Rare Jacob deGrom stinker sinks Texas Rangers closer to trade deadline sellers

Rare Jacob deGrom stinker sinks Texas Rangers closer to trade deadline sellers

Well, at least they didn’t wait till extras to lose that one. You are Locked On Rangers, your daily Texas Rangers podcast. Part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. You are locked onto the Texas Rangers, the first and best daily Rangers podcast. I’m Bryce Patrick, a crippingly addicted Texas Rangers fan covering this team for 12 seasons, including all seven as the founder and host of this podcast. Thank you all so much for making Lock the Rangers your first listen every single day. If you’re not already can follow me on Twitter, Bryce Patrick. You can follow the show at Lockto Rangers. Hit subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and on YouTube where the best way you can help grow the show is to comment nearly any single thing below. Now, on today’s show, we’re talking about a stupid loss, a weird game for Jacob Deg Grom, and some advice I have from my youth for Jake Burgerer about how to be better at baseball. Before we get into all that, this episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. Now, the Rangers lost last night on a walk-off, walk a shrimp, if you will. Hobie Milner coming in with the bases loaded and one out to face a lefty. And after getting ahead 02, he cannot retire. No one Shauell. He takes ball four in the dirt, flips his bat and a walk-off walk a shrimp if you will or even if you will not. And this Rangers team will not win baseball games right now. They are just in such a miserable place to watch. It is absolutely infuriating. And like I said in the end, the the cold opened. I I the only bright spot I really have for you in this game is that well, at least they didn’t wait until 1:00 a.m. or 2:00 a.m. or however long they would have gone in extras on the West Coast, which by the way should be illegal. Honestly, baseball just go ahead and implement a tie if there is extra innings on the West Coast. Unless both teams are of the West Coast, then any games that go on past midnight, 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m., especially between teams at third and fourth place in the AL West, which the Rangers are now flip-flopped and are in fourth place in the AL West thanks to this loss to the hapless freaking Angels despite getting four runs, something that normally would get them the win. Almost always this season has gotten them the win, especially when getting four runs with your ace on the mound. That surely should get a win. They they only they didn’t even just get four runs. They got five runs in this one. But that was not enough to stop these stupid California, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Orange County, not Orange County, whatever they’re actually called angels of wherever they so happen to be. This was just such a weird and infuriating game. Not only just Toby Milner walking it off with a walk-off loss, um, but Jake Deg Grom getting tagged for three runs. That’s not something that’s happened in many a Moon. And what was really weird about it is that you watch the first couple innings and Jake Deg Grom just couldn’t be touched. He was absolutely unhitable, especially that first inning needing just 11 pitches to breeze through that inning. Looked like the Rangers were going to be able to get you Kikuchi out of this game early. Excuse me. Al all-star you say Kikuchi out of this game early. I mean they got to him for four runs uh well through three innings and they got that pitch count up there but then the fourth and fifth innings they just had incredibly quick innings including the fourth inning where the Rangers needed just nine pitches to go down against JC Kikuchi. But Deg Gro looked absolutely untouchable in those first couple innings. a little bit of a long at bat against against Travis Darno in that second inning, but uh really just the first inning he looked absolutely untouchable, but then gives him a couple extra base hits. One a hanging uh fast ball if there is such a thing to Orier right down the middle that was hit 111 milesPH. Honestly, a little bit lucky that it wasn’t hit higher because that absolutely would have been a home run. And then a slider on a 200 pitch that did not slide at all. The third straight slider he had thrown to Travis D. This one was just about as middle middle as you can get. And Travis Darno absolutely obliterated that baseball. Then he comes back to Chad Stevens. It throws its first 100 mph pitch of the evening actually. Yeah. The first 100 mph pitch of the evening. Uh the very first the uh or the third pitch of that at bat and it strikes him out. You okay well still have a lead. Raiders still have a lead. It’s or it’s a tie game at that point or it’s it’s fine. No, they didn’t. Oh my gosh. This West Coast game has got my brain so incredibly screwed up. It was a 3-2 game at that point, but then the Rangers come back and give him that lead in the third inning where you go to the bottom of that third