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What's this?

We have actual good news when it comes to injury updates.

I don't know how to act.

I'm going to try to get some energy here.

Welcome into the Ph.M. X.D. Back's podcast.

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My name is Derek Montia,

occasionally known as a man who is entirely human.

Be going out to concerts that start at 10 p.m.

on a Sunday night.

Also shout out to the roofers who were replacing my neighbor's roof

at 5.30 a.m. this morning and banging with hammers

about 10 feet away from my head where I lay to sleep.

But hope you guys are having a much better morning than I am.

Welcome into another edition of the Ph.M. X.D. Back's show.

My name is Derek and I am tired.

I'm joined by my guy Damon Dog aka Damon Farrell on the ones

and twos thrilled to have you guys here.

Thrilled to be joined by Damon.

And I know he's got a little bit more energy than I do.

Not a lot.

Not a lot.

Don't ask if you asked Damon to jump right now.

He's not going to ask you how high and he's not going to jump

more than once.

He'll jump very, very, very small amount off the ground.

I don't think I told you this yet, Derek.

I drove up from Tucson this morning.

So I am.

I'm in for a long day today.

I got a big Monday game.

Arizona versus Iowa State top five matchup tonight.

So we got a long day ahead of us.

We're dragon.

We're dragon.

Also, while we're just talking about our weekends,

don't have a yard sale.

I can't recommend avoiding having a yard sale enough.

It was a miserable experience and I made no money.

So don't do that.

But did you get rid of some stuff?

I didn't get rid of anything Damon.

People came and looked at my crap and went like,

and then laughed.

That's what people did.

But that's fine.

It's all right.

I'm just going to donate it all away and get it out of my garage.

But I will say though, I might have a whole bunch of bad news

from this weekend.

But the Diamondbacks, they gave us some good news.

We have some very encouraging updates here when it comes to some

Diamondbacks players that we are very concerned about.

Possibly missing opening day or some regular season games.

First, we have according to Steve Gilbert over at MLB.com.

Corbin Carroll is on track to be ready for opening day.

I don't know why we felt so certain about this.

The timeline for Corbin definitely did not have him

being ready for opening day, according to this injury.

Even if you wanted to look on the positive side of things,

when it came to having a bone removed out of your hand,

a stupid bone that apparently doesn't even need to be there.

And when you break it, they can just take it out and you can go on with your life.

But apparently Corbin is, like we said,

he's a super mutant human being and he is doing everything he can

to come back and be ready by opening day.

Carroll has recently begun hitting with both hands on the bat, Damon.

He said in the article, starting to build up there,

it's very low intensity, like flips and T work.

I mean, it doesn't feel great.

Definitely ahead of schedule.

I think some other guys have gone through Haymae injury.

We're happy to see where I am given how far I am out of surgery.

So again, it sounds like his recovery is far ahead of schedule

when he was asked about if he was ready for opening day

or if he felt like he was going to be ready for opening day.

Carroll responded by saying, yeah, I'm pushing for it.

So Carroll was actually able to get out and take flyballs

with his hand feeling good enough to catch the ball.

So again, we are very far along in the process.

Now for Carroll and his development, what's essentially next is he can start swinging again,

start trying to get those at bats in a lot of time he has missed

with a bat in his hand.

So really, it's about him kind of starting over.

And I know that part has to be frustrating for him.

Carroll was ahead of schedule as far as spring training for a purpose.

For a reason, he was going to be a part of Team USA

in the World Baseball Classic.

And I know this has to be once again,

just a huge disappointment for him considering that he was trying to put

that early work into prepare himself for the classic

and for obviously the Diamondbacks regular season.

But they do have, or he does have a lot of work to go in order to get his power back.

And again, baseball is just so dumb like you really do have to start with the basics

in order for you to build back up and get yourself back on track.

But while he, you know, again has a lot of things to get ready for

and a lot of a lot of time still to make up.

It's great to see that Carroll is back to having, you know,

being able to swing a bat, hit balls, catch balls, do all of that baseball activity

that, you know, that will get him back here by opening day.

I spoke to Tori before Friday's game against the Seattle Mariners.

Now this was prior to that article dropping.

This is what Tori had to say in regards to Corbin Carroll's progress

and where he was at as of then.

Um, I think he, everything he does is ahead of schedule.

You know, he presses it right to that edge.

So he's on the program, he's following the program.

Is he ahead of schedule hard to say?

We're going to get about his hand once we get to that point where he's swinging

and impacting the ball.

That's probably a better timeline.

So again, just good stuff overall here.

When it comes to Corbin Carroll, we, when we were talking on Friday,

we briefly spoke about Carroll having like one of the best attack angles per,

or percentage per his at bat in all major league baseball.

And then we veered off course and went right into Jelly Bean Talk,

which by the way, that kept could happen at any point on the show.

Damon has the Jelly Bean photos ready to go at any point.

And we are, we are locked and loaded for, you see,

well, this is going to get us through so many bad times this season, Damon,

because how can you not be happy looking at this adorable face?

Oh my God.

Anyway, back on a five game losing streak.

Yeah.

Steve, welcome on into the PhD backspot cast.

We're talking Jelly Bean Talk.

Yeah.

No, we're just, we'll, we'll contact the World Wildlife Zoo.

And we'll just get a direct feed into Jelly Bean's pen for this show.

That's what this show will become.

Um, but of course, uh, Corbin Carroll.

It feels like Carol is part of a crowded outfield a little bit now.

We don't know what's going to happen.

We don't know how that competition is going to play out.

We're going to talk about that a little bit later here when we discuss the results

from the weekend, which were very, very solid results overall.

But, uh, it does feel like as far as injuries go,

you feel a little bit better about their depth now that they have the guys

that they have competing in camp and doing as well as they're doing.

Uh, however, you know, again, uh, we still are very unsure about what's going to happen

with Lordus, also unsure about, you know, who was really going to work out

in the outfield for this team.

You know, Corbin Carroll, once he returns is going to be out there and right.

So it really comes down to how does Lawler, Alex Thomas,

and possibly Ryan Walshmit factor in plus you have Rosa, Tim Tawa.

You have other guys that have been playing outfield as well.

But the big concern for this team has to be Merrill Kelly.

