Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - Sammy's Mic Issue + What Will Preller Do This Month

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour by revisiting our conversation with Sammy Levitt yesterday morning, and we try to get to the bottom of what exactly happened with Sam's audio when we switched him from his cell phone to Zoom... Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we continue to take a look at this month's MLB trade deadline, and try to determine which direction AJ Preller will go. Listen here!

Duration:: 56m
Broadcast on:: 09 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

offer my belated thank you to sam levith for filling in for us on friday i did catch some of that show on my drive up to vacation and say i was a real nice job did it good was solid uh... always great when it comes to the pot raise talk it was good having some local radio to enjoy on my drive on friday morning so thank you to sammy but then apparently yesterday and i did not hear this yesterday morning uh... sammy had his weekly appearance with you guys and uh... something went wrong technologically yeah and so he was still don't know what he would say he calls in from his uh... abode in pacific beach there's an area that cuts in and out in his place it's not uncommon i've got the dead spot my house as well uh... it just happens and so we've had some issues uh... with sammy levith's call in sometimes he goes out and does it from the coffee shop which is better uh... but yesterday was one of those where he was a little bit sounding underwater we're probably not given each other the look like uh... do we are i'd say i'm such an uncomfortable it's the worst you're hoping it'll just corrected self in a second but at some point you gotta just go all right this isn't sounding good no one can understand what he's saying we gotta pull the record is something at full the record is exactly the uh... right phrase so we did so poly alvamp for a minute you send him the zoom link now i yesterday you weren't here so i was you know hosting and and and doing the mechanics of the show it's not my favorite thing to do but i'm i'm pretty active in the chat when you're hosting and when i was i'd barely look at it but i happen to kind of glance down at it and people were saying that sammy sounds different and that there's some list but i didn't i didn't i never noticed it really i never did it sounded in my head as i was thinking i'm looking at the clock we gotta be out this time plans here he's getting set up so i'm like i'm white knuckle in it right noticed it right away i just i they're i didn't do anything right if you didn't do anything did we've had him we've had adam jones jesse agler have had a hundred guests on zoom so let's for the audio listen to the before like i mean this is what sammy sounds like talking to him i can everybody know i get over one sam levi with you inside at the law here the western metal building at pet co park they said he's got a bit of a was a long island the east coast accent but it's a he's got a broadcaster's voice of course so go back to yesterday here with sammy on the phone uh early on before it started to cut out and and we switched over to zoom what do you even say about that one inning alone right the roller coaster it was and and losing the lead and having to bring swar is in which i'm with you has happened way too often right on the same level sammy levi on the phone that is the same guy that you heard on the mic that is him talking on the phone for sure poly sends him the zoom lake i don't know who this person was there's about a five-foot spot in my kitchen and i swear to you it's not like i'm standing in this spot where i have literally no service so there is something about this apartment i'm gonna have to stop doing it from here i i when poly played it for me after it was probably two minutes between the phone and zoom yeah i'm like did he go put in his invisalign in between one of my little nephews like have they losing their teeth yeah i know when that happens yeah then you don't have the front teeth to talk about you know winning three out of five again two good teams that would be a really nice way to finish the half and and i just think for this group the way they're constructed right now the injuries the guys there's missing it you just have to avoid letting two games to become a skid skid let's get everyone was like oh look it's spring training family they didn't feed them family he texted me after like within five minutes of us hanging up and going to commercial break and all that he goes well what happened what did you do i got i didn't do any so one of my three-year-olds favorite things in the world to do when he's screaming when he's melting down the one way i can get him to calm down is i go to instagram and i go to the funny faces filter that puts the dog ears on and makes him into a clown it changes his voice so we'll lay in bed and scroll through those and i'm looking at poly and like is there a zoom feature that you can be like hey make him sound scottish make him sound because if so i want it more i want to make mike shilt sound like an irishman the next time he calls me i want let's let's have some fun with it i'm always i was that good poly said i did nothing different hey it's up in the morning it's my shield like i go is there something different that you did it you just have to avoid letting two games become a skid again so what in the world dude and i i can't believe it and it sounded again people were like it sounded like he had a retainer in whitening strips on the stone by a bee and it's the right so we just could not we could not figure it we can't figure it out and i just i i go i'm so sorry sammy like obviously we would never do that to say let's do an experiment i just i sent you a link the same zoom link that i sent to sammy one it's this it's a custom link for my email address or whatever it's the same code so same woods is going to go off on a zoom link just stand right outside of that window stand outside go on the same zoom set up that sam leavitt was on yesterday and let's see if we can recreate this for woods when it would sound like the same effect all right now you're on all right close the door all right woods he's left the studio he's going to join us via zoom can you hear us hey hey guys whoa wow what's up what's up it's steven woods no is it how does it sound it sound normal you sound like uh mike tyson does it sound normal now now it sounds normal yes i'm outside of the studio i'm talking about normal normal you sound yeah you sound you sound fine other than when you're okay when you're not trying to sound off it sounds like completely normal we're sorry sammy we're sorry that you had to uh had an endured entire appearance not sounding like yourself and that had no fault of his own it's so nuts uh michael says it's the noise reduction filter in zoom when he hits the hard s it knocks it down ten-chat savvy so i wonder if that's on sammy's end sorry famies end on his phone about a five-foot spot in my kitchen and i swear to you it's not like i'm standing in this spot there's a lot of s's i'm saying you just got to avoid the letter s apparently fuck you Sammy what in the world where i have