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Mountcastle hits 3-run HR, Orioles go deep 3 times to beat Blue Jays 6-2
"Baltimore sock three home runs to pace them to a 6 two one over Toronto. What Rogers center? Raya mount castle had the big blow a three run shot in the third off starter and losing pitcher yusuke, his tenth of the season. It had the benefit you can get pictures of hit against him and it seems like he's been doing pretty well this year and just getting a good pitch hit against him today was big. It was mount Kelso's fourth career home run off the Toronto left 8. Anthony Santander with his 8th that Adam Fraser with his 5th also went yard for the visitors. Kyle Gibson went 7 innings and won it. He improves his record to 5 and three. John leathery, Toronto
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"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"So if he's not the best prospect in baseball, he's top 5 top three, right? And he is the Orioles top prospect and is making a run at being the third Orioles number one overall prospect. A year or so, which is kind of incredible and speaks to the strength of that system. But he almost cycled the other day and then I think he followed that up with a 5 hit day. So he's playing in high a in the South Atlantic league now. And he is by far the best hitter in that league at least if you set the plate appearance minimum low enough if you set it to 70. He said 78 plate appearances at that level. He has a two 16 WRC plus. He is hitting three 91 507 19 in hiatus thus far. And he's 19 years old. He turned 19 in December. And so on the preseason Orioles list, Eric, I'm going to head him with a 2028 ETA. What that would be now, and he said, probably 2024. Yeah. So he's moved up his ETA by like four years with his hot start to the season. And that makes me wonder where he will play in that Orioles infield. I mean, this is kind of your classic good problem to have, but they have very recent number one overall prospect gunner Henderson there, right? And they've already had to move him or find time for him because Jorge Mateo has turned out to be one of the Orioles most valuable players so far this year. He's above league average bat. He's a plus runner. He's a great Fielder at shortstop, so he looked like maybe he could be a utility guy. Now he's seeming more like a starter. And then you also have Henderson. You have other guys like Joey Ortiz and Karen vavro, who's playing some outfield, but those guys are infielders by trade too. I don't know where all these pieces fit. I don't know whether they all end up fitting with the Orioles or not. But what a cornucopia, what an embarrassment of infield riches here. So I don't know, who knows when the Orioles will promote someone, even if he's ready to be promoted. But if Jackson, holiday keeps making a case to the point that we're coming into next season, say and looking at him as someone who should be at the big league level. And if Matteo maintains his performance, you have Henderson. There's got to be a trade, right? Like not everyone fits, Adam Fraser already looks like the odd man out. But even if he's out, maybe this is a solution to the pitching problem that the Orioles have is that one of these guys goes, whether it be at the deadline this year or over the off season or what, but even if you do the restoration exercise of having your dream lineup of all of these prospects and kind of plug them in a year or two down the road, it's just like too many blue chippers for not enough positions. So it's just such a great core that they have assembled at great cost of sucking for a long time. But it's pretty to look at these days. What if they kept all of the guys who hit the ball only and then they used all the money that they would have spent on other guys but they don't have to because again of all the good guys who hit the ball only and then they turned the sign show me. I mean, I'd love to see them try yeah they're not going to do that. You know what? I feel confident saying this. I don't think they're even gonna try. Probably not. Don't make a perfunctory phone call so that they can say in spring break. Call them the cheeseburger phone. Cheeseburger phone, which goes where? I don't know. If they call on the Cardinals cheeseburger phone, does it count as an attempt by the Orioles? I don't know. Just asking questions. Yeah. Yeah, we got an email about the Orioles from listener Jeff a few months ago or back in March that I've been meaning to answer because he asked in the 2023 baseball perspective annual chapter about the Orioles author learned these and was quite critical of the years of hardcore tanking, the team forced Orioles fans to endure, she suggests that the experience of watching those teams was so bad that would actually diminish the enjoyment fins would experience if the Orioles somehow won a championship at the end of the current rebuild with this in mind I posed the following question how good do the Orioles have to be in the immediate future in order to justify the hardcore tanking of 2019 to 2021. The baseball gods have said that whatever scenario you come up with is something that could only be achieved via tanking, how much better result would this have to be than what the Orioles could have achieved without tanking and Jeff said I asked the second question because Michael IS took over the Orioles the same year farhan zaidi took over the Giants, zaidi chose not to tank and bottom out with the Giants choosing to field competitive teams while rebuilding the pharma system. However, it is arguable that the Orioles have a bread or immediate future than the Giants right now. So yeah, if you can make up for the extreme tanking, you really have to come out the other side of it with a championship caliber core. And the Giants approach has its merits too and that they gave their fans one unbelievable year that probably surprised the Giants themselves, but would not have happened if they had decided to tear things down. And then the past couple of years, the Giants end up sort of in no man's land and it's not quite so fun. And they're doing their rebuilds and prospect generation too. But the Orioles now they're exciting and they're exciting, not just at the major league level, but also if you look at someone like Jackson holiday. So they are making a run at justifying retroactively the way that they got there because the only way you could justify it is if you end up with the core that the Astros did and the success that the Astros had or the core that is shaping up on the Orioles roster these days where it's not just Richmond and Rodriguez and Henderson and perhaps soon holiday. But it's also the guys that they picked up who they've managed to make better, like Matteo and Santander and Hayes, et cetera and of course Cedric Mullins being a part of that core too. It's a fun bunch of boppers that they have there. Yeah. I think that championship quality in these moments is not good enough for fans. I think that fans are greedy about this stuff in a way that I don't mean disparagingly. So I think that if they don't want a World Series that there will be continued resentment from at least some quarters around the way that they were so bad because they were so bad. They were so bad. You know, it wasn't a step back or side shuffle or whatever weird euphemisms, teams use when they're like, we're not doing what the Astros did. We're doing a less intense version. That's not what they embarked on. They were like, no, we're gonna be unwatchable at the big league level for a little while. And, you know, that was in service of being good on the other end, but I think when it's that meaningful, it's that austere a time. You know, there are going to be fans who like fans look like they're having a great time at Camden yards right now. You know, they got the weird water thing. I don't understand the water thing, Ben. They're doing all this stuff with water. You know, have you seen all this water stuff they're up to over there? You don't mean the Homer hose, the Don bun, do you? I don't mean the dong bong. I mean, they're like spraying fans with water.
