 Hello and welcome to the talking yanks pregame show We got the battle of two teams currently in first place Yankees leading the East Astros leading the West They are out in the West Houston the birth of air conditioning, which is a reason I enjoy that place But I've never been but I appreciate that they invented air conditioning talking yanks We're gonna talk about the lineups the matchups Jake's gonna sing For a minute straight at one point. No Jimmy Jimmy's making his singing debut for you guys today singing uptown girl Give him a little bit Jimmy. You're on the floor DJ LeMay you is leading off lineups good day for the Yankees not a man of the people Voight is at first base Hitting second Gary Sanchez in the three hole and catching we got young Carlos Stanton in the four hole and Edwin After him Gary stent avoid Gary Stanton Edwin. That's some power Glaber Behind him then DD Cameron Maven in left field and Brett Gardner in center field wings Aaron Hicks is on the bench Romines on the bench and Urshela is on the bench. It's a good lineup. I enjoy that lineup. I'm happy with it Hicks is struggling right now, and I think he played the last three Cameron Maven's on fire right now so no harm no foul and Chad Green is the starting pitcher Jake. What are your thoughts about this lineup? We like this line up man. Keep the Cameron Maven show going Hicks Is more of a threat from the left side of the plate you give him a day off against the lefty Gartie's been playing great for a calendar month now Ops it starts with a nine for literally a calendar month, which is pretty wild And yeah, man, we're we're operating like you said void to Edwin. That's that's as much power as you'll find In Major League Baseball We are getting judged back tomorrow. It looks like which means This may be Cameron Maven's last stand may not they do yes You read forget who was treating about Cole Harvey But I think that is what will happen. Maybe that's a conversation for another time But we do have Chad Green the opener To probably we think Nestor Cortez is gonna be the headliner or the bulk guy. They've been a dynamic duo of late Chester I really like that name for them. So I Don't know you worried about the opener. I don't even blink anymore. I'm like, all right cool. Let's do it No, we're I mean since Since Chad did his minor league thing the stats are there. There's not a really reason to be worried about him I mean last time we saw him he struck out six and two winnings. So We we believe in Chad. I mean this Houston lineup is always a test So I mean if you know if one of those names does get them I mean you kind of shrug and you say well, they're they're some of the best in the biz Dale But um, no, we like Chad. It's still um, we were confident in Chad We're still not confident in Nestor But we've seen it enough now that it it it's not a shock if he's good It's the way to put it like if Nestor blows it be like, yeah We could we we got all we could out of that. Yeah, it's like, okay, we got more We could slam the table and be like, yeah, I'm 90% Chad's gonna put a good inning or two out there Nestor, I mean, it's still coin flippy even though his pass. What is it three four appearances? He's given us a reason to believe in him But I mean again the Astros if there's if there's ever a test. This is them We do have let's just do the pitching path to victory real quick We do have the bullpen since this is a bullpen day Yesterday sasa through two and hold her through one. So we do have the four horsemen Otto Kainley Britain Chappy available. That's four innings right there. If you go Chad at the beginning. That's two That's six. It means you need three out of Nestor. I think he went more than three last time But like really like alright Nestor give us three innings The first one should be against the bottom of the order if everything goes right if you play your hand Right like you should just go through the order one one and a half like I'm not asking you to be perfect But it's not it shouldn't be that I don't think it's a monumentus ask anymore from what Nestor's done These last couple times where a couple times ago was like really Like in order to win this game Nestor has to throw three good innings. I don't like that anymore Yeah, and I think we with the quote-unquote four horsemen available, Jim Yeah, I mean you're looking to get five anything outside of that is is Brownie points. I think we're I think we are expecting to from Chad at this point. They've they've been stretching him out So yeah, and I if Nestor does run into trouble. I want to be surprised if you see Holder try to get us out of an inning or something like that Because if it's not Cameron may been it very well could be Jonathan Holder or Sessa So if they're if they're gonna use that asset, we know the Yankees like to use that asset. Yeah Yeah, let's backtrack a little bit and just talk about like this teams as a whole What what do you got for us on the history of the Houston Astros Jake? The history of the Houston Astros well, Jim, you know as well as I know that they won The World Series a couple moons back And and