Can the D-backs Follow the Brewers’ Blueprint to MLB Postseason Success?

Can the D-backs Follow the Brewers’ Blueprint to MLB Postseason Success?

Well, the Dodgers won. That’s the bad news. Good news is at least our Sea Snakes, aka our Seabbacks, are also up two nothing. We’re going to talk about the postseason. And we’re also going to talk about this Milwaukee Brewers team that ended the season with the best record in the NL and how the Diamondbacks could perhaps follow their blue blueprint to have some consistent postseason appearances. We’re all doing this in 30 seconds. Don’t you go anywhere. [Applause] [Music] Ski and welcome in to another edition of the PHNX Dbacks podcast live from Studio K presented by our friends at Circle K. It is I, your mayor of DHNX, occasionally known as Derek Montia. We got our guy Damon Dog, aka Damon Frell. Tonight, he’s pumped. But that’s that’s fake. He’s not Yeah. Why am I pumped? He’s not that happy. He’s He’s He was very mad. So despair. Life is darkness. Life is baseball sucks. Everything is the worst. And Damon, in fact, can’t wait for whatever is going to happen in 2027. The lockout, the just bring it on right now. the the strike, whatever we’re doing. But great to have you guys here. Sean, great to see you guys here. I know you were over there watching our guys do their Suns watch along. Uh we’re both battling uh watching the LA teams tonight, rooting against them to no luck for the time being. But great to have you guys here. Of course, this show is brought to you by our friends at Bet365 and Game Time. Go download that Bet365 app right now. Use our code at PHNX365. When you do, you’ll sign up and get yourself some bonus bets for following a few easy steps over at Game Time. Use our code of PH andX. You’ll get $20 off your first already low ticket price. Again, great to have you guys here. Got some good news. We got some bad news. Start with the bad news, and that is that the Dodgers now take a 20 lead after beating the Brewers again in Milwaukee tonight by a score of 5 to one. I think that’s what the final score was. I stopped paying attention quite frankly after the You know, because who cares? Who cares? Sports are dumb. Sports are the worst. Why do we do this? Can we do a movie podcast? I would I would pivot to a Peacemaker podcast right now because I have some thoughts on that finale for sure. And there’s a good chance that Damon and I might dress up as Peacemaker and Eagly for Halloween as a couple’s costume, but that’s for a later time. That’s for October 31st. For now, we have to worry about the Dodgers looking very good to be in a position to once again make it back to the World Series and be a tough out considering how good their starting pitching has been here on the road. They take both games in Milwaukee and now the series comes back to LA for three games. It’s not looking good for the Brew Crew. Uh, and it was another incredible start from a Dodgers starting pitcher. We knew that they were loaded. We knew that their starters were were good, but we also knew that a few of their starters like Blake Snell and Yamamoto who have been incredibly good in this series uh were their workh horses that they could really lean on once the postseason came around. Like Damon said, of course, this team finds a way to luck uh you know, luck luck themselves into, you know, a closer situation or at least a high leverage arm there in Roki Sasaki out of their bullpen considering how bad their bullpen was or has been. uh this season. But uh despite the fact that the Brewers won all six meetings between these two teams, uh the Dodgers walk away here with the first two wins. Yamamoto tonight, incredible. Eight innings pitch, three hits, one earned run, one walk, 6K. Damon, they don’t even need their terrible bullpen because they have their starters going seven and eight innings regularly and they figured out that Roki Sasaki, you know, can fill this role that they need. So really, they just need their their, you know, mid guys to be able to come in and only be mid for like maybe one inning. Yeah, Derek, I guess that’s what a $400 million rotation buys you these days when it comes to baseball. Blake Snell, Tyler Glass, now Yoshi Yamamoto. I mean, it’s just it’s it’s ridiculous. But but that being said, I mean, I think, you know, the Roki Sasaki thing is very Dodgers. It’s very emblematic of the Dodgers. And that’s a real take. Like that’s not even me trolling it. It’s it’s so to me like that’s the difference between the Dodgers and the Dbacks, Derek, is if the Dbacks had a Roki Sasaki type of signing and it was a disaster. It would debilitate the team. Whereas for the Dodgers, right, they’re like, “Ah, we’ll let him figure it out in TripleA. We’ll let him rehab. We’ll let him sit up and fix his injury and then we’re going to bring him back in a new role that he’s never done before and he’s going to be insane at it.” And you’re like, uh, we we can’t even find one good bullpen pitcher. How are you turning your failed starters who are crying on the mound and we’re all laughing at them on Twitter? I know. And then now he’s just a shutdown guy out of the pen. I mean it’s it it really is emblematic in my opinion of of you know our struggle in the NL West of what what we can’t do and what they are very very good at doing and that’s finding ways to fix players. Well, the best point or I guess the the one thing that really highlights your point, really makes your point here, Damon Show Otani, the guy that any team any team in baseball would have had to empty the bank in order to get would have been the star, the focus. And see, Derek, this is where you’re wrong. When I tweeted the other day about the lamest hat that has ever been made in the history of existence that just says show Otani written across it in letters. Um, and I obviously and I obviously work I mean I I don’t know what else to say. It’s it’s it’s a it’s a diabolical hat. There’s no design. It’s just it’s just words and yeah, it’s the old school like it’s the it’s usually a team name. It’s like Los Angeles Kings really big or you know whatever. Yeah, Kings is a big one that they do for that. Right. And so it just says show Otani and and apologies for not having this ready, but it’s it’s like I Yeah, I it’s the lamest hat ever. I was told, Derek, that I’m mad about it because the Diamondbacks have never produced quote unquote produced a player worthy of a hat like that. So you’re wrong. The Dodgers didn’t sign Otani. They produced Show Otani. They made him. Quit. Don’t bring your Twitter beefs to the show. That’s what I was told. But I but you’re bringing your Twitter feeds to the show. I was trying to make an honest point because show Otani right now Damon in the playoffs is hitting 147 with a 599 OPS. He was one for five tonight with three strikeouts. The point being is once again the Dodgers just can overcome Otani having a bad postseason. Yeah. Because they have other guys like Tay Oscar Hernandez who picks up the slack. They have, you know, tonight Tea Oscar hit a home run, uh, two for five tonight. You had kind of a well-rounded effort from this, you know, offense, but you honestly had the six through nine guys helping them more than the top of