Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
7am Hour - Padres Catcher Controversy? + Bogaerts Takes BP
Ben & Woods start the 7am hour talking about the Padres catcher position, and whether or not Kyle Higashioka has proven that he should be the starting catcher even after Luis Campusano returns from the injured list. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we discuss Xander Bogaerts taking some BP swings yesterday before the game, and what his return could mean for Ha-seong Kim. Listen here!
- Duration:
- 1h 0m
- Broadcast on:
- 27 Jun 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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When I asked earlier about the catching situation for the Padres, especially when the Whis Camposano returns, I think he's eligible to come off the injured list, I think on Monday. So he'll be out for the Boston series. And I'd imagine we'll see Higashioke at least two of those games. I caught all three of the games against the Washington Nationals, including the day game after the night game yesterday, which, you know, opened my eyes a little bit. I suggested that that's possible because, you know, as a backup, he hasn't been overly used earlier in the season. But this is the time to ride the hot hands. He's not going to stay this hot all year long. No, Caligashioke has been in the league long enough. He is not, he's not discovered something magical and all of a sudden is going to be an all star catcher going forward. He's riding a hot streak. You hope it lasts as long as possible. Jesse and Tony talked about a very small, small adjustment he made closing his front foot just a little bit because early in the season, he felt like he hit a bunch of balls down the line that hooked foul that would have been home runs. I remember, like, felt like every other game, Cal was hitting, he was going over four when he did get a chance to start. But at least once during the game, he ripped one down the line that went about six feet foul and would have been a home run. And he said, just slightly closed the stance a little bit. And now those same line drives that are 103, 104 miles an hour off the bat are staying fair and heading right to the Western Metal Supply Company. Third deck of the Western Metal Supply Company. That's big. I like the one that went into the suite. The two right shot is right into the door. Yeah. And disappear. The guy went in and pulled it out of the buffet or wherever it ended up on nachos as mud said onto one of the the sofas in there and then pulled it out and showed everybody. But right now he's hot. You got to ride the hot hand. The Padres will need Louise Campissano quite a bit over the rest of the season. Um, you know, not just to back up Kyle Higashiyoka, but probably as the starter at some point. Remember the first month of the year, Louise was doing a nice job. He was. But that has not held. Unfortunately. So it's interesting to the timing of all of this. We have, you know, Sarah's coming on at 8 35 this morning. And I'm reminded of an early conversation that you know, Sarah's had with Louise Campissano, who was getting extremely lucky hitting the ball about 69 miles an hour off the bat and they were falling. And you know, Sarah's literally had the conversation with Campissano, like, Hey man, like you're not really barreling the ball. You're getting some knocks and Campissano saying to him, I don't care how hard I hit it as long as they fall. And I like that mentality. But I also, you kind of saw it start to go away. Those flares don't stay flares forever. They turn into very easy week outs. And I don't know, you know, the weird adjustment that Louise Campissano made with the stance and everything else that all of us amateur hitting coaches want to talk about on Twitter was not leading to many barrels at all. And then you take the defensive part of his game. He was stealing a lot of strikes early. In fact, he was in the first three weeks a month of the season was literally one of the best pitch stealers, strike stealers in baseball. That went off the cliff. Oh, it all went away. All of it. They're hitting the hitting luck. The defensive view called out is his stat cast sliders. I don't and he is in some of the lowest percentiles, like one of them, baseball, one of the worst, every defensive metric, unfortunately, and offensive. I mean, it's, it's across the board. Like, man, this is a, this is pretty dire for Louise Campissano. And again, I, I know that people, um, the only thing he's, he's doing well Ben is he's not striking out a ton. Um, his, his K rate is 95. So it's deep, deep in the red, his whiff rate, 70, 80s, and swing and miss a bunch. But man, you want to talk about, about barrels, not many at all. Sweet spot, not much at all. Doesn't walk a ton. And then you look at his defensive stuff and it's, it's horrible. It's horrible. So it's all, you know, right in the the first 10 base single digits single digits in the blue. It's really, really bad. So, um, yeah, she okay. Meanwhile has, is, if anything, just continue to improve this season defensively throughout a ton of runners on this homestamps, it was fantastic. He was a weapon behind home plate. Multiple guys thrown out at second base, not 100%, but no catcher is. I mean, if you're getting, you're getting a quarter of guys, you're doing well and he was, he was doing better than that by a wide margin on this last homestand. So yeah, offensively, you're not going to keep it up, but that defensive equation should keep Kyle Higashiyoka in the lineup more regularly for the rest of the year, even when both guys are healthy. Correct? Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, the guys got Kyle Higashiyoka's got a 762 OPS Kyle Higashiyoka right now. He's got eight bombs. Average is not great at all, but his slugging is 522. And again, his OPS is 762, which is a career high for him. Whatever he's doing, he's got to keep doing. We need, we need him. But Campi Sano, when he comes back, I do think that there's a, there's a conversation to be had about who's going to get the most, you know, because you remember, man, Campi, I know he's been, he's been banged up before, he's been injured, but you got to remember when Gary Sanchez got here last year, it was like, all right, you're the guy now, because Gary found a power stroke and, you know, wasn't hitting for average or anything like that. But yeah, man, at some point, he's got to, he's got to kind of take that job back. So in the last three seasons, as the primary backup for the Yankees, Kyle Higashiyoka had exactly 10 home runs in each of those three seasons, would have signed up for that three weeks ago going, I hope he gets anywhere near to 10. Now, he's already at eight with seven in the month of June. Now I'm going, if he only gets to 10, something's gone wrong in the second half of the season. And I looked at his at-bats and I wondered, well, are they going to wear him out for a guy that has not, has not started? Can you, that's a, that can be a worry. A guy who doesn't start often, and all of a sudden he's playing every day, are you going to, you know, run out of gas? And he's had in the last three years, 193, 229, 242 at-bats for the Yankees. Only has 92 so far this year, even with the recent, you know, extra play with Campusano on the injured list. So, you know, he's on pace for the fewer at-bats than he's had in any of the last three years. So you can up his usage in the second half without worrying too much about, you know, wearing him out in the second half of the season. Go ahead, let's see more Kyle Higashiyoka going forward. I mean, it got to the point, people were upset the other night when shilt pinch hit David Peralta for Kyle Higashiyoka. That is not something that anyone would have tweeted, you know, back in April or May, nobody would have said, oh, what is he doing? You got to let Higgie hit. He already, he already hit a bomb or this game or whatever. Like one of our hottest hitters. If you're looking for a single though, he has seven of them all year. His more home runs than singles this year. It's insane. It's insane. So yeah, man, what a perfect addition to the team right now. Stepping up. I mean, six RBIs yesterday. It's bananas. That's bananas. So it's nice that Slamdiego lives again. Oh, I wanted to ask you about that. First that we need a contestant for Real or Fake if you want to play our game and try to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas. Give us a call right now 833-288-097-3, 833-288-097-3, we're about two, three minutes away from our game. So that is, uh, so remember back during the pandemic, the original Slamdiego when the Padres hit Grand Slams in four consecutive games to set a new Major League record. And we were broadcasting from the Corona cave. And after they did it three times in a row, you, you said, if they do it one more time, if they get another Grand Slam today and make it four in a row, you said, I'll do the next show in a diaper. Yes, wear a diaper and nothing else. And you did. You did it. I was where they got me. It was on the last game. As always getting me. So we're halfway there. I mean, what's the number here? Is it four again? Is it five? Do they have to break the record? So if they hit Grand Slams in every game at Fenway Park this weekend, you'll show up Monday morning here to our Odyssey Studios, not the Corona cave. That's what you want. Odyssey Studios in a diaper. Now, if you want it, I'll do a Morgan Wall and haircut too, which is like my nightmare. I would do that. Five Grand Slams in five consecutive games. Yeah, I'll wear that for the for the squad. Still a long way to go. Long way to go. Yeah, I'll give the bases loaded a few times. Anthony butchers says nude. Nobody wants this nude. Pause. It's one well into deep right field. I thought he got it all. Car rushed. Grand Slam, Homer on San Diego Padres. Where'd you heard that before? And this ball game right now belongs to the San Diego Padres by five two. It's unbelievable. It's uncanny. It's record steady. Tatice on Monday. Myers on Tuesday. Machado a walkoff on Wednesday and now Eric Hosmer on Thursday. Major League history. It's insane. Insane. Poor straight game. Slam Diego. It's nice, man. Nice. Nice. It's Lamby. Is that three this season? That's three this season. Let's see. Jake had one. Jake had one. And then. And then Higgie. Yes. Is that it? It's not maybe four. Maybe it was the fourth one or two. There might be one more there. It's proper up to. No. Yeah. Yeah. He does. He's got two. Yeah. He's got two. That's correct. Yeah. Pro got one. San Francisco. That's right. Now, remember last year they didn't have one until Gary Sanchez. Yes. Late in the late in August or early September or something. Yeah. So now we got four. That's great. Slam Diego lives. It's a real thing. It's good to have it back. Yeah. I love slam Diego so much. Four runs on one swing is pretty elite. All right. I got it in the chat guys. I know pro has two. We said it. It's a pro far. Pro far. It's got two. Yeah. How many just pro far have by the way? If you guys could let me know in the chat. Oh, yeah. We're going to get San Francisco. Good Lord. So yeah. Well done by the fellas getting that sweep yesterday, the ninth inning notwithstanding. But yeah, man, I'm I'm excited to see what what we can do against the Red Sox and of course against Boach's team, the Texas Rangers. How are they right now? Ben, I haven't heard a lot under 500. Are they? Yeah. But no, I mean, after a really slow start, they've kind of stabilized a little bit, but not playing well by any stretch of the imagination. All right. You ready for a little realer fake throwback Thursday. All right. Let's get to our game. Some are here for the compelling sports talk with Ben and Woods. You can go plow through another donut. It's time for real or fake on 97 three. The fan tell the people what they'll win today. All right. Here's what we're playing for. If you can get four of the seven right on realer fake, you're qualified for a grand prize drawing tonight's stay at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas tickets, either hoodie in the blowfish or smashing pumpkins and a $150 poolside dining credit. Summer room packages and tickets are available now at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.com. Let's go to Bill. Bill, welcome to realer fake. How are you doing this morning? Really good, Ben. Thank you. All right. You are contesting again. You're looking for a four of seven, right? We are in the middle of the NBA draft. Yesterday, Woods was testing himself on team logos, but about team nicknames. I have a list of NBA teams dating back to the league's birth in the 1940s. Today on realer fake, I'll give you a city in a nickname. You tell me if it was a real team that was once a part of the NBA. Yeah, what's or a fake I've thrown into fool