World Series Pitching Preview: Tampa Bay vs. Milwaukee

So Friday, Craig, I believe, will be game one of the World Series. And have they announced the starters? I would imagine it's just Miz and Rasmussen. There's no reason to think it's anything different. I don't know if they've listed that yet, though. No, you're right. That's it. I mean, they haven't listed anything, but those are the probables. So I would assume that that's what you'll get. And then, you know, the only question would be, with the way that Peralta has pitched for Tampa, would you now want to throw him Saturday? in Milwaukee or do you wait to bring him back uh the following Monday seems like that'd be a lot of time off for him he's going so good right now that i i would guess if i mean that it's tough though man to have to pitch against your old team in their house in the playoffs i mean i guess so so uh if they do that then he'd go Saturday joe right for uh Tampa that's what i would think right and then for Milwaukee it's pretty simple Henderson would go game two so i think those are the first two and then we'll see where they decide to go from there Nick Martinez will be involved for the Rays, I'm sure, at some point. And, you know, Milwaukee gets a little thinner with their pitching after three. So, we'll see what happens. Yeah, I think Peralta is also going to be the key to this moving forward, too, because legit number two, I got to try and see. I thought he was done. I really, Brewers moving on from him, number one. And then what we saw from the Mets was embarrassing. And then going to Tampa, and all of a sudden, he's a different guy velocity is up i change up it like he's how much does coaching manage at this level how much does it matter Craig at this level because whatever Tampa was doing Milwaukee wasn't for whatever reason what what is that uh well i mean look he wasn't horrendous with Milwaukee he was horrendous with the Mets that's for sure he was with the Mets uh i i think look the when it's true you would think that when the Brewers let you go you kind of got to start thinking oh they let you go for a reason but a lot of a lot of times Joe it's not for that it's just money they let guys go because they're about to get paid and like Corbin Burnes they let him sign somewhere else or they traded him initially to Baltimore because they knew they couldn't sign him and then he ended up signing that mega deal with Arizona so you answered you answered your own question though like Tampa Bay just knows what to do like they they get a hold of these guys and get the best out of them a lot a lot of times it's also the hitters but they also a lot of teams Cleveland Milwaukee they put their the guys in the best position to succeed whether it's platooning they just understand how to use the numbers how to incorporate their best pitches and he's not the only example the Rays have been doing this for so many years but a great example is Joe and it it's very easy to do even this year too all you got to do is take a look at who's closing games for the Tampa Bay Rays Brian Baker go take a look at Brian Baker's last six years of his career and tell me that you saw 50 saves and an ERA under two like i mean they just they know how to do it and for me also with Tampa Bay when they let you go when the Rays get rid of you like you got to be a little worried about that player because generally generally not always the player doesn't end up uh doing well now there are exceptions to the rule Arosarena of course has been very good he's you know had a really good year and the Rays make bad trades too but but they get the best out of their players the Brewers get the best out of their players the Guardians get the best out of their players because they have such great research and development great analytics departments and they say they say culture I don't I can't really speak to that because I'm not there every day they say that's a big part of it too so you just got to give credit to them for knowing what to do and in this case it ended up working the other thing that I would say about those teams too that I really like joe is that they're willing to take time with development but joe if they think they've got the most out of you this you know sell high that's it you know if if that if they think that that is it for you and they see the very best in you you're going to probably end up playing somewhere else next year wow it's and you got to take that into consideration when you start looking at some of these players greg right like why with not always money it's also the concept the belichick way i'd rather get rid of you a year early than a year late right is that it because if i gotta pay you uh then think i don't know do you think they would have wanted to keep Snell yeah i mean they were never going to be able to pay him or glass now you know that's the problem right yeah that's the money example right right so so the rays so the rays gave i mean this is a good trivia one it's pretty easy you'll remember the rays they gave two big contracts out one was Evan Longoria who was an all-time Ray uh didn't didn't finish his career there but probably the best Tampa Bay Ray in history who was the other 100 million dollar contract they gave out to Joe who was the other one that's the trivia on the rays one other one yes they gave one out who was it I'll give you a hint he's not on their team go ahead well that doesn't shock me okay how about another hint how about another hint no he's in the Dominican like in jail like yes i know exactly you're talking about yes or isn't he trying to get back into the league too or something he's never gonna play ever again he's never playing ever again Wander Franco