18 Burst results for "Zach Gallen"
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"zach gallen" Discussed on The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"He's up and out. He's really trying to figure it out, isn't he? He must have family on the other side. So Malibu Cramer? Yeah. Okay. When Barbie is a flowing. Never thought much about that, too. Thank you, Floyd, that was very helpful on the bleed. Is that are we still in the air? Let's see, march 24th, 2001. That's when Randy Johnson pitcher for the Seattle Mariners famously hit a bird in mid flight. And if you haven't seen the video, the bird absolutely disintegrates. I love birds. You know I'm somewhat of an amateur ornithologist. But it's a magnificent video if you've never seen it. The timing how it happened is. Feathers and odds are so slimy. And Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zach gallen throwing a warmup session in the outfield of Oakland Alameda county coliseum prior to the team's afternoon game against the a's during one of his pitches, a bird flew right through the path of the ball and unfortunately was hit in midair. And killed. I never thought it would happen again. Sadly it was a St. Louis cardinal. Oh no. Or would it be a Baltimore Oreo? What bird is recognized in Oakland? They have a specific bird for having some sort of seed seabird. And earn or an egret, possibly. Isn't there, Frank? An Albuquerque. Frank Sinatra's fragrant. Yes. I apologize. I just it's not familiar with this, but mister Sinatra likes to stop by the show. Right. And did you know that he is an amateur ornithologist? I had no idea. Yes, he collects birds much like Josh does. How's everybody doing in there? That you're looking good always looking good. You're in the shawl with one of my last shows to the left. I saw you, you look gorgeous. Oh, what a nice compliment, Jess, and I love that. You know I love birds. 'cause regrets. I've had a few. I had a cockatoo. Who needed attention? I put them in a doobie doobie zoo. But they didn't like that form of detention. They want to live a life that's full. And crap on cars. On the highway. So I opened up the cages and let them fly. Goodbye birds. Oh, blue eyes. We miss you. Yes. Hope you're getting some nice Hollywood. Good good up there. And having a sweet, sweet Hollywood. Say hi to Peterson. We did a street scam. Yeah, okay, very good. Thank you very much. Back to sports. More sports coming up, including an 84 year old mountain climber. They keep outdoing each other there in Nepal. They have a lot of action coming out of the it won't leave the mountain alone for whatever reason. Yeah. Also, we scream and nails. We have ice cream and we have beer can chicken
The Jim Ross Report
"zach gallen" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"Being that it was Charlotte, huggin did get noticeable booze, and his pop wasn't nearly what it would have been almost anywhere else, but he still got far more cheers. Piper actually wore the T-shirt listing the names of the dead wrestlers on his back. They were very careful not to shoot the back of it on TV, Sean O'Hare keeps interfering piper's gonna jump off the apron with a double sledge and crowds pretty dead except for the easy spots like the tin count or the punches in the corner or wiggling the hand while caught in a sleeper. It was more like a cartoon match, according to Dave Meltzer. Hulk is gonna hulk up and Vince comes out. He gives O'Hara pipe, a hair goes to hit Hogan, but instead hits piper and Hogan does the leg drop, Zach gallen, who Hogan brought out at the start of the match, then tackled Vance as he tries to interfere in the pen. It gets a dud rating, but listen, what did we expect here? This is going to be lots of Gaga, lots of fun, old school nostalgia stuff. As a fan in O three, I like this. It was fun. It was a gimmick. Yes. It was and it was not too long. I didn't think if 5 minutes, I'm pretty down with about anything for 5 minutes. Yeah. So, but yeah, it was, it was a nice spot in the show. It might have been what some would say is this has let me up, match. Yes. And of course, it remains to be seen as we go through this rest of the show, which we're getting toward the end. But yeah, it was, I thought it was well booked. Everybody's got to get their stuff in. Everybody's paranoid. Jesus Christ. And the older one gets. The more paranoid they seemingly become. And of course, then you've got two of the greats of all time in that game. In Hogan and piper. They knew how to play it. They knew how to protect themselves. And so they understood the art of pro wrestling. Quite frankly, that's simple. And that is, in itself, brings with it some paranoia and some doubts skepticism and things of that nature. Well, I'll tell you what, there's no doubt with athletic greens, AG one is the real deal, Jim and
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Lost a bunch of games even since we talked about how slow they had started. And then we Robert was not hustling on a play and Pedro could follow benched him and then Robert said that he was being careful because he was nursing something or other and had a hamstring issue that he had not told the team about. So that was an interesting excuse for not running that hard. Well, I actually had a tight hamstring that I didn't tell the coaching stuff about. So I mean, usually I'm all for defending players who are nursing some injury or trying to preserve themselves and not hustling on a particular play because it might be better in the long run, but also not great if you then didn't tell the team about that issue that you were dealing with. So just to bad all around, just not so good with that team right now. Yeah, it inspired so I don't edit every piece at fangraphs. I would collapse. That's why we have John, John and our wonderful assistant editor, and he does such great work. And so, but what will happen as a result of that is that sometimes like a peace will go up and I won't have been the one to edit it and then I get to see the headline and Jay wrote about the White Sox on Friday. The White Sox are utterly terrible. Yeah. And I was like, it's good that we're not holding back. You know, you've got to give the people the truth. Unlike MLB with Oakland. You censorship here. Right. So just because we already did that exercise, I thought I'd just shout out a few names from the top of the fan graphs combined dwarf leaderboard. Yeah. And if you want to do any, you can too. But just to mention that thus far, again, through Saturday's games so obviously show you a tiny and Mike Trout are in the top ten. They're neck and neck as we speak at 7 and 8. And I would guess that one or both of them will probably climb from there. So that's what you sort of expect to see. Maybe you don't expect to see Matt Chapman leading the world. Yes. How about that Chapman? Yeah, how about that? I mean, even when Matt Chapman was not hitting so well, he was still quite valuable, even post hip injury because he was still a good defensive player. Last year, the metrics were down on him, but down to the extent that he was only a little bit above average instead of the best. And now it seems like he's back to being good on defense or full strength again on defense, perhaps it depends on the metric you look at. I know he had some throwing issues. So regardless of whether he's still as good with the glove as he was, he's got a two 15 WRC plus. You're hitting three 72 four 59 6 70. You could be a DH playing third and that would be just dandy. So if you're Matt Chapman, that's pretty special. So man, even his down years have been like four win player and his good years have been more like 6 win player. So he's just he's really good. Yeah, and a tremendous time for him to be putting up a season like this because he will be, I mean, he was already going to be one of the better free agents available this winter and if he is doing this and demonstrating he can reach this level again like I think that that will be a lucrative campaign for him. Yeah, I would think so. And second on the list is Ronald Acuna. Brown on our bold predictions preseason podcast. I threw Ronald Acuna 50 50 out there just for fun and I thought he might have a problem getting there with the stolen bases. I mean, not that it would be easy to get there with either, but the idea of 50 50. I mean, he does have 13 stolen bases through Saturday, so it seems like that's not going to be the issue. He is running wild. He's on pace for, I don't know, like 80 or something at this point. He's only had four home runs, but he appears to be pretty fully back. He's not striking out a lot, even as much as he did when he was great. And he said it appears to be just kind of firing on all cylinders, like the base runnings, good, the defense has been pretty good too. Fine at least. So he appears to be pretty fully recovered. And that's nice to see. So hoping you can pick up the power pace a little so that that 50 50 at least 40 40 comes within range because in 2019, he had 41 homers and 37 steals. And then it's been one thing after another since then, whether it was injuries or the pandemic that prevented him making another run at that. But he could. Now, if the power picks up a little bit. Yeah, and it would be so fun. Because. There's something so snarky. You know, just be nice to have like a landmark thing that we're excited about and driving toward that doesn't involve any marriages, you know? Just no marriages to be found. And then Zach gallen is third, the top pitcher. He's been fantastic. He has been fantastic, Ben, he has been so good. It's almost as if someone picking him for Cy Young, preseason, fantastic choice. What a smart girl she was. Fourth is Xander bogarts, and it's funny. Man, they've really needed him. When they signed sander burgers, it was like, really, you need to enter burger, it's on top of everyone else. You have all those other shortstops, but the way that the rest of that lineup has hit and tatis being absent for most of the
Northwest Newsradio