the lineup. Tommy Edmond two for four tonight. Kiki Hernandez was two for three, the best player in a walk. You know, Andy Bahz again, one for two. So, like I saw someone say that Kershaw and Kik switch. They monstar talent when the playoffs comes around. And so Kershaw goes from being a Hall of Famer to a bum. Yeah. He gives he gives him all of his energy and goes from being a utility guy. He comes goes from being Tim Tawa to being some needle mover every postseason somehow. Well, and again, the way that the Dodgers have been doing this has has been pitching. It has been pitching and they’ve been able to maintain those leads. And it’s, you know, again, the And Maxy, don’t even get me sorry, Max. Okay. I was I was driving over listening to the game on SiriusXM. I don’t know if that’s a free ad. I don’t think it is. That’s just a service to listen to in your car, but when you listen to the playbyplay for baseball on SiriusXM somehow, I don’t know. They they give you they give you the home they give you the broadcast for one of the teams, right? So, I was listening to the radio broadcast for the Dodgers. Made me sick. It made me sick. Did you know they play a little cute song when someone does something? Well, so they played like some sort of song for Max Muny and I wanted to like punch my radio. I almost got in an accident on the freeway over it. It’s just bells when when uh when something happens good for the Dodgers because that’s what it feels like. Oh, that’s what it feels like for us. It really does. Uh such as Bryce Terang, which we’ll talk about. Well, we could talk about it right now, but game one, the Dodgers win by two to one, right? They win this game tonight 5 to1. They’ve been doing it through pitching and they don’t even have that much offense that they’re generating, right? It’s it’s wild. And we’re going to get to what the Mariners have been doing to the Blue Jays and holding that very potent offensive team. But the Brewers had no problem rolling into the postseason and putting up runs, especially early runs against the Chicago Cubs in their NL NLDDS series, right? So now you have good pitchers, too, right? Good pitchers, right? But Blake Snell dominant. Yoshobu Yamamoto dominant. Eight shutout innings for Blake Snell. 10 strikeouts, no walks. Yoshinobu Yamamoto tonight, eight eight innings again. Uh, one one home run, one mistake allowed to Jackson Cheerio. Um, but like you said, the Brewers pushed late. They had a chance against a guy that was one of their bums from their bullpen and and Blake Trident. Uh, loaded loaded bases in the ninth. Blake Trinan strikes out Bryce Durang to seal the win. And Bryce Durang had a pitch that came inside that he moved out of the way of You’re moving out of the way of a pitch. Is that the best way to describe it? Would it be just more that it was just like he didn’t lean into it or would you say that he actively got out of the way of Derek? He fully played limbo with the baseball like like it was one of those situations. You know how like in a cartoon like Spongebob will like make his like leg make a 90deree angle to like avoid something? Yeah, that’s what Bryce Tang was willing to do with his body. He was going to contort it in ways that you’ve never seen a guy contort his body to avoid a baseball before. It was Matrix style. I mean, I’ve never seen a dude blow it as bad as Bryce Tang did. Yeah. One two Derek. It’s not like he was it was a two- count and he’s like, you know what? I’m gonna get something that’s good to hit here and and you know, let me swing the bat. He’s down to his final strike when that pitch gets made. You’re down to your final strike already. I I’m I don’t say this lightly, Derek. I would take that pitch right now to switch that game’s fate. I’m not I’m not even a Brewers fan. Yeah. I That’s how much I hate the Dodgers. Yes. But I’m willing to do that. Right. For the people that are like that are like, you don’t get it. It’s major league pitching. 85 miles per hour. It hurts. I’m not going to I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It hurts. Yeah. But like unless it like fluke somehow breaks his kneecap. I mean, he’s just going to wear it, get a bruise, and play tomorrow. I I understand that sometimes instinctually you that’s that’s like just your natural reaction is to get out of the way of the ball. But I think that works for like your head and neck area where it’s like Yeah. Coming in protect the goods trying to hurt you. Right. For sure. But I feel like when you’re in that situation, you almost go into the box, Derek, and your approach is if if he throws something inside like be prepared to wear it because that’s game or not game, but it’s gamechanging, it keeps you in it at least. So, I don’t know, man. The stakes are way too high for you to be jumping out of the way of that. Yeah. I mean I Damon is not joking about that. Dave, I’m not kidding. I’d do it right now. He would he would run. He would it wouldn’t even be a baseball. He’d jump in front of a moving car if it meant 36 p.m. beating the Dodgers. It meant anyone beating the Dodgers, right? Um and then yeah, you had a Freddy Freeman solo home run that broke the tie. Mookie Bets drew a base loaded walk to add the insurance run. Uh, but and you also had that weird 862 double play in the fourth. That was kind of awesome. Went the Brewers way, went anti. That’s when I thought when that happened, Damon, when that double play happened, I was like, the Dodgers are going to lose this game. I was so convinced that everything in the universe was going against them. And uh yeah, it’s not how it works. It’s not how it works. In fact, the everything goes so for the Dodgers that like they get like ground rule doubles that help them. Yeah. Well, like that cuz that situation, you never know, man. That could have potentially changed things for the Brewers as well. If if that ball is a like becomes a triple, if they score that first run, like you never know what the the butterfly effect of that is. But we we’re upsetting the people now. Ernesto is wondering if this is the Dodgers haters club. Yeah, that’s what we came here. Yes. Yes. He says, “I’m here from the ad. This is the Dodgers Dodgers haters club.” Yes, this is what we’re here to do. Um he said Sean said, “I’m so mad that 862 happened and the Dodgers still won.” Yeah, exactly. That’s how I felt like it felt like everything was going the Brewers way at that point. Unfortunately, it did not. It has not. And they are down to 02. It’s difficult now. They go back to LA and they have to take uh you know, they they have to take two of those games in LA to keep their postseason hopes alive. Uh and then still still, you know, have a very hard road ahead of them against this Dodgers rotation. But uh again, no matter what happens in that series, the team that comes out will be the bad guy for us. They will be the heels. So, let it be the Dodgers, right? I I mean, I don’t really care. I I I don’t I don’t want to get attached to Brewers play players like I am now, Damon, because I’m rooting for them and then, you know, have to root against them when the World Series comes around. That’s But like my rooting against the Brewers in the World Series would be like, “Yeah, I hope the American League team wins.” Whereas like my rooting against the Dodgers in the n in the World Series is like this means everything to me. I won’t sleep tonight if this team loses against the Dodgers. So it’s like it’s very like it’s just to different scales. It’s almost incomparable. He’s going to sacrifice a live chicken if the Dodgers make it to the World Series. That’s going to happen. But uh don’t tell anybody about that’s animal cruelty. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You’re doxing me right now. Just let’s let’s let’s keep that to ourselves. But, uh, it’s definitely understandable, Damon, if they do go there to match up with our Seabbacks, aka the Sea Snakes, uh, who are somehow inexplicably up two nothing over the Toronto Blue Jays. And man, they put it to him in game two, winning 10 to3. Julio Rodriguez hits a three-run home run. Jorge Palano uh, is still just on a tear this off season. He has been incredible uh, for for the Mariners over the last three games. And then we got Josh Naylor adding a two-run shot. Dad shrked on display. David, he’s back. He’s never been more back. He’s nasty. I don’t know how this man is doing it. I don’t know where he is, what well of energy he is tapping into. Uh maybe it’s just returning to Canada. Like the closer I’ve said it, the closer he is to Canada, the more powerful he is. And that is definitely what is happening now. Uh, and it’s just really good to see the Mariners, you know, take take it to the Toronto Blue Jays like they have. Like I said, I I am still really impressed how they have come out in these first two games and played against this tough Blue Jays team. Considering how, you know, like how depleted they were after that 15 inning game, I that that that’s an instance where I can’t help but think of the Diamondbacks and be like, the Diamondbacks postseason would be over by a 15 ining game. like they would never be able to recover from a 15 inning game. There’s never they would never be able they would never be able to recover from it. So, you know, here you got here you got our Sea Snakes moving on. Uh now, teams notably that go up uh 20, this is good news, bad news situation here. Uh the teams that go up 20 have an 83.9% chance to win a best of seven game series. Now, obviously a little different here in this scenario because both teams have won the first two games on the road and I feel like that has to increase it. I don’t want to get into Steiner math, but I think we’re at 123% chance of of winning here for the Seattle Mariners, but Well, and that was what I was going to say, Derek. The other factor you have to factor in is that none of those percentages have anything to do with the Seattle Mariners and their postseason play because that’s a franchise that has just been tortured in the playoffs. You are not wrong. So like it’s it’s it’s almost like incomparable. It’s not the the Mariners matter nothing to those postseason statistics. Yeah. Because they I feel like the Mariners could choke a three-0 lead. I wouldn’t be shocked. Easy. Easy. And I mean it would be they they’ve never made a World Series. So that feels very like I don’t want that to happen at all. I’m rooting for him. It just like knowing Shane, knowing the way that like Mariners fans talk about their team because I feel like I I don’t know if correct me if if you feel differently, Derek. Every Mariners fan I’ve ever met is like a really nice, cool person. You’re not okay. Yes, you’re right about that. And and they’re very accepting of the fact that their baseball team lets them down and disappoints them no matter how good they do. But they love their team. They love their team and never stop loving them. But let me tell you, around the midpoint of this season, our ad guy, Zack, decided to AI up a fun little picture of him and Shane on the field at T-Mobile uh hugging while the Mariners were celebrating winning the World Series. And when he made that, I everybody looked at him and and and asked him what he was doing, like how how bad did he want really to to to send this team down in flames? And it almost happened. But thanks to the intervention of an Etsy witch, somehow the Mariners sit here. And again, this Etsy witch, Damon, is really the piece of investigative journalism that that we need to figure out on this show. Not that we need to let this information get out, but we need to figure out a way to find the contact information for this Etsy witch. Harbor her powers, right? For good. We could hire her at PHNX. Correct. Right. And and we could bring her into the Arizona sports fold as a whole. We could end this misery that we’re experiencing on a on a on a on a different level. Yeah. Like on a grand scale. Like I don’t know how it would work with you guys and the Sunundevils. Like that still seems to be something we would have to figure out. I’ll tell you what, we don’t lose to Utah teams. That’s that’s for sure. That’s for sure. Again, you’re bringing your Twitter beefs in here. I feel like Well, this is your real life beef. So, this is I mean, we we both lost to Utah teams. That’s what I’m saying. The the all all that I’m sure that’s right in the world if if the witch is on our side is that we’re not losing to Utah teams, right? That’s for damn sure. But yeah, we need to find a way to harbor that power. See, RA says we need our own thing. And like he’s not wrong about that. However, I don’t know what to pivot to. I’m not I’m not a I’m a man of science. I’ve said that many times on this show, even though I do believe what I write in my rundowns does affect games, including the fact that I had to do a show about the Arizona Cardinals while they were playing the Titans. And I had a very pro uh rundown being written, Damon, and I still feel very responsible for both the Amari de Marcato fumble out of the back of the end zone and that interception that was fumbled away. I feel responsible for both of those. So maybe maybe our magic could be me writing negative things about the Diamondbacks on my rundown every single game and then maybe that could lead to an undefeated season. I don’t know. We got to figure something out. fought stinks as Diamondbacks before he even touches the ball. Before he even touches the ball, when I first open my eyes in the morning, Rod blows it again. Erra balloons to 12.86. This bullpen can’t help itself cuz I’m too busy writing positive things in there most of the time because I that’s that’s what I want to happen in my heart. It’s what I want to happen in my heart. Derek, I like I think you are and maybe you don’t feel this way, but I think you are like in the 1% of positivity when it comes to Diamondback’s fans right now at least cuz right now the current like landscape of Diamondback’s social media sphere feels very overtly negative. And I feel like you are at least trying to put a a smile on people’s faces and you want like this whole thing to be fun. So, it’s like you’re not going to come in with just awful energy time after time. That’s what I do on the Wildcats show when we lose and I go I sit in the postgame show and I pout the entire time. My parents thought literally were like, “If you want to watch Damon cry on the postgame, they just told me that. Go