you are well, we didn't do their lineup, Jim I think we should do that because I think people will be Like you said a couple of their familiar faces aren't exactly hot recently but a couple of their familiar faces are missing the The Houston Astros are 48 and 27 this season Which as you mentioned makes them first place in the AL best We don't actually call it that but though all of our Astros fans that are tuning in to the Yankees pregame show Should be pretty happy with us for that. They are 4542 wins 3638 losses all-time 58 seasons 12 playoff appearances that won World Tider winning his manager in Astros history Jim Bill Vierden Wow, your guy 544 and 522. I used to have a poster here on my wall. Yeah, I know it was really weird Really weird it was it was like it was the poster from Major League with Bill Vierden's body where you kept removing Pieces and you'd see him naked. It was that was weird, but Jimmy in this Astros lineup who we're seeing today. We're seeing Alex Bregman at shortstop Correa's hurt so Bregman moves over to short Michael Brantley free agent signing in left field watch him in LeMay He'll have a contact off Jose Altuve. He returns off the aisle the other day He'll be playing second base betting third Jordan Alvarez the young blood DHing Yearly girly L. Ooh a lot of aisles and eyes in their third base Reddick will be in right field Robinson Cherinos catching Tyler White at first Jake bad name Marisnik in center fielder with Everyone's favorite the Framber alert Framber Valdez on the mound Framber alert. Are we allowed to say that? I don't know because now we have the molester versus Framber alert Yeah, that's a bad match problematic. I I've gone away from Chester the molester. I think Framber alert still okay. I Just held in a joke Okay, that's good. That's good. Yes development What what are you seeing with this? Hastros lineup. Well, I was looking at the Astros lineup familiar Familiarizing myself with them. I was looking at who their hot haters are now the Astros themselves aren't that hot everyone They are four and six in their last ten They just got swept by the Cincinnati Reds a team that crushes teams But is in fourth place like the Cincinnati Reds run differentials like 50, but they're in fourth place. It's bizarre So the Astros are coming off. They just got swept. We just did some sweeping. They're 12 and 8 in their last 20 That's not that bad. Yanks are actually 11 and 9 because we had two bad weeks I was looking at their hot players, you know, is it bragging is it whatever? It's Brantley, right? And that's fine. Brantley's good But then the other two guys are Tyler white who's like 28 year olds just coming to fruition really Right But Tyler white in his last six games is 520 on base percentage Doing good. And then the other is this this true rookie your Don Alvarez He this is his ninth game in the big shake tonight. Yeah played eight games. He's hit four home runs He has ten hits in eight games So he he's making his presence known Hopefully the Yankees have done some scouting and can shut him down. He can't face the Chester So it's gonna be interesting there But you know, you're expecting the likely figures to be hot for the Astros and it's kind of a different story coming into today Yeah, and your Jordan is a big prospect Literally and figuratively Jim six five two twenty five He and more so he he was the number 34 prospect in baseball this year By baseball America, so he's got the call. He's in the middle of that lineup Might want to get used to seeing him. He's actually he's 21. He turns 22 in a couple of days So he is a he is a true young blood Jimmer Making Glaber look old But yeah There's rumors I can't confirm or deny but Yes, he is Cuban And lost tuna, which is where they invented tuna fish Carlos Correa out with a rib injury and the pride of Yukon George Springer is out with a hamstring injury and Max Stasi who also gets some run for them So Houston's got their little injury bug going right now too. I just mentioned now to they came back But uh, yeah, we'll see what they're looking like I mean they're in the middle of a road trip where you just mentioned They got swept by the Reds who can turn it on but still that's that's a team that Houston normally would handle their own well again. So it should to see I mean it Are they are they gonna bounce back from the sweep or is this uh, is this gonna be a tough road trip for the Stroves? They got Framber on the bump. He is 25 years old He bounced around a little yesterday last year Jake eight games started or five games started eight games But he has only started two This season It looks like So what are we what are they expecting out of him his his last two games? He started he went seven innings pitched and he went six innings pitch So I'm guessing they expect him just to be a starter. It looks like they slowly built up his arm strength And he done pretty well held Baltimore to one run over seven innings held Toronto to the two runs He's just taking a tour of the AL East right now. So now he will face us it looks like He's thrown 84 and 82 pitches the last two