The Shrewdness covers the latest baseball season highlights, including standout players like Mason Miller and Jordan Walker, and discusses the Kansas City Royals' struggles and prospects. Tune in for in-depth analysis, player stats, and insights into team performances and upcoming call-ups. In this lively episode, the hosts analyze baseball strategies, dissect the Masters golf tournament, and explore innovative sports concepts like amateur competitions at Augusta. They share insights on team dynamics, player performance, and the future of sports entertainment.
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Hello, hello and welcome to the Shrewdness up here with Decks
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and Chizz. As usual, welcome to the show.
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We have what is affectionately known as a Seinfeld show.
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That's right, we do not have a ton to talk about because the
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Royals are off to a terrible start.
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So we're going to talk about that a little bit.
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We're going to talk to about some other Major League teams
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and players that are off to a hot start.
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We we did a few weeks ago. Some of those players are still
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on the list and there's some new kind of emergers as a as a first
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couple weeks of the season's gotten under way here.
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So we're going to spend some time talking about that.
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Chiz is going to give us a quick Masters recap.
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Woo. Hoo and Rory McIlroy with his
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back wins, which is pretty unheard of.
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We'll hit on that a little bit and then we'll see what else we
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decide to talk about tonight. You never know.
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You'd never know. That's why you got to listen to
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the whole show, because you don't know what kind of crazy
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crap we're going to throw in. So yeah, you got to just, you
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got to stick it, you know? Big fat TBD on the end of that
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agenda. Bob and weave.
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It's kind of like the the Harry Potter and those Jelly beans
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where you might get it might be caramel.
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Or this might be poop. You don't.
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Really know we're going to give it a whirl.
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Lemon or snot, I don't know. Good luck.
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Yeah. We're trying to hit the fruit.
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Flavors all I know is that the kids still buy the box, so
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hopefully you guys get out there and listen to.
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The they do, absolutely. All right, let's start with some
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baseball boys. Yeah.
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All right, so there's some very fun stats and fun memes have
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been going around. And one of the ones that we
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looked at, it's just I just went and double checked it to make
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sure it's still accurate. It is Mason Miller, closer for
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the Padres. This is his pitching line this
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year. 7 and a third innings pitched.
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One hit, 19 strikeouts. He's thrown 20 total balls like
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balls and strikes just the. Strikeouts 19.
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Strikeouts. Less than once per batter.
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Yeah, and he's walked one guy, so 2 batters have come in out of
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22. And I think, Pruitt said.
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The 19 strikeouts and two ground balls.
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Yeah, it was 70. Extent of his.
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Out of his out of his last 18 batters, he's had 17 strikeouts
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and one ground out. Yeah, that is just filthy.
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It is dumb. Lights.
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Maybe one of the best stretches ever in history.
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Like you can't get better than that.
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No 3. People have done something other
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than strike out against him this season. 3.
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What? That is an insane line.
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It is one of the most historically great starts of a
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ever. I don't know.
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I've never even heard of anything like this.
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This is this is stupid. No.
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So good job, Mason Miller. I hope he's on your fantasy
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team. Ironically, only has four saves.
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This is just they're they're either winning big or yes, you
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know, that's or not winning, yeah, or not winning.
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In the four close games he closed out.
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So that's kind of what's up. So Mason Miller a good one.
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Here's another shockingly good feel good story, especially if
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you're a Cardinals fan. We hit on him last week.
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But Jordan Walker has not slowed up.
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He is your Major League leader in home runs with eight, right?
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And he had just hit home runs in three games in a row.
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He's still playing tonight. It's going to be wrapping up
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soon, but he doesn't have one yet.
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But his line right now, 333 with a 1 OPS.
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Now let's put this in perspective.
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So 2025, he finished with a a OPS.
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Yeah, not slug on base. Plus slugging was 584.
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He was horrible. They're thinking he's a flop at
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at 22 years old, which is kind of a flop of 22.
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So this year it is age 23 season, maybe 24.
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I don't I can't remember what his birthday is.
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He is his start is on pace. Only four other people in
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Cardinals history have had a better start than him regarding
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home runs in this many games. Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen,
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Martin McGuire, Stan Musial, That's the list.
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And Jordan Walker, that's. Pretty decent company to be
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sitting amongst yeah, I was just, I just said the pace.
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So he's on pace for 76 home runs.
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I. Started to say close to 80.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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So. Why the other game?
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So props to Driveline Academy. I mean, I guess that crap works.
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Yeah. He goes there over the winter,
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comes back. What's funny, he's only batted
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like 150 in spring training, so maybe he just wouldn't.
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I don't know what he's working on.
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He shows up in the Major League season.
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I was like, oh, I need to just turn my thumb a little to the
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right. I don't know what he did, but
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suddenly he's knocking stuff in the fountains everywhere he
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goes. He's knocking him through the
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arch in Saint Louis. Yeah.
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Jordan Walker. And wow, if we can find that.
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He's a fun story. He's a fun story, Right.
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So wanted to do Jordan Walker. Heck of a start.
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You got some. Cheer.
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Oh, there. It is, yeah.
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Hey there it. Is that's the cheering?
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There you go. Jordan all.
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Right, another. So this one's spanning over from
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last season and he's kind of for you.
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Don't forget, it's just take it for granted show, hey, Otani,
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how good he is. He has been on base 47 straight
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games dating back to last season.
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I mean, he's so good at taking pitches, getting walks, getting
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his batting for average. And we'll see if you can do it
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every game. But at some point he's got to
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end. But I just thought, wow, got to
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highlight greatness when you see it, because sometimes when
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you're in the middle of it, the record.
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Is. For that I mean I would say
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history is 56. I don't know the on base all can
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be much more than that, but Barry Bonds had to have gotten a
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ridiculously high that season when he walked 170 times or
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something and he batter 320. Is Ted Williams.
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Ted Williams 84 consecutive games.
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Well, my goodness, 84 games. The Splendid Splinter. 8 It has
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lasted for 75 years. So that's got a ways to go
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Shohei, but you're on your on your way, but.
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You're halfway. That's.
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Pretty. Impressive.
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That is pretty awesome. So Shohei a tiny.
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I hope he gets it. Keep on going man.
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I want to see history because frankly, he is the best player
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in our game right now. Interestingly, he he just passed
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Ichiro Suzuki. Really.
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Who had a 43 game streak? Back and his was all hit, you
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know? Yeah.
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Ichiro wasn't walking. He wasn't.
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Walking so that. Was yeah, you had to hit him to
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put him on base rather than hit. Right.
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That's right. Bounce him right?
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All right, another fun start and we talked about this too, but
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Mike Trout, that is so fun when he's healthy.
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It's so fun when he's vertical. Love him.
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Not in a brace, but he had his 5th home run tonight.
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He's at 896 OPS to start the season.
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The average is a little load like 222 or something, but it's
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early seeing Mike Trout with it, nearly a 900 OPS and still
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vertical, right? That's all I want to see.
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I want to see a healthy Mike Trout season.
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I love I love watching him play. He's just a lot of.
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Fun, absolutely. Three hit game and he'll be back
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to where he should be. Yeah, exactly.
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It doesn't take much in April. He's early.
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It's early. It's early, yeah.
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Early April you can get by with stuff all right.
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There's another fun one the the best records in the American
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League. You know, we gave our kind of
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what we thought who would be the division leaders and we have the
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Yankees. I don't I.