And we have more good news from Steve Gilbert.

God bless Steve Gilbert for giving us all of this good positive news.

According to this tweet from Steve Gilbert, uh, the Diamondbacks have a good update here on Merrill Kelly.

Merrill Kelly is feeling good.

He has himself a positive overall.

I got a quarter zone shot.

Merrill Kelly received a quarter shot.

Quarter zone lidocaine in his back last week.

He played catch today without a problem and is optimistic about being able to pitch

at the back end of the rotation to start the season.

This was on yesterday on Sunday.

So according to Steve Gilbert,

Gordon and Merrill Kelly, everything feels good.

He is going to get back on a mound.

He is going to resume baseball activity.

And for all intents and purposes,

should not miss a regular season game.

Again, much like Corbin Carroll with missing out on the World Baseball Classic,

this sucks for Merrill.

I mean, there's a good chance.

And Merrill did address it that this was his only chance

to have an opening day start potentially in his entire career.

So it's unfortunate,

but it's good news that he won't miss any regular season games

and will factor in essentially at the back end of the starting rotation

as kind of their number five starter if you want to call it that.

But Torrey did have the brief reports on Merrill Kelly,

as well as what he talked to Christiane Mayna about

who also was shut down due to injury.

This is what Torrey had to say.

He is feeling better.

That's for sure.

But we still haven't gotten him asymptomatic.

And once we get to that point,

we're going to start to develop a game of that.

But everything will hinge on how he's feeling.

So no update there whatsoever.

Mayna, I told you yesterday,

Mayna, we pulled back from throwing program

at a brief conversation with him today.

He understands why.

Like, you know, arm just has been healing at the way.

The way we want him to.

He's got to rest.

There's no time.

Well, again, feels it does feel encouraging that Steve tweeted this out.

And it feels encouraging that the time and backs, you know,

again, still have that depth without Merrill Kelly.

They're still able to survive with the addition of Michael Soroka

and the addition late addition of Zach Galen.

But again, Merrill is kind of their, their ace right now.

You could also argue that Ryan Nelson is their ace.

And he only got his first start against the Mariners on Friday.

We will talk about that as well.

But interesting comments made by Merrill Kelly on foul territory.

The other day, Damon, by the way,

we kind of missed out on talking about this.

But Merrill discussed why he didn't sign with the Padres.

And we showed you on when we had our media availability

when Merrill first, I guess, had his first media availability with us.

He discussed that there wasn't offer on the table from the Padres

for a three-year deal that he turned down

in order to come back here to the Diamondbacks.

Well, on the foul territory, Merrill Kelly shed a little light

on why he turned that deal down.

Damon is going to love this one.

Damon, he said they take too much money.

The taxes over there are unbelievable.

This is Kelly on the taxes in California,

which led him rejecting three-year offer from the Padres.

And instead returning to the D-backs on a two-year, $40 million deal.

I guess he just didn't sign with the right California-based baseball team.

Am I right?

I was going to say that it sounds like the Padres

don't have the same, you know,

doctrine going on with their taxes and their contracts

as maybe a fellow division rival might there.

That's for sure.

You don't say, you don't say.

It's weird that that's not a problem for any players

going to the Dodgers that the amount of money

of the California takes is...

No, it's not weird.

I don't know.

I don't know how any of that works, I guess,

because I am not able to properly manipulate taxes.

That's what you do when you evade tax laws

and manipulate tax law.

I mean, the Dodgers are really good at being the best scumbags

you've ever encountered in your entire life.

I really had no reason at all to really talk about this

other than just to set you up for this.

This was my main reasoning.

Again, it does, I mean, it does prove that, you know,

that some other teams should have an advantage

sometimes in signing these guys due to things like that.

And yet, it's something that Dodgers are able to get around

and not have been an impact.

It's just wild to me.

I'm just glad Merrill is not a Padre, man.

That'd be devastating.

Me too.

Well said.

Well said.

So hopefully Merrill gets back here soon

and hopefully he doesn't miss any regular season starts.

It looks like that's going to be the case.

We collectively held our goddamn breaths on Saturday, though,

because the Dodgers, it seemed like for a moment

we're about to lose the only left-handed pitcher

that's currently projected to be in their bullpen in 2026.

And I hated it.

I hated it so much.

But luckily it wasn't as bad as we thought.

In Saturday's Cactus League game against the Angels,

Diamondbacks, Reliever, Brandon Garcia,

hit two batters, walked another

and left in the fifth inning with trainers at his side.

And lower velocity than we've seen out of them

and very, very poor command.

And yeah, I was ready to really overreact.

Just end the season.

Probably.

Probably just end the season.

Yeah, but the team quickly confirmed it was illness.

That he was removed for not an arm issue,

relieving all of my worries and concerns,

because again, I can't take any more injuries, Damon.

I simply can't.

Like we had good news about Merrill.

We have good news about Corbid.

And of course it felt like the universe's cruel way

of balancing that was to be like,

but we have to take another one of your arms for this.

You know, that kind of thing.

That's how I envision the universe talking to us

because it's been very cruel to us for the last two seasons.

But again, he is currently the only D-backs left handed

pitcher projected to make the bullpen.

And again, it was a lot of a lot of relief there

that we weren't going to be losing him.

Like we have AJ Puck and Andrew Salfrank

or only other left handed pitchers.

But a lot going on with this team.

The Diamondbacks made some moves when it came to their roster.

They reassigned a bunch of players to minor league camp,

including Daniel Egan, Tommy Henry, Derek Law, Alfred Modio,

Landon Sims, Ben McLaughlin, who was just killing it.

By the way, Ben McLaughlin probably couldn't have been doing

any more than he was asked.

I've been Melendez who is absolutely opposite of Ben McLaughlin

and Drew Jones, who hasn't been doing too bad either.

He will join his World Baseball Classic team,

but he will be assigned to minor league camp.

No need to overreact about any of these guys.

Of course, the Diamondbacks have a very limited amount of space

as far as their roster is concerned.

So really, when it comes to getting these guys

reassigned to minor league camp, you could say it's just about

having them start their development,

their next progression and spring training.

However, it is a weird time, Damon.