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"adam fraser" Discussed on WTOP
"Snyder. Sports hit 25 and 55, powered by maximus, moving people and innovation forward. They've pressed in minor league teams to know how to promote things, don't they? Oh, gosh, they're the best. And there are a lot of fun minor league spots in the D.C. metro area. You can even drive all the way down to Richmond. You need two days to get there, but you can check out the flying squad. So what happened in the big leagues? Nationals beat the New York mets ten to three tallying 15 hits to give Patrick Corbin more than enough run support as the left hander throws 6 solid innings. You always like getting through 6 there. You try to pitch so you can't, so just trying to save those guys. I think trying to eat as many innings as you can. So hopefully continue to do that and try to pitch as deep as I can. Join but as this leads to hit parade by going four for 5 with four RBI Nats have now won 9 of 15 Orioles get out slugged by the Los Angeles angels 9, 5 despite getting home runs from Adam Fraser, Anthony Santander and Cedric Mullins NHL flams Dallas advances to the Western Conference Finals with a two one game 7 victory over Seattle, the stars play Vegas in the next round. Horse racing's Triple Crown continues Saturday with the preexisting only 8 horses in this year's field Kentucky Derby winner mage draws the number three post, made the favorite at 8 to 5. NFL ravenstein former Chicago starting center, Sam must have fear the owings mills native has started 40 games for the bears over the last four seasons. Meanwhile, the league will have the Saturday night wild card game broadcast on peacock for out of town markets for teams that you're for cities where your team is participating. You get it on NBC. So when the commanders make the playoffs this year and they have that Saturday night wild card game, we don't have to worry about not being able to watch the game. Dave Preston WTO sports. All right, Dave. Still ahead, President Biden expected to hold a second round of talks with congressional leaders today hoping to break an impasse, 8 56. The prevailing opinion is, if you don't live it, you
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"adam fraser" Discussed on WTOP
"Forward. What do you got, Jay Brooks? Well, sandy, a curly W is in the books, the nationals first win on the season of four one victory over the braves avoiding the sweep, Mackenzie gores, Nat's debut 5 plus sittings, three hits, four walks, 6 strikeouts on 93 pitches. So not too bad up next for the nationals, stay at home, Tampa Bay in town tomorrow, 7 O 5, Trevor Williams gets to start for the nationals. And the American League right now in 8 5 lead for Boston over the O's and their rubber game top of the 8th Cedric Mullins and Adam Fraser with homers for the O's will keep you posted. Women's college basketball scoreboard 1212 between LSU and Iowa with about 6 minutes to go in the first, we'll keep you posted the first time for both teams making it to the national championship tomorrow of course, the men's championship game, 9 20 tip San Diego state and Yukon. Elsewhere to the ice caps just went final a 5 two loss to the rangers up next at the Canadians. This Thursday, a 7 o'clock face off, elsewhere earlier today. It was a nice 13 7 victory for the Maryland women in college lacrosse over Michigan from college park, and the wizards. There'll be an action tonight at 6 the running out of time. They're taking on the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Jay Brooks, WTO sports. Thank you, Jane. Coming up on WTO former president Trump's lawyer says, even he doesn't know what to expect Tuesday when mister Trump is arraigned, the indictment will be unsealed then. Three 56, when people have a craving to explore new and traditional Asian cuisines, they head to PF Chang's, where scratch made dishes come from the 2000 year old tradition of wa cooking, PF Chang's wanted
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Disappointing that it didn't happen more. Obviously, that will kind of happen naturally when you talk about this young team. But I mean, if you look at what they inherited and they talk about this a lot too, if you look at the lack of international scouting, the lack of analytic infrastructure, development systems that were in place, they have overhauled this organization. In terms of what Michael I and his group were hired to do with the scouting and the development, they've done it. They've really followed that Astros blueprint to a T and they've developed the best farm system in baseball, but many measures and you just look at the group of talent they have if you just walked on the spring training Clubhouse. They've got their top ten prospects at camp and you can just see the names are different in that room right now. And it's exciting to see, but at the same time, if they use that group and when a World Series and they don't make these external additions, it will be heralded as one of the most impressive jobs that any team has ever done in baseball. So I think that there's an aspect of this that is, wow, look at what we achieved without having to do a bunch of stuff externally. Look at what we built internally. And so that's a point of pride. They feel really good about where they're at organizationally right now. I think over time, if they stay in place, there's a portion of the oil fan base that is convinced that the team is never going to spend money. They have spent money in the past, but Michael IS also has referred to some of those years in the 2011 to 2018 range when they were in the upper half of the league and payroll as the team being over its means. Which is not welcome to here if you're an Orioles fan in terms of what it would take to think that this team could be a legitimate contender. Over time, obviously, Abby rushman is going to get into arbitration. Gunner Henderson is going to get into arbitration. Ron mount castle is going to get an arbitration. Salaries are going to naturally go up and that will change the picture a little bit. But I think any fan who hears John angelos evoke Tampa and Cleveland and Milwaukee and things, oh, I would love us to sign the rest of the long term. I think that's a legitimate cause for concern is how long are these guys going to be here if that's the models of the organizations that they're using to compare themselves to? Right, and other teams have caught on to certain things since the Astros did their tank and rebuild. It's harder to stay ahead of the pack and also the AL east in 2023 is a different animal from the AL west in the middle of last decade or now for that matter. So you do no matter how much talent you develop internally, you're probably going to have to spend at some point if you want to roll with the Yankees and other teams in that division. So you mentioned the comment about the team being over its means and so that just sparked a follow-up about John means and the Orioles were over him last year. I said that they were very healthy last season than they were and that was a factor in their success, but an exception to that was John means who missed almost the whole season. And so he's expected to be back at some point this year, where is he in his rehab process? And what's his expected timeline? Yes. He should be throwing off a half mount here in the next week or so. He is expected back sometime in July, is what it sounds like at this point. Obviously, that will get a little more definite as he actually increases his throwing program. But that's going to be a big addition for them. Obviously, I think the hope is that their competitive there in the race. They're making some moves at the trade deadline to supplement and boost this team, unlike what they did last year. And John means would represent kind of a natural addition without having to part with anything. Obviously, it was their best picture throughout the rebuilding years and all star in 2019. Really dominant early in the 2021 season. So there's a lot of value. He's still around the team. I was talking to him today about just kind of the rebuild at large and he was saying how much he enjoyed just getting to be around the team last year. The energy and he can't wait to be back in the oils can't wait to have him back. Yeah, I was going to ask you about the trade deadline and the potential for additions, you know, what do you think it would take both in terms of their actual standing in the east? They're overall playoff odds, but then maybe even just some of the underlying metrics that give us a real sense of how good this team is for them to be aggressive adders at the deadline because we've talked about a lot of their top guys who I imagine would take some doing to part with, but this is a deep system overall so it's not like they're in a position where they necessarily have to part with marquee prospects to add where do they need to be for them to be buyers at the deadline? Yeah, Michael I said at the winter meetings that if there was a trade they wanted to execute, they would have the capital to pull it off. So that isn't going to be the question. It's just a matter of are they willing to meet that. I definitely think that if they were in a comparable position to what they were in last season, it would be a different story. They don't have the same type of pending free agents. Obviously, Kyle Gibson and Adam Fraser will be in that boat. And so they could have some conversations there, especially as they have the infielders coming up as they have John means coming back. Depending on the situation is that that could be a possibility. But you would think with Elias Angelo's friend Hyde, all kind of declaring the rebuild to be behind them. You would think if they're in the same situation where last year it was, they were 500. They were just a couple of games out of a wild card spot. If they're in the race, and they've expressly stated our goal is for this season to be in the playoffs. And if they pass on that opportunity, if it's in front of them and they don't take it, I think that would be pretty jarring to the fan base and they have historically shown that that's maybe not a top factor in their decision making. But when they have outright said, our effort this season is directed towards being in the playoff race and making the postseason if they're in a small position of what they were in last year where it's reasonably in reach, I think it would definitely be a surprise to see them make a big effort to make an addition. Amid all the exciting young guys, there are some veteran imports on this team, maybe placeholders, the James McCann's and the Adam Frazier's a couple of guys who are coming off of disappointing seasons and looking at expected stats, I guess you could say they underperformed what they could have been capable of last year. So is that the hope that their stats will match their expected stats or the others will quickly displace them because I saw when Frazier was saying that some people question whether he was actually any better than the internal options that the Orioles already had. But I guess there's always the veteran leadership component of this with a young team too. Yeah, they kind of have like an atom Frasier light already in Tehran Barbara, who's a second baseman. He was left handed. It doesn't have a ton of power. Great batting eye makes a lot of contact.
