Austin Bechtel

When you're facing an order that goes Fernando Tatis, perennial all-star great player, Quetel Marte, who has been an MVP candidate multiple years, Juan Soto, I don't think we need to elaborate on him.

No, you don't.

Vlad Guerrero, who was the best hitter by far in the postseason last year.

Manny Machado, Junior Caminero, who took schemes deep, who is one of the best young players in baseball, 40-plus home run guy.

Julio Rodriguez, who robbed Aaron Judge of a home run to center field with a great defensive play last night.

Also one of the best players in all of baseball.

Austin Wells at catcher, who, you know, Austin Wells is maybe the one weak spot in their lineup, and even he had a double.

And Geraldo Perdomo, who received MVP votes last year, too.

It's no question.

Best lineup I've ever seen put together, and that includes Team USA.

If you're truly the better team, you should be able to score a couple of runs against the Team USA bullpen, and they didn't do it.

No, they didn't.

All right.

Yeah, let's go to Derek in Mount Lebanon to chime in.

Hey, how you guys doing?

Good, thank you.

I never liked their chances against Colorado.

There's just so much firepower on that team.

It kind of reminds me, Bob, of 16-17 Penguins where you have a blend of really talented veterans with very talented young players as well.

Now, it's not the same makeup, but what I'm getting at is it's a team that consistently is always around cup contention and you think could win the Stanley Cup every year.