literally no service at all so there is something about this department i'm going to have to stop doing it from here it's incredible it's incredible i it's just one of those weird weird things that uh that happened sir first rule us it sounds believable yeah i i trust me if we were doing a bit we would have come in this morning and said look what we did to sammy leavitt yesterday but we did i would tell you if we did and we did not we would definitely in front of him we would know we would definitely do it to Ben too at some point i could not believe that that happened can you imagine you call in from the road and we would put a filter on you every time i don't think we have i don't think we had any qualifiers last week for our new prize to las vegas for take on woods here so if you want to try to be the first to get in here we gave one away yesterday i did one yesterday all right so if you want to be the second to try to get in for the trip to the real las vegas call now eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three eight three two eight zero ninety seven three play our musical trivia game here in just a couple of minutes don't forget coming up later in the program jesse agler will join us at eight thirty five and then in studio in our nine o'clock hour if you missed it earlier kalagashioka is going to join us woods is brought in his guitar the amp we got a board to plug in we just don't have um we don't have permission yet from kalagashioka to make him play for us which is really what you want now will he be able to play your guitar is it i that's all i brought i'm not jamming with him i'm just one i know i i mean his guitar they all similar like yeah they're you can play it's not like it's not like personalized well i mean everybody's a little prefer his but like you know he has his own bat it's like if someone gave me a seven eye or even if it wasn't my own i could adjust quickly yeah and try to hit it at least my favorite but he doesn't swing donovan salano's bat you know he's got his own but he could yeah but he could yeah it's it's not that the theory is the same theory is the same yeah the only difference is if he is a left-handed guitar player which i've seen pictures he's not from my understanding he's not just do anything left-handed from what what i've seen of kalagashi it's right hand it's right hand it's right handed so beyond if he just decided to play guitar i'm sorry bro i'm lefty like hindrance so i i i think we're in good shape there all right outstanding all right we've got some contestants on the line let's get to it it is time for take-on-woods it's time for take-on-woods what what all right let's uh let's get guy in guy always one of our great take-on-woods contestants good morning guy try to get in for the month of july here how are you good how are you guys doing good all right woods is left to studio five questions of musical trivia if you can beat or tie him you will apply for our grand prize drawing tonight's day and dinner at the uh Rio Las Vegas also a daybed at the Rio pool they've got four sparkling new pools they've got some redone rooms it's looking great the Rio Las Vegas you can book now at real los vegas.com give you the chance to pick our category give you a little advantage here we've got give them a hand five song titles including the word hand we got rush all about the band rush and our new category oh boy five song titles that include the word boy or boy so give them a hand rush or oh boy guy what would you like to play let's try give them a hand give them a hand all right we've got five song titles pretty simple they all include the word hand somewhere in there you'll have 60 seconds answer as many of the five as possible you don't know you can say pass we'll come back to it if there's time left on the clock and then we'll put your score in woods will come back same five questions you know how it works first questions our two-second song Pauli's gonna play a little music you need to give me the song title including the word hand and the artist to score that point all right guy you ready to play i'm ready Pauli you queued up all right Pauli's good to go 60 seconds on the clock category is give him a hand your time begins when Paul plays our music good luck guy let's take on woods i want to hold your hand the beetle correct a lot of more set plays the signature harmonica herself in which 1995 single that ends with the line and the other one is hailing a taxi cab one hand in my pocket correct indie band fits in the tantrums get a lot of radio play with which 2016 hits oh incorrect which 1994 single yeah was the breakthrough debut hit for hootie and the blowfish former one direction member nyl Horan had his biggest solo hit with his debut single from night 2017 which 1994 single was the breakthrough debut hit for hootie and the blowfish uh cold my hand hold my hand former one direction member nyl Horan had his biggest solo hit with which debut single from 2017 uh hand off i was slow hands i you got i know you got fits in the tantrums hand clap after you said clap hands but i got to go with the first answer there so we got three for you i don't know that might be enough i don't know woods is a big one direction guy no that's gonna that's gonna trip him up i think hand clap could trip him up i think he'll get hold my hand i don't we'll see all right guys score is locked in oh guy geez guys here always the least put 60 seconds back on the clock same five questions your time begin when begins when paul plays the music good luck woods let's take on guy the beetles and it is um oh yeah i'll come back to it alana's more set plays the signature harmonica herself in which 1995 single that ends with the line and the other one is hailin a taxi cab um ironic incorrect indy band fits in the tantrums get a lot of radio play with which 2016 hits i played it every day of my life i'm losing my mind uh uh come back to it which 1994 single was the breakthrough debut hit for hootie and the blowfish hold my hand correct former one direction member nyl haran had his biggest solo hit with which debut single from 2017 hand job incorrect go back to the two second song uh what uh i want to hold your hand correct alana's more set plays the signature you'll miss that one indy band fits in the tantrums get a lot of radio play with which 2016 hits oh it's gonna drain driving nuts raise your hands no and wow guy takes it three to two give me a hand so give me a hand okay and you got hold my hand but hand in my pocket was the i got one hand in my pocket and the other one is hailin a taxi cab hand clap hand clap and then uh slow hands which neither of you got was uh did i say that nyl haran did that correct does anyone even know yeah one direction i think that's right all right guy congratulations you have uh you have one outright today you're into the drawing for the real Las Vegas stay on the line Pauli's gonna get your information during the break good job guy um we got uh don't do this coming up next former dodger in the don't do this cross-air is today unless you had this yesterday which i think it was i knew i don't know what you're talking about okay i'm not we will we will have a former dodger in heading to prison and don't what yes not this country