Have the Cubs put another manager on the hot seat with 7th win in a row?
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we go, sports fans. |
| 0:02.7 | Afternoons on the score. |
| 0:04.3 | Jed Hoyer. |
| 0:04.9 | You guys are like in full NFL draft mode out of here. Hey, last thing for you, Jed. My partner, Lawrence Holmes, says he has seven innings left in his arm. Lawrence, could you describe your arsenal for Jed real quick? We don't need left to you right now? Are you right? I'm a righty. Leads the league and saves, strikeouts per inning, and hit batsman. |
| 0:22.9 | This guy threw at his own kid and a father. Right now, are you righting? I'm a righty. Leads the league in saves, smackouts per inning, and hit the batsman. |
| 0:22.9 | This guy threw at his own kid in a father's son game. |
| 0:26.2 | And the profile in college was 82 mile per hour cutter, |
| 0:30.5 | 77 mile per hour, curveball, 72 mile per hour circle change. |
| 0:35.2 | Okay, so if he's got seven innings left, how would you use them? |
| 0:38.3 | Is that one start to really rest the pen? |
| 0:40.6 | Or you want to sprinkle him in during the course of a week? |
| 0:43.8 | We call that the low hitting speed profile. |
| 0:45.5 | So that is 100% accurate. |
| 0:48.4 | I think you might be using that down 8 plus. |
| 0:54.0 | I'll take it. You need those. It's tough to use a roster spot on that though if those expanded roster double header maybe like something like that Billy that's trouble he certainly's had his problems off the field that we know what he can't do on the field you get a little thicker on the waist you know and his reports about him on the weed and the strip clubs. |
| 1:11.3 | Craig Counsel gave us Randy Johnson as a comp, kind of an FU attitude. |
| 1:15.1 | He was talking more about personality, and that I have. |
| 1:18.4 | Like, that I won't shy away from. |
| 1:20.4 | But the actual talent, it's not comparable. |
| 1:24.4 | You guys are sitting around talking the same old good body nonsense, like we're selling |
| 1:29.5 | jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio. We got to think differently. Boy, that sounds like fortune |
| 1:36.6 | cookie wisdom to me, Billy. No, that's just logic. Who's Fabio? This is a shortstop. It's a shortstop from CNN. |
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