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Don't remember that dex. Not on either.
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Oh yeah. But maybe that was just, you
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know, during the Patreon. I certainly didn't take the Red
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Sox to. The Yankees.
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Well, I, I may have done that one, but if you just kind of
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look through the standings, you may be surprised that two AL
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Central teams not named the Royals or the two best records
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in the American League, the Minnesota Twins.
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I don't know how. I I don't know how.
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And the Cleveland? Guardians.
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Finished close to the White Sox, yes.
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Yeah, but Minnesota has been killing left-handed pitching and
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one for throwing them. Garrett Crochet destroyed him.
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Framer Valdez destroyed him. Terek Schuble destroyed him.
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I don't know how they're doing it, but yeah, good for them.
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And Byron Buxton, I mean, heck, he went four for 5:00 tonight
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with two home runs, right? He gets second ones, another 400
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foot shot. So Bucks leading the charge
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again. The pitching is, I don't know
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how they're doing it. That's why.
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That's why baseball's fun exciting because you have the
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paper matchups. Tarek Skubal versus the Twins.
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You think easy? No, just kidding.
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Garrett Crochet, Cy Young favorite this evening.
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Crochet gave us. Like.
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Nine runs or something in the first or inning, in a third or
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some crazy number, just. Blew him up, blew him up.
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And so it's just interesting how these things are happening.
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And then Cleveland. What's interesting about that is
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until yesterday, the Cardinals series, Jose Ramirez has done
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nothing, nothing. And they're still the best
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record in the AL right in the last two games.
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He he started off with the first inning home run tonight and he
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had a double yesterday. So he's heating up just in time.
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So there goes Cleveland again. Every year we want to write them
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off because you look down the roster and all you see is Jose
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Ramirez. Like, how can one guy carry the
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team? You look at the pitching like,
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who are these guys? Yeah.
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And then they're just like the Milwaukee Brewers.
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They just win all the time. I don't get it.
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And like the Tampa Bay Rays, who you know, we wrote off early in
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the season, said, Oh yeah, well, they're clearly the worst team
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in the AL ES. So of course they're first 9:00
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and 7:00. So you're right.
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Like it it you just don't know. And especially counting out of
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the gates, it's really interesting because you know,
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there's that old saying you you can't win the division in the
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first month, that you can lose the division in the.
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First, yes. And there's, but I will say this
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year is the first time that I can remember in a long time that
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like the teams are all tightly bunched.
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Like it is there is the worst, the worst record out there right
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now is 6 and 11, OK, which is not good.
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But like, that's not horrible for 17 games.
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We've seen much worse, Yeah, through 17 games.
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Like, you know, usually a lot of like one for.
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Yeah, one for, two for. Like the White Sox and Rockies
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and Orioles, like the last couple years, have started with
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less than five wins for the first month.
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Like 3 and 15 or. Something yeah, the Orioles last
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year, yeah. And like, and the White Sox were
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like on a historic pace there for a while to be like the worst
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team ever. And so you're right, the and the
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best records, you know, the Twins are 11 and seven and.
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And then in the National League, not surprising the Dodgers are
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12:00 and 4:00. But.
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They're the they gotta look past them.
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They're the they're the only one that's like that though.
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Like 12 and four. Everyone else is really bunched
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between like 7:10 and 11:00 and 7:00.
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That's kind of like all of the major leagues right now, which
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is which kind of fun because I hate it when surprising.
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Yeah, it's surprising. And you hate it when like, like
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a team just becomes like non competitive in the first month.
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And then it's just like beat. They're just a, you know, the
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whipping dummy for everybody just to go in and just beat the
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crap out of it. And that that's not really
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entertaining. That's not fun for anybody.
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No, no, you've got you've got everybody kind of lumped
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together, which is, which is good for baseball, I think.
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I think so too. And so that leads.
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So the call UPS. So if you don't follow baseball
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too much, you know, there's like random dates or like, oh, why do
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these people suddenly get called up?
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Well, it's about service time and manipulating service time
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for these younger players so they have team control and get
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that extra year. So next week is one of those
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weeks when some of these big name prospects may be getting
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the call. So a few that I'm highlighting I
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think are the ones that have the best shot to get called up for
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their respective teams. So Charlie Condon, we talked
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about him in spring training, posted a video of him going yard
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at the game I went to so far down and AAA is batting 325 with
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a a 1113 OPS got four home runs. So he's looking like the golden
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spikes winner out of Georgia. They drafted him I think number
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two or three overall at a couple years ago and he's finally
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healthy and he looks like, oh, I have a really good hitter.
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I forgot I was the best player in college a couple seasons ago.
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So I feel like. How long if you're Colorado?
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Come on, man. Why are you not calling up the
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power hitter? You drank, right, For exactly
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this reason. You picked a college bat to be
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faster to the majors. Yeah.
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So I've got to believe Charlie Conan may be coming up and
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that'll be fun for everybody. He's a big kid.
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I think he's, what, 6566 he's? He's huge.
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He's a he's a big kid. Yeah.
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So that'll be 1 I think is going to be getting the call up pretty
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soon and nothing to lose for Colorado.
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Like, oh, no, I got to bench this random scrub guy.
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Oh, no. Dang, right.
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I think he'll be there. Another one for Detroit, though.
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The Tigers have quite a few young prospects, but the the
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biggest one is Max Clark, the outfielder.
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Yep. And he's absolutely earned a
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call up, but they won't do it yet, probably not till next
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week. But he's off to a 352439-ON
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base, 976 OPS with eight double s and six stolen bases to start
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his campaign this year. Nice.
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He's ready, man. He's ready.
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And all those double s will probably be triples in Comerica.
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That's a deep stadium. The Max Clark's another one,
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Colt Emerson. So he's, I think one of the top
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five prospects in baseball, especially after Conor Griffin
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got called up last week. So for the Seattle Mariners, So
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right now they have Cole Young at second base, but Cole Emerson
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is someone that could easily scoop that spot.
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Cole's doing all right. He's holding his own, but he's
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off to two 65321 and a 729 OPS. So he's off to a good start, not
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great. They may just kind of keep him
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down till he starts heating up. But there's a guy that last year
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across 3 levels with 281388-ON base, 842 OPS, 16 home runs, 78
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RB is. So this is a legitimate top
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prospect they can hit and he will help the Mariners offense.
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Then the last guy I want to hit on is Bryce Eldridge for the San
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Francisco Giants. So this guy is tearing it up.
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He is batting 360 with a 492 on base and a 1012 OPS, 5 double s.
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Home run is 10 walks already too.
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I mean 19 KS but ten walks. So you can kind of take that
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when you're on bases closing on 500 through the first few weeks
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of a season. So those are the call UPS, I
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think, especially if you're playing fantasy and they're out
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there and available, may want to just take a look stashing some
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rando reserve guy that you may or may not even play.
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Yep, I would roll the dice. Some of these guys, depending on
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what you got, especially be about field or first base needs.
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Those are probably the ones come up the most Nice.
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So and then I want to hit the one that did get called up.
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So today. So Noah Schultz, Chicago White
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Sox is comp to Chris Sale and Randy Johnson.
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Those are the comps that people have thrown his way.
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Really tall lefty comes from the side angle and he had his Major
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League debut tonight and well welcome to the majors.
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He's been dominating in AAA. So the the reason they sent him
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up, he's had 14 innings, he's 3 and O 129 ERA.