she's it's coming up next after a check of traffic here on 97 three the fan don't do this it's time for don't do this what were you thinking three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads why am i how many times do i have to tell you oh i'm sorry i fudged up guys you idiot moron don't come out the apple sometimes does far fall from the tree don't do this do not tweet that with Ben and Woods i like a nickelback song or two on 97 three the fan don't do this is brought to you by the craft taco in sireno valley craft taco is some of the best quality tacos in all of san diego go to the craft taco dot com take a look at their happy or specials today the craft taco dot com i will start in major league baseball where a former los angeles dodgers outfield i don't know if you saw this after his career raul mondacy got into politics in his native dominican republic and actually served as the mayor of the city of san crystal ball from 2010 to 2016 then decided to try to run for uh senate in the dominican republic didn't win unfortunately during his time as mayor apparently he embezzled five million dollars of public funds and he was convicted in a court and sentenced friday to six years and nine months in jail for his corruption during his time as mayor god now he does not six years and nine months now here's uh here's the thing he's already served his sentence he spent the last six years under house arrest oh my god while he was waiting trial so this is part of a plea deal now like time serves and he's free to go but can you imagine i think i would sign up spending six years under house arrest is my dream my literal actual fantasy sexual fantasy it's my fantasy to be on house arrest for that long what's he can't go anywhere okay sounds good to me it's great now here's the thing so imagine you steal you steal how much five million bucks they start investigating and we're going to put you on house arrest you get all the way through it you're guilty and you've already sat in your house for six months six years you're good you're off the hook so he got five million bucks to sit at home he was paid five million dollars to sit out he did he has a new rest of two shit five hundred seven thousand i can't imagine just let him keep all the other four point five million he stole that's a real good deal i give you five million dollars you have to stay at home for six years done done i get out i pop out when i'm fifty four it's better than like big brother bro i could manage the tier one games on zoom no problem i mean my kids i'll see you every day that'll be home this is actually not the worst thing of the modesty of course was the uh 1994 rookie of the year part of that run of dodgers rookie of the years in the mid-90s as an all-star in 1995 one two gold glove awards and his son actually played in the big leagues as well alberto monda c was a short stop do you remember the canon that that do that yes i mean the absolute back of the queue a few times absolute hoes piece from right field that he was just on a line he was he was good player really good player all right i'll go to the nfl where this is i mean this is nfl in a nutshell every single off-season pittsburgh cornerback camera and sutton suspended eight games without pay violated the nfl's personal conduct policy now he was actually wanted by the law for a few weeks early in uh earlier in the year and uh because he was charged with misdemeanor battery uh he beat up a woman and has you know there they have he's done his court and everything else and the nfl has gonna suspend him for eight games and not pay him and he said uh his quote when they asked him about he said my job is not to appeal to someone else my job is to be the best version of myself how do i give that off to the mass or do i give that off to everyone around me i'm in full control of that i'm never worried about a narrative everybody goes through adversity everybody goes through things in their life they can change in both directions so it's all about how you stand on that and what you do from that he was in the first year of a uh 33 million three-year 33 million dollar deal and he's gonna be so pretty significant suspension but a hundred percent of player wow half i mean for a very significant crime as well you know and that's the that's the thing man that's the thing we talk about it a lot uh on this program you know and and i did see as an an addendum uh Marcello zuna is going to be participating in the home run derby and i did see a lot of chatter about it online yesterday and you know people are saying well if he's playing in the league then if you allow him to play based on his he got a DUI and then we all saw the video of him and his wife just beating each other up he had the cast on remember that it was horrible and uh but people are saying well yeah he he he's allowed to play in the league should we feature him in the exhibition that everybody's going to be watching is he one of the guys we want to feature for major league baseball allowing him to play major league is one thing it is different to invite him yes to an exhibition it's even different than yeah okay if he got voted into the all-star game right right i don't know that you would like okay but you can't come necessarily because you're letting him play there's no rules as to who can and you know it's not like well he hit 21 home runs so he has to go to the the home run derby there's no rules in place the home run derby is not invited correct they're making a conscious choice to invite him to prop him up there and it's it that is troublesome yeah it is uh as Pauli's wife just said in the chat it is a tale as old as time and it absolutely is absolutely is and now you got a really good dude oh i think you're gonna like this i would love to redeem mega doo doo doo doo doo doo this um sometimes i think the ponterase might be on this this road occasionally so this story comes from the sue city explorers from the american association of professional baseball it's an independent baseball league but it is an mlb partner league so got some guys who still have dreams of you know latching onto a club and and making pro baseball so uh they had over the weekend they had had to use two 10 pitching arms in just two games deep into the bullpen i think we have some extra innings and sounds familiar they ran out of pitching and when i say they ran out of pitching they literally ran out of pitching they filled out the lineup card for the game two hours before the game the director of broadcasting said dan vaughan sent the lineup they had all the other eight names on there then a big question mark where the pitcher's name is going to be a literal big question mark like who's it going to be wait we don't know we have the lineup card is submitted we still don't know who is pitching in two hours we have no we have no arms that can go or who are ready two hours before game time so here was their solution they knew that a guy who was uh about ten miles away was volunteering at a music festival he is a state representative in iowas name is dan scolten's and he or jadie scoulton and he used to be a pitcher he's 44 years old now but he had he had pitched for the team before in the past and they said can you make it here in