Analyzing Tampa Bay Rays' Season: Pitching & Performance

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00:00can you really say that this year i'm not sure their pitching has been great timely hitting again

00:05they're playing in this you know spring training ballpark and having success they played a lot of

00:09home games maybe i guess that's the way you got to look at it five innings pitched on tuesday that's

00:13my ace of the week drew rasmussen man has he been good for tampa bay he's going to start again i

00:17believe tomorrow for the rays eight strikeouts but look at that number no walks no earned runs

00:25and i know who he is george okay rasmussen ain't pitching eight innings i get it but i wanted to

00:31do this and kind of ask you if you felt any threat from tampa bay another team on the rise again

00:37all right uh as a yankee fan sure all right because it's the rays they always manage to do this right

00:45but you you brought a key thing there when that roller schedule hits how is that going to affect

00:50that team they're going to play a truckload of uh road games real soon right to avoid the uh the

00:56wet the wet weather that can happen there in tampa uh each and every day here so we'll see how they uh

01:01how they handle that but uh rasmussen i gotta tell you craig i've uh in my home league i've claimed this

01:08guy three separate times this year and i've released him three separate times and of course now the last

01:13what 10 days he's just gone off it's just it's infuriating because i like the guy but he wasn't quite

01:18there and now he's pitching well again it's like and i know he'll be if he'll be released by someone

01:22i'll claim him again in more three weeks he'll be terrible again uh annoying here but uh their

01:26pitching keeps him in the games right pepio rasmussen uh shane vas bradley's pitch better here so that

01:32our pitching keeps him in the game here cabin arrow all of a sudden he looks like that guy right he's

01:37tearing it up the aranda's hitting well here they're another team right with all these hitters they get

01:43just enough right there's always two or three guys that are hitting now maybe brandon lowe's having a

01:48fantastic you usually have to brandon lowe right now you're feeling pretty damn happy

01:51especially at second base which is like a quagmire this year so uh they always do just enough here

01:56my guy was frame of valdez uh uh i had a choice in valdez i thought about carlos rodon too but i

02:03didn't want to seem like a homer with the yankees so i took valdez he was pitched very well for the

02:06houston nationals he is their ace uh there was some wonder at one point by the way that if houston fell

02:11out of it this year could he be moved right they moved on from bregman moved on from uh kyle tucker could

02:17move on from valdez and unlike with breaker maybe not want to lose uh get some value before you lose

02:22the player here uh the val valdez seven innings pitch 11 strikeouts look guys look great together

02:27they have a complete game shutout last week or maybe it's the complete game but he uh once again

02:31he's pitching very well for the houston astros leading that charge and they're another team

02:35they don't go away either

02:36we got sam's uh choice here for the ace of the week it is a national again this time

02:45mackenzie gore again seven innings pitch no one runs seven strikeouts and one walk he was like a

02:53sneaky pick to win the national league cy young georgia i mean i probably don't think he's gonna win it

03:00but you know what he is he's probably more of a sneaky pick next season that would be my guess

03:07it's like he's gonna finish george what would you say this year fourth fifth maybe something along those

03:12lines kind of like burns did and then ends up winning it the next year i mean you just have to

03:17be glad he's not in the american league because i don't think we're gonna see another cy young outside

03:20of school bowl for years oh you may be right uh i'd like to make fun of uh sam here wasn't he

03:28what were you trying to say that gore was a top five uh candidate for the cy young it seems like

03:32now now there's a lot of pictures and then this this week he puts him in for his uh fantasy ace of

03:36the week here you know uh just can't trust them just can't trust them uh gore's been great uh he

03:42might be one of the few players i came from the dodges right one of the trades there the ruiz trade

03:48uh padres uh so he came from a part of a soto deal yeah got gore you got wood uh you may

03:57rather have gore and wood than soto long term especially with the contract you got there

04:01yeah i think you would right you got an ace you got wood looks fantastic here the future is sort

04:06of bright with washington especially to go spend some money here gore's great he'll be a future

04:10yankee in a couple years

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