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He's only allowed four hits this season, two walks to 19 KS.
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So he didn't need to do anything else in the minors.
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So the White Sox brought him up and tonight went four in the
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third innings, three hits, four runs, three earned, four walks
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and four KS. So that's kind of his bugaboo as
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the control, much like Chris Sale and Randy Johnson when they
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came up sometimes he's that's right, tall lefties that come
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from the side do not have pinpoint control.
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Yeah, that is his issue as well. But obviously his 19 KS to two
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walks in AAA this season. So like, well, maybe he figured
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it out. Major League hitters will lay
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off the junk. Let's see, they just.
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Watched. No, it's not terrible. 77 base
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runners and four and a third. Yeah, I mean, frankly, he did
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better than Trevor Rogers, who is the number one for Baltimore
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this year. Yeah, and I think it's going to
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be someone to keep watching. I'm certainly not dumping him.
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I pick. I have him in my league.
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Noah Schultz, I think he's going to be really, really good.
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But that's what one start looks like.
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So I think we'll see what he does on Sunday for start #2 and
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go from there. But this kind of fun, Paul
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Steins that didn't have a very good first start either, so.
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That's right, that's true. He he's doing all right.
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And then since then, he's been OK, yeah, he's been all right.
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So all right, I want to turn it over to some Royals though for
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you guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, it's also interesting. I did want to throw out a couple
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interesting, Yeah, the interesting injuries and some
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moves that have happened this last week.
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If you if you have a first baseman named Ryan Mountcastle
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on your team, should not long no longer be on your fantasy team.
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60 day. He's got a left foot fracture.
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He's going to be out for a while.
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Ouch, I didn't know they put him on the 60.
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That's. 60 They've been on the 60 A couple interesting guys,
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Old, old, old names that could be interesting to track.
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The Blue Jays have promoted Eloy Jimenez.
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Remember Eloy? Back from the dead white Cubs.
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Prospect really. He was at the Yeah he is.
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He is back with Toronto. So they just called him up a
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couple days ago. So it'll be interesting to watch
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there. A really interesting move that
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happened like 3 days ago. Remember Craig Kimbrel anyone?
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Oh my God. From Atlanta.
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Yeah, I didn't know he was still playing.
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Yeah, yeah. As a grandson.
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In the league with the Mets. Is this junior?
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Kimbrough Junior. Right.
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The Mets called him up, and then just as we transitioned to
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Royals, I thought it was only fair to give a shout out to Old
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Friend Alert, the guy who probably pitched about a total
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of 2 innings in the time we had him.
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Hunter Harvey. Hunter Harvey a lot of potential
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big arm signed with the Cubs and is promptly on the 15 day
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injured list with a right tricep inflammation so.
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We are familiar with that aspect of Hunter Harvey.
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It's good to know that Hunter Henry hasn't changed just
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because he put on a new uniform and it wasn't just a a vendetta
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against the Royals. He just.
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Yeah, sometimes. They put your arm through those
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sleeves like oh, right. Oh, tweak it.
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Oh, OK, to put the uniform on. Absolutely.
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That's exactly we did. Let's talk about the Royals,
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Prue. What do you see it here?
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I mean. Yeah, I've got some kind of
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concerning stats to share. Let me throw some out there and
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then we can we can discuss as a group.
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Because of the as of the time is filming, just for perspective,
00:18:18
the Royals are 7 and 10 or 3 1/2 games back.
00:18:20
It's not time to, you know, freak out yet, however.
00:18:24
But they're not off to the start we were hoping for for sure 7
00:18:27
and 10 record. The pitching is off to a hot
00:18:30
start. So I'll, I'll start with some
00:18:32
some high. Start with the.
00:18:33
Positive. Yeah, some high, high
00:18:36
highlights. Starting rotation is awesome.
00:18:39
Our starting pitching has eight quality starts in 17 games.
00:18:43
Pretty good, yeah. Take it #2 through #5 starters
00:18:49
are six and two, with 68 KS to 20.
00:18:53
Two walks. Dang.
00:18:55
Excellent. They've allowed 16 earned runs
00:18:58
in 72 innings for a 198 ERA. That's pretty elite 1. 98.3
00:19:05
years, 2 through 5. 2 through 5 starters combined.
00:19:09
One's got to be better, right? The number one starter has
00:19:14
struggled a bit. He pitched better today.
00:19:17
Yeah. Hopefully he's turning the
00:19:18
corner. Yeah.
00:19:22
So Reagan's is dragging that total down a little bit.
00:19:24
But still, overall, the Royals pitching staff, their starting
00:19:28
pitching staff has been. Starting.
00:19:30
That's the key. Yeah, has been very solid as we
00:19:34
suspected they would be, right? That's that's why we thought
00:19:37
they would compete this year was leaning on their part starting
00:19:40
pitching and that's proven true so far.
00:19:42
Bullpen has been a little suspect.
00:19:44
I didn't put down their stats, but I know they've already blown
00:19:49
several leads. Yes, including tonight, Stavez
00:19:53
has. Been you know, he appeared once,
00:19:56
gave up a ton of runs and then went on the.
00:19:58
IL. Did that Hunter Harvey.
00:20:00
Yes. IL stint he.
00:20:01
Was I think he's rehabbing now and should be back with the team
00:20:05
here shortly. Hopefully he's going to turn the
00:20:07
corner and and be helpful. Probably more of a mental rehab
00:20:11
that he was going. Through after that it could be
00:20:13
like so. Bullpen has definitely not
00:20:18
helped the cause much, but really the big story is the
00:20:22
bats. Yeah, what bats.
00:20:24
What bats brew? It turns out you need bats.
00:20:27
We have bats to play baseball. We have forgotten ours.
00:20:31
The Royals in 17 games have scored 54 runs, which is 3.2 a
00:20:37
game, which is that's pretty bad.
00:20:40
But when you when you consider that they scored 21, ran 21 runs
00:20:46
in two of those games they have scored they have scored 30,
00:20:50
three runs in 15 games for a solid 2.2 per game.
00:20:57
But at least like our leaders like Salvador Perez are probably
00:20:59
doing, all right aren't. They Pasquatch.
00:21:02
He's killing it, isn't he? Yeah, so that your veterans who
00:21:05
should be at least contributing something, are both hitting
00:21:08
under 200. No, Pruitt, they're both under
00:21:11
160, yes. That's under. 200 Perez 159 on
00:21:18
base at least is 2/21. I was trying to be nice but.
00:21:23
Yeah, we got to make it. Really.
00:21:25
Really. Bad Vinny Vinny Three home runs
00:21:28
in one game in the World Baseball Classic.
00:21:30
Zero home runs in 17 games for the Kansas City Royals.
00:21:33
Yeah, but he does have a double. Is one has double double.
00:21:42
Double singular. Which is 1 less than Starling
00:21:45
Marte who's. And Jay Melendez back.
00:21:51
So Pasquatch 159 slugging percentage.
00:21:55
I didn't even know you can go that low.
00:21:58
So if you're if you're following the Royals at all on Instagram,
00:22:02
you probably have seen the Bobby Woods.
00:22:04
Judging by the attendance, you're not.
00:22:08
The Bobby Wood junior meme that's floating around today.
00:22:12
He has scored one run this year, one after leading the Royals the
00:22:17
last at least two years, and runs scored, right?