inning, you’re like, “Okay, all right. Well, couple of bad pitches lead to a couple of runs as well as that leadoff run. Um that first inning run after the double to Zack Neto where it was a sack fly maybe a little bit better a throw could have prevented that from being an actual sack fly and Jake Deg Gro could have gotten out of it. But then you get to that third inning and something weird happened. It was almost like Jacob Deg Grom was tipping his pitches, but not all of his pitches, just one pitch in particular, just the slider, which has been his best pitch by far, which is one of the best pitches in all of baseball because these Angels look like they knew it was coming. They knew when they could take that slider. They knew when they could get off a healthy swing at it, including that leadoff single on a perfect slider. Just you could not place it more perfectly to Zach Neto. and he promptly dumps it into left field for a leadoff single. Then he walks Mike Trout on what was a pretty darn good ball for a 99.6 mph fast ball just off the plate. And he was able to foul off a bunch of sliders that were just on the corner. I mean, in that inning alone, Jacob Deg Grom threw so many sliders on that glove side down corner, two right-handed hitters that they either took pretty comfortably or were able to foul off like they knew was coming and just work that next pitch, including Joe Adele, who is not a guy with a particularly high walk rate. There were a lot of really, really good sliders that Joe Adele would normally swing out of his shoes on, and he didn’t do that in that at bat. Neither did Mike Trout, who uh is not having the best year, but is is still swinging is having an okay year, but is still always had some swinging swing and miss to his game, but then gets out of that jam with a bases loaded jam with a called strike three on a slider that was eh maybe a little bit of a gift pitch for that strikeout of Jorge Solair. ball. It was if you look on the the baseball nlb.com’s box score where you pull up the atbat, it it looks like it’s just maybe barely touching the zone. Borderline call, but Jacob Deg Grom is one of the best pitchers on earth and he has earned the benefit of the doubt on those calls. I mean, it was a good job by Jonah framing a lot of these pitches that he just was not quite getting the call on. You give Jacob Jacob Deg Grom another quarter inch off that plate, he is going to sit there. he is going to live there and there is nothing you can do about it. But they ran that pitch count up 35 pitches in that third inning alone. You thought, okay, well maybe maybe you go away from the slider. Maybe you figure out whatever they were seeing when you tip were tipping your pitches. I mean, this is something that he had struggled with early this year. It’s not something he used to struggle with in his career as a whole, but he switched his glove out this year to kind of hide his hand a little bit better so that hitters wouldn’t be able to see when that slider is coming. Then he comes out for the fourth inning, gets an easy one, two, three inning. Then he gets a a trio of strikeouts in the fifth inning to get through five innings after giving up three runs in a couple of walks. A very uncharacteristic day for Jacob Deg Grom, who hasn’t given up three runs in a game since April since April 11th against Seattle. That was the last time he gave up three or more runs. He’s given up three or more runs three times this year. last night in those three three runs in four innings in Seattle on the 11th and then four runs in five and two/3 innings against Tampa Bay in his second start of the season. Other than that, it’s been two or fewer runs every single timeout for Jacob Deg Grom. That’s why he’s been so incredibly good because he is so incredibly consistent and he’s been going, you know, six innings every timeout in his last five starts. He went six innings, his last six starts, excuse me. Every single start in June, he went six or more innings. Six, seven, six, six, seven. Six innings in his last game against Baltimore where he was not at his best, but he was still pretty darn good there. But only five innings, but being able to work through five innings. Again, this bullpen has been taxed so mightily. They are so incredibly ready for that All-Star break. They don’t have an off day between now and the All-Star break and they got a bunch of late night West Coast games. But seeing him dial it back in. That’s what aces do. That’s what they do when they’re not having their best stuff. When whatever is going Arai, even in that third inning where it he threw 35 pitches and he loaded the bases. He got out of it without giving up a single earned run, without giving up any runs at all. That is what the best pitchers on earth do. That is what Jacob Deg Grom is. that is why he is in the Sai Young conversation. But even though his offense did a decent amount to help him, the bullpin didn’t. And uh some parts of this offense, including Jake Berger, who had a really, really rough day, redeemed it with some good base running. But I’ve got some advice for Jake Burgerer for Whit Lingford and a few other batters on this team from my 10-year-old self. Talk about all that and more right after this. This show is brought to you by FanDuel. 