Episode 317: Swept Away
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2017
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Indians sweeping the Twins out of first place, recapping the Twins' draft and no. 1 pick Royce Lewis signing for $6.7 million, Byron Buxton's underappreciated defense, in-house options to address the Twins' growing rotation and bullpen problems, Eddie Rosario putting the Zach Granite talk on hold, and Jorge Polanco vs. Eduardo Escobar.
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| 0:00.0 | And |
| 0:00.5 | Gleeman and the geese. |
| 0:14.1 | Glemen and the geese. |
| 0:20.2 | Talking baseball every week. and the geek And the geek And welcome |
| 0:21.0 | |
| 0:21.2 | Every week |
| 0:24.2 | Because the Glemen |
| 0:27.5 | And the geek |
| 0:30.6 | And welcome to |
| 0:33.3 | Cleveland to The Geek |
| 0:34.6 | on K-F-A-N |
| 0:35.7 | sponsored by the Minnesota Congress at kernel nation.com I'm John Bonus at Twinsdaily.com Across with me is Aaron Gleman of the Geek on K-F-A-N. Sponsored by the Minnesota Cornwallers at Kernel Nation.com. I'm John Bonas for Twinsdaily.com. Across with me is Aaron Gleeman of Baseball. What a great weekend for baseball. Happy Father's Day, everybody. I love you, Dad. Very nice. Joe Paravitch playing with the buttons in the background there. Welcome back, Joe. We had a good run doing this show about first place team, John. It was certainly a lot longer than we ever expected. You're right. That's absolutely true. And about a 500 team. Yeah, that too. Well, there's still a game. There'll be a game above 500. Yeah. They'll probably were an inning away from them being two back in the division. |
| 1:12.6 | You know, I think the way that the pitching could not have lined up any worse. |
| 1:17.2 | Right. |
| 1:17.5 | For the twins. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, they did miss Kluber for Cleveland. |
| 1:20.1 | Right. |
| 1:20.8 | But, you know, from their point of view, the pitching could not have wound up any worse. |
| 1:24.8 | They ended up starting Mejia and Gibson and two basically triple A call-ups who are not even prospects, really. He wants a double-A call-up, really. I mean, because he was triple A officially. But what I mean is, they didn't call up a top prospect. They called up a couple of 27 or 28-year-old kind of, you know, waiver wire fodder type of guys. Occasionally those guys come through, and I still think Nick Turley, especially, |
| 1:45.5 | you know, if you were to give him 15 starts, I think he could be passable. I don't think he's going to get 15 starts the way he's pitched in the first two starts. But, you know, they're not going to trot out a week or four guys, particularly because they played four games in three days with the double header. Right, which we talked early on in the season about how well the, how the rainouts were treating them well. |
| 2:04.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.8 | Right? |
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