00:00We are also going to see one new—I don't understand what Toronto did at the trade deadline, Scott.
00:05Maybe you can help me.
00:06Why you're trading for Soriano is beyond me when, again, you can't hit water if you fell out of a
00:11boat.
00:12You're eight games or what?
00:14Yeah, eight games under .500, Blue Jays.
00:17They're taking on the Phillies, Zach Wheeler, $2 favorite, Philadelphia.
00:23And I'm having a hard time figuring out if I like the over here, seven-and-a-half at Citizens
00:28Bank Park here tonight.
00:30Yeah.
00:31You know, if you trade for Soriano, then you keep Gaussman, right?
00:34I mean, you don't—
00:35That's strange.
00:36If you're in first place, you can make a swap like that, but not when you're in last place and
00:41you've got to pick up ground if that's what you're doing.
00:43So, yeah, maybe that over seven-and-a-half.
00:46You know, Phillies, you know, they're so, like, inept at times, you know, batting.
00:51So, you know, you don't know really what you're going to get out of them.
00:53Wheeler, you know, good news, bad news, but Wheeler pitching tonight, Joe, is that he's only thrown five combined innings
00:58in his last two starts.
00:59One because he was awful, the other one because it was a rain delay in Baltimore, and they didn't bring
01:04him back after two innings.
01:05So, he only has five innings under his belt the last couple of weeks.
01:08Is that good?
01:09Is that bad?
01:10We don't know.
01:11Soriano debut.
01:12Is he happy he's with Toronto?
01:14You know, I used to play, and I have, again, this year, for the most part, anyway,
01:18these first appearances for these pitchers with these new clubs, and, you know, sometimes it works out.
01:23Other times it doesn't.
01:24It really is a 50-50 proposition.
01:26We saw Mize get lit up with Detroit or with San Diego, rather, the other day.
01:31So, I wouldn't use Soriano making his Toronto debut as any reason really to bet them.
01:36So, Philadelphia would be the play to me if he were going to play it.
01:41Yeah, you're right, because especially the guys that were pulled from their last start there, Scott,
01:47and were asked to, now they got extended rest.
01:50Like, you know, Mize hadn't pitched in 11 days.
01:53Like, what are you, Peralta got lit up.
01:55Like, what are you doing here?
01:57Like, you give a, these guys are creatures of habit.
02:00You're pulling them.
02:00They haven't pitched in, you know, 10, 11, 12 days, and that's exactly what you get there.
02:07And we'll see Zach Wheeler.
02:09I don't think the Blue Jays, but maybe a team total under for me with the Blue Jays,
02:13because I just can't see them scoring enough runs to even make that game competitive there.
02:18The Nationals, who traded away, well, just about their, two of their best hitters.
02:24The Phillies took advantage of them last night with seven doubles in the first three innings.
02:30We never seen anything like it, Scott.
02:31It was hysterical watching that game yesterday here on the show.
02:36But their best pitcher is still there, and that's Cade Cavalli.
02:40And he's taking on a Reds lineup that can, we don't really trust the Reds to score enough runs against
02:46him, do we?
02:48Yeah, I don't know what the Nationals did, Joe.
02:50They traded away one of their best young hitters, and then they traded away one of their best pitchers.
02:55You know, for a team that, you know, was still very much in a playoff hunt.
03:00You know, that was bizarre to me.
03:03I know both guys could be, you know, scrap heap reclamation projects, and both have come through this year.
03:08But, man, if you're in the playoff hunt like they were, what are you doing, right?
03:12And now they lose James Wood.
03:14He's got an oblique stranger.
03:16He's not going to be in the lineup tonight.
03:18They've lost nine of their last ten as Washington.
03:21You want to give me Cincinnati, you know, but small odds, basically pick them depending on where you do your
03:25shopping.
03:26I will take that even against Cavalli, who he said is their better pitcher right now.
03:30But still, Cincinnati, they did win three in a row.
03:34Maybe turning things around, the two games under .500, getting themselves back into the playoff picture.
03:39I'll take a shot on the Reds tonight.
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