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Open the FanDuel app today or visit fanuel.com to get started. Shout out to the everyday making lockdown range your first listen every single day. On tomorrow’s show, I’ll be talking about this second game of the series. Hopefully a gem from Nathan. Hopefully a bounce back from this team and a better day offensively where the Texas Rangers can learn from some advice I had back in 2001. Now, I was going through some old stuff with my mom this week uh with my girlfriend. We were going through some some stuff she saved that I I wrote uh back many moons ago and uh we stumbled across this diary that I had um back in 2001. Um yeah, I had some some really cute things to say about baseball about some guy named Ronald Morgan, which I I didn’t know who the heck that was. We we spent a little bit of time looking up who the heck Ronald Morgan was a baseball reference. There have only been seven Morgans or seven Ronalds I think in the history of Major League Baseball. The first one somehow didn’t make his debut until 2009. That was Ronald Bellisario. Has been Ronald Auna Jr. Ronald Tor Torres. Um Ronald Guzman of course Ronald Bologanos and uh Ronald Herrera. That that’s it. There have not been a whole lot of Ronalds. And a lot of Ron’s not a lot of Ronalds. So, we ended up looking up and it was this child’s book, this children’s book that I was writing a full pla full page journal page plus, excuse me, a journal entry on Ronald Morgan and how to be better at baseball. There’s a bad the book was called Ronald Morgan at the bat. Basically, it’s this kid who’s very bad at baseball and I had some helpful pointers for how Ronald Morgan could be better hitting the baseball. And I feel like this is very applicable for Jake Burgerer who had h just a really rough day. He redeemed himself by hustling on a drop third strike, a a swing and miss at a pitch so wild that it got far enough away from the catcher for him to reach first base. He ends up scoring on a double by Josh Smith. But an 0 for four day with three strikeouts and two of those strikeouts on pitches that nobody in their right mind would ever have a prayer of actually hitting. I have this advice for you Jake Burgerer and also Zeke Durant and also a little bit for Wyatt Langford who went 0 for four with a strikeout. Dear Ronald Morgan, Jake Burgerer, Wyatt Langford, Ezekiel Durant, maybe you should look and see if it is in the strike zone. If it is in the strike zone, open your eyes. Look where it is in the strike zone and swing. If it is not in the strike zone, then do not swing because it will be a ball. If the pitcher throws four balls, you will be able to go to first base. That will be called turn the page. Walking. Wise words from a 10-year-old me. It will be called walking. Have you heard of that, Jake Burgerer? Have you heard of walking? No, he has not heard of walking. Of a walking, excuse me. 10-year-old me was clearly a ball mower. But speaking of not walking, Jake Burgerer’s walk rate this year, he’s always been someone who does not know what a walking is. This year, it’s been especially egregious. The chase rate has been tremendously bad. He’s in the bottom six percentile of chase rate. He’s chasing 38.2% of the time. Basically, any pitch anywhere near the zone or heck, even not near the zone, you get to two strikes, he’s swinging out of his freaking shoes. I mean, the strikeout rate itself is not particularly abysmal. I mean, it’s not good at 26% strikeout rate and a 29.1% whiff rate. uh both of those in the bottom 20% of baseball, but his walk rate is in the bottom 2% of baseball because it is at 3%. Just 3% of the time he’s walking. 3%. He’s never been a guy who walks a whole lot. 5.3% walk rate for his career. Now, that’s not particularly high. In 2023, his first year as a big league regular, he walked about 6% of the time. Last year, 5 and a half% of the time. Now, he’s down to three. That is not sustainable. It’s not sustainable. That’s why he’s slugging like crap over his last seven, 15, 30 games. He has not been slugging at all. He has one homer in his last 15 games because you don’t get pitches to hit if you’re swinging at balls that would go behind the opposing batters box or balls that are, you know, spiking in the freaking grass. They don’t even get to the dirt before home plate and he’s swinging at those. He’s just got to have much better swing decisions. And it feels like he gets to 02 so quickly. It feels like everybody on this team gets to 02 so incredibly quickly and then just swings out of their freaking minds. But I do have to give this man credit. I do have to give Jake Ber credit for uh actually running out that drop strike three because if he didn’t do that then the Rangers wouldn’t have tied it up. And while they did end up losing, it’s a good bit of hustle. And