11 Burst results for "Phil Bickford"
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"phil bickford" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"To a pennant, then just to show what fans are made of when they get thinking too much. I began to get letters asking me why if I had taught the team to bunt, I could not teach the men to drive the ball smartly on a straight line over the heads of the infielders when said infielders were playing in. What do you think of that? They were handing me a roast because I did not make the players turn off straight singles in these days when 300 hitters are so scarce you can count them on one hand. I have some of these letters yet and the saber bio says the fans may have been justified in handing him the roast because the bunting tactics didn't work for very long and after his team went 9 and 20, he was replaced as the manager of the Boston team in 1907. So that's a little bit of background on bob unglued. So here is the story that was the source for that saber card about the arc, which is maybe what we should call whatever they implement next year with the shift ban. If at some point I know we were talking about pi slices, if they have lines on the field, I think we should call it the unglued arc after bob unglued, who is ahead of his time, this comes from the Brooklyn citizen, January 21st, 1907, headline chance for long hitters, subhead unglued, has an idea to produce some swatting. Williamsport, Pennsylvania, January 21st, Robert a unglued, the crack first sacker of the Williamsport tri state club. I think he was in the miners briefly with a non NL or ALT at that time who has recently awarded to the Boston Americans. That's the AL team by the national commission, has devised a rule which he says would produce more long hitting in ball games in order to give the heavy hitter his due advantage over the light hitter unglued says the outfielder should be limited to a certain territory, he suggests drawing an arc from one field blend to the other at a distance of 80 yards from the home plate. It's about 240 feet using the plate as a center. This will give a quarter circle every point of which is 80 yards from the home plate. Outfielders are to play on the inside of this circle until after the ball has been hit by a batter, the batter who can drive the ball a hundred yards or more will have an opportunity to get a long hit instead of having the fielders judge his hit and pull it down at a point more than a hundred yards from the plate by a phenomenal catch. On glove says that the fault of the present rules is that the long hitter has only a slight advantage over the light hitters because 9 times out of ten, the fielders will judge the batter's manner of hitting and arrange themselves in the field to suit the occasion, this arc will give the heavy hitter an opportunity to drive the ball far into the deep field and get a clear hit for several bases. That's the only reference I can find to the unglued arc at the time. But that's the idea. He's like, hey, they're robbing us. They're catching the ball. Have you seen this? Yeah. They know that the hitters who hit the ball deep will hit the ball deep, and therefore they're playing deep, and we can't drive the ball over their heads. This is unsporting, therefore we should have the unglued arc, and they will not be able to play so deep, and therefore long hitters can hit the ball long over their heads, but like, this could happen. We could get something like this because gilders have been playing deeper and wrap Arthur and others have written about this. It seems to be a big part of why defense has improved and has dropped is that fielders are playing deeper and they're getting to balls and they're preventing balls from going over their heads, and now we have this shift band, which is sort of banning the four player outfield, right? So at some point, we might actually get some kind of ung arc out there that's like, hey, you can't play this deep because it's suppressing offense. And if so, we got to name it after bob unglued, who was a 120 or so years ahead of his time. It's just, you know, there's nothing new under the sun. Yeah, there really isn't. So bob unglued deserves to be remembered. Career 99 OPS plus in his 6 major league season 7.1 war, not a remarkable player, although he knew his worth or thought he did. Thought it was more than teams were generally willing to give him and he said in 1907 when he was holding out at one point. He said, I do not have to play Paul. I can find something else to do. I found that in another paper and so he was a thinking man and had maybe some eccentric thoughts, but one of them was the unglued arc in maybe he was onto something a century or so early. Maybe. Maybe. It's an idea to produce some swatting. That song. Pay attention ramen for oh no. Interesting because he's the guy who's all about bunting and talking when he was a manager, just wanted to do nothing but bunting, but as a hitter, he wanted to preserve his long hits with the unglued arc. He knows what's what? That will do it. All right, that will do it. By the way, bob unglued in 1907 had 17 sacrifice heads, but only one home run, so again, you'd think he wouldn't be the one complaining about long hitters being robbed, or maybe he was constantly being robbed. Maybe they were making incredible catches on him that year, although his idea for the line was proposed before that season started. In fact, in 1906, when he was with Williamsport of the tri state league, he hit 14 homers in a 128 games. So he probably fancied himself a long hitter. That was indie pop, bob. He was on the Williamsport millionaires. As you might imagine, we recorded this episode prior to Albert Pujols hitting back to back dingers to get to 700 for his career, he made it Aaron judge homerless on Friday, but Albert Pujols made up for it, just such an awesome story such an awesome season. I love the way that it happened. He homered off a lefty and he and then they brought in a righty, Phil bickford to face him to get Pujols out, and he took Pickford deep, just can't contain Pujols. He's now up to a one 44 WRC plus as I record this, just unbelievable. Really, literally very difficult to believe. This is just a storybook season. So cool that he could have it for the Cardinals and that he could do it in LA where people were rooting for him because they watched Albert Pujols last year. What a way to go out, just perfect, really. I guess perfect for Cardinals fans would be Pujols and Wainwright and Molina winning another World Series. Not sure everyone else would go along with that. Every other fan base fighting with Pujols hitting 700. Maybe not as fine with the Cardinals winning another ring, but that's a question for next month. As I mentioned recently, I'm just so happy that everyone who had only heard the stories of Albert Pujols and how good he was and was not following baseball when he was at his peak or was that alive yet in some cases when he debuted and started hitting these homers? They perhaps heard tell of his peak. I mean, prior to his current peak and they thought this guy, this guy had the angels, he was that great. Well, now those people are getting just a little taste of what that was like. It's like the Han Solo from The Force Awakens, quote, crazy thing is it's true, all of it. It's all true. And since we talked about rules changes so much in this episode, just one more thing as Columbo says we've gotten a couple emails from people who have directed our attention to this DraftKings ad, which has been playing in pretty heavy rotation. I believe it came out in late June. I'll just play a little snippet of it here. Baseball's
