Yo, it is another edition of the High Hopes Podcast, and I think that we can say, for the first time on the High Hopes Podcast in the 2018 season. The season is officially over. I'm James

Selzer, a subdued James Selter with a subdued Johnny

the season's over man was it was a fun ride but it is not ended in the most

pleasant of fashions is that is it uh is that the official position is Fritz on board with that

oh yeah oh yeah I mean yeah Fritz is there I think we I think we all as a as a team here are conceding we're saying it's done no no 2007 repeat this season

John see and here's where, I mean honestly, the starting pitching carried them for most of the season.

And once Eflin and Velazquez and Povetta, especially Eflin, when you could count on 60% of your rotation giving you a quality start and

on oftentimes a better than quality start, you're going to win a lot of baseball games and

there were winning a lot of won-run games and maybe we should have seen this coming but at some point I guess I was

hoping the offense would step up they made some nice moves at the trade deadline to

improve the offense but you know to use a sad cliche at the end of the day James they're just not good enough

Thanks Chris Berman they but I think yeah look I think you're right and I think it was not surprising to see the

regression in the starting pictures Fritz talked about that a lot on the pod heading to the

trade deadline why he wanted

them to get the starting pitcher the potential innings limits being

smashed and just passed easily for these guys and you Eflin, obviously, the guy we saw in the month of June

is a completely different pitcher

just to the eye test and obviously the results right now.

And you're seeing that, that just the guys are getting tired you've seen

it with Sir Anthony who's been overused and used in just insane amount of high leveraged spots of the

wear and tear of that and and like you said I think there were things that we were

counting on or hoping for earlier in the season obviously the last you know three weeks we've probably all

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