ALERT: Rockies’ Ezequiel Tovar EMERGES as World Baseball Classic HERO for Venezuela

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By the way, before we're going to be talking a little bit about the Colorado Rockies who

last year had a, let's call it a down year, they avoided 120 losses.

So let's, that, that's seen the glasses, one eighth full, and there is talent on this

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But quick question, did you watch the World Baseball Classic Final last night?

I absolutely did.

You mentioned an exciting young talent and Team Venezuela shortstop, Ezekiel Tovar.

That's right.

That's the reason I brought it up because, and I brought this up a couple of times during

the World Baseball Classic that one of the reasons why Team Venezuela won, and we talked

about this with Justin Lotten on a couple of the early shows, is they had a bunch of hitters

who may not have been the Superstars, may not have been Judge or Bryce Harper or Carl

Schwarber, but they were annoying.

They're smart.

They go first to third.

And Tovar of the Rockies got a terrific showcase in this year's World Baseball Classic and was

a big, big part of Venezuela's victory.

Maybe not always with, you know, the overall stats, but whenever there was a rally, whenever

there was a comeback, whenever there was something going on, Tovar was always in the middle

of it.

Yeah.

The, the stage, the moment wasn't too big for him.

This is a guy that's been, that's very young when you're looking at it.

The Rockies handed him the keys when I believe in, in 2021, I think, or very recently, and

he was only like 20 years old.

He's, he's still very young, and he batted 500 in the tournament.

His OPS was like almost 1.5.

He's, he is Yamamoto's kryptonite.

No one can hit Yamamoto, but Ezekiel Tovar picks up a couple of hits and is eight for

11 against him all time.

It was amazing, actually.

It was so great to see not only, I loved the World Baseball Classic.

I thought it was just such tremendous baseball and such an awesome viewing experience.

But for the Rockies to have a guy play a significant role, it wasn't home runs.

It wasn't that, but two for four in a final.

That's exactly what you're hoping for for a guy at that part of the lineup.

He snagged it.

He had some great defense, stole a base as well, I believe, in the tournament for, for,

you know, in a line, yes, whole two bases.

Yeah.

For you to be in a lineup that's got Salvador Perez, Ronald Acunio Jr.

Some of these Luis Arayas for Ezekiel Tovar to be the name that stands out amongst those.

That's for a Rockies fan.

That's exactly what you were hoping to see out of the World Baseball Classic and really

cool to see new, you know, kind of World Baseball Classic legend, quote unquote, Michael

Lorenzen there for team Italy and him and Tovar go and head to head as Lorenzen's now a member

of the Rockies.

But I'm over the moon for the baseball world to meet Ezekiel Tovar.

He is a special player and he wasn't healthy last year.

And that was a big reason why the Rockies were in the situation they were in.

Yeah.

I filled in for you a few years ago when you were, I think you were getting married, right?

Yep.

For my wedding.

Yep.

So I filled in locked down Rockies for about like a week and a half or two weeks.

And I think that was in 2024.

And I got to see, I got to, I watched a lot of Rocks that year.

And Tovar really just impressed me.

He's got, you know, he doesn't have like blazing Ricky Henderson speed, but he's got good

speed.

He's got first to third speed.

He's got good power.

Of course, everyone's power numbers are going to be a little bit increase if you start

a course field.

But I loved, I had a really great time because that was, you know, he was still, I think it

was his second year, if I did before it was his second year in Denver.

And so he hasn't played a lot of meaningful games in Denver, we know, with the Rocks.

But you got to see him play meaningful games.

You got to see him play at a high level.

And you can't help but think for the players, for the hitters who are involved in World

Baseball Classic, to be able to amp up your adrenaline a little bit, other than doing

a split squad game in Winter Haven or wherever you're, you know, wherever you're, you know,

minor league football, sprung training facility is his, by the way, he just, he just came

up so big.

And this is why this is what he's slashed, okay?