The Rich Eisen Show
"phil bickford" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Cities, there's a whole run up to the event. I remember, by the way, as a youngster when the draft is always held in New York, it was at the paramount theater at Madison Square Garden. It wasn't even in the main, you know, part of Madison Square Garden where the Nixon rangers play where, you know, 19,000 people can sit. It was in the paramount theater of Madison Square Garden, which is like a smallish theater within the confines of the building. And I remember as a high school, I guess I was a junior or a senior going to the 1990 6 draft. The jets I was Jeff in, the jets at the number one pick in the draft, keyshawn Johnson, so I went. And we sat there for hours, and it was great. And then, you know, as the draft grew in status and I got into this business, I went to the Radio City Music Hall draft where obviously that's a massive place and I've seen the expansion of the draft when it went to Philadelphia a few years back and just hundreds of thousands of people packing the roadway leading up to the steps of the art museum, rocky steps, you know? And you saw what happened when it was in Vegas this year, the amount of people, even with COVID, right? I mean, it's massive what's become of the NFL Draft, the NBA draft is a big spectacle as well. It's great. It's fun. Baseball has now started televising their draft just a few years back. I mean, it wasn't as if every year they televised a draft. It wasn't a big deal to them. And hockey has always tried to do a nice job televising it. They have the, you know, the top players be there, they had it in Montreal. You got fans. It's cool, right? And I tuned in yesterday to watch, because I love sports, and I am a hockey fan. So I wanted to watch. The problem is you can not get really invested in the NHL draft, even as a hockey fan, unless your team's picking first, second, third or whatever it might be, and even then it's hard to get invested for two reasons. One, you don't know these players. We aren't watching these guys. Euros left Kafka going number one overall to the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal is a cool story for the 2022 upper deck draft at the bell center. It's a cool story. And I'm sure he's a great player playing in Finland being a Slovakian. Did anybody watch TPS in league of Finland's top professional league play? A lot of TPS fans there, huh? A lot of you guys watch TPS on tape delay from Europe? No. You didn't, right? The number two guy, I don't know who he is either. I have no idea who these guys are and I've never seen them play. That's the issue. Simon or Simon nemec? Picked by the devil's number two, another Slovakian Logan coolies in America. I've never seen him play. Never seen him. Why? Because they're playing an overseas leagues for one. Or they're playing for the U.S. developmental league, which again, where am I watching those games? I'm not. I don't watch junior hockey coming out of Canada like the oshawa generals. I'm not watching that. The Sue saint Marie, whoever's, right? Mustangs or whatever it is? Peterborough. I don't know. I don't know these guys. We can look at statistics and say, wow, they got put up big numbers, but a lot of guys coming from Europe a don't put up big numbers and B, the ones coming out of the OHL and these Canadian leagues, everybody puts up big numbers in those leagues. So the whole thing that I'm telling you and looking at is the fact that I don't feel invested in the NHL draft kind of like the baseball draft because for one, we just don't know these guys and we've never seen them play except for highlight reels. I can make a highlight reel of anybody and make them look great, right? Because it's picking and choosing a very minuscule amount of times in film compared to the entire body of work of watching them ten, 20, 30 times a year and seeing them play over the course of not just a game, but the season. We're looking at a two minute highlight reel going, yeah, that guy looks great. Maybe he looks terrible in the other film, right? We don't know. You can manipulate highlight reels left and right. High school prospects do it all the time to try to get college scholarships or coaches will, you know, pick the four great plays they've made, even though they may have had 20 terrible missed tackles right throughout the course of a game. That's the first problem. The second problem is, just because you draft a guy, when are you going to actually see him playing in the NHL? Even number one overall picks now don't go straight into the NHL. The guy last year who went number one overall, I believe played at Michigan this past year. Now he's going to be in the NHL a year after being drafted number one. Michigan had like 5 guys who are high first round picks on their roster this year. So maybe this Euros left kasky is going to be playing for the Canadians. This year may be returns to Finland for one more year of quote seasoning, right? This guy Logan Cooley, he went third overall to Arizona. I believe he's going to go play college hockey for a year. Look, I'm a New York ranger fan. They drafted Igor shishkin in like 2014. He didn't come to the states like 2019, like 2020. They drafted keandre Miller, he played a Wisconsin for a couple of years before he came. So just because you may get excited because they had a high draft pick and drafted a guy that an analyst tells you looks great and is a big part of your team's future. You're not going to even see him play at the NHL level most likely for a couple of years. And that's so similar to the baseball draft, right? The hockey draft mirrors to me the baseball draft, which is a bunch of college players or high school seniors and there's too many guys to choose from and we're not watching high school baseball and very few of us will sit there and watch the college World Series as fun as it is, very few people are actually going to sit there and watch the college World Series. So you don't know these guys. And then once you draft the guy even number one overall out of some high school and Round Rock Texas or Harvard Wesley high school in California, it's like the LA region, right? Part. Harvard westlake. Yeah, it's up in the valley. Yeah. North of LA powerhouse. There's like four guys that Major League Baseball right now right now who are like teammates at Harvard westlake at the same time. It's like what max freed I think of the braves Lucas giolito I think of the White Sox, the guy pitching for the Cardinals and I forgot who the other guy is. I think three or four guys off that scene like rotation or pitching staff were all high draft picks and are all playing in the major leagues right now. They better have one state that year. It's Phil bickford. Phil pick from the daughters. The Dodgers and who's the guy from the Cardinals I forgot. He just came back from I think his last name's Kennedy or something. He just came back from an injury. I think they all played, I think at the same time at Harvard westlake. Again, they better have one state. It's like when I think it was like Joey Gallo, Bryce Harper and I forgot who the other player was. We're all playing at the same time in Vegas. But again, you know, you draft a guy number one overall in baseball if he's in the major leagues three years later, that's a quick rise, right? He's an 18 year old kid out of high school.