the next two hours suit up and throw a game for us we need a pitcher badly it's the most adult league thing ever heard in my mind he said yeah i can i can be there so he he not only showed up put on the sue city explorers uniform 44 years old has been out of baseball for several years what six and two-thirds innings allowed just two runs in an 11-2 win got not only the win but a quality start that is unbelievable it's like that the stories when they pull like the play-by-play guy down to play goalie for some independent team and it's just incredible that's an incredible incredible says walking through the tunnel again didn't realize how how much that made me start getting nervous but once you get on the mound at 60 feet six inches after the first inning i was able to relax a lot more luckily the boys got me some runs i was able to get some innings because they were stretched a little bit then in the bullpen six and two-thirds step two runs brilliant outstanding ovation as he uh walked off the mound his wife's like oh god you're gonna do it again aren't you you're going back aren't you you're going back i knew you would you said you would fill in for one game holy cow i wonder if he's done i wonder if i know i wonder if they are are having meetings about bringing him back i in in a way to just walk off and that was the end would be fantastic whole story wouldn't you want to know if i could just do it again i mean he's 44 he's not no he ain't going anywhere he's already elected elected official he's moved on to his new life his new his new career it's incredible but he got to relive his glory days one more time and it went really well for jadee scoulton got what a cool story and do do this for a tuesday that was don't do this with bennon woods on 97 three the fan by the way this was brought to you by valvoline instant oil change only takes 15 minutes you don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts go to soak out oil change dot com that's soak out oil change dot com when we come back all right i think we finally i knew this was coming but it it that the injuries finally starting to catch up to the pod raise a little bit what can they do about it now that we're starting to see the replacements running a little bit thin do we have any state representatives that can pop in and perhaps pitch a game for the pod raise don't know but they're getting kind of desperate now trade deadlines coming up what can the pod raise do about it we'll get to that next with vena woods on sandy it goes number one sports station ninety seven three the fan baseball coverage in ninety seven three the fan is presented by t-mobile switch to t-mobile you can get tons of benefits they'll save on every plan versus at and t and verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at t-mobile dot com slash switch pod raise have some clear needs going into the trade deadline later this month but not as clear is exactly the best way to try to fill them it's not as simple as go out and get this this this and you're done because they also have players who may or may not be returning that could impact the decisions that aj preller needs to make over the next couple of weeks it's interesting you say that because yesterday tim flannery ben talked about we asked him about the giants teams right and he said remember last year do you remember what we talked about down the stretch last year when we did a little playoff preview okay the texas rangers are in they're not going to go very far because of their bullpen their bullpen is absolute garbage and they're not just not going to go very far how that work out for them it went great and flan actually said yeah you know why he said boach managing a bullpen in october is different than boach managing a bullpen for 162 you take that fifth starter he then goes and you you there's more bullets for guys there's there's more opportunities there's more more off days more off days yeah and yeah that's exactly what he said you get the time off he said that's a different animal entirely but we benny i don't know who would start i don't know who would start for us you know dylan c's game one matt waller and game two in the three-game series and then and michael king and then after that you know what do you do what do you do there's a lot of what ifs about the san diego potteries and honestly i don't think it should stop you at all from going out and being as aggressive as you're financially able to be be where okay i i agree with you where do you focus the most aggression though that's the question i honestly think i uh the most aggression let's hold on to the thought we're going to check traffic and we're going to discuss this coming up next year with beno woods on 97-3 the fan so somehow the pot raised despite an increasing rash of injuries have managed to play their best baseball of the season essentially over the last month where they've gone from what fought four or five games under 500 to four or five games over 500 and they've done it basically thanks to unlikely contributions from players that at least as fans we weren't expecting to see those contributions from kyle higashiyoka stepping up our guests later in the show today and hitting just a bunch of home runs that you could have never expected uh from the pitching staff matt wallerin has obviously been a huge find in addition for the san diego potteries to try to bridge the gap while joe must grove and you darvish are on the injured list and even in the bullpen been a couple of surprises like jeremaa astrada who's pitched well adrian moray hone on none of us really had him figure to be a critical member of the bullpen but that doesn't change the equation that all three areas of the pond race starting pitching bullpen and lineup are being hit by injuries and we're seeing it we saw it on saturday i thought in particular when the pod race gave up the three in the top of the tenth and low to the base is scored a run but they the bottom line it was coming up including brice johnson a guy who and again i i don't have anything against brice johnson but not not an everyday major league player not someone you want to see up in a situation like that and it finally came to the point that in a big moment wasn't jerks and profar stepping to the plate this time wasn't manny machado stepping to the plate or louisa rise it was brice johnson and he was overmatched in that at bat even is uh honestly there was a they they cut to they were making the pitching change or whatever it was but they cut to the on deck circle my man had his head between his legs like he was praying at that point not his fault he's he's forced into a situation that you don't want him to be into which is okay pothra's need an out fielder i mean but you know when will fernando tetties jr be back you don't want to spend a ton of capital on a rental who then you don't need for the last month and a half of the season of the playoffs who's just gonna be maybe a bench piece so but all right well then you need to focus it on starting pitching where you do need a bench piece well you do you do it just doesn't have to be you don't have to go get a starting caliber right fielder right now i don't maybe not it would help but but if it comes at the expense of a starting