Why the Tigers Made a Mistake + Red Sox Series Preview with Lou Merloni
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
All right. Welcome back to Blair and Bark. Marker just asked me what would be a good record for the Chase in the next thirteen games. Between the
and what what was your answer? Eight and five. You believe that?
That
they can do it or is it that? Four against the Red Sox, three against the Yankees, three against the Rays, three against the Yankees. I think seven of those are at home, six of those are on the road.
Well, you're gonna have to take here
Okay. I like it. No,
that doesn't mean that that doesn't mean I think it's gonna happen. Probably like five and eight. But eight and five would be good.
I mean who knows. The Yankees not playing very well and You know, I think you got a puncher's chance against the race.
I don't know. The
Red the Red Sox? Who knows? Yeah,
I mean the Red Sox are I'm just looking at the Red Sox numbers.
Uh they are uh Lost two in a row, Jeff.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
Bringing Jason Stark of the Athletic and the uh Starkville podcast. How you doing, Jason? Hey
buddy. Hey guys, I'm good. I'm got through this trading deadline. That's like a holiday in my house, so all is well here. Hey, I wanna talk about that
in a minute, uh, about moving the trade deadline date. 'Cause it's something that I've it I've it's always kind of interested me and I I mean I I get it is what it is, but I I I do want to ask you about the Red Sox. Like it's I still read teams game notes the old fashioned way, you know, get them printed out and everything, 'cause it's just seeing it on paper just reinforces sometimes how good somebody's been. This is the first time in twenty one years that a team has gone from fourteen under to twelve over. Like the last team to do it was The two thousand and five Astros and of course obviously the Red Sox. Red Sox did it this year. Uh and obviously the Jays are playing the Red Sox these four games.
It it really is remarkable for a team to be able to do that, isn't it?
Well, it wasn't like they were fourteen under in April. They were fourteen under on June twenty-fourth. Yes. No team has gone from ten under to ten over in the American League that fast since nineteen twelve, the St. Louis Browns. So I honestly think what you're seeing we've never seen before. Um, I mean this was not a good team. It it they ran good pitchers out there. They were not a good team. For th for them to be fourteen under. And then go twenty seven and three, thirty and five. I don't know how y you could explain that in our sport or any sport and then They'd won nine series in a row. We're playing a team that had lost eleven series in a row at home this weekend, the A's, and lost the head series.
Is baseball the best or what?
Yeah, it it's uh uh it just is remarkably high as the folks and this Dodgers fans will be saying right about now too, just how great, what a wonderful sport baseball is. Now it remains the one sport where money can't buy money can't buy true happiness. Um I mean yeah, all kidding aside though, it's just uh Yeah, I I There's there's There I I just uh you know, looking at the Red Sox numbers, yes, you're right, they're good you know, the the the pitching's been great. But they just started to hit too. And I'm beginning to think that maybe Maybe really kind of underrated the whole Wilson Contreras thing.
Which hole Wilson Contreras?
I think he's a lot. I think he's a better I think he's a better player than
Why did the Tigers trade Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize and why is it considered a mistake?
than a lot of us may have thought. More impactful player. And maybe like I still, you know, Kevin and I go back and forth about can a guy's attitude permeate a clubhouse or something. It just seems like he's turned into the perfect fit for that team.
I there's no doubt about it. You know, I saw that team a lot uh this spring and thought And they're they're really lacking f firepower, star power, the stuff that winners had. You can't you you're not gonna just get there because you have a lot of pitchers. And he there's definitely that guy plays with an edge, and that edge is rubbed off on his teammates, and there's you know, there's been some stuff along the way where He's turned. minor controversies into the the kind of things the teams rally around.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:09–3:53
2
Why did the Tigers trade Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize and why is it considered a mistake?
3:53–9:19
3
How did the Red Sox achieve a historic swing from ten under to ten over this season?
9:19–13:32
4
What impact does Wilson Contreras have on the Red Sox lineup and clubhouse culture?
13:32–17:53
5
How might Aroldis Chapman’s Hall of Fame candidacy be evaluated after his retirement?
17:53–23:43
6
Should the MLB trade deadline be moved later in the season and why?
23:43–30:38
7
What are the Red Sox’s chances against the Rays in the upcoming series?
30:38–38:44
8
How could Garrett Crochet be used after returning from the injured list?
38:44–49:32
Speakers
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