Unexpected arms giving Astros more than they could ask for

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00:00Ocho is up with us early.

00:02He said, Sean, I'm late.

00:03You know that you're up early routinely when it's 619

00:07and your first thing you text is, I'm late.

00:09Yeah, sorry, I'm late.

00:10Yeah, that's true, though.

00:10Ocho's here at 6 a.m. every day.

00:12Did you mention the ace of the staff, Mr. Brandon Lee Walter,

00:16a.k.a. great value Tom Glavitt?

00:18I'm telling you right now, if the Astros were to be heading into,

00:22maybe not a wild card series, but maybe if it went two out of three,

00:26Brandon Walter is your third best starter right now.

00:28Yes.

00:28He's starting playoff games for you right now.

00:30If this is what you look like pitching-wise going into the postseason,

00:34he is starting playoff games for you without question, I think.

00:37Yeah, and you could look at it from either side, right?

00:40On the one end, that's a little bit concerning given the experience

00:43and just the no-name nature of it.

00:47But also, if you're like us, like the people that are listening to this show

00:50and like you and I who watch every Astros game

00:52and watch every Brandon Walter start, you're kind of like, you know what?

00:55I am actually okay with that guy based off of what I've seen.

00:58So, I'm a Brandon Walter guy.

01:01I'm actually a fan of all of the, let's call them minor league pitchers

01:05that they've had kind of come in and fill in the spot for the injured guys

01:10between Brandon Walter, Colton Gordon.

01:12All these guys have had their issues, but at the same time,

01:14you kind of understand it.

01:16I've got far less of a problem with these guys themselves

01:19as I do just the situation in and of itself that I can't, none of us can control.

01:24It just kind of is what it is.

01:26Shout out to John Lopez.

01:27But like, just the fact that they're in this position is what I object to

01:30more than what they've actually given us.

01:32I am a Brandon Walter guy for sure.

01:33I put Gusto in the same bucket with those.

01:36I know he was on the team to come out of camp in the bullpen,

01:38but he's been, you know, he's had to start a bunch of games this year.

01:41You weren't expecting that.

01:42Or has to come out there and relieve Lance, whatever he's scuffling,

01:47because now it's his long reliever role.

01:50Now I get to one or the other.

01:52Or even last, I say last night, yesterday, it was wild watching the broadcast

01:57yesterday towards the end of the game, and Callis and Blum are sitting there

02:00talking about, and rightfully so, talking about, like, man,

02:04Abreu might have to finish this game.

02:06They're up 11-3.

02:07They've just got nobody else.

02:09And they mentioned that Gusto might be available.

02:13He's never pitched two days in a row before, so do you worry about what kind

02:17of impact that has on his arm?

02:18Eventually, obviously, they didn't.

02:20They brought him in.

02:20But, yeah, like, it sounded weird in an 11-3 game,

02:23but they're kind of having to figure some things out because they've been so

02:26taxed on the bullpen.

02:27And that's where, boy, Lance has got to – I mean, if you're going to throw Lance

02:31McCullers out there every five or six days, he's got to give you more than two

02:35and two-thirds innings.

02:36A good Lance start can't be five innings with 101 pitches.

02:41Right.

02:41I mean, but this is even when he's been good.

02:43This is kind of – he's never been an economical pitcher.

02:45Yeah.

02:46You know?

02:46And now he's not economical or necessarily effective, which really, at some point –

02:53That combination.

02:54And I don't know if we're at this point now, and maybe we're there,

02:58maybe we're just getting there, but at some point we're going to have to have

03:00the conversation of, is this guy hurting you more than he's helping?

03:03Because, you know, when he was coming back or in the beginning of the year,

03:06it was like, hey, luxury Lance, it's a plus.

03:08Then when he gets back, it's, hey, you need this guy.

03:11He's your third best guy at this point.

03:13And now –

03:13And he started pitching that way for a brief spell.

03:16For a brief spell, exactly.

03:17It kind of teased you a little bit with – and I even said it on the air.

03:21I was like, man, it's amazing how Lance McCullers continues to reinvent himself

03:25by force because he has to with all the injuries that he's had.

03:28He's had to reinvent himself as a pitcher and a credit to him for doing that.

03:31But now that's not looking so great.

03:33So at some point there's going to be a conversation,

03:35or it could be a conversation of what is Lance McCullers,

03:38what is the best place of the best use of him, if any at all.

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