00:00Two homers.
00:03Drove in another run late.
00:06What do you have, 10 total bases last night?
00:09I think his OPS jumped up 40 points last night.
00:14He had a big game.
00:18Here's your starting lineups today, guys.
00:21As the Astros are now in first place by a half a game.
00:26Pena leading off.
00:28Jordan Alvarez is the DH.
00:30Paredes is behind him.
00:33Altuve.
00:34Varsho had him a couple of hits.
00:36Drove in some runs.
00:36He's in the lineup again.
00:38He's in there.
00:40Christian Walker behind him.
00:42Taylor Trammell.
00:44Cam Smith, big triple last night.
00:46And catching tonight, Christian Vasquez.
00:52Who's catching?
00:54Christian Vasquez.
00:56Come on, Joe!
00:57Listen, I don't know.
00:59I don't care where you play him.
01:01I mean, I just, we got to ride that.
01:04We got to ride that Yiner-DH train one more time at the bottom of the order.
01:07I mean, somewhere.
01:10So, we got to ride it.
01:11I don't care.
01:12I don't.
01:12All right.
01:12If Peter is so comfortable with him, then maybe today is the day.
01:16And I can't believe I'm saying it.
01:17But today's the day that maybe we give your nine a little, a nine in left field.
01:22And maybe Yiner's the DH.
01:25Is that my boy Ron?
01:26I'm sorry.
01:27Anybody out of the top four gives you ten total bases and multiple home runs in a game,
01:36they play the next day.
01:38Yeah.
01:38You might want to think he's seeing it pretty well in that park.
01:43Yeah, I'm with you.
01:45I'm with you.
01:45This is an overthink.
01:46Come on, Joe!
01:48This is an overthink, boys.
01:49Once again, you would think that that little meeting with Jim Crane yesterday maybe would
01:54have changed some of this.
01:54You'd think that maybe some of this would have left the building with Dana Brown, but clearly
01:59it didn't.
01:59We've got to change the plan.
02:00I'm going to do the best I can.
02:01It's Joe.
02:01We've got to change the plan.
02:02I don't care if this was the plan walking in to the start of this series.
02:05No, we've got to change the plan here.
02:13Taylor's got to be a late game replacement.
02:17I'm just saying, we've got a lead, late game, best outfield out there.
02:21I just, because I really, I do, because I honestly, I believe whoever it is next year
02:28that's going to be the new general manager and manager.
02:32Like, to me, watching that game yesterday, Yiner Diaz has to stop becoming a, well, he
02:38can have a night guy.
02:41He's got to stop being a one-off guy.
02:44Like, they've got to figure out a way to get the best out of Yiner Diaz.
02:49Yeah, I think you've got a couple of those.
02:50Yeah, I think, I think, but he's got to be a priority in figuring out, all right, what
02:56is the best thing?
02:57Now, I told you what I think.
02:58They need to get his ass up out of that catcher spot.
03:00I know he threw somebody out yesterday at second base before the text line gets me.
03:03But they need to get, they need to get his ass up out of there.
03:06Now, I don't know if he goes play first base, whatever.
03:09They need to get him behind, from behind the plate, because if we're listening to what
03:13Jim Crane talked about yesterday when he was talking about his philosophy, and if he can
03:18still do things the way he's done things lately, which is, you know, hey, not giving out
03:24big, crazy free agent deals, not signing real long-term deals.
03:28And he responded with, I think we're watching some pretty good teams that don't have big
03:33payrolls have success.
03:37Something certainly we are studying very hard that we do spend money.
03:43But like, if you're going to beat this team, like you got to make some of these guys work.
03:48And you got a guy who, in 2023, hit over 280, 23 homers, OPS, 8, 4, 6, and 104 games.
04:01Backed it up the next year, hitting 316 homers, 84 RBIs, and 148 games.
04:07Hell, last year, 256, 20 homers, 70 RBIs.
04:10You've got, he should be the right-handed hitter with Jordan, to pair with Jordan.
04:16That's what we thought he was going to be, and they have got to figure out the best way
04:21to get that out of him, because they're not paying people.
04:23They've got three years of control of him.
04:25They've got to figure that out.
04:27But now he can't even play after he hits two home runs.
04:29You took the words right out of my mouth.
04:30I agree wholeheartedly with you, but you got guys that can't even just,
04:34they can't wake up in New York and go, hey, man, the kid's clearly seeing it well.
04:42He clearly feels good at the plate.
04:43He's got a ton of confidence, man.
04:44Let's give him some more swings.
04:49Again, you're not dealing with the Astro lineups of old that you're pulling out.
04:57I mean, you're literally putting in, and look, Vasquez is fine,
04:59but to your point, we're really talking about Tramiel,
05:02and we're talking about some of these other guys.
05:03You could massage the lineup in a way that it doesn't take Vasquez
05:07out of the catcher position.
05:09I just don't get it.
05:11I hate this about Joe Espada.
05:12You had to have nine runs.
05:15Like, listen, I ain't going to say it.
05:16I mean, we all know that last night's not sustainable.
05:19You're going to just keep falling down and giving up leads
05:21and having to fight back.
05:22They needed nine runs, and he was a huge part of that.
05:27Come on, Joe!
05:28I'm just saying, this is asinine to me.
05:31Maybe some baseball people, no, that's not big of a deal.
05:33They had a game plan.
05:34No, this is crazy to me.
05:35He's got to play again today.
05:37Not with the other options.
05:38Not the other guys you're throwing up against the wall.
05:41He's got to get in the lineup today.
05:44Christian Walker, he could take a night off.
05:47Vasquez can take a night off.
05:49You know, Pete, you're going to have to get it together.
05:51I don't care how much you want to throw it to him.
05:53It's not like you're going to go more than five anyway.
05:55I'm sorry, Pete.
05:56Hey, man, get off Big Pete, man.
05:58He's been doing a good.
05:59I just.
06:00Hold on, Joe!
06:00The best thing we had all year long.
06:01What the hell wrong with you?
06:02They got to figure out how to get the best out of this dude moving forward.
06:06That's got to be a priority for the general manager and manager.
06:09It should be a priority for the next 30 games.
06:11That too.
06:12But definitely, but Joe ain't going to be here next year.
06:13They should have been involved in a meeting.
06:15Well.
06:16Here's what you've got to do, Joe.
06:18Joe ain't going to be here.
06:19Cam and Yair need to be in the lineup.
06:22In Atlanta.