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"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Of like, you know, Brett Favre, or one of those quarterbacks who always tries to make the impossible happen every time. Whereas just take what's given. I think the lack of shifts will help him. Thinks a maturity will help him. You know, I didn't know if he'd be around, honestly, I thought if they tried to make a trade for Brian Reynolds or somebody else that maybe he would be packaged in him. It may speak to where his value is at. But the Mariners believe he still can be something more than he's been. And I think if you look at kind of the talent and what you see from him, he definitely think that. So, yeah, I'm not expecting much more than. But if you got so crazy, we're saying this about it, 'cause we used to say about zen, you know, with the swinging is. But if you got like, if you got him to a two 40 to 50 batting average, you know, the power, the natural power will produce extra base hits. You know, and he's a plus base runner when it comes to like aggressiveness and stuff. I think, you know, baby steps first, just don't strike out as much. Understand what you want to do with breaking pitches, understand what guys are trying to do and don't try and sell out, you know, try and refine a little bit of the contact ability that he had when he was younger that seems to have been lost. You know, when in a push for power that wasn't necessarily what the Mariners asked, but what he thought was going to get him to the big league sooner. So one of the positions that Seattle definitely needed to shore up coming into this year was second base. They relied on Adam Fraser a lot there last year, you know, Abraham toro moonlighted there. He sort of offset a lot of Adam Frazier's war at the position and their solution to that was to go out and acquire Colton Wong, who I think they had flirted with as a potential free agent addition at one point in the recent past. What should Mariners fans expect out of Wong? You know, I haven't, you know, a ton of them. I mean, you watch them a little bit on TV. He still looks really athletic. I think he's 31, maybe, 32. The Mariners proceed him after going into the 21 season after the 2020 they needed. A filler at second base, going into 21, they had offered colt and I believe two years. And the brewers came back with another extra year, an extra option year or whatever. And Jerry de poto basically wasn't allowed to counter. By Kevin Mather at the time. And so, you know, they lost him and, you know, kind of tried to piece it together. I think, you know, I know he had a ton of errors last year and long blamed it from playing in the shift, you know, the brewer shifted a lot more than he was used to and didn't really love that. And kind of got into a funk, lost trust with his hands. I think he'll be fine. You know, now it's like you're just kind of play. I mean, there is no shift, so click you're not, you're playing a more traditional second base, you probably go up playing. He looks athletic still. From a hitting standpoint, you know, they just need better bat to ball guys in the bottom of the order. You know, Fraser was supposed to be that, but there just wasn't a lot of pop when he did. You know, I was like, he was back to ball, but it just didn't go anywhere. Wong has a little more pop. It might not be as much as he did when he's in Milwaukee or in the central. But yeah, I mean, just be a little bit better than what they've had. Because if you look at it, 2021, they won 90 games and they pieced it together with toro and Dylan Moore and how many shed long might have been out there. You know, and then last year they pieced together with toro and Fraser, but they never really gotten exceptional production where they just, you know, since probably Robinson Cano. Yeah. And so just don't be kind of, you know, that position just can't be a zero offensively and defensively. And I don't think it will be. I don't know that Colton Wong is going to go back to his 20 2018 forum with the Cardinals, but I think he'll be a better player than he was last year for certain. One of the Mariners intriguing rookies last year was Matt brasch, who is also one of the Mariners many WBC players this spring. He was up and down last year, great stuff, shaky control is probably a generous way to put it. He was in the rotation he was in the bullpen. Is he pretty much locked into relief now when he gets back from the WBC? This year for certain. He didn't want to be lucky. He didn't want to go to the bullpen last year, obviously, after he kind of pitched himself out of the rotation early in the year. Scouts have always kind of projected him as a reliever type because it's all hard, you know, the big slider and the knuckle curve and then the big fastball and not a lot of, you know, like you said, it's not just command. It's control. Like being able to throw a strike, let alone, quality strikes. But the Mariners were going to let him this off season stretch out to be a starter or at least come into camp as a starter and compete, you know, knowing, hey, we just had a season before where nobody got hurt at all. So let's have some depth as a starter in case something happens early in the spring. But with him going to the WBC and wanting to go to the WBC, the ramp up to being ready to pitch in games and such. The mayor said, okay, if you're going to do that, we'll let you do that, but we want you to just build up as a reliever because it's easier and it's quick and we don't want to run any risk of you getting hurt. Early because of its different than you've done before, because he missed all of 2020, essentially. And I'm just not a ton of volume in his past. So they just decided, look, if you want to pitch in the WBC, we'd rather then just have you come to camp only as a reliever.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I don't love it. And while we're wishing things for AL east teams, the Orioles have made some moves, but they're just if you thought Andrew benintendi was unexciting. How do you feel about Adam Frazier for one year and 8 million Michael givens back in Baltimore for when you're in 5 million Kyle Gibson? What was that one year in 10 million? I forget the terms because it's Kyle Gibson. They're kind of just making these moves around the margins, dense and borsky wrote about the Fraser signing and made the case that it may not even actually make them better compared to the options that they had in-house, but also just like, look, I don't know that they are prepared to win that division, but it's not inconceivable that certainly they could contend for the wild card because they just did. And you would think that they'd be getting better and they have more prospects on the way. And they just had a huge leap forward and they surpassed everyone's expectations. So sort of the old Bill James plexiglas principle, if you have a huge step forward, then you might expect some step back the following season, although in their case, you can kind of project, okay, we have a full season now of all these great blue chip prospects we promoted during the year and also we have more on the way so that might make up for some regression, but also you can make up for regression by signing some guys and making your team better and they have made these marginal moves, not the kind of moves that say, let's build on the excitement that we generated here and they have the second lowest projected payroll for 2023. And not only that, but they have essentially no commitments beyond that. Obviously, their young guys will be arbitration eligible at some point, but in terms of 2024 commitments, they're down at 2 million. So that is the least of any team. And then zero in the years beyond that. So don't spend indiscriminately like pick your spots like set your targets like go get your guys, but there were some pretty attractive appealing players on the market. This winter where even if you don't think that your fully ready to be the team you want to be yet, you could project them still to be good when you're that team in, say, two years, and also in the meantime, you're still like a legitimate wild card contender if you add to that roster. So I would have liked to see them kind of capitalize on the excitement that they generated last year and say, hey yeah, we're for real now like you can buy into the Baltimore Orioles and we're going to buy some new Baltimore reels that you can get excited about. So I hope that they will spend at some point like obviously they have had some ownership drama and uncertainty and I don't know how much that's playing into this, but you'd like to see them splurge at some point because if they've got this great young core so this is seems to be the time to start supplementing. Right, see like you don't want socks to be your whole holiday haul is the thing, right? Like Adam Fraser, I mean like I kind of agree with Dan but you know Kyle