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Beltway Blitz: Charlie Slowes on that Nationals
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Fielding his position this season. What are you making that? Something he's definitely got to improve upon. Five errors. Last night doesn't get an error, but at a ground ball to the right side, he doesn't break to first. Gallo bobbles the ball, and Gallo was the field of the ball cleanly. Was not going to be able to get to first in time. The pitcher had to be there. And this has happened. Parker, as a left-handed pitcher, falls off a little bit to the third base side. When that ball was hit, he never moved off the rubber. When the ball was already to Gallo, he hadn't broken yet for first. There's no way he's going to beat the runner, and you just can't have that happen. You're giving away outs, and you know, it ended up being a bigger inning than it needed to be. You just can't afford those kind of mistakes. Charlie, big picture for Mitchell Parker just kind of drilling down a little bit. I'd still say this season is a pretty smashing success. Even if it feels like he may be running out of gas here at the end, going further. Maybe they ever has over the course of a season. I don't know how many more starts they're going to give him before it's all said and done. But I know it's probably not ending on the note that he wants. Maybe the team wants. But big picture again, that's a major league starter that they kind of uncovered here. And I'm pretty pleased with it. Just sort of a bummer that it's not maybe ending the way that we want. Right. I agree completely. Everybody's going to have things to work on. I mean, he's 24 years old, and he started the year in AAA pitch four innings there. So I mean, this guy didn't have a lot of experience at that level, let alone come right to the major leagues with the early injury to Joe Sagg, right? And then, you know, 28 starts of the big leagues. He probably gets one more with the nationals having 11 games to go, including tonight. So yeah, I think it's a success for him, a success for DJ errors, a big success moving forward for Jake Urban. I mean, the pitching is long. What we talked about in the first half of the year that that was a major step forward. And so the team ERA is 4.30. It was a shade over five last year. So that's a big drop off, even though you could look at it and say, yeah, they were in the three seven three seven five range in June. And and that's jumped up a half a run or so in the second half of the season. But still, you know, guys who have not pictured this level before, I think that's a big success and tell me much, much better for it going forward next year. Charlie CJ Abrams back in the lineup, one for three in the lead off spot. Great to see him playing again here as they get ready to play out the string. How will you sum up his season when you look back when he was good, he was exceptional when he was bad. Those stretches lasted a while. Yeah, great first half, not so great second half. So you're looking for more consistency over the course of a whole season. And again, another very young players doing this, you know, for the really second year as a full-time major league player coming up a couple of years ago after the trade in the final couple of months of the season. So last year, 151 games, 245 18 homers, 64 runs batted in. He has more home runs. The RBI's are about the same. He does not have the 47 stolen bases in 51 tries he had last year, 29 out of 41 this year, 22 errors last year. Is it 17 this year? So I mean, you could say, okay, let's look at next year, he's going to turn 24 on October the 30th. I hope that next year, he really takes a major step forward over the course of the whole season. An all star in the first half of the year, if you had flipped the two halves of the year and the second half of the year is the way he started the year, he wouldn't have been an all star. So a lot of times you see an all stars based on the first half of the year, they don't pick all stars over the course of the whole season. Charlie, does Jacob Young play center field for this team next year, or are they going to go in a kind of different direction where it's crews and maybe, you know, somebody else may be free aged to be or somewhere or not thinking up in right field or how do you think it's going to go? You know, at the beginning of the year, you would have thought Jacob Young comes up when Victor Robles gets hurt right away and he's playing. Is he an everyday center fielder? Does he hit enough? I think he's hitting the, you know, high 250s. He's got over 30 steals gold club caliber center field. If you improve your offense in other places, be it at first base designated here where the nationals really struggle to be, you know, competitive. What other teams produce offensively from those positions. And then you have cruising right and wooded left. I think you can live with that. It just depends how you want to make up your team next year. Where are you going to get more offense from? Because they need more often. Charlie, thank you, buddy. We appreciate you. You got it, guys. Be good. We'll be listening to Charlie and Dave pregame coming up at about 640 right here on the fan. This summer, get away in the Hyundai you've always wanted at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Get the hottest deals of the season on many of our award winning Hyundai models, which all come with America's best warranty. But get going because these deals won't last. Add more joy to your journey at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Now for a limited time, get 1.99% APR for 60 months on the Hyundai Tucson or Elantra. Hurry into the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Offers end September 3rd. Call 562-314-460-3 for details. (upbeat music)