Do the Diamondbacks have the BEST rotation in baseball after signing Jordan Montgomery?

WE PLAY FOR RINGS IN THE DESERT! We are joined by the one and only Jake Storiale aka Talkin’ Jake from Jomboy to discuss the Diamondbacks acquisition of free agent pitcher Jordan Montgomery. Does Monty make the D-backs rotation one of the best in MLB? Also, we discuss some of our bold predictions for the 2024 season.

Join Derek, Jesse, and Jake on the PHNX Diamondbacks Show LIVE!

0:00 Intro
1:30 Talkin’ Jake joins the show!
10:10 Best rotation in baseball!
25:00 Bold predictions for 2024 season
49:40 29 MLB teams screwed up!
52:20 Jordan Lawlar out for months
57:50 Ticket giveaway

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[Applause] E ye to you all let’s go where’s the drum solo ready for it one more time one more time welcome to another edition of the phnx 2back show uh of course the last one without actual regular season baseball my name is Derrik montia occasionally known as your mayor phnx

This man next to me is your vice mayor and your thunderstick the one and only Jesse fredman we are still riding very high on the news that the Arizona Diamondbacks have signed pitcher Jordan mcgomery still doesn’t seem believable yeah lost a lot of sleep over it last night just thinking about it just

Dreaming just thinking thoughts you know just just having things swirl around in my head about starting rotations and who might be the best in baseball but uh of course we have one man who is an expert when it comes to snakes and snake uh handling and it is the one and only

Talking Jake Jake story Al from johnboy Jake what is up my man what’s going on boys how about it oh uh an old friend of mine is a new friend of mine Jordan Montgomery and I man I’m happy to be here I know that’s like the the corny do

Anything line but I was literally I saw your DM come through and I was like tomorrow’s brutal like I can’t do tomorrow I opened up the schedule one gap on it 4 to 430 let’s talk snakes and then we got big news I know that’s huge it’s huge news it’s absolutely huge news

And of course we did want to tell you good job on defending the pool I know things didn’t go our way during the World Series but we do appreciate you being on guard and preventing any Shenanigans from happening in that area there was a guy begging me it went from

Hey if we hit a grand slam you’ll jump in the pool right to hey if we hey if we hit a homer you’ll jump in the pool right to he at one point he was negotiating if we get a runner on base you get in the pool and I was like hey

Man like I I I I would love to get in that pool but we need some runs and that’s uh hey that’s in our rear view now yeah absolutely absolutely now what we have is all of these offseason moves the Diamondbacks have made uh and of course the big news is Jordan Montgomery

We know you are very familiar uh with him uh so I guess we wanted to get your thoughts on you know the Diamondbacks making this kind of 11th Hour decision to bring on somebody of Monty’s caliber well first I mean shout out to the snakes front office man I mean our

Our talking baseball highlevel snakes kind of going away line was like all right well you know I hope they add something but but you know they just had some success they’re going to let the kids play and then to add you know two of the best Lefty starters in rod and

Monty um the additions to the lineup uh like everyone everyone was saying bye to lordis guel he resigns they trade for aeno it’s um what they’ve done this off season is what every team hopes for right like you’re a window has opened up let’s go for it in the Monty news you

Know that everyone was looking for teams for him and Snell nothing became apparent and uh you wonder I don’t know you wonder if did the rod injury matter at all is it the fact that all of boris’s clients ended up on the Coast that the snakes are like

Well if we’re doing this uh let’s do it but man Monty’s fun he’ll uh he’s kind of a low I don’t want to say low energy guy that sounds rude um but he’s uh you know he’s pretty straight faed but if he gets the big out he’s gonna show you

Some emotion he’ll get jacked up um and I guess the only thing I’d warn snakes fans is when he was with the Yanks um sometimes he’d go through stretches where like the first inning was tough because he he was finding out what his second best pitch was going to be that

Day whether it’s kind of his curveball or the change up so sometimes in the first inning he’s searching a little bit but when he gets in a rhythm man he’s one of those guys you look up and it’s like wow Monty’s retired 12 straight and

You’re like wow damn let’s go Jake I I’m still trying to just figure out how Jordan Montgomery signed a deal that only guarantees him $25 million like as of a few months ago I think we were all expecting it to be at least four times that maybe up to six times that like

That was sort of the expectation obviously he’s not the only one in this kind of position Blake Snell Matt Chapman Cody Bellinger really all of the all of the Scott BS clients seem to have gotten a lot less than we expected what do you make of of the market uh that has

Kind of Taken shape for him or I guess didn’t really Take Shape for him uh and just kind of the the Boris situation as a whole where he just wasn’t able to get nearly as much money for his clients as a lot of people expected Jesse wants to

Say it that way but he really means it’s Boris washed is Boris washed correct done or finished um no I I again I feel like I’ve had the conspiracy hat on a little too much recently between shoh and and now the Boris stuff right um that this one hurt the most and I’ll

I’ll I’ll Circle to that a little bit Boris has a huge crop of free agents next year guys that like Juan SoDo Pete Alonzo guys that yeah this this won’t happen to so was there some owners you know we don’t we’ll never say collusion

Um I don’t know I I don’t know I I know for Snell for Snell for Cody for Matt Chapman there were question marks coming into their free agency you know Chapman after his first month he he had a rough go last year and his his numbers had

Been coming down Snell I that’s the one I defend the most because like if we’re just knocking people for winning sa Youngs because they walk guys like I’m I’m making a walk and single combined stat because it’s the same like I know we have Whip and I but like a walk is a

Single and that’s how I’m operating right now because the year before that Dylan SE finished second in the Sai Young when he led the aellen walk so like there’s a world where that can be not as damaging as it used to be previously that’s a whole another speech

Sure um and then for me uh Cody he obviously had the injuries in the couple years where he wasn’t good Monty has been Monty he eats Innings he gives you you know close to a quality start every day uh you know should he be penalized that he’s actually kind of peing like in

The in those playoffs when he was mowing down yordon Alvarez and he tapped into a little something more with St Louis and Texas yeah like he’s the guy that should have been the easiest hey four or five years somewhere between 20 and 30 million let’s put him in our rotation

