Soriano, Miles Shove as Jays Even Series vs. A's

0:00Well, people, that is more like it after the letdown to open this series in Sacramento, the Jays play the brand of baseball we've seen so often since the end of July. That is just as about as good as it gets from pitching overall. I mean, just two pitchers on the mound tonight, just with the doctor ordered with a bullpen day coming up on Wednesday Smith and Okamoto go back to back the Jays are four two winners tonight to even the series in Sacramento. They get back to 500 at 73 and 73 and they stay just a game out of a playoff spot. You are listening to Blue Jays talk show Ali here with you. We are live on sports net five nine in the fan. We are also streaming on sports net dot C and on the sports net app. You can give me a call 416 870 590 one triple A triple six 0 590 star 590 on your solid can text me as well 595 90 name and location.

1:02The people's text line always open standard messaging and data rates may apply. Of course, it is late. So if you do choose to simply text me, I will not blame you, but again, those are the ways to reach me again, 416 870 590 one triple A triple six 0 590 star 590 for the phones and then 595 90 name and location budget text here already. And we'll get to the phone lines as well as we continue here on the post game show. But yeah, I mean, look pitching was phenomenal tonight. You only get to see two blue Jays pitchers. Sorry, Ana picks up the win. Miles picks up the save. Just his second save of his major league career on sorry. 107 innings six hits two runs, both of which were earned one walk three Ks 89 pitches, 60 strikes. I have to admit first inning and I'm sure you were all thinking the same thing. I was a little worried about the efficiency because if there was ever a night where John Schneider needed his starter to go deep into a ballgame.

2:04It was tonight with that bullpen day ahead tomorrow. You're figuring Michael Lorenzin is going to at least play a role in what it looks like tomorrow. I mean, look, bullpen days have largely worked out for the Jays. You still want to keep those relievers as fresh as possible. So 21 pitches for sorry on the first have that the hackles up a little, but I mean, give the guys some credit. He found that command as the game went on. He seemed to trust the sinker a little more. He really leaned on it over 40 of his 89 pitches were sinkers tonight. That thing got up to 98 miles. Now are basically from the second inning onwards. The sinker was a real weapon. I mean, a couple of individual moments for us to get you on sorry on I suppose. I mean, first of all, a couple of nice pieces of hitting from Cortez and Walt and Cortez and the fourth. I mean, he had that home run actually off the fastball, the four seamer, rather the 98 mile an hour four seamer. Kind of looked like Cortez was sitting on the four seamer. And now that particular pitch has been one that has as we've talked about before.

3:07It's been tagged quite a bit this year. I mean, coming into tonight, he allowed nine home runs at 256 opponents batting average enough for 96 slugging percentage off that pitch in terms of slug at least. It is by far the pitch that gets hit the hardest and interesting, right? Because I, you know, after he'd gotten acquired by the blue jays and then we'd gotten the chance to speak with Schneider when the team came back because he'd made his debut in Philly and then he comes back to Toronto. He gets a couple of starts at home. And I remember talking to or being in the meeting when we're all talking to Schneider and he talked about how yeah, the four seam usage for Soriano is going to very start by start as they as pitch mixes generally do, but they wanted him to lean on the sinker a little bit more. So again, that is something they did a fair bit today. When you look at his usage rates of those pitches, like I said, 42 sinkers to 10 four seamer's. And then of course, one of those 10 four seamer's was banged for a home run on the sinker, though. And did hit one of those things out for solo shot in the seventh, not a lot of action on

4:09that particular pitch he threw. I mean, that one, if you look at the, the stat cast view, he threw it basically right down the middle. I don't think you could have placed that one more perfectly down the middle if he had tried, right? So Walton and I would imagine most major leagueers don't miss swings like that. But again, by and large, he really leaned on it. You're not going to see too many whiffs from Soriano, but I mean, strike rate for the, for the sinker tonight, 76% 32 of 42. So pretty impressive stuff. Utilize the knuckle curve pretty effectively as well. Did get a couple of whiffs on the knuckle curve 20 knuckle curves thrown today, 10 spliters, 10 four seamer seven sliders. So again, for a guy who has had some command issues overall this season, I got to say I was, I was pretty impressed by his ability to refocus when things didn't necessarily go his way. Perhaps the most impressive ending for Soriano, at least for me was bottom six, right? So he gets into that first and second nobody out jam with three, four, five all do up.