a good bit of hustle running and scoring from first on that double by Josh Smith. A pinch hit double. A massive hit giving the Rangers a tie game in the top of the eighth inning after the Rangers surrendered the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning right after Jacob Deg Grom was out with a lead in line for the win to help bolster stats. Alas, that was not the case for him in this one. And uh but Jake Burgerer being such a thick boy and being able to run so incredibly quickly boggles my mind. He is in the top third of baseball in terms of sprint speed, the 71st percentile at 28.1 feet per second. And this guy is listed at 6′ 230 lbs. This boy can move. He can scoot. It makes no sense. He is not somebody who looks like he could run worth a lick, but he is one of the faster players on this Rangers team. I’m a little surprised he’s hasn’t been more aggressive stealing bases. I mean, he’s got the speed tube, but unfortunately now the book is out on him that this big boy can run. When he first came up, he beat out a lot of infield hits because uh well, everyone played him back. They thought, “Oh, well, I don’t have to hustle this throw. This is a fat boy. He’s not gonna be able to run and beat out this throw to first base.” And whoop, there he did. And this one was a showing of his speed. Watching him get to go from first base on that double of just being at full tilt, full sprint from the get-go, it was magnificent. There are few things I love more impressive athletic feeds to me personally, just honestly more joyous than watching a big boy run. I mean, like in football when you see a scoop and score, especially one of those defensive linemen that are, you know, usually 65, 300, 350 pounds, bumbling, stumbling, rumbling for the end zone. This is what Jake Burger was, except instead of just waddling his way in there, this bait is absolutely elite speed. It’s kind of like watching Derrick Henry, forgive the double football metaphor, you see Derrick Henry, if you’ve watched the NFL, Derrick Henry is a 6’4 running back. Normally running backs are 510 to 6 foot, but that man is built like a truck. And especially go back and watch his high school highlight reel tape if you want to watch him just be that size and run through a bunch of 16 and 18 year olds. I mean, watching him with and he’s also got elite speed. It’s why it’s like Jake Burger, a guy that’s just built like a brick house absolutely being incredibly fast. It just does not compete. It’s kind of like Wyatt Langford as well, except Langford is a little more cut, a little less um bulky, if you will. But watching those two guys that are built like absolute brick houses run crazy fast brings me so much joy. One of the few things watching this baseball team that actually brings me joy. One of the other things that brings me joy, Cory Seager. Talk about him and something that doesn’t bring me joy last night. This stinking bullpen right after this. This show is brought to you by Open Phone. If you’re running a business, you know that every mis call is money left on the table. Think about the last time you had a service emergency. Like a burst pipe. If the first plumber didn’t answer, you didn’t wait, did you? No, you called the next one. That’s why having a reliable business phone is so important. And that’s why you need Open Phone. Open Phone is the number one business phone system that helps you streamline and scale customer communication all from an app on your phone or computer. Did you juggle two phones just to keep business and personal calls separate? Open Phone solves that instantly. And the AI agent handles after hours calls, answers common questions, and captures leads so I never miss a customer again. Open Phone is offering locked rangers listeners 20% off your first six month months at openphone.com/lockedonmlb. That’s op.com/lockedonmlb. And if you have existing numbers with another service, open phone will port them over at no extra charge. Open phone. No miss calls, no missed customers. Shout out to everyday speaking locked on Rangers. Your first every single day after every single game. Jeff Biggs is coming to you with a locked on Rangers post. It was a tough one for Jeff and this is a tough week for Jeff with these late night games, but mad respect to Jeff doing a great job. You can find those Locked On Rangers postcasts in your Locked On Rangers podcast feeds on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast. But I want to talk about something nice before I talk about something stinky, which is the way I will end this podcast, which is the way the Rangers ended this game last night. But having a couple of of good offensive performances from Sam Hagerty, from Cory Seager last night, a little bit from Adulles Garcia, who hit a pitch that um well, I just gave Jake Ber a lot of grief for swinging at pitches that would have been behind a left-handed batter. But uh I guess if you’re going to swing at them, if you can get an RBI hit with that, then then maybe I’ll crucify you a little bit less. But Adulas Garcia