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7.30.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 3: Wrapping up the big day
and say, oh, yeah, I miss you. So we got really good relievers. We got Adam there, Turner, Hoeing, and then it's gonna be, it's gonna be excited for everybody here. - At least O'Rise is happy that his former teammate is coming to the Padres. We welcome you back to Gwen and Chris. The happy hour gets underway, although this has been a pretty happy group. We've had on the phones at least over the last hour and Padres acquire. Miami Marlins all start closer, Tanner Scott today. Nevermind who they traded. Everybody says, here's what the Padres got in Tanner Scott. I mentioned that he posted a 1.18 ERA this year. He is also held opposing hitters to a 127 batting average this season. 127 Scrappy, like no one gets a hit off this guy. - Yeah. - The last time he allowed a run, it was still spring, June 17th. - Wow. - Did not become summer until June 21st. - No, I thought you meant spring training. - No, you gotta go back to spring. June 17th, the last time he allowed a run of any kind. He has held opponents to an 0.91 batting average over that span. His 1.89 ERA over the last two seasons is the lowest of any pitcher in baseball with a minimum of 100 innings pitched. So basically the last two years, he's been the hardest pitcher to hit in all of baseball. No wonder we shouldn't care that the Padres gave up Robbie Snelling at a measure and Graham Pauli. - Welcome back to Gwen and Chris. 502 is the time, Chris Ellum. Matt Scrappy alongside, Tony Gwen Jr., of course, busy, but was with us earlier from Petco Park. That's where tonight the Padres will take on the Dodgers. Sam Leavitt has the eco-water Padres pregame, SoCal Padres pregame show coming up in about 35 minutes. - This has been a emotional day, Chris. - It's been a whirlwind. I've been trying, as we've been doing this job and trying to write down all the trades. So, and I don't wanna bore you with a big list, but I'm gonna try to give you some of the key names that were moved today. In case you're just hopping in the car after work. Maybe you heard what the Padres did, but you didn't hear what everybody else did today. The biggest name that moved today went to the Dodgers. Jack Flaherty starting pitcher from the Tigers, seven and five ERA under three whip under one. Scary, Dodgers add Flaherty. They also added Kevin Kiermeyer, a gold medal, a gold medal. Gold glove winning, it's the Olympics, right? - Yes, it is. - Gold glove winning center fielder from the Toronto Blue Jays. Yesterday the Dodgers added Tommy Edmond, reliever Michael Copac, and Rosario, mad Rosario. So, the Dodgers, those are the five they add. Arizona Diamondbacks, they add her own friend, old friend Josh Bell. Josh Bell basically gonna take over at first base right now for Christian Walker, who just went on the injured list. So, the Diamondbacks needed to do something at first base. They got yesterday reliever from the Marlins, AJ Puck. Puck has not been great this year as a starter, but as a reliever, he's been really good. And here's how good Puck is or was. Last year, Puck was the closer for the Marlins ahead of Tanner Scott. So, that's who the Diamondbacks got. - Thank you. - New York Mets get Oakland A's right hander, Paul Blackburn today. Cleveland Guardians get injured Giants pitcher Alex Cobb, expecting him to get healthy. They got Lane Thomas yesterday. Baltimore Orioles add not only Trevor Rogers, starting pitcher from the Marlins, but Eloy Jimenez, slugging outfielder from the Chicago White Sox goes to Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore. Kansas City Royals get shortstop Paul DeYoung from the White Sox. Also, set up Guy Lucas Ersegg from the Oakland Athletics. Miami or Minnesota rather, Trevor Richards, right hand left-handed pitcher, Pittsburgh, utility man, infielder Isaiah Kiner, Fallefa, and Marlins outfielder Brian Daela Cruz. That was the last trade of the day that has been announced by the way. - It's been filed. - Daela Cruz going from the Marlins to the Pirates. San Francisco Giants, who yesterday traded Jorge Solaire. - They didn't have a good-- - Today come back and say, "Well, let's pick up Markana." So that made very little sense to me. - Jorge Solaire and the Giants, I guess. I was talking to a friend. I guess they've been kind of-- - Didn't work, didn't work there. - Yeah. - All right, so that's kind of a recap. - We always thought too it was weird that Jorge Solaire went to San Francisco because he's a home run hitter and San Francisco is extremely hard to hit. - Tough to hit home runs. Now he's back in Atlanta. Anyway, that's kind of a recap of what happened today on top of the moves that