AP News Radio
Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers
"Michael kopech and four relievers combined on a 5 hitter as the White Sox shut out the Dodgers for nothing Went the first 6 innings allowing just one hit with 8 strikeouts picking up the victory while lowering his ERA to 1.94 To be honest I've tried to not look at my stats the entire year My dad was telling me that my stats were good a couple weeks ago and I was like dad listen I know I talk about this So that they respect them and say the same to you Offensively the Sox scored all four of their runs in the 6th frame with former Dodger AJ Pollack coming through with a pinch at two run double before Jake Berger and Reese McGuire had RBI hits In relief Phil bickford suffered the loss for the Dodgers who have dropped three in a row David Schuster Chicago
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"phil bickford" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"That's really high stakes. And i like the way it makes extra stake tens regional number. So yeah i think i would keep it pretty close the way it is now. Maybe a seven-game series in the first round. Oh regular season games up. yeah i'd be. I would be okay with that. I i like that idea. We had a. We had a listener. Email a little while ago that we answered about sort of how to incentivize teams to continue to win in the face of what seems likely to be expanded playoffs at some point right like at some point we will almost certainly actually have a broader plan field. Even if it doesn't swell to the size that say last year's playoff field did and they proposed using a cutoff record. Cut off the potentially left you with an odd number of playoff teams that you would expand the field and you'd have sort of a maximum size but you also would have to be at least a five hundred team in order to make the playoffs. How would that work. If you have an odd number teams around robin. We decided that it probably would not work. was what we decided but i liked the spirit behind the question which was in the face of what we imagine will be a broader field. That might end up being diluted and then resembling something like what. The nba does for like half. The leak makes the playoffs but we kind of know going in the less good teams are likely to get bounced fairly quickly to try to still incentivized teams to win in order to secure spot and i like that idea although i think i said at the time five hundred seems like too low bar to make them clear one. Good thing about the current cutoff is that it seems to mostly get pretty decent teams the team. That's gonna get in the season where you're like. That record. Should not be a playoff record is not a wildcard team. Right and yeah. You can't really solve the fact that sometimes divisions are bad but even in the to wildcard era you want to be in the eighty eight to ninety win range to get the second wildcard. That's a good team. Yeah you know if you go if you're eighteen games over five hundred teams trash right. Yeah i don't think. I don't think so either this year we will have. You won't even really have any teams that are remotely close to just five hundred like we. We're going to be well off of that pays for this year's field we don't need to worry about it so then the next time i record effectively wild we will be in october. We'll be into the postseason and we do this thing where we tend to forget regular season as soon as that happens known is interested in in reassessing it until we get deep into the off season and have to come up with something to write everyday so i will ask you. Is there anything about the twenty twenty one season among teams. That aren't going to make the playoffs or that. You anticipate will not persist into the postseason that you will be sad to see. Go as we get into two playoff baseball. Well i think. I'm okay with this disappearing as we get into baseball but one thing that i liked this year was or at least finishing development of a six man rotation by a lot of teams in the league. And you guys had rob maine's on to kind of talk about that. I think it's a pretty fascinating idea in theory can lead to pitchers does not being as gassed as the season goes on. Yeah pitching andries are just really the worst. They're a lot less fun to me than pitchers leaving games earlier pitching slightly less often but irritation her way. I can see so that obviously won't the playoffs their off days. You'll use four starters into the six things are kind of completely changed but baseball's going that way whether you want to or not and i actually less catastrophic for the game. We think it is. It's not as bad as the decreasing. Aman starters pitch. That's not fun. You in band gone over the reasons for that many times but i think guys going every six days and maybe being more healthy because of that was perhaps a reaction twenty twenty but one that makes sense and i think we'll continue into the future. Gosh what are we all going to write this off season when we don't have any. How will the strange shortened season impact next year. It was no uncertainty this off season so just going to be tough. We have to turn the attention of the playoff odds to to the probability that we will end up with a cb by the death. Yeah we're gonna stimulate rodman negotiation strength grad school. All over again. well ben. I imagined that we will Force you to come back on here and by that. I mean i will ask you nicely and you'll say yeah. That sounds great before other band returns from his journey. But do you have anything on fan. Graphs dot com. That you would like to plug before we go. Go look at a bunch of pictures of our playoff odds. And next week shirley though i haven't written it yet. Read my defense of voting for corbin burns for cy young while you should. Oh you do you want to preview your defense. Now we have a little bit of time does this. Is this a controversial. Take it is. I don't think he's the cy young favorite and just. I think that's ridiculous i think he's he's having one of the best seasons in baseball history. I think that carrying overly much about innings pitched when someone is this dominant and just consistently so yeah is kind of misreading the situation. That's basically that. Say i just don't think that he certainly considered a runaway favourite i. He's the favourite and that just seems wrong to me. I think that we will look back on the season in twenty years and say wow like this is the best season that a pitcher had twenty twenty s. And so yeah. I just think that people need to be a little bit more solid on that. I do think burns. It's probably the favorite. But i don't think it should be close. I think that he should be more of a lock than robbie ray. And he's just not. I find that that. I i only end appearing bad award voting discourse secondhand which makes me feel like the folks. I'm following on twitter. Doing a really solid job. Because i would have just i mean. I know that from like a war perspective. The gap between him and wheeler isn't that significant. Although you know when you when you notice the difference in innings pitched i think you you look at that gap a little bit differently. But he's just been so incredible that i just assumed that the people thought he was. He was the obvious favorite which isn't a