Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Could HSK Be Traded? + Eno Sarris Joins The Show!
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour sidetracked after getting into a conversation about who / when you leave a tip. Then we get a special PSA from our buddy John down the hall at KSON before we continue our conversation about whether or not Ha-seong Kim could be traded before next month's Trade Deadline. And at the bottom of the hour, Eno Sarris from The Athletic joins the show for his weekly Smart Baseball segment! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 1h 0m
- Broadcast on:
- 27 Jun 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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My God, you said last month. May is the longest. May is the longest month. It dragged. It dragged so that June is absolutely flying by. June was quick. You're not going to see a lot of me in July. I'll tell you that right now. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel, executive producer Ben Higgins, my co-host. What happens to you in July? I'm on vacation. Woods is here. You missed me for a week. Be off a couple Fridays. Sorry. Sorry about it. Life is short. Yolo. It's Yolo time. My birthday, coming up. Gonna give me something nice. Birthday, Michael Woods. Yeah, birthday. I'm not a great gift giver. In fact, I have a terrible gift giver. I've made you better. I've made you better. Maybe. Yeah. Probably a better tipper now, too. You feel guilty, don't you? A little bit. Yes. It's working six years of chiseling it down. I do think that in general, over tip a little bit now. That's what cheap people usually think. They do usually think that. I think I'm with Ben. I think for the things that we should be tipping for people under tip, they need like for a restaurant server, 15% is not enough anymore. It needs to be at least 20. I just feel like every job now, but if you're not doing something for me, I don't need to tip tip you. Do you tip your Amazon driver? No, I give him stuff. At Christmas, we leave stuff out for him, but we don't. I don't tip him. I tip my mailman. You leave stuff out for him. Yeah, cookies and waters and stuff. Really? Yeah. My wife does. I don't do it either. If you have Cox cable and the cable guy has to come out and fix your cable box. Do you tip him? No, a guy came and put an oven in the other day and I tipped him. We got our new oven. Thanks to our pal, Alex, at B and B that we played ball with at Fanny's camp. Yeah. So they came out, put a new oven in. I greased them pretty good. We tipped the staff at the goat after our golf tournament. We did. Yeah, of course. Just take care of people. Feels good. Feels good to do it. Does it? Yeah, I don't know. When I'm standing at a change or oil, when I'm standing at a counter, like a fast food restaurant, quick service restaurant and I have to go order myself and I am, you know, I'll have two fish tacos and a drink and they say, all right, here's your it's $12 and then it comes up on the screen. You want to tip 15, 20 or 25% on that. I don't really want to tip 25% on that. I have to go get the food myself. I have to go get the drink myself. I will clear the table myself at the end. I do appreciate that there's someone back in the kitchen who's making the food. So generally, I will add $1. It won't be like a full percentage though of the meal. I'm not, I'm not adding four bucks to the meal when I'm doing most of the work myself. Jax says in the chat, I don't tip on takeout. Traditionally, you would tip 20% when you sit down for dinner somewhere. But if you're just coming in, grabbing it and walking out, do you tip again if it's a pick the lowest option. If it's like, if it's like $50. No delivery is now that's valuable. Someone going and picking it up and bringing it to me. But if I go and drive myself to the restaurant to pick up the food, I'll leave like two bucks or boxing it up for me because that that's some work. Someone took some time to box it up and put it all in a bag for me. Thank you for doing that. That's worth a couple of bucks. It's not worth 20% of the $50 check. That's that's $10. I'm not paying $10 just for you to box up my meal so I can go pick it up myself. For me, or maybe I'm just cheap. I don't know. And says, do you tip the bathroom attendees? Yes. And I will say though, I just don't use them. So that's so that is the one guy or no, there's no girls in the men's bathroom. That's a bad job. So that is the one person I'm like, I don't need you. Number one, I don't need you in there when I'm doing my business. All right. Number two, I can get my own paper towel and I have for years that that one is seems a bit now if I do get some mints or, you know, a spray of Fahrenheit cologne or something. Sure. I'll give you a dollar or two. But that one kind of just gives me the heebie jeebies. I don't like the guy standing there with a towel. Yeah. It's like you've it's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable every time. I know this makes me sound cheap. I just to be clear, I still tip every time. If the option's there, I don't know, just every time there's an option, especially electronically paying for something. There's always the, do you want to tip 10, 15, 20% like I always leave a tip because I don't want to be perceived as a jerk. What about Jersey Mike's guys? Yeah, because they ring that bell when you get them at least a dollar and I like to hear the bell. It's the most brilliant and the whole thank you. You like that. I think there's been a big grayer in now on then on what is worth a tip and what is just doing the job that you are paid to be doing. And at a time, there was a time when restaurant workers were only making six dollars as servers and now they're making more because they depended on tips. But now they're making 15, 20 bucks an hour, whatever minimum wage is. So that's changed. I just like, I believe in karma and I believe in, in, in trying to make somebody's day, if you can, you know, I don't go crazy. I don't like, I don't do like the here's a hundred dollar tip on a $20 before like for years, I didn't even know that people tipped their barber. Yeah, because I'm like, well, that's literally what I'm paying you to do. A lot of them rent that area. I totally understand. I'm just saying early on, I was like, wait, what? Yeah, like, I'm literally paying you. You got your $12 haircut. You get your 12 bucks. I'm out. Right. Yeah. Do you tip the, the bagger at the grocery store? No, but if they carried my bags out, I would. Yes. I've never had that. I haven't either done before, but yeah, elderly yet. But maybe someday he goes, honey, it just doesn't make a lot of sense. Sometimes what we do and don't tip for just think it's, it's, it makes somebody's day a little better. I like to, I like to try to spread joy as much as I can. Being a negative turd, you know, I like to try to spread a little bit more joy. A couple bucks here and there. It's not going to kill me. Can't take it with you. That's what they say. It does feel like every job though, nowadays, if you have to pay with a card, no matter what, with a food restaurant tip on there, anything, there is an option to tip and you're like, yeah, haven't seen that before. Yeah. I tipped $12 on my haircut yesterday. Holy smokes. That's good. Wow. That's a really good tip. Did you just want it like rounded up for nice even number? 