5:12And he strikes out Gull off who's perhaps the athletics, most dangerous batter, not on the I L and then gets to ground out. So impressive stuff from Soriano and a guy who does look like he is, I mean, it's not as though he has bad stuff, right? He's a guy who had clearly been very successful earlier as an angel, which is what led the blue J's to be interested in him in the first place. But that he is continually on the fly effectively to work with Pete and companies. So so effectively is is impressive, truthfully. I mean, you kind of drew the parallels with season Soriano in terms of guys who have nasty stuff that can perhaps be hardest a little bit more with Pete Walker and the work he does with pictures. And you kind of see the the concept in action with Dylan C. So far this season and what is still a sigh young season. And now here you have Soriano again, they're not going to have the ability to really tinker with things with him on a fine basis until the season is probably over at this point,

6:13but still very impressive stuff from from Soriano 416870 0 590 one triple, eight triple six 0 590 star 590 on yourself 595 90 name and location will go to the text line in a sack. So first to the phones will go to Glenn and Markham Glenn. Thanks for joining me. Thanks for staying in play. Thank you. Thank you for taking my call and yeah, I just want to talk about the Spencer mouth. Sure. Pitching the nice ending. I feel that's very interesting and we've got a pretty good result. He only pitch 22 pictures, I believe, and he finished two innings. I think that's very huge for us. So we can maybe use miles again tomorrow and we can use basically everybody other than the starting pictures. So I feel like that's a very risky but looks like it's paying off. I feel like that decision can maybe help us win the series tomorrow. I really don't trust the office tomorrow.

7:15I think our offense has been a little underwhelming in the last four games maybe. So I really think we need to maybe have a great open game patient wise to help us to win the game, win the series tomorrow. Yeah, Glenn appreciate the call. Thanks for staying up late and for calling me. Yeah, look, I mean, we didn't get to miles yet but hard not to be incredibly impressed by what you saw from him tonight. There are a couple of texts that certainly echo what Glenn's saying. Christian in Lakom, Alberta, first time text again, which appreciate Christian. I told the friend to work weeks ago, bet on the blue Jays to make the playoffs. We've been playing so well. Only thing we need now is Vlad to get hot back game last week was amazing, but start time to start sending them to the moon. Also our bolt pen is lights out. Whoever we, whoever said we need to pick up Spencer miles needs a raise. This one's from Pete and Burlington huge props. The Schneids for keeping miles through to the ninth is miles of secret weapon, the tray, quote unquote, tray of 2026. And this one's from RF and Vancouver, I believe.

8:17So glad he didn't use the violin there. Miles is solid, Louis V. Fresh with a quick turnaround tomorrow. That it is huge, right? Much like all you guys are saying, massive part of this, no question, right? 22 pitches, like Glenn said, probably means Miles is down tomorrow, but between Soriano and Miles and essentially prevented all of the rest of the circle of trust from entering this ballgame. We didn't see flu, hardy tonight, no fish or tonight, no riders tonight. And of course, after he was taxed yesterday, no violin tonight. So you have the entire rest of your highest leverage arms. You can even include policy, well, then that if you really want to available for a bolt pen tomorrow, a bolt pen day tomorrow ahead of an off day on Thursday. So you can probably, if you're John Schneider pull the trigger on going to the bolt pen, as much as you want effectively tomorrow, you know, you can, if Lorenzen and I were assuming Lorenzen's going to be a part of this. We'll see if Schneider says anything to that effect tonight. But you know, we're assuming that Lorenzen's going to be inferring ining or two or three tomorrow.