tune in to Saturday.” I mean, they they r people rarely got to see you uh when the Diamondbacks were blowing all those games last season uh during anything any time. Damon was an emotional wreck. It was hard for me to get any kind of positivity squeezed in there because Damon was just stealing my positive energy and just turning it into and then we would we would win like five in a row and I’d be like this team is so bad. Yeah, he’s so And I’m on the other rail of like and Dererick’s like, “Whoa, hold on there. I mean, we’re still six and a half games out of the wild card. It doesn’t seem like it’s all that likely that we make playoffs.” And I’m like, “I’ll tell you who doesn’t want to face us. The Dodgers. That’s who. He’s not wrong. He’s not wrong. Someone earlier in the chat asked uh what are we going to follow the Brewers blueprint to the failure that is this series. No, but it’s the baseball playoffs. We are we are going to talk about the Brewers and how they’ve been consistently able to make the playoffs. And you got to give credit where credit is due. Even if it might not mean much when the playoffs come around or in this series against the Dodgers, they still have the best record in the National League. So, we’re going to just take a look at how they got there and wonder if the Diamondbacks can do something that follows their their path a little bit more. Uh especially for those naysayers that feel like 2023 was uh just luck. But, uh the Seattle Mariners, aka RC Snakes, uh they do have a little bit of luck here on their side. Damon, uh Brian Woo is returning from injury and was included on the ALCS roster. That’s big because honestly with how depleted they were from this whole situation with uh you know with with that 15 inning game, it’s nice to have someone like that back. Meanwhile, Toronto on the other hand loses uh Bo Bushette who stays off the roster due to knee injuries and you can feel like his loss is a big reason why you know this this offense isn’t clicking like they have. However, they haven’t really missed him so far uh this postseason. But it’s deflating though a little bit. I mean, you’re right about like they’ve sustained it obviously throughout the course of this postseason, but not having a guy like that who even if you know, maybe his name is a little bit bigger than his actual status as a baseball player, he’s still like one of those guys that I think players in that locker room probably look at and say, you know, that’s a guy that they expect to be a leader. So, it’s it’s tough not having that guy on the field with you. But for sure, um, yeah, as far as Brian Brian Woo, uh, Shane told me, Derek, that he’s the most handsome man alive. What are your thoughts on that? I can’t argue with that. He is a very handsome man. Uh, and his teammate who is starting in game three, Bryce Miller, gave him the nickname shredded Parmesan cheese. You want to take a look at these? Yeah. Because apparently Bryce Miller likes to give everybody cheese nicknames. Uh, he has nicknamed his fellow pitcher Luis Castillo. Big cheese. Logan Gilbert is sandwich cheese. I don’t love sandwich cheese. That’s That’s No, that one. We could work that one. Yeah, we need a The rest are fire. George Kirby is sharp cheddar or angry cheddar. Both awesome. Depends on the mood, right? Maybe if he’s out there uh waxing poetic or maybe laying down some stats, he might be sharp cheddar. But when he’s pitching and he’s just in the groove and he’s just angry, he’s angry cheddar. I was kind of thinking he’s sharp cheddar when he’s on because he’s sharp. Yeah. But then when he’s he’s angry cheddar when he’s not cuz he’s he’s mad about that. He’s not he’s not pitching well. Yeah. Um then then we got Bryce Miller calling himself string cheese. That one’s the best. That one’s great. That one’s the best one. How am I supposed to not love this team? I don’t even know how I could switch back to being a not a Mariners fan next year. That’s honestly fair. They’re way They might have way cooler thing going on than we do, but but I’ll say this. Bryce Miller totally picked the best nickname for himself. Yeah. I mean, he he was like, “Listen, guys. I’m string cheese.” Yeah. George Kirby could have been string cheese. I don’t care what the rest of you are, but I am string cheese. What would you be, Derek? What kind of cheese would you be? Um Sean says he calls monster. Zbe calls white cheddar. Okay. Like I that’s crazy. Mozzarella because it would match with my last name. I’m I’m not Italian, but people think I’m Italian. They definitely don’t think I’m Puerto Rican or Hispanic in any way. So, I’ll take mozzarella Montia for sure. Um, but Sean says he got dibs on Monster. Elizabeth would be white cheddar. That seems racist. I don’t know. Um, I’m not I’m not doing that. But what I will say is um we we got a home field shift here. Seattle like the Dodgers, they have an advantage here. I just feel like I hope the moment doesn’t get too big for the Mariners. Like I said, that pressure might start building. Uh and Toronto has to make some adjustments here. Um you know, they they definitely have to do something, especially offensively. I don’t know how Seattle has done such a good job of of slowing down, you know, the Blue Jays offense. Uh but again, you know, four runs total. So this is uh this has been pretty good over two games for Seattle and and you know, hanging up 10 in game two also has to make you feel very good confidence-wise about what your offense uh is able to do. And you did that without Cal Rally being a major factor in game two as well. So all very positive things for the Seabbacks and we will keep an eye on them tomorrow in their game three. But uh we’re going to take a quick break. 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Other terms, conditions, and exclusions may apply. Now, uh, great question earlier there about, you know, why discuss this Brewers team that seems to be going down in flames right now in the NLCS. Well, we could do this about the Dodgers, but the the the question would start, could we follow the blueprint that the Dodgers laid for success? And then the answer would be a quick no and then it would be just me and Damon screaming about Show Otani going to jail for 15 straight minutes. which I I I’m going to be honest. I mean, the the crew that’s here tonight, Derek, they probably would kind of be in on that. No, they would love that. They would definitely I’m not saying that the mo the productive want. Is it productive? No, it’s not productive. We’re trying to help the front office out. As you know, Mike Hazen is a huge fan of this show and tends to follow whatever instructions we lay down for him to follow. So, we’re going to have to help him out with this one. Uh because we we do wonder how the built Brewers did build this, right? Like when you think about the Milwaukee Brewers, they’re just consistently in the postseason. They’re consistently winning their division. And this year of all years, they were surprisingly the best team in the National League. You could probably the say the same thing about the Toronto Blue Jays a little bit, but these teams are kind of vastly different in the way they did it. You know, uh how did