I'm sure part of this is just the natural progression

of spring training, but with all of the guys leaving

due to the World Baseball Classic,

it just felt like why not leave a Daniel Egan,

maybe Ben McLaughlin or Drew Jones will be joining his team.

Like I said, some of these guys in camp,

just to continue to get looks at them,

just to give them more reps with the major league team,

at a major league level out there during spring training.

But what do I know?

I am simply a man that is dressed like grimace today.

Don't they have to cut down on the roster?

They do.

Yeah, the camp roster has to be cut down eventually.

So you are right about that.

Now it has 65 players, 25 non-roster invitees.

So that was the part that need to be come down.

They have 36 pitchers in camp,

six catchers, 15 infielders, and eight outfielders.

So still some more cutting down to do.

But you know, there was, there's a lot of,

I guess line-up flexion going on right now.

And as far as Tori is concerned,

he still doesn't know who is going to be healthy

come opening day or who is going to be in his outfield

and where guys are going to be.

We discussed that with him on Friday here.

This is what he had to say about the lineup kind of being

an ever-changing thing right now.

A little bit.

It's a little challenging because we have the WBC group

that's leaving.

So Marte, Pernomo, Santana, came in, worked out.

This came for Ryan Holiday today.

It was our guest speaker.

And they're out for the next X amount of days.

And then that's creating a little bit of a challenge for me.

But we're, we're going to play in the healthy players

where we can when we can.

But I got to make sure that we put the best team out there

to evaluate, watch them perform,

and then make good decisions moving forward.

It's a lot.

It's a lot in a short amount of time.

And considering the impact of the WBC here on the roster,

you know, you're not getting a chance to see your everyday guys

out there.

You're not, you're getting a chance sometimes to see how

maybe one of these outfielders is going to play

with the rest of his outfield.

Alex Thomas is with Team Mexico.

You have Corbin Carroll out with injury, right?

You're not exactly seeing how a Ryan Waldschmitt

or perhaps a, you know, Jordan Lawler is playing

with the other guys who you know are going to be out there.

But again, it's still a chance to see more young players

and guys, you know, that are getting an opportunity here

that they wouldn't normally get due to this World Baseball

Classic situation.

So again, just a longer look and again,

chance for guys to shine.

We're going to talk about the outfielders doing that for sure.

But before we move on to that,

I did want to give you Tori talking about how he is struggling

just a little bit to let go of his World Baseball Classic players.

Here's what he had to say about trusting that they were going to get

the work that they need to get with their teams when they're not

under the watchful eye of Salvador LaVolla.

It's a very awkward feeling.

I know that they're getting good reps.

We're getting the high intensity reps that we all want them to take.

But we're watching them from afar.

So I said goodbye to them today.

I put in, I put everybody in group text.

So I told those guys I'd be in touch with them.

And I want to, want to hear from them.

Like when they're doing what they're doing just because I'm curious.

And we enjoy the good moments.

But it's a very awkward feeling for us to step away totally

from what they're doing to allow them to perform.

But we know they're going to take care of this soon.

Oh man.

That sounds like a complicated series of group chats that he has going on.

He has to remember which guys are in which thing.

I wonder if he has them divided by teams and then has like a little flag

for that team for each group chat.

Like yes, the Dominican team.

And then he's getting all sorts of great pictures from that team.

And then there's just known are not all by himself and the team

Puerto Rico chat and you know things like that.

I don't know.

Good good on Tori.

He's got a lot to balance during this time of the year.

And it's not very easy considering that again,

you just have to trust that some of your most talented players,

some of the guys that are going to be your everyday starters are going off

and getting everything that they need to get prepared not only for this tournament

but for the regular season and return.

Most importantly, let's hope everybody stays healthy and comes back fine.

Stronger, stronger than ever is what we want.

But we're going to take a quick break on the other side of this break.

We are going to give you updates on the diamond backs currently

being on a four game winning streak here in spring.

And which guys are kind of leading the way when it comes to that.

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I just told everybody online that if we get to 100 live viewers, I'll do nothing but show live or pictures of jelly bean for the last 10 minutes of the show.

So if you're into that kind of thing, tell your friends.

But also get excited because the Diamondbacks are on a winning streak.

Get in loser. We're going streaking Diamondbacks are on a four game win streak.

If you care about such things during spring training, Damon.

I know it's hard to care about spring training games, but I won't lie.

I was a little concerned. I didn't I don't love the losing Diamondbacks.

Hey, hung in there with the Dodgers, but they lost that game and they haven't.

They haven't lost a game since then.

So very encouraging.

Gabrielle Moreno also got his first hit of spring.

And as excited as I want to get get it was a I think a two RBI single.

It's still a little concerning to me that.

Moreno has struggled offensively the way he has.

So far this year, but again, it's just spring training.

I will not I will I will reserve my concern.

My worry for the regular season.

I have enough gray hair already.

I don't need to give myself more gray hairs.

But the dobacks did beat the Mariners on Friday out in purie.

That was a fun game to attend.

Shout out to my family members for letting me come sit and along with them and experience.

The joy of being a baseball fan again.

I forgot that.

I won't lie.

Life is just like like I said, baseball is just better from the lawn just sitting out there.

Kind of paying attention to the game, but not really.

And enjoying, you know, the beautiful weather here and some time with my favorite people.

But while we were out there, AJ Rookovich had a three run bomb that landed right by us.

So that was kind of fun.

That was within the second inning.

And I gave the Diamondbacks a lead and eventually the win there.

They beat the Mariners by a score of three to one.

Rookovich is hitting 250 this spring, but he does have a 1.150 OPS.

So he is a guy that's been showing some power.

And again, he's a name that's been in the organization for a while.

It's great to see him kind of starting to put some things together here during spring and making, you know, making a good impression here.

But when you talk about good impressions, Ryan Nelson was on the bump and he made his first start of cactus league play.

And of course, Nelly did what he does.

He looked like an ace out there.

Nelly went out there.

He pitched two innings.

Didn't give up a hit.

Didn't give up a run.

Didn't give up a walk and struck out three batters.

His fastball is already hitting Damon 97 miles per hour.

Love it.

First start of spring and he's hitting 97 miles per hour.

Get out of here with that.

You love to see it.

You love to see it.

This is what Nelly had to say about it in 97 and how his pitch mix has been so far early in spring.

