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7.30.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 2: Recapping the trade deadline
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We kicked off our number two of our 2024 Major League Baseball Trade Deadline coverage. It's presented by San Diego Roundtable Pizza. Whether or not you think the first hour was successful for the San Diego Padres, the Padres acquiring Tanner Scott, all-star left-handed reliever from the Miami Marlins. Trading quite a package to get him, including Robbie Snelling, Adam Major, and Graham Pauli. All going back to the Marlins plus another minor leaguer in that deal. Whether or not you think that was good news or not is up for debate. Whether the commercial break that we just had was good or bad news is not up for debate. It was most certainly not good news for the Padres. That is because during the break, the Los Angeles Dodgers have struck Tony Gwen Jr. Yes, they have. And Jack Flaherty, the right-hander who's having a remarkably great rebirth of a season this year. This is one of the better bet on yourself free-agent deals. This guy has a 7-5 record this year while pitching with the Tigers. He has a 2-9-5 ERA. Here's the number that jumps out at you. 0.96 in the whip. Yeah, he's doing quite well, 133 strikeouts, only 19 walks. Flaherty now comes to the Dodgers. The Dodgers also, just for fun, acquire another center fielder, a gold glove-type center fielder, Kevin Kiermeyer. Who's he been with lately? He was back with Toronto. He was back with Toronto. I knew he'd run around a lot. He's now with the Dodgers. That commercial break, Tony, did not go so well. That's not it, either. Apparently, in Yell de Los Santos on his way to the Yankees. We're giving up in Yell de Los Santos. Well, we have to make room for some of these relievers. There's another one that's being reported. Don't know if it's a done deal or whatnot, but the Martin Perez trade to the Padres. Lefty, he had been starting. I think he still started home. Yeah, he's been hurt on and off the season. Just returned to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Has not been exactly a phenomenal year so far for Martin Perez. He's two and five with a 5.20 ERA. He has made 16 starts. But he has had some success, mostly with the Texas Rangers. In fact, Martin Perez has had six double-digit winning seasons in his career. All time he's 87 and 86. I would say this. This matches kind of that back end of the rotation type deal, right? That's a left-handed pitcher. You need innings right now. I mean, as you are pushing, yes, you got to get wins, right? You got to stay healthy. But where the Padres are deficient at is starting pitching and being able to eat innings. They've gotten three guys for sure that have done it well. Waldron, King, I miss him one. Oh, it sees. Vasquez has improved. He had a rough one this last time. But you got to have some guys who can eat some innings if Martin Perez is healthy. He can do that. I think the thing that is just a slight concern here is Perez has just not been very good. And, you know, even last year with Texas, he did okay in a swingman role. But, I mean, come post-season time. He was not a major, major part of the run. He was, you know, in the bullpen pitching sparingly and didn't really pitch well when he was used. So, I think if you're the Padres, you want a back-end lefty. I would be curious to know if they made a series from Tyler Anderson up to Freeway and Anaheim. Tyler Anderson very, very, very quietly has been one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball this year. Oh, yeah, Padres saw him early this year. He carved. Sub-3-R-A pitching consistently into six-sevenths and even eight sometimes. Made in all-star game has post-season experience pitched well, including against the Padres a few years ago. It's a little tricky with the contract because he's owed $13 million next year plus the remainder of that this year. But if you were going to go get a back-end lefty starter, Tyler Anderson is vastly superior to Martin Perez. Perez has owed $8 million this year's salary, so the prorated version of that. I'd be curious to know if they seriously pursued that because I don't really know how much help Martin Perez is going to give them unless you're just trusting the Ruben Diablo magic, which again could be very viable. But it's not like you look at this and say, "Ooh, this really upgrades the back of the rotation based on what he's shown this year." I don't want to sound the alarm, but he's coming from the same team that Rich Hill came from last year. 1.65 whipped this year from Martin Perez 1.40 last year, which isn't great in a season that he went 10 and 4. So the last few years have been rough from Martin Perez, Tony. I'll say this, I don't necessarily think it needs to be a playoff type move. Again, you got to get through these regular season games healthy enough with the right guys. And so Martin may be just a move to help you do that, to get through the regular season. Doesn't mean that he needs to be on the