00:00Somehow gotten you to where you are a half game out of second place in the AL without having any kind of a credible offense.
00:07We know that the potential is there. Cam is a huge part of it.
00:11Christian Walker has been playing at least like an average hitter over the last couple months and his glove is an asset.
00:18Isak Paredes has been revelational in a lot of ways.
00:21It's just if you can get, if you get Jordan back and he plays anything like normal Jordan, that changes a lot.
00:30I mean, it does. I was, I was real careful for a while to say like, okay, but he's just one batter.
00:34And it's not like that solves the bottom of the lineup, et cetera, et cetera.
00:38The bottom of the lineup has done some good things as of late.
00:40Yeah.
00:41Jordan being a lefty in the lineup and having to having like those other players, having the guys on the bases that Jordan can sweep home.
00:51And having the stress that it provides for the pitcher, like all of that, it just, it, there is, there's much more of a synergistic effect than just Jordan's production coming back.
01:00Well, I think the feeling too, that there, I know that there, that there are guys who their statistics for the whole year are well below expectations.
01:07You just cited Christian Walker. I think Yiner Diaz fits that.
01:10There's some guys that we're still waiting on. I mean, even Altuve to a degree that, you know, he's hitting 270, you know, he, he finally, he's hit 11 home runs though, that kind of thing.
01:21But I feel like with this lineup, Seth, there's not like in past years, like Maldonado was an automatic out, like Jake Myers felt like an automatic out at times.
01:33Chaz McCormick, when he was in the lineup last year, felt like an automatic out.
01:37And I do feel like top to bottom in the lineup right now, they're at least battling a little bit and having good at bats.
01:44There's not a, even like, you know, the catcher position again, Yiner hasn't hit to the level that I think he's capable of, but the combination of him and Caratini has been a nice, solid professional hitter.
01:54They, they don't have any killers right now in the lineup. Like, you know, Jeremy Pena's had a really, really good year.
02:00So he's the closest thing. Paredes has had a really good year too.
02:04But at least I feel like when they get to the, it used to feel like when you get to the bottom of the order, like, all right, we just got to get these three guys out of the way and get back to the top.
02:12They're having decent at bats down there from six through nine right now.