00:22:21
Yeah. He's been on base 16 times by
00:22:25
hit. He also has ten walks on top of
00:22:28
that, so he's been on base 26 times.
00:22:32
He's stolen 8 bases and I think out of those 16 hits he's had
00:22:36
three double s. So he's been.
00:22:37
In scoring position at least 11 times and because Vinny and
00:22:44
Salvi are batting behind him and both hitting 160 or less, he has
00:22:48
scored once, which is atrocious kind.
00:22:51
Of unbelievable. Let let me throw.
00:22:53
Let me throw out my my nominee for offensive player of the year
00:22:57
right now for the Kansas City Royals.
00:22:59
There's only one. Kyle Isbell.
00:23:02
He is leading the team in batting average at three O 8.
00:23:08
He has two home runs, four stolen bases.
00:23:13
You know OPS of 873 right now, which is the best on the team.
00:23:19
What the hell in the in the 9 hole Maybe he should be batting
00:23:26
4th or 3rd at this point. Let's.
00:23:29
Give let's give Bobby some protection with Kyle.
00:23:31
Isbell, right? I mean, at least Kyle Isbell
00:23:33
could bunt him over to 3rd and then maybe somebody could knock
00:23:38
him in. Like it is a I've watched
00:23:41
several games, unfortunately, I've watched several games and
00:23:46
you know, the lead, the team leader, like they move the
00:23:49
fences in everybody. Yeah, the.
00:23:51
Fences have been moved in and as a team right now they have 13
00:24:00
home runs and 17 games. It's.
00:24:03
Probably because the weather's been so cold in Kansas City.
00:24:06
Oh, wait. Yeah, like 80s.
00:24:08
Yeah, maybe I will say the one bright shining star, Carter
00:24:13
Jensen. I mean, he's only hitting 222,
00:24:15
but he has four home runs already.
00:24:16
Team leader. He he's legit in.
00:24:20
Terms of Michael Garcia, let's not forget about him.
00:24:23
So he's like a legitimate 1 and it looks like last year was not
00:24:27
in a mirage. So this year he's he's, he's
00:24:30
our, he's the best bat on the team.
00:24:32
He's A288360 on base 815 OPS. He's done the opposite.
00:24:37
Eight walks to 11 KS so he's getting on space.
00:24:40
He scored ten runs I think already too, yeah.
00:24:42
Yeah, he has more than everyone else combined.
00:24:44
Yeah. So it's just it's only him.
00:24:47
And he's knocked himself in twice with two homers and he has
00:24:49
five double s, too. Yeah.
00:24:51
I mean, a 455 slug for Garcia, that's great.
00:24:54
So it's really good. So I think that's the lone spot
00:24:58
other than Kyle is Bell got you, but Michael Garcia.
00:25:01
Is we all know that. We know that Isabel's not in,
00:25:03
That's the thing. One's a mirage, one's not.
00:25:05
One's a mirage. The thing that's most concerning
00:25:08
to me is when you take Vinnie Pasquantino, Jack Caglion and
00:25:14
Bobby Witt Junior, they have a combined zero home runs.
00:25:17
Vinny Pasquantino, Bobby Witt Junior and Jack Haglione have
00:25:21
zero home runs in 17 games between the three of them.
00:25:26
They need an espresso machine. Espresso machine.
00:25:29
Espresso machine would help. They did.
00:25:32
The game I went to is one of the the the one in the rain that
00:25:36
they scored thirteen runs miraculously more rain.
00:25:38
More Rain games. Jack Jack hit one off the 410
00:25:42
sign. Yes, he did.
00:25:43
Dead. Center.
00:25:44
So he's hit the ball plenty hard, just he hit it to the
00:25:48
deepest part of the park. Didn't bring the fence in far
00:25:50
enough. That's right, they didn't.
00:25:53
Bring. This in, Yeah, he's got 4 double
00:25:56
S out of his eleven hits, but yeah, 17 KS.
00:26:01
He's still striking out a lot. Did he strike it out a lot?
00:26:06
17 KS for him. Like I have to, I have to ask
00:26:11
the question, at what point do they say we have a hitting coach
00:26:17
problem? There's not talent issues here.
00:26:20
These people should be hitting the ball.
00:26:22
Yeah, the problem is that they're too.
00:26:25
In my opinion, this is Cruz, you know, uneducated.
00:26:28
At Editorial. Yeah.
00:26:31
The game I went to, it was, you know, pouring down rain most of
00:26:36
the game and the Royals are out there just hacking away at the
00:26:39
first pitch every at bat. Yeah, I'm like, the dude has
00:26:42
thrown, you know, 7 out of the last 9 pitches has haven't been
00:26:46
a ball, right? Why are you?
00:26:48
Why are you just? Stop helping, Yeah.
00:26:50
Why are you giving away 10? On on being that aggressive and
00:26:54
going after first pitches all the time.
00:26:55
Salvi and Salvi's been that way forever.
00:26:57
But oh, he's always that way. He's.
00:26:59
Just like you cannot throw a ball bad enough for him to not
00:27:02
swing at it. No, Salvi, he is.
00:27:04
He's going to be who he is at this point.
00:27:06
You know what you're getting. And usually the numbers average
00:27:09
out and it's like he'll come back and he'll have a real hot
00:27:11
streak. Whatever.
00:27:12
Yeah, but Alex Zumwalt, who is the senior director of hitting
00:27:16
performance, and that's his official title.
00:27:20
And hitting coach, I don't know what those are.
00:27:22
Those are different. Evidently hitting performance is
00:27:26
different than the hitting coach, but like when you have
00:27:29
this line up that we looked at and we're like this is the best
00:27:31
offensive lineup should. Be that in a long time.
00:27:34
That we've had in a long time to have this kind of results has to
00:27:37
make you question. I know quiter, I know that I
00:27:39
know that he is loyal, you know, and he tends to keep guys
00:27:45
around, but I don't know, man, how much longer can you go?
00:27:49
And here's the other thing, like do something different, like
00:27:52
stop strolling out those that lineup every time.
00:27:54
So today they tried a little bit they they moved, they moved
00:27:58
Vinny to the five hole. He had been in the three hole
00:28:01
because right now three and four between Vinny and Salvy, it has
00:28:04
just been a black hole of death. So you can't have that.
00:28:09
So they tried mixing that up a little bit tonight.
00:28:12
I saw, you know, didn't produce any results, obviously.
00:28:16
So I don't know what the trick is here, but like you got to, I
00:28:22
feel like this is one of those you just got to like shake
00:28:24
something up like for a couple games, just be like, screw it,
00:28:28
we're going to have, we're going to have, whereas Salvi's leading
00:28:31
off and you know, Bobby's sitting 9th and let's see what
00:28:34
the hell happens. Like I feel like you just got to
00:28:36
get in their heads a little bit like, because I, I think what
00:28:39
happens now is what you inevitably see is now they're
00:28:42
pressed. So it's like like we should be
00:28:44
scoring more runs and then they get more aggressive and they're
00:28:46
at bats. And then, you know, it's like
00:28:50
making bad outs, making bad choices.
00:28:52
So they they need a stretch of a couple games where they just
00:28:55
stop thinking about it and just go out and like have fun and and
00:28:59
yeah. Right now you can almost hear
00:29:00
the natural losing is a disease, yes, as contagious as syphilis.
00:29:06
Totally. That's exactly right.