Gibson is, well, okay, maybe he's not fine, but like you know what I mean like having these steps and supplemental pieces is like, that's good. But do other stuff too, right? You don't want your whole holiday haul to be socks, that's sort of underwhelming. You know, it's like, you have to assemble the rest of the outfit. I don't know if this really holds as like a way of thinking about roster building, but like it's, you know, if what you're wanting is to get spiffy right to get spiffed up to go celebrate something. Your outfit's not coming together around the socks. You need to have them, but it's not gonna be, even if they're like fun Christmas socks or like they got little not the centerpiece, yeah. Yeah, they're not the centerpiece, even if they're a festive, even if they have little like I have a pair of Halloween socks and it has little ghosties and they're all dressed different. Like some of them are vampire go season when it was a pirate, but that's not a costume. Anyway, close. Let's use them to understand baseball. Yeah. And the Astros resigned Michael Brantley. I guess we should mention that when you're 12 million. I love Michael Brantley. Everyone loves Michael Brantley. It's just like speaking of professional hitters, whatever the heck that means. He's like the leading guy who gets mentioned as a professional hitter, I think, and also a pure hitter, all these nebulous terms, but he's really fun. He's got a good idea up there as they say. Sort of self possessed like he's gotten approach. He makes contact. He gets on base and all of that is subject to his shoulder being functional, which is why he got a one year $12 million deal here, so you hope that he's the same player that he was before that injury and absence, but I guess they know enough to think that he potentially could be. So I like any lineup with Michael Brantley better than that lineup without Michael Brantley assuming he's healthy and still good. Yeah, I agree. I think that we saw in the postseason in particular the ways in which they really missed him in their lineup. He's just, you know, there's injury risk and all that stuff, but like when he's right, he's just one of the most, he's just one of the most enjoyable hitters to watch him baseball. And everybody seems to really like him. And seems good. Yep. And I really have not a ton to say about the other smattering of moves that less interesting, sorry, teams have made twitches. The pirates signing Austin hedges, so get your Austin hedges hype video, go and pirate social media people. They also traded for Connor Joe. Candidate for a hype video. And then the royal sign Jordan lyles, the a's signed Trevor may. Probably as trade bait, so those moves happened. Anyway, I don't have a ten day say about all of that. I just wanted to say that the Orioles have let me down, I'm disappointed and I think they're my second most disappointing team this off season behind only the morrowind's my most disappointing team. They're sitting on their hands like, come on, get in gear. You got to do something. If you want to make anything of this team, you got to make some moves and I think the ship has sailed at least for 2023 at this point. Do we think that they're waiting for more of the free agent dust to settle to trade some of their pitching? Maybe. That much. They don't. Starting pitching depth that they can construct an entire lineup out of the proceeds of those trades. So you just make the whole lineup out of what you can construct yet. No, it's a problem because they're offense was like, yeah. That offense was last year. It was so bad. And they're not the Orioles with the core that the Orioles have developed from within. So they really got to go get some guys.
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"adam fraser" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"I've known Mike Zeno a little bit just from being around him if you all start game. And the thing that kind of stuck out with me was when you talk to him, you want to keep talking to him. I mean that extremely in a complimentary sense. Just was a really fun to talk baseball with him. So works and we think when he's healthy, he controls the running game, which we really felt strongly about. And last one, as you watch the World Series, dusty baker wins is a manager for the first time. What was that like for you as someone who's known him a while? I couldn't wait to give him a hug when I saw him in San Diego at the winter meetings. As you saw, how many people seem to be rooting for dusty. And you know what, good for him. He's been an icon in our sport. He's so well revered and loved and shoot I go all the way back to he played with my dad in Atlanta. And he made a point of coming over to me and telling me a long time ago that he goes to being a black man in Atlanta in the 60s wasn't necessarily the best place to be. And he goes, your dad came over and he goes, he was really good to me. And I'll never forget that. And at the time it made me feel good and to this day, it still makes me feel good. You know, I can't wait to see you in spring training. Thanks for doing this. Buster stay warm and I'll see you in Goodyear, okay? This is the numbers game with Sarah Lang's. Sarah Lang's reporter producer for MLB dot com, Sarah how are you doing this week? I'm doing great foster. How are you? I'm doing well. Getting fired up. In part because it's very interesting, you know, in recent years in the winter time, we've had these massive superstar players still unsigned as we get into January and February and March once dance be Swanson goes off the board. That's it, Sarah. Like all the major baseball business will be done. What does Scott Boris gonna do? I know, it's so weird. I was thinking that last night when we got news of the Carlos dining, like what are we going to do with everybody signs before Christmas and what are we going to do in January and February and told camps open? We can analyze it. He's going to give us plenty of time to analyze these teams and the moves they've made. Give me an under the radar move that you loved. Well, I really like the Orioles adding Adam Fraser. I wish they had done a bit more. I was kind of hoping they might be a dark horse for a road on truly build for the future there with everything they did this year, but I like and brazier the player, the contact team, not exactly going to the ball out of the park, but I like that contact. I feel like that could be good amongst some of the younger players there. So I thought you would say under the radar player
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"The Dodgers are one of the few teams that they do have the ability to spend a lot of money and the willingness to blow through that luxury tax threshold if the need be arises. And if they see a reason to do so, I don't think they're well, it's always nice to reset penalties. I don't think they're necessarily wedded to that as a must do thing. Sometimes you see teams do that. We are going to be under that line this year, no matter how little sense it makes. It's a flexible organization, some of the pressure is probably off the front office since they do have the World Series win under their belts, which is a nice thing to have. So I wouldn't worry about the doctors yet, but I do think that they do have some vulnerable spots if the season started today, except the season doesn't start today, sadly. Yeah, I knew you were going to get a rocky stig in somewhere when I invited you out. I was just waiting for you to pick your moment. It happened organically. I don't plan to bash the rockies, but then the moment comes. Though they're asking for it, it is interesting that the two teams now that are maybe most likely to say something sort of negative or non committal about analytics publicly are the rockies. The Astros. All of a sudden, because the Astros, they don't have a GM, what they have is Jeff Bagwell coming out and saying that the esters are too analytically oriented, which is quite an argument to make after the run of success that the esters have had. Now, if he's saying, well, there are ways that the astors should treat players in a more humane way or, you know, we've gotten too far in the sort of Lu now treat everyone as a commodity kind of direction. Sure, I think we would all be on board with that, but it sounded like he was commenting more from a numbers bad grit good this is how we did things in the 90s when the Astros did not win a World Series as I recall. Nothing so disappointed is that failure stat head team that only went to four World Series in four years. And only one half of them, right? So just a couple more minor things to touch on here. So before all these big blockbuster signings, there was a brewer's Mariners trade that was kind of intriguing until we all forgot about it because Jacob signed with the rangers. So what do you make of this trade of Colton Huang from Milwaukee to Seattle in exchange for Jesse winker in