postseason roster if he's not deserving of so. I think we start trying to get the perfect fit in every little nook and cranny that you have on your roster. It's just not typically how it works. When we go back to some of the last couple years of Padres have made big time deals, but then when the roster was all set, there were still holes in that roster. Even with those big deals made. And so this is a little bit different tact this year to Padres, I think somewhat handcuffed because of financial reasons and also handcuffed because as we talked about, so many teams are involved that the price tags are up. And so, you know, I'm sure, listen, what I do, what I can tell you is I promise you, AJ Preller has looked everywhere to find the right kind of deal that he can make. And if this ends up being it, probably was the best deal he could come up with right now. And given the landscape of everything. The one thing with Perez and be curious to see is he went on the IL with a groin strand earlier this year off to a good start, then strode a little bit since coming off the IL. It's been rough 631 ERA. He did pitch well last start, so maybe he's turning a corner, but that's the thing I'm going to be watching for. Because you're right, you need guys to get through the end of the season. I think the concern is he's been so bad recently. He's not a guy you really want pitching for your even, you know, down stretch. So I think that's where I'll be curious to see how they utilize him. Maybe they, you know, plug him in the fifth spot, skip some starts. I want to see what he can do coming off this injury because it's been particularly bad since coming off the IL. That voice is Kyle Glazer, our baseball trade deadline expert here on Gwen and Chris today. Nice enough to sit in with us for the last couple of hours. And to break down all of the stuff that's going on, if you just tuned in, Padres have indeed acquired Tanner Scott. That is a done deal. The Martine Perez has been reported, I think, maybe on one tweet. So we better be just 100% sure before we go ahead and make that official. I don't know that anyone's made that 100% official on Martine. Like I said, it was it's been reported. We haven't nobody's nobody has actually confirmed that or not. So we'll wait to see if it actually happens. That's the guy. Let me ask you Kyle about Jack Flaherty. This is the biggest news of the last 10 minutes and how big is it? Well, the return just came in. I can tell you right now, the Dodgers gave up a heck of a lot less for Jack Flaherty than the Padres gave up for Tanner Scott. A heck of a lot less. If this was the price for Jack Flaherty, the Padres should have done this. No questions asked. So, first of all, I think we need to establish who Jack Flaherty is and how good he is. You know, you have to remember this was one of the best young pitchers in baseball for a four season run. Then he struggled with some injuries. His first year back was last year, you know, had some ups and downs after again being more or less hurt for two seasons. And now he's back to being a stud. I do think this is who Jack Flaherty is. When he's healthy, when he's right, when he's fresh, he is a stud type of pitcher. And that's what he's pitching like in Detroit this year. Now he's going to go to LA and do that. The players he was traded for, Taelon Ronzo is a power hitting low level catcher who has power. Switch hitter, but swings and misses a lot. And he's a big boy who might not be able to stay behind the plate. Trace Sweeney is an organization. I mean, again, you talk about rental prices. The price for Tanner Scott, the Padres paid five times on the dollar. What the Dodgers paid for Jack Flaherty. What's Tanner's situation? Is he a free agent? Yeah, there's a free agent after this year. I mean, they also got Brian Honig who again, Hoing is who's a nice reliever, but he's not why you would pay that price. Well, you also, I think we also got taken to account the Padres and the teams they deal with see, I shouldn't say that. Teams view prospects differently in different organizations. And, you know, I don't know who, I know, I recognize one of the names that went back to power hitting catcher from the Dodgers. I don't know Sweeney very much, but, you know, I think, you know, as it pertains, they may not have liked the guys the Padres were willing to give up for it. And it has to be a matchmaking deal. So, I know on paper, it looks like, man, the Padres should have just went and got Jack Flaherty. If said team Detroit Tigers didn't like the guys the Padres were offering, then this is what you get. It's a moot point. It's what you're saying, and you're right, Tony. The other team has to be interested in what you've got to sell. And maybe the Tigers weren't. Maybe the Tigers are just rooting for the Dodgers to come out of the N.L. West. You know, I mean, God forbid, you know, anybody should give the Padres a break. But, you know, Flaherty goes with what, Tyler Glass now, Clayton Kershaw. You know, the Dodgers all of a sudden now have bolstered up their starting rotation