40 bucks. I bet was the total $28 haircut, $12 tip, $30 haircut, $12 tip. Look at you. Proud of you. But you know, I go, I go to one of the chain places and I figure those aren't, they aren't getting a ton of money from each haircut because the chain probably keeps most of it. $30 haircut, $12. Proud of you. I'm really proud of you. That's a good haircut. I liked it. You look sharp. Thank you. Looks the same as always does, but it looks sharp. $12. That's a big, that's a big tip for you. Plus the chain I go to, they have the um, they do the extra massage and everything. I feel like that's, that's worth an extra tip. Yeah, I'm not quite. What would you pay extra for that? Talk to us. Was it a male or a female? Yesterday was a female, but sometimes it's male. Doesn't really matter once they're, you're under that hot towel, hands or hands. That is also very true. Right. Tom just tipped us $10 for excellence. Thank you. Tom, you're amazing. Do I give the mailman a tip slash present Christmas? Yes, tip my mailman. He is a charger fan. We do have quite spirited debates. When I see him, we wave, we chat, we chat mostly every day. I see my mailman every day. He's a G. See now, I, I'm always at work. I like never see. I don't even know who my mailman is. Yeah, you can leave a card in their form at Christmas time. Like 50 bucks or something. Bottle of liquor. Bottle of liquor in the box. Hardly know her. Yeah. Bottle of liquor. That's assuming they're a drinker. You don't know well enough. Yeah, at all. They always mailman Rob shockingly says always tip your mailman. Who would have thought? I'll give a bias there. Remember the other one that surprised me and I've only gotten one tattoo, but you tip your tattoo artist and I'm just like, again, I'm like, I'm specifically only here to give you five hundred dollars or whatever. Serve if you're getting service. If you're, if you're being serviced, I think you tip. Right. Any sort of service that's almost provided you can tip. But everything is kind of a service. I probably should. I probably should tip. I'm in the cash. So, okay, you go to Lulu lemon and you bring up, uh, I got this shirt and I got these, uh, these ABC pants and they ring you up that that is a service. Someone is ringing you up at the cash here. Yeah, I'm not tipping the person who just rings me up at the cash here. You got a foot locker. Oh, do you have these in a size 13? Let me run in the back and check for you. That's a service. Do you tip them? No, you don't think you don't even think about it. No, no, you don't. You're right. I go to Dix and go. Yeah, I don't tip the cash here. The police officer who pulls you over for speed and he goes to service. Yeah. Try you go to prison. Do you tip them? No, you try to tip them. You'll go to jail for bribery. Thank you for doing your duty officer. Here's an extra 10. Yeah. In addition to the fine. For all I says, he doesn't tip people at Starbucks. I do. Those drinks are a pain in the ass to make. I do tip them. Yeah. Yeah. Is it my drink? It's not complicated. I just get a flat white. It's not super complicated, but it's also not a choice though. Yeah. I got it from you. I tried yours one time and it was delicious. Yeah. All right. Well, it's it's a weird it can get weird and I understand it makes us sound cheap. It's kind of like one of those went in doubt. You know, air on the side of tipping is kind of where I I fall. It does get a little when people come to like put stuff together at your home like we have the kids new beds and they came and I'm looking at him like there's two of them. Like we got it. We got to duke these guys because they're putting this stuff together. They I don't have to do it. So yeah, I tipped them pretty generously because I didn't have to do it. I didn't have to lug all the boxes and stuff out. It was great. When it gets tough and you're ordering like food, it's like door dash or ordering on somebody's app for a pickup that you're going to go get. They make you tip when you pay before anything's been prepared. Yeah. Before anything's been boxed up and you're like, I don't know if this is worth a 20% tip or a 10% tip. Yeah. Remember when we were young and you could get full serve gas at the gas station. Incredible. You don't have to get out of your car. But I mean, you should probably tip the guy who's paying your guess. But you always had to pay more for the gas. There was the full service price and there was the self service price and the self service price was like 50 cents a gallon cheaper because you didn't you were you're paying that already through the cost of the the goods and services for the person who's coming out to then pump your gas. Right. So you've got 10 gallons of gas. You paid an extra $5 already. Isn't that essentially the tip? That's the money that's going to that guy. One would think about pumping your gas. But I don't think it worked that way. I think the boss just took the majority of that. Well, that isn't that the boss is profitable. Isn't that the employee and that's an employee boss issue, not a customer employee issue. Then don't get full service. I never did. I never really did either. I did like my window. There's a couple of states still. I think like Oregon, New Jersey or something. You just like pump your own gas. You have to have someone have to call it for you. Yeah. That's here. The drive you crazy. I can't even imagine a drive you crazy. I can't keep doing that. I can't keep tipping this guy $3 for a wife of my windshield. I don't need it. Right. Every day. Oh, yeah. Tipping's a hot topic, man. Just when in doubt, Tim won't hurt you a couple bucks. $12 tip on a $30 haircut is very good. It's probably the most you've ever took in your life. What percentage is that? That is 40%. Wow. That's the biggest tip you've ever given. I feel confident to get service on anything. That's a good service. How attractive was she above and beyond? How attractive was she? See, that's an unfair question. Just asking. Let's say it was a female. The county Chris is in the chat. I'm at the airport right now. Should I tip the pilot? Uh, yeah. Now I will say I tipped the baggage guys. I will say the screen offered me three options, five, 10 or $15. And I declined all of them and typed in my own, which I often do. I don't like being boxed in on my three options of a tip. I will often do other and then type in my own choice. Thank you very much. Don't don't choose for me what I can tip. I'll choose for you what I'm going to tip you. Yeah. All right. Tipping. Always a hot topic. Always sure is. So our trades. We'll get back to our discussion. Is Hosun Kim a potential trade candidate before the trade deadline? And how badly do the boundaries need another arm in that bullpen? Get to that. And then you know, Sarah is coming up at the bottom of the hour. More better woods on the way after traffic on San Diego's number one sports station 97. Three of the fan. 