KillerFrogs Writers JD Andress and Carson Wersal discuss TCU's victories over UCLA, Washington State, and Arizona before looking ahead to the weekend's matchup. Carson answers some hot takes on what players should be starting in what spots.
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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to the killer frogs bullpen. This is the fifth episode of
00:07 the season. I'm J.D. Anderson I'm once again joined by Carson Carson how are you today.
00:12 Good. How are you doing great. Great weekend of college baseball for the Frogs. Actually
00:18 got a little scary. They're still playing right now as we record this against Arizona
00:22 they're winning five to one this weekend. You know let's let's kick it off with the
00:26 weekend series what happened first. He sued three games sweep over UCLA four to three
00:31 on Friday six to three Saturday and the seven inning run roll 13 to three on Sunday. Carson
00:37 initial takeaways what were your first thoughts of this as the weekend went off. First two
00:41 games pitching dominated Cole Klecker looked like his usual self Peyton toll did a little
00:47 bit better than his first start. So I mean honestly like that's all you ask for when
00:55 you're trying to think about what the TCU team needed because as we look back at GC
01:01 you series it's shootout after shootout and that's what you know TCU baseball supporters
01:07 wanted to see was how this TCU pitching staff was going to do against the top 20 team. Yeah
01:14 and I think I think even even you know more to touch on the bullpen as well but everyone
01:18 held it down whenever they would need it if you were called upon on the weekend you delivered
01:23 and you did your job and that's pretty much all you could ask. The offense kept rolling.
01:27 They had a great pitching matchup against them on Friday and they still delivered four
01:31 runs and you know that's pretty much all you can ask. You know when you have a Friday series
01:36 or the Friday matchup in a weekend series you know it's going to be ace versus ace.
01:40 So runs are going to come at a scarce amount and for them to put up four runs into battle
01:44 as well as they did. I think you know that's all we can really ask for for them. You know
01:50 what who stood out to you the most as far from pitching perspective or hitting who was
01:55 your who stood out to you. So for I'll start with hitting hitting it was definitely Curtis
02:01 Byrne. I mean the dude's just a just a clutch hitter. I mean when the guys need need a bat
02:11 he just delivers every single time he puts the nail in the coffin Saturday night with
02:16 a three run bomb. I mean I mean just it's not that he's hitting you know gap shot after
02:24 gap shot or home run after home run. He is just a consistent hitter. I think he had four
02:28 singles in the UCLA series and I think he walked. Let me see. Let me see if I can figure
02:35 out how many times he walked because I think it was three times. So his on base percentage
02:40 was through the roof. Yeah I saw a stat on Twitter about Curtis Byrne about how last
02:44 season he only had 28 walks I believe throughout the whole season and he's already at eight
02:49 walks through eight games. So yeah yeah I think it speaks to how he's developed as a
02:54 hitter that he's seen the ball so well right now that he's not only capable of putting
02:59 back the ball but he's also working the counts of drawing blocks when he's needed. Yeah absolutely.
03:05 You know I it was it was tough to say who stood out the most for me because it was a
03:10 really well done weekend for the whole team as a whole. But I think I kind of want to
03:14 give a shout out to the Sunday guy right now which is Zach Morris. That first inning was
03:21 very terrifying. You know bases loaded. I believe there's no outs and they could have
03:27 got bad real quick but he was able to settle in and then give TCU five innings in a week
03:32 where pitching was going to be pretty scarce because of the eight games of two days they
03:37 had. And I think for him to settle in and do what he did was what the team needed was
03:43 it and it was better than what he performed last weekend. You know I think we're going
03:48 to talk a little bit about Zach Morris later in a later segment. But I do want to shout
03:52 him out for what he was able to get out of the first inning and continue to work out
03:55 of jams and show a little bit of you know that maturity and that experience that he
04:00 has. I got a question for you Carson the cost that rotation of the lineup that we saw throughout
04:07 the weekend with you know the players getting twisted around and ordered different players
04:11 coming in and filling in Peyton totally not playing Saturday Sunday. Is that a good thing
04:16 or a bad thing for the team. So I did ask about Peyton totally not being in the lineup
04:22 on Sunday and Saturday. Sarlos did say that that is a that's just a kind of managing his
04:29 time you know playing and kind of because he's been he's been trying to figure out kind
04:35 of where he fits into this team right now maybe not on the pitching aspect but definitely