Yeah, yeah.

I feel good.

Honestly about the whole pitch mix right now.

I think that we've been really working hard trying to get everything locked in.

It's quite as that site felt at this time of the year.

Now just build up some endurance and some length and yeah, I like what it's at.

Best he's felt at this time of the year.

You love to hear that.

Also, it's good for Nelly that I think at this point all of the competition questions I think are put to bed about him being part of the starting rotation.

I asked him about that if he's preparing any differently and he said he's not.

He said in the past he's just kind of prepared to be a starter and I think that the decisions for other things as many players have said.

He agreed to their decisions are out of his hands.

All he can do is go out there and shove and do what is asked of him.

And if it's asked that he goes into the pen, then he does so if it's asked to stay in the rotation, he does that as well.

But he's just done an incredible job at whatever he's been asked to do.

And I think it's finally time that Ryan Nelson is not only, you know, just thought of as a solidified starter for this rotation that he's thought of as one of the best starters in the rotation.

And he was asked about, you know, possibly making that start on opening day.

I think I think he is one of the candidates along with obviously Zach gallon, which just feels like that is another candidate regardless of where Zach is at his progression feels like a possibility.

But, you know, Nelly coming out here hitting 97 and putting up, you know, two innings of scoreless baseball and striking out three.

This is what an ace does. This is what someone that starts on opening day does in his first spring training start.

So this is what Nelly had to say about essentially getting ready and being ready no matter where he starts for the diamond backs this year.

Um, I mean, yeah, I think it's, uh, it's a question is like what I'd be ready for and I think so.

So I think just continuing to prep how I am and whenever the whenever my first game is, I'm going to be ready for that.

Uh, yeah, by the way, JR me strong was asking in the previous video, did I hear mine, mine, mine, mine, mine from finding Nemo's in the background? Yes, you did hear some birds squawking.

Apparently, uh, I think that was part of the game broadcast was coming into, uh, into the clubhouse there also very quiet.

We were, it was like me, Jose Romero Ryan Nelson and our guy Shane from the diamond backs PR staff.

Not a lot of people in that clubhouse, not a lot of people, uh, made the trek out to Peoria due to the again, the world baseball classic.

And, you know, this roster kind of being trimmed down now those, those things, uh, led to led to this team, you know, kind of being in that place where you're going to see going forward a lot of young players in the lineup.

You're also still going to see, you know, plenty of the starting pictures. That's one thing that's not going to change the diamond backs only lost Eduardo Rodriguez to the world baseball classic.

So, uh, and humanland obviously to team Taiwan, but, uh, the, the other guys here in camp are going to still be out there and still be starting for this team, given this team a chance to win.

Nelly did that and the diamond backs did win that game. Meanwhile, they beat the angels on Saturday by a score of eight to five.

Luke and Baker, this giant of a man, uh, he went two for three. He hit his second home run of spring. He had two RBI and that win.

And then meanwhile on Sunday, the D backs beat the guardians, uh, by a score of nine to six.

If you want to get excited, Damon, let's get excited. Ryan Walshmit, three for three, two doubles smoking the ball.

Yeah, you're smoking the ball. You already know I'm excited.

People are, people are starting to warm up to the idea of people are talking.

The streets are saying the Damon dog might have been right the whole time, perhaps.

Listen, me and, uh, me and Jeremy were talking yesterday on, on, on the socials.

I don't mean to act self-important. I say this in the most humble manner that I possibly can, but I am solely responsible for corporate carols, uh, rookie of the year award.

We all know that. That's, yeah. I mean, that's, that's a well.

I took down each candidate. Yeah.

One by one by one. You'd buy anything to necessarily push Corbin further.

You just eliminated the hurdles in his way today. Walker. Yeah.

James Outman. Remember that name. Remember that guy.

Uh, so yeah, I mean, I, I had to do what I had to do.

Obviously, we're all Dupardoma. We all know how responsible I am for his rise to superstar.

Yeah. So this is your next. This is the next project.

Project number three here. It's Ryan Walshmit. Welcome to the show.

We will speak it into existence. 107 mile per hour exit V.

Low on one double that scored two runs and 111 mile per hour exit V.

Low on his other double in that game, Damon. Yeah. I mean, he really is ripping the ball.

The guy is just a professional hitter.

I keep saying it, but like it just feels like his floor as a, as a major league caliber hitter is so high.

Maybe he does, he does need a little bit of time and triple A.

You never know. I'm not saying that he's actually going to be in the opening day starting lineup necessarily.

But, uh, he is making things difficult. And this is exactly the scenario that I was like dreaming of Derek,

which is, he's undeniably good enough where you have to start.

He, he's starting to push the envelope of like, should he, should he be on the opening day roster?

This guy is maybe too good to, to leave off the team right now.

So it felt like it was only, it was like if this and if this doesn't happen,

if Corbin's not ready and if Lord is isn't ready, but now it's seeming more,

seeming like you can't deny his talent and it's going to be hard to imagine them.

The power Derek putting someone above him. I mean, again,

I don't want people to overreact though if the Diamondbacks do that.

I don't want to, I don't want the, because there are always reasons for it.

And those reasons extend far beyond the way these guys are playing on the field, right?

You know, it's options and, you know, again, his development,

the fact that he's essentially skipped triple A altogether.

That wouldn't be, that wouldn't surprise me if they want him to just go to Reno,

just so that he can continue to rip the cover off the ball there and then be available for them.

Yeah. The minute that they need that depth, however, it's,

it's hard to imagine them doing that. The only reason why I say that is because

they have a lot of young outfielders that are playing well right now.

Christian Robinson, three for three in that game as well,

two runs scored, hitting four 17 right now with a nine sixty two OPS, right?

I mean, man, what a story that is.

And again, I don't want to harp on it. It's just a, I think Robinson is a guy

that was a top prospect for this organization, went through some real life struggles

that were far past just struggles on the field and has done an amazing job

at coming back, continuing to work and put in everything that,

every bit of dedication that he needs to and looks great.

He looks great. He looks physically in the best condition I've ever seen him.

And he's putting, he's putting up great numbers.

Between those two guys, Loller, the way Alex Thomas was playing before he left

for his World Baseball Classic team, like there's a lot here that the Diamondbacks,

a lot of decisions they have to make.