they even get here? And again for the Arizona Diamondbacks, a lot of what Milwaukee has done over the past years does look awfully familiar uh to what we uh have done here in the valley here with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Maybe a little instructive, but you’re going to find a lot of similarities. They’ve built around pitching, player development, and and savvy trades. And we have said already that one of the only ways that the Diamondbacks are going to get out of this 2026 situation that they’re in is through trades, not big spending. Even though the Diamondbacks have done their fair share of that. In fact, bringing on former Brewer Corbin Burns was a a shocking move for us that covered this team, for fans, for everybody because even though we thought that the Diamondbacks might go out and try to improve their pitching staff, we definitely did not think that for the second year in a row they were going to add the best available pitching arm, right? Um, and of course, Milwaukeee’s identity does start on the mound. That’s the most important thing for this Diamondbacks team. If they do want to mimic what the Brewers are doing, they have to figure out a way to get this quality level of starting pitching. Corbin Burns, Brandon Woodruff, Freddy Peralta, those were all homegrown arms. Those are guys that came from their system. And now Freddy Peralta is out there doing it for them in the playoffs despite the fact that he had a lack of success in the postseason prior to this particular run that they’re going through right now. But that’s part of it is consistently developing, you know, their their pitch developing pitching depth and and developing the next guy up. Uh, and then also they made some savvy trades when you talk about savvy moves that the Brewers have made, especially for undervalued arms like Adrien Howser and Aaron Ashby. Those are guys that are providing them with a lot right now. And unfortunately for the Diamondbacks, they’ve made their share of savvy moves. those guys have tended, you know, those guys have ended up on on the IIL for the most part, but not really the quality of moves that you saw that you’re seeing here from the Brewers that led to these guys, you know, being, you know, in these high leverage situations right now in the postseason, right? But there there’s something there in regards to the pitching development and the pitching lab mentality of of the Brewers, you know, and and the Dbacks do have kind of a new focus on this out there at Salt River Fields. We’re not allowed to go inside it as much as I want to. It’s driving me insane. Um, but again, it’s it’s about analytics. It’s about ways to uh figure out how to improve these guys. And and again, that might be the key factor that’s missing for the Diamondbacks. They have had some guys develop, but for the most part, you know, that you could still take a look at a few young arms and and say that they really haven’t done much to progress or develop and you could probably throw Brandon F in there as one of those guys. Ryan Nelson, Ryan Nelson, meanwhile, is more of the outlier for sure. He has had himself an amazing career and and he is another homegrown guy here for the Diamondbacks. But uh again when you talk about the the trades and the moves they made uh they they acquired William Con Trarez and uh Joel Pampis Kemp and uh in the three-team deal that looked very inconsequential at the time and both of those guys have become foundational for the Brewers, right? Uh and then you know obviously they added Christian Yelich uh when his market value was fairly low and then extended him early. Uh and even that that deal at times didn’t look like it was the best but he has proven to be a top tier talent as many people thought he was going to right. But um I think I think the big thing for the Diamondbacks is you know a willingness to make those big trades at the time. their relationship with Corbin Burns unfortunately deteriorated over some minor things, but it did feel like the connection there between him and Milwaukee, you know, was was was going away. And and it felt like at the time when Milwaukee moved Corbin Burns, that that was a move that made that franchise worse, but it didn’t. You know, making willingness to move stars at the right time and moving big names at the right time is a big part of bringing in prospects that are going to help you down the road and and and give you pay payroll flexibility, which right now is something the Diamondbacks very much need. Could they do that? Is there somebody right like obviously Catel Marte is going to be in the trade rumors this entire off season. If they move Catel, does it make this team better? I mean, you could argue right now that Catel Marte is on the decline when it comes to playing at second base. Many people are already clamoring to see somebody else, you know, get some more playing time over there and and have Catel be DH. We get that question regularly on Mailbag Monday, right? So, this is, you know, again, one of those, you know, cases where maybe a big trade for this team, maybe it’s not Alec Thomas, maybe it’s not Jake McCarthy. those guys aren’t really going to move the needle. You know, maybe it’s maybe it’s something as major as moving Corbin Burns. You know, again, I I hate the idea of that, but considering how late it’s going to be for Corbin Burns to return this team, uh they could make some sort of move for Corbin Burns that is going to disgust us, but is going to somehow bring this team return. That would be kind of a crappy move though, honestly, if I’m not that that’s probably a terrible idea considering that he signed here specifically to be in Arizona and that would be kind of a a jerk thing to do, but sometimes it’s it’s about business, right? So, I I don’t know. I I think that there are, you know, some some similarities here and the Diamondbacks need to get back to an emphasis on athletic position flexible defenders like they’re getting with some of their young guys. Uh that can keep run prevention elite even when their bats go cold and can kind of keep these games close. Uh the Brewers have a top five defense in Major League Baseball and outs above average. And Pat Murphy has just always emphasized adaptability. He’s also emphasized accountability, right? So Pat Murphy is is a guy that we very much know here in the Valley. He would be a guy that many people would love to have managing this Diamondbacks team. And uh again, I I feel like Pat Murphy is a little bit more of a Jeff Banister than he is a Vtori Lavalo for sure. Uh even though he likes to keep things light and he also keeps pancakes in his pockets at all times. Like any man that’s ready to eat breakfast and and doesn’t just get ready, he stays ready to eat breakfast has my respect 100%. But um you know the the the one thing about this Brewers team year after year is it doesn’t really seem to be a team built of of superstars. Like they have they have brewing superstars for sure. Jacksonio is already a superstar, right? But, uh, you know, it’s built around roles. It’s built around internal development. And it’s built around stability. And that’s something that the Diamondbacks don’t really have is especially is