04:40 on the hitting aspect. Right now he's batting to 31 and he's played in six games with 26
04:48 at bats which I mean it's not it's not the worst but it's definitely not what they expected
04:57 you know from totally coming in. I'm not worried about the rotation of the of the lineup right
05:05 now because Sarlos is doing what pretty much every coach in the nation right now is doing
05:11 and that's trying to figure out where guys stick trying to figure out what lineup is
05:15 going to give him the best chance to win every game. So right now I don't mind it. Ask me
05:20 that question two weeks from now. Okay maybe we've got a little bit of hesitation if we're
05:26 still rotating guys in and out. But I also think that it's kind of a good thing that
05:33 you can put guys in off the bench if they haven't played in two or three games and they
05:38 just go out and hit two for three or three for four. Yeah I do think it's a it's an embarrassment
05:44 of riches per se in that TCU has so many options that you know you can slot one in during a
05:50 middle game to give a guy a day off and you're picking up right where they left off. But
05:55 you know I listened to your interview which is available at killer frogs dot com when
06:00 you talk to Craig Silas and he said that Peyton totally was having a little bit of timing
06:05 issues and I understand that but I feel like a good way of doing that is when the offense
06:11 is performing as well as it is you can kind of allow him to have that that's where he
06:15 struggles in you know while seeing live at bats right now. It's only something that might
06:20 benefit him in the longer run of what's going on. Yeah I wouldn't I wouldn't mind seeing
06:25 him play in some midweek games just as a DH for. Yeah yeah he played in the Tuesday night
06:33 midweek. Anything else you know speaking of the Tuesday night game against Washington
06:37 State anything else you want to add about the UCLA series. I don't think UCLA is as
06:46 good as everybody thinks. I do think that they are talented and I do think that they
06:51 could sneak their way into the top 25 you know by the end of the season. But the hitting
06:58 I think is too young. I think I think their players are a little too young right now.
07:04 Yeah you know we've talked before we started recording and I just don't think there is
07:08 much to either take away from this series or you know lean on and talk about because
07:14 it was pretty cut and dry. Do you see you kind of dominated from the very beginning
07:18 of Game 1 to when they got the last out with Andrew Rosiello on the mound Sunday. It was
07:24 it was TCU the entire way through and it's not a knock on UCLA. We talked about on the
07:28 preview how they're a very young team and they're going to be good. Right. But you know
07:32 second weekend of the series season and you know everyone's going to struggle. Yeah. Tuesday
07:37 night game Washington State they roll into town. TCS two midweek games they have the
07:43 first of two against Washington State. Ben Hampton's on the mound. First pitch gone.
07:49 TCU ends up coming back put up a little bit of a crooked inning and takes a lead of you
07:54 know ends up taking a lead of seven to three before the ninth inning giving it a long a
07:59 four run lead taking it to extra innings and winning eight to seven on the Luke Boyers
08:03 single. First thoughts on that game as it was going on. Well first thought was I wish
08:11 that I went to the game because I decided to do homework. Yeah. Yeah. But school comes
08:19 first school goes first. But so my my immediate takeaway was oh crap. We're about to get beat
08:29 by Washington State early in the game because when your hitter has a leadoff home run like
08:34 that that kind of sneaks into your mind as as a TCU or well as any top 10 team that sneaks
08:42 into your mind and it kind of like OK now everybody's on edge. But as the game went
08:48 on we take the lead again and then we blow the lead. I started to think about kind of
08:55 past TCU teams and how those past TCU teams probably lose this game. But because of the
09:03 culture that Coach Sarlos has built around this team they fought they just found a way
09:08 to get it done. And that's all you can say about that game. Yeah. I think you know it
09:15 proves the resiliency of the team and how they are as a unit in that there's not a time
09:21 that no matter how much they get behind with Florida Gulf Coast or blowing a four run lead
09:26 in the top of the ninth inning they know that they are good enough to come back and win
09:31 or fight enough to win. Yeah absolutely. Zach Boyer came in and pitched phenomenal
09:36 not allowing any runs keeping the game close to an extra innings. I do. I will never ever
09:45 doubt Kirk Sarlos in anything he does. But I do have a question if you're Kirk Sarlos
09:50 in that game eighth inning Hunter Hodges is we guys sing with the three strikeouts we
09:54 go. Would you still win to Kyle Ayers. I don't know. I think it depends on the energy that
10:04 I'm seeing in the Washington State dugout. If they're like so say they say they get one
10:10 or two runs back against Coy or something like or well against which whoever's pitching.