knock on. Zack wheeler he's put up an incredible season two at a time. When you know philly just beyond their top guys did not have reliable pitching but princess you spend so sparkling sparkling. I think that this would be a much less likely win. For burns of sherzer had fallen apart. Unless you ask. But i thought he was young before that so i guess this article is a little less urgent. Now that it feels like he's in the lead but right this is just. This doesn't need to be complicated. He's striking up more than anybody else. He's walking or anybody else he's giving up. Your home runs than anybody else that that's good. Yeah what are you. I said that we were going to go. And then i thought of other things to ask you. What do you make of the sherzer thing. Do you think he's just tired. I mean one of those starts was in colorado. So it's it's also a colorado thing Place the pitch could be a little bit tired sherzer predictive but he feels very streaky to me and i have a lot of nets fan friends and when the mets won the world series. They were all committed. Church will be bad every game and then he was good every game and he just like sometimes looks a little offer. His back is hurting Anyway because he's crazy person. I wouldn't shock me if he was hiding nagging injury right now and just playing it anyway because they need him to. Measure ninety percent is a lot better than i mean. Bullpen game featuring field dick fergus. Bickford i mean it is you are. You are correct about that but we. We should probably take a moment to like marvel once again if phil bickford beckford. He's pretty good. Yeah i didn't expect. It has not great hair but pretty good pitching. Oh where are you on where. What about his hair. Just please you. I just not a big long unkempt locks kind of person. sure fair enough. It reminds me of The three musketeers. It reminds me a little too. Much of the noah syndergaard jacob degrom not great long hair combination of the mets head. For a while as the. I didn't like syndergaards long hair because it was stringy. But i thought ground Here was luscious very shiny. He had some good curl. Felt like it was while conditions sometimes when men have long hair. I'm like conditioner exists. And you should use it because then that will look better. Why don't you do an oral history of jacob. Degrom getting rid of his hair. I don't think they will. I think the turning point will be geico commercial that he did for a local market in new york where people keep mistaking him for the geico. Caveman oh really..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"phil bickford" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"Stayed with Jason spit for a complete game in Game one against the Marlins, and then he wasn't able to go later in the series. Now is that on paper is that on Jason Schmidt? Goes. Yeah. Who knows? Who knows the way it goes. The bottom line is they escaped capital about this. How do you manage the back end of this season? You still have a chance to win the division. You have a long way to go. You don't see the Dodgers again. You see the Braves this weekend Padres for nine more games, a couple against the Rockies and Arizona. What do you change here at the back end game. I think we don't change a damn thing. We know that tomorrow is really important. It's like we say before every single game and we don't get too high or too low in the next 10 or 15 games, and we'll be okay. Yeah, Okay. We will be no change a damn thing. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you gave and again. Why would you have to Because they're so deep and because they're not a team like the 2003 giants that was built with guys like Ray Durham and Market streets. All these players where you absolutely basically they were out there playing 100 and five 360 games, Right? Like every one of those guys, they were just Innocent lineup. It was just the construction of baseball. The Braves are a team like that. We'll see him again this weekend, Friday, Saturday Sunday, they come to town, but they're one of these teams just sort of runs out the same lineup every single day, and that's Don't want to say it's an anomaly. It's just sort of the outlier in baseball. Now. You don't see teams that do that, because the Giants don't because they have so many layers and levels of depth to this roster. I don't think it's as big of a concern for how they finished the season. It is a concern if you end up in a one game playoff, Not in a you know, Division series after conclusion of 1 62. How about this one? Michael Stransky is a good guy here to hear from, by the way it is 23rd home run yesterday. First time the Giants had two players with at least 23 home runs since 2000 and 10 Aubrey Huff and want to rebate both had 23 back in 2010 right now, Brandon Belt with 24. Yes, with 23 Get to 30. It had six more in the next 2.5 weeks could happen potentially. Anyway, Here's Mikey Stransky, and they asked him. There's a guy who, obviously his grandfather, huge levels of success in his career. This guy who you know goes to the post season playing for Vanderbilt spends his entire career in the Orioles or Urbanization down to the minor leagues and doesn't sniff the bigs and obviously, then doesn't get to the postseason. Might just Rimsky. When did you think this moment was a possibility? What did you think? This goal of yours was going to come to fruition if ever get into the postseason at the big League level. Uh, honestly, for me. It was the day that I got traded here. Um, I know this organization is a great organization, and Farhan and Scott have done an unbelievable job of putting together. A group of great guys, great players, great people, and I think that's great people is the number one thing. Um everybody is. We don't have a bad egg in this locker room, and we're so lucky to have that. That you have to take a step back and recognize how specialist is because it's hard to find a group of 40 50 guys that are players plus 2030 staff members that all mesh together. And putting that together. I can't imagine how hard that is and how much people skills you have to have to notice. That, and to put that group together is is just incredible. Yes, really, really cool. It's really, really special and for a guy I would say for an organization to have that reputation that he gets traded over here, and he thinks Boy. I have an opportunity now to do something I've never done before. Not just to prove myself to a new set of eyes and get myself on a big league roster, but because it's a organization in a sense such great levels of success over the last decade. Feel like Maybe some of your personal and team goals can be accomplished here. That sort of stuff breeds more and more success. So we've got plenty more to get you on the other side. Still haven't heard from Buster Posey still haven't heard from Evan Longoria, Brandon Belt far on Logan Web. All these voices you're going to want to hear after the Dodgers beat down the Padres yesterday, 91415 checks and he says Cope, same old Padres. Come on, Why even go there and potentially piss them off. I don't think I'm the reason that the Padres could end of getting back into the postseason. By the way, the jackets already clinched a playoff spot, right? Padres are going to keep the Giants out of the postseason. I