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Gleeman and the Geek

Gleeman and the Geek

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And welcome to Gleeman and the Geek, baseball weekly here on KFAN. I am Gleeman and the Geek baseball weekly here on KFAN.

I am Gleeman from Baseball Perspectus.com, Aaron Gleeman, not joined by Geek this week.

He is on vacation.

I'm joined instead by, I would say, our go-to, a regular co-host fill-in.

Or I guess guest, whatever you want to be called.

Parker Hagman from Twins Daily. First bat off the bench, right? Yeah. You're the sixth man in the year. Yeah. I mean, it's not a lot of... It's either you or Nick Nelson. The pool is pretty thin, right? Right. It's like Danny Santana versus the 13th pitcher. It's like, what do you want to have at the end of your roster?

It's like, well, neither of them are that great.

Wait, did you hear me say that? Danny Santana versus the 13th pitcher. It's like what do you want to have at the end of your roster?

It's like well neither of them are that great. Wait, did you hear me say that? I'm like, but here's the thing. This is our first, our live show debut of the year

because we were delayed first by the Masters, a couple Sundays back, and then by the Wilde's abbreviated playoff run.

And if we would have done this show two weeks ago and been on the air, there would have

been a little optimism, maybe even some excitement. We'd be saying, can they keep this

pitching up? Can they? No, now by the time we got on the air, they're already below 500. I think they're coming two and seven homestand. The wheels have sort of started to fall off. Not that it's that much different than expected. It's just that they started well enough, I think, at least on the pitching side, that people were like, well, maybe this will be a little bit different. If you didn't tune in to any of the earlier games today or or this season, and then watch last season and saw today's game, it'd be like, oh, we picked up right where we left off. There's balls getting dropped to the outfield and thrown all over the place. Or you'd say, is this a rain day? They're just showing a bad stuff or a worse stuff from last season. Yeah, and especially with Kyle Gibson on them. I feel like, I mean, I make fun of

my normal call host, John Bonus, because once upon a time, I think even he's given up that. But once upon a time, he was relatively high on Kyle Gibson, you know, a year ago, and he was talking about should they sign him to a long-term extension? And I'm saying, John, are you, are you nuts. We almost got into a fight.

And now even he's, I just

feel like even the

Gibson would turn in one out of four starts, one out of five starts. He'd be, he'd go seven innings, seven strikeouts, a bunch of ground balls, and people go, here we go, he's turning the corner, he's turning the corner. He's not even doing that now. I mean, obviously, the view of him is going to be as pessimistic as possible.

Coming off today, he didn't even get through three innings, I think. But I don't, it's not as if they have a million better options, so it sort of doesn't matter. But I wonder if people have finally reached the point where it's, well, he's not that young for all this For all this talk about the movement on his fastball and the stuff, it doesn't equal strikeouts, his control and his command are both pretty bad. And yes, he gets ground balls, but he also serves up a lot more home runs than a true, you know, ground ball pitcher ought to. Well, I think the optimists out there, this offseason started thinking, like he's going gonna be the next Rick Porcelo, right?

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