Abraham toro? It's almost a boring trade in a way because I think it actually fits both teams needs very well. I think the brewers needed another bat at kind of an offensive heavy position. I was an impressed with most of their players in that role last year. And I think winker will fit in just nicely to DH since they don't seem to be committed to testing here in any way at that position. Hopefully that doesn't mean he's the second baseman, but that's most likely to be Bryce to rang Abraham toro. So on and so forth. And I think the Mariners getting a second baseman was probably more useful because they do have options at corner outfield. They did pick up Tasker Hernandez. They're not giving up on Jared kalanick yet. There are going to use DH to get a lot of time in for guys like Kyle Riley and ty France. So I think that winker was probably almost superfluous on the roster. And getting a second baseman where they aren't deep because otherwise it would have been right now it would have been Dylan Moore as the starter. I don't think they actually want to go in a season as that being the case. And you look at free agency and they're not a lot of second basement available in free agency. Unless you're going to start convincing some of the shortstops to move the second base, which is easier said than done. Carlos Correa may not want to be a second baseman. Xander bogarts may not want to be a second baseman. And I think it's better than signing John Sakura or bringing back Adam Fraser, which I didn't think was going to happen or looking up Josh Harrison. It's just not a deep market for second baseman in the major. So I think the Mariners, even if it's not an exciting and move, I think it was a reasonable swap for both sides. Yeah, I mean, I think the fact that toro and wicker both coming off bad years or at least down years in winker's case that made people think, well, the Mariners are getting the best of this. And I think probably for the brewers end of this deal to look good. They're banking to some extent on a winker bounce back, right? Which is not an unreasonable thing to expect because he was banged up last year and his actual numbers were worse than his expected stats, et cetera and the Mariners could use someone with the offensive profile of Jesse winker, which is why they acquired him, but they did not get the winker that they thought they were going to get. They could use some on base ability, which is not exactly what one gives you. I mean, by modern standards, he's at okay on bass guy, but it's not necessarily a strength for him. And I think the concern, I guess, you know, after years of being an elite defender, the defensive metrics across the board were down on him this year, not like way down, but down is in his average or a bit below. And so who knows whether that's just a small sample single season fluke. He obviously has a long track record of being a great defender, although he is a 32 now, so who knows, but I think he you have to do less projecting maybe to imagine him being a plus on your team than toro who everyone has been expecting to be a breakout or positive contributor for years now and it just hasn't quite happened yet or winker who I guess you could put winker in the category of, you know, you were saying like, well, why don't we hear negative things about players before they leave instead of after? Yeah, we got the report of winker a month before the trade. So yes. They already thought the grapes were sour. It wasn't an afterwards thing. And I appreciate that. I'm not sure we appreciate it, but I appreciate it. Various rumors about it. You complained about a player while you had a and then you traded him. Right. Usually it makes sense, I guess, to save your complaints after they're gone so that you don't tank their value, but there were various reports photograph about him just not fitting in well in that Clubhouse or were not doing what he needed to do to get better, et cetera. Anyway, it was a disappointing season.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Talk about the teams that aren't going. What are you doing Meg and none of those teams are in the stupid playoffs so talking about the ones that are I'm going to ask you a question so that I start stop rambling. What matchup in the wild card round are you most excited not specific like pitchers against one another that you could talk about that too I guess. But which team, which series are you the most excited to sit down and really, you know like squish the couch down and be like, I'm watching this. I think it probably is Mariners Blue Jays. Oh no, Ben, it's gonna be. The only downside is that I would prefer for both of those teams to play a little longer and that is not a possibility, but they are skilled in very different ways. I guess you could say and so it's kind of a fun matchup in that sense and that yeah, the Blue Jays lineup will just grind you down. It's pretty good from top to bottom. Yes. Even though Vlad has not quite been the Vlad of last year and of late has not even been the Vlad of earlier this year, but there's still just a ton of firepower in that lineup and they're not a lot of holes, whereas with the Mariners, there are some holes. There are at least some spots that are not strengths, let's say. So there's that, but the Mariners I would be much more afraid of their bullpen than I would be of the Blue Jays in front of Romano. But also I would be somewhat afraid of manoa and gossman. Yeah. That's kind of a scary top two, whereas I guess I would be less intimidated by any two of the Mariners starters. I would feel better about any three of them, perhaps. Yeah. And certainly any four of them, but they can't play four in this particular series. And really, I guess you've got to start Robbie ray because he's Robbie ray and he is well known and he was here big addition and everything and he's, you know, he's been better than he has been fine. Fine. But that lineup is extremely righty heavy the Blue Jays lineup and that just seems like an ideal catch up. So I don't know that you could actually avoid this really just given all that goes into who gets starting assignments in the postseason, but I might have a somewhat quicker hook than one would normally for a picture of that stature and salary and so forth just because this particular matchup, it does not seem conducive to rapid race success. Right, so if it were me, it would not. He would just be like, I got a cough and I can't because I have a cough or like we could because you don't want to put him on the injured list because then he's not available for the division series that they might play. So, you know, but you want to you could have a migraine, you know? That's believable because I can't imagine a worse place to be than a playoff sporting event if you had a migraine. I would simply prefer to become a ghost, you know, personally. So they should be like, oh, he unfortunately has a migraine. And so what do we do except instead have Logan Gilbert start and then George Kirby? Right. You know, if you're with me, but I don't get to have a say because I don't have anything to do with it, you know? There's some podcasting, really. On the other hand, though, you might have some good matchups in the bullpen if you do have a fairly aggressive hook as I hope you should in this series. I mean, you have some pretty nasty guys who would be good fits for those slated right on rate match ups. I mean, you have your sea walls and your Diego Castillo's and your Eric Swanson's and your pen Murphy's and of course you're Andres munoz and these guys kind of scary, probably for Blue Jays fins and the late innings in a close game. There might be some vulnerability there. Not that I think the adjacent had a huge platoon split themselves as far as a recall like they're just a good lineup, just a bunch of good hitters. They can hit righties, but if you have some tough ratings coming in who themselves will have some platoon advantage. They're still, you know, it's not going to nullify their offensive advantage, but it might mitigate it somewhat. So that's sort of the saving grace. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's just like a very fearsome lineup. Now, what I would maybe point out if I wanted to be fatalistic about stuff is that the Seattle bullpen has not been as effective lately, you know, as it had been for a while, it was like, wow, and now it's like, it's fine. But it's also like, it's just recent. I don't know what to do with my hands. While I'm talking about this, I don't know how to analyze the Mariners in the postseason. Having a breakdown. I just know that my logical brain knows that there are places in this series where Seattle matches up to their own benefit like really well. And there are places where it's less good, but the feelings part of my brain is like, they're going to get swept and then I'm going to be sad. So that's clouding the logical part. I wonder, if I'm the Mariners, I feel very nervous about really everyone in this lineup hitting. Well, that's not totally true. Like Julio's grade and ty France has his moments and Mitch has been like not completely, but we'll never. And then like eugenio Suarez has looked pretty okay since coming back from the injured list and like of course they have big dumper. So why am I doubting anything? But there are vulnerabilities to be exploited here because you're going to get like Adam Fraser and Jared Kellogg is going to have to take winker's outright. Right, winker is out probably for the rest of the postseason. Same haggerty, you know? I was just reminded that Tom Murphy was at one point on the spaceballs in which I looked really long time ago. So, you know, I don't know that I've said anything particularly insightful here other than I feel nervous and it's manifesting as like tingling behind my eyes, which I hope doesn't mean that I'm about to get a migraine. Well, we can move on to the next series because you're going to be suffering enough strain as it is this weekend. I imagine. It's going to be so miserable. Like I have had this thought at various points over the last couple of years when we have had like really tense games or like do you remember Ben that postseason where the Dodgers and the Red Sox played a game that lasted approximately two years? Yeah. It was like a 97 inning long game. I think that it almost killed rob Manfred. I think he would prefer to have been a ghost throughout some radicalized him that was his super villain origin story that led to the zombie runner. He became the joker. Anyway, so I remember thinking during that game, I've remembered thinking about this during tense moments throughout the last couple of years of postseason play like, wow, am I glad that this isn't a team I care about personally? Doing this. And now, I've let my dumb human feelings return, and I am about to be miserable. Do you know how you're gonna do it?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"adam fraser" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"If you must, you can't prevent you from purchasing a ticket, but we can prevent you from buying a T-shirt. While we're here, that we will not stand for, you can buy a T-shirt somewhere else. Yeah. Bring it into the ball. But I'll be damned. If you're going to be selling shirts in the ballpark, it just sort of surprised me, I guess, because generally when there's money to be made, like someone will make it. Yes. Obviously, there is money to be made here. And it's not just Dodgers fans on giant's turf. I mean, you know, you're telling me you can't get a Yankees cap at the trap or something, you know? Like, sure. There's got to be a market for that. I guess in the interest of general baseball, you would want people to be able to buy stuff that would represent their team wherever they are, wherever they go to a ballpark. Yeah. We will find a way to spend some money a and also just display our affiliation and deepen our attachment to baseball, but I guess I get it that also you want to feel like you're protecting your turf. If the team is sanctioning the vendor and clearly it is that the team can decide who gets to sell stuff in their ballpark and what they get to sell, then I certainly understand why they would say, hey, don't sell stuff this. Our rivals, so that everyone will be walking around in our rivals gear and showing up on TV and our rivals gear. Showing us up. Yeah, I share your surprise that it is a place that has proven itself to be somewhat immune from the capitalist impulse. But I think that that's kind of, that's kind of nice, you know, that you get to, you know, it adds to your sense of place that that is not a place where you see your rivals stuff being sold, right? But it is, this is our place. This is home and we get to say what it is. Here are the players, the featured players on the Mariners, team store website, ichiro, fine, Felix, fine. Kyle Seeger kind of weird Adam Fraser excuse you a oh jeez Suarez, great season, but what? Luis Castillo cool, Carlos Santana? Really? And then you have the players section, which is somehow different than future players, don't know. Ken griffey junior Mitch hanker Robbie ray ty France, Logan Gilbert, all of those are fine. Dylan Moore, I mean sure, Carlos Santana, again, Kurt cassell, Jake lamb, who was just DFA. And Marco Gonzalez. Do you know who is notably absent from both of those lists? Didn't hear you say Julio. I'm going to say Julio. It's kind of weird that there's no Julio in that list. Don't you think? It's also weird that there's no JP Crawford in that list, right? Anyway, I just, I think that you wanted to talk about the feeling of home, and I was willing to indulge you, but mostly this has become an opportunity for me to say, if an addict to a better job, like all of this stuff looks like you're at a corporate golf retreat and it bumps me out. So those are today's ethical philosophical dilemmas about baseball. In other news, well, first a quick Joey manassas update. Still good. Yeah. Out hitting one Soto and one Soto and Josh bell combined really did not think that would continue really thought that we would have to just like mention that while it was true and hope that it didn't change immediately. Wrote about him, my piece was published on September 2nd, and I was like, well, this has been fantastic, but how long can this keep up? I've got to get this article out before he slumps or something gets hot and the fun fact is not true anymore that Vanessa has outplayed both of the players who were traded and whom he was replacing when he was called up. I mean, it's still true. And people are treating him with some respect, some fear. Yeah. So as people were tagging us on Twitter to note that the braves were intentionally walking manassas, they free past them a couple of times in the past couple of games to load the bases in front of Luke voigt and then when they finally decided not to do that with a runner on first, he homered. Yep. So they should have intentionally walked him. That time too, I guess. Just based on the results and he is still handily out hitting one Soto as a padre. So that's pretty great. I did not think that would actually last throughout the season. I was like, the fact that this is lasted even since the trade for the first month after the trade is amazing and miraculous. It can't continue, but it actually has to the point where they might actually finish the season with that continuing to be true. So love it. It's a really, it's just a very fun and silly remarkable thing, and it lets me tweet exclamation points at you. So I'm all for it. I think I hope he continues forever. I guess I hope it continues forever, but only if. I hope that the NASA of it continues forever to be clear. Yeah, no, I want one soda to be like, you know, Juan Soto, as we know him, and as we have come to expect him to be, and also it would be so cool if we look back and we're like, you know, wald Soto as advertised in the long term, but get a load of this Joey meniscus all he needed was an opportunity and he is want Soto two. That would be delightful. Yeah. Luke Voight has also handily out hit Josh bell, which is also sort of funny. Poor Padres. Poor Padres. They're in better shape than the nationals overall. This is what the nationals have for you. Just gotta let them have this for now because there's not a whole lot else to be happy about on that team right now. Yeah, but you don't know this, Ben, but I am three for three in not doing screaming sneezes into the microphone so far as we're recording. It's really great. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. And appreciate it. I'm sure. Yeah. So I want to talk a little bit briefly about the AL central. We should probably do an AL central leadership update. Yeah. Just because we've had a couple change of regimes. So the tigers have a new head of baseball operations, Scott Harris. Who was poached from the Giants and also formerly of the cubs. And then the royals also have a new leader, although it was someone who was already there because what happened is state and more is out the door. So this is on the one hand not surprising on the other hand it's very surprising because it seems like that might very well be a lifetime appointment. So this is notable news we lost John Daniels last his job this year, one of the longest tenured readers of a baseball operations group and then you had Dayton Moore in that group as well and he's gone now. So it turns out that just being bad at baseball for quite a while can actually get date more fired. Yeah, it's an odd, it's an odd thing because on the one hand you feel like I kind of thought he'd outlast us all, right? Yeah. We have talked a lot about how it hasn't felt like they have a great sense of where they really are in their competitive window, but we have appreciated their can do attitude and you know there have been some weird aspects of date.