But again, probably would be described as a good problem for the front office

and for Tori Lobello. This is what Tori had to say about that competition

in the outfield, being a good thing and how these guys are playing.

Great. It's been great to watch.

You know, Loller is coming in here to show us what he can do inside our field.

He's been playing really good baseball.

Barossa, you know, there's a lot of guys.

They know who they are. The guys are competing.

I want them to create some urgency. The guys that are not competing

I want them to go out there and show that they're getting better and better every any.

But it's been a lot of really healthy camp battles that are just taking place

very naturally. These guys are going out performing.

I'll tell you, it's fun to watch, but it also feels like no matter what

there's going to be some guys who are disappointed that don't make it.

And probably guys that don't necessarily do anything deserve to not be part of the major league roster

when that decision is made.

Just, you know, unfortunately, some tough decisions are going to need to be made.

But the future of the outfield looks very solid for this team.

And again, there is a lot of things that could happen going forward.

And again, a lot of guys took a lot of I think a step forward during this camp

as far as being closer to making their major league debut debut or being part of the major league roster.

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Every year is the year of Jesse Jr.

Every month on this show is black history month.

And every single month on the pH and X diamond backs podcast.

It's black women's history month. Every single week is shark week.

Even though we root for a team comprised of snakes.

And every single day is earth day because Damon recycles.

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But on Mondays, we go to the mailbag. Damon, let's go to the mailbag.

All right. Well, we got in the mailbag today, Damon.

Our first question is from Travis Moore, who wants to know.

Say one of the big three Carol Marte or Pradoma were injured for a lengthy period

and couldn't play. Would you feel any semblance of confidence in the front office

being able to fill in for their position and replicate a decent amount of that player's production?

I do now after seeing these young guys play, right?

When you talk about an infielder potentially being hurt, you feel like Jordan Lawler

with the way that he's performed could potentially slot back into the infield.

And again, same thing with Corbin Carroll in the outfield.

Now that we've had a chance to see so many of these young guys play and compete,

I feel strongly about Ryan Welchmit coming up.

I even feel good about a Christian Robinson perhaps being tried out.

I mean, there are a few guys here in the outfield.

Maybe even guys that we haven't given the credit to that they deserve.

I talked about enough on here for how they've come out and performed and played.

Right? So I mean, if one of those guys were to go down, I would be devastated

and I wouldn't recover. So I'm not going to sit here and act like I'm, I would be fine.

Damon, there's no, there's no part of me that would be fine with losing either any of those three.

But yes, if the Diamondbacks did only lose one of those guys, I do feel like in those positions

that they have the ability to recover and have somebody step in.

Is it going to be the same production?

Oh, it's hard to say that.

But again, you do feel good about the opportunity that could be given

and the Diamondbacks just have a lot of talent that feels like it's right there at that at that level.

Robert Berman brings up Tommy Troy.

And that's a great, great, great pick.

I mean, I feel like Tommy Troy is a guy that has the versatility,

at least of what we've seen out of him in AAA to be an infielder, be an outfielder

and help them out with both of those roles as well.

So yeah, I mean, so far the young guys give me confidence that they could step up

and be that next star. I'm also not that worried overall here about the offense.

I feel like the offense for the Diamondbacks is going to be fine.

I have far more concerns about the impacts that that replacement could have defensively.

And again, I feel like pitching is still kind of a mess.

But what else we got, Damon?

Next question here comes from Jeremy who wants to know,

all these feels like a star, but we've been burned before.

If he's called up, please compare him to Blaze and Jordan on their spring training seasons

just before their eventual call-ups.

I will say that neither Blaze nor Jordan Blaze did have himself a good spring.

A few years ago, if I recall, and then we kind of went through the same thing

where Blaze's name became kind of a name during camp.

He didn't make the roster, but people always kind of held on to that.

Then when he did, he had a lot of defensive mistakes at a major league level

when he was playing in some regular season games.

Jordan Lawler has really struggled.

I mean, Jordan Lawler has struggled offensively obviously,

and at times at third base, he didn't look the strongest either.

So I feel like overall what we've seen out of Ryan Walshman in camp

is a guy that looks polished and ready to go.

And in fact, he started a little slow offensively,

but since then we've seen him do nothing but absolutely smoke the ball,

play solid defense, and be everything that you would expect a young star to be.

I don't feel right now like there's any questions about his ability.

It doesn't mean that he's going to put up this strong and numbers

throughout a regular season or have this kind of success.

If he was part of the Diamondbacks regular season roster on opening day.

But I think that Waldey looks like the real deal.

I really do, or Waldoy.

We still haven't, we still haven't come to conclusion on that.

Depends on how he does, but I think he's a star.

I really do, and I think that he has the potential to be on the same level

as a Predomo or a Corpink hero for sure.

All right, what else?

Hi, praise.

I mean, you can only speak to the results.

I feel like if he was just doing some of this stuff he was doing in camp,

I would feel pretty good about it even if his numbers weren't as good as they are.

But the fact that he's already hit a ball over 115 miles per hour

and then backs it up on Sunday with two doubles over 110.

Yeah, I feel he deserves that praise.

I mean, yeah, he does have the raw power it seems of like a very, very good majorly hitter,

which is, which is great to see.

And I think he has a good approach and whatnot as well.

I just, I just think we can just get him on the Gabby, Lordis, that tier of player.

That's perfectly good enough for me.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Where should Walker, like a guy who's going to be in the middle of your lineup

who's a really, really good player, but maybe isn't like the all-star top three to five

at their position level?

Yeah, not the most consistent for sure.

Yeah, but like I think that, you know, if he's just that caliber of player

then we're in for a very, very solid career for Ryan Walchmann left field.

I agree.

I agree.

It's again, it's just encouraging.

Like if what you are looking for is for guys to come out,

know that they have an opportunity to win time at the major league level in the outfield

and you want them to compete, they are doing that.

They're all doing that.

In fact, I would say that some of the best performance right now on this team

is coming from their outfield.

So good on them for stepping up and understanding the assignment

when it comes to this competition.

What else will you get?

Our next question is from Michael Rokiki who asks,

which of these would you most want to see this season in 825 OPS

for Jordan Lawler or a 300 batting average per cadence mid?