His final in the, in the World Baseball Classic of 2026, his batting average was 471.

His on Bains percentage was 500.

So every of the, the old cliche of well, even the best players fail two thirds of the

time.

Like, no, no, he succeeded half the time.

He's slugged 647.

So his OPS, now granted, it's a microscopic sample size.

But so is the World Series, the playoff series.

And while playing, getting the same number of at bats if they gone through a wildcard series

and a, in a division series, his OPS was 1.147.

Yeah.

Was huge in the games, came a big time in the Japan game.

I thought Japan was going to, to give him a forearm shiver to the face.

Mm-hmm.

So Var was right in the middle of that.

Yes.

Set in the tone.

I mean, this is a guy that I think, I mean, like I said, to have that moment, to have

no experience on the, I'm playing at this level of baseball, to be successful against

Team Japan, to be successful against Team USA.

These are some of the best in the business here that that he's gone up against.

And it's just, that is something that's encouraging because this is a guy that I believe

tied or led the league in doubles two seasons ago.

This is a guy that can, that can hit you home runs, play gold glove caliber defense.

This is an all star and a guy that can be the face of your franchise.

And one of my main takeaways to, I love seeing the emotion of Ezekiel Tovar.

We got to, obviously, that, we got to see the emotions of a lot of players and we know

how important it was for them to represent their countries.

But Ezekiel Tovar has kind of been an under the, he's not a big, loud, you know, in your

face type of guy, but to see the energy, to see him.

I saw that as I think he's going to come back and obviously you're going from the highest,

you know, peak of winning a championship, whether it, you know, matter what, that's still

winning a big tournament to returning to the Rockies.

But I think he's going to take away from that being around a euhenio Suarez and some

of these guys.

I think he's going to return as a stronger leader for the Rockies here in a season where

if he's healthy, he has a, he has a real good shot at being the Rockies best player.

Yeah.

And by the way, I want to, and by the way, if I, if I put you your name, I, I humbly, humbly

apologize.

Martin, uh, C, C, Cairo's, I'm going to say C, Cairo's said, unless you live in Venezuela,

um, you don't understand the meaning of the win last night.

And he goes on, he says, a country that's been so broken, this was a moment of hope and

happiness for the rebuilding of a country.

They love baseball more than anyone.

And look at the main thing, you know, I'm an American.

I was pulling for Team USA.

But by the end, what I really was rooting for was a good game.

And we certainly got that.

We got some really terrific games.

And I did not feel badly when they won, I didn't say, um, because you saw what it meant

to everybody.

And obviously one of the nice things about the Olympics, one of the nice things about, um,

the World Baseball Classic and hopefully the World Cup when it's here this year, um,

is that the tensions between countries are being played out on the field and not in a

political arena.

You know, this has not been the best year for American Venezuelan, uh, uh, relations.

And we saw USA versus Venezuela and it didn't turn into something ugly.

It was two teams with legit major league players going at it, both wanting it, both wanting

to win.

You saw the American team was desperate to win that game.

Um, and that was, uh, but I did feel when you saw just the outpouring of emotion at the

end of that, uh, you know, I was like, okay, I'm, I'm okay with this, you know,

it was, it was one of those, yeah, it was just a moment where I was just, this is why

baseball rules.

This is why we love the sport.

This is when baseball is at its peak, when baseball is, is, is played at that level and

you have the intensity and the, and the, and the, and the buy-in from the players that

we see in the playoffs and the World Baseball Classic, that, that's what makes it special

and that is such a special moment for, for the, the entire country of Venezuela and,

and the team that, uh, that, that that represented them and, and you could see how disappointed

and devastated it was for the players for the United States.

They, they, they went in there with, with a lot of expectations and hopes as well.

Well, going from baseball as good as it gets, let's switch gears a little bit and talk

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Okay.

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It was what team?

Let's see if you know it.

What team eliminated Team USA in the first ever World Baseball Classic?