you. Bill, you ready to play? Woods is your life, right? If you ever want to use it. All right, here we go. Round one, the Wichita Braves, real or fake. Wichita Braves, NBA. What do I think? Yeah, fake. Okay. We'll say fake. And fake would be correct. That's easy. One point on the on our way to four and a win. Let's go to round number two, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, real or fake? Oh, geez. So what, do you know where Tri-Cities is? I think is that in, uh, is that, no, that's the twinsies. Is it in Iowa Tri-Cities? What's the Tri-Cities? I think a lot of places have the Tri-Cities. Well, let's, let's go real because they probably combined cities back then. Why not? Why not? Why didn't they combine cities back then? Real? Yeah, a couple of moves later, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks around the Atlanta Hawks who had the number one pick in the draft yesterday, took Zachari Risha Shea out of France with the number one pick. All right, you are halfway home. All right, let's go to round number three. The Chicago Zephyrs, real or fake NBA team, Bill. That sounds like a good name. Let's, let's say that's real. Says that's real. Yeah, wow. Very well done. Easy game. What year was this? These are in the like, mostly in the 40s and the first few years of the NBA. Yeah, the Zephyrs, see. Totally settled on their lineup of teams. All right, let's go to round number four for the win, the Rochester Royals. Real or fake, Bill. I'm pretty sure that one is real. He's pretty sure. I like the confidence and it is well deserved. Rochester Royals, a couple of moves later, are now known as the Sacramento Kings. Sweep's all around. Sweet. Congratulations, Bill. Hang on the line. They're not real or fake. Sweep's all around. No, we usually go to round seven. Let's see if Woods gets the rest of these. We've got the Cincinnati captains. Real. Now, fake. Indianapolis, Olympians. Fake. That is real. All right. The Pittsburgh wasps. Fake. That is fake. Wasps. It would fit well though with the black and gold theme of all of their teams, but they did not to are lost black and gold like bees wasps. Those are different, but aren't they still kind of black and gold? A little bit. Think so. No, I don't think so. Vocal color wasps. A wasps nest. Dad, there's a wasps nest over there. Oh, is there wasps? I don't know that I can really tell the difference between honeybees and wasps. Remember, I post that video. He also calls it a hornest. It's true story. Hornest. What is that? What does she have in her house? A hornest. Oh, okay. Like the Charlotte. What's the address? I better go take care of that. What? Let me head over there right now and see what's up with this hornest at your goggles house. A hornest. Now, there's the big fat bumblebees. Yes. Those are, I think, I don't know that any bees are actually black and yellow. I think that's how we draw them. Really? I think so. Just in the, maybe there's a, maybe just in part. Those big bumblebees have some black and yellow, right? Yeah. The hornest. Do you watch the draft? I did. It was at the sphere or is that the NHL? It was at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. I wish they would just call it the Barclays Center. So the Barclays Center. But how was it? Was it good? It was fine. You know, I think three of the first six picks were from France. Guys, you don't really know because they didn't play college basketball. So you didn't get to watch them. Just a couple of, you know, videos of, you know, their club teams in France. When Binyama went, number one, last year. Yeah. Yeah. I love that France is wine, cheese and basketball players. Apparently they just, they're breeding them over there right now. Two Yukon players in like the top seven in Castle and Klingen both went early. No Aztecs in the first round. No. Projectics or former Aztecs taken. One more day to day. None. No one was going to hear their name today. Right. If it was going to happen, it was always going to be today, not yesterday, but it's still a big. Is it really big? Wow, man. Jaden LeDee. He would be at the end of the second round. If anyone gets around, what's he projected at? I mean, he was like 60. What was it? You saw like, he was like, 88 and there's only 60 total picks. If anything, he could catch on as an undrafted sign. He'll sign somewhere. He'll play professional basketball. Yeah. It's overseas or G league. All right. We're going to come back. Don't do this is next to get an update on Jim Schloss, Nagler, the head coach now of the Texas Longhorns baseball team. Man, that's just, it just story just gets weirder and weirder the longer we go. And then he sucks. Then he does. And then he told, he did Q and A. Yes, I thought, I thought apology. Oh, this is good. Yeah. And then I heard it and I go, no, no, that's not how you do it. That is not how you do it. You'll hear it next. Ben Wudson, San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives well better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. 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So yesterday on Don't Do This, if you were listening, you heard from former Texas A&M head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagel after his team had just lost in the championship series at the college world series to Tennessee. A tough moment, but responded. Let's just say very rudely to a reporter who had the temerity. The gall as it were to ask him about rumors that Schlossnagel could be up for the recently vacated Texas head coaching job. Or by the way, his best friend, uh, Kristall Conti is the athletic director at Texas. So, you know, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put that together. A reporter did ask the question. This was Jim Schlossnagel tonight. But with the rumor circulating today about a specific job opening, what do you have to say about your future in Aggieland? Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of you to ask me that question to be honest with you. Totally. But my, uh, I left my family to be the coach at Texas A&M. Yeah, I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again. Right. And that changed in my mind in my, um, on paper it has. That's unfair to talk about something like that. There'd be like you asking Montgomery, if he's going to sign in the draft, but I understand you got to ask the question. But I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job. And I poured every answer my soul in this job. And I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it to write that. Okay, you took the job. The follow up question Montgomery, are you going to be leaving school for the draft? Um, all right. Well, if, if truly he then the next day committed to Texas A&M, like lifetime contract, I go when the game put your, put your money where your mouth is, back up your words. The fact that he then the next day took the Texas job, the biggest rival of Texas A&M after having dressed down the reporter for asking the question was pretty awful. So he has introduced yesterday as the new head coach at Texas. And I saw the report, he did offer an apology and I thought, okay, good, good for him. He that reporter absolutely deserved one. Then I heard the apology and I go, hi, this is back and don't do this again, Jim. Here's Jim Schloss Nagle, now member of the Texas Longhorns. When the game ended, I want to publicly apologize to Richard Zane. He's a young reporter. He asked the question. That was an obvious question. I wish I could have answered that better. You could have. Do you think so? Yeah. In the moment, all 30 minutes after the last pitch, all I could think about was our players. You're so. And I really wasn't in the mood to talk about my huge offer that I got the future. So I apologize for that to Richard. Okay, so the word, but never appeared in that apology, but it was implied several times when he said he's a young reporter. You're insinuating then perhaps that he doesn't have a lot of credibility, that, you know, a veteran reporter wouldn't have asked that question. So you're basically still, you're still insulting him. He made a mistake while you're apologizing. The old backhanded call backhanded apology. I'm a master at it. By the way, my wife would tell you what was the other part that he said he, he called him a young reporter. Yeah, young reporter, but here's the thing. He does the whole bit of, yeah, I just was thinking about my players, man, and what they're going through. No, you weren't. You had you had this thing already wrapped up. So this all the boxes. So this came out yesterday. He they asked him to, hey, Mr. Hornswoggle, could you, what did you say to your players? The answer is nothing. And he said, I, I wish I could have, I wish I could have addressed them and had time to talk to them. Everyone astutely pointed out, buddy, you had a bus ride and a flight with your entire team. And you didn't tell anybody. And zoom your plans. Yeah, pro text messages exist. Anything. Now, now it's your coach. I'm out of here. I'd love you. Appreciate it. I mean, maybe the offer never came through. And so after the game, after he had gotten home and he just, it all came together in about two hours. That's what they want you to believe down. Does he get his family back or does he have to leave them again? No, so what are coming with me to Austin? It's just again, man, like, I'm telling you, if you, if you're at a kid, now the other thing too, yesterday, what happened, and I have friends that went to A&M friends that went to Texas. I talked to my Texas buddy yesterday. He's afraid to text his our mutual friends that went to A&M because it's so heavy down there, like with message boards and he did this and they did that. So all of these kids yesterday from A&M because they don't know who their next coach is going to be. They have no idea. All these kids that committed to him have now entered the portal, but you have to enter the portal by July 1st or you're ineligible. So again, they may end up staying at A&M depending on who the coach is. They may end up following him to two Texas. They have four days to fill all that out. I mean, Texas A&M and Texas are massive rivals. That's like Ben. That's like transferring from UCLA to USC. It is. It broke the Ohio State to Michigan. It's not really done very often. It's just gnarly. Like they hate each other. They hate each other. There's no question. And so to have this go down like that, it's always weird to me to, you know, the day before you're an Aggie and you bleed and I took this job to only be an Aggie. Literally the next day you're in burnt orange and you're like, yeah, good Lord. I mean, I know that's how it works. I know it is. You have to embrace it and dive in. It's really gross. But it is gnarly. It's gnarly. So yeah, that was a really interesting story yesterday. You thought we were, uh, you thought we might be done with Hock Toa, but apparently, we're not. And you gotta give him that Hock Toa. Yeah, I get you. I do. I get you very much. Hock Toa. That's going to stay forever. Hock Toa. Hock Toa. Yeah, it made its way, Ben, into the broadcast of a not a minor league game, a major league game between the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals. I don't know who's who, but I'm just going to play you this audio. Hock Toa dropped his spit on his shoulder. That's what's sitting there and went to spit a little humid out, I guess, and mouth getting a little bit tried. I'm quite clear his arm and just landed right on the right on the shoulder. Hock Toa. Let's do it again. But middle-aged baseball broadcasters are using it. It's completely jock Toa. That was a very whirlwind three days. She has made Hock Toa $65,000 by selling Hock Toa merch so far. Hock Toa. I'm kind of not over it yet because I like her. Okay, let's just please stop. I mean, there's just reporting the news here. Don't shoot the messenger here. Do do this. All right, do do this for a Thursday. And today I will definitely be pulling for golfer Nick beans in the first round of the rocket mortgage classic in Michigan. You may have seen this story Monday, Q info. Ryan French was chronicling it this past Monday. Nick beans entered the Monday qualifier. They have these before pretty much every regular PGA tour event where, you know, 100 guys will go out and like three will qualify for the PGA tour stop that week. He has to shoot usually six, seven hundred, even have a chance to make it. But this isn't he's not a he's not like a touring pro golfer. Most of these guys are, you know, corn fairy tour veteran players who are trying to, you know, work their way into another extra event. He's just an employee at golf galaxy. He's never golf galaxy's never competed in any tour sanctioned event before. I mean, he's a good golfer. But yeah, of course, you know, and has the day of his life. She's just a guy. Just a guy. She's a seven