stability. Like, they’re not getting consistent play out of their their players. They’re not getting consistent pitching. They’re not getting consistency year after year. Um, and even Tori, the message doesn’t really seem consistent. Uh, that’s one thing that I can definitely say has has changed over the last few seasons and I’m sure we’ll have a completely different tone in 2026 considering the dire straight the dire need of of this team, you know, getting things back on track for sure. But, uh, what we’re going to do is we’re going to take a quick break and then we are going to talk about the Diamondbacks and how they can follow this blueprint, what they can do, uh, to follow this Brewer style approach and if that approach is actually good enough to win the World Series or just make the playoffs year after year like we’re seeing from Milwaukee. We’re going to talk about that on the other side of this break. Don’t you go anywhere. You’re watching the PHNX Diamondback show. One place you should go is Circle K. It is America’s thirst stop and it is for a great reason. I got some of the cheapest gas in Southern California that I’ve ever that I feel like I’ve gotten in years. 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Well, before we talk, Damon, about if the Diamondbacks can follow their blueprint of the Brewers, I guess we’ll circle back around to the original point being made before we even got into this discussion, and it is should they follow the blueprint of the Brewers? I mean, we have already said that a measure of success for this franchise has to be making the playoffs, right? And you you can’t really say you you can’t expect more I think from any major league team besides teams that spend the millions and millions of dollars that teams like the Mets and the Dodgers spend. You you can’t really expect those teams to make the World Series every year. The best you could expect out of a small market team like the Milwaukee Brewers or the Diamondbacks is to make the postseason year after year. But if every trip to the postseason ends in a early exit, an ALCS or an NLCS exit, an NLDS exit, even a wild card exit, does it does it make it worthwhile if you’re not making that next step? It feels like that’s what’s missing here for the Brewers, but they I mean they still did it with a young team that they’ve kind of, you know, they they don’t have a whole lot of veteran presence on like that. These guys are I mean they have a few guys that are getting up there in age, but for the most part, this is still a very young Milwaukee team that they’ve been able to kind of flip over year after year and keep themselves at least relevant enough to win their division and make it into the postseason. Yeah, the Brewers are I think definitely a great example of sustainable winning culture when it comes to baseball and and um you know, maybe that doesn’t come with insane amounts of postseason success, but Derek, I I feel like as Diamondbacks fans, like you said, like our goal should be throwing as many darts at the dart board as possible. We’ve seen this team go on a couple miraculous runs in franchise history, and it doesn’t always happen when you think it is. I mean, in 01, like I think that team was always stacked and and loaded and, you know, had such a great regular season that it made sense. But in 2023, I mean, we thought it was all down and out after the Astros beat the crap out of us in the final series of the season and we and we backed our way in and then what happened? You know, you beat the Brewers and then all of a sudden and you barely beat the Brewers. Then momentum starts happening and then you it leads to a game three where you’re blowing out the Dodgers and stepping on their necks, right? And and it’s some of the most fun we’ve ever had as Dbacks fans. I think it’s totally totally like not fair to this organization with the division that they’re in to expect them to just win the NL West or and do that year in and year out. But I do think that finding consistently a ch a way to make the postseason is is totally the goal in my opinion. You’re right. And and I mean they’re going to have to do it without spending like the top teams do, right? Arizona can stay competitive without big spending, but they got to nail development and they got to nail timing their extensions, right? Like they did with Ronaldo Pomo, like they did with Corbin Carroll, like they’ve done with Catel Marte. Yeah. You know, it’s it’s the reason why I’ve been clamoring for a Gabrielle Mareno and I have extension and I have for the last two years. I think now might be a great time for it considering he had a down year that their their numbers and Gabby’s numbers might align a little bit more, but that is again the only way that they’re going to do it. Milwaukee ranks near the bottom third in payroll nearly every year, yet they stay relevant every year. And that’s the the thing is is that I know a lot of teams can’t do it, but Milwaukee is finding a way to do it, right? And and and they were able to do it with guys like Freddy Peralta, who you could say is maybe a little bit similar to a Brandon FO. I mean, just as far as, you know, developing a pitcher and having him come up, especially what we’ve seen, what we saw out of FO in the postseason, he was dominant at times. He was incredible. We don’t even know where those performances kind of came from because we didn’t even really see stuff like that from him during the 2023 regular season. Yet, he was able to dig down and give us, you know, big game Brandon in the 2023 regular season. I know. Well, that’s what I’m saying. Up until he made that infamous p pitching change to the other side of the mound because Brent Stum called him in the middle of the night. Right. But they got to be aggressive. Yeah. Football slider. Um be aggressive with smart trades. They got to be aggressive with with smart trades. And that’s right now what is so important is it feels like the Diamondbacks could turn a corner. And you do have this calvary of pitching reinforcements on the horizon that will come back in July. Just how do we get from here to there without being 15 games back from any kind of playoff spot, right? And again, that the only way that they’re going to be able to do that is to trade some of their controllable outfield depth that they have in Jake McCarthy and Alec Thomas for some sort of bullpen help or some sort of starting pitching help. I’m not saying that that’s going to happen because again, Jake’s numbers this year weren’t great. Alex a little better. I think Alex still has a lot of potential and and and a team might see that potential in Alec Thomas. you might just have to quite frankly get a team like the White Socks who you know want white who want want him in their organization uh to overpay for him. But uh the Brewers went ugly. That’s why you didn’t hear a lot about you know like even the Diamondbacks, right? Gino was the home run king when he was on the Dbacks and you’re hearing Corbin Carroll’s offensive season isn’t crazy and he’s doing something no Dback has ever done. Heraldo Portomo is doing something no Dback has ever done. You didn’t really hear that about the Brewers. they just prevented runs. And