guess what you're thinking is maybe the partners can keep the Giants from winning the division. They certainly aren't helping the Giants out with the Dodgers. They get their asses beat last week town in Southern California, so I am too concerned about the Padres right now, By the way, you Darvish just getting torched last night, five runs allowed in the first a leadoff home run to Tommy La Stella Lamont way, Junior after the game was like, Yeah, man, You always got to be ready when your number is called like that a boy. At a boiling pot. You know what's going on, dude, another big, big game for him last night Giants by the way again, I said this earlier, maybe the most fitting way to clinch the playoff spot last night by rolling out six different relief pitchers. Don Leone gives you two innings curving Castro Harley Garcia exactly tells up there taking it back. It was a fun night for the Giants. All right, Chris Kelly, who was out there at the ballpark, seeing the Giants clinch as well. Murphy's calling him clinch Kelly Magic number to win. The division is 16 games. That's a combination of Giants. Winds and Dodger losses. Dodgers back in action tonight 7 10 against Arizona, Clayton Kershaw returned last night four and a third. They got to win. He struck out five did not throw a ton of pitches, but Phil Bickford came in in relief for Kershaw as the Dodgers get the win. 51 over Arizona yesterday will continue the giant celebration on the other side. I got a texture here, by the way, Dave, we'll keep saying I'm ignoring the Raiders. I didn't ignore the Raiders. The Raiders ignored you when they left again. You fell for it twice and I'm ignoring you. I don't think so. Raiders didn't win last night over the Ravens and the Ravens, by the way there next what you got there, Jeff? Here we go. The autumn wind. The autumn wind is ignoring you. That's what I'm getting at more coming up from the Giants victory..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"phil bickford" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I'm curious you know you had you have this team that in some ways has underperformed because we didn't expect them to have a competitive race. At least not this competitive race. And certainly not with san francisco that perhaps of san diego and cody bellinger's been bellinger but obscures from your perspective if there are any pleasant surprises among the dodgers the sierra there any guys who have sort of outperformed your expectations of them are performed in a different and new way that has been an asset to the team. Yeah absolutely and just a to pile on a little bit back too far hunts. id for second e he came to the dodgers with andrew freedman after the two thousand fourteen season so they were in a in a spot where the dodgers had won the last two divisions but the giants were coming up three world series in five years and everyone was trying to figure out like how they did that and he's struck me as someone who is very curious. I believe one of the first Sort of informal meetings we had with him he was he was like everyone was asking. What is the giants back. Then you know. What was their secret sauce of winning. And he said you can't really overlook what they're doing because they won rights he that's his job to sort of figure that out and i think he's he's curious and open to anything and like just figuring out what works and i think that's sort of been the key for for both him and i guess andrew friedman with the dodgers and that's been one of their underlying philosophies they brought in a lot of like new relievers this year. They they traded. Dylan floro and adam cleric. Who were used a reasonable amount last year But not necessarily the key relievers but some of the relievers they brought in like. It just didn't work right away. Like alex was pretty wild in the first part of the year. And then now he's one of their best relievers. He just absolutely challenges. Everybody in zone celebrates wildly every time he gets through beginning which is hilarious and fun to watch mostly because he's always by pumping his fist and yelling and then immediately to stop and take off his hat and gloves and handed to the umpire after for tax at. That's pretty fun and phil bickford. They claimed off waivers to have basically. I would say those two are like. They're among their four best relievers right now which i obviously would not have guests at the beginning of the year but it took growing pains to get there. They lost so many extra inning games earlier in the year like garrett cleanser another rookie who was like getting better as the season went on. But he's hurt right now. He lost four extra inning. Games alone. Just they weren't having a lot of guys who were inexperienced or young in very high leverage situations because they ran a relievers earlier and So that was that was the thing. But yeah i think a- and bickford sort of standing out are probably the two biggest surprises at least on the pitching side for me and grant. We could probably do a whole episode where we just went name by name on the jets and like wait what that guy did that. How is there like an epitome of that for you. Would it be like one of the older guys who somehow reached a new level like your brandon crawford or would it be someone who like no one had heard of prior to this year last year. That has suddenly performed you. I will say that. Four as surprising as the giants are donovan. Solano alex dickerson mike extremity. They put like all right. You know like if you had told me before the season in september they're going to be fighting for the national league west. I would have thought okay solano's hitting three thirty years. Trump's got fifteen forty home runs a dickerson has not base percentage close to four hundred so that it's not all sunshine and rainbows. But i think the two that really stick with me. Crawford is amazing but he was showing this a little bit at the second half of last year. So i'm gonna go with lamont. Way junior in darren rough because they are filling complimentary rules. Where wade complete left field. He can also play. First baseman brandon belt was heard weighed in rough. Were forming a platoon. They're both of those guys have been really really good. Way has had excellent late inning. Timing he he's had some really big hits for the giants but he's also just good. He's got seventeen home runs. He's playing defense all over the field. He runs well. Darren rough has morphed into like his opium is nine thirty leads the team in adjusted dopey in opie s He is he's hitting righties. he's hitting lefties. I was really curious. About when he came back from the k b o and i was like oh this you know this is interesting signing and i wrote about it in a to like preface it with like look. I know that you guys don't wanna read about this. I'm so sorry at the same time like this might be something. He has just been shown much better. He is such a lynchpin for this offense because it can pinch hit iki knees in their against left. Handed pitchers as outfielder as a first baseman. His defense is fine like he has been to me the most surprising player of the last two seasons. What would you say has been the signature. Giants dodgers moment of the season. So far like the most dramatic game the most dramatic moment..