"zach gallen" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Because of the high interest rates. It hurts them and buying groceries at the store. That is not acceptable. He pointed out higher interest rates and higher prices for groceries. The Biden administration has turned his back on the American worker. To turn our economy around, we have to stop the break the bank, federal spending that has led to high inflation and rising interest rates. Hutchinson has also been willing to criticize former president Donald Trump, calling him to drop out of the 2024 race. Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley entrepreneur Vivek rumor Swami and radio host Larry elder are also in the Republican race. I'm Ed Donahue. Hutchinson will have a large mountain to climb as a Fox News poll released yesterday shows Donald Trump with a 32% lead over his closest rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who has yet to enter the race for The White House. Trump's lead in February against desantis was just 15% former vice president Mike Pence received 6% with former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley at 4%. Vivek ramen Swami has 3% South Carolina senator Tim Scott 2%. 11 till now on America in the morning, a federal appeals court late yesterday rejected Donald Trump's attempt to block former vice president Mike Pence from testifying before a grand jury in a case involving any role the former president may have played leading up to the January 6th breach of the U.S. capitol, a federal appeals court in Washington refused to block pence's subpoena that was issued by a special counsel Jack Smith. Trump still could make his case to the Supreme Court, but has not indicated whether he will last month a federal judge ruled that former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and aides Stephen Miller and Dan scavino must testify. Crypto can be used to buy just about anything online now, including real estate. Here's chuck palm with today's tech news. The first crypto real estate market in the country has been born in Texas. My E listings dot com has brought together the newest asset class with multi $1 trillion U.S. commercial and residential property markets. Texas properties were first to be listed this week and by June other select states will be listed by agents, brokers, and sellers, transactions can be closed within one business day, which is about 50 times faster than current averages. Japan's I space said its attempt to make the first private moon landing has failed after losing contact with its hakuta M1 lander when it unexpectedly accelerated and possibly crashed on the lunar surface. Their chief technology officer said in a statement, it apparently went into a freefall towards the surface as it was running out of fuel to fire up its thrusters, attempts for private companies from Israel and India have also failed to land on the moon. For more tech stories, visit all the top tech dot tech. I'm chuck palm. Not until Robert workman has a look at Thursday sports. NBA two lower seeds advancing the east playoffs. The heat rally to beat the bucks one 28 one 26 in overtime, the 8th seed upsetting the team with the best record in the association this year, four games to one. Jimmy Butler took center stage again with 42 points. Milwaukee was up 16 to start the fourth quarter, but made just 5 out of 25 shots of the rest of the way. The Knicks dispatched the Cavaliers leading wire to wire as they advance in 5 games, their first series win in ten years. New York and Miami start their second round series on Sunday. The grizzlies avoid elimination with a win over the Lakers, Desmond bayne had 33 points, John Moran 31, Memphis still trails, three games to two. And the warriors clipped the kings to go up three two in that series, Steph Curry had 31. In the NHL, the Panthers day alive with a four three overtime win over the bruins, Matthew could score the winner, Boston up three games to two. The kraken Nellie, the avalanche three two after winning game 5, so the second year expansion team is one win away from ousting the defending Stanley Cup champions. Baseball, the ASTRO shut out the raise one nothing, hunter Brown and the earth Jones were the two hitter. Blue Jays wiped out the White Sox ain't nothing. You say kikuchi, and I say tossed a four hitter. With a combined 15 strikeouts, Chicago has now dropped 7 straight. Zach gallen fan that doesn't as the Diamondbacks blank the royals. He in the half pints with a 5 hitter. Guardians down the rockies, Tanner babies struck out 8 and got the win in his major league debut. I
Big Time Baseball
"zach gallen" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"Months savings of $698 by new customers surveyed who saved with progressive between June 2021 and May 2022, potential savings will vary discounts not available in all states and situations. Let's go on and on. Well, yes, Nelson Cruz was the guy. Obviously didn't have a good year last year. He's 42 years old, had a high surgery on October 31st. So there was certainly questions at that point, the eye surgery has apparently worked and he's doing well with San Diego for only I think a 1,000,001.2 million or something like that. So that was a good move. I mean, Duval would have been good for anybody now. He's hurt, but there were some cost effective guys. Of course, the mets already paying a 100 million in tax, so you had a judge bell. Anybody they had at this point, they're in the bank double because they're paying the 90% tax. So I'm not going to rip them from that spending more money than they have, I do think they would have been better off if they stuck with that career deal. Obviously, I'm not a doctor. I didn't see the physical. I don't know what happened there. It's a career. I don't run today in New York against the Yankees, but now I'm missing a DH they're missing anybody to really bad 5th. They have good players who have been kind of rotating in that 5th spot between Canada, vogelbach, fam, they really don't have a number 5 hitter and give a lot of credit for having 6 home runs, terrific power header as the cleanup guy, but I think it would be much better off if they had a true number 5 hitter, whether it was the DH or whatever position he plays. That might be baby at some point because Beatty certainly can hit question is Kenny played third at the major league level. And that's still an open question. Talking to John hayman here on bet MGM tonight. You know, the Padres are one of those hot teams in rightfully so coming into the season that people love. There's a lot of talents, a big batch, big stars and MVP candidate after MVP candidate. But they're just 7 in 6 right now. They just took three against the braves, dropped two of three to the mets. East coast trip. They got 18 games. I think in 18 days, it's a grind of a season early on for this team. What's most concerning, if anything for you with what you've seen from the padre so far? Well, they need to get their whole team back together. I obviously must grow that injury in the weight room and then, well, on rehab injured as AC joint in the shoulder doesn't that as bad as it sounds, it was going to give me a week or two. He tried to make a diving play in net worth doing and rehab game. You know, and you've got to teach not back yet April 20th. We'll see what he brings. Obviously there's some people who are skeptical at this point now after the PED issue that he had is he going to be that dynamic player that he had been previously is also had many, many injuries. So they've certainly got some questions that Suarez is out in the bullpen. That's a guy that was very, very valuable to them last year and they signed him to a big deal, I do think the injuries is part of the issue and they got to get one so they give him 5 great prospects for one Soto. He's not been the same player in San Diego that he was in Washington. I do think he prefers to bet third. I think I saw it today is third in the lineup. It seems like they're getting them in there third more often. He had been betting second. Is that the issue? I can't imagine that's all of it, but I mean he had under a 400 slugging percentage last year with the Padres. That is not one Soto. He's not been the same guy and they need him to be that guy. Yeah, another team talk about the raise and how good they've been, but the Diamondbacks against the spread have been covering like crazy as well. They're 8 and 5. They lead the NL west. What do you like about what they're doing? Well, they have a very good future. They have really good young players coming. So I like the way they're going to be in the future. Obviously, you've got Zach gallen, is a terrific pitcher. I like the youth of this team and like I said, I think there will be an excellent team in the future. I mean, this year it should be between the Dodgers and the Padres. I did pick the Padres. I did like what they did in the off season. How could you not? I do think that the Diamondbacks are better than people thought. I think I had them third. But I think they're more of a future team than an out team. You know, we were talking, we spent a lot of time on the show talking about Shohei Ohtani and rightfully so. Most unique player we've ever had in baseball. And it's incredible to watch him. Is he somebody in your eyes that can keep this up long-term? Because I mean, you mentioned Juan Soto and their reports out there that the Padres might consider not offering soda a big deal because they want to go after Shohei Ohtani and you know you're going to hear a lot of this stuff obviously get thrown around but shoyu tani is going to command big money on the market whenever he gets out there. Is this one of those situations where a team has to also worry about whether or not they're getting him pitching and hitting the way that he is for a decade. I mean, that's a long time to do both. Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody expects him to be a great pitcher and a great hitter for the next ten years. He is going to get a ten year deal or more. He's already surprised us by doing what he does. So I wouldn't put anything past him, but I mean, it would be kind of shocking to see him go to this another ten years. I think a team will sign him to a ten plus year deal and then hope to get 5 years where he's doing both great, hard to imagine that he does both great for more than another 5 years, but look, like I said, not putting anything past them. He's the most amazing player any of us have ever seen. It's incredible. Already leading in war, I see no surprise in the gradient and a great picture. So amazing, amazing player and he is going to get the first half $1 billion deal from somebody we shall see. Soto certainly aiming to be in that level to half billion Soto was big advantage, of course, is that he's only 24 years old, the age is a major, major factor in this, but as you guys alluded to, a Soto deal with the podrace doesn't look like it's forthcoming anytime soon. Yeah. Shohei Ohtani is just great for baseball. Such a unique thing that we get to see. John Heyman always appreciate the time. Thanks for coming on with us. All right, good talking to you guys. And that was our Odyssey MLB insider John hayman who's also the host of the Odyssey original podcast, big time baseball with Tony Gwynn junior covering all things Major League Baseball. Can the sixers