have been made heading into today. But you're kind of up to date on everything. Big winners, who knows? - Big losers, Marlin's White Sox. As a matter of fact, you wonder if the Marlins and/or the White Sox will even be able to field a team of players the rest of the season. - Oh, I chose the Chiro guy to start tonight for the Marlins. - They traded so many players. I mean, Skip Schumacher is gonna be on Ben and Woods tomorrow morning at seven o'clock. They're gonna have to ask him how in the world he's going about filling out a lineup. They've traded pretty much the entire team. - It seems like they do that a lot over and over again. Do you wanna be the Marlins? Do we wanna be the Marlins who just have a ton of prospects all the time? - The Marlins have one of the worst organizations in baseball, but they have great prospects, Chris. - Miami Marlins fans can claim something that you nor I can claim. - A World Series? - Two of them. - Two of them. - Yeah. Let's get to some phone calls. I mean, it's been a while. Okay, I'll also grant you that. 2003, 21 years ago, that's, yeah. That's so kind of time for the Marlins to be good again. You know, it's funny as they were getting good under Kim Ing, they just couldn't make it work or she couldn't work for them. - No, Derek Jeter wanted out. Kim Ing wanted, she kind of wanted, she didn't say she wanted out, but it sounds like she wanted out. - Yeah, that's what happened. Yeah, that's what happened. - Let's go to Kevin and Chula Vista as we kick off the happy hour. Kevin, what are your thoughts on the Padres' move today? - Well, Chris, I'll help you out here. A little bit dubious. Look, the reality is, let's tell the truth. AJ at Trade Deadline, tell me who has he traded for at the Trade Deadline that has done one of two things. Either is still here or has led us to the World Series, which is the object of the game. Can you tell me anybody? - Well, he hasn't been to a World Series, so I would say-- - There you go. There's number one. And all the people that he has brought in here at Trade Deadline, 0.0, they're gone. So I'm dubious. I think we have to be at this point. Look, I've said this on, with Matt, I've said this with the midday crowd. AJ, it will be evaluated eventually based upon the big six contracts that are out there. I would challenge anybody to go back and look at those six players collectively put their time of service with the Padres together, tell me when they have all played together on the same time when have they all produced positive results at the same time and when have they gotten us to either a championship or a World Series at the same time. Now, we spent over a billion dollars on this. So essentially, what AJ did today is he has to preserve his tenure here. He's hoping and praying that because he couldn't get the starters and I'm with you, Chris. I don't know why the Dodgers can go get flarity and the Padres can't, that's a great question. But we needed a starter. And we ended up with a bunch of relievers. Maybe what his plan is. Look, if the current starters go into the tank, get three or four innings out of them, I've got all these relievers we can punch through. Maybe that's the plan, I don't know. But I'm dubious. I wanna see what and how this works out. If you're asking me about the record today, you tell me and you tell us, go back and look at the things I just brought up and tell me what that record is. Kevin, thank you very much. Well thought out call. Here's what I will say. And this is gonna sound, I guess, like a defense of AJ Preller. But part of what you're saying isn't wrong. AJ Preller's overall record, as General Manager of the Padres, is not great. But they are in the midst of a fifth consecutive year in which they're playing meaningful games, which I think is something that deserves a thumbs up. And I will finally say this. And in AJ's case, it rings true just as it rings true in everybody else's case, nobody can win the big one until they win the big one. There's a lot of GMs out there that have not won the World Series. There's a ton of guys in every sport that we can all say, show me the ring, show me the championship. I don't care how good you are, show me the championship. How about Zander Shoutfley, for example? Show me the major. Well, he can show you now, can he? Two of them. Two of them. I'm just saying everybody can't win the big one until they win the big one. And then all of a sudden they're like, ah, you're great now, he won the big one. I think so, it sounds like a defensive AJ. It's not necessarily meant to be. It's meant to just say, why you're dubious. Yes, you're right, he hasn't won anything. But it's only gonna take one and then all of a sudden he's gonna look like he knows what