10:16 Yeah. They get they get a couple runs back. I'm probably going to the next guy. I don't
10:22 think I would take him out in that scenario. I think I'm sticking with Coy for at least
10:27 one more after that inning. Justin just like as a guy with kind of a pitching mind I'm
10:35 probably going to go to the bullpen after that next inning that Coy your pitches. Yeah.
10:40 You know I think I could understand you know trying to get errors and get a little bit
10:46 of pitching but whatever it's you know you have eight games in 10 days. Let's just close
10:52 the door move on tomorrow. You know let's watch the seats not a bad ballclub. No they
10:58 were playing in the Round Rock tournament this weekend put up a good fight against Kentucky.
11:04 I believe it was Houston in the tournament. They are. They're a very good ballclub. That's
11:08 kind of a sneaky good team for the Pac 12 this year. And I think you know Washington
11:13 State played amazing had great at bats and TCU never blinked. They said hey you know
11:20 what you brought it back for runs. First two innings were kind of in the extra innings
11:25 were kind of you know so so it's a wash. The 12th inning they load them with no outs and
11:30 for a second I thought TCU was going to leave him stranded. But Luke Boyers who picked up
11:36 who didn't play Sunday didn't start the game on the midweek against shoot against Washington
11:41 State was able to come in and provide the winning the winning RBI. And I think you know
11:48 I'm very high on Luke Boyers on the season I think. And I'm hoping that that's the spark
11:52 he needed to kind of get back into the swing of things for this season. Yeah. By the way
11:57 Boyers on that hit last night and his last 12 at bats before that one hit. Yeah. That
12:06 is impressive to be able to come in and do that just automatic. Well maybe not automatically.
12:12 It was I mean but to be able to just kind of put aside your mental for a moment and
12:19 just focus on the job at hand is really cool. Yeah. Even in the 10th inning when he got
12:24 his first step up and he gave it a he hit it fall deep into the center field and it
12:30 was on the warning tracks and yeah you know he's been here long enough that he knows hey
12:35 if it's not my time now when it is my time I'm going to be ready. That's all you can
12:38 kind of ask for it whenever a player struggling. And I think you know today in the midweek
12:43 game he got the start out there and you know I do have another question about the Washington
12:49 State midweek before we move on. But we saw Jack the seer play out in left field Logan
12:56 Maxwell the night off. Yeah. I don't I don't know if it's something that was happening
13:01 in the fall of the spring or maybe it's just kind of hey let's get an extra outfield body
13:06 in case we need one. But I how do you feel about TCU's basically secondary lineup and
13:13 the ability for players to be able to slot in wherever. I mean I think it just kind of
13:19 speaks to their depth. I mean I I I don't know. I personally love Logan Maxwell you
13:27 know this. Yes. Obviously I'm going to be disappointed when he's not when he's not playing.
13:32 But yeah he was he was kind of 50 50 on his at bats. He had two good at bats I remember
13:41 and then he had two and then he had to work kind of looked like OK what do we what are
13:46 we doing here. But I mean overall the secondary lineup for TCU can can absolutely rake. Yeah
13:55 I think TCU is in a good spot and we touched on it earlier where you got guys that you
14:03 know like Ryder Robinson plate came in and played because Bertie Green is dealing with
14:06 a leg injury not really an injury but just a little bit of a nagging bug and came in
14:12 and did a great job. Sam Myers was in right field and played an excellent game and there's
14:18 only been three positions on the team that haven't been switched at all. It's Anthony
14:25 Silva shortstop Chet near second base and Chase Bronson and center Carson Bowen and
14:31 Curtis Brown have been switching off first and catcher so technically those have stayed
14:34 the same but everything else has not kind of been has had a solidified place and I think
14:39 yeah it's a good mark for TCU to be out right now. Yeah I think so too. Sam Myers.
14:48 Has definitely. I mean he's impressed me greatly with his heading. Yeah he's he's. TCU is a
14:57 very very good freshman class right now and Sam Myers being able to slot in for Luke Boyers
15:03 and basically do what Luke Boyers does is incredible as a true freshman. Yeah. All right
15:11 well let's move on to the Wednesday night game which just ended right now. You see one
15:16 six to one over Arizona. Brayden Sloan he's disgusting. I guess Brayden Sloan got the
15:24 start for today because TCU had eight games in 10 days again and delivered struck out
15:31 the side in the first inning struck out the side in the third inning and was just disgusting.