00:29:08
Hear the the mental coach going in there and the psychology like
00:29:13
see ball hit ball man, they need to go and simplify this thing
00:29:15
wait for your pitch. Stop reaching, stop giving away
00:29:18
at bats. Yeah, but it's also April 14th.
00:29:23
It is. So we also need to maybe give
00:29:26
more than 17 games. It's until we say they can't hit
00:29:30
'cause I feel like, and we were saying to certainly Patreon, I
00:29:32
feel like we could play last year's early April versions of
00:29:37
our Royals update. The same.
00:29:39
The exact same to include Benny Pascontino sucking.
00:29:42
We were talking about sending them to the minors last year.
00:29:44
I remember specifically I'm like, maybe he needs to get some
00:29:47
time in AAA right right back and soon thereafter he started just
00:29:53
roping the ball well and. Historically, like I don't know
00:29:56
why, but the team in general is like this every year.
00:30:00
It feels like it's slow starting.
00:30:02
It feels like they have a slow start.
00:30:04
When it gets warmer, they get hotter and they start hitting
00:30:07
the ball better and then inevitably, like by the end of
00:30:10
the season, it seems like they're playing really good ball
00:30:11
offensively. Yep, making up the lost time
00:30:15
and. It's like, can you, can you not
00:30:17
dig yourself a hole? That's the like, how big of a
00:30:20
hole do you? You don't have to go before you
00:30:23
like, you don't have to get off to a hot star.
00:30:25
Just don't get off to a terrible start.
00:30:27
Right. Stay around 500 for 11.
00:30:30
Yeah, just stay there. That's all they do.
00:30:32
They do just hang around 500 and and weather the storm and
00:30:37
hopefully you know, they can do it.
00:30:39
But it's it has been incredibly disappointing, especially given
00:30:43
how good the starting pitching is.
00:30:44
Like do not waste this rotation because this for like, yeah.
00:30:47
And. It's.
00:30:50
It's a they scored, they scored thirteen runs the game that I
00:30:53
went to and they've scored 13 more the last seven games. 7.
00:30:57
Seven games, 13 runs, that's not going to win much.
00:31:00
So if you, if you think about it too, I hate to say this, but I'm
00:31:04
going to this is the this is a, this is a kind of a rotation
00:31:08
that if you could make the playoffs, you can win series
00:31:12
because your rotation is so good, because in the in and when
00:31:15
you get in the playoffs, there's a pitching wins, pitching wins
00:31:17
in the playoffs short. Series for sure if.
00:31:19
You could just get in with these guys.
00:31:22
I do want to say a couple things about Cole Reagan's.
00:31:25
What I'm seeing with Cole Reagan's, like, here's the
00:31:27
problem with the Reagan's. Reagan's is a swing and miss
00:31:30
guy, right? That's his deal.
00:31:31
But we've talked about this before with him, and I still
00:31:34
think it's true today. Tonight, he had a great start.
00:31:36
He had six innings. He one hit, but he only had one
00:31:42
strikeout and he had like four walks.
00:31:44
Yeah, so he's trying to be too fine with his pitches and his
00:31:50
stuff is good enough. Like he doesn't need to be.
00:31:53
He doesn't need to be. If he would just throw more
00:31:55
strikes consistently, go deeper in the game, he's got an
00:31:58
incredible defense behind him. Yep, what?
00:32:01
Let let's go. Gloves all over the place.
00:32:03
Right, right. So something just seems a little
00:32:06
off of them to start. I hope nobody took him for Cy
00:32:08
Young or in terms of where, where that's going because I, I
00:32:14
feel like, you know, he's just showing he's a little bit still
00:32:18
inconsistent. He needs to be more consistent
00:32:20
as the one. So let's go the.
00:32:35
And that's to the first of the season when you're not stretched
00:32:39
out. We don't do those anymore.
00:32:51
Like, whoa, what is this thing? Right.
00:32:53
Woolly mammoth. I thought these were extinct.
00:32:55
And they are. He didn't get to finish his
00:32:58
complete game. They just don't get to do it
00:33:00
anymore. But no, Michael Waka is a
00:33:02
glowing bright spot for the Royals pitching, and it's among
00:33:07
many. I mean, Lugo's been good.
00:33:08
Lubich has been good. They've all been good.
00:33:11
But 0.43, I mean, he he's allowed one run.
00:33:14
Yeah. So that was a freaking Homer.
00:33:17
He's allowed one home run. That's the only run allowed this
00:33:20
entire season so far for Michael Waka.
00:33:21
So kudos to him. It's a great start.
00:33:23
Hoping keep it up. You don't want to say it's a
00:33:25
critical time because it's April, but if you look at the
00:33:28
next week's games, they've got two more against Detroit, which
00:33:32
is the favorite to win the Central.
00:33:34
So you know, you don't want to get swept by Detroit and then
00:33:38
you got a three-game series against the Yankees who are
00:33:41
going to be good. So like, you know, you don't
00:33:45
want to go O and five over the next couple days that wouldn't.
00:33:49
Be good if. You go O and 5:00 and you're
00:33:51
sitting there at 7 and 15. Then it's like it's.
00:33:54
So much to get out of it that an 8 game win streak right 500.
00:33:59
We got a right, so it's like they need to get a couple of
00:34:03
these while they're right in the ship offensively just so they
00:34:06
don't feel like they're like desperate and out of reach
00:34:09
early. Yeah, I think they'll be okay.
00:34:12
I do, but it is it is disappointing given the hopes go
00:34:16
on for the season and you got to think they're going to be summer
00:34:18
version to the mean, right? Yeah, yeah.
00:34:21
Just got to hope they can win 2 out of 3.
00:34:23
But to be batting this atrocious and be 7 and 10, I'll take it.
00:34:27
Yeah, I'll take it. Yeah, you're right.
00:34:29
So that's what we gotta do. All right, so let's pivot over
00:34:32
to the Masters weekend. And what was with the green
00:34:36
jacket? So Chisholm lead us through some
00:34:37
Masters. Man, OK, before we even go to
00:34:40
the masters, I have to say I love the masters.
00:34:42
I I'm not like a massive golf guy.
00:34:45
I watch the majors. Is this?
00:34:47
Before we go to the Masters. Yes, before we go to the
00:34:49
Masters, I just want. To talk about the masters.
00:34:52
I want to talk about some Here's the prelude to the Masters
00:34:55
before we get into the Masters. OK, foreshadowing.
00:34:58
Premasters, right, Right. Yeah, Let's call it The
00:35:01
Apprentice. The Apprentice.
00:35:03
That's for the master. That's right.
00:35:05
So I I, I this is the favorite, my favorite of all the all the
00:35:09
golf tournaments for sure. One if you haven't watched it
00:35:12
next year, sit down and watch a day.
00:35:14
And here's why it's absolutely gorgeous.
00:35:16
I I like you don't have to like golf.
00:35:18
You watch, look at the look at the terrain.
00:35:21
It's insane. It's like there's no, there's
00:35:24
nothing that's not cut perfectly.
00:35:26
There's no like dead spot anywhere.
00:35:28
There's no like little little brown in the green anywhere.
00:35:31
Like, no, it's all it's like, it's like Pleasantville.
00:35:36
It's like it can't be real. You're like, how is this
00:35:38
possible? There can't be a golf course
00:35:40
like this that actually exists. When they're hitting from the
00:35:42
fairway, It's it looks like turf.