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"zach gallen" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"And that is why mets fans who the kindest way to put this who live in a perpetual state of self loathing. And that, by the way, is not insulting. That's just like, I almost think that's how mets fans see themselves too, which is why I'm comfortable saying it. Matt's fans are just like, of course that happened. Of course, it happened to our guy. It's the mets. It was faded. It was inevitable. And it was written in the stars. And it's just, you know, I keep going back to this word. It's just sad. The whole thing is just sad, not only because of what Edwin Diaz has to go through and what the consequences are for the mets, but because the world baseball classic is going to wear it because of this and I hope as someone who has enjoyed the games that the strength of the tournament and all of the good things that have happened keep from clubs not saying to their players were not going to let you go to this. But you and I both know that's not going to be the case. And I thought about this. Teams put in these contractual clauses that protect the organizations from injuries that occur outside of the workplace. The motorcycle accident skydiving basketball and even though Edwin Diaz was playing baseball, this injury occurred outside of the Met's workplace, which is why, you know, moving forward, I think that for some team, for some front offices, because let's face it, they don't care about the global health of the sport. They want to win this year. Their job is to build a winner. Jobs will be won and lost based on what happens in two thousand 23. And it's why I think the next time the WBC happens, you're going to have conversations inside organizations like, well, remember what happened with Edwin Diaz, much in the same way that Buster Posey's injury changed the trajectory of that conversation. And collision rules and Chase Utley slide changed the trajectory of the slide to the second base because people could focus on one moment. And this will be the moment that they will focus on. Yeah, I think the only counter to that that I have is that this is a matter of power dynamics. And the thumb of rob Manfred is the strongest digit in baseball. Okay. But I would say this, I feel like and I covered the NFL for one year. It feels like the central power in that sport is so much greater than it is in baseball where the Yankees are going to make up their own rules. And if you go back in time and think about how many Yankees participate in the WBC, it's not high. And I suppose buster, that's sort of like a secondary point to this. Aren't we kind of there already a little bit? Don't we live in that world right now? The perfect example of that is Team USA's rotation. Right? How many, how many better starters know, no offense to Lance, Lynn, to make Martinez to all the guys that USA is thrown out there, but I mean, you can argue that there's a dozen plus starters who are more pedigreed from the United States who would be starting in the WBC, either if they had any interest in going or if their teams weren't saying to them, hey, Wayne wink, don't. Yep. And there's no doubt that those conversations take place. Garrett Cole is not there. Justin Verlander's not there, Max Scherzer is not there. And so it will be interesting to see. Buster, it's like it goes even beyond those obvious like long time aces though. Max fried isn't there. Shane Bieber Dylan cease Corbin burns, Alec manoa. Shane mcclanahan's Zach gallen, Tristan Mackenzie like, I can go, Kevin gausman, I could go on and on and on. Carlos rodon, Aaron nola? Right. There are so many elite pitchers who already are not in this thing. It was all, you know, as much as we focused on the lineup for the Dominican Republic. The thing to me that really stood out was the fact that sandy, Alcantara went, like the guy who is probably regarded as the best pitcher in baseball right now, went to the WBC. In that I thought was a victory for the tournament because in the past, it's just not something that we've seen. You're a 100% right. And hopefully as you move forward in the WBC, we don't have anything close to what we saw last night as you say, it just was sad. And took the air out of the competition and probably going forward as well. All right, what else has jumped out at you about the WBC? I've been in Miami the whole time and I feel like I'm I understand this is the furthest thing from the ancestral birthplace of baseball. But it feels like everyone who comes here is it's like Hajj, it's like we're going to this spiritual place where baseball is seen as this beautiful game our game Latin America's game and I don't go very often to the ballpark with my family because I spend a lot of time covering baseball games and I spend a lot of time watching my son's baseball games. And so there's a lot of baseball in the household and sometimes the family just needs a break from it. But we went to the Dominican Republic Venezuela game because I wanted them to understand what winterball is like. And it was the closest thing you will ever find to winter ball. It felt like Miami an American city that already has such an incredible Latin American culture, whether it's Cuban Venezuelan. Puerto Rican to a lesser extent Dominican, it felt like Miami and loan depot park had been completely taken over. And there was nary a word of English spoken there. It was full on Spanish and there were vuvuzelas and there were chance and when there were two strikes that Venezuelan fans were standing and it looked like they were doing the tomahawk chop, but instead they were just saying, Paul Ponce, which means strikeout in Spanish. Just to see that and experience it here, it made me proud
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"zach gallen" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Make friends. But it is pretty impressive. When you consider the fact that we're a full year of the numbers before he even debuted, but there's no question. My favorite player in baseball to research to look into because he's a beautiful and just so much fun to watch. All right, so before you go, since we're gonna have a whole Arizona theme today, the Arizona Diamondbacks this year. According to, they've got them a team that won 74 games last year. Bakota has him at 74.2. The our friend Paul and bikinis has them at 77. You got them at 79, okay? What's your thinking behind that number for them? Oh my gosh. I mean, I love the future of this team. We saw it towards the end of last year. They're going to be good in a few years. And I really think that we're going to be about all sort of technology together this year. We talked about Marvin Carol with the definite favorite for rookie year in the national league and that gallon. I think he is incredibly underappreciated last year. There's so much to like about this team with more labello picking codes everything. So I just think 74 went closer. I definitely think they're at least 5 one better than last year. And again, we kind of talked about this. I think on here, but for me a lot of ordering as well. I have been finishing ahead of the giant so I think this is really a team on the run. Yeah, I would agree with you. And you know, if you don't know the answer to this, now maybe we can talk about it next time we talked with you. Corbin Carroll. We always talk about him being one of the fastest guys. Who is literally the fastest guy in baseball? Well, he was last year, even though he only came up toward the end of the year. You look at average Friends being then you make the qualifier like ten competitive runs. Who is him? Yeah, an average friend to be above 30 feet per second. That is the illegal threshold 30s. So with the average one to win. And that's up there with guys like Trey Turner. I mean, I think the guy to knock off in terms of everyday player. Mister tray Turner, but Corbin girl has a full year healthy one to be a fascinating race for them to help that leaderboard. Yeah, I gave you a lifeline and it's an out in case you didn't know the number, but of course you knew it. 30 feet point second, 30 feet per second. All right, Sarah, thanks for doing this. Great to talk to you. Thanks so much for having me buster. Arizona Diamondbacks Arizona improved by 22 wins last year from 52 to 74. And they've got some building blocks in place, like outfielder Corbin Carol, who just agreed to an 8 year, a $111 million contract, and a Zach gallen who went 12 and four with a 2.54 ERA. Newcomers.