pitcher can't do it you can't do that so you need a starting picture right now because adam measures supposed to go again tonight against an all-star and logan gilbert you can't love that matchup if you're the san diego pothra's ready to ask is is pitch pretty decently the last few times out but you're asking a lot of these guys michael king's innings are climbing he's one he's one over beyond where he's ever been before so you definitely need a starting pitcher except maybe joe must grove and you darvish do come back later this year and now you're adding a starting now but that's okay you can't count on it but it's that's just depth so maybe it's the bullpen where you need the help the most you absolutely need a higher end leverage reliever to add to that bullpen which we saw over the weekend just the massive struggles at the at the bullpen especially on the back end except don't forget about five days ago before we went on our fourth of july break but his bullpen was locked in better than they had been all season i mean they'd gone almost a week without allowing a run and like okay these guys are finally coming around a j proller has a dilemma on his hand because he has needs everywhere but he also has some guys who have performed well everywhere which makes it really i think tough to decide where to prioritize your absolute biggest need going into the trade deadline you know it's got to be pitching and and you know start a reliever whatever i i know that's different and it's going to the capital is going to be more or less for for either of those positions but our buddy letters to aj who just put out the timing is impeccable benny just put out a really really brilliant blog as he always does if you're not given him a follow follow him on twitter his blog is amazing but he said uh... now listen he said interestingly potteries have won the last six games where either vasquez or maser have made the start well because they scored seven six nine nine six and ten runs in those games don't see that happening tonight off of logan gilbert necessarily stranger things have happened but um... they're picking up their lower-level starting pictures with offense then he said it doesn't look likely that the solution to the back end of the rotation woes will come from the currently rostered players burrito sent down to triple-a to stretch out as a starter bed he has sixteen twenty er and his first two starts he has not gotten through three innings in either start vasquez and maser could take a leap must go could return johnnie burrito could suddenly find it clicking those outcomes are improbable hoping that something improbable occurs is the opposite of a plan it's a brilliant it's a brilliant quote hope is not a strategy it's just not a trailer cannot hope and and age is not the kind of g_m_ who relies on hope he's really not usually is the relies on overkill stuff the pantry and will eat our way through it right like was the let's stuff the refrigerator here and somebody's going to eat it we'll need it at some point and i i agree with that uh... but again this isn't the a_j_ preller of old where he's like yeah i've got thirty top-end prospects i can trade or he's already traded a time but but i think the problem here is that you can only go shopping for items that are on the shelf correct and there's a lot of shoppers there's not a lot of items on the shelves so you're going to be paying really high prices we know that and the more things you need to acquire it makes it even harder to decide well i mean yeah this team wants this for my starting picture but this other team wants the same thing for the relief picture and this other team wants the same thing for an outfielder i can't trade the same guy to three different teams i gotta decide which one is going to get them in which area i need to prioritize to get the player i actually want and then maybe you know you get a couple of roll the dice like you know lesser guys though rich hill you know g-man choy pickups as well you can't you're not going to get a premium starter a premium reliever and a premium bat you know out fielder at the trade deadline i know team is going to get all three of those you don't have the capital to get the best player at every position of the trade deadline here so you're gonna have to choose which area you're going to need to focus on as this trade deadline comes up for me it's still starting pitching and you know the hope will be the strategy in some of the other areas i know a lot of people say it's bullpen but to me the season falls apart fastest if you lose starting pitching we saw it in 2021 you can't go down that road again they need another starting picture no matter how quickly they think you darvish might come off the restricted list or joe musgrove could return in august you can't like you said hope is not a strategy especially when it comes to starting pitching you know the guys down there the yuki matsuis of the world the wandi peraltas of the world uh the enniel dalo santos is of the world i mean they're they're here you know wandi's here for a while he needs to make an adjustment get something figure out figured out easy for me to sit here in my chair and say that but we are counting on those guys for big innings uh you know down the stretch again with the lack of starting pitching the bullpen has really really got to step up here uh and and if not you know they need to be they need to be replaced but how do you replace them offensively the problem here is zander boghards is uh about ready to return it could happen in the next couple of days could happen by friday it could happen today like today he's in town right down he did went two for eleven in his uh triple a rehab with el pasto had a double in his last start so i've sold and posted a picture on his instagram story oh yeah the fander this kid and all the guys in there but here's the thing this doesn't solve any of your problems bringing the sander back well it's not just that he can't pitch but who does it then push to the bench i know you could put okay put jake back to second and louisa rise can d h and that's if mani is healthy enough to play third because if he's not and needs a day off then mani needs to d h which means zander coming back just pushes zander jake or arise to the bench and that's not good for your offense you need someone who can play the outfield is there someone who can play out of position i mean i love donovan salano's bat where are you gonna put him in the line you're gonna put him out in the outfield can he play outfield i mean david peralta has been out there against righties you can put him out there you know a little bit in the outfield and not think it's going to be a disaster but against a righty to have a lefty out there like um you know bright johnson's about your your best field her but he gives you nothing offensively me gimme crow gimme crowed him worth out there in right field holding it down eggy's been playing i think one day in the outfield and triple-hay you're out again i have third for right fields got a great arm but is he ready on the big league level after one day in the outfield people are saying kim to the bench i i don't know that you can yank your and i know he's standard back to short and