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Brock and Salk

Hour 3: Which is Better, Need to know, Guest: Jeff Passan

Brock and Salk

Seattle Sports

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4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mike Lefko and Charlie Furbush play Which is better, Need to know - Brian Woo starting and what he needs to do for tonights game, Rangers are still leading by half a game over the M's, World Cup highlights and drama, Guest: Jeff Passan joins to talk finding out trades from the players side vs. the media side, and the buisness side of the MLB organazation. 

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0:00.0

Get me a freaking auto!

0:01.6

From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock & Sock on Seattle Sports. Brock Ewerd is my hero. James Heuter just punched me in the kidney. We're going to give you what I'm going to. That way, Sherm, this is a show that has my name on it. It's kind of does, though. Now here are your hosts, Brock Eward and Mike Salk. Hello! Hello! All right, I promise we play a game here.

0:23.9

Fun way they talk about the Mariners and some food items, of course, food items and everything else. And, Mora, Charlie got kind of excited back here. He's like, oh, what game we're playing? And I told them, he's like, oh, that's it? I was like, yeah it like yeah like we don't board games in here it's

0:38.5

it's not like a real game very complicated yeah it's just a so if it's not a real game we're

0:45.0

oh so it's not we're calling it a game even though it's not an actual game it's it's kind of the

0:49.5

closest you can get to like a game on the radio okay i would say so is it a contest no no that's different no a game

0:56.8

a game is a game a contest is a contest okay so but it's game contest is like for others you know they can

1:03.2

kind of win something i guess we could if someone wanted to bring in prizes but this is game like

1:08.0

and that it's uh it's more of a fun way to talk about the same things we've been talking about.

1:11.8

Are there winners and losers?

1:12.8

Always, right? Even though there probably aren't. But that's what annoys Mora is that in the game we played yesterday in buy or sell, I wanted to try and win. But no, it's a game. It's lighthearted. You don't win. We can dress it up. If you want to try to win this, Maura, take us through here, which is better, and why, I guess we can't win, but we'll just try to win anyone. I can just decide who has better takes. Sure. Okay. Yeah, or, you know, the listeners, they're never shy about weighing in. They can decide. Okay. Who wins each one of these. Okay. Who's right, who's wrong? We're not going to get past this first one, by the way. This is going to take the entire time. I'm not going to do that first because, yeah, I already heard preview of you guys arguing this yesterday, so I don't want to get caught up in it. I'll get to it. But first up, which is better right now, Kate Anderson or Ryan Sloan? No, don't look at me. I'm looking at you. Oh, it's an easy answer. Is it? Yeah. Kate Anderson. Yeah, okay. We both win. Yeah. Kate Anderson, without a doubt. Does Ryan Sloan have more upside, though, because of his velocity, just more raw potential? If he has upside, it is, or if he has more upside, it is just slightly. You know, like, I think from a body type and young youth, right? Throws harder. Throws harder. Like, all these things check the boxes. But, like, the ceiling is like one A and one B, right? So it's not, it's not really that much of a difference. And you, like, I agree here.

2:34.8

You think Kay Anderson could come up today and pitch in the majors? Yeah, I think he could come up tomorrow and throw six shutout without a doubt. Well, I think he could do it today, not tomorrow. Oh, okay. Oh, who's pitching today, man. You're not going to bump him from the roll. Bup Wu a day. I know, but we're in agreement.

2:49.7

Yeah, Kate Anderson is MLB ready whenever.

2:53.4

And Ryan Sloan is not. No, but we're in agreement. Yeah, Kate Anderson is MLB ready whenever.

2:53.4

And Ryan Sloan is not.

2:54.7

So now, yes, Anderson's better.

2:56.4

But what a great problem to have.

2:57.7

Oh, you have this pitcher that might have more upside.

3:01.5

It's not going to be better until later, but we have this guy that's MLB ready as well.

3:05.4

Well, they're both ace caliber.

3:06.8

That's what it is.

3:07.4

I think when you look at how starting pitchers get projected... guy that's him, he'll be ready as well. Well, they're both ace caliber. That's what it is.

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