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"To kind of, I think they've talked about the multi use thing that other places are doing where maybe they build a hotel somewhere around there or they add restaurants and office space and all that. That kind of feels like the most likely outcome to me, but I don't know, maybe somebody's out there that wants to spend a $1 billion on a new stadium that I can't foresee happening. And that's hard to see in this market in this day and age, but who knows, crazier things have happened. So they have all these really exciting young guys and they have more exciting young guys coming up and they also play baseball in the NL west. So where do the Diamondbacks see themselves positioned relative to the rest of their division? Because like Ben said, they approved a lot last season and like I just said, they got all these, they got all these guys. But they also have to deal with the Padres who keep spending money and the Dodgers who will spend money again at some point and the Giants who will try to be good for a while and they get to get a pass on the rocky, so I guess they have that going for them. But where do they see themselves positioned relative to the rest of their division? I think that they see themselves as being happy that there is an extra wildcard. And being happy that they don't have to play as many games in the division anymore as they used to. But I also think like you kind of look at the Moreno trade and it kind of it kind of seems to me like a little bit of a reflection of that, right? Like, okay, the only way that we're going to take these guys down is by really getting this core together, bringing them up all at once, and kind of, you know, taking our best shot, right? So if you've got, if you've got a future lineup where Corbin Carroll, drew Jones, Jordan lawlor and Gabriel Moreno are in it. That's a pretty good start. It seems, right? I mean, we don't know what any of these guys are at the moment, but people seem to think they're going to be pretty good. So I think that's kind of the way that the way they're hoping to do it. I don't know that they're ever going to spend as much. I mean, they're almost certainly never going to spend as much as the Dodgers and the Padres. But if they do end up figuring some things out with the ballpark and opening up some new revenue streams, I suppose that makes more things possible. I do think there's a little bit of a clock ticking in respect to Zach gallen just because there's now three years of control remaining with him. I have a hard time seeing gallon taking any kind of a deal before hitting the open market. And then I have a hard time seeing the Diamondbacks really being able to compete financially with the other teams when it comes to if gallon is in fact one of the best pitchers on the market when he gets there. I don't know. It's an interesting thing to think about just because like, you know, if they aren't where they need to be, say, next deadline, you probably have to start thinking about what you're going to do there. I guess the ideal outcome would be that all of these guys start to emerge, right? Dre Jameson and Nelson and fought and Blake walston and that they have a ton of options and that they can sort of withstand that sort of absence, whether it's taking gallon all the way to the buzzer or whether it's moving in before that and still having enough guys to feel the competitive team. So that leaves right into our last question, which is just what would constitute a successful season for the Diamondbacks in 2023 is this a win now, got to make the playoffs or it's a failure type season or is it that would be nice, but it's also about young guys making progress and more talent coming up from the farm, et cetera so how do you gauge whether things have gone right or wrong for the Diamondbacks this year? Yeah, I mean, I've asked I've asked Kendrick that question in hazen
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"The catching and the outfielding and sadly he probably will not be doing much catching anymore. That's the only downside of this deal, but then he had sort of ceased to catch with the Diamondbacks as it was late last season. So I just really liked this trait. It was just fun for the whole family just all angles of it was great. I like kind of a challenge trade, like giving an established major leaguer for a top prospect who is now also a major leaker like each side is a sacrifice and something of real value there that could come back to haunt it. So I think it was just a ton of fun when this move was made. That sounds so ominous. Back to haunt it. Yeah. Yeah, it was a great, it was a great fun trade. Arizona has shown that they are at least this iteration of the front office is like game for these kinds of traits. And I really like them. There are a lot of fun, right? And I think I like this one, even more than the Zach gallen jazz Chisholm trade, which is yeah, that's the gold standard. That one's, that was fun at the time, and it's still sort of fun. Oh yeah, it's definitely still fun. I mean, to be clear, it's definitely still fun. But I think that yeah. This one was the only downside to this trade. I guess was the timing, right? Because the timing on the var show trade, it was not Christmas Eve. It was the day before Christmas Eve. I think it was December 23rd, where the steel was done. So we were just saying that teams, for the most part, behaved themselves and took the holidays off like everyone else did, but this one, not so much. So it was a while before you could read the breakdown of the Dalton far show trait, which is right and good that people didn't spring into action to blog about that one immediately. But it was one of those. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what we thought about it, you know? But then it was late in the day. If it had been that it was almost Christmas, yeah, if it had been in the morning on the 23rd, I think we would have run it that day. But it happened late in the afternoon, and then, you know, it's gonna be, so it's gonna be night before it goes, and then it's gonna be Christmas Eve, and then it's gonna be Christmas and so just do it after that. That was the rationale. I don't know if it was the right choice, but it was a choice for me. Who won the gestures of trade? Too soon to say, right? Too soon to say. I mean, right
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"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Hitting era if not more so like it was really more pinch hitting than any team playing in a DH league had done on record at least over the past couple decades and they pinch hit early and often and it seemed to really work out for them and you know even despite doing that pitch hitting way more often and getting great production out of their pinch hitters and not waiting for a late and close high leverage spots, but deciding, hey, we might not get a good high leverage pitch hitting opportunity. So let's just shoot these bullets while we have them essentially and despite all that, like all that tap dancing that Gabe capler was doing and all the value that they got from that, it only matters so much. Like they were just kind of an okay team and all of the just wild over performances that they had gotten the previous year and guys staying healthy and veterans playing better than they ever had or better than they had in years and unestablished guys getting better. We all think highly I think of their player development process and their ability to get more out of players and yet you can't do that more than a year. It was amazing that they did it even that one year so even though they're seem to be smart and seem to be doing the things that they should be doing to make their players better like there's just, you can't sustain the kind of over performance that they had. Now they could go sign Aaron judge. Right. And that would help. But they're not doomed to be bad. They're just not likely to repeat an extreme outlier performance. And if they sign Erin judge then their projections will reflect, then I suspect that they won proof, you know? I think so. I don't want to, I don't want to say anything too wild, but I suspect that they would move in a positive direction. You know, this is unrelated to the Giants, but it is related to the Diamondbacks. As you know, they have a pitcher named Zach gallen. He had quite a good season. He seems like he's a good picture. The Arizona Cardinals have a defensive end named Zach Allen. Oh boy. And every time I end up watching the Cardinals play football, which is, you know, it happens at least some every Sunday because they're like my local game. They say, oh, Zach Allen. I'm like, oh, he's so talented. He's just doing so many different things. Which is funny on a team with Kyler Murray. Anyway, that's been a little tour through one of the cul de sacs in my brain every Sunday. I was thinking this past Sunday because Mike white was trending on Twitter all day. What's going on? Yeah, it's like the jets quarterback might wipe, but I thought it was the white lotus Mike white. Who writes and runs that show on HBO, which hears on Sunday, so it was just kind of Mike white all day, but different might quite make weight. Yeah. And I've talked before about how we need some way to distinguish between when we have athletes in different sports with the same name at the same time, like Jose alvarado, the MLB player and Jose Alvarez of the NBA player, although of course you don't even have to do cross sport, like you could just talk about the Luis Garcia's Luisa's Garcia. Yeah, you have three of them at the same time. We definitely need subway to differentiate. I said last time, it should be like when you write down a congressperson and you put in parentheses like D or R we need print MLB parentheses NBA and maybe with the Luis Garcia's we need like parentheses and then the three letter abbreviation for the team. I think some of them maybe have accent marks and some of them don't. Correct. Or don't use them, so that's one way to differentiate. But it's not, you know, it is kind of perfect. No, because some sources just never use them, even if they should. And so you don't even know, well, just this mean, I don't see an accent mark, does that mean this is the one Luis Garcia who doesn't? Use it, or does it just mean that this outlet is not using one. I think the Astros Luis Garcia does not use one. I think that that is correct. I think that he is among the unaccented Luis Garcia. She does not have a diacritical mark. Right. And we use critical marks on our player pages, still have to get that on the leaderboards, which is a thing we know we have to do. And we just take, this is just like a feed from MLB is my understanding. And so sometimes guys will change things, like they will start to use diacritical marks or they add a junior or de strange Gordon started to hyphenating his last name. And then they just gets reflected in our, but Julio Rodriguez has the diacritical mark in his last name. And there is another Julio Rodriguez, who's a prospect. He does not. So that's useful, but it isn't always super clear. I mean, of all the things that we need to get fixed on, say, Twitter, that's probably not true. Other things we hope get sorted, but it would be nice because earlier today I saw Jose Abreu was trending and with the AP poll. And I was like, he's not called football related, is he? Is that the, what's going on? So anyway. Yeah. All right. Well, bringing things full circles with the Dodgers are meeting with Justin Verlander today, Monday. I wonder what their pitch is. Oh, they're pitches, hey, if you come and pitch for us, then you might win a World Series. I put the has something to do with their pitch. He just won one, though, so how much would that help? He could stay in Houston when one were, I don't know. Maybe they'll say, you know, you could come here