KOMO
"adam fraser" Discussed on KOMO
"Shower in the early part of the day Otherwise Monday will be mostly cloudy from the como four weather center on meteorologist Rebecca Stevenson The annual gridiron dinner in Washington D.C. is turning out to be a super spreader event Scott Cara's more In all nearly 70 people including top White House officials tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the gridiron dinner last week among them attorney general Merrick Garland agriculture secretary Tom vilsack commerce secretary Gina raimondo and President Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens The White House says President Biden tested negative for COVID on Friday I'm Scott Carr With another northwest news radio extra I'm Tom hudler another Mariner season is underway One that is full of promise and potential covering the Mariners for the Seattle times is Ryan devis and I asked him if the hype is justified I think it's a better team than what they had on the field last year even at the end We saw the flaws so we saw the negative run differential We saw how great they were in one run games and that's how game If you look at the lineup now you add Jesse winker you add you hate you as far as you have who you are Rodriguez you add Adam Fraser So why not is better The offense should be better last year They were totally reliant on Kyle Seeger at Mitch hankering in Thai France This year it should be better Divis also thanks to starting pitching will be improved Starting stocks should be better We can have Robbie ray to that mix And the bullpen is about the same I mean they've lost some guys Casey saddler Ken Giles won't be ready to go to start the season But overall I think it's a better team That doesn't necessarily mean they're going to win 92 games in 90 games and 95 games but it is a better team that should be more competitive night in and night out So can the Mariners break along play off throughout this season Honestly I think they can challenge for the American League west title Something that was unheard of in the past few years But you look at where the Astros are at you look at where the mirror is that it is not implausible to think that I think it's okay for them to think that they should make the playoffs I think that should be the expectation because they are better Seattle times Mariners reporter Ryan divis Tom northwest news radio We've all heard that money can't buy you happiness but if you have $18,000 you can earn a degree in it Centenary university in New Jersey is offering the first ever master's degree in happiness studies It says the accredited program will focus on practical and evidence.
Fantasy Focus Baseball
"adam fraser" Discussed on Fantasy Focus Baseball
"And he he is the guardian of our show and merely the conductor or care about fannies focus baseball presented by linked in jobs trade deadline. Week tristan has already been a couple of trades and exciting. Ones that we've written about and we're expecting a lot more action the rest of this week. It's kind of odd. You don't often see trades like one week before you often see teams waiting until the last minute to make deals but You know like minnesota wait another week nelson cruz or pittsburgh another week. On adam frazier. Maybe they would have gotten more but good for these teams. Were acting early. I mean they should have acted a month ago. In in a way. I mean in a fantasy sense. Don't wait until your trade deadline do it a month before or weeks before you. You need the help for the rest of the season. I never understood that in fantasy like i have a league where the trade deadline where everything happens. I'm like oh. I want to do it a week before. Procrastination among the fantasy managerial crew Yeah we we do advise that often. We've already done it on this show. Several times deals in early It cruise is a big name that far in advance of that deadline. The only thing. I can theorize just with the deadline being a true deadline this year in a full season. This is the second time that's happened with two thousand nineteen. Were they instituted. That's probably what it's about we're going to see. I think we're gonna see bigger names. And i think we're gonna see at least three of them between now and friday w i i hope so I wanna see you know. We know the names on the cubs are trying to move a lot of their players. A lot of teams need starting pitching. Max scherzer would be a big key. Here you know so. That would be interesting but Nelson cruz i mean. Is there going to be hitter as good as nelson cruz traded. I doubt it. I mean is a guy who has the most baseb- over the last eight years and his top three over the last three. He's he's not showing signs of decline. And you put them in tampa bay's lineup and it makes everybody around him better. It makes me like austin meadows more in g. man choi and maybe not wonder francke who goes from like second or third in the line up to like six or seven but it stabilizes their new lineup and you know nelson cruz isn't going to slump. He's just really really good. But i don't think this is makes him more valuable and fantasy do you. Maybe a little bit because of the pieces around him knocking. More run-scoring morons. I don't i don't think it does. I don't think it matters whether it does or not. I think his value is still going to be excellent as it was previously. The the little known. I tweeted about that. That will bring it up. He actually gains in the process schedule. Schedule-wise five non interleague games The rays of already gotten a lot others out of the way and nationally parts where they lose the he has an ability here to play very high volume of games for a team that loves to mix and match. And i don't think he's the kind of player that you sit to mix and match so i think he plays just about as much the only real negative is that. It's a huge ballpark downgrade. Going from minnesota the tampa bay. But i'm not sure it matters with him. You mentioned it a guy who's not really showing declined. He's a forty one year old who's career curve. Looks like a thirty one year old. Which means tiny tiny little bits of downturn but not enough that you really be actionable. you know. it's it's not a bad spot for him. To be in front of you mentioned bronco could lose value. Going to six hidden behind those guys with high on base percentage is. Maybe it's not as bad as we think. It just means a fewer as i agree with that and i would have liked to have that information before i filed my story on nelson cruz. That the rays of already played all their d. h. road games Or their interleague road games. But that's gordon over to. I believe this. Well that's a big deal Adam frazier again. His value doesn't change very much. You can make a case better lineup. More runs scored. He's going to lead off. I soon for san diego play. Second base and outfield. I think this is bad. News if you invested in our hosmer but if you're investing in our costumer bad news all season long anyway But i think adam fraser's and underrated player more viable. Well i mean. The base sits are valuable anywhere. Batting average is important but it really only category guy in rotor leagues not obey steeler not a power more valuable points leagues. You know. Adam frazier took a while for people to even adam frazier this season fantasy. I remember looking back in. May he was available and half a leagues. Yeah i'm not sure. I'm totally aligned with your valuation of fraser here. But i don't think it's a it's a bad move for him. The problem is they've now dropped them into a san diego lineup. Where they're perfect position to do the mixing and matching that the dodgers and the rays. And the as do and that's going to. It's going to cost somebody plankton. I'm with you. i think it's eric hosmer a against lefties i think it's probably will meyers against righties. But guys like j cronin worth are gonna lose a game here there. Adam frazier himself is going to lose again here there. Trent grisham is here there. And you could go up and down the line. But i think the other ones don't really get affected or fernando. Totti's manny machado. I don't think they're going to sit really in this scenario and i'm not so sure. Frazier is the everyday leadoff man. He might be but he's really no better at this than either tommy against lefties or trunk. Rishon against righty. So i'm curious to see that first lineup like the first line if they throw his he's gotta be the easy he's he's not superior to them. They're leaving the major leagues hits and he might wanna batting title and he. He's he has no problem against left handed pitching like i don't know why they wouldn't just leave them alone. I i see your point eight like this isn't a guy you bet six either so to me. His values pretty steady on basis. Fight against lefties. Enwright why were they not lead them off. If that before this year he has not been good against lefties. He should not be leading. Offer them against lefties. They should be playing tommy against lefties and leader off. There's really mean no doubt in my mind that that's what they should do. The huge grades you think. There's a risk here of frazier losing playing time but not cruise. I think that there's an issue where somebody on the padres who matters is gonna lose it in might be spread across several players including frazier including cronin worth. I think the the the right way to play this as frazier leads against righties. He probably that's seven three if he plays against lefties. And you have to downgrade each guy like a buck in value or ten to fifteen rankings. But it probably doesn't make much of a difference. But i don't like it that i just don't i. Don't think the slammed up. Let's talk about the teams left behind here. Minnesota trades cruiser. Line books a whole lot. Different brett rooker. I soon be their d. h. Now and pittsburgh gets back to capri preto marcano. Who's a lot like frazier a powerless guy. Not a good percentage efficient base base-stealer but should hit for average. I don't know he'll get that chance this year. We might go right to the minor leagues. But is there anything here for these two bad teams now. Minnesota was supposed to be a good team. I think they were my world series. Big don't listen to eric. A delight brennan rooker marcano guy. You're gonna add and only any interest there. Yeah and i think we're talking only leagues with roker and marcano and i like this has been here. That marquan was a great opportunity. The pirates really could throw him in there. He's already had major league. Experience wasn't great with the padres when he got it but he should play pretty often and does have similar. Production to frazier. I don't think he's going to get the hit rate. There's no way he's going to match that rooker. Three two outcomes guy but you know there's value in that and he batted. I was sitting yesterday about actually the best as he added. Yeah it's a great opportunity for he's gonna kill your batting average body. The on-base percentage leaks kinda interesting. You know so. I wrote about the hitters over the weekend and you wrote about the pitcher being traded richhill. Who goes from tampa bay minnesota and very strange move. I assumed when i first thought hard the trade that was about salary because they are picking up crews they needed to dump off hill. That's not the case then. I assume this means shane. Baz is getting promoted into his rotation spot Which i think would have been the lead of my story. I don't like hill as much with the meth..