under 65 at the the qualifier in Washington, Michigan at the orchards golf club. But he got to wait then because, you know, only like whatever three or four spots for the entire tournament. And he sits there all day and it's he's just waiting and decides I better have a cut. He has a couple beers and has a third beer. And finally they say he's ever guess what? You have made a playoff. There's a playoff now for the final spot goes out and an eight hole playoff. He paused every single hole. And on the eighth hole, he qualifies to get in his first PGA tour event three beers and that is F eight playoff holes after a seven under 65 and like a two or three hour wait for the playoff. And this guy has been doing interviews. Pat McAfee show all over the country talking about how to get time off work at golf galaxy. I don't ask people. I mean, I was supposed to work this weekend, but I'm playing at a PGA tour event. Hey, I don't think I can give you the day off. Adam, I just qualified. What is the tournament? The rocket mortgage classes. I just qualified for the rocket mortgage. But we have a round table today here at golf galaxy. You know, Thursdays, the day the new clubs come in, they got to stock the shells. What are we going to do? Well, you can't just take the day off. So I will be he's the last guy off the tee this morning, really 222 in the afternoon, the final afternoon tee time. I was playing with a couple of other nobodies. How's he feeling right now? Just very nervous, like very nervous, terrible. Hopefully got a couple of sponsors this way. I know they put his Venmo out and like the first day people sent him almost $15,000 over the costs of, you know, getting hotel and whatever you're going and entering. So they're like Nick beans. It's a B-I-E-N-Z. Nick beans in in this weekend. You know, he makes the cut all of a sudden big payday kicks him out. You know, so good luck to Nick. And maybe you won't have to go back to work at all at golf galaxy after this week. And that's don't and do do this for a Thursday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods on 97.3 the fan. All right. Now that the Padres have a day off, all-star break is approaching trade deadlines right around the corner. Woods, the rumors continue to persist involving AJ Preller, but unlike AJ hasn't pulled the trigger on anything lately. There's something in the works. Are the Padres going to be more active? Thanks to their six in one homestand. We can talk about that coming up next Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97.3 the fan. Welcome site on the field before yesterday's series and homestand finale against the Washington Nationals. I thought you were talking about me. You looked right at me and you said a welcome site. Sorry. No, I was referring to Zander Bogart in the cage taking a little batting practice before the game. Baseball activity Woods, Mike Shilt talking that, you know, he's taken a couple of steps now in his recovery and he's moved on to what is generally considered to be, if not the final stage, certainly in the the last stages of of recovery and that is getting back in the cage and swinging, especially when it comes to a shoulder injury. He's already been doing, you know, the lower body keeping up with his work there. So that should speed the time necessary for him to get back into the line. I'm not expecting to see him, you know, on this road trip or anything, although he will be traveling with the team, but you can envision a scenario where in the next, you know, maybe by the end of the all-star break, Zander Bogart's could be ready to return for the San Diego Padres. Yes. Yes. Well, he's good news, right? Yeah, he plays goes back to place second. OK. Crony, let's do this in your head. Crony goes back to first. OK. Luis Arise, who Mike Shilt said yesterday has a ouchy. Ouchy. He said that before. What was it? A hand? Hand ouchy. Ouchy. He said that before. It's his way of saying, Jackie Merrill got a little ouchy. That's right. That's something that's a barrel hurt, but not insured necessarily because there is a difference, right? Or do you not see a difference? No, I know that. Yeah, you know the difference. Like my, but I mean, my kids say ouchy, right? Actually, they don't. They don't even say no one does actually except for Mike Shilt at this point, an ouchy. Yeah, he's got a little ouchy on his hand. All right. The way I look at it is that it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say he's just getting a day off to rest. There are, there's an ailment that we would like to get him, you know, give him a break from it's not serious. But it doesn't come to the level of like, we need to send him to the doctor to treat anything. It's just a, it's an ouchy. It's not a boo boo. Not a strain or a spray. It's just an ouchy. A little boo boo. Yeah. All right. So he comes back. He goes back to second base and Jake slides back over to first. Louisa rise DH, which he does not really like doing, but you know, he does give you a little more more flexibility. Your hopes and dreams are that Xander is completely healed. That, you know, the, the time away has reset him mentally. Do you see the picture of him and Manny? The other day that I think Darnay tweeted out, but he had found it on the, the pottery's photographer tweeted it out. Manny hit that home run and Xander had him around the head like you see that picture is incredible. Like Xander was like, yeah, like those two, you want Xander to come back and be like motivated with how well the team has been playing, how electric it's been. You know, you don't, you don't need Xander Bogart's come back in and continue to hit, you know, two 19 or anything like that with zero pop or really much ability at all to do anything, to do any damage. So you kind of hope that he's fired up and ready to be back and, and contribute and they can, but as you said, so if a rise is DHing, then that knocks either Peralta or Solano out of the lineup, which is, you know, listen, you're going to mix and match those both of them. Peralta, you know, that may be the end of his tenure. When Xander comes back, somebody's got to go. Are they? Someone needs to bump into the outfield and Bryce Johnson's not an everyday fielder and no, Tetis is going to be out for what it seems like a while. Right. You know, a month seems optimistic. Very optimistic. Yeah. So maybe someone bumps more into the outfield. Eggie was working in the outfield