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"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"How the defense performed behind them, but then I had to adjust it further, I thought because of course you could be a pitcher on a good defensive team or not on the good defensive team. So I figured that I had to do a team adjusted version of this, probably put more time into this that last than any previous stuff. This took forever. If it was worth the effort, but it was a whole lot of effort. It was kind of nice. I just spent a few hours going to see pavement soon, so I was just listening to some pavement albums and doing lots of spread sheeting and exporting and all kinds of manual massaging because things would export weird and I'd have to trim it and I did a zillion index match formulas in excel and ultimately came up with this giant whopping spreadsheet that has all of these things. So I have basically an expected runs prevented behind the pitcher and then the actual runs prevented behind the pitcher. And so I was able to get the expected by basically looking at the proportion of that team's balls in play that the pitcher allowed. So if a pitcher was on the mound for this many balls in play, then they had that percentage of the team's total buzz and play and then I adjusted the team runs prevented by that basically to assume that if they were, you know, X number of runs that the team prevented in the field all season long and then that pitcher had X percent of the total playing timer balls and play aloud by that team then I just adjusted accordingly for that and came up with an expected fielding runs prevented behind that picture kind of a prorated number. So I'll give you a few examples that might help illustrate this. Take poor Patrick Corbin of the Washington Nationals, the nationals have a team fielding runs total this season of negative 38 runs, Patrick Corbin has allowed a little less than 13% of all of the batted balls that Washington Nationals pitchers have allowed not including homers. I strip those out, and so you take that roughly 13% of that negative 38 runs and you would expect that the nationals fielders would have been a little less than 5 runs below average behind Patrick Corbin. Instead, they've been 14 runs below average behind him. So that's a difference of 9 runs or so. On the other end of the spectrum, take Zach gallen. That guy again for the Diamondback. So the Diamondbacks have had a good defense, 35 runs prevented, Zach gallen has allowed about 11% of the Diamondbacks, batted balls. And so doing the math you would expect that the Diamondbacks fielders would have been, oh, about four runs, a little less than four runs above average behind him. Instead, they've saved 11 runs behind him. So he's plus 7 and change. And then you have a bunch of players in the middle, for example, Zach Wheeler of the Phillies, the Phillies are negative 28 on the season, he's allowed a little more than 10% of their batted balls as a staff. So you'd expect the Phillies defense to be about negative three when he's on the mound, and sure enough, negative three. So I just calculated that figure for every guy. And then I basically looked to see if there was any correlation between the pace of the pitcher with the bases empty, so just the time between pitches and whether the defense behind them was better or worse than expected. So the idea was that if a pitcher is working quickly and there's something to this theory that the defense actually performs better when the pitcher is working quickly, then on the whole, the pitchers who worked quickly should have their defenses behind them performing better than expected by my estimate and metrics here. So I looked for a correlation I just ran a simple correlation between the median time between pitches with the basis empty and then the difference from the expected fielding performance of the team behind the pitcher. And I did that for all seasons since 2016, excluding 2020. That's as far back as this individual pitcher defense data goes at baseball savant. And then I limited it to pitchers who threw at least 800 pitches in each season, and I also threw out pitchers who changed teams within a single season because then there'd be all kinds of issues with different defenses involved. Anyway, ended up with an enormous sample 692 substantial pitcher seasons here. And the correlation between the median time between pitches and the difference from the expected defensive performance behind the pitcher is 0.03. So you did all of that and that's the difference. There's no correlation. Wow. Well, you know what? Now we know. Yeah, exactly. No, it's good. This is the null hypothesis. You got to publish results sometimes we don't want to publishing bias here. We want to publish our results when we confirm that there's nothing here. And as far as I can tell, there is still nothing cures. Like fast didn't see anything when he looked at it in a very small sample in a kind of crude way in 2008. I still couldn't find anything when I looked in a more sophisticated and bigger sample way in 2017. And now with the best data available here that I could think to use and construct a little study here, I still can not find any indication that working quickly leads a defense to play better behind a pitcher. And I tried even looking at it a slightly different way instead of getting the correlation for all the pictures, I split up the sample into the fastest half in each season and the slowest half in each season, and then I just looked to see what the cumulative difference for those samples was between the expected and actual fielding runs prevented behind those pictures, and it was basically the same for both groups. Again, no indication that the faster working pitchers were getting better defense behind them. Sometimes you'll hear people suggest that maybe pitchers will get better calls too, that umpires will maybe look more favorably or just give better calls to pitchers who are working at a steadier rhythm. I look for that back in 2017, didn't really see any evidence of that show up either, so just drawing blanks over and over again here, which is interesting because, well, for one thing, people have been telling us that this is the case forever, but also because with the pitch clock coming in next year, you might think if there had been or worse something to this, then you would think, well, pitchers who work quickly, they're not going to have that advantage anymore because everyone's going to work more or less quickly now. And so you would lose that relative defensive advantage. Or you might think, well, every pitcher is going to work more quickly, so defense will just be better on the whole, right? Maybe it will offset the effect of limiting positioning, right? Because you're telling defenses where you have to stand here, you can't stand there so that defenses will be worse, but pitchers will be working so much more quickly that defenses will be better because of that as everyone has been telling us. And so it will backfire, but as far as I can tell, they're just does not seem to be any kind of connection that I can divide here in the data that is available to me. Yeah, I think that sometimes people will pitch ideas and then they go to the research and they were like, I looked and there's nothing to it. And I'm like, but is there nothing to it in an interesting way? Right, exactly. You know? 'cause nothing to it. Sometimes tells you a stuff. We should not be afraid to publish the null result. Yeah. If for no other reason than now, you've done all of this work then. And now, someone else will not. They'll be spared that work. They'll go, look at some other question, and you get to look at another question next. So that's good. Maybe I'll write about it at some point too, but it is fascinating. I want to allow for the possibility that this effect does somehow exist, and I'm just failing to detect it. And the tools are just not up to the task of being able to pull out the signal from the noise here, but it's a pretty giant sample and pretty sensitive tool so I just don't know and so if there is nothing to it and you know sabermetricians have pronounced with confidence before that there's nothing to something that pictures and hitters and catchers and
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"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Yeah. I had a lot of questions about this. At first I wondered about its authenticity. Yeah. Seems like a strange thing. First of all, for John bernthal to just be posting, I haven't seen any evidence of this anywhere else. And then also why would Mickey mental send that letter? It says a bit of a non sequitur, I guess. Just going from walks help you when ball games, so don't worry about me being pitched around and this is why democracy is better than dictatorship. I mean, I guess it's a good lesson to learn. But we don't disagree. We just are confused about what the syllabus is falling, right? Exactly. You build a couple of people, I emailed Jane levy, who's the biographer of mantle, I haven't heard back yet. I thought she might know whether this was real. And then I emailed Marty appel, who is the former Yankees PR director. He said that the WA, there is a WA on the letter and he said that that would refer to William or I guess Bill ackman and he would have composed this. So I guess that would have been the PR person, the person who is answering fan letters like this at the time. And he said that he would have composed this, maybe, but likely not for Mickey's approval. So he thinks that it was just someone sort of freelancing here, just go and rogue the Yankees PR director, probably this was not dictated by Mickey Mantle. It May or may not have it may or may not have been shown to Mickey Mantle for his approval. Are you okay sending this political message to Matthew of New Haven, Connecticut, or maybe he just sent it? I don't know. It's interesting because if you Google, you can find letters that look like this on Yankee stationary from the time like form letters like thanks for contacting me and Mickey Mantle. I'm sorry I don't have time to respond to every little individually, but thanks for your interest. This one, yeah, this is clearly personalized, but I don't know whether the Mick was actually overseeing this personally. As far as I can tell, it seems to be real, although if anyone can discover that it is not, please, let me know. Interesting thing to fake as well. I assume it's authentic in the sense that it was sent, although maybe not in the sense that