Right and the re the for him that’s the one that hurt the most because like I I have get the other guys and if they have a monster year which they’re all capable of they’ll still get paid um like out outside of Boris or whatever if Snell

Shoves this year he just won the Sai Young and shoved again and his career like everything’s good Cody does it back to back years um so the Monty one hurt the most because he doesn’t necessarily have the highest level stuff but he’s going to give you a good year so his

Free agency is going to look very similar next year I I don’t know but I’m happy for the snakes yeah we are too like we’re any any anything that happened that allowed this to be reality is fine with us right but Derrick doesn’t care how it happened I don’t

Give a [ __ ] I’m fine with it let’s uh let’s just not worry about how it happened well I will say like I do feel like time impacted this a lot like you said I mean there is something to be said about the owners basically maybe deciding or maybe not you know maybe not

Getting together and deciding but just overall having the feeling like we’re not going to let Scott Boris do do this to us again we’re not going to make Scott Boris you know make us sign these clients to 14-year deals for billions of dollars and all of this stuff that’s

Going on so it it felt like really it came down to if Jordan mcgomery doesn’t play this year or if he doesn’t sign soon with a team it could jeopardize him playing this year and then what happens to him I’m not saying a team isn’t going

To get desperate due to injury and come to them but it also feels like you know they they kind of played their hand and they they made it out like you know some of his top clients could wait and then time ran out on them and and they had to

Make a Choice $25 million is still a lot of money it’s more money than uh at least us on this side of the table is going to see we don’t know about you Jake but of course uh we know that that’s one of those situations where

It’s like all right that’s not the worst deal it’s not the long-term deal you get at the age of 31 I think he’s 31 right now1 yeah like that’s an age where like you said he should be getting that four five six year deal at this point it’s

Kind of crazy that he’s not but still at the very least he can go out and and play for a contender and prove himself somehow need to prove himself I guess once again that he’s worthy of a longer deal well hey and not you know not not

To cross Crossfire at at the owners too much but I just kind of had a moment of realization that you know all of us today are talking about Boris like in a way this is a huge win for the owners who held out on signing Snell and

Signing Monty signing Matt chab and so look at that little Spin Zone and uh yeah I mean I’m still I’m still very much on that side of the table than closer to the owners I’m I’m if I’m getting Taco Bell for dinner tonight so you know we’re getting a couple YouTube

Views but the the wallet’s not fat yet uh Jake a big question that we’ve been asked in the last uh 24 hours I guess less than 24 hours since this happened is whether the Diamondbacks have the best starting rotation in all of baseball uh I I don’t know if I’m I

Don’t know if I’m quite there I don’t think I’m there I look at the Dodgers and what they have I know Yamamoto was not at all good uh in Korea but I still think there’s a lot of Reason to Believe he’ll he’ll turn things around the depth

That they have is impressive I look at what the Braves have uh you know with Strider and Freed at the top Charlie Morton Chris S that’s a pretty solid top four that they’ve got the Mariners of course even though Brian Woo’s going to miss time their top four is still really

Really good without him uh where do you see the Dbacks stacking up here they they have the best rotation in baseball or how close do you think they are I wouldn’t say I don’t think they’ll be the top rotation in baseball and and maybe even maybe even not top three but

What I’ll say with that is that they might they can’t be worse than like again I’m guessing a little bit but like eighth like the the talent they do have is pretty safe Talent like Merill Kelly uh Jordan Montgomery and I know R Rod’s banged up right now but when those guys

Are pitching they’re they’re pretty safe like a lot of those guys don’t have bad numbers on their baseball reference page uh and then once you move all the young guys down fought Henry Nelson like you know the opportunity for those guys to be a five is insane so uh and obviously

Zach G gallon is a guy guy at the top um you one of the other rotations in baseball probably fully clicks whether that’s Dodgers um you know there’s a couple sneaky on like Toronto was was under the radar really good last year but I I think when you look at kind of

How we picture or and again I sometimes I wonder where when I was a SPO was a spoiled Yankee fan growing up um and like what what a team should feel like you know when you look at your rotation every team wants a one you you love to

Have the two guy and then you kind of innings eaters or you know th this guy might break out this year a guy like f and like that’s the snakes have that and now seeing all the young guys slide down the ladder it makes them look that much

Better they it’s it’s probably a top five rotation if you’re being safe is it do you think it’s safe to say that there’s like 10 15 other teams in baseball that should have given Montgomery the deal that the diamond packs just did yes and well I the the other thing

That I I’m deciding how how I want to attack it is through this off season when contracts were rolling out you know you’re kind of like Oh I like that contract that’s a good fit and you know that was with Snell and Monte and a couple other things looming that uh we

Kind of need to revisit how the pitching Market went down like even I say this in an endearing way rrod four for 80 like would Snell or excuse me would Monty have taken that um and then what does each of their free agencies like Sunny

Gray got three for 75 uh which is a onethird of Jordan Montgomery which that doesn’t feel right for the the younger Lefty pitcher who’s peing and you know Sunny gr did finish second in the S Young last year even Marcus strowman Marcus strowman signed for two for like

38 a half or something like that that we were kind of like whoa that’s incredible value and it still might be but now seeing some of the other contracts it’s like okay that’s a little more on par to what this free agency was um that if you

Know if a couple teams had the chance to do it over um you know would you just pay an extra Buck for Snell would you pay an extra Buck for Monty I I don’t know I I think there’s a couple teams with slight buyer remorse um like a

Again this is just shrapnel for no reason the Cardinals got their work done early um the Cardinals signed Gibson and Lance Lynn who you know they’re looking for a lot of innings and those guys can give them to you um for 13 mil and 11 mil and you just wonder if you’re

Spending that kind of money and those guys could have been XYZ I don’t know um different free agency yeah I mean we kind of have that a little bit with JD Martinez at least I do because I’m a huge lover of JD Martinez and Dereck still hasn’t gotten

Over this Jord Margery anything does not make me forget about that in fact it makes me go wait so you had JD Martinez money is what you’re telling me you had it you had it because you spent it so you had it but like I mean yeah you’re

Right there’s times where you might feel like maybe if a team did go out there too early maybe you know just like a lot of things in life like you didn’t get a last minute deal you didn’t get to shop you know kind of that Bargain Bin in a