after it was in tatters for much of the season. And because the injuries to Bueller and to Kershaw and to even Glass now for a little while and many, many others. So, you know, this is one of the bigger names in the last two days that have been traded. Certainly the biggest starting pitching name. And Flaherty winds up a Dodger. He's a stud, man. The last couple of years, as Kyle mentioned, have only been that way because he wasn't right. Now he's right. And this is who he was, you know, that 2020 run, 2021. I mean, this is who he has been. And so the Dodgers get a good one. I mean, the Dodgers got a lot better, too. So, you know, Padres have closed the gap in terms of the division. And they got better. But, you know, so did they. So did the Dodgers. And so, you know, the good part about it for the Padres is I think they've gotten a lot better. I think I don't know that the Diamondbacks have gotten that much better. You know, I don't know the Giants clearly have stood where they were because, you know, that I don't think they really know if it's real for them. And so, you know, you may not have been able to close the gap on the Dodgers in the division, but I think you've definitely given yourself a chance to maybe separate from the Diamondbacks who were clipping at your heels right now. Well, the Arizona Diamondbacks today did get our old friend Josh Bell. So, they acquired him. Poor Josh Bell. I mean, I don't care what this guy does. He gets traded at the trade deadline. Is this the third year in a row? I can't keep track of where he's even been and where he's gone. Arizona also picked up left-handed reliever, AJ Puck. From the Marlins, Puck was the closer last year ahead of Tanner Scott. This year, Tanner Scott became the closer. Puck became a starter. Was terrible. And they moved him back to the bullpen where he's actually been pretty good. So, the Diamondbacks did do their thing. But, you know, the Padres bullpen, that's the one thing for sure. We can just say this and we can debate the rest of it, but the Padres bullpen is legit right now with the acquisitions of Tanner Scott today and Jason Adam over the weekend. Tony, I know you got a ball game tonight. We've been talking about this trade deadline. Can't forget the Dodgers are in town for game one of the two-game series. You might have to do a little pre-game preparing. I'm playing catch-up because I haven't done anything. I haven't done any line-ups. Oh, my goodness. You're running my mouth with you guys watching Jesse get ahead of me. You're all his work. All right, Tony. 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Our trade deadline coverage presented by San Diego Roundtable Pizza. If you're just tuning in, Padres go bullpen with Tanner Scott, the all-star reliever, closer from the Miami Marlins coming to the Padres. Padres also get an interesting piece in this trade too. As I read up a little bit more on Brian Hoeing, a guy that was an opener for the Marlins can go two, three innings in that role all the way to a back-end type guy. So they pick him up in this trade as well. Padres do pay a rather steep price to get Tanner Scott as they trade away the likes of Robbie Snelling at a major and grand poly. Padres have also acquired Martin Perez, left-handed starter from the Pittsburgh Pirates, albeit Perez 2 and 5 and a whip of 1.6. I don't want to sound like, you know, Rich Hill all over again, but the numbers do not add up too well from Martin Perez, so we'll see where the Padres go there. Look, Jack Flaherty just went to the Dodgers. We've got Kyle Glazer with us for a few more minutes. You talked about that. If I give you, I'm going to give you a couple of these moves that have been made the last two days. Kyle, just give me, you know, like a one-and-a-half sentence on each of these things. How good of a move, you know, what it does for this particular team. I think you answered Jack Flaherty going to the Dodgers. Does Josh Bell find any opening space in Arizona? It was a good trade for the D-Backs considering Christian Walker just went on the aisle. They needed a first baseman again. Is Josh Bell going to be the guy that, you know, carries them back to the World Series? Probably not, but I think he's, you know, a valuable addition at a place of need given the injury to Walker. One guy whose name that I kind of latched onto a little earlier today, the New York Mets acquired Oakland A starter Paul Blackburn. Now, he got off to an unbelievable start this year for Oakland. I think he was 5'6" and 0, hadn't hardly given up a run. Then he, you know, he kind of leveled off, and then he got hurt. And he's been out for a couple of months, but he's coming back and apparently going to be available to the Mets the last month and a half. Is that, could they get lightning in a bottle there? I think you're getting more of a solid type of guy again. You look at him, he's been the last couple of years, you know, ERA 4.2, 4.4, 4.4. Again, I mean, this is kind of who he is, a solid number four-ish reliever who will help you. All right, Cleveland added Lane Thomas