AP News Radio
Dodgers Rally Past Braves for Sweep, Scherzer Leaves After 6
"The Dodgers piece together a late inning rally to beat the Braves four to three Justin Turner's two out RBI single in the eighth tied the game and AJ Pollock followed with a base hit that scored Turner LA starter Max Scherzer was brilliant with six scoreless innings he struck out nine before leaving with a tight hamstring Phil Bickford the winner Chris Martin took the loss Joe Kelly saved it Dodgers sweep the three game series from Atlanta and take over first place in the NL west mark Myers Los Angeles
AP News Radio
Smith, Taylor Power Short-Handed Dodgers Past Rockies, 3-2
"Chris Taylor hit a pair of home runs before Will Smith provided a tie breaking glass in the eighth inning sending the Dodgers past the Rockies three to two Smith went deep off Carlos Estevez his third home run of the seven game homestand Taylor homered in the first and fifth innings giving him sixteen this season this week I'm just kind of in a good place and you know mechanically been pretty consistent and you know and the fastball slows down a little bit for me you know I usually get the breaking stuff better Phil Bickford worked a scoreless inning for the victory Joe Kelly pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save the LA bullpen worked five scoreless innings the Dodgers state two games behind the NL west leading giants I'm Dave Ferrie
Mason & Ireland
"phil bickford" Discussed on Mason & Ireland
"Season that he's been having no. I'm not willing to throw them away. But i want a backup plan. I wanna i wanna plan b right now. We don't have one you said it. Who are we going. Gonna put out there bickford. Who do you want in that wall. You weinberg cleared for does not inspire confidence or a. You're watching the game last night and your dad was like i was telling you on the break. I said me me and my dad watch the game yesterday. My dad as soon as he saw canley coming in. My dad says no not can leave. Why he's going to blow this game we everyone's heart rate goes up when you see kenley come into the game. We can't blow a game against the giants especially we're fighting for first place. You can't blow game against the giants. You just can't do it. And i'll tell you another thing the and i'm and i mean this sincerely if we get into a safe situation tonight dodger stadium you go right back to kenley now. I'd go to try. And i go right back to kenley. Well what do you do you want to. Just roll the window down and throw money out of it. And what is wrong. Way dave roberts did you heard what he said. Do you think. Dave roberts will go right back to kennedy. I don't think it's up to him. Oh come on. he gave. He's part of that decision. Making gave whoever andrew friedman tells them to put out there way. So you're now. You're on the dave roberts puppet and has no say over anything. No it's a collective but i don't think do you think dave roberts was decided. Julio close the world series last year oh no. That was a group that was absolutely right but tonight kenley jansen i can promise you. The group decision has put kenley jansen back out there by the way opportune. What you're saying is not crazy because it's not and it's and it's true well because you you run the risk of losing him but that one color i a good point if he doesn't have it like you pointed out you can tell looking at his movement you can tell looking at his pitch speed whether or not he's on if he loads the basis. Don't wait for him to see how that movie in. So we know how it ends if he's if he lets a couple of guys on. Have some backups. Up there in the bullpen. I know you don't have a lot of people but it'd be better than just throwing another game away in red. Brick furred yeah. The neighbor's tree bickford playing playing ball with phil bickford. Right tone next for you. We'll of questions. I've got a really. I never know what's gonna come up. I never never know what's going to do. You feel it's going to be a really interesting. Feel like it's going to be really interesting that is coming up next for mason ireland seventeen. Espn since when is the can. We not have a little love and kindness in the world. Do we really want to call too slaps around not from miraculous love and kindness or not in his vocabulary air not in his role. Yeah exactly exactly so all right so we're going to do with questions. It's presented by our friends at a hills toyota. If you've got a car that just sitting around not being used bring it to a hills toyota today for an instant. Cash offer plenty hills. Toyota is the house of yes. All right so hor. Hey do you have the wheel ready. We ready to spend that think. Yes it.