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Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. We've just met trade here on the Ben & Woods program. We have acquired John Flynn from KSOM for a player to be named later, so we don't have to give up anyone now. He just gets to join us for the of a stretch run. Marley's the next like three or four minutes. Good morning, John. Are you feeling fresh? You ready to compete? I'm ready to rock right now. Put me in, coach. You got me all excited for a second. I thought we got a starting picture of that. We need a bullpen arm right now. Bullpen badly. What a great day at the ballpark yesterday, and had a chance to thank many service men and women that are there. I just love the military presence that the Padres have every year. Why am I here? You told us earlier this week, if you joined us on was it Monday or Tuesday about the service pet for a vet that you're raising money to try to get one of our great veterans, a service animal. And I had no idea how much it costs to actually train a service dog, especially one that helps with things like PTSD and stress. $35,000 is the cost to train one dog. It's about a two and a half year process as well. These dogs are specially bred to do this to save lives. And it's not even it's not even a conversation. This is a fact service that service pets save vets lives men and women who come back who are they're tough. They don't tell people they're hurting. They can't even admit it to themselves, but they're in such a dark place that many of them. I mean, you've heard the stat 22 a day that refers to the 22 American veterans who kill themselves every day because of PTSD. Service pets rather are helping that number decrease, but we got to get this money raised and we're nowhere near right now. I do the morning show down the hall at KSO and these guys are my friends. I'm also a tier one of this show and I'm not on the air here. I'm listening to you guys and I know the hearts that your listeners have. I know how much they love you guys and maybe they love America as much as we all should and we get into the fourth of July holiday. There are many men and women right now in one of the biggest cities in America that are dealing with severe crippling PTSD, brain trauma, things that happened overseas that that we'll never thank God ever have to worry about or know because they did it for us, but they're hurting because of that. And these service animals are literally saving lives. We need a lot more money to reach our $35,000 goal. We're about $8,000 in right now, which is a nice, a nice chunk of change, but clearly we need more. So that's why I'm here today, guys. Thank you for letting me come on and pitch my pitch my stuff. How do how do people donate? Just go to ksom.com. If you're if you're if you don't know the station, we are a 60 plus your heritage country station here in San Diego, which is very rare to have a station that long and we're very proud of every day we put the national anthem at eight o'clock. And we'll never stop doing that because that's what they do on the basis here in San Diego. It's that important to our listeners. And I know your listeners are the same way. Many of them veterans themselves. So do you know how important this is to your fellow brothers and sisters who are struggling and don't even know how to get out of bed, let alone face a day. And these service animals are making things happen, man. They can sense when you're having a nightmare before you have a nightmare. I mean, imagine that pretty incredible. Yeah, I was I was able to watch an interview with a vet who was directly influenced by pause for Purple Hearts, beautiful San Diego organization that trains these dogs. And that that's what we were raising the money for. And he just starts talking about being triggered things like going under an underpass in a highway because that's where they used to bomb them. Oh, I used to throw things off the bridges to kill them in Iraq. I mean, things that we don't even think about. And he would get triggered. And as he was talking about getting triggered, and he wasn't raising his voice, but something in him as he was talking about that made the dog first dart just nuzzling his his knee with its nose. Unreal. And then jumping onto his chest because that dog knew. Okay, my guy here is is having a time right now and it's just and then it's like a it's like a blanket of love and comfort with this dog. It was almost I was happy to be able to see it, you know, at first hand. So go to KSON.com. And then there's a John and Tammy page. It's just no, it's right there on the front page. Okay, KSON.com John and Tammy's service pet for a vet. We need thousands of dollars to reach our goal. We're going to do this today. We're going to do this tomorrow. And right now, by the way, you can double your donation because the good friends at San Diego sailing tours are going to match your donation up to a grand. So you're doing it. And by the way, check with your employer. They might match as well. And that could be a triple donation just by making, you know, like a $25 donation could turn into 75 if your employer also matches. That's awesome. It's a great, great cause. Tier one's give if you can. Johnny, love the work that you guys do, man. Thank you. Really appreciate it and go pudger. And I know we I know it's an expensive town. Whatever you can do, you know, $5 is the same as $5,000 really in the in the bare bones of it. But again, not to sound desperate, but I'm desperate. We need thousands. We need thousands of dollars. A veteran needs thousands of dollars. You're going to save a life. I dropped the link in our YouTube stream as well to anybody who's trying to get there. And we have just flipped John now for unfortunately, we're