kim to the bench maybe maybe kim is a bench player came to the outfield came to the outfield they talked about it when they first acquired him they did um and then they never did it you just it zander coming back while it's great to have zander back especially if he can perform at all like zander offensively doesn't really solve your problem and that is you're an outfielder short still until franando tatiz jr returns yeah it's tough man it's tough but again the offense you can you can figure out a way to get your best bats in the lineup that you can figure it out that is one thing you can figure it you have you have good with not really though as long as you need three outfielders out there but guys you need days off guys need days off it's still the with intel tatiz comes back you need three outfielders and one of them is not going to be a great offensive player and and perhaps not even a great defensive player either is the problem and zander coming back doesn't doesn't solve that issue so you look at tonight this is looking tonight against a tough right hander right david palt is your right fielder tonight maybe you should be or well i mean brice johnson has been out there a ton because mike shilt truss's defense defense i mean how many runs do you need without a measure on the mountain she said is it six is it eight is it ten now seattle has not been good offensively maybe this is the game where at a measure can get locked in and hold them to a couple of runs and give you a chance to win a lower scoring game because you're probably not going to score a ton against an all-star like logan gilbert just not it's it's uh it's a tough dilemma that aj proller is in here right now with his with his roster it is yeah i mean look kimmy and everybody wants them on the bench you know he's still got ten bombs he's stolen seventeen bags he's hitting batteries not chasing he's been pretty darn good he's not striking out he's walking the ball lately i mean i don't i don't want to take us on came out of the lineup right now i really way better than he was earlier in the season i really don't either i really really don't either and again look he's a better defensive shortstop than anybody else that we have right now and i know he doesn't have his best year defensively but he is a better defensive shortstop than anybody else jose says the infielder be fresher with zander back great that's that's true you can get day days off for manny and jake and loise arrived in zander but then they're out of a lineup and you still have either brice johnson in there or you have david prylta's defense in there and let's be honest david prylta have one big home run hasn't exactly been donovan solano in terms of the pickup solano is an unbelievable yeah pickup by a j prylta unbelievably good can't believe that guy wasn't on another team at any point just maybe the under the radar pickup of the year in major league baseball yeah he's been great he's been great but david prylta hasn't been that good no had a really big home run that was great yep that was awesome i like it i love his attitude he's great great peace to have an image not an everyday player rice johnson's not an everyday player tyler wade's not an everyday player one of the valuable one of them has to be in the lineup every day though because you need an out fielder out there unless you're playing someone out of position which they have not done yet for the most part yeah yes it's tough it's tough call but i mean again it was just scrolling through this blog again talking about major i mean he gives up a ton a ton of hard hit balls i mean again it's it's your chart you're talking to the you know yeah yeah that a major should baseball coverage in '97 through the fantasy presented by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile you can get tons of benefits they'll save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile.com/switch potteries have some clear needs going into the trade deadline later this month but not as clear as exactly the best way to try to fill them it's not as simple as go out and get this this this and you're done because they also have players who may or may not be returning that could impact the decisions that a.j. preller needs to make over the next couple of weeks it's interesting you say that because yesterday Tim Flannery been talked about we asked him about the giants teams right and he said remember last year do you remember what we talked about down the stretch last year when we did a little playoff preview okay the Texas Rangers are in they're not going to go very far because of their bullpen their bullpen is absolute garbage and they're not just not going to go very far how that work out for them it went great and Flan actually said yeah you know why he said Boach managing a bullpen in October is different than Boach managing a bullpen for 162 you take that fifth starter he then goes and you you there's more bullets for guys there's there's more opportunities there's more more off days yeah and yeah that's exactly what he said you get the time off he said that's a different animal entirely but we Benny I don't know who would start I don't know who would start for us you know Dylan sees game one Matt Walger in game two in the three game series and then and Michael King and then after that you know what do you do what do you do there's a lot of what ifs about the San Diego Padres and honestly I don't think it should stop you at all from going out and being as aggressive as you're financially able to be be where okay I agree with you where do you focus the most aggression that's the question I honestly think I most aggression let's hold on to the thought we're going to check traffic and we're going to discuss this coming up next year with Beno Woods a 97-3 the fan so somehow the Padres despite an increasing rash of injuries have managed to play their best baseball of the season essentially over the last month where they've gone from what fought four or five games under 500 to four or five games over 500 and they've done it basically thanks to unlikely contributions from players that at least as fans we weren't expecting to see those contributions from Kyle Higashiyoka stepping up our guests later in the show today and hitting just a bunch of home runs that you could have never expected from the pitching staff now Walter and has obviously been a huge find in addition for the San Diego Padres to try to bridge the gap while Joe Musgrove and you Darvish are on the injured list and even in the bullpen been a couple of surprises like Jeremiah Estrada who's pitched well Adrienne Morihone none of us really had him figure to be a critical member of the bullpen but that doesn't change the equation that all three areas of the Padres starting pitching bullpen lineup are being hit by injuries and we're seeing it we saw it on Saturday I thought in particular when the Padres gave up the three on the top of the tenth and low to the bases scored a run but the bottom of the lineup was coming up including Bryce Johnson a guy who and again I don't have anything against Bryce Johnson but not not an everyday major league player not someone you want to see up in a situation like that and it finally came to the point that in a