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00:00on kfh all right we welcome you back in here to sports daily jalen thompson in
00:07our royals uh insider you can find his work at the kc star on x at jalen thompson jalen
00:15i don't know where to begin so i'm going to begin with what's been bugging me since yesterday's
00:18historically bad loss why why why why go to matt strom in that situation why
00:30why would you do you have maybe baseball's best or one of the best left-handed believers
00:37you need one out you need to put out a fire he's a lefty why are you going to matt
00:46strom in that
00:46situation the short answer is that they only pitched two days in a row so you don't want to
00:53him a third day why and why they want to pitch have matt they have matt strom on the team
01:00and it's a 70 ra i know matt control is going to use his guys that's that's been his whole
01:07thing
01:08since he's got here so that brings up the next point is that is a change going to have to
01:14be made
01:15after this season and i know that's a hard question that nobody i hate i hate even asking that question
01:20to be perfectly honest with you that's a weird spot for you you talk to these guys every day
01:24but if the royals are really at the deadline running this back which is what everybody thinks they're
01:29going to do which is what you've been saying they're going to do for weeks can you run it back
01:33after the last two years of disappointment with matt cotrero yes because of the injuries if they didn't
01:42have the injuries and they were playing bad then you have a probably have a case but the injuries kind
01:47of safeguards him a little bit because look at the lineup that they wrote out there i mean no
01:55disrespect to the guys they have they're playing but you have guys like andrew ralasquez which is a
02:03really nice dude but he's out there playing josh rojas is out there playing tywa tobert out there
02:08playing i mean john rave was in center field and had two doubles yesterday mclofton is playing right
02:16field that's what you have out there it's kind of hard to be mad at matt patrero because all his
02:23pieces are hurt he has 14 people on the injury list right now huh yesterday the weirdest game you've
02:29seen that the weirdest finish you've seen yeah yeah yeah i i'll be honest with you i i i was
02:36done
02:37the story was done it was all good to go it was noah cameras night and the bullpen just ruined
02:44it for
02:44him and you know it's it's one of those things where you just hate it for you hate it for
02:51noah
02:51because that was just an awesome performance and to see the twins it i don't know if you guys like
02:58like you're driving down the road and you see a car crash and you don't want to look but you
03:03just
03:03know it's bad and you just have a feeling it's going to be bad and exactly what you thought it
03:09was when they brought matt strom and i was like he's going to get a home run that's just what
03:14he
03:14does i don't know what's wrong lucas earth say but that's but jalen that's why you don't bring in
03:18matt strom because we all know what's about to happen it's cody clemens the royal killer at the plate
03:24and you're bringing in the guy who gives up a home run and every appearance it feels like he comes
03:28out
03:29put anybody even if it's not lynch put literally anybody else out there and and then i i agree i'm
03:36agreeing with you but what the rose will say to that to counter your point will be well who do
03:42you
03:42want to face the left hand literally anybody else and i know but that's that's the thing though
03:48they're not they're not going to go against their analytical plan of lefties on on out there so throw
03:55a lefty in the face and i know it's really kind of crazy to do that but if you put
03:59john schreiber
04:00out there he sucks against lefty so and don't put john schreiber out there nate pearson just got
04:07there uh what's the uh mcgee just got there i mean is alex lang your closer or is alex lang
04:16not
04:16your closer because he didn't pitch the other day i understand but if we're gonna stick to our guns
04:22and never change anything alex lang's your damn closer how about put him out there i agree so
04:28by the line is they have no one in that bullpen that can save them they have no one and
04:35if they
04:35trade dan lynch they really will not have no it's what about salvador brez can he get you an out
04:41yeah let's get tyler tolbert the pitcher tyler tolbert in there he's gotten outs before we needed
04:45three pitches yesterday and we couldn't get it maybe one pitch
04:52yeah yeah no kidding one one more pitch uh the three-headed monster of ursig strom and lang