before the game yesterday, but that's not a, all right. Now plug him in. I mean, he's never played outfield before. So this is not something that you can just say, all right, tomorrow, Eggie's your starting right field or moving forward, at least against left-handers. At some point, maybe you'll see him out there, but that doesn't seem like an immediate solution. I mean, people are saying Peralta can be out there, but he's not, he's not good. People are saying move X back to short, Kim utility. I don't, I don't see that happening. I mean, Hassan Kim, I know he's had some errors this year, still your best defensive shortstop, which is why he was moved there. He's hitting a little bit better. He's stealing bags. He's still, you know, he still can be wheels off at times. But look, I don't like three infield singles in the series. I mean, you know, he's, he's, but I mean, it's not like those aren't valuable. You know what I mean? Like he's a valuable player still. I just don't know. I don't know what you do. You can't, you can't move there. I mean, unless they're going to move you could move Kim. Ray in the chat just says HSK out of here before the deadline. I don't anticipate that, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities that if you could get something valuable for him, especially a piece that you could both use right now and a prospect. It's not the worst idea. If Zander's coming back and put him right back, it's short where he wants to be. Leave Jake at second where he's a good defender and a rise can play first and he can at least play and not be a DH and you keep Solano in the lineup, especially against Lefty. He's who's been really good, you know, and keep him in the lineup. That might be a better version of your lineup than benching Solano and having Kim out there every day. He's beloved. He's going to be a free agent in three months, whether you like it or not. He's not coming back. No, I don't think so. Again, I'm not saying you must trade Haas on Kim, but I'm saying you must listen if anyone's interested. So you'd be you'd be negligent to just out of hand dismiss any of those because you have to trade them to a contender. Yeah, because yeah, team that's out of it's not going to take try. That's a free agent, but every team except for six is a contender right now. But as a contender, you're going to give up a valuable piece that you would want in return. Yeah, of course, you see what you can get for him. You see what you can get for almost anybody. I mean, you listen on every player. You listen on Jackson Merrill. You don't trade. I mean, especially a specific name, but you know, the team comes to you. We'll give you our, you know, a top 10 prospect in our organization and who's doing that? A solid relief pitcher. Not like a number one, but I mean, like your eighth ranked ranked prospect in your organization and a major league ready piece and a reliever. Who's doing that? Who wants a rental? Someone needs a shortstop. Somebody needs a shortstop badly. We need a shortstop. That's what I'm saying. Do we? We do. If his Annabelle cards is coming back, he does play shortstop. You can put him there. You can. You just moved him off of it. Yeah. Well, you're moving back. Three months ago. Oh, my lord. You think rezander is going to go ahead. I can't believe they're moving me back to shortstop. He would welcome him. Of course, you everybody everybody on that team would welcome a move back to shortstop. I saw a question to move from the beginning. Of course, of course, just because you have one guy that's going to be here for 10 more years and one guy that was going to be here for 10 more months, right? Don't not move him back because you just feel like there'd be egg on your face. Why? That's not a reason not to do something. Why didn't you just leave him there? Fine. But forget about what you did in the past. What makes most the most sense for the Padres right now? If hot sun Kim was playing like last year, we wouldn't be discussing this. He'd be so valuable that we'd be one of the MVP candidates in the league and we go, you can't trade them because you're trying to get to the place. He's just not that valuable this year. Maybe that turns around. Maybe it doesn't. But either way, he's gone in two and a half, three months. So like roast master chances, you're trade him to Oakland. Well, Oakland is a rental shortstop. I mean, the team that needs him the most is the one you don't want to trade him to. But there's a giant. There's an American league contender that probably needs a short stop that you could maybe more palatively send him to. I'm just telling I don't trading a guy when he's at his lowest, when you know what he's capable of, you know, you know, he's capable of of being better. And again, moving an injured Zander Bogart's back to short and keeping Louisa rise for I think it hurts you defensively saves about four million that you can use toward a starting pitcher that you acquire at the deadline. Well, I'm telling you though, like, you guys, you guys do know he's, he's beloved in the clubhouse, beloved, like, is that if you're trading a piece like that at the deadline, are you risking, you know, a bunch of BS is risk with every move. I was always listening to this guy, Trader Jack over here. All right. I mean, you know, you should have traded him in the off season, you didn't can't do anything about it now. Well, let's check traffic. A couple more minutes here. There is an area of that's getting more and more concerning by the day that the Padres may need to address here. Let's talk about that after traffic here at 97.3 the fam. I mean, look, you got him for you got him for the rest of the year. Okay. And if he would take a utility role, he can spell Manny at third. He can spell Xander at short. He can spell crony at second. He can play any, you know, any of the, which is why I'm not just giving him a way to shed his salary. Yeah, but you're also not getting you're also not getting a number three starter and a top 10 prospect for like, I don't know. I don't know. I'm at least listening. You can't, I'm not listening. You're not going to get it. All right. So some good numbers here from Kevin AC's newsletter. Four weeks ago, May 28, Padres bullpen had a 3.46 e r a. It's really one of the better bullpens in baseball. Since then, 27 games in 28 days and an over a longer stretch. What was it? I see like 49 and 52. I don't know whether that's