he's doing. I would say, they said, he said, tell me a trade he's made at the deadline that has worked out for the Padres. I would say trading for Juan Soto at the deadline worked out for the Padres. Look at all they got back. Kyle Higashyoka, we can go through that whole thing again. Michael King, but I'm not gonna go through all of it again. Good, but that was a trade that worked out. It didn't maybe work out just because Juan Soto didn't do what he's doing with the Yankees as an AJ's fault. I've, the chat is getting to me today, Chris. So I'm getting a little defensive of everything. Stop reading the chat. Well, I'm really tired of people telling me I'm wrong when I'm not actually wrong and I provide them proof and then they just disappear because they're wrong. Welcome to our world, Scrabby. Welcome to our world. Let's go to John, East County guy. I'm going in Chris, hi, John. - Hey guys, hey, how you doing? Good boy. - Very good. - Yeah, I'm kind of on the line. I'm kind of on the line that last caller. I think they really probably did give up too much, but I think AJ's in a position where, if he was in their type of work, he would've been gone a long time ago. And I think he's got a win right now. I think if he doesn't do something big this year, you know, a playoff run, something, I think he's gone. I know he was Peter Sider's boy and he hung in there with him, you know, through manager's, he hired, you know, with no experience and that didn't work. So I had another one, no experience. So I think I might've given up a little too much, but in his case, he's got a win now. So, you know, I think it's probably a good trade. Get an arm. I would've liked to see him as a starter though. I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna have like two starters and 28 relievers. (laughs) But I just think, you know, it's like, hey, you gotta go down, you go down in flames, you go down swinging. But if you get fired at the end of the year and the cupboard's bare in the minors, well, hey, it's not my problem, it's the next guys. You know? - John, you're not the only person who has given us that angle. And I will say this, you presented it very nicely and clearly. And we will find out. That's what, what was the first thing I said today? Do you remember Scravey when we had me and Tony and... - Yes, I think it was then it was Kyle Glaser on. Do you remember what I said? - I'm a clown. - That's funny. (laughs) - What I said, what I said was that the Padres took a gamble today. - A big one. And we're gonna find out. See if they're gonna pay off handsomely and they're gonna get deep into the playoffs, go to a World Series, or they're gonna come up short and they're gonna look and the cupboard's gonna be a little bare than they want it to be. Doug, San Marcos, good to have you on, Doug. How are you today? Thanks for joining us. - Hey, I'm doing great, guys. By the way, I'm in Vista nowadays, but it's all good. - Moved over to Vista, okay. - Oh, all right. - We got you too. - Yeah, never shout out. - Get that up to snuff, will ya, Scravey? - Yeah, Scravey's all over of it. - Yeah, yes. - Hey, you know what, man? I wanna say, first of all, let's go back, just a couple weeks. Our starters have been doing actually a pretty darn good job. - Incredible, yeah. - We're not that hurtin'. Do we need a starter? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree with all that, man. But to get tanner out here, man, I've been watching that kid. - That's a good acquisition, man, I like that. Maybe what they're looking at is we're becoming a finishing bullpen squad, you know, to where we're gonna finish out where we only have four men or five max, but four men rotation. I mean, losing you, Darvish was huge. That was big, man, and then having Joe out, of course, does not help at all. So, we'll get Joe back, hopefully, sooner than later. And, you know what, we got a bullpen now, man. And then you look at the rest of our team. If we can just get 'em all doin' the same thing at the same time, we're gonna be fine, man. You know, I don't know if we're a World Series. On our way, I think we can have a chance to go semi-deep in the playoffs, you know? And I'm trying to be positive, man. I think we're fine, I think we're fine. I really am, and AJ, yeah, man. I mean, I've been a Padres fan forever. I've told you guys that before. And one thing I've always said is Padres trade superstars, man. Every time they trade somebody, that guy becomes a superstar on another team, and they win a World Series. Are they, you know, the Dave Winfield's in the, oh, oh, I mean, I can't name 'em all right now, but there's a fine number. - Oh, come on, Doug, name 'em all. Will you please name them all? - I know, I know, there's a lot of 'em though, man. There's a lot of 'em, but... - Thanks for joining us, buddy. I appreciate it, good stuff. Keep on rockin' and vista, keep on joinin' us, and we appreciate your positive vibes today. - Let me ask you this, Chris. I gotta take a break 'cause why I cut you a tad short, Doug. Go ahead, Scrab. What is the goal? What was the goal of today? - To win the World Series. - To win the World Series. - No, no, no, no, no. - Right now, it wasn't. The goal of today was to get better. Or the goal of the last couple days was to get better. I think the Padres got better. 