04:58uh is it going to work is it just broken like what what happened to lucas ursig you know all
05:05what happened to matt strom i think i saw something yesterday matt strom was like a top 10 reliever in
05:09baseball this season yeah as much as you want to get on matt the trail you got to get on
05:17100% agree
05:18yep because he as for as many at for the for the cole reagan's trade that he made which was
05:25great at
05:26the time in 2023 he gave away jonathan bowling he gave away evan sis for nothing i mean that's kind
05:34of that those two trades really stand out evan sis i don't know if you guys remember him but he's
05:39been pitching well with the pittsburgh pirates he traded him for bailey falter and bailey falter
05:43hasn't been up since may or april at that point in time whatever month it was he went down never
05:49came
05:49back he traded from jonathan bowling from matt strom and jonathan bowling is doing well and matt strom has a
05:54701 era lucas ursig does not have it right now and it's all mental it's in between his hands i
06:02don't
06:03know what what he can do to fix that but he just when he gets into trouble he unravels and
06:11i thought he
06:11was he got two outs in the ninth thing i was like oh this is going to be good right
06:15unraveled he hit a
06:17batter and then it just fell apart so i don't know i have no answer i don't know where they
06:22go well let's
06:23talk about the trade deadline then because okay we if the bullpen bullpen arms are moderately
06:31attainable not the high-end guys they'll be expensive which makes the daniel lynch decision
06:37hard i think you gotta trade that but is that something you think they should trade him
06:42i he's got control so i i think it's acceptable if they don't if they're running it back
06:51is maybe that's something though we should look for it that everyone talks about they got to get
06:56lineup pieces you always hear about that man with the development of jensen with the development of
07:03kags with the year nick lofton's having like i don't know if i'm subscribing to that i feel kind of
07:10okay about the lineup next year i wonder if with lane thomas and starling marty and some of these other
07:18guys that they'll certainly trade can you go get maybe younger a little more unproven
07:25bullpen guys who have good arms that you could maybe profile into effective relievers because
07:32everyone right now thinks they're going to target you know an outfielder a young bat or whatever
07:36they just drafted a dude out of slot because he might be available earlier maybe bullpen something
07:43they target at the deadline but not you know they're obviously not going to go get top names
07:47but they've been good at those mid-level trades over the years i don't know if i would trade for
07:53bullpen help at the deadline if i'm gonna if i'm gonna move lane thomas i want someone that can be
08:00a
08:00starting pitcher for me and provide innings because you don't have that next year you just don't i mean
08:05cole reagan's you don't know what he's going to be you don't even know if he might move to the
08:10bullpen honestly depending on dude's injury history uh you don't you have michael walker and
08:16steph lugo that's going to be in their mid they already are in their mid 30s they're going to be
08:21another year older how long will they keep it up so you got those are three guys right there then
08:26you
08:26have noah cameron who is is working hard getting his way back which is great but after that when their
08:33level is still kind of unproven you don't really have starters so i'm looking for starters if i'm the
08:38and you figure out the relievers you can get a journeyman and try to hopefully they set the tone
08:44or pitch well randy dobnak if we're really being honest right now it's probably the third best
08:50pitcher that the ross had with me uh when's the trade happening what's your prediction i hope it's
08:58not monday at the deadline i hope it's earlier than that it's gonna be monday at the deadline
09:04it'll be monday the deadline i i think especially after what we saw last year it does feel like
09:09they'll who who's who's for sure going lane thomas john driver starling marty yeah those are probably
09:17the top three guys that for sure are going to get shipped off because they're inspiring contracts
09:22right yeah at the time i would have said matt strombo and nobody's picking that up
09:27no have you heard anything on on uh chris bubich what like he's still working his way back he's in
09:34his throwing program so he's still progressing so but has it been good progression they can't trade
09:40him obviously now which is one of the major bummers um could if it if it goes slow would he
09:48come back on