9:18But if he gets into trouble, you can go to that bolt pen to pull out put out fires as as fast as you want. But I have to admit, I mean, just on Miles overall with that bolt pen day tomorrow, I kind of figured they try to avoid using him though at the same time he had not pitched prior to tonight since last Thursday. So obviously relatively fresh him coming out to protect a two run lead in eighth inning against the top of the opposing team's order has got to just show you how much trust John Schneider hasn't him right. And how far, especially he's come since the beginning of the year, I mean, what a terrific pitch to get Gell-Off looking to end the inning. And then he still has this kind of stuff, this late in the year is, I have to say incredibly impressive. I mean, he made his debut so early in the season as a guy who just hasn't pitched that many innings in the pros again, really impressive. This is a guy who had thrown just over 23 innings from 2022 to 2025 over the course of three years. He had thrown over or thrown just over 23 innings because of injury.

10:20And now here in 2026, including tonight, he's throwing 87 and two thirds innings pitch this year. So we are, we are truly in uncharted waters when it comes to the arm of Spencer Miles, the the text from Pete in Burlington. I, you know, I really do think and I've said this a million times and I think this is true of any team that hopes to make some sort of championship run, whether it is a baseball team or an NFL team season starting tomorrow, whether it's a hockey team or, you know, a basketball team, you or really anything, you need surprises, right? And I think last year, a surprise that we talked about a lot, I mean, certainly to Pete's point, Trace was huge. I would say maybe just because Trace got called up so late last year and then obviously had just a phenomenal run on the way to the World Series. I still think what Trace average did against the Yankees and Dodgers in the playoffs will be something I, I think I remember for the rest of my life. But at the same time, just try aside because he only had a handful of starts if you really

11:21think about it from like mid September to the World Series. I would say the more appropriate comp was that would be Eric Lauer, honestly. Eric Lauer is such a huge part of the 2025 season. I think you could make a great case that without Lauer, the Blue Jays would not have won the division at the very least, right? So I didn't think he had, he had the monster outing if you want to include the playoffs. Lauer had the monster outing even in a loss admittedly in that, that 18 in game in Los Angeles. So when you talk about surprises, right, the, the secret weapon, the, the things you need to be a surprise for you in order to make a run at championship glory. Yeah, you, all teams need them. Again, I don't know how the season's going to end for the Toronto Blue Jays. I hope in a positive way, but so far this year, Miles going from a guy who has been the opener, he's been the closer, he's been the bulk guy, he's gotten outright starts. He has been a massive surprise. I've been, I've been very impressed. I have to say on the offense, you know, we were talking about in, in Glenn said, the

12:25offense has been a little underwhelming, which is, which is true, right? I mean, yesterday they don't really get anything going until the very end of the game and then the offense just exploded for those five runs late, despite the loss. And then today four runs gets you the win, but you do need a little bit more from, maybe not unexpected sources, but you just, you do need more overall. Smith, Okamoto, go back to back. Now Josh Smith smashes a Perkins sweeper that catches too much of the zone, way gone. He's been an interesting pick up in the sense that he can play virtually every position. He can play every infield position. And tonight he was in left field. This is a guy who has a, a slight offensive pedigree. Maybe that's not even under selling it, right? A former silver slugger in 2024 from 23 to 25. So over three seasons, Smith had a 7.4 war and a 702 OPS and 383 games played for the Rangers. That is obviously not going to jump off the page over the course of three years. And in those last two seasons, he's also doing that in, in, in the manner of playing almost

13:29every game for the Rangers, right? He had played all but 20 or so games for the Rangers in each of the last two seasons, 20, 24, 20, 25. But even if he's not going to play nearly that much as a blue J, if he can be a service of all offensive player with his defense at virtually every position here, that's a useful player to be had on the banjo me coming into tonight in the month of September, which for him admittedly, I mean, we're early enough in September that this virtually everyone's going to be a small sample size. But for Smith in particular, a very small sample size of five games prior to tonight, but still heading 250 slugging a thousand and had no BS of 1462, 1.462. So I have to think as a lefty when righties on the mound, you probably have to find a way to get Smith in there as much as humanly possible the way he's swinging it right now. I mean, there's a text here from Kevin North York, I need to see more Josh Smith, please. He could be a Jose Bautista in the making. Now, look, I don't know if I'm the brakes on comparing virtually anyone to a guy who's on the level of excellence, but I do get the excitement for Josh Smith, right?