going down O2 and then taking a pitch that probably would have either hit a left-handed batter in the butt cheek or would have been behind that left-handed batter and blooping it into right field for an RA single. That was a great bit of hitting. Cory Seager with a multi-hit day. He is unlike Ronald Morgan and Jake Burgerer and knows what a walking is. He worked a walk last night on a pitch that uh well that pitcher was not trying to do anything to Cory Seager. Working that two-run homer to give the Rangers a lead immediately. He’s done that uh quite a bit lately. I mean Cory Seager has just been on fire the last 15 games. Six homers in that span, hitting 281 and on base near 420 of 417 and slugging one point shy of 650. That is a 1,076 ops if my math is math incorrectly. Maybe it’s maybe 1,066. In the last 15 games, he has been on fire. But you pare that down to the last seven games. I mean, he has 13 ribbies in his last 15 games. P down to the last seven, he’s only got four ribbies in his last seven games. And two of those came on that two-run bomb. I believe the other two also came on another two-run bomb because this Rangers offense is not doing a whole lot outside of him. They’re not doing a lot to reach base. Sam Hagerty reaching base uh three times, two of which on infield hits, one of which on error. That might have been an infield hit and started this game with uh perhaps the silliest infield hit I’ve ever seen. A ball hit right back to Kakuchi. Guuchi who’s backpedaling on the mound. If you haven’t seen the replay of it, uh, go watch it if and maybe play, uh, the what is that song? Maybe that would would fit over it. Just some goofy error music because he literally stumbles back over himself. It feels like he does like 17 backwards somersaults. I know that wasn’t actually the case. Um, but credit to Sam Hagerty for doing a good job of getting on base and reaching base against lefties and reaching base ahead of Corey Seager to do some damage so that all his home runs he’s hitting aren’t completely in vain. But also Jonah who has been hitting a lot better as of late with a couple of hits including an RBI single, including a a walk as well. I mean, just a good day for him offensively. in that big pinch hit pinch hit double by Josh Smith coming in there in a clutch spot where the Rangers just needed something. They honestly just needed base runners and he comes in there and delivers a big big hit. Evan Carter coming in there and pitch hitting and having to hit against a lefty was a little bit of a tough look for him. But hey, he did it. He had a decent atbat. I mean, he was called out on strikes. Not ideal in that first at bat, but the second one facing off against sees a pitch right down the middle on the first pitch against Brock Burke. He swings at it, doesn’t do much with it, but at least a quality at bat. He’s not able to just get taken advantage of because there’s a lefty on the mound. His at bats there have been a lot more competitive against lefties. And I’ve really seen some growth there. The results might not be, you know, incredibly pretty. I still don’t really think the Raiders should be starting him against left-handed pitching, but it’s not like it had been in the past. I mean, it’s not like whenever he sees a lefty, he’s just absolutely obliterated. I mean, his OPS is 158 points shy of what it against lefties of what it is against righties, but it’s not that bad. He’s got a 333 on base percentage in 10 at bats against lefties this year. He’s got a couple of walks, so 12 play appearances. He got as many walks as strikeouts against lefties. He’s also got a couple of hits, so he doesn’t have any extra base hits. I don’t think the Raiders are expecting that of him. Whenever he gets at bats against lefties, usually it’s in either a late game tieame situation or the Rangers have the lead and they want to keep him in there for his defense. But the at bats have been much more competitive. It’s not like he’s getting completely overmatched against those lefties. And that is a big step forward. Those are two the two things that were most concerning about Evan Carter coming into the season is well, he’s not healthy. That back is going to ruin him. That’s not the case. He has been playing very healthy for most of the season. whatever he he’s since he’s been called up. I mean, he had that one little stint on the IIL and he hasn’t been hitting for a whole lot of power as of late outside of that, you know, that run there in the middle of June when he was just absolutely on fire. He’s kind of cooled off a little bit as of late, but he’s still in his last seven games, he’s still got a 379 OBP. He’s slugging only 320. He’s hitting .280 though. He’s reaching base. He’s doing his job for the most part. And he’s also got five steals in his last seven games. But the at bats against lefties has have also been better. That is a hugely great sign for the future because as this Rangers team keeps losing games and as we are less than a week away from the All-Star break and about threeish plus weeks away