just clearing some roster space. Yeah, I don't know. Trading for cash. That's what you want. That's what you're saying. Cash considerations. And also, I don't want players to pay for soda. So take care of that too. We got you. We got you guys. Johnny, thank you buddy. Stop him by again this morning. And again, yeah, it's a it's a great, great cause. Certainly, I had just no idea that pause for Purple Hearts. That's what it takes. But if it helps, I mean, actually makes a difference in someone's lives, like tangibly, emotionally, that's that's like the most important thing you can do for someone. Dogs are pretty amazing, man. Pretty pretty amazing when you hear stories like that. Incredible. So thank you, Johnny. Thank you to the tier ones out there. Give if you can. If not, maybe share the link to maybe your your social group as well. Okay. So yes, I did bring up the possibility that that Hassan Kim could be traded before the deadline. More than likely though, Padres are going to trade from their stock of prospects. If they're going to add to this roster, AJ is going to have to dip again into his prospect capital. And because he's already made two big deals, Dylan Seuss and Louisa rise, and he's done so without touching any of his top four prospects, there's now kind of a gap between what used to be four. And now man, it's really more like 12 or so in terms of quality prospects, there's a there's a gap right in the middle, the kind of prospect that generally gets you a relief picture around the deadline. They have, you know, they have the absolutes to acquire a relief picture. They absolutely do. Well, they do. But are you going to have to offer an over the top prospects? I don't think so. I mean, I who are who are those mid level prospects now that usually turn into relief pictures? That is a question better answered by our friends at Mad Fryers. And I know they're listening right now. You can text me. But yeah, I mean, you're you're not it's not going to cost you a ton to get a bullpen. There's some up and comers this year that weren't necessarily on the radar. You don't know what an other GM is going to see. He may have someone they've already targeted like I really like this guy. And I don't know if AJ likes them or not, but I like this guy. And I'm asking AJ, I hey, any deal I'd like this player to be included. So, you know, sometimes the deal comes together well when those names match up. Other times a GM will look at the Padres go. Yeah, I love Ethan Salas and Leo de Vries. But what I'm offering you is probably not enough to land one of those guys. I understand that we just don't really match up unfortunately. And what I'm looking for and what you are looking for in a trade creativity is key. I mean, it is absolutely key. AJ's strength. No doubt about it. All right. You know, Sarah, smart baseball, he's going to join us when we come back continue this conversation. Talking pitching machines as well. Did you see some of the news this week about the new fangled pitching machines? I did. But I've seen this before. I saw this one. I was in like ninth grade. But I guess it's better. I think it's getting better. But you know, it's not a history day. I guess. Well, I guess that too back in the 70s. Talk to you know, Sarah's next year with Ben Woods, a 97 through the fan. This hour on 97 through the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? None at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers donk.com/radio. He teased last week the big piece with Jason Stark about the the drop in offensive numbers in baseball going to ask you know, Sarah's about some of those conclusions today coming up right after this check of traffic on 97 through the fan. It's time for the super polish just to be named smart baseball weekly segment with Eno Harris, Sarah's son of a bitch brought to you by seven mile casino just seven minutes from the ballpark by the bay in Chula Vista. Here's Eno Sarah's with Ben and Woods on 97 through the fan. As we welcome Eno in, my guess would be that a lot of Padres fans haven't necessarily noticed the drop in offense simply because the Padres are actually on pace to score more runs than they did last year. I think that's mostly explained through a much higher batting average with runners in scoring position than last year's absurdly low numbers that they put together. But around the league that that's definitely not been the case and we welcome Eno Sarah's in from the athletic for the weekly smart baseball. Eno, it is very interesting because they've made a lot of rule changes to try to help the offense and yet offense continues to continue to trickle away. Yeah, I think that the general trend in baseball and you can actually point this back to like 1892 or whatever they started playing affiliate baseball, the general trend has been towards run prevention. So the very beginning of baseball they were like, you know, hey, I would like the ball here and they just sort of tossed it in and the point was to put the ball in play and see what happened once the ball was in play, you know. But that's not what people do anymore. Now you've got multiple fastballs and that was a part of our piece where, you know, now there's a huge rise in cutters and thinkers and not just normal cutters and thinkers, but now they're all averaging 93 and 94. So you've got guys with three fastballs that makes it hard to kind of figure out which fastball it also means you never have to throw the wrong fastball to the wrong hand. And then you've got pitch design, so no guy, no pitcher is really throwing a really terrible pitch. They're kind of all their pitches are designed up to their max. You've got outfield shifts, outfield shifts were more effective than infield shifts at removing hits and sort of, you know, spray-paying some circles out there. It's kind of hard to do anything about that. Believe me, I'm sure they're considering the spray-pan circle. Yeah, you have to stay right there. You have to stay on the DraftKings logo. Yes, yes, until the ball is actually in the air. Man, that's so interesting. And, you know, I think we're talking about offense being down, you know, for the San Diego Padres is who we mostly cover. They have been a more pleasurable bunch lately slugging a little bit more, hitting some more home runs, you know, Luis Arise. I know he's been hurt. He's really, really kind of struggle. It's weird, man, it's weird to see a guy like Luis Arise came. Then he kind of jammed his shoulder, and I think that's affected his swing a little bit. But I like how the offense is everybody's kind of coming out of it a little bit, a little bit more, and they're starting to hit with a little more pop, which I think makes it feel certainly like the offense is better. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is a pretty good offense. I was looking at some of the numbers before the show, and I think it's by, you know, sort of league and park adjusted numbers. I think it's like fourth or fifth. Yeah. You know, so, and what I also like about it is it's kind of, it's a balanced offense where you've got your guys and make contact. You know, Donovan Solano is not a big deal, but he's just a guy who makes contact and is better than a lot of people's other bench pieces. You know what I mean? And you've got your guys to make contact. Once the teeth is back in the lineup, Machado looks like he's, you know, getting back to what he used to be. You know, they're your power threats. Then you've got your kind of your two-way threats and chrono-worth and pro-far. So I mean, it's really a nice balance lineup. And I have nothing but good, good things to say about it, especially with Merrill kind of coming into his power to use right now. Well, you've talked about that. We've talked about that with you for many years now about the Padres needing different looks per se in their offense, different, different shape swing paths, you know, and it was really easy for pitchers to game plan against the Padres, even last year with an elite hitter like Juan Soto in the lineup, because it just was all the same, essentially. And now it does feel a little bit different. And it certainly looks different. And the brand of baseball certainly feels a little bit better right now. Yeah. I think it's also interesting that you brought up about running scoring position. You know, you have these traditional luck metrics that you look at when you look at a team quality. And the Padres in the last couple of years have really just been on the wrong side. Yeah, just a lot of these luck metrics. Like, remember the one run thing we talked about it for a whole year, the one run game thing, you know, they're on the there on the better side of that now. And then, yeah, the other thing that's like losing one run games and actually related, of course, to losing one run games is batting average in scoring position, which is just totally flooky year to year. And so, you know, I guess the one thing that's not flooky about it is, if you do add some contacts, maybe you help yourself, you know, put some balls in play at runners in scoring position. You know, you know, there's a quote in your piece. And what's just mentioned, Louisa rise. And I would imagine he'd be the ball player who was least happy to see this quote that was in your piece with Jason Stark. And it was from George Springer who said, quote, don't put batting average up on the scoreboard anymore. It doesn't mean anything. If batting average simply went away. I'm not sure that anyone would care about Louisa rise at all. Unless you watched him. Unless you watch. There, there's still a lot to what he does, which is, you know, just really great contact. And so, we might be talking about someone, you know, oh my god, he's striking out 7% of the time when the league is striking out 24%. You know what I mean? Like you could, you could adjust that for other league contacts. That's probably the same as somebody striking out 1% of the time, you know, 20 years ago. So, you know, it is, it is, he does have obvious skills outside of batting average. But, you know, I think that the reason that quote exists is because, you know, he's struggling. He doesn't want his batting average. Yeah, 195 for George Springer. I wouldn't want it up there either. Yeah. But also it just, it speaks to the kind of disconnect between front offices and fans, really, because front offices for the large part do not care about batting average. I bet, I would bet you even that even if, you know, they acquired Louisa rise and they obviously value him, it's not necessarily because of batting average. It's like, hey, we got this great contact hitter, you know, that we can put in our lineup. So, they just speak a different language. Like the front offices speak a different language than fans. And so, Springer was like, if you're just going to put up, if you're just going to put up, you know, batting average, you're kind of speaking the old language when front offices don't value that. And that's part of why batting average is down around the league because teams are saying, well, I value contact, I value power, I value this, and I use different numbers to find those. So, you are more likely to see a starting player hit 230 and hit 35 homers and still have a decent OPS because of the slugging, you know, maybe get on base a bunch. That is more of the modern player and the team itself won't care about his batting average if he's doing all those other things. Well, I'll tell you who the modern player then is, because you also tweeted Kyle Higashiyoka yesterday and look at the numbers. Kyle Higashiyoka has a better OPS and a higher war than Louisa Rias despite less than half the number of at bats this season. He passed him yesterday with his two home run six RBI game against the Washington nationals. I know enough, at least from listening to you and baseball experts, they can't, Padres can't expect this to continue from Kyle Higashiyoka. This has been an insane month, Lynn Sanity. Yeah, but, you know, I'd tell you that there's a bunch of Yankees fans who said that they always loved him. I don't know if that's revisionist history, but probably. I mean, this, he does have the kind of skill set that you want out of a catcher, which is, you know, patience and power. That's the sort of typical skill set out of a catcher and the catchers are kind of ready to have that skill set because they see so many pitches, you know, and they know the strike zone so intimately that, you know, they're kind of set up to have that kind of approach. So, yeah, I like his approach and he likes the Western, you know, metal supply building. He sure does. He wore it out yesterday, talking to, you know, Sarah Smith. Let's stay on Padres catchers because I was, I brought it up earlier in the show today. It was reminded of one of the first interviews we did with you this season about Campere Sano who got off to a really good start, defensively and offensively. And you had a conversation with him, you know, about, hey, man, like, you're hitting the ball. Your exit wheel is about 70 miles an hour. And he had a comment back of like, I don't care what I'm, how hard I'm hitting it as long as they drop. Well, they stopped dropping as, as tends to do. And, and you know, he's, I wouldn't say he's in danger of losing his gig. But I think you have to, you have to appreciate what Kyle Higashieoka has done and