it was coming directly from Mickey Mantle. I mean, I guess we can take some comfort in, you know, whether it was dictated directly or simply the PR person being like, I got a response to this that he's like, you know, Mickey Mantle will be fine with me saying democracy good fashions of bet. You know, it's good. It's good that he assumed that to be part of his set of core values to be disturbing to discover the opposite. We'd be like, oh no, it's quite a thing to learn about Mickey Mantle. Yeah, it's probably not even the most interesting Mickey Mantle letter or surprising Mickey Mantle correspondence that is public because there is another one that I know is real and was included in Jane's biography of Mickey with just from 1973 and I think this was a pell who was sending this questionnaire. It was the 50th anniversary of the opening of Yankee Stadium. And so the PR people sent a questionnaire to former players just saying like, what's your favorite memory of Yankee Stadium? Tell us about an outstanding experience you had at Yankee Stadium. And Mickey Mantle wrote back and wrote, I got a blow job under the right field bleachers by the Yankees bullpen. Some additional detail and then he signed it Mickey Mantle, the all American boy. Oh my goodness. Yeah, kind of poking footage. His public golden boy image, which was never quite the reality, but that letter had come become public maybe people would have been less perturbed by mayor being the one to break her. Yeah, right. I asked Marty about that and he said, yes, that one is real. Also, the letter is real in the sense that Mick penned it, but it's a gag he was playing on my boss, but official, who was very conservative and Mick liked to have fun with him, so he was sort of an uptight, straight laced fellow. That's so. I find that to be very funny. I find that very funny. Yes, appelle said he kept the letter for many years. Mantle knew he had it eventually he gave it to Barry halper, the collector, and it slipped into public domain. That's what regret from there, but it was all attended to be a joke, maybe to his regret, but I'm kind of glad that it came to light. That's funny. Who knew he'd work blue like that? Yeah. Well, publicly. Yeah. I guess this wasn't public, but it became public. But it became public. So I was reading the baseball prospectus daily box score breakdown box score banter, which was written by Justin clue on Friday and it's always a rundown of the previous snake section and some highlights, say, start my day by checking that out often. And he mentioned something that was prompted by Zach gallen having a great start against the Dodgers. Yeah, so not a score was start his scoreless sitting streak is over. It was a 13 strikeout starts the Dodgers with two hits and one run all out. It's pretty good. Pretty good. And Justin said, gallon shut down the Dodgers and all it took was the best start of his career, now all anyone can do is make the Marlins feel bad for not having a sandy Alcantara Zach gallen pairing at the top of their rotation. And when I read that, I thought, okay, yes, the marwan's could have had Alcantara and gallon in theory and that they traded to the Diamondbacks, but they got gest back. No, that could work out for them in the long run. Not too lopsided. He's probably the best player on the Marlins best position. Yeah. Even though he's been hurt much of the season, I think he's still has the most home runs of anyone who remains on the Marlins. It's just not great. It says more about the memories of it. Probably just a bit. Chisholm is good too. And the tigers offense to. Yeah. It's rough. The second law. They have like two home runs. It's bad. Anyway, I brought this up not to ding the Marlins for that trade, but to ding the Cardinals instead, because as some may recall, the cardinals traded, Alcantara and gallon. Yes, they did. In the same case they did. December 14th, 2017, Alcantara and gallon were traded with Daniel castano who has been a decent enough religion for the Marlins over the past few years too. And Magnus Sierra, who is no great shakes, but has been a big leaguer for Marcelo zuna, a four for one where you had four big leaguers and two of the, let's say, top ten pitchers in baseball this year, I think you could say certainly by baseball reference were there two of the top ten by war. I think gallon is just outside the top ten by fan grafts were, but basically two of the top ten pitchers in baseball this year were traded by the Cardinals almost 5 years ago now for Marcel Ozuna. Probably want that one. Yeah. They should have seen this coming. You wouldn't expect this to happen, obviously, but can you imagine the Cardinals with those two guys now?
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"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"It's getting good players in your room when you get good players in your room any kind of analytics looks good. So that's true. No, that sounds to me like he's stuck in this earlier era of baseball where it's all about like, oh, let's go get the guy with the high on base percentage because no one else knows he's good. Right. That doesn't fly anymore, so yeah, you can go get good players. That's great. But a big part of getting good players is now is helping them get good and making them better. And using them in a way that emphasizes their skill. Yeah, and so why would you want to leave that solely to the coaches? Like I know that's how it worked historically, but I don't know that it ever made sense and it definitely doesn't make sense now that the people who have access to all this information and just this bigger brain trust upstairs, they're putting the team together, they're crafting the way that they want it to work and then they're just handing over the reins completely to someone else and just saying, well, do what you want. Hopefully you'll treat these players responsibly that we just got for you. But it's not like players are finished products now and you can just go collect them based on what they've done and just leave them alone to perform. The best teams are the best now because they're getting more out of those players and they're communicating with them in a way that helps them unlock latent abilities. So you can't just say set it and forget it. You have to make sure that you either have coaches who are very adept at making players better, like not necessarily young guns either like maybe it's Brent strahm making Zach gallen better with the Diamondbacks. Yeah. But it has to be someone who has that mindset and that familiarity with the information and that ability to communicate it. And when he's talking about every day we get ready for the game and the GM and the assistant GM would come in and they would start talking about how I should use the bullpen that night like I haven't done that for the last 40 years when you do that when these people do that, the game becomes cloudy. You're in the dugout, you know what you'd like to do, but these people have come downstairs prior to the game and they load you with stuff that's not necessarily helpful. Now a lot of this has taken me back to the 2015 Sonoma stompers and me and Sam Miller talking to Yoshi our second manager and a lot of that was about navigating okay, when do we offer this input and how do we offer it and at first we were offering too much information and so we had to boil it down to the essential pieces and we had to maybe talk before the game or after the game instead of during the game because you do want the manager and the coaches to have some sort of authority, I guess like that's the tricky part of this is like well why would the players follow their lead or listen to them if they're just puppets and they're just figureheads and mouthpieces and if they know that all of the power and all of the decisions are coming from upstairs why do you even need a manager? You need to imbue that person with some sort of power or authority in order to get players to listen to them potentially. So a lot of this is just like navigating managers losing some of their traditional power and still having to maintain some. So if you're just coming down and saying do this through that, put this guy in then put that guy in then. Then the manager might feel like, well, why do you need me to be this push button manager? I guess, you know, like you need someone to actually make the move, but if you're just yanking my chain and I'm just doing what you tell me to do, then what's the purpose of my being here? And so I guess you wouldn't want it to be so overruled to the point where it's like, well, the manager wants to do this and we want to do something different and what we say goes ultimately, I guess you'd rather be on the same page or at least like when there is some disagreement, maybe you're the ones to bend at times and let the manager have this way and maybe the manager knows something you don't. So it has to be a bit of a give and take, I guess, if you take too heavy a hand and it's just like do what I say because this is what the numbers say, then the managers probably not going to be happy and feel fulfilled in that position. And maybe the players will sense that and you might lose the Clubhouse a bit. Great, you have to have, it needs to be a relationship, right? And it needs to be one with two way communication. But, you know, I think the idea that there isn't useful feedback to be had from the front office is and that the front office can't receive useful feedback from the manager. It just needs to be something that's collaborative. You know, if for no other reason than otherwise you end up walking, a guy with the base is loaded. I was just going to say he doesn't say that here, but between the lines, was that just an FU to them. Great. Hey, you want to dictate my moves? Watch this. I'm going to walk a guy with the pacers loaded intentionally. Right, it's just, again, you want it to be a collaborative process. And the idea that you aren't going to be able to distill something useful in the face of all the information and all the expertise that is on the front office side would be just as silly as them saying, we have nothing to learn from the 40 years of experience that this guy is bringing to bear in the dugout. That doesn't seem great either. I mean, mostly I read this and feel like it reads like someone who had a bad parting with an org where there weren't clear expectations set in advance of how much sort of authority and leeway he was going to have.