overuse, whether it's, you know, some guys who just aren't that good coming back to earth. But since that day, the Padres relievers have a collective 5.52 e r a over the past 27 games. So four really rough weeks, and it's even worse. The last two weeks, 6.23 e r a over the past 12 games. Only Yuki Matsui has not allowed a run over that stretch in four and two thirds inning. Johnny Brito, six and a third six earned runs. Tom Cox grew up two and two thirds, five earned runs, and yell, four and a third, three earned runs, a strata, five and a third, seven earned runs. Colic five and a third, one earned run. Nice job, Steven. Adrian Moore at home, six innings, four and runs. Wandy five innings, two earned runs, Suarez, three and two thirds innings, two earned runs. Is the bullpen now the most urgent issue facing the San Diego Padres? It was starting pitching last week. Now is it the bullpen with starting pitching being one B at this point? The answer to your question is yes, all of the above. It's all of the above. Holy cow. It's when you put it like alarming numbers, but does just the extra days off in the rest, can it help fix some of these problems without any, can it circle back? Absolutely. Absolutely. But there there's definitely some question marks. All right, we'll continue this discussion. Enos Saris is going to join us in our next hour smart baseball ahead. Don't go away. More Ben awards on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. Welcome site on the field before yesterday's series and homestand finale against the Washington Nationals. You were talking about me. You looked right at me and you said a welcome site. Sorry. No, I was referring to Zander Bogart in the cage. Taking a little batting practice before the game, baseball activity woods, Mike Schilt, talking that, you know, he's taking a couple of steps now in his, his recovery. And he's moved on to what is generally considered to be, if not the final stage, certainly in the, the last stages of, of recovery. And that is getting back in the cage and swinging, especially when it comes to a shoulder injury. He's already been doing, you know, the lower body keeping up with his work there. So that should speed the time necessary for him to get back into the line. I'm not expecting to see him, you know, on this road trip or anything, although he will be traveling with the team. But you can envision a scenario where in the next, you know, maybe by the end of the all star break, Zander Bogart's could be ready to return for the San Diego Padres. Yes. Yes. He's good news, right? Uh, yeah, he plays, goes back to place second. Okay. Cronus, let's do this in your head. Crony goes back to first. Okay. Luis Arise, who Mike Schilt said yesterday has a ouchy. Ouchy. He said that before. What was it, a hand? Hand ouchy. Ouchy. He said that before. It's his way of saying Jackie Merrill got a little ouchy. That's right. Something he said, it was Jackson Merrill hurt, but not insured necessarily. Cause there is a difference, right? Or do you not see a difference? No, I, I know the, yeah, you know the difference. Like my, but I mean, my kids say ouchy. Right. Actually, they don't, they don't even say no one does actually except for Mike Schilt at this point, an ouchy. Yeah, he's got a little ouchy on his hand. I, the way I, I look at it is that it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say he's just getting a day off to rest. There are, there's an ailment that we would like to get him, you know, give him a break from it, but it doesn't come to the level of like, we need to send him to the doctor to treat anything. It's just a, it's an ouchy. It's not a boo boo. Not a strain or a spray. It's just an ouchy. A little boo boo. Yeah. All right. So he comes back, uh, he goes back to second base and Jake slides back over to first. Louisa rise DH, which he does not really like doing, but you know, he does give you a little more flexibility. Your, your hopes and dreams are that Zander is completely healed. That, you know, the, the time away has reset him mentally. Did you see the picture of him and Manny the other day? That's, uh, I think Darnay tweeted out, but he had found it on the, the pottery's photographer tweeted it out. Manny hit that home run and Zander had him around the head. Like you see that picture is incredible. Like Zander was like, yeah, like those two, you want Zander to come back and be like motivated with how well the team has been playing, how electric it's been. You know, you don't, you don't need Zander Bogart's come back in and continue to hit, you know, two 19 or anything like that with zero pop or really much ability at all, uh, to do anything, to do any damage. So you kind of hope that he's fired up and ready to be back and, and contribute. And they can. But as you said, so if a rise is de-aging, then that knocks either Peralta or Solano out of the lineup, which is, you know, listen, you're going to mix and match, um, those, both of them, Peralta, you know, that may be the end of his tenure when Zander coach, like somebody's got to go. Are they? Someone needs to bump into the outfield and Bryce Johnson's not an everyday fielder. And no, Tetis is going to be out for what it seems like a while. Right. You know, a month seems optimistic at this point. Yeah. So maybe someone bumps more into the outfield. Eggie was working in the outfield before the game yesterday, but that's not a, all right. Now plug him in. I mean, he's never played outfield before. So this is not something that you can just say, all right, tomorrow, Eggie's, you're starting right field or moving forward, at least against left-handers. At some point, maybe you'll see him out there, but that doesn't seem like an immediate solution. I mean, people are saying Peralta can be out there, but he's not, he's not good. People are saying move X back to short. Kim utility. I don't, I don't see that happening. I mean, how son Kim, I know he's had some errors this year. Still your best defensive shortstop, which is why he was moved there. He's hitting a little bit better. He's stealing bags. He's still, you know, he still can be wheels off at times. But look, I don't like three infield singles in the series. I mean, you know, he's, he's, but I mean, it's not like those aren't valuable. You know what I mean? Like he's a valuable player still. I just don't know. I don't know what you do. You, you can't, you can't moves there. I mean, unless