from the trade deadline, uh it’s looking like this is not a team that is going to win, going to buy at the deadline, going to do much of anything. There’s also not much to sell here. I mean, besides some bullpen arms, everybody could use an extra bullpen arm here and there. I mean, the Raiders have some good ones out there to sell. I mean, Jacob Webb, who has been at times the Rangers least trustworthy reliever, was perfect last night. He looked incredible. His last couple of games, he’s looked absolutely incredible. He can go multiple innings. He can face righties. He can face lefties. He’s looking a lot better as of now. And if your worst reliever has a 364 erra, that’s a great spot to be in. Unfortunately, this Rangers offense can’t do jack diddly squat. Despite the Rangers having the best pitching staff in all of baseball, they also have the best defense in all of baseball. They just can’t score worth of the crap, which is absolutely infuriating. I mean, every other time in baseball history where a pitching staff had had the best erra in baseball and a team defense had had the best fielding percentage in baseball, that team had a winning record by a mile. And this team absolutely should. Maybe with this offense being bad, maybe if they were just mid, they would be, you know, at top the AOS, they would be competing with the Astros for an AOS title. Or even if they were just regular bad, they would definitely be in an AL wild card spot. But alas, they are terrible. And this bullpen keeps being asked to pitch so many highleverage innings because this offense can’t score. And the bullpen finally let up. I mean, Chris Barton had a good day for the most part, but Sean Armstrong, who has been the Raiders most reliable reliever as of late, just absolutely got obliterated in the sixth inning. He got the first two outs pretty easily. Then just a little little bloop single by Luis Fifo and uh a Travis Darno double on a sweeper on a two- strike pitch that was just right down the middle of the plate. Did not sweep at all. And then that was the tying run. Then he gives up the go-ahad run on an 02 pitch. He gets a foul tip on the first pitch, a swinging strike on the second pitch. And then pitch number three on 02 with two strikes and a runner at second base is just a forcing fast ball right down the freaking middle that gets crushed, not even that crushed for 102 mph RBI single and the Angels have the lead. And then the Rangers couldn’t hold it because the Rangers asked Chris Martin to come out and pitch a second inning, something he has not done since April. Even though he says he feels fine, just felt a little bit precarious to do that for a guy who has, you know, had some injury struggles this year and in years past. And he is on the old side. He’s 38 years old, I believe. At least 38. No, he’s 39 years old this year. And it’s just not something you need to be doing is throwing him out there for multiple innings. But the Rangers had to because even though this offense scored five runs, and I’m talking about this offense not doing its job, but they had some more opportunities, a couple of key double plays grounded into by the the two pillars up the middle in Seager and Simeon. The team was two for eight with Ro scoring position and had seven left on base. Could have done just that little bit more, but alas, they didn’t. And this team just keeps on losing. And you know, I don’t know what this team needs. I don’t think there’s any spark left for this team. I don’t have any energy left to keep doing crashs about West Coast games. My crashs have crashed out. I’ve crashed out more this season than I think I have in any season. Maybe the entire fiveyear history leading up to this. No, six year history leading up to this season. I’ve had more crash outs this season than last year because unlike last year, the team was kind of mid and bad and boring. And it it it felt kind of obvious all season long that they weren’t going to do anything about it. there was no potential to just turn things on unless the offense just remembered how to hit, which didn’t feel like they were going to do. This year, there’s a good pitching staff, a really good pitching staff, a really good defense, and an offense that’s just historically inept and unlucky and just incredibly unfun. just like these stupid West Coast losses. Just an incredibly miserable, boring, annoying, frustrating, tiring game that we have seen time and time again. And you know, if they’re going to lose these other games, uh, well, the most we can ask is that at least they keep it to just nine innings. That’s going to do it for today’s show. Thank you all so much for listening and subscribing. And until next time, don’t forget to enjoy baseball.

The Texas Rangers signed Jacob deGrom to a 5 year deal before winning the 2023 World Series, and in his first fully healthy season with Texas, deGrom is one of the best pitchers in baseball. Against the Angels deGrom gave up 3 runs for the first time in nearly 3 months.

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