15:38 Yeah I'll go and go on record right now and say that he is the greatest midweek starter
15:43 in the nation and it's not close. Yeah sorry. He's that is insane. Yeah that was I mean
15:53 Hagan Smith asked if you will. Yes yes. Did TCU was kind of in a tough spot needed a big
16:01 delivery from whoever you know they threw out and you know I you and I were texting
16:06 during the game yesterday because you know you had to do homework and we were texting
16:09 again. I told you they went to Louie Rodriguez after Ben Hampton yesterday and so I assume
16:14 that meant we were going to see Brayden Sloan start. We've got some starts last year in
16:17 Omaha and I kind of like it. I kind of he kind of that feels like a natural role for
16:24 him. Am I wrong. No no. I think this game was kind of his way of saying hey I'm not
16:32 out of the race for this Sunday spot yet. So keep your eyes on me. I'm ready to go.
16:39 I think that's him telling Sarlos that he wants more time and he wants his time to be
16:44 extended you know. Yeah. And you know they talk about that in the broadcast about how
16:50 he's putting other pitchers on notice and I think we're going to touch on that a little
16:56 bit later in the hot take segment that we're unveiling today. But yeah I just basically
17:04 TCU has been doing what they have been doing. They're going to mash the ball and they're
17:08 going to either outscore you or their pitching is going to show up and they're going to shut
17:12 you down. And that was just an A1 performance from the team. Yeah absolutely. Let's get
17:20 into you know this weekend's preview. TCU is playing at the I believe it's called the
17:26 pronounced Kubota Classic at Low Blackfield home of the World Series defending World Series
17:32 champions Texas Rangers and they'll be taking on USC twice Friday Sunday Arizona State Saturday
17:40 and aren't playing A&M. So before before we get into the preview for USC and Arizona State
17:48 how do you feel about not playing A&M this weekend Kurt? I'm pissed. I'm pissed. I'm
17:53 sorry. Like that is that is an opportunity to just go head to head with a really good
18:01 team and we're not I don't know how they do the scheduling. I don't know how they manage
18:08 all that. Okay. I don't know if the coaches have to agree on it but the fact that these
18:13 two coaches did not you know like ask for like a Sunday night game or something like
18:20 that is I just think it's wrong. But you know what they're coaching at the D1 level. I'm
18:28 not so. So at first I was genuinely also in the same boat as you. I was very upset but
18:35 then someone brought to my attention that they kind of had to do it this way. Arizona
18:40 State and USC are in the same conference. They can't play pre-conference. So rather
18:47 than having them sit out which I said just let them sit out a game let them travel early
18:52 and let's see TCU and A&M on a Sunday night game. Just do you know how great that would
18:57 be. I do wish it will happen. Hopefully it doesn't happen in Super Regional or regional
19:04 play because they still have flashbacks from when he do any game against them in the past.
19:08 But yeah TCU is taking on the USC team Friday and Sunday and it's a USC team person that's
19:15 not playing well not at the slightest. And they have 15 hitters on the roster and only
19:22 four of them have over a 300 batting average right now. And they're struggling. Yeah. USC
19:31 I. I just I fully expect to beat them handedly. Arizona State. I do think that will be a good
19:40 game because Arizona State is known for playing high level teams and playing up to their level.
19:47 So I expect that to be a good one. Did I have the USC wins. It's still another team that
19:54 they get to play and that they still have to come out and treat like it's any other
19:57 team. It's not good. They're not just going to hand it over. But statistically TCU plays
20:03 very well. Globe Life. I don't know what it is but it's like yeah. Home away from home.
20:08 And I do expect that to stay the same. I am very much looking forward to the series. It
20:15 is TCU's first non home game of the year which it's less than 20 miles away. So I don't know
20:22 if it really counts but it's it's the tour of the Pac-12 they're running on and I think
20:28 this weekend will be a good a good time to kind of see hey you know what. There's another
20:34 there's another ballclub here in a name that we're not playing. Let's just look at the
20:38 differences and how they how they you know control themselves. How they approach at bats
20:44 and yeah we're going to be playing mutual teams. I know it's kind of not the same thing.