Way uh where you have all of these very excellent players that were still left you know closer and closer to opening day and I mean obviously we know that pitchers specifically can you know be behind tremendously because they don’t start in spring training and don’t get

Ramped up and aren’t ready to go out there and throw 95 pitches on a given night so it’s a big deal for them to get out there I just wanted to ask you um obviously this impacts things greatly now but what were your thoughts on the Diamondbacks offseason before this I

Know you brought up a couple of the moves they made and like had you already kind of given them a fairly good offseason grade for the moves they made prior to this yeah I think I think either end of February or early March we kind of did a winners Losers of the

Offseason not to be too clicky um and I think the dimeb backs were close to consensus winners I mean Rod again that’s that’s a pretty safe bet when you’re adding a body to your rotation lordis comes back that’s plug-and play um The Jock gritch platoon man like I I

Know it’s know you’ve got some JD Mania but I would surprised if those if those two outdo them on their respective side of the plates like they jock has always killed righties and uh Randall has always killed Lefty so like I I love myself one platoon per team um and then

I’m also an aeno Suarez guy I think um Gino you know the the way that we talk about innings for starting pitchers um aeno Suarez is gonna be out there he’s gonna hit home runs and you know from a third baseman that’s you know paid at his

Level that’s fine like I the Mariners I Mariners fans haven’t been too happy with me because you know I I was like you still have to replace aeno and they were hitting me with he strikes out a lot and it’s like well yeah that’s because he’s trying to hit home runs and

He does that and he plays every day so um you know a aeno Suarez in the right lineup and right now I see you know Fang graphs has him hitting six or seven that’s that’s an awesome like fan favorite ball player if you need aeno to

Be your two or three hole your team might have some gaps but that’s not an aeno problem yeah yeah yeah no that’s a great Point that’s a great Point uh La last thing for me Tory lello said a couple weeks ago that he wishes the the best players in the league would quit

Coming to the NL West I’m guessing he’s willing to make an exception for Jordan Montgomery I I think he’s proba he’s probably okay with what happened with Jordan Montgomery uh but what do you make of of just the NL West as a whole this off season I

Mean it feels like the NL West uh did more made more moves this offseason and basically the rest of baseball combined with what the Dodgers did with everything the Giants have done in the last month or so uh you know looking at this division on paper as much as I like

The Montgomery move for the Dbacks I don’t think it necessarily gives them you know makes them Head and Shoulders better than better than the Giants I think they are better than the Giants but it’s not necessarily by an enormous margin given what the Giant did what do

You make of of this Division and and kind of how it looks going into 2024 it’s kind of wild how it happened I mean we talked about the Boris four this whole off season um and then you know it feels like we’ve been waiting three years for the Giants big off season and

It didn’t look like it was happening and then at the end of the day it happened like Jorge Solair is no joke Matt Chapman um like Snell they they went for it they Robbie Ray supposed to come back in midseason that guy has a sigh in the

Bag that you know they had their big free agency Jung Huli was 100 Mil and then so right when I was coming to grips with the Giants I was like you know what I definitely have the Giants over the Padres they traded for Dylan CE man with

That rotation is going to be a problem uh those are Michael King is a dude they’ve got four dudes in their rotation um you know their lineup still looks a little funky to me and but if some of those kids click they’re GNA be so uh

And that’s before you get to the Dodgers so yeah it’s um the the NLS showed out this year and I um you know it’s kind of a blessing for expanded playoffs but there’s also a chance that two NLS teams are going to be pretty devastated yeah

Um that’s a great and that’s um I don’t know I know baseball’s working to probably like another two team expansion and a realignment um and if the divisions are like this man like shots fired at the central but like it’s it’s the East and the West

Right now uh you know how many teams if how many teams if they got placed in the central would either be a favorite or you’d be like well they could definitely win it yeah yeah and I think it’s more than it it’s more than it should

Be uh Justin in our chat says need Jake to tell Trevor how to pronounce Pav’s name it’s paven Smith paven uh paven pav just need to get that cleared and uh I wore a shirt today of a lifeguard on it in honor of you because we uh

Definitely have taken over we know what the message was you were trying to send and we are defending the pool here now this season that’s a big that’s a big thing we got a shirt that says defend the pool we’re ready to rock and roll

Jake so uh we got you we’ll be out there in fact we’re going to have a pool party uh on July 31st so I don’t know if you’re free okay but if you uh if you’re free maybe grab that private jet because I know about the 25 million like I said

Earlier just flying out we’d love to have you yeah I’ll I’ll I’ll DM Monty I guess there you go yeah there you go July 31st okay okay it’s a mid it’s a midweek game I know it’s not easy to make but we’ll try to make something

Yeah that might be tight yeah but hey we appreciate you stopping by man we love that you love our snakes and uh we’re really looking forward to watching this team be special this year I appreciate it I’m excited to see everyone on Twitter late night for me this year

That’s right that’s right we will be there we’ll be there after dark for you so thank you again for joining us man appreciate it boys all right see you later thanks Jake all right make sure to follow him on Twitter talking Jake he is the absolute best uh and of course uh

He’s also I know some of you like still remember his uh projections right he loves the snakes he was just being realistic like this guy3 wins wins The Diamond last year uh but he is the best so big shout out to him thank you for being here of course in the pH

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To ask Jake about him appearing in snakes alive we blew it we blew it you guys he did have a cameo in there even even even with his uh projections he still had a cameo there of course I’m still waiting to see shirtless Derek uh over there in one of those episodes of

Snakes live we got one more episode we do have one more episode dying I’m trying to see if I made the cut but when when did that happen uh shirtless Derek was when we made it to the world series series wasn’t it okay yeah so it wasn’t

The Dodge series it was the it was the philly series it was the philly Series yeah yeah it was after the Philly Series so yeah that was the uh champagne bottle bat incident I don’t want to talk about it that’s all in the past but if you

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I was behaving myself for the guest but God damn it we got [ __ ] Jordan mcgomery let’s go I got this here just for that let’s [ __ ] go all right um I’ll put money in the jar later I got it here I brought money today apologize to everyone whose ears are just they