That was back in 2006.

That was the one where Dice came out to Zaka went to judging.

Hmm.

I'm going to go Puerto Rico.

All right.

You're going Puerto Rico.

We're Harry Edelman, the 9922 said Team Mexico eliminated Team USA in the 2006 WBC by

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Maybe get my WBCs crossed up, but Mexico was playing in a game.

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Those please look that up.

Folks, we have avoided talking about the Rockies as long as we possibly can.

It was tough last year.

It was tough and you know, they obviously had 119 loss season, which I don't care what

metric you're using.

I don't care what you use for your stats.

That's that that could be better, but are you going to the worst team of all time, Sully?

I mean, worst starter, ERA, they have the worst run differential of all time.

Sure, they narrowly avoided the White Sox record, but if you compare those squads, that

Rockies team was on par for being one of the worst baseball teams, that's seen the major

league field.

I was trying to be positive.

It's that that light air, there's other stuff people do in Denver to relax, but I tell

you one thing, one thing impressed me about the Rocks going into this year was this.

They let go of Bud Black and again, Bud Black's a good baseball man and had some success as

a manager of the Rockies.

It was time to move on.

It was time to move on.

Yeah, it was absolutely time to move on.

They brought in Warren Schaefer, who I wouldn't be able to pick out in the lineup of one

before he was handed in.

I thought it was just a sort of like, all right, we're handing this guy, yeah, you, you

manage while we try to get a real manager in here, and they they kept them in.

They decided to say, hey, look it.

Which makes me think they kind of maybe saw something that said, all right, maybe we

shouldn't have chaos.

Maybe we shouldn't always be turning things over.

Let's hand the car keys over to him for us to give him a chance to have a season, give

him a chance to have some familiarity for some of the players, acknowledge that there

were terrible injuries and everything that were on the team, and give this guy a real

shot.

That kind of impressed me that that's one of the first things they did to try to turn

the page.

Yeah, I think this was actually the right move.

I think Warren Schaefer came up last year and he came from within the Rockies organization.

So familiar with the Rockies players, the younger ones, especially, and the Rockies played

a lot of young guys last year.

I believe they were the second youngest roster in baseball last year.

And you know, I think as they did so much other change, the new pitching coaches, new

hitting coaches, every other coach basically got changed because the Rockies moved on from

that area.

Blood Black, no more a Bill Schmidt fired, let go, however you want to talk about it.

New GM, new president of baseball, there's a whole bunch of change that happened.

So when it came to manager, were you going to go find the next big, great name and managing

to come fix this thing in Colorado?

No, I like sticking with Schaefer in this situation, familiarity with the team.

And this spring, he's gotten to, he's gotten to do things his way.

Blood Black, again, like he said, it was fine, but Blood Black wasn't doing anything to

develop talent.

He wasn't changing the game for the Rockies.

He wasn't getting the most out of his players.

So now Warren Schaefer this spring is they have an individualized training schedule that

works with the players.

They do things differently.

They're embracing a lot more analytics underneath Paul D. Podesta at least so far.

There's a lot of modernizing the game.

And I think Warren Schaefer is, it was a good guy to help bring the Rockies to the modern

game while also having a lot more familiarity with the roster and the players as you brought

in a bunch of people finally from outside of the organization that don't probably have

a very, very little experience or knowledge of some of these guys.

By the way, there was one thing before we go to break here.

I'm going to break down a little bit of the roster and some thoughts going in, but the

Rockies did one thing last year that I always loved one, a team that is, that has low

expectation that they do.

And that is they gave a shot to someone who was a top prospect elsewhere, didn't work

out, but is still young enough to contribute and say, hey, obviously you are someone who

has some ability.

Otherwise you wouldn't have been the first overall pick.

And this is, and Mickey Moniac was the number one overall pick in 2016 and he did not

fare well in what, two and a half seasons in Philadelphia.