14:36I mean, in terms of getting him into the lineup as much as possible, though, to Kevin's point, it obviously would come at the expense of someone, right? I mean, could it come at the expense of playing time for Ernie Clement's, for example, I mean, he could also just be as he was tonight in left field if they didn't want to mess with the playing time for Ernie Clement. So you could roll out an outfield against righties of, I mean, they love Bateman, but Bateman, Lucas Smith. The other part of this, of course, will be Sonton Dairn. If he's going to play the outfield, the Schneider has suggested he eventually will, then, I mean, maybe second base will have to be where Smith plays probably a good problem to have, but still one way or another, I got to imagine the way he's swinging it right now, Josh Smith has got to be in there most days against righties at this point, 416 870 0 590 one triple at triple 605 90 star 590 on your cell. We'll go back to the text. I just read a couple there 595 90 name and location, but let's go to the phones.

15:37Let's go to Ryan right here in Toronto, another late night caller. Appreciate it Ryan. What's up? Hey, how are we doing tonight show? Come ahead, what's up with you? I, you know, I'm just at work just finishing closing up now, but I got to watch the game as I was passing by with all the TV's in the place. I want to speak about Jose Soriano and how I'm excited to have this guy and like, what a raw sack in masterclass that was. Once he has the whole season under the guru of pitching that his pistol peat, this guy is going to be in the top three or top five of Sion conversation every single year going forward. His stuff is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. It baffles me how he goes out and only strikes out like three or four guys and outing. I mean, like I'll even go back to a pitch that was in about the second inning, I believe against Lawrence Butler where he threw like an 86 mile per hour, half 12 6, half sort of sweeper action where he'm just like, how does anyone even see that?

16:40Like he's got 98 in the arsenal. He's got like four or five wonderful pitches that once he gets full control over and full confidence over, I'm so confident this guy has Sion in them. I mean, we saw that in the first month of the season just with what he was doing like if he can sort of middle that out and just carry that out through a full season. Why can't we have two Dylan ceases on this roster? That guy is ridiculously talented man. Like I'm so happy we picked that guy up, even no matter what happens with this season. If we don't make the playoffs, just be happy we get to watch that guy every fifth day for the next couple of years. He is, he's special man. He's really special. Ryan, I appreciate the call. Always appreciate hearing from you. Yeah, if you look at Jose Soriano's ERA from the beginning of the season, which for him again, as an angel from March 26th to April 28th. So he had, let's see, seven starts from the beginning of the season effectively for the angels all the way to the end of April.

17:42His ERA on the season by the time you got to the end of April was under one. He had an ERA of 0.84. So it's not as though he, he's only now finding the nasty stuff that we're talking about. He's been nasty basically his entire career. He's a guy who has not had the most straight forward path to being one of the better pictures in baseball just from a stuff perspective. I mean, this is a guy who's had Tommy John surgery. So I believe multiple times actually. So you know, he's gone through some adversity as well. I do a whole heartedly agree with what Ryan is saying though when it comes to what he can be even more moving forward. I mean, this is a guy again, top shell, the low. The action on those pitches is pretty disgusting. He has been incredible over the course of I would say even last year and this year, I think the big bugaboo with Soriano as an angel is he faded down the stretch.