games. So that is limit. I would guess is 90 ish max 90 95, yeah So we'll see hopefully they can they can get to him and then really make them use the bullpen early because We're planning on using our bullpen early. Usually you want to save it in a four game set or is this a four game set? Thursday Friday, yeah, usually want to save it so Let's make them use theirs if we're using ours. How about that? How about that? There's no numbers no bvp. Oh, what does he throw? That's what I wanted to look at So he throws a two seamer. That's 91 miles per hour a curveball 79 he throws it 30 of the time there's a 79 mile per hour curveball. That's kind of cool Oh, I know four seamer. That's 92. So he's two different fastballs on a curveball. That'll be fun to watch Yeah, and that's uh Again, wait, you're you're banking on your Yankee scouting because who who knows uh What what the true percentages are because he's still pretty young to the league but Yeah, two fastballs in a curveball doesn't seem like he's throwing too much muster that four seamer 92.6 average So maybe he's gonna touch 94 today at times, but uh, Yeah, framber. What are you watching for today? Jimmy I'm watching Mostly that meet in the middle of the lineup, but our righties today. Uh, you I and our colleague katie sharp Did an episode that uh sharp stats if if you don't know the talking yanks podcast You might want to check it out some some really good stuff in there But we talked about we we talked about how our right-handed batters. Yep Uh, we talked about how our right-handed batters Haven't actually mauled left-handed pitching this year, which was kind of unexpected. We we we thought we'd have this righty stack That would kind of be invincible Ed we add in when edwin and connoisseur who's been very good against lefties this year and jim carlo stanton recently We add him from the il who he mauled lefties last year um and framber alvarez in his uh brief appearances in the major leagues jim the 39 innings this year Right-handed batters have an opus. That's almost 200 points better. Uh a batting average almost 50 points better Um, the numbers aren't that impressive righties are hitting 231 with a 641 opus His only homers he's given up to have been to righties. Again, these are smaller samples But right-handed batters so far have had a much better chance against uh framber valdez. So, um, seeing if uh Seeing if those righties can get to framber All right, so the righties versus framber That's what you want to see What's your what to reach for edwin and carnoisseur when he came over here jake In his first game as a Yankee he went oh for four correct Correct Okay In his second game as a Yankee he went one for four with a home run In john carlo stands first game back He went over four His second game is tonight He will hit a home run. That's the path patterns edwin laid it out for him Stan helped win the game yesterday in a nice catch off foul ball or his first game back He didn't do much with the bat Time to do something with the bat That's what i'm looking for Played got his day off. I think I think we're gonna see uh Something mean from stan with the bat today. Wow love that Mm-hmm. I knew you would You're sick Yeah, I think are we a year? What's today's date jake? His date is what uh 6 20 june 20th Last year on this day Was the john carlo stan walk-off home run wow how about that? so Just saying watch out for stan today Okay Good vibes. Yeah, and what a I mean, I think that's our segue to the homer draft Homer draft, it's the homer draft And jimmy's now singing Uptown girls get it jim. All right. Who had the first pick last time? Uh, you did I have the first yeah No Yeah, you do Yeah, and i'm taking jim carlo stan um I mean the mistake of all mistakes by you there I wish you could see the chat right now Good I got two girls on the other side of this wall And then they're both high Yeah lapsing because they're on delay in the chat Just giggling to themselves. That's why I don't go in the chat Yeah, you hate the chat. I love the chat. All right make your first pick Already did jim carlo stan. You were not listening. Um, but yeah, you hyped him up so much. You forced my hand Yeah, I did In your face because he's not homering. He's just ripping doubles all day. I thought it was a rope a dope. Yeah All right, uh homer draft guess who i'm taking Gary sanchez gary sanchez. Why would I not take gary sanchez? I'd be an absolute fool to not do it. I'm rope a dope jewin to not taking him first pick. Yeah smart I thought you had the first pick though No, I never never did I was that was part of the rope it up. It was uh, it was a whole rope a dope and okay. I'm taking Cameron maybin maybin was on the astros when they won the world series in 2017 He's got some old friends there. He's gonna be telling them like yo dude that was fun But playing for yankees is so much more fun. I might get demoted tomorrow though So I gotta hit a homerun today and these can hit a homerun. We're real crazy. You can't send them down Holding them hostage Cameron maybin's homerun today all right um Hmm, I've got an open board here