probably he's going to get more reps than he would have. But that was an interesting throwback of him looking at you and saying, I don't, I don't care how hard I hit it. I mean, he stopped hitting it. He continued to not hit it hard and didn't get hits. Yeah, I mean, one of the things that does happen with these outside contact rate guys, and that's, Campere Sano has pretty good contact rate. Um, you know, I said this, I asked Marco Scooter of this once. I said, you know, you lead the league in contact rate. And he goes, yeah, I probably lead the league in bad contact too. Um, and so what, what will happen is that you will make contact on pitches that you shouldn't, you know, you'll make contact on pitches that are outside the zone that don't produce good outcome. Um, and when you do that, uh, you know, they go off to be lower and the outcomes are worse. So, I know he's a free swinging guy that makes a lot of kind. And that's who he is at his core. But any, any sort of improvement in his flight discipline will improve, uh, what happens on the ball some play, you know, it's just, if you look at like a heat map of like, Hey, where's power? It's in the zone. You know, where's, where are the good hits? Where's the good eggs of velocity? It's in the zone. So the more he can sort of focus on where his, his good parts of the zone and in the zone in general, uh, that's his way forward. I think, you know, Sarah's from the athletic is with us. And, and you know, I know that even, even numbers can lie and be misleading. There's no perfect stat. There's no perfect data. War is a stat that they at least try to put everything together into one number. My eyes have told me that Hassan Kim after having a great year last year has just not played as well this year. Just my eyes, my gut tells me absolutely has not played as well. So, I just looked at the war numbers. Do you know who leads the potteries in war this year? Hassan Kim, 2.1. How is that even possible? I mean, what am I missing here? You know, he's hitting 223. He's got 10 homers, but you know, it doesn't leave the team in that, that category. I, I know he's a good defender, but he's committed a lot of errors this year way more than last year. What am I missing that that war stat is telling me about Hassan Kim? Um, I guess a couple things. You know, we started this interview at the top with how offense is down. So you'll probably, if you kind of scan across and see how good his offense is relative to the league, you'll probably be surprised. Um, I don't have it in front of me, but I would guess that maybe he's like a top seven short stop offensively. I think something like that way surprising. Yeah. And he's probably only like 10% worse than league average with a bat. Well, you're like, what that line 10% worse than league average with that. So, um, that's part of it is just like the league offense is so low that you could have a, like a bad looking line and it's, and it's actually fine. Um, and then the other part is that like, you know, errors actually don't factor in, um, to defensive metrics the way that our eyes think they should, you know, we see an error and we go, oh my God, or can we remember the error, you know? Um, defensive metrics see, oh, maybe he got to a ball that someone else wouldn't have, you know, or, you know, maybe, maybe that was a, a ball that was hit, you know, 125 miles an hour and he wasn't, you know, it's not necessarily his fault that he didn't get to it, basically. Um, and so this hour on 97 three, the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? None at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers, dog.com/radio. He teased last week the big piece with Jason Stark about the, the drop in offensive numbers in baseball going to ask Enos Saris about some of those conclusions today coming up right after this check of traffic on 97 three, the fan. It's time for the super polish just to be named smart baseball weekly segment with Eno Harris, Saris, son of a bitch, brought to you by seven mile casino just seven minutes from the ballpark by the bay in Chula Vista. Here's Eno Saris with Ben and Woods on 97 three, the fan. As we welcome Eno in, um, my guess would be that a lot of Padres fans haven't necessarily noticed the drop in offense simply because the Padres are actually on pace to score more runs than they did last year. I think that's mostly explained through a much higher batting average with runners in scoring position than last year's absurdly low numbers that they put together. But around the league that that's definitely not been the case and we welcome Eno Saris in from the athletic for the weekly smart baseballs. Eno, um, it is very interesting because they've made a lot of rule changes to try to help the offense and yet offense continues to, uh, continue to trickle away. Yeah, I think that the general trend in baseball, um, and you can actually point this back to like 1892 or whatever they started playing affiliate baseball, uh, the general trend has been towards run prevention. So the very beginning of baseball, they were like, you know, hey, I would like the ball here and they just sort of tossed it in and the point was to put the ball in play and see what would happen once the ball was in play, you know? Um, but, uh, that's not what people do anymore. Now you've got multiple fastballs and that was, that was a part of our piece where, you know, now, uh, there's a huge rise in cutters and thinkers and not just normal cutters and thinkers, but now they're all averaging 93 and 94. Um, so you got guys with three fastballs makes it hard to kind of figure out which fastball it also means you never have to throw the wrong fastball to the wrong hand. Um, and then you've got pitch design. So no guy, no pitcher is really throwing a really terrible pitch. They're kind of all their pitches are designed up to their max. Um, you've got outfield shifts. Outfield shifts were more effective than infield shifts at removing hits. Um, and short of, you know, spray painting some circles out there. It's kind of hard to do anything about that. Um, so, and, and believe me, I'm sure they're considering the spray pan circle. So, um, you have to stay right there. You have to stay on the draft Kings logo. Yes. Yes. Until the ball is actually in the air. Uh, man, that's so interesting. And you know, I think we're talking about offense being down, you know, for the San Diego Padres is, is who we mostly cover. They have been a, they've been a more pleasurable bunch lately slugging a little bit more, hitting some more home runs. You know, Lisa rise. I know he's, he's been hurt. He's really, really kind of struggle. It's weird, man. It's weird to see a guy like