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"zach gallen" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Think it would be bad. I'm just trying to imagine, oh my God. Oh, I'm like sweating. Tried to play themselves into better playoff position in an ultimately played themselves out of playoff position. I just think that you never, you never want to employ a strategy where someone can look back in hindsight and be like they were too cute. You don't try to be cute. 'cause you might be too cute. And then right. Yeah. Yeah. Having a fit. Yeah. I think that also like baseball is less susceptible to tanking, at least the type that should be a is susceptible to for a few reasons like when it's just not as advantageous to get a high draft pick and MLB as it is in other leagues. But also, I think it's like harder to lose. It's purpose. Yeah. Once you've assembled your team, you can assemble a non competitive team, but it's harder to say, okay, given the players we have on hand, we're going to reduce our odds of winning today because you have a bigger team in their more players and what are you going to do like your entire lineup? NBA, you can sit like one star and significantly impair your odds, but in baseball, as we know, like having one or two superstars doesn't make you a great team and being down to start two doesn't make you a terrible team, so there's only so much you can do realistically without making it incredibly glaring that you're doing this. So between that and the fact that there's probably not going to be so huge a difference in the standings between the teams that are in the wild card position and the teams that are just out of it, maybe there's not that huge, maybe it's like more of a, this doesn't look good because it's not great to have a team that is not as good, be rewarded for not being as good, so that's not good. Just from a optics perspective. But maybe it's not as dangerous from a competitive integrity standpoint. No, you still shouldn't do it. It's just bad. It's just so bad thing to mess with it and just do your job. Work your head down. Go in some baseball games, play in October, and let me have a happy family text threat. That's all. I want. Yeah. And also, just wanted to briefly salute what Zach gallen is doing for the Diamondbacks. I almost caught myself when we were talking about Keiko and saying that he had played for a couple of bad teams well, arguably he's only played for one. Diamondbacks, not so bad. Now, in fact, they're half a game behind the Giants in the west. How about that? How about that? I guess says as much about the Giants as it does about the Diamondbacks. But they're only three games under 500 or four games at this point and a lot of that is because Zach Allen has a 41 and a third inning scoreless streak going. Spectacular. Yeah, so he's close to entering the top ten score of a streetwise and he has already tied the record for most scoreless starts in a row, so he has tied Don Drysdale in 68 oral hershiser 88 Zac cranky 2015 with 6 scoreless starts. Of course, he has pitched fewer innings than all of those guys over those starts and significantly fewer than Hershey's or drysdale, her shows are streak of course is the record of 59, and this will be fun to watch gallon chase this dense and borsky gives him about a 2% chance, according to his new fan grafts post on the subject, but everyone's talking about gallon, there's a fan grass post about gallon in a baseball perspective post about gallon and people have been expecting big things out of gown for a while, like he was good and then he got hurt. He had a stress fracture in his arm, right? And so he was not so effective last year, but now he's healthy. He is making some changes. He's maybe throwing some higher fastballs and working more secondary stuff in basically like every other picture, I guess, but he's been better and he's been just really great lately and has propelled the Diamondbacks to respectability, so Craig Calcutta raised a question in his newsletter. He said, if gallon does keep going and challenges her scoreless innings record, there's an argument to be made that it's more impressive for it being over more starts. I mean, the more starts you make, the greater the odds you show up one day and simply don't have it or that you'll face a team with their hitting shoes on, right? I guess I understand that perspective. I still think that probably going deeper into games is harder just because it requires greater durability. It requires you to face the same hitters, multiple times in the same game. So yeah, like you're rolling the dice, I guess a little bit that you won't have it one day, maybe, but also you're having an easier assignment in each given outing. So I think if anything I would go with gallons being a tad easier, but it's an impressive accomplishment, nonetheless. And yeah, it's happening when offense is down a little bit, but so did it when drysdale did this or when her scissor did this, like, as we talked about recently, often record or near record setting performances require the conditions to be right for that, which is what makes judge and what he's doing so impressive because the conditions aren't really ripe for it. But good job Zack gallon in the Diamondbacks have been a lot more watchable lately in part because of him. Yeah, I mean, I have been to, so I was present for his start against nola when the Phillies came through, and then I was just at the ballpark to watch burns versus Bumgarner, which went the brewer's way, does not involve Zach Allen, importantly, but not because bunga earner was particularly bad, which is its own interesting, but a business. But there's just like, there are a lot of people at D back games, and they are excited about the D backs. And it's pretty cool. You know? Like, there have been stretches where that is not true. I remember, I remember in early 2021, I went to a Diamondbacks game and I think I had had, I think I had had one of my vaccine shots, but not both. And so I won, and I was like, oh, is this a bad idea? And then I was like, oh no, I'm very socially distanced. This is in fact fine, 'cause you know, it was a warm enough day that they had the roof closed because they wanted the air on. And I was like, it's still a big space, but I don't know. Is this the right thing? And then as I know it's, it's fine. And that hasn't been the experience lately. People are there and they're excited and, you know, you got gallon doing what he's doing and you have some of the young guys coming up and it's cool. It's nice to be there and see the corner start to see them starting to turn the corner, you know? It's the difference between groaning and respectable baseball. That's pretty fun. Yeah. The Diamondbacks headlines are looking up lately and last thing is that Joe Maddon former angels manager was on Jason stark's podcast starkville with Doug glanville and he had some things to say about analytics and managers, perhaps not surprising things he is maybe said some somewhat similar things since his dismissal from the angels, but he is really harping on this. He basically thinks that analytics have been taken too far and teams implementation of them have gone too far. And it's somewhat notable, I think, when he says it just because he was such a standard bearer for more progressive managers who were incorporating front office input when he was with the rays or even earlier in his time with the cubs and things have changed and he has not changed along with them and he thinks that they've changed for the worst and maybe he makes some valid points here.