00:35:44
I'm like what? It's it's it's incredible.
00:35:47
And so I love that. The other thing I love about it
00:35:50
is they're hardcore on no phones.
00:35:52
OK, so if if you watch the crowd, everyone's watching,
00:35:58
right? Yeah.
00:35:59
And their reactions, like, it's like, it's like a time machine.
00:36:03
You're going back in time before phones, but people were actually
00:36:06
present at things and it's so freaking cool because it's like
00:36:11
it adds to the magic because everyone's watching the same
00:36:13
thing and you see how everyone's reactions, you just don't get
00:36:16
that anymore because people were like buried in the phone.
00:36:18
So like, that is an incredible thing.
00:36:21
I would love to go, it's a bucket list side for me at some
00:36:23
point to try and go to the masters.
00:36:25
Hint, anyone out there who has an end, I would gladly pay for
00:36:28
whatever the tickets are to go, be able to go.
00:36:30
I keep it earning the lottery never get it.
00:36:32
So if you got tickets on your sureness, man, let me know.
00:36:35
We'll we'll broadcast live the three of us from the Masters.
00:36:38
Not from our phones though. Not with our Oh, that's true for
00:36:42
mine. We'll talk about it.
00:36:43
After, we'll talk about it afterwards.
00:36:45
We will remember what happened and then talk about.
00:36:48
We'll take notes with our notepad.
00:36:50
So our Sureness League Football League last year Skurs was the
00:36:54
2nd place team. Yeah, right.
00:36:56
Skurs just got back from the Masters.
00:36:58
He he did get a lottery pick this this year and.
00:37:02
He got it. So he went.
00:37:03
He didn't go to the actual Masters, He went to a practice
00:37:07
round. Yeah.
00:37:07
Yeah, yeah. I don't care That's this is
00:37:09
good. That would be.
00:37:09
Awesome. Yeah, still counts.
00:37:11
Yeah, you still get to walk it. You still get to see it.
00:37:13
So set the stage. Last year, for those of you who
00:37:16
don't know golf, there's a guy named Rory McIlroy.
00:37:18
He was trying to get the master was the only major of the four
00:37:21
he had, not one. It was kind of the monkey on his
00:37:23
back. Roy's a guy a lot of people
00:37:25
like. They follow kind of looks like a
00:37:27
little leprechaun. He's a little, a little bit of a
00:37:29
little guy, but he's got, he's got, he's got a big following.
00:37:34
Wears a green. Jacket.
00:37:36
He wears a. Green jacket.
00:37:38
He's got a little accent, so he. Accent.
00:37:42
He pulled it out. He's kind of historically choked
00:37:45
and he's pretty inconsistent honestly, when it comes to like
00:37:48
majors. He's the most talented in the
00:37:50
world, but he's inconsistent. He pulled it off last year.
00:37:52
So the monkeys off his back, nobody really thought he was
00:37:56
going to win this year because it's kind of like monkeys off
00:37:59
his back. He's, you know, not playing
00:38:01
great golf right now. Doesn't have any pressure on
00:38:03
him. Well, here's the thing, Roy
00:38:05
hadn't played in events for the last two or three weeks, right?
00:38:08
Because he took his jet down to Augusta.
00:38:11
He's been playing of course for like 3 weeks.
00:38:13
He's like, I'm all in. I want to try to do it.
00:38:16
I want to try to do this repeat thing.
00:38:18
So he came in, everybody thought Scotty Scheffler, good old boy
00:38:21
from Dallas who I absolutely love.
00:38:22
Scotty Scheffler. His solid dude was the favorite
00:38:25
going in and thought he had a real good shot.
00:38:29
Rory started out the tournament like blue blazes.
00:38:32
I I mean, he had the lowest, he led well, he had the lowest, he
00:38:38
had the biggest lead after two days and the history of the
00:38:42
Masters. Even Tiger.
00:38:44
Even the Tiger year because I was like I remember that year
00:38:46
Tiger won by like 5 strokes or some ridiculous number like he
00:38:49
he didn't. Even have to play the last
00:38:50
round. Like, yeah, yeah, I went back
00:38:53
and looked and like it was fairly close in that in that
00:38:56
Masters through Day 2, day three, he blew the doors off
00:39:00
everyone. So that's what happened.
00:39:01
Tiger, like killed her one day three and then Day 4 was just
00:39:04
like coronation, like nobody came close to him.
00:39:06
Well, Scheffler had a enormous leader, was like, OK, this is
00:39:10
going to be kind of a laugher. And I was a little disappointed.
00:39:12
I was like, man, I want a competitive masters, whatever.
00:39:14
Then Rory did what Rory does. He came out the second day or
00:39:17
the third day and was like, man, I don't feel like playing for
00:39:20
the fairway. I'm gonna play from the woods
00:39:23
over he. Looked more fun on.
00:39:25
Replay I would've hit off the pine needles over here though.
00:39:28
Play the sand over here. Like just absolutely like
00:39:31
imploded. So he played our version of
00:39:33
golf. Oh yeah, he played.
00:39:35
He played like us date on day three and well came back.
00:39:38
To I think he still shot par. He, well, he shot 2 over par.
00:39:42
He's not two over par 2 / 2. Which and I do that every hole
00:39:46
right very good. Absolutely.
00:39:48
I am an expert. Definitely two over par.
00:39:51
I definitely can do this. So he came back to the field.
00:39:53
He was only in one stroke lead. He went from a six, seven stroke
00:39:58
lead after day 2 to a one stroke lead after day three and it was
00:40:01
on for day four and that made for a great finish.
00:40:06
Scheffler, who missed so many short putts in this tournament,
00:40:10
he could have won. He was down 3 strokes going into
00:40:13
the second in the last day. He made a run.
00:40:16
He was three under in the last day.
00:40:19
Rory was one under and the last day he let everybody come back
00:40:24
to him. He lost the lead on the front 9
00:40:27
and everyone was like, oh, he's done.
00:40:29
But to his credit, he came back couple birdies at the end on the
00:40:33
8-9, held it and then had a really, really strong run, 11 to
00:40:39
12, birdied and then just held it.
00:40:41
And then he bogeyed 18 to make it, just to make it a little
00:40:44
more drama, You know, even though everyone was in the
00:40:47
clubhouse, it was like, oh, is he going to?
00:40:49
And he bogged it. But he.
00:40:50
He saved it 5 butts, then he'll 5.
00:40:53
Butts this I got it yeah yeah, but it was it was great fun.
00:40:57
It was great golf it it made it for some good drama.
00:41:00
But here's the thing that I wanted to ask you guys.
00:41:03
So I've done some research on this and I wanted I wanted your
00:41:09
thoughts. So what do you guys First off,
00:41:11
what do you normally shoot? What's your handicap?
00:41:12
I know you may not have a physical handicap.
00:41:14
Dex Prue, give me your handicap. What you think you shoot?
00:41:18
I shoot about 13 to 15 over par. OK, 13 to 15 over par.
00:41:24
So you're normally somewhere in like 808585858587.
00:41:30
Pretty good golfer. Pretty good golfer.
00:41:31
Pretty good golfer, pro dex. I'm in the 90s now.
00:41:35
I suck, I don't get to play anymore.
00:41:36
No, I know that's that's kind of.
00:41:38
Like I played all the time. I was in like the mid 80s.