yesterday, Alex Cobb injured all season with the Giants, but the Guardians give themselves a better shot against, you know, the likes of the Yankees and Orioles down the road. I think the addition of Lane Thomas was a really nice addition. Right-handed hitting, athletic outfielder, power speed, arm can do a lot of things for you, but I think the Guardians missed an opportunity to really add more. This is a year where they have the pitching stuff, but probably the best bullpen in baseball, and for once they have a good offense this year. This was the time for them to trade some of their higher-end prospects, go get some impact talent. They didn't really do that. Again, Alex Cobb hasn't pitched all year, fine, back end guy when he's right. Thomas, good right-handed compliment in the outfield, but I think this was a year Cleveland should have pushed the envelope a little bit more, and I think they missed an opportunity to do that. All right, how about the Yankees yesterday with jazz Chisholm? He's already paid dividends with a couple of home runs, although one of them was off a position player. Still counts. Chisholm seems like he's going to be a bright lights type of guy to me. You know, get him out of Miami where he's, nobody knows where he is, and now he's on the spotlight, and I think he seems like he's going to like that. For me, jazz Chisholm is so mercurial. I said at the time, this is either going to go spectacularly, or be an abject disaster with nothing in between. Either he's going to flash the big smile, play with energy. That left-handed power is going to play really well in New York, or he's going to soak and swing and miss some time, and the Yankees fans are going to turn on him immediately. I thought it was 50/50. Either way, it could go. So far, it's gone the good way. All right, Randy Rosarana to Seattle. You mentioned earlier that the Mariners, you thought, might get some more guys, but is a Rosarana a lightning rod for them? Absolutely. People are going to look at his season line and say he hasn't been very good, but it was really just a really terribly slow start. Since the beginning of June, he's been one of the best-hears in baseball, hitting about 290 with an OPS over 900. Even going back to mid-May, it's been pretty good. He's exactly the type of guy the Mariners needed, and they did not pay a high price from Adel. I was shocked how low it was, Aidan Smith and Brody Hopkins. My shock is just the Mariners didn't do more. Randy Rosarana needed to be like one of five bats they acquired. Instead, they acquired him, and Justin Turner, who age has finally caught up to. He was ageless for a while, but it's finally caught up to him. Yes, father time undefeated, we say on this show many times. The Philadelphia Phillies get closer Carlos Estvez from the Angels to go along with two All-Stars on the back end. Jeff Hoffman and Matt Strom, and oh, by the way, Jose Alvarado. Yeah. Talked about the Padres being really good now on the back end. Seems as though the Phillies are also. The Phillies are the best team in baseball, and they just got even better. They are the team everyone is chasing in the National League. They also acquired Austin Hayes, which I think was an interesting addition. He's an All-Star in Baltimore. He struggled this year. He got squeezed out of playing time, but the Phillies need some outfield help. He's got right-handed power. He's got some speed. Get him into an ordinary, just a different voice, different hitting coach, different teammates. That has a chance to pay dividends for them. I wouldn't be shocked to see if he has an uptick and really makes a difference for them. Finish is strong. We talked about the Dodgers getting flarity today. What about getting Tommy Edmond and Michael Copec yesterday? Yeah, Tommy Edmond gives them a lot of what they needed. Another shortstop option again. What you love about Tommy Edmond is just fundamentally sound. He's a heavy baseball player, makes contact, can run, can play multiple positions. He's the kind of Swiss Army knife who will help you come post season time. I'm going to be fascinated to see if they can help Michael Copec. We talked about this. Guys in dysfunctional organizations, move them into a healthier system. Copec has always had explosive stuff. He's never thrown strikes consistently. If you're the Dodgers, can you help him just a little bit? And maybe if you do, you get potentially its ladening stuff. So I think the Dodgers did really, really well with this deadline getting these guys. And really, they didn't give up a whole lot to get them. Yeah, I wish you would have said the Dodgers did terrible with the deadline. But they didn't. Cardinals yesterday got maybe the biggest name starter yesterday anyway. Eric Fettie from the White Sox and her old friend Tommy Pham goes back to St. Louis. Cardinals, any good for them? I think the Cardinals are actually the sneaky winner of this deadline because they got two impact players. Interesting. I look, trading is how man and hurts a little bit. But, I mean, they got two really good players and