Um, let's go baby glaby. Um glaby gets his first grand slam yesterday One of the bigger smiles you'll ever see in a baseball field He uh, he he puts on a show this series He knows this is is this the first time that he's playing against someone who's younger than him In the majors It's kind of interesting. I don't know So he has someone could he sees jordan alvarez over there younger than him. He's gonna be motivated by that glavers going yard Okay, fine fine veteran glaver What is the over under? Over under. What do you think framber and chester? How do you even how do you even determine the over under for framber alert and chest for the molester? Uh, I think they're gonna air on the high side High off nine and a half is my guess. Yeah, I was gonna say nine and a half I was even gonna mess around with a ten. Ooh, but I think it's so unknown Like what no one knows vegas you can act like you know, you don't so don't do it Oh, man, rough looking fans in the sweet insane fans stands there. Anyway, us is up to nothing I'm gonna go. I'm gonna guess it's I'm gonna guess. I'll just guess it's 10 Even though nine and a half is a great guess by you 10 on the nose jim follow your nose Okay I got a decent sense of smell All right, that's how yours rank your sense of smell one through 10 um Seven I don't know that's good. Actually. No, it's probably lower than that probably before Four Yeah, you really went over there. Yeah. Whoa, okay. No, I've kind of I It's I kind of got the same thing going with your dad. I think I just eat stuff. I don't really know how it tastes Nice ricochet shot for my dad there No, he we just have the same thing All right, I'm going over 10 feeling risky. Yeah, I like the over today too. That that seems fun All right, jake. No, I'm audible. I'm audible and under Okay, jake's giving away winners. He's 22 and 19. So is this your game to get back to five honey Yeah, if I get the Yeah, it's great game. This is great news All right, uh, we got to go to the chat. That's next jake's favorite segment There's a lot of people asking what we think will happen with judge coming back and I think that You told me and coli harvey Brought it to you and it's a really good if nester throws 80 bullets today. Oh, this wasn't in it. This wasn't in his article. This was just my thoughts Oh, well, then you can share it if you want because I think yeah, I will happen the the yankees It's you can't get rid of Cameron may been right now. You just can't and uh, I think it it's pretty convenient that erin judge Um is coming up tomorrow after our opener day where they can have nester throw 70 pitches Be out for the 10 days or whatever it is and then bring him back up from AAA and bring up another reliever for tomorrow So or maybe they do something with holder or sessa. We'll see but um, yeah, I I don't know I just don't think they're getting rid of Cameron may been Um, I mean they think they have to if they do that'll just suck. I think it's just bad juju, man It's just bad juju. You can't mess with that Yes, I agree How do you smell a juju? Ju ju ju with a with a dash. I'm picturing a dash No dash for me. No dash for jake. Okay. Hey jake my sunshirt from our store came in. Yeah Quality control a plus. It's nice man. I'm gonna go put all of our designs On sunshirts and then go order a million of them for myself stoked for Yes, that was you and us You and us. Yes. That's what we're going by now. Yeah, you want to come hang out with us? That was the people Oh, I meant the people. Yeah, everyone the appreciated people. Yes. All right. Let me see Can I get a red sweep of the astros video? I don't know. That's like three games, man That's not like a moment no Yankees will choke like every postseason jake. Yeah, we mean like the last two Yeah Every postseason statistically very wrong sentence that you just typed out got beaten by better teams even Yeah, right. I don't even yeah 17. They didn't choke. Yeah Astros were a much better team Astros almost choked Yeah, there you go. Boom We need hicks to get going for the final three games. We do need hicks to get going Uh, nice breather day here, but yeah, he's not going anywhere because he's the best center fielder and he's he's lbp We need him to get going so it's not a conversation piece end of story. I agree Um, rey's winning the division rey's just lost the division rey's will never recuperate from what just happened It's over They're moving to mantra. I mean they they're like moving to Montreal. Jake. They're like fuck. We're down Yeah, we're this season's not even on our mind anymore. Let's think about 2027 and we can go to Montreal So that sweep really hit him hard. Wow Well omer Um, how many stands how many appearances will stand have without a hit before getting booed jake? Like if he goes 0 for 4 tonight, they're out, right? Oh, yeah, I think I heard a couple last game Like we said in the last show it's become an inside joke with yankee fans. Yeah, we've been that's what we do Yeah Um, this one says they like the under tonight There was another question Someone's watching from england and they like the videos. So we