they're going to move. You could move Kim right in the chat just says HSK out of here before the deadline. I don't anticipate that, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities that if you could get something valuable for him, especially a piece that you could both use right now and a prospect, it's not the worst idea. If Xander's coming back and put him right back at short, where he wants to be, leave Jake at second, where he's a good defender and a rise can play first and he can at least play and not be a DH and you keep Solano in the lineup, especially against lefties, who's been really good. You know, keep him in the lineup. That might be a better version of your lineup than benching Solano and having Kim out there every day. He's beloved. He's going to be a free agent in three months, whether you like it or not. Sure. He's not coming back. No, I don't think so. Again, I'm not saying you must trade us on Kim, but I'm saying you must listen if anyone's interested. So you'd be, you'd be negligent to just out of hand dismiss any of her. Because you have to trade him to a contender. Yeah, because yeah, team that's out of it, it's not going to take a try. That's a free agent, but every team except for six is a contender right now. But as a contender, you're going to give up a valuable piece that you would want in return. Yeah, of course, you see what you can get for him. You see what you can get for almost anybody. I mean, you listen on every player. You listen on Jackson Merrill. You don't trade. I mean, especially a specific name, but you know, a team comes to you. We'll give you our, you know, a top 10 prospect in our organization. And who's doing that? A solid relief feature. Not like, not like a number one, but I mean, like your eighth rate ranked prospect in your organization and a majorly ready piece and a reliever. Who's doing that? Who wants a rental needs a shortstop. Somebody is a shortstop badly. But we, we need a shortstop. That's what I'm saying, do we? We do. If his Andrew Bogart is coming back, he does play shortstop. You can put him there. You can. You just moved him off of it. Yeah. Well, you're moving back. Three months ago. Oh, my Lord. You think Brzeander is going to go ahead? I can't believe they're moving me back to shortstop. He would welcome it. Of course, everybody, everybody on that team would welcome a move back to shortstop. I saw a question in the move from the beginning. Of course, of course, just because you have one guy that's going to be here for 10 more years and one guy that was going to be here for 10 more months. Right. Don't not move him back because you just feel like there'd be egg on your face. Why? That's not a reason not to do something. Why didn't you just leave him there? Fine. But forget about what you did in the past. What makes most of the most sense for the Padres right now? If Hassan Kim was playing like last year, we wouldn't be discussing this. He'd be so valuable that we'd be one of the MVP candidates in the league and we go, you can't trade him because you're trying to get to the place. He's just not that valuable this year. Maybe that turns around. Maybe it doesn't. But either way, he's gone in two and a half, three months. So like roast master chances, you're trading him to Oakland. Well, Oakland is a rental shortstop. I mean, the team that needs him the most is the one you don't want to trade him to. But there's a giant isn't American League contender that probably needs a short stop that you could maybe more palletably send him to. I'm just telling. I don't trading a guy when he's at his lowest, when you know what he's capable of, you know, you know, he's capable of of being better. And again, moving an injured Zander Bogart's back to short and keeping Louisa rise for I think it hurts you defensively saves about four million that you can use toward a starting pitcher that you acquire at the deadline. Well, I'm telling you though, like you guys, you guys do know he's, he's beloved in the clubhouse. Love like, is that if you're trading a piece like that at the deadline, are you risking, you know, a bunch of BS is risk with every move. There's always a listen to this guy, trader Jack over here. All right. I mean, you know, you should have traded him in the off season, you didn't can't do anything about it now. Well, let's check traffic. A couple more minutes here. There is an area of that's getting more and more concerning by the day that the Padres may need to address here. Let's talk about that after traffic here at 97.3, the fam. I mean, look, you got him for you got him for the rest of the year. Okay. And if he would take a utility role, he can spell Manny at third. He can spell Xander at short. He can spell crony at second. He could play any, you know, any of the, which is why I'm not just giving him a way to shed his salary. Yeah, but you're also not getting you're also not getting a number three starter and a top 10 prospect for like, I don't know. I don't know. I'm at least listening. You can't. I'm at least listening. You're not going to get it. All right. So some good numbers here from Kevin AC's newsletter. Four weeks ago, May 28, Padres bullpen had a 3.46 ERA. It's really one of the better bullpens in baseball since then 27 games in 28 days and over a longer stretch. What was it? I see like 49 and 52. I don't know whether that's overuse, whether it's, you know, some guys who just aren't that good coming back to earth. But since that day, the Padres relievers have a collective 5.52 ERA over the past 27 games. So four really rough weeks, and it's even worse the last two weeks, 6.23 ERA over the past 12 games. Only Yuki Matsui has not allowed a run over that stretch in four and two thirds inning. Johnny burrito six and a third six earned runs. Tom Cox grew up two and two thirds five earned runs and yell four and a third three earned runs. Estrada five and a third seven earned runs. Colic five and a third one earned run. Nice job, Stephen. Adrian Moore home six innings four and runs. Wandy five innings two earned runs Suarez three and two thirds innings two earned runs. Is the bullpen now the most urgent issue facing the San Diego Padres? It was starting pitching last week. Now is it the bullpen with starting pitching being one B at this point? The answer to your question is yes, all of the you know, it's all of the above. Holy cow. 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