Bret and Albert share their thoughts on the current happenings around the league and who they expect to make a splash at the deadline, as well as which teams may stay hot or continue to struggle.
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better they're good they're young they're talented they got burns came over from the Brewers and then you got the Seattle Mariners in the West leading their division really great picture what do you see with the divisions in that we'll start with the American League what do you see with those three divisions and there's anybody that you're looking to the second half that could be a spoiler or some of that nobody's talking about you know what when you when you look at Baltimore situation and for the Milwaukee Brewers the trade away and ace when everybody every team and baseball needs a a workhorse on the mile and you just you just gave up on this guy just gave him you know to the Orioles yeah I mean I would have made that trade and obviously he's you know he's pitching well he has great experience you know we'll see how he does at the end of the year but it the kind of like the key to like the American League is where's this kid from the White Sox going to go crochet crochet yeah crochet you know there's talks that the Yankees are willing to trade for him so it's kind of curious because he could swing the whole American League where he goes and then you look at the White Sox and they have a terrible record is like okay well you gave away Dylan C's the San Diego all of a sudden they're a whole different team and I watch Dylan C's and I was like with this guy stuff how is he 8 and 8 he should not be he should be worst case scenario he should be 12 and 4 with the stuff he has I mean he has you know throws the ball 100 miles an hour he can go deep in the game got a nasty slider change up he can move the ball all around the plate and I'm just like how is this guy eight nay I've been really set and watched him but you know I see him on the highlights I'll say how is this guy losing games but so you gave away Dylan C's you're about to get you want to give away crochet they should trade Luis Roberts and Eloy and try to get some some prospects give those two guys away and try to trade with the Dodgers you'll get some good prospects they're they're probably dumb enough to make this trade I'd get rid of those two because Kate pinned on him came play with those two guys if they play they'll be hurt before the trade they'll add July 31st they'll be hurt and that's what they've done they've been hurt you know most of the year they came back they've played a few games they're so so but you know it's time to look for the future you you've waited on them but the key is you know you look at the Seattle Mariners they have the worst hitting team in league and and I think San Francisco has won a World Series before with the world I think they're 2010 team one of those 2010 or 2014 they had the worst inning team but they had a great pinch to have won a World Series but that's gonna come back to bite him you know it you know Julio needs to get hot Raleigh needs to quit stragging out so much you know just you know hey I don't have a problem if he just cut down the swing put the ball in play like he's a big straw kid and and that's why the Guardians are in first place like look at quant I remember I did a show in Cleveland in the offseason they were everybody in Cleveland was upset because the outfield total hit like 10 homers all year and I see it it's not about hitting home runs they need to get base hits straw was hitting like 199 200 quan kind of had a so-so year but now the sudden quan is leading league and hitting he's putting the ball in play it's not striking out and I watch him he's not taking a lot of pitches like he's putting the barrel on the ball and guess what happened he gets on base they scored a lot of runs and they're winning a lot of games and they're and they're starting pitches not that good but but that's the that's been telling it and they were saying you know I asked the people in Cleveland I said well y'all learn word about the home runs now are you right because base hits solve everybody's problems keep the line keep the line moving when you get base hits put the ball in play is gonna put pressure on the defense and the way these guys on defense they don't have any kind of fundamental you know what to do so you can put pressure on defense easy and score like some easy runs and win some games so you know and that's the guardians they they're not doing anything special they're just stand healthy putting the ball in play got a great bullpen the best bullpen and getting mediocre starters you look to and we'll go here and then we'll go to the National League but you look at the Yankees they've been they went on a rough run for about three weeks got out of the gate unbelievable and that was surprising to me with missing their ace Cole Cole's back now you need Giancarlo Stanton he went as Albert would say he's been on vacation for a while now but you got the Yankees you got the Minnesota twins who showed in the postseason last year they're a good team the kid the young kid Lewis is a real talent he can't seem to stay on the field they got they got bucks in and and Jeffers and Patek and a Korea who's who's now hurt but Korea is coming back having a pretty good year that twin seems so I want to talk Yankee twin and a surprise I don't know if you're surprised but I have some red songs the Boston Red Sox they they can pitch they can pitch you're not gonna go a long way yeah you know dares has been hot the one kid I'm trying to think of the key of Neil Lee Knoff oh I can't think of his name not is a Dalton it might be Dalton yeah yeah long long's the catcher he's done a nice job and O'Neil O'Neil's been a production yeah so they they have been kind of hot they've kind of snuck up on some people you got to keep your eyes on them Kansas City is kind of like an interesting story you know they have a really young team what are they gonna do I don't