Luis rise came. Then he kind of jammed his shoulder. And I think that's, that's affected his swing a little bit. But I like how the offense is everybody's kind of coming out of it a little bit, a little bit more. And they're starting to hit with a little more pop, which I, I think makes it feel certainly like the offense is better. Oh, yeah. I mean, this is a pretty good offense. I was looking at some of numbers before the show. And I think it's by, you know, sort of league and park adjusted numbers. I think it's like fourth or fifth. Yeah. You know, so, and what I also like about it is it's kind of, it's a balanced offense where you've got your guys and make contact. You know, Donald Solano is not a big deal, but he's just a guy who makes contact and is better than a lot of people's other bench pieces. You know what I mean? Like, you know, and you've got, you've got, you've got your guys and make contact. Once the teeth is, is back in the lineup, Machado looks like he's, you know, getting back to what he used to be. You know, they're your power threats. Then you got your, your, your kind of your two way threats and chrono where it's a pro far. So I mean, it's really a nice balance lineup. And I have nothing but good, good things to say about, especially with Merrill, kind of coming into his power to you right now. Well, you've talked about that. We've talked about that with you for many, many years now about the Padres needing different looks per se in their offense, different, different shape swing paths, you know, and yeah, it was really easy for pitchers to game plan against the Padres, even last year with an elite hitter like Juan Soto in the lineup, because it just was all the same, essentially. And now it does feel a little bit different. And it certainly looks different. And the brand of baseball certainly feels a little bit better right now. Yeah. I think it's also interesting that you brought up about running scoring position. You know, you have these traditional luck metrics that you look at when you look at a team quality. And the Padres in the last couple of years have really just been on the wrong side. Yeah, just a lot of these luck metrics. Like remember the, the one run thing we talked about for a whole year, the one run game thing, you know, they're on the, they're on the better side of that now. And then yeah, the other thing that's like losing one run games and actually related, of course, to losing one run games is batting average in scoring position, which is just totally flooky year to year. And so, you know, I guess the one thing that's not flooky about it is, if you do add some contacts, maybe you'd help yourself, you know, put some balls in player runners in scoring position. You know, you know, there's a quote in your piece. And, and what's just mentioned, Louisa rise. And I would imagine he'd be the ball player who was least happy to see this quote that was in your piece with Jason Stark. And it was from George Springer, who said, quote, don't put batting average up on the scoreboard anymore. It doesn't mean anything. If batting average simply went away, I'm not sure that anyone would care about Louisa rise at all. Unless you watched him. Unless you watch, I don't know. There, there's still a lot to what he does, which is, you know, just really great contact. And so, we might be talking about someone, you know, oh my God, he's striking out 7% of the time when the league is striking out 24% of the time. You know what I mean? Like, you could, you could adjust that for other league contacts. That's probably the same as somebody striking out 1% of the time, you know, 20 years ago. So, you know, it is, it is, he does have obvious skills outside of batting average. But, you know, I think that the reason that quote exists is because, you know, he's struggling. He doesn't want his batting average. Yeah, 195 for George Springer. I wouldn't want it up there either. Yeah. But also, it just, it speaks to the kind of disconnect between front offices and fans, really, because front offices for the large part do not care about batting average. I would bet you, even, that even if, you know, they acquired Luis Arias and they obviously value him, it's not necessarily because of batting average. It's like, hey, we got this great contact hitter, you know, that we can put in our lineup. So, they just speak a different language. Like, the front office is speak a different language than fans. And so, Springer was like, if you're just going to put up, if you're just going to put up, you know, batting average, you're kind of speaking the old language when front offices don't value that. And that's part of why batting average is down around the league because teams are saying, well, I value contact, I value power, I value this, and I use different numbers to find those. So, you are more likely to see a starting player hit 230 and hit 35 homers and still have a decent OPS because of the slugging, you know, maybe get on base a bunch, that is more of the modern player. And the team itself won't care about his batting average if he's doing all those other things. Well, I'll tell you who the modern player then is because you also tweeted Kyle Higashiyoka yesterday, and look at the numbers, Kyle Higashiyoka has a better OPS and a higher war than Luis Arias despite less than half the number of at bats this season. He passed him yesterday with his two home run six RBI game against the Washington Nationals. I know enough, at least from listening to you and baseball experts, they can't, potteries can't expect this to continue from Kyle Higashiyoka. This has been an insane month, Lynn Sanity. Yeah, but, you know, I'd tell you that there's a bunch of Yankees fans who who said that they always loved them. I don't know if that revisionist history, but probably, I mean, this, this, he does have the kind of skill set that you want out of a catcher, which is, you know, patience and power. That's the sort of typical skill set out of a catcher. And the catchers are kind of ready to have that skill set because they see so many pitches, you know, and they know the strike zones so intimately that, you know, they're kind of set up to have that kind of approach. So, yeah, I like, I like his approach and he likes the Western, you know, metal supply bill. He sure does. He wore it out yesterday, talking to, you know, Sarah's athletic. Let's stay on potteries, catchers, because I was, I brought it up earlier in the show today, was reminded of one of the first interviews we did with you this season about Campere Sano, who got off to a really good start defensively and offensively. And you had a conversation with him, you know, about, hey, man, like, you're