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"adam fraser" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"I'm well buster. hurry you doing. Great only four more days four and a half more days until the trade deadline. And we're going to get into a lot about that kiss a lot going on. There's stuff happening over the course of the weekend. But i wanna start with this with you on friday. Just after we got done taking the taping. The podcast the cleveland indians announced their new team name. I should say. The cleveland baseball franchise announced his new team for two thousand twenty two and beyond The guardians and i do not think it was an incident stem that they drop this on the same day that we olympic opening ceremonies that they dropped it on a friday. The indians were going to let everybody know and be transparent about it. But i also don't think they minded that the the whole thing flew under the radar because no matter what they came up with. There are a lot of their fans who weren't going to be happy. What do you think of the name. Look i'm okay with the name. The indians i know having any as about this this was not an easy decision. I wasn't shocked that the king up with guardians design new on the inside to some degree. That a bunch of names were not gonna fly including spiders and some others. It's not easy picking a name. Buster especially in this day at a show. And i'm in the vast minority on this but the name of a team the uniform and all that. That's not that important to me. I think just playing the game is the right thing. They still have a major league team in cleveland. And it's a good one and the guardian says perfectly fine name for me because i know the indians went through a million possibilities here. They looked at everything and this is what they came up with two. I'm good but tell me about you said you'd heard around the inside that You know the spiders was never going to be considered some other. Tell us what you know about the process. Well i just know some of the people who work there and they're they're indians people i mean. They're cleveland baseball. People forever. mer they care so much about that city and their fans in the town and everything so they went through spiders and the rock hall. And all those things in the naps and everything like that and they're end there just wasn't the perfect fit so this seemed to be the perfect fit or the right fit at the time and it's just a very tricky process. Picking a name for a team in this day and age. I'm right there with you. In terms of how view names. Like i'm not really that wedded the names. I just like the franchises and how they play in the people on the teams. I will say that one son saw the name he couldn't stand. It might focus on the seventeen year old name. I think it's fine. It's an offensive. It's sort of bland enough. I think that's probably what they were going for. I think spiders would have been better. And i think we need to let the indians fans kinda grieve the loss of the indians name. But if you're not in indians fan like a lot of people complaining about the name like no one cares about your opinions. Stop stop winding. Its whatever get over. Let's whitney can that the timing of this announcement they kind of wanted to be like. Oh yeah by the way. Our team is guardians moving forward. I think so. And i think it was smart to do it that way because again people look us. People aren't happy about anything anymore. Whatever you do or say you offend somebody. So let's just move on from this their baseball team in cleveland. That's what they are and good for that last week tim. We had a debate on the podcast. About who the american league manager of the year might be whether alex cora potentially tony larussa dusty baker. aj hinch kevin cash and we got a number of tweets. people complaining that we didn't include gape kappler in that conversation. So you're right. People are not going to be happy with everything. So adam frazier gets traded. The padres yesterday fascinating deal. I got a hand of that. Because i had heard that the padres actually among the possibilities that they talked about was trevor story and they had internal conversations about moving trevor story if they had finished the trade with rockies to play center field. I think that gives you an indication of how they were thinking. We're not gonna worry if it's a perfect fit position wise. I'm not gonna tell you that every piece is gonna fit together like a puzzle but we're just going to add really good players i. It's a great addition and a guy who in october just gonna have great bats. What did you think well. He's leaving major league in hits. That's who you acquire more important. He's played three thousand innings in his career at second base played a thousand innings in his career in the outfield. And that's what you're looking for. Is versatile player that can play two different positions if not more and is going to get hit because in this day and age where we strike out all the time you got a guy who puts the ball in play and it's hard somewhere all the time the classic aj thriller movies going for everything as he should given this team. It is not buster been particularly good offensive team most of the season. They need a leadoff guy. They need another guy to get on for teas and machado and the rest. and adam. fraser's the perfect pick up their varying reports whether they gave up too much or not enough but they got an everyday player. Who play second base every dame..
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"Screen. It's nothing had wanted. We are underway in Denver, 96 right. There felt straight back and Otani right on it as a hitter. When you felt it straight back, you're feeling pretty good about where you are in terms of timing to tease Fraser Freeman on the right side of the infield, reveal one swang in a ground ball. Right side. Fraser flags it down the back hand worlds and throws The first and get so Connie Nice play by Adam Fraser as he in tight ease. What kind of crisscrossing Fraser in front. The second baseman makes the play for out number one definitely hit that Pretty hard crazy. I had to make a great play any Kotani. He's got great speed. But there wasn't at his top speed. Understandably, so everything he did yesterday. Also, you know, kind of a time where you want to go a little easier on your body, so no. One You can't be pushed to the Max Vladimir Guerrero Jr and the pitch swinging a foul ball at the plate. Guerrero just 22 years old. He leads the American League with a 3 32 average. In fact, that leads all of baseball, But he also leads the major leagues and on base percentage of 4 30, the wind the alarm. Come on. Now. That's inside. You heard Tom Hallion in and it's wanted one Guerrero in much better shape. This year, he jumped close to some £40 right handed hitter. But 11 inside and I think you can hear Guerrero kind of grunt spinning out of the way two balls and a strike on the first baseman. I thought that was Max trying to bring it up there with the grunt. Guerrero is really quiet at the plate Heat. It's not budging at all. A little bit of an open stance to one is on the way swing in a line drive one hot flag down to the right, a second by Fraser, who steadies fires. The first Guerrero is out an absolute one hot missile that Adam Frazier was able to make a play on it. Has Guerrero went back in to turn back to running towards the dugout. He hugged Matt Scherzer, and that went right by Max Scherzer's head, and I know that was Over 100 MPH exit velocity. That's that's cool and scary at the same time, 111 Point wanted, Thank God that did not get Max service that would have been awful. So now to away or Xander Bogart? Sure is. Your fighters had any high strike beautiful Bogart's This guy has turned into a beast 28 years old, he said. 3 21 15 homers and he leads the A L. 27 double right hand back your one outside and low of all the strike on Bogaards, who's making his third All Star appearance for all the talk of Korea. Totti's indoor sugar, storing this guy is one of them. Swings here, pops a foul off to the right and out of play thing. I think you could at least make the argument of all of those short stuff, any of them that You want to name he's about his good a hitter, as all.