yeah, that’s kind of what I was gonna say, Derek, is is they’re almost the anti-diamondbacks. And I think that the answer probably about this question is should the Diamondbacks model after the Brewers is probably somewhere in the middle. Cuz yeah, if the Diamondbacks could figure out a way to internally develop pitching the way that the Milwaukee Brewers do, we would be in the postseason every single year. Because it’s never the lineup that is the reason that’s holding the Diamondbacks back. It is always always the pitching and this is a franchise history type of ordeal. This is a thing that’s been consistent forever. And usually when this team has like a decent pitching staff, they make the postseason. That’s that’s typically like a almost like a 100% success rate. I feel like I’d have to look back truly, but it it feels that way at least. So, you know, like 2014 or or I’m sorry, 2011 like that. You bring in Ian Kennedy, you don’t expect much. Daniel Hudson’s nice. Josh Coleman has a really good erra and you’re like, “Wow, this team’s really good.” All of a sudden, we have pitchers that are not diabolically bad and and this team is, you know, a contender for the World Series. I think that the the answer is how do we figure out how the Brewers are developing these pitchers? Yeah. And the Brewers, conversely, need to be like, how are the Diamondbacks doing this thing with the position players? Because Ernesto’s right like the the Brewers, the problem with the Brewers is that they always lack that big hit from like a superstar. They don’t have that dude. Yeah. Right. And and I mean, you could say that they have a kind of a mold that they they they make guys into superstars that are unlikely superstars. Yeah. Like Yelich got better and he was great for like a couple years, right, when he was there, but he’s kind of like I’m not saying he’s not a great baseball player. He’s not like MVP caliber baseball player like he was for a season. That’s where that’s where the Diamondbacks kind of have the edge because you you could say Catel Marte is kind of that Brewers old type of guy, right? The guy that came was was one of the lesser of lesser guys of importance in his own trade and somehow came here and became that MVP candidate that you’re talking about that none of the Brewers players have uh really become. And Ryan Nelson, another guy that’s maybe a bit more of what they’ve been doing with their pitchers up there, right? Um and that’s the key. How did the Diamondbacks figure out the internal infrastructure to develop pitching at Milwaukeee’s level? And again, that’s personnel. That comes with personnel. And that’s the reason why perhaps Brian Kaplan doesn’t have that experience. Maybe this goes beyond Brian Kaplan as the pitching coach. I just don’t know. But I mean, you I mean, it’s an organizational thing clearly. Like they’ve had so many pitching coaches, Derek, and it doesn’t matter. The bullpen always stinks, right? Like that’s a that’s a that’s a 100% fact. That transcends That transcends eras, that transcends managers, that transcends GMs, this team. Yeah. As you know, like that was part of the whole Randy Johnson coming out of the bullpen in the World Series thing, right? Like it was like, we’re going to let this happen, but you guys are screwed after this. So, we were like, “Yeah, no, that’s fine. We don’t care. We only need one World Series. We don’t ever need to win.” like, “Hey, I was just thinking about that whole deal we made and how we gave up success forever.” Um, could we maybe like talk about it? I mean, would you reconsider? Would you reconsider? Having a bad bullpen for the rest of time forever is not as It doesn’t It hurts. It doesn’t feel great. It doesn’t feel great. Well, I think it’s like it is like an organizational thing, you know? It starts with the scouts. It goes to the coaching staff, the developmental staff. Like, and that’s not to say that these guys are all bad at their jobs because they do develop a lot of people, but I mean, there’s there’s issues. I I’ll say this, even though they kind of, you know, got these young guys and threw them right into into the fire, right? I I was pretty impressed with the talent assessment that the scouts in the front office did and acquiring pieces back in those trades at the trade deadline that were so close to being ready that the Diamondbacks felt comfortable putting guys like Andrew Hoffman and Brandon Garcia and Juan Bergos into like these high leverage situations like right away. Hey, welcome to the big league. you’re pitching uh Philip Abner, you were pitching in Hillsboro like a cup of coffee ago. You’re going to be pitching against uh Otani and Freddy Freeman here in the eighth, you know, like that’s incredible. And I feel like for the most part, they weren’t complete disasters. It’s not to say the numbers might not argue against me on that. Some of their eras were pretty bad, but they also had a very small sample size of being in there at the major league level. and they were asked to do some heroic things for this team that many of them did not end up being able to do, but also was a lot to be asked of them, right? So, I I do think the Diamondbacks are good at talent assessment and getting those talented players onto this team. Yeah, when they go Max Scherzer is unbelievable. I mean, they they they scouted that guy out. That’s pretty good. I don’t like that you did that. They find Sai Young winning pitchers, you know? How can we make them Sai Young winning while we’re here, Robbie Ray? While you’re here. Well, guy, he who shall not be named, but also won a Sai Young one year and now doesn’t pitch in baseball anymore, but sucked on the Dbacks. Yeah. Well, that just that seems to be the case. But we’re we’re going to figure it out. We’re going to t maybe hack into the Brewers system and figure out exactly what they’re doing. Oh, uh, who did that? Wasn’t that the Cardinals that did that to the Astros or something like that? Yeah. And we’ll do it, too. We’re not above that. We’re not above that. But uh I do want to remind you guys to join our PH andX Cardinals crew on October 19th. That is this weekend, this Sunday out there at 11:00 a.m. for a pregame tailgate at Chicken and Pickle in Glendale before the Cardinals take on the Packers. I will be out there. I’m going to go watch Bert Chryser on Friday night in Glendale. I can’t wait for that. Then then I’m going to have a yard sale on Saturday that I am just dreading more than anything in my entire life. And then on Sunday, we’re going to tailgate out there. So join us. We’re going to have our PHNX Cardinals crew out there live for a pregame, halftime, and postgame show. And then our friends at Rally House will also be giving away eight $50 gift cards to fans in attendance. That is eight $50. Am I eligible for that, Damon? Can I get one of those? Because if so, I’ll definitely be there and bring every member of my family. So, uh, go to gonx.com/events to RSP RSVP for this free event. So, appreciate you guys so much. Oh, and Maria is here. So now we’re now we’re officially She said, “Is anyone happy for me?” And uh Ze immediately goes, “No, sorry, Maria. No, sorry, Maria. Not not on this show, but uh you know, hey, it’s not your