And he did, he had half a good season in Anaheim, but then in 2024 he just was bad.

And he wound up with the Rockies and he was just cut, he was just up and up cut by the

angels.

Now granted, course field, I hit four home runs in course last year, and he didn't have

a year that would make anyone forget Larry Walker.

But, you know, he slashed 273 06 518 in an OPS of 824, hit some bombs.

He didn't, you know, he wasn't a terrific player, but he had, he had some production and

he was something they just picked up from the scrap heap and say, hey, you must have some

ability, try us out.

And I like when teams do that.

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you were talent.

Yeah, and it worked out great.

And I think, you know, the, the one thing we didn't get to see the, a good version of

a Mickey Moniak with the Rockies was defensively.

He was a bit of a, it was a mess, yes, he was a mess.

Good news is the D.H. is in the National League.

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can be a guy that will be a power impact bat there for the Rockies.

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these guys, hey, you guys have potential.

We're giving you an opportunity, a chance now to shine, show something, prove us something,

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where there's a team called the Dodgers.

And I think I'm going to pick the Dodgers ahead of the Rockies this year.

I think they they there's a couple spots that go there.

The Padres are also pretty darn good.

I think they're a high 80 low 90 win team.

The Giants who knows the Giants, you know, and as a clue what the Giants are, not a soul.

They could have a terrific season.

They have a lot of talent on that team.

They've got a manager as much as experience as I do.

This guy makes were in shape or look like Earl Weaver in terms of his experience.

But you don't know how you don't know how things you don't have the Rubik's Cube is going

to turn.

Arizona narrowly missed the playoffs a couple of years ago after going to the World Series.

They were disappointed last year.

It was still a lot of talent.

I think the Rocks are in a situation where they can comfortably say, yeah, we're in fifth.

So let's, let's aim for, let's, let's start to build something here.

So you're the architect and I'm now appointed you GM.

How do you look at this?

I mean, I look at this lineup that includes tovar that includes Hunter Goodman, who's,

was a good player.

You know, Willie Castro plays Good D, Brent and Doyle plays great D.

Jordan Beck has talent, you know, Jake McCarthy has, is going to be great.

It defensively in that outfield.

And their, their starting staff is Freelin and Cantana and Sugano and the Italian Michael

Lorenzon and the, the prospect Chase Dolander.

How many would you think about this lineup and, and the, the staff going forward?

I think it's a better lineup than last year.

It's more, the, I think it's important the Rockies win out and added veteran pitcher.

I obviously, these guys aren't side youngs.

These aren't the most, they weren't the most sought after names and free agency when

you're talking about veteran pitchers to add to your staff.

But statistically, every pitcher they added to their rotation was better than their pitchers

last year with the exception of Kyle Freeland, who gets his fifth opening day, start in

a row.

I think the Rockies will be, again, another team that's going to have a team ERA in the

mid force, close to five, they're, it's not going to be, but I think they're veterans

enough that are going to keep them in games and keep things from getting out of hand early.

That's at least the goal.

So I think these guys with that are excited for the, these guys chose to come to Colorado.

King Kong Lorenzon, these are guys that have pitched in the big leagues for a long, long

time.

And Sugano, he's only had the one year of Major League Baseball experience, but he's

a legend over there in Japan.

These are guys that have studied, breathed, lived baseball, pitch mixes, a whole variety

of tools in the tool belt.

So I think I hope the rotation's improved.

It won't be, it take a lot for it to be better than arguably the worst starting rotation

of all time statistically.

And like we mentioned before, with a healthy Ezekiel Tovar, the Rockies offense is in a much

better spot because I think Ezekiel Tovar, Brenton Doyle and Hunter Goodman all can play,

I'll start caliber baseball.

Brenton Doyle is a gold glove elite defender who, when he, when he, if he can get the consistency

with the bat is a great center fielder, Ezekiel Tovar, like we mentioned, he's got, he can,

he can lead the league in doubles.