really did not give up a whole lot at all. So I actually think they're a team that really helped themselves. A lot of the nationally playoff contenders really helped themselves. They're one of them. Yeah, I wish all the nationally playoff contenders had not helped themselves. One last team, the Atlanta Braves, bring back World Series hero Jorge Solaire from the Giants. Very random. Trying to catch. Well, look, we got him one World Series. No way he can get them another, right? Hey, they're getting the band back together. They brought Jorge Solaire back. They brought Luke Jackson back. I mean, I was kind of waiting for them to trade. I mean, they already have Eddie Rosario back. I mean, they're getting the whole band back together. I think, you know, Solaire was a little bit of a salary dump from the Giants perspective. And look, if you're the Braves, why not go for it? They need some outfield help. The aforementioned Eddie Rosario has not been great for them. So I think at the end of the day, the Braves, they got better. They're already a great team, even without a Koonian Strider. So yeah, they're in a good place. All right. Well, Kyle, you were amazing for two and a half hours. He was on with Craig and Annie and on with us for an hour and a half during this trade deadline. The information invaluable to our fans. I know that. And I feel like I'm a little smarter after talking to you as well. Thanks for checking in with us, Kyle. You're not on the program any time. Real quick before Kyle goes, I loved having Kyle right in front of me because anytime a trade went down, I just looked at his face to see whether or not it was a good or bad trade. So it was great. Appreciate it, guys. It was a great job. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it and happy to join you anytime. All right. Thank you, Kyle. Glaise, you're there going in Chris back much more still ahead. Probably be some more trades that have not yet been announced. So don't go anywhere. We'll keep you up to date and all of that. Also, open up the phone lines. Get your thoughts on the Padres acquisition of Tanner Scott when we return. Pick up with another power arm in that bullpen. I mean, AJ Preller is doing the right thing. He's got a rotation that spins the ball better than anybody else. And now we're talking about a guy who's come a long way from when he broke in with the Orioles and went back and looked at it. He's always had a great arm, right? You see the velocity pretty much what it was in his first full season in 2018. But look at the vertical release point. Back in 18, nobody was talking about a vertical approach angle that is throwing the ball with a low arm angle to the high point in his own. And he's done that so well with some mechanical changes. Here he is back in 18 with Baltimore here, watching delivery now. Again, it's a good fastball, but you're going to see a very different delivery now here with the Marlins. A much lower release point. A lot of ride now with this fastball. Here's the difference. I asked Tom Verducci and the folks at MLB Network talking about the Padres. Acquiring Marlins. All star closer, Tanner Scott. Big move of the day for the Padres. Welcome back to Gwen and Chris. Chris Delo, Tony Gwen, Jr. Kyle Glaser was with us the first 90 minutes of the show. We really appreciate him being a part of our trade deadline coverage here. Brought to you by Sandy. Go round table pizza, Matt Scrabie alongside as well. I thought we would take some phone calls here, Scrabie. We don't, you know, we got a day where the Padres are making moves. They're trading a lot of big name prospects. I think some of the fans from what I can tell on the chat, from what I can tell on Twitter, this seems like a very 50/50 thing out there. It doesn't seem like a 100%. Hey, I'm ecstatic to have Tanner Scott and I would have been willing to give up anything to get him. I think there's some people who feel like the Padres paid way too much for a, you know, another reliever when they'd already acquired a reliever over the weekend in Jason Adam. There's some people that are saying, look at the Dodgers. They got Jack Flaherty and had to give up much less. I read a tweet just a moment ago that said the Dodgers acquired in the last two days. Jack Flaherty, Kevin Kermier, Tommy Edmond and Ahmed Rosario and only had to give up one of their top 15 prospects. I saw another tweet that said, if you look at the Padres pre-season top 10 prospects according to Keith Law, they have now traded eight of them. That includes getting a rise. It can include Dylan Cease and it now includes getting Jason Adam and Tanner Scott. The Padres have wiped out really their farm system except for Ethan Salas and Leonardo DeVries. Leo Dallas. Leo Dallas. Thank you, Leonardo. He's a painter. He's a painter. Hey, DeVries is painting home runs right now. I know he is. So that's kind of the question here. Did the Padres, you know, just did they do the right thing? They taken too big of a risk here. Those thoughts are kind of coming out here in the last hour and a half or so. It is mind