Deserve that that that’s all rattle back’s fault but of course you got oh I got cash right here don’t worry I got plenty of cash put 20 in yeah you know like I want to get off the right foot like I want to start things off so that I could say a

Lot of curse words because people are probably gonna curse at me for this next segment that we’re going to say I don’t know I think my bold predictions are pretty fun but Jesse and I decided that after mlb.com boldly predicted that the Arizona Diamondbacks were we’re going to

Get back to the World Series and win it all God bless you uh Anthony castra Vince we decided we would do some bold predictions of our own for the 20124 season so Jesse do me a favor you want to kick things off with your first bold

Prediction I will do that so my first bold prediction for the Diamondbacks in 2024 I think it’s pretty bold I don’t think it’s outrageously bold but I think it’s pretty bold catel Marte will finish top 10 in NL MVP voting top 10 he has he has finished top 10 bold bold takes not

Just facts yeah that’s a spoiler Jesse that’s not a prediction of course of course you know that catel Marte finished fourth in MVP voting in 2019 that of course was an enormous enormous breakout season for him uh the baseball in 2019 was uh was was wild and and

Crazy and went over the fence a lot uh but despite that catel Marte was still very very good relative to the rest of the league he hit 32 homers that year almost hit 3 329 I think it was9 had an extraordinary 2019 season I don’t know

If I see him getting quite back to that point um what happened I have a question what happened during the pandemic like what we had catel just hitting 320 regularly it felt like prior to that and then like and it’s not just catel it’s like all offense is like not as good

Ever since then unless you’re talking about Luis orise of course but like yeah this was crazy the way that like when you look back at some of those numbers from like 20 2010 to 2019 how many how how much offense is kind of dropped off where you just don’t see guys with the

Crazy numbers that they had at one point I don’t know I just I like the blame 2019 in particular was was definitely a season where the Bas yeah I don’t know if the 32 homers that uh that catel hit that year was was ever going to be sustainable but it was an extraordinary

Season for him 2021 he came back at a 909 Ops uh hit 318 he didn’t play as many games he was he was hurt for a good portion of that season but given what we saw from catel last year you know an 844 Ops in the regular season how much he he

Upped the ante in the playoffs and got even better the NLCS MVP what we’ve seen from him in spring training uh I feel I feel pretty good about being bullish on catel Marte in 2024 I almost went top five in MVP voting I kind of decided

That that was just a little bit too far out of bounds for me but top 10 I think is still uh still bold and something that I could still see happening given what we’ve seen from catel Recently out of bounds for him did you hear that we

Are talking about bold takes and he couldn’t bring himself to go that far do you want me to just say he’ll win the MVP is that is that the only acceptable answer here talking about see rattleback has a bold prediction he says Jesse actually drives AIA that’s a bold

Prediction how dare he it’s a Honda uh anyway definitely not a r four I was going to say that I think catel will start at second base in the All-Star game but I think that’s even less bold yeah I I actually do think that that

Might be less bold there’s not as much I mean it’s a rise it’s azy I I don’t think the path for him to start at second base is is all that difficult even though he wasn’t even an All-Star last year which which kind of seems crazy retrospect get out of my way

I have a bold prediction to take okay give me something that’s actually bold what do you got blae Alexander will not only make the opening day roster for the Arizona Diamondbacks but he will become a household name in 2024 maybe just an Arizona but still a household name in

2024 blae Alexander that’s what I’m saying breakout year he’s going to take over it short stop he’s going to be incredible I I think Damon hates you you understand why it’s a b to say it in front of Damon while he’s sitting here producing our show because

This man could easily sabotage us right now he’s crazy right now Damon stay stay over there stay over there stay over there stay calm down hey guys I mute Derek sorry I I didn’t I didn’t want him to continue spewing this horeshit on our Airwaves all right well there’s that so

So so that that’s not very concrete though he’s going to become a household name how do we measure that like I need some numbers need man and had a chance to attack me for it prior to this but no now he waits until on the show that

Means he’s going to be a a star in 2024 how many guys on the Arizona Diamondbacks team emerged as Stars last year right Gabby Moreno you I’m not going to say Corbin Carroll because everybody loved Corbin Carroll they were just waiting for him to pop off right

But Jerry P right became an Allstar last year he went from a guy that most people on most in in other cities would not even know to becoming an All-Star right and sure you know you you you can factor in what happened during the postseason that gave them that exposure as well so

That’s a little different but maybe that maybe that’s what I’m talking about with blae maybe blae has his big moment in the postseason this year and becomes a star I just think he has star potential written all over him and that’s the reason why I’ve been advocating so much

I hate what it means for Pomo I hate what means for everything else I’m not I’m not but really at the end of the day what we want is the best absolute player playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks and I think blae Alexander could be that yeah yeah I mean so so you’re basically

Saying like Blaise Alexander is going to have a breakout season not necessarily like oh he’s gonna hit 300 or or whatever but just like he’s gonna do maybe what like Pomo did last year where he really burst on the scene and became an everyday player I would say I would

Say almost more like Gabby like I feel like Gabby is a little bit more of a star with Arizona sports fans especially non-baseball fans than Pomo blae is definitely like if blae were an everyday player I could definitely see fans gravitating toward him for sure I mean

He has an incredible baseball name uh and he he has a cannon of an infield arm so okay all right yeah that’s good all right go um so I have maybe this one isn’t that bold I’m kind of curious how you guys feel about this my second bold

Prediction is that Merill Kelly will finish higher in sa young voting than Zack gallon that could have been possible last year Merill Kelly did not appear on a has never appeared on a sa young ballot right last year last year he did not get a single vote right um

Crazy which yeah I mean you could maybe make an argument that he should have I think the fact that he missed a few starts cramping the blood CL issu if Maro Kelly has 200 210 Innings like Zack Allen did last year maybe he does you know maybe he does take some of those

Votes um but yeah that’s uh you know just from what we saw last year in the play offs in particular with Merl the way that he just shined when the when the moment was brightest uh yeah I projection systems continue to not like Merl Kelly but I think people who watch

This team on a day-to-day basis understand that he just knows how to pitch and I I don’t it’s hard for me to say that like what the computers say doesn’t matter at all because that’s so anti everything deep within me yeah I know it is I know it is but let me let