fault. It’s not it’s not the the the fact that you grew up a Dodgers fan and loved the team. Uh we blame Major League Baseball. Actually, we blame the Dodgers. I take that back. We blame the Dodgers for breaking baseball. But if you like baseball that isn’t broken, I implore you once again to check out the Arizona Fall League. Our Salt River Raptors ride the raft. Uh get their second win of the year. No one loves this team more than Derek. Me and Damon have nicknamed ourselves the Riff Rafts. We are the Riff Raps. That one’s all Damon. I’m not gonna even take uh any responsibility for that one. But they beat the Desert Dogs tonight by a score of five to2 for their second win of the year. Jansal Louise was two for five with a double and a run scored. He is hitting .286 with a 756 OPS uh for the raft. So that’s a lot of fun. He is one of their top prospects that you can check out on this team. So that’s that’s great. Uh Dre Jameson got things back on track. He had a few rough outings there, but uh he had a one uh inning of work. He only gave up one hit and struck out one. However, his erra this season for the Raptors currently at 15.43. Not great. Kyle Amed had an amazing uh clean inning. Went out there one inning pitch, three strikeouts. Dude’s a stud and a G. Unfortunately uh because of short uh small sample size. His ERA right now is 10.80. But we don’t care about ERAS in Arizona Fall League. We don’t really care about results. What we care about is getting to see these guys uh go out there. Yeah. You kind of just care about the vibes like more than anything. And the vibes are so good. The vibes are superior. Like, oh, we lost. Oh, yeah. Like, let’s stay healthy and let’s stay happy. People, you can tell people turn around, they don’t even know what’s going on in the game. They’re like, what inning are we in? I don’t care. I was just enjoying my hot dog that was ridiculously low in price and still commenting to my friend that we only paid $14 to get in here. So, uh, another name to look out for that’s not related to the Dbacks, uh, Rowdy Rodriguez. Great name. Great name. Awesome name. I I don’t know. I can’t. Is it an awesome name or is it the greatest name that I’ve ever heard a baseball player have? It sounds like a wrestler. Rowdy Rodriguez. Absolutely. Rowdy. Rody Rodriguez is what his name should be. Uh he’s an Angels prospect. He’s killing it for the raft. Uh he is hitting .44 this in in the AFL play. He has a 1.472 OPS. And Damon, he’s not even uh in the top 30 prospects for the Angels. So again, this this is a great example of what the Arizona Fall League can truly do for some of these young prospects because outside of that top 30, you tend to fall off. You tend to get lost in the shuffle and it’s hard for these young guys to make a name for themselves. So for a guy like this to come out there and hit 444 with a 1.472 OPS, I guarantee he won’t not be ranked in the Angels top 30 prospects for long. So, uh, there, well, they clearly believe in him if they’re sending them to the to the fall league, right? Well, I mean, fall league’s weird because like again, when you look at the Diamondbacks prospects out there that it’s not their top prospects by any stretch of the imagination. There’s no Ryan Walshmid. There’s no, you know, they’re there’s not the top guys, but like I said, Jansa Louise, I think, is uh 12th prospect. So, I mean, again, not not super low either. It feels like you’re like seven through like 15 guys go to the go to the fall league. Yeah. Yeah. Or or a guy like Dre Jameson. And that is that’s a guy like that’s a minor leager that’s not necessarily listed as a top prospect anymore trying to get some playing time especially after after an injury uh like he you know went through this this season. But again, yes, uh Deborah is absolutely right. Uh she says different than spring games for sure. So uh it’s spring games have kind of like I I don’t know how to explain it other than once again using an analogy for Southern Arizona. Damon, uh, spring games are like Phoenix now. It’s bustling. There’s a lot of people. It’s crowded. You still love it the same, but it’s more expensive uh to be there and and you don’t love that. And it’s hard to find a place to park, right? Um, you’re not going to have that at Arizona Fall League games. You’re going to enjoy some space. You’re going to enjoy some cool people. And most importantly, you’re going to enjoy incredibly low prices on concessions and gas. See, that that part of it is really cool. Here’s what I will say, Derek. Don’t act like you don’t love that other stuff about spring training. You absolutely do. When I take when you take baseball away from sweet, sweet Derek for a couple months and then all of a sudden you start up spring training and it’s glorious. Salt River Field are just packed on the weekends. Derek is eating it up. Yeah, he’s not wrong. Um, but it’s it’s definitely definitely far more expensive to go to games. We should do more content I feel like this year when it comes to spring training stuff than we have in the past. Like really try to get out there, really try to do some some fun content ideas at the spring training events. Eritton’s out here throwing gang signs up at me. And so I gota I got to wrap things up. So I I got to fight him for sure. But we we appreciate you guys so much for stopping by. We will be back tomorrow with another 12m show. Sorry. Uh Jesse had a pressing meeting that I got I should have addressed this earlier for Zade, but uh Jesse will be back with us next Tuesday. So make sure to join us for that. Make sure to join us tomorrow for our 12 p.m. show. And until then, you can follow us on Twitter. I am atcap_cman with a K. Damon is at Damon Dog with a D- AWG at the end. We are all Damon’s dogs. Bark Bark. Our show is at PHNX_DAX. But of course, as always, all roads lead to phnx_ports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We love you guys. We thank you so much for your time. We’ll see you tomorrow. Until then, have a wonderful evening. And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it’s so much more fun when you ride the raft. [Music] [Applause] We all s like the mayor.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks have long struggled to find consistency in the postseason, which begs the question: could following the Milwaukee Brewers’ small-market blueprint finally put the Snakes on the path to sustained success? Meanwhile, the Brewers are down 2-0 to the Dodgers as the NLCS shifts back to Los Angeles. Is it time to write off the Brew Crew and should we reconsider emulating a team that dominates the regular season but struggles to reach the summit? On the other side of the bracket, our Sea-Backs, the Seattle Mariners, have also jumped out to an unbelievable 2-0 lead in the ALCS. Could they finally make history and reach their first World Series?

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3:05 Dodgers might do it again 🤮
10:10 What is Bryce Turang doing?!?!?!
15:10 Mariners to World Series 👀
30:00 Copying the Brewers’ blueprint
42:30 What does D-backs “success” look like?
48:00 Pitching development problem
54:00 D-backs in Arizona Fall League

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