Oh, man.

I like Michael's questions.

I like the way he frames them.

Yeah, I do too.

And I like this because of what it kind of says now.

Oh, man, because you could categorize both of these things as

you don't need either one of these things to happen in order for the Diamondbacks

to be successful.

But what would drive their success more?

Well, I feel like probably the Jordan Lawler 825 OPS.

Right?

I mean,

Paven batting 300 is great.

But Paven's still going to probably be in a shared role over there

first base.

Carlos Santana is going to get a lot of reps over there.

So it's like Paven Smith would not only need to have that 300 batting average,

but he would have to be playing damn good defense in order for him to win the majority

of the playing time over there.

I'm sure there would be a lot of Paven Smith fans in our chat that would

ride it if he didn't earn that playing time with 300 batting average.

But I actually don't see Paven Smith 300 batting average being that impossible

and a limited amount of played appearances.

Meanwhile, you know, if Jordan Lawler is hitting that OPS and playing outfield

successfully and a good defender, then my God, I think a lot of our,

you know, questions are answered about the future of this team.

So yeah, I would, I would take a Jordan Lawler 25 OPS.

I feel like that's far more important to the organization as a whole

than Paven Smith hitting 300.

Yeah, I think that that long term, that'd be better for the team, for sure.

I mean, not, I know I'm a Paven Smith hater, but I've also been considered

a Jordan Lawler hater at times.

So I think that, you know, this is a question almost designed for me.

I mean, give me the 825 OPS from Lawler.

You could probably just drop whatever pre to hater that you add

and just say, David's been considered.

But also Paven could hit, you know, 240, 250 and still have a pretty good OPS

because that's kind of what he does.

He walks a lot, he doesn't really hit for, you know, anything other than,

you know, trying to hit for power.

So, you know, he could have like a 750 OPS in a 240 average

and it would be an okay season for, for Paven Smith, you know what I mean?

But yeah, I mean, I feel like Jordan Lawler 825 OPS,

that means he's going to be really damn good.

Hey, Killer X is once again showing in the chat that he doesn't know ball.

Killer X says, if Carlos Santana doesn't have smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas

as his walk up music, he's a bum.

Wrong.

The right answer is Maria Maria by Santana and the product GB, GNB.

That's the right answer because during that song it says to the sounds of the guitar.

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All right, well, we got one more and then we'll take a quick break.

Our next question here is from Flea Ball who asks,

not sure why managers can't challenge ABS calls.

What is stopping them from a quick signal to the catcher?

Can't wait for ABS stats to be part of the players back of a baseball card.

I want it on the back of Gabby's baseball card.

That's for sure.

Is he wrong?

I don't know.

You guys know I hate this.

And I think it's stupid.

I think that they took a good idea and I went too far with it.

I think impacting the broadcast, even though it's been impacted far less than we thought it was going to,

or at least far less than I thought it was going to be,

is still stupid to me.

The fact that we took this system that was essentially implemented

so that we knew when balls and strikes were being called accurately and are making it into a Mario Party mini-game

within a baseball game is stupid to me.

The fact that they don't want to let managers call it is stupid to me.

The fact that the umpire can reject a challenge because he thinks he's getting the information from an outside source is stupid to me.

There's a lot of things that are stupid to me when it comes to this and I don't like it.

Also, you know who hates it more than I do, Ryan Thompson.

Go ahead and ask Ryan Thompson his opinion on it and be prepared for a lengthy conversation.

I think he tweeted something about he's really glad that we did all of this short and baseball times with the pitch clock

only to now have a game interrupted because a umpire missed a call by 0.01,

10th of an inch or whatever.

But yeah, you know, again, I look, I think it's dumb.

I think everything about this is kind of lost the plot when it comes to what the purpose of this was.

And then I'm conflicted by it.

I feel like I hit the crib because I do love the pageantry of it.

I love everybody's eyes starting up to the big screen after a challenge has been called to see what it was.

I feel like it has like a like family feud vibes.

Not for the answers when you're going down the line and each family gets a member gets an answer and you have the three strikes.

No, no, no, I'm talking about when the other family has a chance to steal and it goes to them and they just have to decide collectively as a group on one answer.

And then they answer and then we go to the board to see if they were right.

That's what this has the feels of a game show and that part of it.

You expect me not to love that, but still at the end of the day, I just find the fact that this technology was implemented only to make it into this is is is dumb to me.

So, but it is what it is.

It's it's at least I do think it's going to be quick.

I don't think it's going to impact the game time and be this thing that drags us down.

And I think it's going to be fun when our team wins and crappy when our team loses.

But we're going to take a quick break on the other side of this break.

We're going to answer more of your questions from the mail bag and we're going to do that in about two minutes.

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I thought Gabby was killing it, but maybe it's gone south.

The debacks are like minus two. Okay, so what you're talking about is batting challenges.

So when Diamondbacks batters are in the box, the Diamondbacks are they've challenged seven times.

They're three, they won three lost four.

They are minus 1.1 on overturns versus expected when it comes to batting challenges, but they haven't challenged a lot.

Like I said, they're at the lower end as far as challenges are concerned for batters.

Meanwhile, the Yankees have challenged 20 times and have the most challenges for batters in major league baseball so far in spring training.

But when it comes to fielding teams, the Diamondbacks have 15 challenges and they have one seven of them.

So actually they are not bad overall when it comes to that.

I believe let's see where they ranked Diamondbacks a ranked.

Actually, yeah, it is kind of bad 18th overall.

So in the bottom half for a short there of overturns versus expected combined not doing great, but doing much worse when it comes to batting.

And again, not challenging a lot.

So not giving themselves many opportunities.

I'm sure that's coming down from Tori himself.

I think that might be a mistake because now would be the time to challenge.

Now would be the time to try to work this stuff out and figure out what your strategy is going to be come the regular season.

So I don't hate what the Yankees are doing by using a lot of challenges.

And again, trying to figure out when they want to use them, when they feel comfortable using them.

And again, trying to overall use spring training as a way to work out what your strategy with this new system is going to be.

But we got more questions in the mail bag, couple from discord. Damon, what do we got?

Yeah, our next question here is from Bradley Johnson.