'Cause we have zero idea what some of these guys are gonna do, and we've seen Grand Polly at the major league level. He's way off, he might be good one day, but I think the Padres got better, and that's the goal. - Let me just throw one quick thought at you. - No. - On that subject. - No, I'm done, I'm not listening. - The goal today was also to get a starting pitcher. - They did? - They did, okay. - Martine Perez? - You got 'em. 518, check it traffic, then back to finish up before the Padres pregame show. 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Maybe you got a rehearsal dinner coming up corporate event ask for April when you call. And Spiro's will help you plan a customized menu for your party. Enjoy Spiro's. Somebody who enjoyed what the Padres did today is MLB networks Tom Verducci. I think he was on this program. Maybe like no week we started seven years ago. - I've been trying to get him. He's not his schedule just is not a line or he just doesn't really want to come home. - I'm going to go with this. I'm going to go with the ladder. - Every time he texts me back and I'm like, he's a nice guy texting me back. That means he's open for more invitations, but it's never worked out. - Never worked out. Tom Verducci said today, quote, "A.J. Preller hit the ball out of the park with these deals. San Diego is a dangerous team, not just now, but in the postseason." Here's another guy that likes what the Padres did today. Chris, Mad Dog Russo. - Oh, Mad Dog likes it. - Mad Dog likes it. Better start printing World Series tickets. Mad Dog said the Padres are very dangerous after what they accomplished. That's a trade deadline. - But what about eight years from now? Are they going to be dangerous eight years now, Chris? - I said already, Scrappy. I don't care who they gave up if they win the World Series. I don't care who they give up if they get to the end. - They could give up. They could give up Steve Garvey's retired number. I wouldn't care if they win the World Series. It's so hard to get to a World Series, like as long as you go deep in the playoffs, I feel like that's a success. Yes, you want a World Series. That's the end goal. - All right. - But it can't happen every year. - Where did the Padres rank in the MLB power rankings like three days ago before the trade deadline? - Oh, I know this. - Do you know? - Yeah, Matt Snyder is our senior sports rankings. - Well, Matt has him always a little higher than everybody else. - Well, he had him at 14 prior to this week's rankings and this week's rankings after the good road trip they had, he has him at 10. - He had him at 10. I'm looking at an article here online that has ranked all the teams in Major League Baseball now that the trade deadline is over. So did the Padres jump up from 10? Did they stay about the same? Did they fall? And keep in mind, this is just one website's opinion. - What website is this? - This is, I hate the Padres.com. - Oh no. - No it isn't. - Oh no. - I don't know what it's called. - It's power rankings.com. - Whatever it is. They say that the best team in baseball now is the Orioles. 'Cause the Orioles picked up Eloy Jimenez, they picked up Zach Eflin. Anyway, they like what the Orioles did. Dodgers are number two after their trade acquisitions. Phillies are three, but here's what they wrote about the Phillies and I think it has merit. It says the Phillies have struggled since that London series. Do you remember that? - I do. - They're only 20 and 21 since then. - Really? I didn't realize that. - They have the fifth worst ERA in baseball out of the bullpen since that time. That's where the addition of Carlos Estevas comes in. Estevas was the best reliever moved at the MLB trade deadline. I don't know if I agree with that. Tanner Scott was moved at the trade deadline here to San Diego and we already gave you some of the numbers on Tanner Scott who hasn't given up a run in a month and a half. That's not so sure that Tanner Scott wasn't the best reliever moved at the deadline, but they say that that's the case here. - Sorry. This just hit me and I don't think we've hit you. - I don't think we've talked about this today. But with the