Me remind you that fan graphs has said with the addition of Jordan mcgomery that the diamond backs are going to win less than one more baseball game your computers are stupid Jesse throw them in the trash throw the entire thing in the trash the entire website goes in the

Trash when you tell me adding Jordan mcgomery adds less than one win to the Diamondbacks total get out of here none of this makes sense anymore you guys don’t even make sense what is war good for anymore huh absolutely nothing um but it really is one win yeah I I think

Before fan graph’s projected win total for the Dbacks was like 83.2 or 83.3 now now it’s 84.4 their chance to make the playoffs went from like 45% to 51% it’s it’s wild how like stubborn the the computer is but uh yes Maro Kelly I I would not be

Surprised at all if Maro Kelly came out and had a breakout season and that’s not to say Zack gallon is going to be poor this season nor doesn’t mean Marl Kelly’s really having a breakout season it’s just more about him getting noticed right like it’s more about him maybe

Being a little bit better than he was last year which would absolutely be enough for him to be in that conversation for the sa Young Award yeah absolutely I mean he had a better ra than Zack Gallen I don’t know if he did he end the year with a better ra CU I

Know at one point he did yeah 3 329 compared to 347 for gon so yeah it’s not like insanely bold uh but the fact that he’s never been on a sa young bot before I still think it’s I still think it’s fairly bold all right uh my bow take

Number two you guys are gonna like this one the Arizona Diamondbacks are going to win 95 games and the National League West wow the division the division yeah I’m saying it the Diamondbacks 95 maybe even 95 plus wins Jesse and the National League West Division the

Dodgers they got too much [ __ ] going on over there man they’re like you saw Mookie Betts try to make that throw at shortstop like he was Derek [ __ ] Jeter get out of here with that put my money generationally bad in gener I do not not worried about boie

Bats and short stop let me tell you and I’m not worried about this Dodgers team they have their own battles that they’re fighting I think this is going to be one of those years where you absolutely even though all the pressure is on them and rightfully so because their team looks

Extraordinary that that pressure might be too much for them I’m trying to figure out what I think is more bold the Diamondbacks winning 95 games are the Dodgers winning less than that yeah well I feel I think both of those things in and of themselves are pretty bold I feel

Like with the competition level in the National League West and how often we have to play each other it’s not out of the question to say that the Dodgers lose more games we anticipate two teams like the Padres and the Giants and especially the snakes yeah all right

That’s bold final bold prediction for you that is bold I’m I covered mine up I’m not letting you know this last one okay all right my third one is that Alec Thomas will have an Ops of over 800 I love it which I think is pretty

Bold that is pretty that is pretty bold um we would be damn good if he does that Alec Thomas yeah that would be a full on breakout season I know you know an 800 s is maybe not like that’s not necessarily Star level performance but with how good

Of a center fielder with how good of a center fielder Alec Thomas is if he had an Ops north of 800 he would immediately become one of the best center fielders in all baseball y um and you know he he was good in the playoffs I think Dbacks

Fans generally have a a fairly positive view of him given how given how young he is but the reality from a number standpoint is that he’s had a 75 Ops Plus on the dot in both of his seasons in the majors it was 75 and 2022 it was

75 again in 2023 uh he still has a lot to prove but we’ve seen him make some adjustments this spring uh he’s he’s done I think a better job of uh kind of staying closed rather than flying open uh toward the first base side which

Seemed to cause him to to roll over a whole bunch last year we saw a lot of 4-3 ground outs we haven’t seen quite as much of that in spring training so yeah I mean and also just the fact that he has you know almost a thousand Major

League played appearances under his belt not everyone comes to the majors and r instantly it can take some time and this could be the year where Alec Thomas really uh really you know emerges into a very very good baseball player I don’t know if my final bow take is a good

Thing if it happens or a bad thing but my final B fting is that Gabrielle Moreno will lead the Arizona Diamondbacks in home runs wow isn’t that insane Jesse that’s the one I was like Derek you’re crazy dude crazy for this one first of all if he has more bombs than Christian

Walker is 32 home runs that out of the question for Gabriel Marino yes I think so is it 32 probably 32 yeah 32 seems like a stretch but but not I mean it’s not really that I a backup catcher I would think maybe but I I’m not give me

25 playing time playing time is going to be a big factor there because you know regardless of what the backup catcher situation looks like or how good it is yeah they’re not going to play Gabby Mareno more than probably 120 games in 2024 if you’re hitting 30 bombs in 120

Games that is that is insane level production I mean you’re like a you’re like a true 40 home run hitter at that point it’s like Gabby and adley rushman are the two top catchers in the league if that happens at least gets where I’m going with because she’s suggesting not

That Gabby is going to hit 35 but more that he’s gonna lead the team with 24 that’s going to be a b that happened it is far more likely it would be a very bad thing than a very good thing because there’s a lot of guys on this team that

Could hit 20 30 homers rightel Marte lordis Gerel Jr Christian Walker Gino Suarez Corbin Caroll there’s a lot of guys that I am projecting to hit more Alec Thomas 800 800 Ops doesn’t necessarily mean 30 bombs but uh yeah I think I don’t think that would

Necessarily be a good thing but but yes could Gabby hit 20 home runs in 2024 I I think he could I’m not expecting it but I think that Gabby know has the raw power ability to do that it’s just a matter of what kind of approach yeah the playing time and what

Kind of approach he takes at the plate is yeah because he could go back to taking what’s given to him and that not terrible because this team is going to be able to generate base runners I mean power true probably is going to be the problem not nearly as much though as it

Was last year because they they’ve added some some power they’ve added some pop here with Gino and jock Peterson and the names they’ve add even grall gritch so I mean these guys are going to contribute in ways that are going to make this team a better team offensively but I think

The idea here is is that you’re right Gabby does focus more on what gave him success last year offensively at the plate yeah it was more of the uh Gabby Lane you know hits versus it being that’s what it was in like the first half of the season and then in the in

The second half after he returned from the shoulder injury and into the playoffs we we saw a different version of Gabby Moreno where he was he was tapping into that power more uh so yeah I I don’t think 20 homers is totally impossible all right well we appreciate