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Gallen extends scoreless streak, D-backs blank Giants 5-0
"Zach gallen was the star in the Diamondbacks 5 zero shutout of the Giants Striking at a career high 12 over 703rd innings Gallon scattered four hits and stretched his shutout streak to 21 and a third innings He's 9 and two this season winning 5 straight decisions since the loss to the Phillies on June 10th Logan Webb struggled for the Giants yielding 5 runs three earned on 9 hits and three walks over four and a third Webb felt 11 and 6 in the giant slip back to 500 by settling for a split of the four game series I'm Dave ferry
Behind the Bets
"zach gallen" Discussed on Behind the Bets
"Okay, and finally, it is time for mocks locks where Kenny and I give you our best bets for the MLB slate today and the first one that I'm looking at is the raise versus the Orioles, the hot handed Orioles. I'm taking the over 8 runs at minus one ten. Now, Kenny, I know that you have a play on the game side of this. So this series, this season series is actually tied 7 and 7, the razor down in this particular series, two games, but we've got wells on the mound for the Orioles tonight, and while he's been impressive, he is actually struggled against the race. He has a 7.50 ERA across three starts against the rays this season, and also the overs have just been hitting on both sides of the ball here, are both sides of the teams here. The raise the over his hit in 5 of their last 6 games versus AL east teams and four out of the last 5 matchups between Baltimore and Tampa Bay have also gone over so I'm going with the over on this one. Do you like that and what's your play for the game? I actually do like the over, you talked about well is it struggles against this Tampa Bay Rays team and then drew Rasmussen on the mound for the rays struggling right handed pitcher, his numbers on the road are not that great. So you have an Orioles team who hits righties very well going up against Rasmussen who struggles on the road. So yeah, I think both pitchers could give up a lot of runs today. But I'm going to put my money on the Tampa Bay Rays. You already said they're down. This is a four game series. They're down two games already in this series. The last they're on a four game road losing streak, the offense has been struggling. So I think seeing a Tyler wells who you just said they have a he was giving up 7 runs against this raised lineup this year. I think this is a recipe to kind of get them out of their funk. And anyone, if you're looking at these teams and the raise, I know they have some injuries wander Franco, but looking at these two teams, the razar significantly better team, right? For years, the rays have figured out ways with their opening, their openers and managing that bullpen and they find ways to get it done. And then when you look at where the money is here, the money is pretty split. So anytime I can get a favorite that is not getting a significant amount of money or if there's an underdog getting a lot of money, I like the fade those dogs because that's like the trendy public is all over that underdog. And those are not the underdogs that usually win. Usually you want to be on the ugly gross dogs like the national laptop against the Dodgers or teams that people think have zero shot of winning English bulldogs of the drool on the mountain. Yeah, so I think the Orioles, while they're a great story, they've been very hot, I think they're in contention for the wildcard right now. They're like right up there with the J's and the rays. I just think the rays are a better team. They have more of that championship caliber to them. So I think they're going to find a way to get it done today. I agree with you. I'm also going to ride with you on that one and take the raise money line. Okay, my second bet for the night. I'm looking at Zach gallen under two and a half earned runs minus one 39 versus the Giants tonight, so he does average over this mark about 3.32 earned runs per game this season, but he is coming off of 7 ending shutout against the nationals in his last start and gallons last start against the Giants. He only allowed two earned runs in just over 6 innings. He's actually only allowed three earned runs or more in four of his last ten starts, so he's pitching pretty good right now and the Giants as we know absolutely struggle against right handed pitchers. They're like at the bottom of the league in several different statistical categories when it comes to going against right handed pitchers. So it seems like a good spot for Zach Allen. Yeah, definitely. And the Giants, they're struggling more than anyone right now. They're about to get swept for the second straight series coming out of the all star break. So yeah, going up against the Diamondbacks ace, not a good spot for them. I like that one in there too. Yeah, it's unfortunate for E 40 and I over here. Okay, what's your next step for the night? I'm going to go with the Texas Rangers. Rangers, they're sitting around a minus one 15 favorite. They're coming off a game. They blew it in the 9th. They were up four three on the Mariners last night. Mariners walk it off in the bottom of the 9th. The rangers, they got swept right before the all star break, they were in Texas. They got swept by the Mariners in a four game series, right? All star break comes, Mariners get swept by the Astros, now they're playing the rangers. So, and then tomorrow they go and play the actors again. So this is a perfect setup for the rangers to win this game. They're coming off a game they just blew in the 9th. They're trying to avoid back to back sweeps against the Mariners. And then the Mariners are, there's a good chance they're gonna get caught looking ahead to tomorrow's game against the Houston Astros where they just got swept by. So this is just the making of a perfect storm. You have John gray on the mound to low key has been pretty solid this year. Going up against left handed pitcher Marco Gonzales, the rangers offense is very, very good against left handed pitching top 5 in baseball. They're number 6 and OPS in all of baseball against lefties. And Marco Gonzalez over his last two starts has given up a combined ten earned runs.
The Points League
"zach gallen" Discussed on The Points League
"Say first, I think it was just funny listening to it because Matt was just like, oh yeah, so yeah, your last offer on Texas was $35. You're like, okay, I'm willing to go up to 40 and he's like, all right, deal. And I'm like, oh wow, so you've been reading art of the deal. You've really got this negotiation down really well that you're just going to do it over here on the pod. Interesting. It's an interesting trait though. I'll say this isn't that like that $40 cash means so little to you, but so much to Matt. Like if there was any chance for Matt to compete, he needed to get every dollar matters so, so fucking much to him. So I don't know why he didn't kind of try to leverage, what does JD Martinez do for $18? That's $18 that you got to spend that you don't have money you don't really have. To me, if I would have just said, I don't want any players back because I don't want to try to keep anybody unless there are some super high value two $6, even though JD Martinez says what, I don't know. $15 worth of value, what's he going to, if he got thrown back? I don't know, he goes for 30 bucks, maybe. But yeah, I think it goes for about what George Springer went the last time, which was 37. 34, 34, 37, something like that. I just don't like that lineup ball as much. It used to be really good. Now it's kind of declining, and that's my fear. Personally, my personal review, the Tim Burton review of JD Martinez, is kind of on the downside. Anyway, but like, I would have been like, fuck off with JD Martinez, you've got all the cash and all the room. I want cash only. And Zach galland, if I was, you know, if I was mad, I would have, I mean, you don't need to hear this, but I would have been sending Jack links about fantasy sleepers, breakout candidates, because that gallons on all of them. He's got lots of good stuff. He is that kind of like hot type of a name out there. And I honestly thought $40 was just too low. Given your position that you probably would have, I think you would have paid 55. In addition to Martinez and mccullers, or even just cash straight. Well, I've told people I would have paid a $100 straight up for gallon. Okay, so yeah. If I were mat I would rather have a $100 and not JD Martinez and not whoever else, mccullers, and then figured other things out later. But that's me. Jacketing thoughts. Yeah, no, Zach gallen was not really on my radar. Not that nice ringer was marketing him either, but. Yeah, no, JD Martina is not someone for colors. I mean, he's like, I don't even know if he's worth 6 bucks. He's worth a flyer at 6 bucks. It's probably a talented, but like everybody's I had him for like in April month.
The Points League
"zach gallen" Discussed on The Points League
"That 36 just takes up such a huge chunk of that 90 that it becomes really hard. I think, to maneuver as an owner. So you have to be in a really particular spot. And that's where I think ultimately, most owners that any player that gets up past 35 bucks and definitely pass 40 becomes really hard to keep almost even regardless of their production. Like, it's just too hard and especially with the way that we, I think, collectively as a league really value low cost players, you know? Even though they're really some of them aren't all that great, but because they're $2, they become even worth so much more. Yeah, I don't understand it. I really just don't get it. Well, besides the cap space issue, you know, 36 bucks to keep shirts or plus a 27 you pay, that's $63 you're paying for him. I'm not sure he goes for much more than that in the auction just if you were to buy him and not take up 36 bucks a year keeper space. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. And obviously rob when he made this trade didn't think that the pandemic was going to hit and he would have Scherzer for a year, younger, but yeah, $63 is. Probably, I think Scherzer probably would have went for somewhere between 75 to $90. Had he been thrown back, but it's a lot of money to tie up and like you could have added four other players that where the utility of those dollars spent would have been greater than spending all that on Scherzer. Now that being said, rob is someone who I think struggles a lot with pitching, you know, just trying to identify that towel and keep it year to year. I think you got really lucky on severino, but severino got hurt, right? Like the year that he got severino and he broke out, going into that season, people thought submarino was going to end up in the bullpen because he was so fucking skinny. And he ended up having a near Cy Young type of season and rob ended up being the beneficiary of that. So yeah, I think this was a trade that vandy basically wins because he got something back for Scherzer frankly. And it was more than like ten bucks. Right. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's a legit second outfielder. For 27 bucks, if that's how he wants to go out spending it. So if I were a rob, I would probably look to liquidate, frankly, Max Scherzer right after the auction and try to get three or four qualities starting pitchers. Rather than just go with Scherzer is the one. 21 points a week is only going to carry you so far. And knowing the amount of sway Sean Kerry's the lead, I probably will happen. Maybe, I don't know. Rob doesn't really listen to me, so it's a good thing for everyone. Probably banking on air and judge to play more than 12 games this year. So we'll see if that happens, but this team has a lot of holes. He's going to have to pull off some magic this year, I think. Yes. Absolutely. The next tray that I've got two more. One is the one that I made with Matt this off season. The JD Martinez Lance mccullers, $40 for Zach gallen, his value that's 6.