hitting the ball, your exit wheel is about 70 miles an hour. And he had a comment back of like, I don't care what I'm, how hard I'm hitting it, as long as they drop, well, they stop dropping as, as tends to do. And, and you know, he's, I wouldn't say he's in danger of losing his gig. But I think you have to, you have to appreciate what Kyle Higashyoka has done. And probably he's going to get more reps than he would have. But that was an interesting throwback of him looking at you and saying, I don't, I don't care how hard I hit it. I mean, he, he stopped hitting it. He continued to not hit it hard and didn't get hits. Yeah, I mean, one of the things that does happen with these outside contact rate guys, and that's, Campere Sano has pretty good contact rate. You know, I said this, I asked Marco Scooter of this once, I said, you know, you lead the league in contact rate. And he goes, yeah, I probably lead the league in bad contact too. And so what, what will happen is that you will make contact on pitches that you shouldn't, you know, you'll make contact on pitches that are outside the zone that don't produce good outcome. And when you do that, you know, they go off to be lower and the outcomes are worse. So I know he's a free swinging guy that makes a lot of time. That's who he is at his core. But any, any sort of improvement in his flight discipline will improve what happens on the ball from play. You know, it's just, if you look at like a heat map of like, Hey, where's power? It's in his own. You know, where's where are the good hits? Where's the good eggs of velocity? It's in the zone. So the more he can sort of focus on where his good parts of zone and in the zone in general, that's his way forward, I think. You know, Sarah, some of the athletic is with us. And you know, I know that even, even numbers can lie and be misleading. There's no perfect stat. There's no perfect data. War is a stat that they at least try to put everything together into one number. My eyes have told me that Hassan Kim after having a great year last year has just not played as well this year. Just my eyes, my gut tells me absolutely has not played as well. So I just looked at the war numbers. Do you know who leads the Padres in war this year? Hassan Kim, 2.1. How is that even possible? I mean, what am I missing here? You know, he's hitting 223. He's got 10 homers, but you know, it doesn't leave the team in that category. I know he's a good defender, but he's committed a lot of errors this year way more than last year. What am I missing that that war stat is telling me about Hassan Kim? I guess a couple of things. You know, we started this interview at the top with how offense is down. So you'll probably, if you kind of scan across and see how good his offense is relative to the league, you'll probably be surprised. I don't have it in front of me, but I would guess that maybe he's like a top seven short stop offensively. I think something like that way surprising. Yeah. And he's probably only like 10% worse than league average with a bat. Well, you're like, what that line 10% worse than league average with that. So that's part of it is just like the league offensive solo that you could have a like a bad looking line and it's and it's actually fine. And then the other part is that like, you know, errors actually don't factor in to defensive metrics the way that our eyes think they should. You know, we see an error and we go, oh my god, or we remember the error, you know, defensive metrics see, oh, maybe he got to a ball that someone else wouldn't have, you know, or, you know, maybe maybe that was a ball that was hit, you know, 125 miles an hour and he wasn't, you know, it's not necessarily his fault that he didn't get to it, basically. And so, you know, the defensive metrics are kind of look at everything in a way that we can't with our eyes. That's why I like metrics is because they'll they'll remember things that we won't remember. Yeah. And so I would, I would assume that his defense is rated as well as last year. Now, one last thing I will say about war is that the defensive metrics that are in fan graphs war are probably like not the best defensive metrics. So, sometimes if you're looking at a fan graphs war and you say, I think this is actually B war though. That's which one is the ESPN.com use. That's a, I think that's the B war. Yeah, even B war like both those guys, I think that the best defense metrics are the ones on baseball, Vermont. I wouldn't be surprised though if Kim was good there too. So, you know, what they are, they're good. Yeah, so, yeah. So, I mean, I think he's just a really good defender whose offense looks worse than it is. And so, he's still, he's still a valuable player. I am interested to see what this offensive downturn does, you know, on the market for him next year and how much he can get it back going again. I do think he can get it back going offensively. And I think about the final bit like people have been hot at different times. That's another part of chaos and luck. You know, sometimes your team is just everyone's bad at the same time and everyone's good at the same time. And this team so far has kind of had different people step up at different times. And so, Kim struggles haven't been as important, you know? Yeah, for sure. And though, maybe they'll be like a three-week stretch where you're like, ah, it's Kim time, you know? I wanted, that's the, how I see it. We only have two minutes left. I wanted to ask you quickly about the tragic machine. But I guess we'll wait until next week because it's going to be 30 seconds. Ben, Ben, I did want to, I teased it. Well, you had, you had seen one of those earlier. It's basically a pitching machine that replicates the pitches and deliveries of pitchers. Yeah. You know, players can get that look at least going into an at bat. But yeah, we'll save that for next week, for another day. Yeah. Yeah. And I just dropped a trade deadline piece of what arms are available. Arms and bats are available. Need to read that one deadline. Look at you. And I've got a big piece coming up tomorrow. And so next week, we'll have a couple of topics to talk about. Thanks. Let's do an hour next week, you know. Thank you, Eno. Okay. All right. Eno, Sarah from the athletic or weekly smart baseball segment brought to you by Seven Mile Casino. Yeah. I need to look through some of those names that are available. Jeff Passon did it and it's like, Louis Severino. It's like the Mets are red hot right now. They're not trading Severino to the Padres. At least not today. I certainly wouldn't expect that. But who is available? So we'll check that out. 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