You guys we love your bold can I can I throw in a couple I would love to hear what you got I think Kevin GLE makes the allstar game okay wow someone said 20 saves before the all a couple of the chats really been like were on like

Telekinesis right now like like I’m thinking the same thing because my last one was Ryan hit it on the money Otani goes to federal prison oh my God that’s number three I mean it’s the reason why they wanted him to walk back that comment about the wire

TR transfers or at least you know was interesting about that speaking of that I know we haven’t I know we don’t want to talk about the Otani situation anymore but the wildest part about Otani uh discussing you know uh in the press conference that day when things like

Were off with the the with his interpreter explaining everything to him was when they were having the team meeting that’s wild to me that that was the moment where like he was maybe picking up enough from him talking to the team in English for him to realize

Is that he was lying about what he was saying or whatever I don’t know this whole situation much like Jake said has me uh feeling very much like a conspiracy theorist when we know what happens it’s all gonna get swept under the rug and no one’s gonna get any no

One’s the only guy that’s gonna suffer anything here is the guy that probably should which is eBay but uh we’re not going to talk about that anymore we got opening day and last time I checked Otani does not play for the rocky so uh we’re focusing right now on the Rockies

And then the Yankees uh much to Jake’s dismay but we do thank you guys of course for being here we thank you guys more for being Die Hard by the way uh BEC that’s that’s good well that’s what’s gonna happen after he commits assault on me for the things I said

About her all I was going to say it’s gonna happen after the Cardinals trade down and don’t draft Marvin Harrison Jun don’t even I don’t have capacity to deal with that amount of anger right now that I’m hearing from the pH andx Cardinal show

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Docomond in cash in Arizona travel prizes oh Jesse I know we are not done talking about Jordan mcgomery and I am glad we are not of course we have here a lot of information now that we have to talk about or at least consider when it comes to Montgomery I mean we know

Obviously he doesn’t fix the e-rod situation considering he will not start for most likely a few weeks after joining the team um but there’s also some more interesting stuff involving like his contract and the ability to sign a qualifying offer or offer him a qualifying offer yeah in order to be

Eligible for a qualifying an offer a player has to be on the roster with that team for for the entire season so it appears that if if Montgomery and I’m not sure if it’s the 40 man roster or or the active roster itself Montgomery is certainly not going to be on the active

Roster um but I think it’s also possible that he won’t that the move won’t even be made official until after opening day um and in in so doing that would make Jordan Montgomery not eligible for a qualifying offer uh this off season which would which would help his case

Right Montgomery if he does up just spending one year with the Diamond Backs he would rather not have a qualifying offer um offered to him and then and then therefore a draft pick attached to him right that’s an advantage that he has that he’s had this off season is

That because he was traded last year he didn’t he wasn’t tied to draft pick compensation the Diamondbacks are not losing a draft pick in signing Jordan Montgomery and it looks like the same will be true if he were to hit the market next year because he will not be

On the roster as of opening day um so yeah I I’m not totally sure whether it it also would include the 40-man roster um if it did then that could keep the Diamondbacks from making this move official until after opening day I imagine Montgomery’s Camp would rather

Not have a qualifying offer attached to him so maybe that was part of the negotiation process but um yeah we don’t know when when this is going to be made official but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t made official until after the season actually starts we talked about

Things that impacted his decision to come to Arizona that very well could be one of those behind the scenes negotiations that did allow him to take Arizona’s offer whereas maybe another team offering the same amount wasn’t willing to do that yeah um and also it’s

You know not it’s not a I guess it helps the Diamondbacks out a little bit to not have to consider that because how are they going to get Jordan mcgomery on the roster right now considering their 40 man is at 40 I mean Elise is saying when

Do you think opening day rosters will be announced they’re really taking it down to the minute to the last minute with this decision and they absolutely are and and it really depends on whether this Montgomery move is being made official before opening day if it’s not

Which is kind of I guess my maybe my guess for right now uh then the Diamondbacks have to uh they might not have to clear a 40-man roster spot right if they’re if they’re doing the thing where they’re keeping Rivera and Jace Peterson and sending bla Alexander down

Then then they’re good from a 40-man roster standpoint uh but if they are uh if they do want to um you know move on from one of those guys then that would open the door for them to to make the move with with Jordan Montgomery so yeah uh we we’ll have to

We’ll have to wait and see how how that turns out um but yes they are they are going to have to make a corresponding 40-man roster move to get Montgomery on the team and if it’s not Rivera or Peterson then it it’s a little tricky I

I guess paven Smith would be an option there he’s on the 40 man um you know you look at the the pictures that the Diamondbacks have I don’t think you’re I don’t think you’re moving on from Andrew srank or Justin Martinez or Corbin Martin uh so yeah the Dbacks in in a bit

Of a tricky spot when it comes to freeing up that 40 Man spot um someone in the chat is asking about the uh Joey says what channel is the Dbacks on for MLB package yeah again Elise known baseball GM answers him by saying they haven’t announced channels yet another

Last minute decision that’s that part’s wild to me I do know that they have it like they have it it feels like they have it figured out I know for instance on Direct TV like I said before uh I believe B used to be on 686 and when I

Watched one of the spring training games they had it on 689 which is right there with their other sports networks like root the other things that you can get on Direct TV makes a lot of sense that it would be there but I don’t know if

That’s the case I don’t know if they’re actually going to leave it there if they’re going to change it and I agree that there is probably uh this is probably not ideal I know a lot of people are still confused about the TV deal stuff and whether or not they’re

Actually going to be able to watch if you have cable of any way Direct TV uh Cox here locally dish it’s going to be on there there’s not a separate package and it’s not a matter of them not airing it on those cable channels but MLB I think is waiting entirely too

Long for this to to happen because it’s because they’re it’s because they’re negotiating right they want to get as much money as they possibly can from all these cable Distributors and uh and so they’re going to try to drag it on as long as possible they’re they’re doing the Scot por

And it’s probably going to end the same way that it did for Scott Boris where the Diamond Backs might not get as much money as they’re hoping to get um but yeah I I imagine that’s the that’s the hold up here Derk Hall told us a few days ago that uh that negotiations

Between MLB and those cable Distributors were still happening and he did say that it could take all the way right up until opening day and I mean that’s exactly what what seems to have happened so we should know tomorrow we should know before the game starts uh you know you