And Jordan Beck and Mickey Moniak could be some guys that provide some power and some

thumb there.

And who knows, one thing that I love to see about some of the acquisitions and some of

the stuff in spring, Rockies are going to steal a lot more bases this year.

They want a lot more aggressive on the base path.

So they brought in speed.

They want to use utility players and, and swap out their lineups to take advantage of

the base paths.

So that's going to be something that, that I think will, will help the Rockies.

And the bullpen, hope, you know, young bullpen, but now a bullpen that's got a lot of guys

that have a year, year and change of some experience.

They've pitched at the big league level.

They've had some big moments.

So hopefully they take a step forward.

Now the ceiling for the Rockies is still a great season for this year's Rockies team avoids

100 losses.

If this team wins 65 games, that's a massive success.

You're talking about for the Rockies there to do it.

That's, that's like a, that's near 20 plus, you know, around a 20 game improvement.

So I, it's, they're not going to be the best in the NOS.

They're not going to be the one of the best lineups, but it's full of some interesting

games and some interesting pieces.

And I like the acquisitions the Rockies did to raise the floor of the Rockies from being

as low as it was last year to hopefully a more competitive team with some more veteran

presence there in the starting rotation and some guys hopefully taken some step forwards

and getting some breakout performances from some new names like TJ Rumpfield, who is

probably going to be the first baseman for the Rockies and Kyle Carroll set third base.

You got a little bit of time with the Rockies, but young, exciting guys, hopefully going

to pair with, I think, and exciting three players in Tovar Doyle and Goodman.

And then I'm going to bring up one of their prospects who's played for two teams that

in cities that have emotional connection to me, and that's Charlie Condon, who was their

first round pick a few years ago.

My time at Washington State meant I went to several Spokane Indians games.

And so there you go there.

And I was born in Central Connecticut.

So he played for the Hartford Yard Goats as well.

He really played well in Spokane.

He did not have a good year or a couple of years ago is first year as a pro, but he lit

up Spokane and he has shown some serious pop in Hartford and this spring training.

He's been, he is, he is, he's slashing 389 552 722.

Now that's not, he's going to wind up in either Hartford AA for a full season there

or at least start there or he's going to wind up in AAA.

I'm not saying he's going to be the starting first baseman of the team, but if he continues

to play, this was the guy who's the number three overall pick just a couple of years ago.

And when you, when you are always trying to build pitching and you burn that on, you know,

and there was only one picture picked at that point, they saw something Charlie Condon,

he was picked ahead of Nick Kurtz, by the way.

Um, they saw something in him and he's showing it in spring training.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, he was, there was, there was a conversation.

Is he going to win the spot here from the performance?

But from the reports that I've seen from Rocky's media, they want to make sure

that they're not rushing things too much with Charlie Condon.

But what's great about him is he had an injury that, that was a tough for in the bounce back.

He had a great fall league takes a great fall league and that translates to a great spring.

Now we just got to take that great spring, translated into a great season that starts

at the minor league level.

I'm going to say AAA, I, I think the Rockies will put him down there in Albuquerque

and make sure that he's ready to go.

But I think the, the, the, there is a very real chance that Charlie Condon is playing

first base for the Colorado Rockies, come post trade deadline.

I, I, I think the Rockies, if they, if I think the Rockies, if it plays out the way

we think the Rockies sell a couple of pieces at the deadline, they go in the second half

of the season and they, and they can, and give the Charlie Condon a shot.

Because Condon plays a couple other positions.

Yeah, he might not just play first base.

He, he might see some time in the outfield.

He might, he'll probably get some time deaching there as well.

But he is, he has been on enough of a streak where it's time, I think it's, it's exciting

for exciting times for Charlie Condon.

And I think we'll see him in purple at some point this year.

And that'll be after they trade Moniaque, which the, it's essentially

would be found money, which anything can get for him.

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