20:49 You can't take it on because of different starters every night. But it's just kind of
20:52 a good way to gauge how the team actually is before seeing them play a better team.
20:58 Yeah let's let's get into a new segment that we kind of talked about a little bit. It's
21:07 got the hot take segment. I'm going to start with I'm going to I'm going to ask you a question.
21:13 I want you to know I want you to respond and let me know if it's a hot take or if you agree
21:17 with it and why. So first one is should Ben Hampton be the Sunday starter and replace
21:24 Zack Morris. Not yet. Zack Morris is doing his job as the Sunday starter. Your your Sunday
21:32 starter is not your your best pitcher but he's the guy that can kind of just kind of
21:41 crowd manage I guess and just make sure that no there are no crooked numbers there are
21:45 no just you know innings that end up with you down 10 runs. Right. That's that's what
21:52 your Sunday starter does and he does that role really really well. I mean he got out
21:56 of two jams last week. First inning bases loaded he gets out of it no runs scored. Third
22:05 inning I believe I think it was the third inning. Runners on second and third he only
22:10 lets up one run with no outs. Like that's exactly what you want from your Sunday guy.
22:16 Now if if both of those guys start to head in opposite directions where Ben Hampton only
22:23 gets better and Zack Morris starts to kind of fall apart then I think there's something
22:29 to debate there. But then again you've got Braden Sloan right on these guys tails. I
22:34 mean you could slot him in there and just have him leapfrog Ben Hampton. Yeah that was
22:41 going to be my next version of the question is let's take Ben Hampton out of the question.
22:45 You just professed your love for Braden Sloan and how great you think he is. Should Braden
22:49 Sloan be the Sunday starter. Yes. Yes. I do think I do think it's something to monitor
22:57 because we. Oh I'm. Let me let me let me rephrase. If like Braden Sloan I think there is more
23:05 of a debate because I think that he has shown more in high leverage situations. Yeah. You
23:14 know I think. When you think of your Sunday starter there's not much difference between
23:19 them. They both get a lot of their outs through their offseas pitches. They're both lefties
23:24 with a weird release angle. They kind of carry the same thing. It's not something that hey
23:29 know what Braden Sloan had a one good start. Let's throw him in at the Sunday starter.
23:34 No Zack Morris has to lose that. That's his spot to lose. But I think we've been very
23:39 I don't want to say vocal but we've talked about often already about how Zack Morris
23:44 may not be able to have that high ceiling that we think that he wants out. And Braden
23:48 Sloan we still kind of we've seen that high ceiling for him. So I think it's something
23:52 to monitor and you know look at going forward. Yeah I think so too. Next question. Should
23:59 Sam Myers be starting somewhere in the outfield. He should be starting in right field. OK.
24:05 Right now right now he should be starting in right field. His the way that he approaches
24:10 his at bats is really good. Even after the walk off by Luke Boyers last night. Yes. Don't
24:16 get me wrong. Luke Boyers. I have this down in my notes. I want him if it is eighth inning
24:24 or later. Any time before that though it's Sam Myers. And I think right now I think we're
24:31 I think we're currently witnessing Sam Myers lock up that starting role with how he's been
24:37 hitting. I think he went two for four tonight with a double. And I mean that that kind of
24:42 natural hitting is hard to beat when you're Luke Boyers and you've been struggling quite
24:49 a bit even with the walk off. Yeah. You know I think we talked about before the season
24:56 about how Luke Boyers is kind of going to provide that better in leadership and that
25:00 voice that the team needed. I think Peyton Chetnier is basically doing that role right
25:05 now and if Luke is going to be struggling like he has been then I don't see a problem
25:10 with slotting Sam into right field. And I'm not saying that means that Sam is going to
25:14 be the starting right fielder the rest of the season. It's kind of going to be what's
25:17 happening right now. Luke was struggling. Hey let's give him a weekend series off for
25:21 a few games off and let's start Sam out in there. OK. Sam starts to struggle. Let's put
25:26 Luke back. You know it's yeah it's a rotation of right field. Yeah I mean I and I think
25:33 you can also play kind of a pitching matchup as well. I mean say TCU is facing a lefty
25:38 which Luke Boyers historically hits really well off of. Yeah. I mean you might want to
25:44 put him put him in. Yeah. This year's lineup I think gives you a lot more flexibility than
25:51 we've seen in I'd say the past three years of what you're able to do. Thanks. Just based
25:56 off the talent level alone that we've seen already. You know through the season. Last
26:05 question for the hot take segment. Fate of the world's in your hands. You've got to pick
26:11 one starting third baseman for the rest of the season and he's going to be the best performing
26:14 third baseman. Who do you. Who is it. Who are you sliding that fate of the world in
26:20 my hands. Death being pointed at earth. I want Brody Green. Yeah. OK. Not a good dollar.