Should find out what channel to to turn your TV to I wouldn’t be too concerned though about not having access to the games I think if you have one of those one of those you know the Cox or Direct TV or whatever it is I think you can be

Pretty confident you’ll be able to watch well Keith Law was fairly confident in the Diamondbacks acquisition of Jordan mcgomery that 29 other teams screwed up yeah uh and he tweeted out as such this is what we have in regards to this tweet uh from Keith Law including an

Incredible response from our guy and our closer Paul sewalt uh Keith Law said in regards to Ken rosenthal’s tweet about Jordan mcgomery being in agreement with the Diamondbacks for $25 million this season he said 29 teams should hang their heads in shame over this yeah and Paul sewald responded saying not the

Good guys though sunglass emoji snake Emoji I don’t know what I don’t I don’t know what I like more about this the fact that Paul seall responded at all the fact that he called the Diamondbacks the good guys which we’ve been calling them for a very long time or the fact

That he felt the need to add the deal with it sunglasses emoji and a little snake I think it might be that last part a couple thoughts here so first of all Keith thaw is right we touched on that yesterday 29 teams probably should hang their heads uh in shame over this

Because basically every team in the league could have used Jordan Montgomery and you know uh I don’t think any Dbacks fans are disappointed that the Dbacks were were the beneficiaries of that but it is still like I I still think this is a move that shouldn’t have been possible

For the Diamondbacks he he deserved more he deserved a bigger guarantee than $25 million after having a 320 ER in almost 200 Innings and leading the Rangers you know being a big part of the Rangers run to winning the World Series I mean you can’t really ask for a better walk year

Than the one that Jordan Montgomery just had but as far as we need to get him a World’s Greatest Dad mug that’s what we need to get him everybody’s saying best dad ever right SE seaw yeah and as far as seaw Wald is concerned uh I remember

Derek Hall and Ken Kendrick at the the very first day of full spring training they told us that someone had or maybe it was multiple players had come into their office and thanked them for for investing into the team yeah and and in an ESPN story several days later Paul

Seaal I don’t know if he was one of the people but he he was uh you know maybe there were multiple people but he was one of the people at the very least uh who came into their office and thanked them for spending money and there’s some history there with Paul sewalt he’s

Coming over from a Mariners team that has been criticized quite a bit in the last couple years for not you know not being willing to take that next step and being having thee to win and just not pushing all the chips in Paul seaal with the Diamond Backs is not not having that

Problem right and I I if I’m him I’m probably really happy to be in a place that’s been willing to make those Investments well we do have unfortunate news I know all of this has been very happy but the injury bug does not stop biting the Arizona Diamondbacks uh the

Diamondbacks have lost Jordan Lawler uh as Jesse said what are we going to do in Reno for a shortstop now if blae doesn’t go down there this son of a [ __ ] uh but of course me dererk and Eso Just all yell at Jessie Believe The Audacity that

This man had I was pointing to a potential lack of organizational debt it it was it was too too high level of a conversation for all you guys uh Jesse just said use the you’re not intelligent enough for this drop that said you don’t know ball yeah that’s what he said of

Course no they they could find someone to play toward stop and Reno but yes reported this yeah this is a this is a big loss for the Diamondbacks for sure um uh man these first round picks just can’t seem to catch a break injury-wise uh but yeah uh Nick bakuro reported just

Before we went live that the Diamondback shortstop Jordan Lawler Tor ligament in his right thumb and will require surgery an injury that will likely sideline the club’s top prospect for at least the first two months of the season so uh you’re not talking about just a few

Weeks here this is going to really butt into his season which is unfortunate um you know not not just for uh for the Diamond Backs but for Lawler himself uh you know trying to build on the season he had last year and I think the first

Few months of the Season were going to be really important for him and trying to prove that he could really rake in Reno and and earn that call up back to the big leagues probably not going to see Lawler in the big leagues for a for a good while at this point that’s

Unfortunate but the Diamondbacks do have depth there as long as they keep blae Alexander on the roster and I will go uh to whatever I don’t care if it’s a bus station I don’t care if it’s Sky Harbor I’ll go wherever I need to go and I will

Park my car in front of whatever door I need to park it in front of to make sure Blaze Alexander doesn’t leave but uh of course I’m very excited Jesse I can’t stop thinking about opening day uh and I mean the Diamond Backs just added a lot

Of wood to the fire really when it comes to this Jordan Montgomery thing it’s gonna be sad if the move isn’t official because how I mean how cool would it be for Dbacks fans to obviously Montgomery’s not going to pitch on opening day but just for him be in the

Ballpark to see him in the uniform that would be really cool and I don’t know I don’t know if we’re going to be able to get that um but I did want to ask you with for I know you’re such a huge fan of baseball at least I I I think you are

Um what are you looking forward to most tomorrow I know that we all have our own things I’m not talking necessarily about performance on the field because I know you want to go in there and talk about like how much you know uh the vertical movement you know pitches are going to

Have and such but is there a favorite moment of you that you look forward to Jess looking forward to looking at like baseball Savant there’s there’s [ __ ] horizontal and vertical break now in Chase Field there’s also uh exit vo on on like he doesn’t have to go to stat

Cat he doesn’t have to go to baseball saon he’s got it all right I think they had exit Vos in there last year they just moved I thought that was where I thought that’s where the two pitching matchups were were last year but I could be wrong yeah well they had they had

Exit Vos on the right field side like Yeah by the the out of town scoreboard I guess if we can if we can call it that um yeah so what am I most excited about for tomorrow I just I just enjoy all of the pregame stuff before opening day the

Bunting the uh the fly over the everything like it just feels very special it feels like uh I don’t know it feels like you know the pomp in circumstance is very much partas abolutely yeah and and I mean the last time I I try to block the exhibition

Games out of my mind because they they’re not real and they don’t count and they’re and there’s no energy in the stadium because it’s an exhibition game um but the last time that we covered a real baseball game at Chase Field it was the World Series and there was a lot of

Excitement in that building and a lot of energy and they did the flyover there too and they did a lot of the you know the cool pregame stuff there as well so I’m excited just to be back in be back in that ballpark and it’s not going to

