Geoff Blum

And now he's starting to get some guys on the field that are helping Will Venable do that.

Yeah, you know what?

I agree with you in the sense that you go through these 162-game seasons, and a lot of it depends on when you catch these teams, what part of the rotation you're facing.

Is the offense on a hot streak, cold streak?

And how are they playing?

And right now the Cubs may be playing a little bit less than what they anticipated or have been in the past.

you know, the first month and a half of the season.

So this could be a good time for the Astros to go through because they're depleted with injuries.

But the pitching staff is starting to come around a little bit.

And Spencer Arrigetti is a unique.

uh story this year for us because we've lost hunter brown from valdez left to a free agency so we were kind of looking for an identity in this rotation and spencer aragetti didn't break with the team out of spring training but now he is he is our ace he has been phenomenal in five or six starts with the astros he's kind of taken that bull by the horns

He's got a unique arm angle that's a little bit lower, three-quarter on the side.

He is a self-professed hunter of strikeouts.

He loves to go out there and get swings and misses.

And his curveball this season has been absolutely dominant because of that arm angle.

So it should be fun to see what he's able to do here in the Windy City against the Cubs, who maybe aren't swinging the bats as well as they have been.

Yeah, you know, they just got Jeremy Pena back in the fold.

He'll be at shortstop, but you lose Carlos Correa for the season with a torn ligament in his ankle.

And Altuve just went on the shelf with an oblique injury.

And those two guys, you know, Altuve is kind of a leader in the sense of what he does on the field and how he plays.