00:41:41
OK, Yeah. So, so now you're now you're
00:41:43
like 9394. Somewhere in there they'll still
00:41:46
break 100, but sometimes it's like, Oh my, I need to like play
00:41:50
85 holes pretty. Good, I got to pull.
00:41:52
I need to pull something out here if I want to break 100.
00:41:54
I need a par in the worst way so.
00:41:56
So Peru, we'll call you a 15 handicap, and Dex, we'll call
00:42:01
you a 20. All right, So knowing that, what
00:42:05
do you think you would shoot on a round at Augusta?
00:42:10
OK round in Augusta. I feel like the course is like
00:42:13
7600 yards for one as opposed to standard like 6056 hundred.
00:42:19
Yeah playing from the tips huh? It would take me like 8 shots to
00:42:24
get there. I think all they have is the
00:42:26
Tasers. To be clear, I don't think
00:42:27
there's AI, don't think there's no well, there's no women's
00:42:31
tease. We know this.
00:42:32
So that that for sure is what big that's out.
00:42:35
Yeah. So I actually did some research.
00:42:37
There actually is a. There's a.
00:42:39
Where they playing seniors? And then there's a.
00:42:41
There's a they members tee. So the people that actually are
00:42:43
members at the at the at the golf course, they have a tee.
00:42:46
It's a little bit little bit up, but.
00:42:49
Yeah. So let's be honest, that's it's
00:42:51
a seniors tee, it's a. Senior.
00:42:53
It's a senior. There's another youngsters that
00:42:54
are members there I. Don't know, no one has the money
00:42:56
to be in the SO, but you're playing from where they play
00:42:59
from. So what what?
00:43:00
What would you guess? Is there a right answer here?
00:43:04
I mean for one, I don't think I'd be able to ever make a putt
00:43:07
there is the right answer. The greens are so tabletop, it's
00:43:10
like putting on a quartz countertop.
00:43:13
I don't know how they were to stop.
00:43:14
You have to hit the hole. I would never hit the hole.
00:43:16
Well, they I'd roll that thing all the way off the green and be
00:43:18
in the water. I'd like I'd be losing strokes
00:43:20
putting. You definitely have to.
00:43:22
You definitely have to put like just super tap it in.
00:43:25
Yeah, super light tapping, tapping.
00:43:27
It's like there were a couple times I'm like, did he even hit
00:43:29
that like? I know it goes like 40 feet.
00:43:33
I just walked past fast and it started rolling.
00:43:37
So. They do they do roll true,
00:43:40
though. I played they absolutely.
00:43:42
I played the Firestone Golf course one time in Ohio and it
00:43:46
was it was same the thing like they're much smaller greens, but
00:43:50
they're very domed. And if you don't hit the hole,
00:43:53
it's going, it's going way past right, right.
00:43:56
But but if you hit the ball where you intended to hit the
00:43:59
ball, it rolls true. So I I made a couple of long
00:44:02
putts that I was like, I have no business making that you.
00:44:05
Know to answer the question is it's probably at least double
00:44:07
right? So if I'm 18 over what other?
00:44:11
What would you shoot? What would you shoot?
00:44:12
Probably like a 1:15 to 1:20. Yeah, I I have no doubt not like
00:44:18
100, right, One O one O 5, I'll say. 105 yeah.
00:44:23
So a 15 handicap golfer according to AI.
00:44:27
And this is pulling. It's always accurate.
00:44:28
Well, yeah, of course it's pulling from, it's pulling from
00:44:32
like 80 different sources is what it says.
00:44:34
Yeah, a 15 handicap golfer who normally shoots in the mid 80s
00:44:38
would shoot around 1:10 at Augusta.
00:44:40
OK, Yeah. Wow, 20 strokes harder like just
00:44:45
because. That is a 20 handicapped golfer
00:44:49
would shoot around 1:20. That's what it says, yeah.
00:44:51
That sounds about right. Yeah, like past champions say,
00:44:57
like Larry Myers and Jose Maria, Ola Fable, you have to say the.
00:45:01
Ola Fable. Fable the.
00:45:03
Z's of thugs. There's no Z.
00:45:04
Ola Fable say breaking breaking 100 for a 15 handicap golfer
00:45:11
would be quote a miracle. Like that is how ridiculously
00:45:16
hard. And it's so funny because it
00:45:18
made me think because you're watching and you're like, come
00:45:21
on, Jackass. Like just tap it in.
00:45:23
I don't understand what's the problem.
00:45:24
Like just just tap it in. I think the hardest part.
00:45:28
I mean of course it's super long and I would need to hit driver
00:45:31
twice. Yeah.
00:45:35
I don't have a three hundred 300 yard club in my bag, so that's
00:45:38
no. That that's a big.
00:45:40
Problem. That's at least a stroke of
00:45:42
hole. Right, right now in the part
00:45:43
threes, we could probably get it on them, maybe with the driver.
00:45:47
Yeah, yeah, you could probably get it on you.
00:45:50
You have a chance to get it on. Yeah, but you're absolutely
00:45:53
right, Dex, the putting, like, I don't think you get a good feel
00:45:58
for it. They did a really good job of
00:45:59
getting some shots this this time from like ground level.
00:46:03
So you saw the undulations and the green and it's like, like
00:46:09
it's enormous, some of the some of the undulations and so
00:46:14
freaking fast. So like, like I, I saw, I saw
00:46:18
one of the guys one day, he was just off the green and, and so,
00:46:23
and he's in the, the rough or whatever.
00:46:25
And he had, you know, 20 feet to the hole and he tapped it with
00:46:30
his putter. And like, I was like, it barely
00:46:33
got to the green And I was like, oh shit, that's going to be way
00:46:35
short. And it ended up five feet past
00:46:38
the hole. And I was like.
00:46:39
This is insane. Like I I think we would 5 putt
00:46:44
every hole like that. That is, that is the thing that
00:46:47
is, and I don't know, I don't know how you do it.
00:46:50
You're right Dex like you have to just make it in because.
00:46:53
That's the thing. Well, like so.
00:46:55
And then I don't, I didn't pay attention at the at Augusta, but
00:46:58
some of those PGA courses, the greens are so large too, that
00:47:03
oh, they're huge, despite it being. 200 plus.
00:47:05
It's like, yeah, it's like 100 plus foot putt.
00:47:08
Sometimes if you don't hit your iron shot, your approach shot
00:47:11
somewhat close to the hole. Totally, totally.
00:47:14
So it's it's impressive if you can three put on some of those
00:47:18
screens just because of how massive they are.
00:47:20
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. And I'm a, I'm a guy who shoots
00:47:23
high 90s. So I, I assume I, I would
00:47:29
probably have 5 or 6 snowmen like Oh yeah, like it would just
00:47:34
be like. Well, there's.
00:47:34
Probably more than that, where you're just like, like if you
00:47:37
have to carry. Yeah, right.
00:47:40
Amen. Corner, right?
00:47:41
No, I'm just. Dropping over here, I'm just
00:47:44
hitting into the water. 210 yard par 3 is over water like that's
00:47:50
that's easily 2 water balls. And then one in two out three,
00:47:53
two at 3 and 4 out five total at 5.
00:47:56
After two shots, what do we got? How am I doing?
00:47:58
Absolutely. Well, you still are 280 feet, 80
00:48:01
yards. Out.
00:48:02
Yeah, I mean. If I can't pick up after an 8
00:48:05
then I'm yeah I'm probably shooting 110.