boggling to me to see the chat right now with the amount of people that are angry that the Padres are trying to get better. Yes, they gave away a lot for Tanner Scott. We'll see what happens there. If Tanner Scott comes through down the stretch when we need him to, it's all going to be worth it. Adam Major, I know that he's a little bit ways off from being like every or a full time rotation guy. We saw what he could do. He couldn't throw strikes. Grand Poly swung it in a pitch to hit him in the face. And I just wanted to say that. But Grand Poly wasn't great either. Not to say that they're not going to be great down the road, but they are not contributing at this moment. And they have all these contracts locking up big time players for the next five, six, seven, eight years. Right. Well, the other side of this is the fact that Tanner Scott is a rental. He's a free agent at the end of the season. And the Padres, along with giving up Adam Major and along with giving up. Grand Poly also gave up the top pitcher in their farm system, Robbie Snelling. He's gone. But in Tony said this thing too. What if the prospects, oh, he didn't say this. I'll say this. This is Tony's mouth. But what if the prospects just aren't as good as perceived? Well, we'll all find out. I mean, that's what makes this all great. And that's what makes this all interesting is, you know, what are your thoughts on it? And you can have a bunch of different ones, 833-288-0973. If you'd like to join the program, I want to hear what you think. Is there anybody out there that's just ecstatic to get Tanner Scott? As I said to Kyle Glaser and to Tony earlier. If the Padres win the World Series this year with Tanner Scott helping lead the bullpen and working with Suarez and Jason Adam as an of an 8/9th inning trio. And the Padres come up champions. I wouldn't have cared if they traded Salas and Devries. If you could tell me they'd win the World Series. So there's no way they traded too much. If the result at the end is, you know, getting to a World Series. But I think that's also what Kyle Glaser was, you know, underscoring. They kind of put themselves in a situation with these moves. And by trading what they have that they're putting a lot of their eggs in this year's basket, maybe that's where they should be. I think everybody has to take this year's trade deadline and they have to put Dylan Cease and Louisa rise in that for the Padres. Because even though those weren't deadline acquisitions, they were huge acquisitions. Well, they're part of the reason why you've traded away your entire top 10 of your farm system. Because now you have maybe a shot. You have a shot at going deep in the playoffs. I don't know how to make people happy Chris. I don't think I feel like there's no such thing in sports talk radio. I do this a lot where I get mad at things that I shouldn't be mad at. But like the amount of people that are like crying that's a figure of speech over the loss of Adam Major and grandpolly and guys I've never even heard of are kind of crazy. It's kind of crazy to me. It's kind of crazy to me. All right. While you recover and we get some of the phone lines lit up at 833-288-0973. Let's check some traffic. All right. We've got some good phone calls coming up here. Fans want to chime in on this thing. The Padres have gone for it here. There's no question. Tanner Scott, the reliever joins Jason Adam, the reliever that was acquired over the weekend. And the Padres other than Ethan Salas and Leo Dallas to freeze pretty much wipe out their farm system in order to try and make a run at the fall classic. Dodgers in the meantime get Jack Flaherty. They also get Kevin Kiermeyer. They also get Tommy Edman. They also get Michael Copac. They also get Ahmed Rosario. They part with only one of their top 15 prospects. That on its surface doesn't sound like an even deal. It doesn't. We'll see how it all turns out. Like I said, if you went in the end, it really isn't going to matter what you gave up. I have a programming note real quick. This just came in Chris. But we are going to carry AJ Proler's press conference live at 4 p.m. here on the station. All right. Well, with that coming up, let's get the phone calls in now then. Let's go to Jed and little Italy. Start us off with some of your thoughts on what went down today. Jed. How are you guys doing? First of all. Pretty good. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Doing good. Thank you. Honestly, I'm stoked about the trades. I'm happy about it. And I think Padre fans that are upset about it need to realize that the organization still chasing their first world series and tell you get that first one under your belt. You kind of have to go all in on these certain opportunities you get. If you keep worrying about the future, you may never get that first one. So I think we take this strong back end of the bullpen and ride. If we had this strong a bullpen all the way up until this point, we may be playing for the division over the next two days because the bullpen's cost has caught a few games. So take our starting pitching. There's offense and strengthen the bullpen. Let's go ride. I got to say something right now. What? I got to say something right now. What? Ready? Thank you, Jed. I'm saying it right now. What? Wow. Jed, you just got a standing ovation from Chris Ella. That's incredible. I don't think he's ever done that before. I'm serious. I'm being dead serious. See that I had to stretch my legs. One of the other. Thank you, Jed. Very good. Yeah. I like how he said it. And that's the one angle to look at this. You got to go for it when you got the shot. You did. But if you get around the next year and you have no one left to trade at the trade deadline, we're going to be getting complaints about what we did this year. I told you last year we gave up too much and now we don't have anything left to trade. Guess what? We're going to hear it. AJ, going to hear it. Changed the team completely in this last off season. He can bring in the prospects again. I feel like it's going to be fine. Okay. All right. We'll hear from AJ Preller live press conference in 15 minutes right now. We'll hear from Zach in alcohol. Zach. Go on. Yeah. So I'm just going to pick. Go on the attack, Zach. I'm going to pick you back up. I'm going to pick you back on what that guy just said and make everybody realize that it is about the hearing now. You know, there's no guarantee that we're going to have a future. You know, some guys could get hurt. Things can happen. Look what happened to you, Darvish. Look what happened to certain things. So go after it. Bring it to the fans. Let us experience what we did from the 2022. When I was at the game, you know, best moment I had in my life. Everything's about to hear now with this team. And you know, the farm system may be what they say gutted, but who's to say these guys that just didn't draft could do something for us next year. You never know. You know, the way these kids are hard nowadays, it doesn't take them much to get to these major, the major leagues are getting better to be able to trade for newer, you know, already major players. And if they're thinking about the guys that they let go, they weren't in the majors this year. So it is what it is. And let's just ride. I want to see a world series before I leave. So that's all I care about. We all want to see more. Thank you, Zach. No questions, Zach. Thank you very much. So is it now? Let's ride. Is that our new monster? I guess so. The last two collars were both gone with that. It didn't work for it. It didn't work for us. No, it does not a successful phrase. Not a successful phrase at all. Let's go down the board to Justin in Encinitas. Hi, Justin. Welcome to the show, sir. We've started something here. I agree with everything that was said. I have no problem with letting the prospects go. But can you guys make me feel at all better about our starting rotation moving forward? I mean, I didn't love watching at a major come up every five days. But what are we doing? What's the plan there? You know, Justin, I think that that's fair. And I brought it up during our opening discussion with Tony and with Kyle Glaser. Like if you would have traded Snelling and you would have traded Maisure and you would have traded Grand Poly and you would have given me Jack Flaherty, which seems like you maybe could have gotten based on what the Dodgers had to give up. I hope someone asked AJ this. Yeah, I'm sure somebody will. Hopefully he'll have to answer this in the press conference. But I would have felt a lot better than getting Tanner Scott. You know, Tanner Scott's great. But the Padres really need a starting picture right now. But I will try to answer this. Now, I think it's going to be a few things. One, Brian Hoeing, who also came in this trade, has some experience as an opener. The Padres don't normally go with an opener. Maybe for a couple of turns they use this strategy and then build on this great bullpen to finish a game or two until Musgrove comes back and then you've got your five starters. With Vasquez being your fifth and being a question mark, maybe Martin Perez catches a little lightning. I hope they don't give him as much rope though as they gave Rich Hill last year. Yeah. You know, one start maybe two for Martin Perez to see if he can get it done in the number five spot. But that is your answer right now, Justin. I don't see any other way that they can solve their number five issue unless I give you one more, Johnny Brito, who they sent back to the miners to try to work on stretching his arm out. He's healthy again. No. Oh, he's back. He's back. He'll be healthy again. Maybe he is your answer for a couple of starts in the number five role. Do you buy into the whole thing like it tells me that Joe Musgrove is coming back. They feel good about that. It also tells me that they didn't go out and get a starting picture because they believe you Darvish will be coming back. I hope you're right. I just hope you're right. I don't know if that tells me anything, but I certainly hope you're right. Thanks Justin. Good phone call there. Josh. San Diego. Line