Mason & Ireland
"phil bickford" Discussed on Mason & Ireland
"One is kind of a victory flowing smoothly. No we had a would we have. We have a leaky pipe or a pipe. Yeah they fixed a pipe that was it. but normally they're pretty regularly brennan craig tweets. I was there till the last. I didn't see mason. Actually never saw them all night on the luge. Also the booing just wasn't it. I was frustrated but man that had to have torn up janssen. Yeah it had to tear mean. Imagine getting booed at anything. You do madge on your play by play announcer. Yeah somebody doesn't like your call. When i when i worked for k. Cal and i would go to football games. Because you and i had the show everybody knew i went to ucla. So i would get booed a lot at and i kind of liked it. I thought it was fun. But i don't think kenley jansen did did did. Do we have what dave roberts said after the guy. I think we do jesse hor. We've a houseful their whore. Hey do we have that. What dave roberts okay. Well they're looking for now. I don't know i again. I know fans this is the way fans. Show the take care. But i don't know in the case of kenley jansen if it does any good like i don't necessarily think he's gonna wake up and say okay. I'm going to pitch better. He knows he's got a troubled history and this year he's actually been pretty good. He's pretty good. He's been fantastic. Yeah spent he saved twenty one of twenty five games but he's been on a roll if you were going to pin it on like if you're going to list of people as to why the dodgers made it to three world series but only one one jansen would be near the top you could also say yeah. Janssen obviously was not a factor last year during the postseason but they won last year. Yeah they won last year but he still was not not about when they lost to the astros lost in the astros went to now all tainted but when the the astros and lost to the red sox i think dodger fans just. They've seen that movie they know it's going to be a white knuckle. Every time he comes in and so when he comes in and does that. I think that's dodger. Fan saying come on man cages. Get a one two three inning. Every once in a while to see close phil bickford. I mean honestly this you. That guy by the way does not fill bickford. Sounds like my neighbor. When i was an accountant does ain't phil pickford here. But i mean you know the weird thing about. The dodgers is aside from training and victor gonzalez. Although he's had problems lately they really haven't had david price has been good. at times. Jimmy nelson has been good at times but they really don't have a stacked bullpen. Like phil bickford is a guy that you do see trying to spend good. Kelly's been good david price. We've been talking about the fact that their starting pitching has really been devastated by injury. Yes decimates off the year clayton. Kershaw is out for the foreseeable future. We don't think. Trevor bowers coming back at all. So let's say you have a trade package that you know is going to bring you a pitcher. Okay you're going to go out like they got yu darvish a few years ago right so gibbs right texas would you pivot off of the starter and move to maybe craig kimbrel or reliever like that. Well as far as i'm concerned kenley. Jansen is the closer and kenley. Jansen i think went prior to the colorado game. This is sort of magnified because he blew back toback saves but he had gone nine consecutive appearances without allowing a run. So he's been throwing clean innings. He scuffled in two straight appearances including last night where he blew the game against a team that they're chasing for first place in the national league west so everything gets magnified. But no i think kenley jansen is the closer and what would you do if you added craig. Kimbrel would kimbrel be the setup guy. No janssen doesn't pitch well as a setup guy then she just doesn't then then i think you you pick kenley on some nights and you pitch kimberlin some nights that matters. Is you close games. It does care about anybody's feelings you're not going to push the eject button on kenley after last night. Not completely completely a little. Oh yeah a little will be because before this year. I remember at the start of the season. I thought he'd be cut by now. We are where we are because he is who he is. Yeah but i don't trust him. I think he's good. Twenty one of twenty five. I think he's had a good season. But you know what. Have you done lately business. I mean we call night so you can hear the after a bad night after two bad nights and row he's blown two saves and row. I mean i do trust. We take calls on this. You're the only one waving the kenley. Jansen fan club flag twenty-five you kidding me. i'd your fans want results arguably best closer in the game at this moment place. Are we in in the national league. We've got fifty nine wins. What place are we in. Were in second place beyond the giants who just happened to beat us last night. Because kenley blew the save. I can leave. Won me over. When he came on the show at the start of the year. I already lost you no no. He hasn't lost me. But what i'm seeing is. I don't trust that he's going. I'm not this i writer. Die with kenley like you are. that's idiotic he. He has a history of this inconsistency. You don't know if you can trust him. I very well might pivoted kimbrel if it came down to you know picking up a starter that could use third in the league in saves. Who's going to who's a started. It's gonna get traded at the trade deadline for sure know starter know sure's cobb gibson for sure gonna get solid guy. He's an innings eater. He's he's not only as an innings eater he's got the best earned run average in the american league. And he's under contract for next year to re really risking. So if you could have him or kimbrel who do you want kyle gets. Yeah gimme kimberly gives you more options to close games right now. I'm watching twenty and go out and through ford names watching them. You're not going to be a great to be a legitimate rotation starter. And he's not ready for. Here's here's the question. Eight seven seven seven ten. Espn and take. And as i'm gonna make this fair. Take the entirety of the season as you evaluate this not. Just what happened last night. All right the entirety of the season of what. You've seen at kenley jansen. Are you with mason. That you rider die with kenley or you with me that you should explore getting a reliever the trade deadline. Eight seven seven seven ten. Espn i bet. You're more people will be with me than you. Oh i mean judging from the booze last night at dodger stadium people do re buddy wurley. You were there more. People didn't do. It's shame here the booze shanley's got a very bad rap. He's third in the league in saves he saved twenty one games. he's got a buck seventeen whip. He's got a fifteen era seriously. He's got forty two strikeouts in thirty seven innings..