MLB Now Talks Brewers' Playoff Hopes and NL MVP

All right welcome Cliff Floyd to the showdown right here. Now let's remember like we're not signed you back in the day you gave me the cheese you gave me that back. I can't really debate you. OK good. I appreciate that. All right. So I think that certainly with the Braves and Dodgers class in the National League but I'm telling you I think the Milwaukee Brewers could take down either one or both of those teams. Corbin Burns Brandon Woodruff really in Freddy Peralta with Devin Williams at the end of the game. They don't score a lot. They'd have to score enough but good pitching can shut down good offense. The Brewers would be a tough matchup in the play. I do agree with the fact that they do have some stud pitching you know across the board. Adrian Houser was you know phenomenal. And when you sweep a team like the Rangers you have to play good baseball. And that's what they just did. I get that. But I just saw the Braves a couple of weeks ago against the Cubs. And I thought to myself you it's going to be tough to beat them consistently especially in a series. They have too many good hitters and I know good pitching at times to stop good hitting. And we're seeing a lot of pitching with the Brewers right now. But you made a great point. If you don't score enough runs then I think that pitching has to be exceptional. It has to be amazing. And while they can do that that's pressure. And so I think the offense have scored enough. One big thing is Christian Yellows has been healthy the whole season. Right. But I'm going to go back to the Braves real quick. That lineup is one of the most dominant lineups I've seen in a long time. Like I play on some really good ones. But when you have this do at the top of your order and the Cunha and the bottom half because I was worried about Rosario. I was like well you know what. Where is you know that hole. And now he's hot. Ozuna's hitting the ball the ballpark. I mean they have so many ways to beat you and they put so much pressure on you in the first inning. It's not like wait around. They don't wait around. They like take the fire to you in the first couple of innings. And it's going to be tough to beat them. You're going to have to really truly have your best stuff to beat them in a city. They have five hitters with twenty five home runs more. They may end up with five with thirty or more before the season's over. Yet good pitching can shut down the good offense. Yeah it's going to be tough though. I get it. But the brave starting pitching at times has been a little shaky. Strider's not quite the same guy he was early Max Fried coming back. Who would be that number three. Is it Elder Morton. You wonder how that slots in there. So we'll see for Atlanta. Well I think the biggest thing is you have that luxury right. And if you Brian Snicker the one thing you count on is getting a guy like Max Fried. You need arms and you need as many as you can possibly get. We've seen that throughout the years of just sitting there and watching playoff baseball even contending type baseball down the stretch. If you can get a guy like a you know you didn't have to trade for Max. That was your that was your trade deadline acquisition right. Getting him back healthy for sure. And out there you know there's there's holes in everything adversity on every team. But when you talk about consistent I just think they put too much pressure on that opposing pitcher to where you look if you beat him hats off to you because it's a crazy line. Well you mentioned about the Atlanta Braves in the first inning how dominant they've been. Acuna Junior setting power speed record seemingly every day. Yeah. Is there any way he's not the MVP because power speed batting average you name it. He's at the top of almost every category war. He is MVP. You know I'm going to have to say Paul's for one second. When we look at this board and you look at not only his teammate but those dudes out West and you can give a love to Freddie Freeman. I'm going to go Mookie Betts a little bit. When you look at the numbers you can see for yourself why you know you have to pause. Why do love Acuna Junior. I just feel like Mookie Betts is in a position when you talk about clutch plus to me is hitting runs and scoring position getting big timely hits. Of course he has the homers and thirty four homers but he's versatile. He can play second short outfield. I'm selling you a little bit I think. And the most important thing when I say clutch he's hitting three seventy two runners on scoring position. You can't be more close than what Mookie's been doing. So look Acuna Junior absolutely been dominant. I mean setting records and I get it. But when you talk about let it let it be a little closer than you know a landslide of Acuna running away because Mookie Freddie we just saw the Mookie my man is out there doing he's doing it. But at the first thing the thing that separates the Braves from every other team is their dominance in the first inning. They have score everybody and they give up the fewest runs as well. Take a look at the two guys in the first inning right there what Acuna is doing with the batting average. Now Mookie's got some home runs right. The leadoff home runs some. Yeah he's got a few one. He won nothing in the first inning six. No one nothing. Who's got more run scored between the two of them. Thirty seven to twenty nine. OK the overall numbers a distinct and significant advantage for Ronald Acuna Junior. And that's the difference between the Atlanta Braves everybody else. They get out to that early lead and it changes the game. The bats are different. The innings pitch they're different. Everything's different. Ronald Acuna Junior run away. I won't say run away. You can't say run away. Stolen bases I get I win. He stole a base. Freddie Freeman has doubled the stolen bases that Mookie has. I have to give you that one. Look I can't. I call a spade a spade. I give you that. I'm just saying when you look at it that's what I say run away that looks I want. I want somebody driving this truck. Ain't no run away. You don't just let it go down the highway by itself. Like I mean you know you're pushing back a little hard considering how much I hooked you up with that. Well I'm just saying you said run away. Mookie is not a run away.