26:26 But it's pretty crazy close second. Yeah. So you OK. You sold him on me like to me like
26:35 pretty early in the season you were like hey dude Brody Green's the third baseman and we
26:40 came out and he was he didn't touch the field for the first two games and you were kind
26:47 of like wow that's shocking. Yeah. I was like I don't know maybe maybe he's just not as
26:54 good as the guy that we that we're seeing right now. And within the first three or four
26:58 at bats I think I looked at you and just kind of said OK I see why you were so high on him.
27:06 Yeah. The dude just mashes. Yeah. And it's and it's not that he's like levels above the
27:12 other third baseman and fielding. It's just that he's he's been getting the job done out
27:17 the hot corner right now. Yeah. And I think that's kind of we've talked about it. Third
27:26 base is such a hard position to play right now following in the steps of Brady Taylor.
27:30 Oh yeah. And when your defense between Ryder Robinson Jack this year and Brody Green are
27:36 all going to be kind of with you know in a few plays of each other like Jack this year
27:41 might make a few more plays here and there. Brody Green might mess up on one or two more
27:45 plays and Brad Robinson's kind of the middle of them. I'm going to take the guy that can
27:49 hit a little bit better. Like it's just kind of especially when your offense is already
27:53 humming as well as it is. Hey let's keep the offense going. Let's put up 10 runs every
27:57 game. And yeah it's it's interesting that we're both saying the same thing because historically
28:04 TCU baseball is valued defense. Yeah. Like they have never been the ones to straight
28:10 up take hitting and nothing else. They've been they've just been very very defense and
28:17 pitching focused the past I would say seven eight years. But I think that speaks more
28:23 volumes about how great the rest of the defense around him is. You have a first round traffic
28:30 and Anthony Silva shortstop paint Chattanooga who has been just a human vacuum lately. You
28:35 have your catching rotation between catcher and first and Curtis Brennan Carson Bowen.
28:39 You have Luke Boyers and right field who is one of the best defensive outfielders in the
28:43 Big 12. Chase Brunson has while he struggled with here and there a little bit. He's been
28:48 stellar out center field and you have Logan Maxwell left. He's going to give you everything
28:53 you want out of your left field. You know it's the defense as a whole is already great.
28:58 So if you're going to have one tiny spot where maybe it's not going to be locked down at
29:02 all times but he's going to mash for you. I think that's a solid tradeoff. Yeah I think
29:08 so too. I think that'll wrap up the hot take segment. One thing we didn't do that I want
29:14 to go back and talk about is we didn't go over last weekend's MVP picks that we made
29:20 and then get Bart this get the VP picks. Oh yeah. So last weekend for the hitting MVPs
29:28 I had Brody Green you had Logan Maxwell and Brett had Chase Brunson. Yes. I am personally
29:40 going to go ahead and give myself my first victory with Brody Green. You know what that's
29:46 fair. That's fair. And what what angers me is that Logan Maxwell did great. Yeah. Yeah.
29:53 Brody Green. I'm telling you. Yeah. So Maxwell in the three games against UCLA he went five
29:59 for five for eleven. But yeah Brody Green he had the at bats. He didn't play great Sunday
30:08 but he did need to because he performed in the games that mattered which won them the
30:13 series. So yeah I do think that's a that's a win for you. Yeah. Now now when it comes
30:20 to the pitching MVP I'm completely out of the conversation because my choice did not
30:24 even touch the field during the weekend. Louie Rodriguez but you pick Cole Flecker who had
30:29 a fantastic Saturday and Brett picked Ben Abel who only had who only had one appearance
30:35 but it was a big time save in Friday's game. It was it was a big time save. I feel like
30:46 I don't know. OK. I think I'm going to I think I might have to give you the win on
30:50 this one simply because Ben only having one appearance and Cole's clickers jump from last
30:55 Saturday's performance that this Saturday is the only thing. But if you want to vouch
31:00 for Brett right now go ahead. Oh you know what I'm going to share this one because Cole
31:07 Klecker for four and a third inning one run six hits which isn't bad for him. The strikeout
31:17 total is definitely lower for Klecker so far this season. Yeah. Not that he's like a like
31:25 a nine to 10 strikeout guy every single weekend but just that I think he had a little bit
31:31 more early in the season last time. So I'm going to I'm going to share this one with
31:35 Brett because that that performance by Abel in a tight game one run game. Oh my gosh.