think they can pitch enough yeah they got some they got some young guys has got to do some amazing things the second half for them to kind of make waves but they're there you know said Luco came out of nowhere he's from Shreveport Louisiana having a phenomenal year so it is it's interesting you know so the twins you just never know you know Houston's kind of like they're hanging in there I mean they've had some guys banged up but they're still kind of hanging in there so you know that's kind of like the exciting thing about the second half is like you know what somebody's gonna do with the trade deadline and then how healthy is your team going to be you know going down the stretch run if you look at those six we just discussed who has to get who has to make a splash to the deadline of those six seven in the American League you see if they want to have a chance to go deep in the postseason you know what the Yankees were on a nice role until Soto kind of got dinged up and then they've kind of been in a tail spin they could they got to make it they got to make a deal at the trail at the deadline they got to get a picture because it doesn't look like Baltimore and Boston is slowing down so and the guardians have beat I think they beat the Yankees two out of three and they beat the Orioles two out of three so they beaten the big guys and they can they can pitch with anybody so it the Yankees really need to pull something off of the trade deadline and get a picture you know if they can get this kid crochet they have a chance but if they're gonna go with those guys and you know the guys they have now they're just kind of limping to the finish line and I don't know if they're gonna make it yeah if you got a go like guy like Cole at the top of the rotation and you throw a guy like crochet in the two hole it makes a nester a road Don Schmidt will be healthy by the end of end of the season Strowman does a nice job but not at the top of the rotation so I agree with you there all right switch over to the National League got the three division winners that's Philly my opinion is the best team in baseball when healthy pitching and offensively you got the LA Dodgers who are starting to be dinged up starting with Yamamoto Kershaw not coming back on time Walker Bueller's had some time he's been off for two years so it's been a long process for him and then you got the Milwaukee Brewers all the talk in the offseason was hey we're getting rid of the greatest manager of the world he's going to the Cubs Milwaukee's all they do is keep winning the Cubs are in the last place what do you make of the top three in the National League well when you go back to the Dodgers they had another kid that was a top prospect Dustin May who was in the process of rehab and he's he's got to have some kind of throat surgery so yeah I don't know what's going on in LA those their pitchers are going down real fast they they need bodies to to go out on the mound so it's gonna be curious to see who's gonna get crochet and and then with the Brewers because Pat Murphy used to be the head baseball coach at Arizona State and all of a sudden you know he's managing a big late team but I want to see how he manages down the stretch because that's a different animal and there's gonna be some pressure because now you have that the Cardinals are starting to play a little bit better kind of breathing down it you know on the Brewers next and then the interesting story I think is Pittsburgh you know what are they gonna do and then when you look at the Pirates and I they kind of like shot themselves in the foot I know I know why you didn't want schemes to start the season you know he missed eight starts because you wanted to push everything back his arbitration and his free agency obviously he should have started to you know the season with the big league team but they're at 500 and he's missed eight starts there their leading guy has 19 he has 11 and they have a pretty good winning percentage and his starts 11 starts so if you have those eight starts and say okay if we were to one for those games and he got his 18 starts we'd be at 52 and 44 so we'd be pretty much we'd be in a good nice position we wouldn't be that far behind the Brewers and we'd be looking at a nice little wildcards by with a chance to win division and possibly you know you know you're gonna have to go out and make a deal at the trade deadline so I understand what they were doing from a financial standpoint but I think it's gonna take a miracle for them to pull that off and try to get a playoff spot or win a division but they should have definitely have been in better contention had they had Paul Skeeds up at the start of the year take your business further with a smart and flexible American Express business gold card it offers flexible spending capacity that adapts to your business you can also earn up to three hundred and ninety five dollars in annual statement credits on eligible purchases at select business merchants that's the powerful backing of American Express terms apply learn more at American Express comm slash business gold card what looks to me after the division that the team's leading the division I look at the second tier and that's the wildcard this thing's ever changing in the in the National League because it there's a lot more parity in the National League versus the American League you got the Atlanta Braves who pitch better than anyone in the National League St. Louis Cardinals who a year ago were in last place they've come out of nowhere they were off to a slow start they're winning in New York Mets two months ago were dead and buried by by all the New York media all of a sudden if it ended today Albert the New York Mets are in the playoffs but when I talk about parity there is own a dime max getting hot again they're only a game out the Padres a game out your Pittsburgh Pirates game and a half out Cincinnati Reds only three games out so you've got seven eight teams jockeying for those playoff spots in the wildcard whereas in the National League