Who wants to know? I know Walshman is big name is a big name that we are all wanting to get a shot at the majors.

But is Christian Robertson equally if not more deserving of that fourth outfield spot due to him being a roll five eligible.

His spring training numbers, small sample size obviously are looking really strong so far.

They are. And I mean, again, roll five eligibility definitely plays a factor into that for sure.

But I think the Diamondbacks have enough time to make that assessment where I don't know if him coming in and winning a spot out of spring training camp is likely.

But anything is likely. I mean, again, the opportunity is wide open. And I think Walde gets a lot of attention.

The spotlight is kind of on him. But I do think that there are plenty of other guys that are performing well.

And I think again, Christian Robinson is one of them. I don't know if roll five eligibility would play a factor now.

But it would be a factor, you know, at the end of the season when they have to add into the 40 man roster and ensure that they protect him from that.

It's it's weird. The roll five thing always kind of is interesting considering that there's always the caveat that that player has to stay on the team on the 26 man roster for the entire year in order for them to maintain and not give the team that lost them a chance to get them back.

But again, I do agree that not only is Christian Robinson playing really well, but he is a guy that again, I think.

If you've been a diamond back fan long enough, you remember was our top prospect was our Ryan Waldschmitt at one point was the guy that we believe was going to be the next great center field of this of this franchise.

And he has gone through a lot. And I give him all the credit in the world for working as hard as he has worked to get back here and get to this point where he is killing it and spring training the way he is.

I'm sure the diamond backs have noticed his hard work and I'm sure that they are not sleeping on him, but again, like I said, there are a lot of factors when it comes to making these decisions on who's going to make the opening day roster and who's going to be a part of the big league club.

I would not be surprised once again to see him part of the group that is essentially in Reno trying to stay hot trying to stay ready for an opportunity should they need that that outfield depth.

I also think those guys playing well in Reno and being right there just a little bus ride away keeps that pressure on whoever is on the major league roster that their job is not safe and at any point they could get outplayed and potentially replaced and that's not out of the question here with where the level at some of these guys are all at.

I think the diamond backs see a lot of these guys on the very equal footing as far as you know where they're at where they are at in their careers.

What else we got there, Damon?

Our next question.

Next question here comes from dumplings who asks who is going to be our Dodger killer this year?

What a question.

Right.

Is it Lord is career junior?

I want to believe it's Lord is career junior.

Why is that?

I don't know.

I don't know.

It feels like Lord is going to it's going to be Katalmarte.

That's who it's actually going to be because Katalmarte is going to have a chip on his shoulder when he starts playing the Dodgers.

Katalmarte is going to be the kind of guy that wants to go out there on the biggest stage and perform and we've seen him be able to step up in those moments whether it's late in the game with the game on the line or just under the bright lights of

Chavez ravine.

So I think I think it's going to be Marta.

I like Robert's pick as well.

Robert says no one or an auto books journey says Perdomo all great picks all great picks.

I could definitely see it being our an auto as well just because you know he it almost feels like a Perdomo or Marta is too obvious.

When it comes to asking who a Dodger killer would be it feels like it needs to be somebody kind of inconspicuous off the roster that steps up and maybe

is playing well but plays much better for some reason when it's against the Dodgers.

I like Gabby.

Yeah.

Gabby is the first name I thought of but it's hard right now Gabby struggling the way he is in spring to feel confidently about that but I don't know.

I'm also worried.

I'm worried a lot.

I spend the majority of my life riddled with anxiety.

That's very true.

Damon knows that.

Damon hates me for that but at least I think he hates me for that.

He doesn't actually hate me but it's the anxiety once again it projects the projects to hate.

There it is right there.

Manifesting.

Definitely manifest.

We got some questions from discord by the way including one from our try or try Mama Chris.

Yeah Chris wants to know top three best sliders in the back history top five current MLB.

Wow.

That's first of all I first saw this question I think I thought food.

Not going to lie when I was reading sliders I was like that sounds good right.

I was like chompies right the Jewish sliders and chompies let's start there.

No best sliders in due backs history top five current MLB.

It's hard not to put the guys that are here right now in there.

Being an older guy remember Tony Womack just being really smooth and cool as hell.

That to me is somebody that remains.

Is that what I interpreted it as a pitch like the pitch I guess but silky smooth pop up.

Would not you think would that it's right like sliding like like as in stealing back.

Oh man I guess we need to come yeah it's hard.

You're right I didn't even think of this as sliders like slider.

I was thinking like the pitch for some reason but I think that I think that you're right the silky smooth pop up.

She's talking about like sliding into the bag.

Right like Fernando Tatis Jr.

Has some amazing if you're talking about current players right.

I mean Eric Burns was a dive guy.

Eric Burns was like like he's like the first guy that popped in my head was like.

Yeah remember remember Eric Burns getting dirty.

Yeah nothing like it.

And I also think sliding think about how many times we've seen Corbin Carroll make amazing sliding catches and Alex Thomas.

Like those guys make sliding to catch a ball and then popping up to throw it.

Look like the easiest thing in the world.

But they also slide into bases very good too.

Corbin is is the slide guy I feel like out of everybody like he doesn't even dive head.

He doesn't even need to he only slides feet first.

So I and really only slide catches rather than dive catches in the outfield as well.

So I'd say Corbin has to be in that conversation.

He's a hobby bias still considered a current player.

He's he's still like one of the best sliders I've ever seen.

Yeah well he was an all star last year.

Okay.

I've just wanted to make sure like I didn't know if I didn't know if bias is permanently banned from regular baseball like he is a world baseball classic.

Javier bias.

He he's like just the coolest slider.

Like you know it's going to be an event anytime there's a close play at a plate when he's sliding in.

He's not like trade turner too.

Like there's a lot I'm sure a lot of highlight real slides from trade turner because he's just one of those kind of base runners overall.

But oh I got one who Archie MF and Brad.

There it is.

The greatest slide I've ever seen with my own two eyes watching a major league baseball game.

I mean you're telling me that slide that pop up with the beard.

I mean that doesn't get more electric than that.

That felt like he rehearsed that slide in the pop up in the mirror.

I have a I have a bobble head that commemorates that situation.

Obviously Randy Johnson, right?