18:43And now again, I do think, I mean, at least a part of this has got to be that the angels are just not a very good ball club and haven't been for years. Which is also why it makes me sad that Mike Trout is as effectively, I don't call him a prisoner because he's obviously chosen to stay there for the rest of his career. You can't blame players for that, but it's too bad. You're not going to see a lot of playoff versions of Mike Trout, but I digress. Soriano, you know, you've seen him fade a little bit down the stretch. Even from last year to this year, you had seen him as an angel. The angel has clearly made a conscious decision to have him throw that four seamer mark. Because again, he has such nasty stuff. You're thinking to yourself, well, maybe you can get more strikeouts because he's not exactly a huge strikeout guy because he puts the ball on the ground so much and they did have him lean a little bit more into the four seamer. And as we discussed earlier, it's a pitch that's gotten hit around a little bit this year. So again, that the blue jays identified, and I mean, how could you not when he's throwing the sink or 90 miles an hour, but you know, that they've identified that as the weapon. They want him to really lean on. And again, he really did that tonight. That is a that is a huge positive.

19:44I'm with Ryan that again, can't wait to see him get into things with Pete Walker in the offseason. Whether or not there's baseball next year, you got to think that's still going to be something the blue jays work on with him. A couple more texts I wanted to get to you. We were talking about Josh Smith before we went to talk to Ryan, Josh Smith, Rico and Barry, Josh Smith, Texas loss, our gain world series winner. He was he was on that 2023 world series team. Stuart at North Vancouver, a lot of unexpected slug from Josh Smith. Great pickup. Feels like he's been more productive in his time this year with the blue jays than Varsha was, for example, he got the ball rolling tonight. Again, just the guy you want to see more of. I will say to you, there was a text here from. Let's see if I can find it here. It was from I think it was from Rupon. Here it is. Rupon and Saskatoon. Seeing a lot of line drives, dunking in for singles. Are they prioritizing contact over slug? I mean, if you look at the year long stats, the blue jays coming into tonight had a 384 slugging percentage as a team, right? And now if you compare that to the rest of majorly baseball, that is the fourth worst slugging

20:46percentage in all of baseball. Only the Mariners, Guardians and surprise the angels are worse than the blue jays when it comes to slugging percentage. Again, as a team over the course of the entire season, now a lot of obviously a lot of things go into that. They're guys having not so great seasons. I'm obviously flat. He's a part of that. Springer's a part of that. Haven't seen a ton of slug for them overall this year. But again, the team just generally does not slug. If that's the case for a guy who's currently slugging a thousand or just a little over that actually, including tonight, then you want to see in the last five games, rather, you want to see him and there as much as humanly possible. 416 870 05 90, 1 triple at 6 0 5 90 star 5 90 on yourself 5 90 5 90 name and location. Let's take a quick break on the other side. Check out the standings watch brought to you by bet 365 and we'll chat some Okamoto as well because how can we not big big swing from big oak tonight? You're listening to Blue Jays talk show Ali here with you back in a flash on sports net 5 down in the fan.

21:48Yeah, a little bit of a roll the dice there, but you kind of watch him in the eighth inning. And after the second hitter, I kind of said to Peter, said you think of what I'm thinking. He said, yeah, and I said, OK, good. With the bullpen day tomorrow, it keeps everybody available. You know, didn't want to use him and Louie if we didn't have to and then have them both be down tomorrow. So great job by him. Again, kind of new territory. I know it's a second career save, but just responding to anything we're any situation we're putting him into. That was huge. It was huge. John Schneider talking about Spencer Miles. 22 pitches two innings from Spencer Miles who gets his as John says his second career save. Great stuff from Spencer Miles. Welcome back to Blue Jays talk, of course, show Ali here with you for another 10, 15 minutes or so 416 8705, 91 triple A triple 605, 90 star 5, 90 on yourself 5, 95, 90 name