addition of Tanner Scott and Jason Adam, hopefully that means that Robert Suarez doesn't have to do any more five out saves, four out saves. He could just do his standard three out saves and save his arm for the postseason. That is a concern and now it's not a concern because these guys are gonna do it. - I have one thing to say to that. - Uh oh. Boom. - Boom, is that right? You like it? - Might be good. - Might be good. - Finally. - He'll probably get a five out save tonight though. - I know. - Just for fun. - I know and then someone's gonna hit me up on my Twitter and tell me I'm wrong. - Phillies are third here after the trade deadline. Power rankings continue. After the trade deadline, Yankees four, Guardians five. Brewer six. - Yeah. - Mariner seven. Braves eight. Really? Braves added Jorge Solaire. So what? Number nine, Astros gave away their whole farm system for Kakuchi. - Yeah, which was an overpay. 10 twins didn't add anybody. Padres 11. There you go. It says the Padres lost out on Jack Flaherty and other top starting pitchers but they will beat some teams with their bullpen now. - Ooh, there we go. - It wasn't cheap to acquire 10 or Scott and Jason Adam and San Diego knows it. With that said. - Who is this person right? - With that. I think it's Kevin. (laughing) That wrote this article. With that said, the Padres bullpen now becomes this team's strength. If the Padres lineup can continue producing, et cetera, et cetera. The new look bullpen will have plenty of leads to protect. - I like the set of all that. - According to this, anyway, the Padres are about where they were in the power rankings before the trade deadline as opposed to now. - I don't know how that's possible. They didn't trade any like real MLB players, I guess. - It'll be interesting to, be interesting to Mariner to look at the baseball perspective ratings of farm systems. Like did the Padres just go from like the number six system to the number 60 system in two days? - This happened when they traded for Juan Soto. Remember, they went down on the rankings and then they had enough people, they built the farm back up. - Back to back up? - Well, they're gonna have to do it again. - I got to say, Chris, I'm exhausted today. - You're a little tired? - I'm a little tired. - Well, I've been too emotional today, Chris. - You've been a little emotional, it's a good thing they don't have the Scravey Chronicles coming up instead. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - We'd be daily gripe the whole hour. - You'd gripe the whole hour. We've got our guy, Sam Levitt, checking in with the Padre pregame show, Tyler Glass now, Matt Waldron. First game, two game series. I can't tell you this, Jason Adam is in uniform. - Yes, he is. - So I'm interviewed down in the clubhouse on Twitter before the game. So Jason Adam is available tonight, obviously Tanner Scott's not gonna be available tonight. - Where are the Marlins? - They're in last place. - No, I know. - Oh, where in the world are the Marlins? - Where are they at home? - I can't keep track of where the Marlins are. So you'll have to tell me yourself on that one. - They are in Tampa, so not close. - They're gonna be a ways away. So yeah, it'll be a day or two before we see. - So his horse and carriage gets here, he'll be able to go. - Well, hopefully the Padres are flying him out because if they're waiting on the Marlins to ship him, it may be horse and carriage. - It may be, or he's on Southwest or something, the Sea Group. - Frontier. - Oh, by the way, did you brought that up on the Sea Group? Did you know that Southwest is ending the numbered boarding system? Everybody's gonna have their own seat now. - And this is the end of Southwest. - Really? You think it ends the whole airline? Like the business goes belly up because of this decision? - No, I think what it's doing is it's showing me that all they really want is money. They do not care about the airline. They just want money and they're gonna take you with the free bags too soon. Get ready for that. I want better peanuts and I want more than just a half a can of ginger ale if I'm gonna be paying you for my bags, okay? - Warm ginger ale. I always ask for ice and then they roll their eyes at me. - Thank you so much to Kyle Glaser today. He made us sound really smart for an hour and a half. We probably gave back all that goodwill in the time since. - Yes. - But we tried. - And for Tony Glaser, Jr. and Matt Scrae, be Chris Ello. Hope you enjoyed our trade deadline coverage tomorrow morning. We got a special Padres round table. It gets started at 10 a.m. Don't miss that. And don't miss this. Coming up next, Sam Levitts, eco-water SoCal pre-game show. Then Padres and Dodgers on 97th through the fan. (upbeat music)