four. I'm playing. Don't just kidding. First time player. Good job. Good to see you. How are you? Good. I'm great. I'm just driving home. I hate to see Grand Polygon. My son had a really good connection with my spring training. We just saw him in El Paso. He had to see the kid go, but I like the prospect that he gets to play more. If he gets to Miami, he's going to be a big fan of hoping the players get to play. How do I go all the time? I love seeing them. I love seeing these players. Sorry Josh. We're going to let you have to let you go. It's not your fault. A faulty phone line does happen from time to time. You know what I'm hearing so far? It's a small sample size. Scrappy. Yes. But all of the people that are being really critical of AJ Preller and critical of trading too much and saying that we got the Dodgers stole their guy and we got made look bad. None of them have the guts to call because so far the first four phone calls have all been on. Don't challenge them. Don't challenge them. They've done so far. I don't know what we've had on the phones is a good sample though of what we're seeing elsewhere. No. I agree with you. I get where people are coming from because there is a part of me that says what about the future, but the future doesn't matter if you don't get to the playoffs this year. The future doesn't matter if you can't figure out some sort of I don't know plan for next year. You know what I'm saying, Chris? I don't know if I'm making good enough sense. No, I don't know. I don't think I mean. Yeah, I didn't make good sense. I understand that you're worried about the oftentimes, but I can help you understand people worried about the future, but the team has major league players under control. Maybe Tanner Scott is a rental, but they could resign him. Who knows? All I'm saying is like the team's going to be fine next year. They gave up a lot to get them. There's no question. Here's another thing to consider. Going into today, Braves, Mets, Padres, those three teams have the three wild card spots. Okay. So the Padres are in the Mets are in the Braves are in, but here's the thing. The Padres are only a half game right now ahead of Arizona. They're only two up on St. Louis, two up on Pittsburgh, Giants, Reds, Cubs, kind of still in the hunt. My point being, did Tanner Scott's acquisition just make that gap much bigger? Or is it going to be sweating it out to the final couple of days of the season just to get this wild card even with Tanner Scott and Jason Adam? We also have to take it because I want to bring up the possibility that they somehow miss it because if they miss the playoffs now, that's going to be kind of a debacle. I hate to tell you scrape. Well, we're going to have to wait for the debacle. We can't have a debacle before we get there. I know. I know. I'm saying if they don't make it after trading all of these prospects, not going to be a good look. It's not. It definitely isn't. But let me just say this too, because this is a common theme. AJ is trading all of the prospects because he's trying to save his job and he doesn't care about the future. I don't think that's true. I disagree with that 100% age is too much of a competitor to worry about stuff like that. But it does kind of have that look about it. Let's go to Drew and Carl's bad. Thanks, Drew, for joining us. Hello. Hello, Drew. Hello, Drew. Hello. Yes. You're on the air. Hello. Yep. You're on. Hey. So obviously, Maura Hone has been growing really, really well this year. He came up as a starter. So what are you guys' thoughts about since we have acquired two big pieces on the back of the bullpen, trying to transition him back into a starting role? A couple of things. Number one, on the round table, I've brought that up three or four times this year. Uh-huh. And what? Putting Maura Hone in as a starter. What'd they say? Every time they say, "I don't know what I'm talking about," and they say, "It's a really bad idea." Here's why they say it's a bad idea, because Maura Hone has already pitched more innings this year than ever has in any professional season, and can you honestly count on him to be a starting pitcher when he's already pitched 42 innings, which is basically 20 more than he's ever thrown on an inning. He's never stayed healthy. That's the biggest problem with Maura Hone as you look at his career. But I personally like it, Drew. I just don't think anybody else does. See where it goes. Hand-line everybody, we're going to hear from AJ Preller live press conference coming up at the top of the hour, but I'm sure that that will make you think of some more questions and opinions. So if you're online, don't lose your spot. If you're not online, you want to join us. I want to get your thoughts on what's happened and what's about to happen. An AJ Preller press conference on the trade deadline day going in Chris is right there for you. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well, so when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, Homes.com has got you covered. 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