22:51and location. Before we go to the standings watch, you know, we were just this just struck me hearing John talk about Spencer Miles. We were talking about irrational beliefs in the newsroom or maybe it was in the control room. Either way, we're talking about it with my co-workers a few days ago. And also I'm curious what your rational beliefs are when it comes to this team. It doesn't have to be about, you know, where they will go in the playoffs, although it can be that or it could be about specific players. I think as far as a specific player for me, my irrational belief is, and I again, I, when I say a rational belief, this not maybe there's not a lot that directly supports this right the second I totally admit that. But mine is that Miles could still be a very good starter long term. And I do really, really like his place as a high leverage reliever in that role that Jeff Hoffman used to occupy. But again, I just, I really do wonder how they bring them along in the off season. We have seen so many relievers. I mean, Jack Perkins is a great example of this pitching tonight for the A's. We've seen so many relievers transition to starters.

23:54I mean, I think the raise did that this year with Ian Seymour who's been really good. But again, not many of these guys have had the injury history that Spencer Miles has had again, 23 endings just over that over three years after he was pitching for Missouri in university. So I understand you can have to be like you're going to slow play this if you're a raw sack is if that is something in the back of your mind for the blue jays. And I think the reason it's in the back of my mind is because the pitching injuries the Jays have had this year from a starting perspective. But again, whatever the future holds for Spencer Miles, his potential as far as I'm concerned, his potential is sky high. And I've been very impressed by him at this, this early on in his career. I got in the opportunity to chat with him very early on. I think it was like a couple of days after he had gotten the first his first win of his career. And it's first I think it was the first strikeout and first win in the same game. And he was incredibly professional. And he did reflect on the fact that his journey to the major leagues, including being picked

24:55in the rule five draft is not something that's pretty typical, right? So pretty cool that he has been able to produce the way he has. By the way, just from yesterday, I was texting with Ashborn the other day, but see what he did not pitch tonight, of course, but we're talking about the circle of trust. And you heard Schneider say that pretty much everyone is available for a bullpen day tomorrow. See what has been really interesting. I mean, this is a guy who has struggled with the long ball with the diamond backs this year. But just when we're talking about the circle of trust, I mean, he's knocking on that door, right? I mean, it feels like the circle of trust has largely been the same guys all year. I mean, Violin Rogers, Flewhardt, he Fisher and now Miles in there pretty early in his rookie season to be that fifth guy. But gosh, at this point, we're close. I don't know if he's there yet, but we're close. See all this is right there. But again, curious what you guys think. All right, let's check out the standings watch presented by bet three six five home of the five run early payout must be 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Let's take a peek at scores from around Major League baseball. So one is actually still happening right now.

25:57Rangers up 10 to four in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Seattle Mariners, almost at Seahawks thinking about the opener later on tonight a little too much. But the Mariners trying to make a little bit of a comeback. They have two on and two out. They're down 10 for in the bottom of the ninth out west, the T-Mobile, Adam Macco. We're talking, finally, we're talking about Josh Smith earlier, Adam Macco, Canada's own on the mound, trying to close this out for the, for the Rangers. But that's the only other game going on right now. All the other games have gone final. So let's see the Cleveland Guardians. Of course, this was the one that was most important. The Guardians beat the Baltimore Orioles 9 5 pretty back and forth game after it was all Guardians early on. It was six nothing guardians. The Orioles made it six five. Peter Lonzo crushing yet another home run. But then Guardians pulled away. They loaded the bases. They scored basically all those runs. 9 5 was the final score. So that is why the Lujays remain still a game out of a playoff spot tonight. Other scores though. The Houston Astros, I think will include in the wild car race, even though they are obviously

27:01winning their division. They beat the Phillies six five. Astros now 74 and 71 on the season. The Red Sox lost to the Angels six one earlier today. The Yankees pounded the Rockies five three. Not a lot of run sport for Cam Schletler, but they did put on three runs late. Thanks to a home run from Elliott Ramos Schletler, by the way, pitched in this game. Seven innings of one run, Bolly's struck out. 10. You know, we kind of went over this yesterday. Seas might be just a tick back. You I think it was pretty close before these last couple games for these two respectively. It might be a little, a little bit of separation now between the season and Schletler. Unfortunately, though, again, Schletler's had a pretty marvelous campaign. Yankees get their 82nd win of the year by of the season, by the way. So they have clinched their 34th consecutive winning season, which is pretty incredible. The raise beat the Braves seven to one. That's their 86th win of the year. The Royals lose the Diamondbacks five three, the White Sox lose the pirates nine to three.