31:42 That is a relief pitcher's dream right there. Yeah. So that puts our seed in standings.
31:48 You have one and a half points on the season since we both got zero on the pitching side
31:54 last weekend. Right. The opening weekend. We don't talk about that. We don't. Yeah.
31:59 I have one point and the guests have a point so far. All right. Let's go ahead and make
32:04 our predictions for this weekend series. Let's start with the pitching this time. You go
32:09 first. OK. So for this weekend I'm going to go with the guy that we keep seeing that I
32:15 believe continues to play a big role and it's going to be Zach Boyer at some point in this
32:21 weekend series. He's either going to come in for three innings where he's going to give
32:24 you two innings of high stress ball that he's going to have to come in and get out of a
32:28 jam for the team for. And he's been excellent at that. He's also the only pitcher in the
32:32 nation right now that is three. You know after picking up the win in last night's game and
32:37 he's just become a vital piece of the bullpen that I think is going to continue to thrive
32:41 and has it while certainly playing a big part will continue to play an even bigger part
32:46 as it goes on. Yeah I think so too. What about you. Who's your pick. I'm going to go with
32:53 Peyton Toll. OK. And I think that he's going to make I think he's going to make another
32:58 jump in his starting performance. I think he's I think he goes at least five and a third
33:04 in this one. Well just past five innings. And I think that you're going to see kind
33:12 of him settle in finally because I I feel like he hasn't really settled in yet. Yeah.
33:18 No. I mean it's like crazy. No he's been pitching phenomenal his strikeout rates are really
33:23 good right now. He's missing bats. It's just when he finds himself in trouble and can't
33:27 find the strike zone it's like he can't find it for two to three batters. If he goes without
33:32 those hiccups I think he's given you six seven plus innings of nine eight strikeout performance.
33:39 Yeah I'm going to take totally. Let's talk about hitting MVP for the weekend. I went
33:44 first in the last one so I would throw it over to you on this one. OK. I want to go
33:52 first guy that came to mind was Peyton Chattanooga. I just say big yes. I have a backup. Don't
34:00 worry. OK. OK. Yeah I'm going to go with Peyton Chattanooga. His ability to get on base in
34:06 the leadoff role is has been unmatched. I mean it's it's exactly what the Frogs were
34:12 looking for whenever he transferred to TCU was a guy that can kind of jumpstart the offense
34:18 from the very first inning. And I think that's what he's going to do this inning and I think
34:21 he's going to do it. I think he's going to have two home runs this weekend. OK. I like
34:27 that. It's a it's out there. He's currently leading the team to three home runs right
34:32 now. I wanted to pick Carson Bowen just because simply his Sunday performances have been absurd.
34:37 Yes 14 RBI eyes on the season and 10 of them are on Sundays only. That's insane. But I'm
34:44 actually going to flip this around and I'm going to go Logan Maxwell right field plays
34:48 to lefties and I think he's going to he's going to get out there and he's going to have
34:53 a good weekend this weekend. And I think it'd be even better to be able to say I won the
34:57 MVP weekend with your guy Logan Maxwell. I know I should have rode with him. Yeah. I
35:05 thought about it. Anything else you want to add before we close this one out. No I expect
35:11 I expect to see you play really well this weekend. I expect to get three three wins.
35:16 Yeah. So TCU has a big weekend this weekend at the Globe Life Tuesday. They take on Evelyn
35:22 Christian in the midweek game and then a week from Friday they start conference play against
35:28 Kansas. So pretty soon we'll be going to two episodes a week. So so yeah about two more
35:33 weeks of one episode and then we're breaking it down even more. So I think that's it for
35:39 today. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Frogs bullpen. I'm Jay. This is Carson and
35:44 We'll see you guys next week.
35:45 - Thanks, Todd. - Thank you.
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