Be the World Series you know it’s one of 162 against a pretty bad Colorado Rocky team but uh just as a baseball fan in general nothing uh nothing beats opening yeah you’re not wrong uh I guess I am looking forward uh to the brisket in the

Press Box and the cake in the Press Box yeah they feed us they feed us the opening day cake and the opening day brisket and that’s huge upset the Korean pork belly nachos yeah see this food’s free though on opening day and that’s the big difference is it no I didn’t

Even know dere I thought you would like crawl across the Saharan Desert well here’s I’m conflicted about the Korean uh pork belly nachos because they replaced the crispy bow buns which naos AB I mean this is like don’t pit me against two of my favorite things right

So now I’m conflicted and with all of the improvements in the ballpark we couldn’t have just made a Korean food stand just a Kore like I love Korean food Korean barbecue Korean porkbelly nachos Korean pow buns Jesse they they would go electric they would go electric right they moved uh Chef tier’s Heroes

Into an actual stand now it’s not just a little thing there’s all I could go on for an entire another hour about food but this man needs to get to the ballpark I kind of need to get over there too and you guys need to know who

Won the tickets that we are giving away today uh for all transparency Jesse will be my monitoring system but see all those wonderful colors that’s all of your wonderful names that entered into our contest yesterday with your little baseball emojis and now with one click

Of a button I get to change the fate of one of you I get to Forever change history and the direction of your lives with the click of one [ __ ] button I feel so powerful I don’t want to do it yet I just want to sit here and wait in

Anticipation but here we go let’s see what we got uh the wheel is spinning and Jesse fredman if you would please announce the winner of the tickets all right uh I’m probably gonna butcher is it done okay I’m probably gonna butcher this name but our winner is John henin

Henin henon John henin are you here John because I know John has to be here to win so maybe those of you that didn’t win maybe John’s not here uh maybe John’s listening to this afterwards and realizing what a huge mistake he made by not getting off of work to watch our show

At um I don’t know do I wait to John you have a number of seconds before Jesse is GNA demand that I respin this wheel uh it would John might not be here so I think we got think we got to spin the wheel we got to spin the wheel again

Should we wait till 2:7 give I mean sometimes it’s a little bit of a delay we we we can we can definitely wait because we have a backup winner we backup winner we have a backup winner so if John isn’t here uh our winner is then Brandon Brandon uh again you said you’re

Gonna butcher this parus I think Brandon paradus in the chat see we’ll keep doing this for a long time by the way I’ll Jesse leave I’ll just keep sitting here pressing great podcasting all right well uh I know there’s someone here right now that’s probably figuring out how to

Change their name to John hin or uh or maybe you know you really shouldn’t be giving them that idea so hard right I guess I mean it is what it is but uh let’s see if we can get somebody that is here in the chat John alenin has won twice ladies and

Gentlemen what are the odds this is incredible oh man all right well I guess uh we’ll we’ll we’ll keep doing this until we pick a winner uh but some people are going to be very sad oh my god oh I thought it was going to be

Elise sorry Elise you just had to she didn’t need to know that need to know that that felt mean that was rude I’m sorry is Aaron l in the chat Aaron l i was very specific about these uh rules I thought yesterday when I said you had to

Be present to win um and yeah I mean uh I guess uh I guess I have to remove Aaron L now too unless Aaron L is here so far give give Aaron l a few seconds I will give him C this is crazy it’s crazy

It’s like you it’s like why sign up if you’re not gonna sign up if you’re not going to be here the next day to win it I don’t have an answer for you on that um and people are saying fixed and rigged trust me if I rigged it it would

Be for one of you guys yeah we would have rigged it so that we didn’t have to do this for 20 minutes in in the chat right um transonic 8 is transonic 8 that Jesse is supposed to be my audit firm here uh and of course I’m just waiting

For you to say a name of someone that’s like actually commenting in the chat I mean I I’m trying to run this fairly but if I could I absolutely would have done this uh we got Chris C I know Chris C I think we know Chris is here I think

Chris C was the guy yesterday that was asking me over and over and over again when are we going to do the contest Chris if you’re not here I’ve given up hope all together on this entire process Chris you have let me down you’ve let the people down you’ve let yourself I

Feel bad for all of these people that are all going to listen to this um afterwards and realize they I think we have more live viewers today than we did yesterday we do so how is it there’s a bunch of people who were here yesterday

Don’t have an answer for I don’t have an answer for you on that but uh I I don’t know if that person’s in the chat either okay he is he is I think he is I’m ready oh wait is Aaron here Aaron is here where’s Aaron where is Aaron they said

He’s here okay I don’t see where okay there here all right Aaron aarin you’re our guy you got two tickets so uh uh congratulations to Aaron L I’m glad you’re here uh and you get those tickets so of course uh make sure to go ahead and reach out to stop the count thank

You thank you Sean thank you Sean Aron was catching up and he got here but uh we’re taking the L out of your name pal because you’re Aaron W Now you won those two tickets uh to opening day so congratulations to you thank you guys all for entering in for being here we’re

Looking forward to an incredible season so oh my God I cannot wait uh to watch baseball tomorrow in the meantime you can make sure to follow us on Twitter Aaron that’s where you’re going to get at US unless uh Aaron do you have a Twitter I should ask you that while we

Can still communicate because after the show end who knows if we lose you but uh anyway uh we definitely can be reached on Twitter I’m at capore ceman with K Jesse is at Jesse and fredman of course Damon is the people’s producer he’s at Damon dog that’s dawg we are Damon’s

Dogs bark bark our show of course is at phnx Dbacks but all roads do lead to phnx Sports on Twitter Instagram and Facebook we thank you guys again so much for your time we appreciate you being here Aaron make sure to reach out to us on Twitter so we can get you those

Tickets ASAP we uh again congratulations to you and we love all of you guys thank you again for being here today thank you to Jake for taking some time to stop by and talk about his snakes and of course we hope you guys all have a wonderful

Night we will see you on opening day uh we got a pregame show tomorrow and a postgame show so we are doing it big make sure to keep it locked in right here to phnx and again we thank you for your time and remember kids baseball is

Fun but damn it it’s so much more fun on opening day [Applause] we all sitting like the mayor