The slide if you want to call it the slide where they did the chalk outline of him over at first base because he just kind of fell into first base.

What was a what picture did we have that actually stole some bases?

Was it cranky?

Yes.

Do cranky, cranky slides were pretty electric.

Granky on the offense was electric period.

This man was was a menace to opposing pitchers.

Granky slides were pretty electric.

Yeah.

Yeah for sure.

All right.

You missed that in baseball.

I know that it like it makes more sense and like having the weird American versus nationally is crazy.

Right.

But like the amount of memories that we made over the years.

I think being a team that maybe is not like a contender year in a year out.

Maybe even makes it more or we're like trying or like please give us something to be happy about.

But man, like I'm thinking like Micah Owens.

Yeah.

I'm thinking Dan Heron almost hitting 300.

Like Zach Granky, all of those offensive memories that Archie Bradley triple.

Debex, we've had some pretty good offensive pitch pitchers in our history.

And I feel like those were like electric moments that like you can you'll never be able to replicate Madison Bumgarner.

Putting like eight balls over the fence for the Giants.

Just like going up there and swinging for the moon every time that he's in the box.

Not trying to do anything except connect on one and hit a bomb.

I remember it might be VGo MLB moment Derek.

I forget the game and I'm probably I could just be making this up.

But I'm pretty sure I remember one time speaking of Randy Johnson that like Randy Johnson participated in like he got an RBI.

And he was also like driven in.

And then he won the game to do nothing.

So he literally support.

But he was participating in both of the runs.

The team scored anyone out there and struck everybody out on the mound.

It just it just feels like like I'm looking back on it and I'm thinking man we had some really fun offensive pitchers.

Oh yeah.

That was like a weird fun.

It was a legitimate but it was a legitimate advantage when you did.

Yeah.

Because it was such a throw away spot in the in the lineup.

And you just knew sometimes even if you had something cooking like oh man we got two on two outs.

We haven't had anything like this all day.

Oh here comes our pitchers.

Yeah.

Exactly.

But man when it was the diamondbacks every once in a while you're like you better watch out.

Micah Owings is about to hit it 375 feet.

They're going to make him a hitter because he's so good at hitting.

Oh you're not wrong.

All right.

Let's get one more in from Tim's Taco truck before we get out of your day.

We do have one last question here.

So let's hit it here is from Tim's Taco truck and Tim wants to know.

Any news on new food items at Chase.

If no, if you could create one item what would it be there?

Oh man.

All right.

We have not got any food items and Damon will attest to this.

The day that we get to try what's new at Chase field is my favorite day of the year.

This is a fact.

Derek I actually like I don't know if it's possible but I'd love to actually make it out to this years.

I feel like that's one thing that like it's it's kind of ruined my life.

The Korean pork belly nachos obviously not getting to try those.

Well it's because I come back here and I fill your head.

I regale you with these tales of all the wonderful things I ate.

Even in some cases I'm still I'm still mad about how long it took for those smash burgers.

To get on the car.

So whole year you're going to give me a little taste of them at this.

And then you're going to wait an entire season to give them to me.

But yeah, no, they'll be some new stuff.

I hope I just want to speak this into existence.

I need them to bring back a decent Sonoran dog where the bacon is actually wrapped around the dog itself.

I know that they went away with that going with a higher quality of what they believe was bacon and pork belly.

And then like kind of sprinkling it on top.

No, we need I need my Sonoran dog wrapped in bacon.

Yeah.

I need half the bacon cooked really well.

And then the other half that's wrapped under the bacon to not be cooked at all.

And I need the mustard and the mayo and the pico de gallo.

And I need all of that.

I need the best Sonoran dog in the city should be found at a Diamondbacks game period.

Period.

Yeah.

I mean, listen, Derek, we all know that like, you know, the maybe the best method of getting, you know, a Sonoran dog.

If it's not like out of a car out of a truck.

Right.

Yeah.

And we need to find a way that get those hot dogs inside of Chase field because I ballpark

hot dogs are fantastic.

Don't get me wrong.

That's a different type of hot dog.

But we're talking Sonoran dogs.

Do it the damn right way.

This is Arizona.

Don't be disrespectful to my state.

Yeah.

And come into my house and say my wife's name right wrong.

It's Christina.

Yeah.

And you wrap the hot dog in bacon.

Christina?

It's the other guy's reference.

It's Christina.

Are you deaf?

Or are you dumb?

Perfect.

Perfect.

Yeah.

No, you're right.

But he did ask what was if there was one item.

I could add.

Oh, that's a loaded question.

Because immediately I think of like what places could I add?

Like I miss.

I miss a panda express in there because I it was an alternative.

I need some or take advantage with no Max Simpson.

I love it.

Josh Rose.

Let's see what else can I throw in there.

No, but if I'm inventing let's see if I'm inventing a new item.

I got to be honest.

It would probably be like something ice cream related.

Maybe maybe give me ice cream in a helmet.

Damon, right?

We have some pretty damn good ice cream.

But not a little helmet.

I want it in the full size.

Not your helmet.

That's what I want.

Brother, I fell in love with cold stone creamery from going to D backskins.

No, that's fair.

That's fair.

That's fair.

That's fair.

That's fair.

You know what I really want.

Damon, what I really want is the Coca-Cola unlimited experience from the St. Louis Cardinals stadium

where for $29 you get unlimited, not only Coca-Cola drinks obviously, but unlimited hot dogs,

chicken tenders, bratwursts, nachos, french fries, popcorn, peanuts, kettle chips,

and ice cream cups.

Wow.

I'll never leave.

Like I won't leave.

You'll have to bring the police in to get me to leave from that because that's where I live now.

I'm just going to live there in the All You Can Eat section.

And again, ticket starter is low.

It's $29.

So, I mean, that's breakfast lunch and dinner right there.

Bring that to chase.

We need, we just need to improve the All We Can Eat section of Chase field.

One of the other improvements that we need to make there.

But I thank you guys for your questions.

I thank Damon for harassing me all the time and being here for me.

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Appreciate you stopping by.

We will see you again tomorrow at 12 p.m.

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We'll be back.

Yeah.

Remember you have a family sometimes.

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But again, we thank you guys so much for your time.

Love you.

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