28:04And I think that was it. So let's check out the standings with all of those in mind. The Yankees 82 and 62 Red Sox 80 and 66. The Guardian 74 and 72. They are game up on the blue jays who, as we said, are 73 and 73. The Rangers again, probably going to pick up a win here up 10 five now in the bottom of the ninth inning. They are 71 and 73. They are two back of the win to be a game and a half back of the Guardians. The Orioles to, of course, lost earlier today. They are four back 70 and 76. The twins won today as well. Actually, I missed that one. Where's the final one? The twins. Yes, they beat the Tigers three two in that one. Twins are now 69 and 76. They're four and a half back. The Mariners six back could be six and a half back. If and when they lose this game and Tigers having lost their seven and a half back 66 and 79. We might be as Nick said to me on the weekend, we might be getting close to no longer, including the Mariners and the twins on the the standings watch.

29:06But the Orioles are interesting, right? I mean, 70 and 76. They just lost the Guardians. They are four back. So after tomorrow's ball game, the blue jays of a day off on Thursday, and then they come home to take on six straight at the Ryder Center, three against the Orioles, three against the Tigers. You have a chance. Now again, the Tigers might already be cooked, but you have a chance if you are the blue jays to bury the Orioles and the Tigers, especially the Orioles. If you take two of three and I know we're kind of talking about sweeping at this point because now there are what 16 games to go on. The regular season is that right? 16 games. So if that's the case, then you kind of have to take advantage of the six games you have remaining against your divisional rival in the Orioles and they haven't played horribly, but they are starting to fall out of it a little bit. So you have a chance, even if you only take two of three to completely ruin their chances at a playoff spot after they were right there. So again, curious to see what that looks like. If you're looking at the rest of the the vision leaders, Razor 86 and 58, white socks 75

30:09and 69 and the Astros are 74 and 71. All right. So let's go to the text line 59590 name and location. There's one here from Mickey G and Seattle is big. Oh, getting enough credit for the season he has put together. Where would the team be without him this year? Aside from maybe C's, he's arguably the front runner for the blue jays MVP on the season. Love our quiet star. It is true. Okamoto. I mean, back to back with Smith, big oaks, 30th home run on the season. White stuff from him this season by far leads the team in home runs and RBI. He becomes just the fifth Japanese born major league player with a 30 home run season. Shohei O'Connie, Hadekimaketsu, Sayas Suzuki, Minotokumura Kamigot there first between the rookies just a few days ago with the white socks and now Kazumokamoto. Pretty cool. Also, already having broken Eric Hinske's records, home runs and RBI, the first blue jays rookie to hit 30 home runs.

31:10So I mean, here's a, we were talking about Josh Smith earlier. Here's a question for you guys. Should Okamoto perhaps sometimes DH, if you just want him to get a couple days off his feet and you allow Josh Smith to play third base? Again, maybe that's something they will consider. So interesting to see that. Let's go to the phones actually before we get out of here. We have a couple minutes left. We've reached some more text before we get out of here as well. Let's go to Tau and Israel joining us here on Blue Jays Talk. Tau, what's up? I just wanted to say honestly, thank you. Show and Jess and Kevin. I'm also Blake as a Canadian living overseas and loves the blue jays and watches them basically my every morning. J-talk and J-talk plus as part of my daily routine and it really keeps, I'm guessing a lot of DJ sounds around the world, you know, close to the action and close to the team. So that's just, I guess, a thank you for me and probably sort of, you know, Canadians all over the world. And, well, my question would be, I want to try and stay positive so I won't mention