once you get past KC in Houston it's kind of five and a half seven eight games out of the wildcard a little different over the American League but talk about Atlanta St. Louis New York talk about any of those guys what you see it's going to be a wild race in the National League because there's a lot guys a lot more guys in it from from a statistical standpoint I know with the Mets they've kind of gotten hot they switch Lindor to the lead-off spot so they hit the most home runs in baseball since then and then I like you know Jose glaciers he comes out with his song and they kind of like catch fire and you know they're singing and stuff and having a good time and then their their pigeons they need help on the picture stab but I don't understand why you want to trade Pete Alonso like you have a solid force in the middle lineup between Lindor hitting first and you got a legitimate cleanup hitter who I know the trade rumors are bothering him so he's probably not playing but like he's out there grounded it out and I and I give him credit for doing that but the Mets aren't the Mets aren't out of it you're ready as of today they're in the playoffs yeah they got a couple young guys that are performing so they just have to you know keep you know with the pitching just keep getting a little bit better and they'll be just fine but I don't understand why they want to trade a lot so like you know you're gonna have to pay the guy you know especially if you want to win you know if you make the playoffs you're gonna get all that money back and if you go deep into the playoffs you're gonna make even more money so obviously you know and I think they could probably beat the Braves the Phillies you know obviously they got the pitching it looks like you know those guys gonna pretty much hold up but you just you just never know and you know Arizona's gotten hot since you know Corbin Carroll I'm not sure why he was struggling so bad but all of a sudden now he's starting to you know to hit some nice line drives and and and get on base you know they moved him down in the lineup so he's you know hitting for a little bit more power I don't know what's going I haven't heard anything you know why he was struggling but I watched him and he was just beating outside pitches to the second baseman like it was it was going out of style and I was like bro you got to you got to make an adjustment you got to stick because he used he was pretty good last year hitting the ball of left field he just take a little base hit you know get home base and steal some bags and that's how the Diamondbacks caught fire and got all over the World Series so San Diego they they got to probably go get another pitcher they've gotten some they got some work horses that have been banged up yeah yeah you know Darby you know you can't depend on Darby's you know you can't depend on Yaba Moda and I told you that was gonna be a accident waiting to happen you know with these Japanese guys throwing these split fingers you're you're asking for trouble and you know he was transferred Yaba Moda transferred to 60 days you can see Tommy Johnson is coming up with him real soon so they're probably trying to delay it but you know he's gonna probably have it in November then he's gonna miss all the next season and there goes your 320 million plus the 30 million you have to pay to the Japanese team to bid on him so you could have just you know signed Blake Snell and got him at training cap at a you know for way less and got him on training cap on time and and come on way better you know you talk about Pete Alonso and you know over time I've come to really appreciate Pete Alonso not for the fact that he's one of the few guys you can pencil in for 30 or 40 homers every year but this sucker grinds and he goes and he posts he goes to the posts every day rain or shine he gets hit he's not sitting out he's you know you could depend on him to be in the lineup and I think in today's game that's invaluable because it's not just the norm anymore and a guy like Alonso you know wasn't my favorite player all the time but the more I watch him I come to appreciate him you're out you're in and you're out you can you can depend on him and you know as as we've played a lot of years and had a lot of teammates those teammates you can rely on that that's really important now we're spelled a national league who is imperative they make a big deal at the trade deadline all those teams we mentioned well you know the Dodgers the the desperate Dodgers I mean you know you spent you spent a billion dollars to solve problems a lot of expectations you got even more problems now and and I can tell you right now show he old Tony is it pay Rennio second half terrible player I mean I think terrible well he was hit like 175 said a couple times in the second half so let's see how he does since he doesn't have to pitch and hit but is he gonna right now if you ask me is he gonna carry the Dodgers to the playoffs no not by himself their dog is gonna go out and they're gonna get help like they always do you know they they tried to bring up a couple young pitchers they were terrible they already sent it back down so you know you see how valuable mookie bets was because he was kind of like the engine that made the team go and then now you know you're you know he's out of the lineup so you're like feeling in trying to feel in all these spots and you know I see the different lineup changes they're trying to they're just trying to find you know the right the right chemistry and I think the Dodgers are in trouble up I don't see you know San Diego and I don't see the Diamondbacks going in going anywhere looking for a financial institution that has fewer fees better rates and gives back to the local community as one of Colorado's largest credit unions Belco offers great rates on products like our free boost interest checking and lower rates on loans including our home equity choice line bank virtually anytime anywhere through online banking and our 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