05:54Now, after Hunter Brown, it feels very much ragtag trying to just piece this thing together.
05:59And the question I have, even though, like, the AL West itself, not the greatest,
06:04can you piece this ragtag bunch together,
06:07especially with an offense that is just never going to say die?
06:10Can you piece it together enough to win the AL West?
06:13And I don't know, especially because the Mariners have gotten back to being a little bit better.
06:16The Rangers are actually playing good baseball right now,
06:18and you see them this weekend.
06:19Yeah.
06:20Can you be a legitimate baseball team if you're ragtagging the rest of your rotation outside of your ace
06:27and you essentially have no outfield?
06:31Which is funny because...
06:32From the mound to the outfield, there's a huge gap.
06:34And it's funny because you asked that,
06:36and I think that now the Astros sit in this time period where you're heading towards the trade deadline,
06:39and the question is probably do you look for a pitcher or an outfielder?
06:43Yes.
06:44And it feels like an either-or proposition.
06:46It feels like a yes.
06:47You would love it to be a yes.
06:48However, I look in my palm at the change that I have, and it doesn't stretch for both.
06:52It does not.
06:53It does not.
06:54And so difficult decisions have to be made for people who are in a difficult spot right now in making
07:00decisions.
07:02And when I say that, I'm talking about a lame duck general manager who is absolutely motivated
07:07to make good on what could be his last year.
07:11And an owner who never wants to say die, even though you look around and you go,
07:16maybe at some point?
07:17But you need more than what you got to stay alive.
07:20You know, like, you say never say die, but I need more to keep this heartbeat.
07:27And I don't know if they're going to be able to get it.
07:28I hate the timing that this happened.
07:30You went on a run.
07:31You got yourself within reach.
07:33You were like within a game of the top of the AOS, and then something happened.
07:37It's like, hey, man, we finally got our account back in the black.
07:40You know what I mean?
07:41And it looks like we're going to be able to put some money in savings.
07:44And damn it, if that ain't the alternator.
07:45Yeah.
07:46What?
07:47It's always some stuff.
07:48It's always something, ain't it?
07:49Always some stuff.
07:50Oh, man.
07:51All right.
07:51There's an off day at the very least.
07:52You're in the loop right here on Sports Radio 610.
07:54I looked at the text line from the 281.
07:5687 ERA.
07:57That's almost one run per inning.
08:00Thank you for that very advanced math on the text line.
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