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"phil bickford" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"That? Okay. I'm sure that chip carry on the way home realized that what he said made no sense at all. Because there are a million guys, not a million. Maybe. But there are a ton of guys who played the major league baseball whose last name I did it X like Greg Maddux and Mike Maddux, Sandy Colfax. There's Wilcox there, Steve Sax. There's Knicks. There's Gavin Lux. There's Nellie Fox. There's a lot of guys whose last name ended X. He's not the only major leaguer in baseball history that And with the letter X That was, uh, that was interesting from a chip Carey and yes, he was. You know what he's still doing games still doing games for? You know, the the Braves. And that's great. I catch a game every once in a while because you've got the extra innings package and you hear Chip Carey doing a game, But I'll be interested to see what he's got to come back and talk about that because he is so far off on that one. Let's go to well Matt and Steve Steve. What's up? Hey, for I love the show. Thank you. You're welcome. Jeff. Joanie at combat. Those games is often love, watching or listening to him, which I wish we could get him on. You know, regular air so we can hear them while watching the game. Yeah, you got if you want to do it, you've got to just sync up your TV with the radio and somehow do it. I do it. I do it during the football season like I've known Jeff since he got out of college, and he's great. There's nobody that works as hard as him. Once the season starts. You can't call him because he's like so into everything is doing his preparation and everything else and, Yeah, it's the most. It's so important to him besides it. Besides his two daughters, it's the most important thing to him. That's awesome. Thanks for taking my call. Fred. You're welcome, Steve. Yes, Jeff is a great guy. I've known what you said. He got out of Iowa State, and he came and worked with us a sports phone. And so I'm no Jeff forever and he worked very, very hard. And I give him some constructive criticism. Sometimes that I don't that he doesn't call me for a while. I don't know. I don't know why I never understood that. Uh, let's go to Woodstock and Mike. Mike, you're on ESPN. 1001 of my favorite ones is Joe McConnell. And he is the bears. Yep. A lot. A lot of people love McConnell. He was so it was funny because his broadcast was like so matter of fact, Lee, but he always got you. Everything got you all the details all the information he called when, when Peyton went over and set the rushing record and everything some great great stuff. They had great announcers with him. And he also he also did White Sox baseball too. Yes, he did. Yes, he did Remember that there are so many of them. Mike Appreciate the call. So many of these great announcers here in Chicago and it was cool listening to your opinions on some of these great announcers in your favorite announcers, everybody, You know, we're all ages. When we listen to sports radio here we've got we've got the young guys. We had a guy the other day, so it was like 20. He's listening. And then we've got the guys like, you know, uh, Ride the South side. You know, 57 years are born in 57 the same age as me at 64. So, yeah. You got all different kinds. We've listened to so many different people. Phil Rosenthal's leaving the Tribune and a lot of people, the tribunal leaving taking buyouts or whatever. He wrote an article today The headline is rare Flooding moment. Huge mistake doesn't take away too much from historic no hitter call of the Cubs. So I'm gonna I'm gonna mention it because it's written down here. I'm going to mention how the call went. Okay. Cubs fans are standing at Dodger Stadium. Kimbrel always look composed. The batter is AJ Pollock Pollock over three right handed hitting outfielder. In fact. Now even Dodgers fans start to stand. Kimbrel's pitched apologize swing and a miss of vanishing slider that ended up down near the ankles. Kimbrel bends over at the waist. Right elbow sticking out to the side and an old one pitch to Pollock Strike two called the Dodgers now down to their last strike Dodgers without a hit to down bottom of the ninth inning, Kimbrel is ready and the 02 swinging them as the Cubs have done it a combined no hitter for the first time in the long legendary history of the Chicago Cubs. That's the way the broadcast sounded on radio, Okay, and then Phil Rosenthal points out. The problem was it wasn't Pollock, whom Kimbrel struck out on the three pitches. Here's what happened. Paula came out of the game in the top of the eighth inning, replaced in left field. By Steven Souza. When the Dodgers relieved Garrett Clevant, your substituted for Phil Bickford. So Souza led off the bottom of the eighth with Kleven. You're set to bat with two down and went out in the ninth. Smith pinch hit in Pollock spot And Pat Hughes ever. The professional said no excuses. I thought it was a J. Pollock. It was will Smith. You're right. I do. Try to take pride on getting everything is precise and correct as they possibly can. But I was joking to myself saying, Boy, That's how good Kimbrel stuff was. He even fan me. So Announcer's make mistakes, and it's even worse when you're not at the ballpark, and it's easy in baseball. When you're making switches, double switches. All of a sudden, there's a guy coming to play in the ninth inning. It was somebody else. There's someone pinch hitting. You may have missed it with all the excitement building. And But the nice part is For decades, people will hear Pat Hughes call, and he did not mention it at the last pitch. He did not mention who the batter was. He just mentioned what happened. So when we talk about favorite radio Baseball announcers. Pat Hughes is definitely on my list because I've loved for the longest time listening, uh, to him, do the games and yes, we are the home of white sax baseball. But we also talk white socks and cubs all the time. So I'm not in front of a TV and the whites action not playing like last night when I'm leaving. Soldier Field and the Chicago Fire game. I'm listening to their call, and I heard I heard Cody Bollinger go deep. That's how the game ended. We come back. We've got some. I'll talk about what happened and how I lost money yesterday, even though what I picked came true. We'll explain that. Take your calls. 3123323776 white sax baseball today. Here on ESPN. They're going to finish up the suspended game, then play the regularly scheduled game. We've got all the action for you, beginning with a pre game at 12 30 here on ESPN with houses and don't forget you can also hear.