Robbie Ray has shut down offenses consistently all season long
fastball swing on a miss top of the zone comes
up. Andrey call pitch, nobody is doing the
ball better than Robbie Ray. A wave and a
miss a slider off the dish. Robbie's obviously a
big piece for us. And you know, Phil
, you know what we saw as of a number
two starter, the Giants and Mariners in agreement on
a trade that will send former Cy Young winner Robbie
Ray to the Giants for outfielder Mitch Hanniger and right
hander Anthony can Rosenthal with this in his second trade
. The Mariners acquire Luke Raley from the race for
infielder, Jose cro the not yet complete fascinating Caviar
27 years old, middle infielder speedster stole 26 bags
. Uh Mitch Hanniger really couldn't find his, his
footing with his team, the San Francisco Giants.
So then you see the Mariners go get Luke Raley
fascinating there because he kind of had a breakout year
, a bit older. He's entering age 29 season
. So let's just chew Tom for a second on
what Jerry did here. What is the philosophy behind
trading Robbie a couple of years ago we celebrated the
mayors five years, 100 and 15 million for the
re Cy Young award winner. Now you part ways
with him. Do you like the vision right now
for the mayors? Uh I like it as a
Plan B because we thought Plan A was the Seattle
team was really close to being a first World Series
type team in Seattle. And instead, I think
they don't have the financial wherewithal to get, well
, they didn't to get into the game for Otani
or Bellinger and Snell and those big names out there
. So plan B was we need to remake our
offense. They have plenty of young pitching way too
many strikeouts last year. See the Knicks Tsar Hernandez
. A Eugenio Suarez. I, I like what
they've been able to do. You think they're making
themselves better slightly? I'm disappointed they didn't step up
bigger. I thought Bellinger was a great fit.
Blake Snell is a local guy. Now, I
know they're loaded the pitching, but then you can
trade some of your young pitching to get position.
Um, but this was a good plan. D
, do you think the Mariners got better? A
tiny bit better? I, I think when I
look at the Mariners, I feel like one you
have to decide. Are you going to compete with
in your own division with the team that just won
the world championship? Because the Texas Rangers, we
spent most of the winter here talking about how they
refuel now, they needed it on the pitching side
and they added all those pitchers they needed on the
offensive side and they've gotten better. He's, um
, best years were in Seattle. Maybe he can
do that again. I mean, what do you
covet, you cover what, you know, they
know that Mian has been able to do it there
. Garver's a nice mix too, gives them some
pop, uh, as well. Robbie Ray wasn't
going to pitch. This is a way of getting
out of that contract and sending it to San Francisco
, San Francisco if they're in it, they have
a good pitcher here after the all star and I'm
trying to think of every fan base. I tried
to do that on the show, fan of the
San Francisco Giants. I'm fired up when I look
at the rotation after the all star break. When
Robbie Ray comes back, Webb stripling, we all
love Harrison. Harrison is a stud and then you
got Alex Cobb eventually will be back in that rotation
. So Tom, if they're within striking distance of
a wild card spot does Robbie Ray who's got three
years over$70 million left in that contract have enough
to be the breakthrough guy for them. Yeah,
absolutely. I think when you're looking at Ray,
you're looking at a pure swinging guy, you know
, he was the second fastest pitcher in major league
history to 1500 strikeouts. Robbie Ray. I mean
, he's well been over a strikeout per inning in
his career. So, the question and you kind
of hinted at this, Greg is, can you
kind of hold serve long enough until you're fully healthy
in that rotation? Because it does have the makings
of a nasty rotation. You're going to a three
game series to play the Giants and you get Ray
and Webb and Cobb that look at, I mean
, they can shut you down last year. I
think they had too many hybrid type guys like Boston
back and forth between the pen and the rotation.
Uh old school, call me old school, Ronnie
. I like those guys who are starters, purely
starters. And Robbie Ray is one of those guys
. So if I'm a Giant fan, I should
be excited because after the All Star break, we
have a guy who's still a cy young caliber pitcher
coming back, coming to our team. Do you
look at him as a cy young Calib guy?
I do because I know he's had some ups and
downs in his career. He's gone through a lot
of mechanical changes. Very powerful delivery. He's a
good athlete, high, highly competitive. So,
yes, I think he's a pitcher that's going to
give them strikeout stuff, swing and miss stuff and
he can pitch deep in the game. Big strong
guy. That's what the Giants needed, that kind
of pitcher. They may have to wait until the
second half of the season. But worth waiting up
. The main motivation was to choir Robbie Ray who
was a guy, we had interest in the ideal
of a number two starter who had a different style
than Logan Webb who complimented him. Well, I
mean, Robby is a power lefty who, you
know, misses a lot of bat. You know
, before this injury actually had a really good uh
track record of durability. So we figured he would
be back something around the second half as we look
at our pitching staff, you know, try to
evaluate how to organize the staff before those two guys
get back. I mean, it's gonna probably be
an area we continue to look to add by either
free agency or trade. And as it stands now
, I think we, we like our outfield group
, we'd be fine going into the year with it
. A lot of things still on the table there
, obviously, with Mitch being traded, you know
, that's a power bat that you're taking out of
the equation. But guys like, you know,
Ramos is certainly a guy who could provide that if
he's able to win a spot in our outfield,
we expect more power from Matos as he gets used
to major league pitching. And he's a guy who's
exhibited power in the past. Um but it could
certainly come from outside the organization. He does have
doubt and if, if that's the case, I'm
sure we'll have further conversations, but, you know
, there, there's sort of plenty of room given
what he's got left on his contract for him to
pitch. Well, and, you know, opt
to those last two years, Michael Brantley called it
a career 15 seasons, five time all star.
Uh, you see what he did in the World
Series in 13 games at over 320. Tom Beuc
, a professional hitter. We see that all the
time. He truly was a professional hitter. Yeah
, one of my favorite hitters to watch just so
dependable, reliable. If you watch the swing,
the simplicity of it just put the foot down at
the bat to the ball. He's a guy who
never joined the launch angle revolution, you know,
and he's the guy I compare to Sean Casey and
the numbers there very, very similar and their approach
is very similar, right? They didn't buy into
trying to get the ball in the air. How
to be a pure hitter, Michael just missed that
300 career average came down a point or two the
last couple of years. Professional hitter, boy,
that vintage is gonna be missed, no doubt,
really excited about it. Getting this new opportunity.
I mean, obviously, uh it'd been awesome to
, you know, not necessarily play for the Braves
, but the team who drafted, you know,
and stuff like that and just, you know,
having like the relationships but, you know, well
, this is part of the game and, you
know, you make relationships everywhere and I'm really excited
to give this organization what I got spring training is
still, uh, a little bit of ways away
. But, um, I'm excited just to help
the team win in any way it can, you
know, just being, uh, with this group
of guys and stuff. And man, I,
I mean, everyone asked like, what can you
do better? I mean, I think I can
improve on everything, you know, defensively, offensively
. I mean, there's not a, there's not
a nit pick that I'm gonna choose, you know
, this or that, but, uh, just
the whole game just, uh, just improving the
whole game as much as I can working hard and
just, you know, doing what I can for
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