09:48a one-year deal like he can't it's it's it's bottom value for the royals and it's kind of bottom
09:53value for
09:54him you know that's probably something that he would probably consider and i think the ross would
09:58consider that too a one-year prove it type of thing i mean i could see that from both sides
10:05but for right now boobich is he just started his throwing program um last week the week of july
10:1120th so he's got to get built back up again man i know monday bobby what junior gonna come back
10:21in
10:21the lineup tonight i don't know if he'll play tonight because you know it's a back they might
10:27first day eligible right am i right on is that timing right it's his first day eligible today yeah
10:31first day eligible today they might slow play it a little bit but depends on how he feels right but
10:37at this point why bring him back early when you're 18 games right under 500 right or whatever
10:44number is it's i mean he wanted to be healthy for the next season so i think you just let
10:51him get
10:52back easy to play him you know and he's not catching you on alvarez at this point no no no
10:58alvarez
10:59mvp race i don't i don't see it'd be with a team 18 games under five yeah i don't either
11:06i don't
11:07either was the salvi salvi home run was this week right i'm not making that up yeah it was in
11:12detroit yeah it was in detroit i was gonna say it feels like about 10 years ago now after what
11:16we
11:16went through yesterday uh the sad part about that is the rose could have swept the twins they got
11:21walked isn't that crazy they have been playing so well
11:27god i can't get over how maddening that was yesterday i mean monday's was monday's was annoying
11:35anybody trust lang eh not really the ryan lefevre's call i went back and watched it was so funny so
11:42good this is unbelievable but tj you're about to say something what are you about to say i said
11:47what was it like salvi's home run we haven't talked about that you know obviously i imagine they won the
11:52game too that was something you brought up that you know you don't want salvi to hit it in a
11:56loss
11:56my favorite part about that was him hugging miguel garcia when he ran around the bases
12:01you know like if for you for those that don't know miguel garcia is the one that gets salvi ready
12:06to go that's his guy that's salvi's guy for 20 years that he's been with him since he was came
12:11up in
12:12the dsl to make him uh summer league so there's a reason why salvi called him he was the second
12:19guy
12:19they've been through a lot together and salvi even said that he was like no disrespect to
12:27the hitting coaches but miguel garcia gets me going
12:31gets me right so i mean i love to see that so i thought that was pretty cool that relationship
12:36and then hearing from george brett he was at cooperstown by the hall of fame i just this whole
12:43thing about salvi being a first ballot hall of famer being a hall of famer i don't understand why
12:48this is a date it i don't he it and it's crazy too because he's so he's such a lovable
12:54baseball
12:54character i i think it'll stop people are it's the problem is jalen the nerds are being too nerdy
13:01about catcher analytics that's the problem i don't if if salvi who's got the gold gloves to back it up
13:09if he was the i listen mike piazza we didn't have this kind of conversation with yeah piazza was not
13:16a
13:16good catcher salvi is one of the best offensive catchers in the history of this game top five for
13:21sure if that should be enough on its own merit if you put down if you said he took his
13:27name off
13:27and he just listed out his accomplishments nine-time all-star five-time gold glover roberto
13:32clemente award winner two world series champion world series mvp oh top five gonna be top five
13:38home rusher catchers all time played with the same team his entire career yeah it's just i don't
13:45understand why it's silly it's because some nerd in new york's gonna say well it's advanced uh xbyq
13:51is only 22nd all time that's what it's gonna be i've had the discussion one of the few that i
13:59do have
13:59on social media i've been there it's a weird place we're like okay that's cute have you ever watched
14:05baseball before yes i might my argument with that is if joe mauer got in on first ballot then salvi
14:13should
14:13yeah uh jalen we appreciate it we're gonna have trades to discuss and break down the next time
14:20we talk uh we'll do it again next week follow jalen on social what's that do a special show next
14:27week
14:27that might be a good idea you know what well let's get a dead let's get a tuesday visit let's
14:32put it on
14:32the books we'll talk to jalen on tuesday we're coming
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