big moment wasn't jerks and pro far stepping to the plate this time wasn't Manny Machado stepping to the plate or Louisa rise it was Bryce Johnson and he was overmatched in that at bat he was honestly there was a they they cut to they were making the pitching change or whatever it was but they cut to the on deck circle my man had his head between his legs like he was praying at that point not not his fault he's he's not forced into a situation that you don't want him to be into which is okay Padres need an outfielder yeah I mean but you know when will Fernando Tetis Jr be back you don't want to spend a ton of capital on a rental who then you don't need for the last month and a half of the season of the playoffs who's just gonna be maybe a bench piece so but all right well then you need to focus in on starting pitching where you do need a bench piece well you do you do it just doesn't have to be you don't have to go get a starting caliber right fielder right now I don't maybe not it would help but but if it comes at the expense of a starting pitcher can't do it you can't do that so you need a starting pitcher right now because Adam measures supposed to go again tonight against an all-star and Logan Gilbert can't love that matchup if you're the San Diego Padres Randy Vasquez is pitch pretty decently the last few times out but you're asking a lot of these guys Michael King's innings are climbing he's one he's one over beyond where he's ever been before so you definitely need a starting pitcher except maybe Joe Musgrove and you Darvish do come back later this year and now you're adding a starting now but that's okay you can't count on it but it's that's just depth so maybe it's the bullpen where you need the help the most you absolutely need a higher end leverage reliever to add to that bullpen which we saw over the weekend just the massive struggles at the at the bullpen especially on the back end except don't forget about five days ago before we went on our fourth of July break by his bullpen was locked in better than they had been all season I mean they'd gone almost a week without allowing a run and like okay these guys are finally coming around AJ Preller has a dilemma on his hands because he has needs everywhere but he also has some guys who have performed well everywhere which makes it really I think tough to decide where to prioritize your absolute biggest need going into the trade deadline you know it's got to be pitching and and you know start a reliever whatever I and I know that's different and it's going to the capital is going to be more or less for for either of those positions but our buddy letters to AJ who just put out the timing is impeccable Benny just put out a really really brilliant blog as he always does if you're not giving him a follow follow him on Twitter his blog is amazing but he said now listen he said interestingly potteries have won the last six games where either Vasquez or Maser have made the start well because they scored 7 6 9 9 6 and 10 runs in those games don't see that happening tonight off of Logan Gilbert necessarily stranger things have happened but they're picking up their lower level starting pitchers with offense Ben he said it doesn't look likely that the solution to the back end of the rotation woes will come from the currently rostered players burrito sent down to triple a to stretch out as a starter Ben he has 16 20 ERA in his first two starts he has not gotten through three innings in either start Vasquez and Maser could take a leap Musgrove could return Johnny Rideau could suddenly find it clicking those outcomes are improbable hoping that something improbable occurs is the opposite of a plan it's a brilliant it's a brilliant quote hope is not a strategy it's just not AJ Peller cannot hope and AJ is not the kind of GM who relies on hope he's really usually is the relies on overkill stuff the pantry and we'll eat our way through it right like well let's stuff the refrigerator here and somebody's going to eat it we'll need it at some point and I agree with that but again this isn't the AJ Peller of old where he's like yeah I've got 30 top end prospects I can trade already already traded a ton but but I think the problem here is that you can only go shopping for items that are on the shelf correct and there's a lot of shoppers there's not a lot of items on the shelves so you're going to be paying really high prices we know that and the more things you need to acquire it makes it even harder to decide well I mean yeah this team wants this for my starting pitcher but this other team wants the same thing for the relief pitcher and this other team wants the same thing for an outfielder I can't trade the same guy to three different teams I got to decide which one is going to get them and which area I need to prioritize to get the player I actually want and then maybe you know you get a couple of roll the dice you know lesser guys though rich he'll you know g-man choy pickups as well you can't you're not going to get a premium starter a premium reliever and a premium bat you know outfielder at the trade deadline no team is going to get all three of those you don't have the capital to get the best player at every position of the trade deadline here so you're gonna have to choose which area you're going to need to focus on as this trade deadline comes up for me it's still starting pitching and you know the hope will be the strategy in some of the other areas I know a lot of people say it's bullpen but to me the season falls apart fastest if you lose starting pitching we saw it in 2021 you can't go down that road again they need another starting pitcher no matter how quickly they think you Darvish might come off the restricted list or Joe Musgrove could return in August you can't like you said hope is not a strategy especially when it comes to starting pitching you know the guys down there the yuki matsuis of the world the wandi peraltas of the world the enniel dalo santos is of the world i mean they're they're here you know wandi's here for a while he needs to make an adjustment get something figured out easy for me to sit here in my chair and say that but we are counting on those guys for big innings you know down the stretch again with the lack of starting pitching the bullpen has really really got to step up here uh and and if not you know they need to be they need to be replaced but how do you replace them offensively the problem here is zander bo guards is uh about ready to return it could happen in the next couple of days could happen by friday it could happen today like today he's in town right down he did went two for eleven in his uh triple-a rehab with el Paso had a double in his last start so that's Sullivan posted a picture on his instagram story oh yeah this kid yeah the guys in there but here's the thing this doesn't solve any of your problems bringing zander back well it's not just that he can't pitch but who does it then push to the bench i know you could put okay put jake back to second and louisa rise can d h and that's if mammy is healthy enough to play third because if he's not and needs a day off then mammy needs to d h which means zander coming back just pushes zander jake or arise to the bench and that's not good for your