thank them It would be easier if all the questions were organized Someone asked if holder was going to get sent down We kind of asked that we think nester's going to get down because he's out of bullets for a couple games And they can just rotate like that for a while It wouldn't shock me if if holder had to go down this series if we needed an arm Yeah, he's got options and he can use some minor league work. So it's not really that bad of an idea I just think maven has to stay Uh goldy someone asked what the goldy hit a walk off homerun. That's the next breakdown I'm editing right after this and then I think I put something else on the list Um wilson contours to the grand slam This white socks cub series has been fun for the city of chicago because the white socks have like some oomph now It's been a good time shot town Do you think it would be a good idea to organize questions in the comments? I don't yet. Yeah, isn't that what I just said? I feel like that's what I just said Like I said, I wish I could organize. Maybe that's yeah, that was the joke It's good. It's a good joke. Uh, I love the breakdowns red's making a move in the you know Central who is most likely starter the Yankees will cry acquire at this point Are you still on stroman as most likely? uh Yeah, I guess so I I could Feathers in the breeze like I have no idea gun to your head Gun to my head. It's like someone. I don't know that's on the block right now Right. I mean, that's the obvious answer. But that's why you have to say a name. That's what makes it fun Okay, so to take stroman stroman bum gardener scherzer Who else is like the likely ones? I'll take the field like give me those three. Give me the field. I'll take I think I think it's I don't think we're getting those three. I don't know. So I don't know who to pick I think it's someone that we no one has discussed I don't think it's bum gardener I don't think it's scherzer and I really don't think it's stroman either Does that is that an answer? Like I don't think either of those two are coming to the Yankees Oh, yeah, really, but I get it. That would be my answer too. But that's not It's not supposed to be the construct of the game. You think stroman's likely I thought No No, I mean that's what I thought nobody's nobody's a perfect candidate right now Out of the candidates we know stroman's my leader Yeah, I just thought you I thought I thought you at one point I'm talking to you said It just feels like stroman's gonna be a Yankee. So I thought you were really leaning that way He's the leader of every picture that's been mentioned Yeah, which would make you say that Yeah, I don't think so. I don't know like I think it's gonna be like Things would be crazy. We'll say or nothing So if you had to pick a leader out of stroman bomb insurers are Who would you pick out of those three? Yep, because those are the three names that people are talking about. No, there's boyed There's like minor Okay, throw them in there's tons. Well, I'd take boyed and minor over those guys You take them, but I'm talking we're talking about it's trade package. It's Like a likeliness to happen I don't I don't think shares was happening. I'd put it at zero Mad bum I'd put it like 10 stroman 25 Boyed minor like 40 Or like like 30 like above stroman and then I think there's someone out there that we haven't talked about that cash Really really wants and we just don't know who it is Then your answer would be between boyed or minor right now But I think boyed is a giant package, which I don't think the angst will pay and I think Minor they're in the playoffs right now and I think he'd be a surprisingly large package too So I think package wise willingness to trade. That's why I'd say stroman makes the most sense as of now as of now My thing with stroman is You don't like him No, I'm fine with stroman. I don't think he'd last longer than two years So like I wouldn't want to bank on him on a multi-year deal, but for a reason and a half I'd be fine with it My I don't know what our price is because the blue jays are going to ask for clint frazier And that's way too much for stroman. I think So then where do the blue jays say like no, we are only taking clint frazier if I'm cashing when I say well Then we're not trading And I think it ends like that That's where I think it doesn't fit because he's not good enough for clint to headline a package But that's what the blue jays like both are going to be Stuck right there. Yeah, I don't know you're talking bigger packages for minor and uh Minor and boyd for sure. Yeah, I think that's why I think clint can headline one for those guys The value adds up way better Maybe Yeah, that's why I think at least All right in trevor bower. No way. I like trevor bowers pitching. He'd crumble man He'd crumble. I don't know if you have thoughts on that, but I just think like he would He's going after keith law yesterday I mean like It's like clint part two Is I like times 10 part two. It's like I think you'd crumble All right, enjoy the game today. Hopefully it's some good baseball. That's what I want a nice game not bad See you guys later