32:14Sanchez. Something that drives me nuts throughout the season and maybe even throughout the last couple of seasons is the strategy of sending runners home. Maybe I think the name is Fable's, the third base coach. Like for a, a team that has been struggling with getting in the wrongs, it seems to me that he's overly cautious. And like, the plate always has like, it feels to me more challenging. So my question to you would be like, who sets the strategy of being what I would define as overly cautious? Is that something management sends down? Is it something that's discussed a little more close to the field like Shreider and so there's a position that's the point of aid which people on earth drive me nuts. And again, especially the police are really the people or getting in one side. Yeah, tell, appreciate the call. I do think as far as I'm aware, it is not only, like, it's not all one person thing.

33:18I think that is a, especially with the way the Jays have described how they, like, their collaborative effort with the front office and the coaching staff and the, as Blaring Barker, like to say, the khakis. I think it's kind of everyone. As far as I'm aware, I mean, John, I think is a part of this, but fabulous gets Car Blanche generally in making those judgment calls. I actually do think he is kind of like in the middle of the pack in terms of aggressiveness because you've seen some bad sense because they're trying to be overly aggressive. I actually do wonder because we're talking about slugging so on earlier in terms of offense. Obviously, this is a team that even though they're playing better from an offensive perspective, this is also a team that let's face it. It had just even even in a, in a hotter stretch against the end of July, it's not a team that has suddenly become the best hitting team in all of baseball. They're better, obviously, but just still not going to be blasting the runs and smashing balls all over the field. So I think for that reason, maybe just instinctively, fabulous is a little more conservative. That's kind of how I view it. But in terms of your actual question, I do believe they all have a part of it. That's going to sound like a cop out, but the way John, when he asked questions when

34:19we're in this office and so on, he often talks about how, yeah, you know, I consulted with so and so I consulted with this guy. We're talking with Demarro Loa, we're talking with fabulous, we're talking with Bud. Like we're, they're having all those conversations in between the ending. So it's not just like a, a John Schneider thing to answer your question. But yeah, I mean, maybe they could be a little more aggressive. I mean, Nick and I have talked about, talked about this before. The idea, not just being sent home necessarily, but just utilizing the speed on the base pads, a teensy bit more. I mean, Josh Smith could be a part of that. But we talked about guys like Miles Straun, Brett Bateman and Under some Ennis. It is something I would like to see this team take advantage of a teensy bit more. Yeah, again, I'm not going to a night where they won, even if it is a relatively, a relatively quick one or relatively close one, I should say I don't think I'm going to pick up Nick bigot too much, but something they could take advantage of more. I mean, suicide squeeze, safety squeezes. We haven't seen a ton of from the blue jays and John Schneider's tenure. Maybe something we could see them utilize more. There's a texture about small ball. If you're going to be struggling to score run, something I would like to see them lean into a teensy bit more.

35:21Those are texts you're from Jen and medicine had Alberta. Do you think burials will be in the starting rotation next season? You didn't mention him earlier. And that is true. I am a fan of burials. I would be surprised if he pitched really at all next season because of the elbow injury right because you get to get the elbow surgery. And generally those, the timeline recovery wise for those elbow injuries, especially when they get the surgeries. And I forget if it was the internal brace or the Tommy John because I think the brace generally makes you come back, allows you to come back a little quicker. But still I'm, I don't think you're going to, when you're talking about rotation plans for next year, I'm guessing they are planning to not have Jose Boreos because I mean, gosh, Ryan talked about it earlier. If you can have Csoriano's, you're one, two, and then you savage the return of Cody Ponds, we can't forget about. And then question mark, no one, Harry, perhaps someone else. You, you're probably okay for now, but I do hope he comes back and it's healthy. Perhaps for 2028. Appreciate all the calls. Appreciate all the texts. We got some good ones tonight, even though it's pretty late.

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