offense you need someone who can play the outfield is there someone who can play out of position i mean i love donovan cilantro's bat where you're gonna put him in the line you're gonna put him out in the outfield can you play outfield i mean david peralta has been out there against righties you can put him out there you know a little bit in the outfield and not think it's going to be a disaster but against a righty to have a lefty out there like um you know bright johnson's about your your best field her but he gives you nothing offensively gimme crow gimme crowed and worth out there in right field holding it down eggy's been playing i think one day in the outfield in triple-a hold the guy yeah i had third for right fields got a great arm but is he ready on the big league level after one day in the outfield people are saying kim to the bench i i i don't know that you can yank your and i know he's zander back to short and kim to the bench maybe maybe kim is a bench player kim to the outfield kim to the outfield they talked about it when they first acquired him they didn't um and then they never did it you just it zander coming back while it's great to have zander back especially if you can perform at all like zander offensively doesn't really solve your problem and that is you're an outfielder short still until franando titties jr returns yeah it's tough man it's tough but again the offense you can you can figure out a way to get your best bats in the lineup that you can figure it out that is one thing you can figure out you have you have good with not really though as long as you need three out-fielders out there but guys you need days off guys need days off it's still the with intel titties comes back you need three out-fielders and one of them is not going to be a great offensive player and and perhaps not even a great defensive player either is the problem and zander coming back doesn't doesn't solve that issue so you look at tonight this is looking tonight against a tough right-hander right david paltas your right fielder tonight maybe you should be or will i mean brice johnson has been out there a ton because mike shill tart trust his defense defense yeah i mean how many runs do you need without a measure on the mountain you said is it six is it eight is it ten now seattle has not been good offensively maybe this is the game we're at a measure can get locked in and hold them to a couple of runs and give you a chance to win a lower scoring game because you're probably not going to score a ton against an all-star like logan gilbert just not it's it's uh it's a tough dilemma that aj proller is in here right now with his with his roster it is yeah i mean look kimmy and everybody wants them on the bench you know he's still got ten bombs he's stolen 17 bags he's hitting batteries not chasing he's been pretty darn good he's not striking out he's walking the ball lately i mean i don't want to take us on came out of the line of right now i really way better than he was earlier in the season i really don't either i really really don't either and again look he's a better defensive shortstop than anybody else that we have right now and i know he doesn't have his best year defensively but he is a better defensive shorts up than anybody else jose says the infielder be fresher with zanderback great that's that's true you can get date days off for manny and jake and louise arrived at zander but then they're out of a lineup and you still have either brice johnson in there or you have david paltas defense in there and let's be honest david palt have one big home run it hasn't exactly been donald and solano in terms of the pickup solano is an unbelievable yeah pick up by a j prawler unbelievably good can't believe that guy wasn't on another team at any point just maybe the under the radar pickup of the year in major league baseball yeah he's been great he's been great but david palta hasn't been that good no had a really big home run that was great yep that was awesome i like him i love his attitude he's great great peace to have not an image not an everyday player rice johnson's not an everyday player tyler wades not an everyday player one of the valuable one of them has to be in the lineup every day though because you need an out fielder out there unless you're playing someone out of position which they have not done yet for the most part yeah yeah it's a tough it's tough call but i mean again i was just scrolling through this blog again talking about major i mean he gives up a ton a ton of hard hit balls i mean again it's it's your you're talking to be you know yeah yeah that a measure shouldn't be here number one wave in that flag for a long time yeah and i think the pot raise no it's yeah they don't have any other options they still have any other options jennifer says trade for randy a rosarena okay well that rosarena's been not good this year that makes him available and maybe lowers the price tag a little but let's say you focus and do that okay so now you've got randy a rosarena in your lineup for the next month then tatiz comes back well what about the other holes then you didn't fill what i tear so or nail uh i don't say tear so or nail it yeah he's been mashing him a try now give him a shot give him a shot what's we get hurt man you'll go for bro you know it swings you from the left side doesn't he i know is that go for broke or is that just hoping that's hoping that's hoping that's hoping but i'm not a strategy don't we always don't we definitely feel that he's a better option at the dish than than breast johnson probably yes you know i found myself kind of softening on the care crochet idea but does tommy fam also being on that team possibly make it an enticing trade package for jimprems like pretty ideal because he can start every day and then he would be a good bench yeah you know fiery guy for a playoff run i mean not the worst idea yeah i'm not saying they have to package other than here's the deal i just get tommy fam when you have crochet i was dealing with a guy about it last night he said we should be skipping measure and starting king on four days rest i said michael king is not the guy they're gonna ride right he's already one ending over his career high you know he's been really good and i love him and i think he's i i'm confident when he's on the mount i really am they love to see a chance to push back king and skip him and he probably at the back of the rotation when they come out of the only september not necessarily july yeah yeah hundred percent so uh it looked like texas may be open for business soon ben there's a couple of names on there that could be interesting but aj's dude is promise you he's not sleeping much right now because again we said this yesterday i know you agree with this every year aj has gone for it do you agree that this team of all teams that we've seen in the last six years that we've uncovered don't they deserve a shot they deserve they do they really they've earned it yes they may not be the most talented but they they are but they have certainly earned some faith and some backing from the front office yeah no doubt i will come back jesse agler's going to join us in our eight o'clock 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