Fernando Tatís Jr.

Yeah.

And then if Merrill, Tatis, and Manny can hit the way they've been hitting, I'm not saying it's, "Guaranteed we're winning the World Series," I think there's a path to a deep October run.

Is right now the id- A- as it sits today, obviously you'd want home field, but right now it would be you'd play the Braves in the wild card, and then it would be the Dodgers in a five-game set.

Love it.

Since then, six home runs and a 977 OPS.

Tatis and Jackson Merrill are the fourth and fifth most valuable players in baseball since July.

They go from being a half game back of a playoff spot to being two and a half games ahead of the Diamondbacks for a playoff spot.

After six straight wins, their playoff odds have gone from 45% to 77.5%.

They somehow-

Look at Tatis, right?

Yeah.

Tatis didn't have a home run-

Horrible for two months

... right? Until June.

Mariners

... can San Diego with that bullpen, you always like having that kind of bullpen in a playoff setting where you know what, Tatis has kind of off the mat.

He, he basically went to, like, Memorial Day without winning a homer- home run, and you look up and he's got 25 homers.

They've got the talent and they've got the bullpen, and you probably draw Atlanta in round one, and after Sale, does anyone scare you? I, I guess San Diego.

But if Ben can just protect the leads that he has with some good waiver wire adds on top of the ones that he already made, I think – I think it's a comfortable, not comfortable, but a comfortable victory.

So we identified Fernando Tatis Jr. obviously as the key player for Irby last week.

Again, I think everyone would say that this week, having four games in cores.

So far for this week, Irby has six runs, two homers, and only three RBIs.

Fernando Tatis Jr., two runs, two homers, and three RBIs.

He's his entire offense so far this week.

Any key player you want to identify for Boog as we close out?

Spencer Torkelson stole a base yesterday in a 10-1 game.

Is that real? Tatis...

One for five with a home run.

I mean, all that chalk on Tatis and...

You know, still like...

Sort of paid it off.

Do you believe in the Padres? Do you believe in them at all? I was just going to say, can

San Diego with that bullpen, you always like having that kind of bullpen in a playoff setting where, you know what, Tatis has got off the mat.

He basically went to Memorial Day without a home run.

He looked up and he's got 25 homers.

That's a potential MVP player, to please him with Javier Báez.

And lastly, I remember when Tatis Jr. got paid.

Tatis Jr. got 14 years, 340 right after, just 'cause his pride.

For him to feel great and better, they had to give him 341 because he felt like he was the best...

He, uh, he is a b- he was a better [clears throat] shortstop, especially defensively.

Spencer Torkelson stole a base yesterday in a 10-1 game.

Is that real? Tatis...

One for five with a home run.

I mean, all that chalk on Tatis and...

You know, still like...

Sorta paid it off.