00:48:07
Likely. I mean, you think?
00:48:09
There's any house rules on this? Court.
00:48:10
I don't think so, yeah. Right, right, snowman, You pick
00:48:13
up after 8, Hey. I mean, I was thinking like if
00:48:16
we scrambled, if like the three of us all, you use our best shot
00:48:21
on air. Can maybe get under 100 I'd like
00:48:23
to think. I think we could break a. 100
00:48:24
because that's three putts a pop really, we're not going to do
00:48:27
that bad on all I. Think we could break 100 if a
00:48:29
three man scramble? I think maybe we could break 100
00:48:33
on a three man scramble. Next time we play Augusta.
00:48:36
Let's just like even us right now if we went and played a
00:48:39
normal course three man scramble.
00:48:40
We we in the 70s. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48:44
For the three of us, we'd be in the 70s.
00:48:46
We could be in the 70s then. Scratching up. 78 or something.
00:48:50
None of us. Are great golfers, of course, by
00:48:52
any means, but I think we could be in the 70s but.
00:48:54
We get a playable shot each. Time.
00:48:56
So I think in the 90s probably could do it, but this gave me an
00:49:01
idea as I was watching the Masters.
00:49:03
And I think that when the street just gets big enough, we're
00:49:05
going to do this. OK, we're going to sponsor.
00:49:08
It's going to be it's, it's a round after the Masters where we
00:49:12
just take 4 Joes and they play Augusta National on TV.
00:49:17
And we track it again. I would watch every single shot
00:49:23
of this tournament. I would watch like this, would
00:49:25
be phenomenal. Full audio we got to have full.
00:49:29
Audio to watch 4 Joes at Augusta National who think they're
00:49:33
probably going to do good. Like I want guys that are like,
00:49:36
you know, you know, the guys that you you run up in the golf
00:49:38
course and you're like, yeah, I usually should.
00:49:40
I usually hit, you know, somewhere around 8283.
00:49:42
And then you start playing with them and they're like pacing to
00:49:45
9900. That's my worst day ever.
00:49:47
Oh, I don't know why I'm shaking everything.
00:49:49
It's like, I want that guy. I want the guy who thinks he
00:49:52
can. I want the guy who says I could
00:49:54
probably shoot 90 at Augusta. That's the guy I want and I want
00:49:58
to put on the course and I want to watch him.
00:50:01
Yeah, sweat bullets. From the tips, you don't get the
00:50:04
members Tees from the. Tips.
00:50:06
This would be entertaining. Yeah.
00:50:10
Viewing like I mean, everybody watch this, so I I want to do
00:50:13
this. It might be good just three
00:50:15
holes. I don't know how much I can
00:50:17
watch of like it'd be an an 8 hour round right?
00:50:19
Right. It might be an 8 hour round.
00:50:21
Yeah, it might be a good three holes.
00:50:22
Maybe you pick the three most iconic holes and let them be
00:50:25
like. Lord of the Rings marathon, All
00:50:27
three extended versions all along that round but but.
00:50:30
But I think this would start a Series, A shrewdness series too,
00:50:33
where we would have regular people doing all the sports at
00:50:38
some point. Regular person running against
00:50:40
an Olympian in the 100, that kind of thing.
00:50:43
Like where, you know, it's like you just get to see like because
00:50:45
I think people lose all perspective.
00:50:47
For how good? These.
00:50:48
Guys are are ridiculous. Like you watch these guys and
00:50:51
you're like, you know, they hit off the tee and they're and
00:50:53
they're they're in the trees and you're like, you're a Jack out.
00:50:56
You know, you're a professional golfer.
00:50:58
What do you mean you're in the trees?
00:50:59
It's like, you know? Fairways like.
00:51:01
This wide, yeah, it's like it's like 600 yards.
00:51:06
Yeah, you hit it in the trees. You also hit it 325 but.
00:51:10
Right, right. You have to intentionally slice
00:51:13
and intentionally faint, right? And then they hit it out of the
00:51:15
trees onto the green or something.
00:51:17
You know, you're like, how in the world, like, I don't think
00:51:20
average people have an appreciation for this.
00:51:22
And so like, this is what we're going to do when the tree just
00:51:25
makes it big. We're going to have average Joe
00:51:28
compete and all these things. We're going to have average Joe,
00:51:32
you know, go up against Shohei Otani pitching and see how many
00:51:38
swings it takes for him to make contact.
00:51:40
Like, that's the bet. It's like, yeah, when you can
00:51:42
just. Touch it.
00:51:43
If you foul one off, that counts.
00:51:45
Right. You're only allowed Shohei.
00:51:47
You're only allowed to throw strikes right and right.
00:51:51
Right. And I'm not going to wink, so
00:51:52
don't throw in my ear. Don't even don't even give him
00:51:54
any breaking stuff. Just.
00:51:56
Just throw in the fastball. Just start with change UPS.
00:51:59
Just start with change UPS Mason Miller, right?
00:52:02
Let's see what 103 looks like in a batter's box.
00:52:05
Totally. Like, how do you only give up
00:52:07
one hit this season? Here's how you try it man.
00:52:11
It's because he has 103 and then he has a 90 mile an hour slider.
00:52:15
That is ridiculous too, right? Yeah, right.
00:52:17
That he throws for strikes totally.
00:52:19
Like incredible. It's dumb.
00:52:22
Yeah, OK. We're doing it shrewdness,
00:52:24
average Joe comp like this is going to be.
00:52:28
It's huge, guys. It's huge.
00:52:29
I'm telling you, you're getting it from ground floor all.
00:52:32
Right, I think. Reality TV means sports.
00:52:35
That's right. Remember when that's what this
00:52:37
is where the the idea was birth 4/14/26.
00:52:40
I love it. So I think that's going to be a
00:52:42
wrap on this week's episode of the Shrewdness.
00:52:46
Hope you enjoyed the baseball talk.
00:52:48
We got some masters in there. We got some some future.
00:52:52
Some innovation. See, this will be fun, Back to
00:52:55
the Future stuff, back in the day when we're, you know,
00:52:57
running against Olympic sprinters and see how that goes.
00:53:00
We're going to get on the ice against the US hockey team and
00:53:03
hopefully don't get punched out. It's going to be fun.
00:53:06
But as as we get into next week, we're going to hit a preview
00:53:09
episode for the NFL draft starting out to the big names
00:53:13
who were excited about landing spots we think they could or
00:53:17
should go to. So that'll be kind of a fun one.
00:53:19
So we'll look look forward to next week.
00:53:20
It's going to be an exciting one.
00:53:22
We'll kind of get back into our wheelhouse of football.
00:53:24
So especially from the guillotine standpoint, we'll
00:53:26
start hitting up on like here's some names to start putting on
00:53:29
your list now. That's right.
00:53:31
Did not draft too early. We'll talk about that too.
00:53:32
We get the draft 2 strategies and go into totally, that's why
00:53:35
I botched that last year. But it just doesn't work.
00:53:39
No matter how good they are. Don't draft the rookies till
00:53:42
late till late late. Don't do it.
00:53:44
But we'll give you we're going to go through all the people not
00:53:48
to draft on your guillotine football team next week, but
00:53:51
will be very fun for real life. So that's what you got to look
00:53:54
forward to for next week. So until then, have a great week
00:53:58
and stay shrewd. To everybody.