Kyle Wright

That's what happened with Max Fried.

It's what happened with Kyle Wright.

He ended up winning 20 games here.

And, uh, it does seem like that's the future with Didier Fuentes.

Yeah.

So, uh, what is Kyle saying here? Kyle says, "Look forward to hearing you guys try to make sense of which side has the best solution." Yeah, man, uh, you know, that's gonna be a big topic on all the shows, including ours, but I would definitely, and, and Kyle, I know you do, tune into all our shows on Rounding Third network because we're gonna be talking a lot of lockout, unfortunately, a lot of labor stoppage.

And it's gonna be interesting because some, uh, you know, uh, somebody shared some new info in the group chat about the TV deals that I thought was interesting, and we're gonna get into all that.

So make sure and tune in to Rounding Third.

Yeah.

Uh, let's see.

Kyle said, "Chipper also said if he played today, he'd be lucky to hit 200, the bats are 100 miles per hour pitch." Yeah, he's probably being a little...

Which Chipper wasn't known for being, um, uh, for having humility, but I think he's being a little bit, um, talking himself down a little bit there.

You have to stay disciplined to that.

So [lip smacks] this reminds me so much of a, of, of a gentleman I've had a chance to work with, and I, I've talked about him a lot on here, but, but Kyle Wright.

In twenty twenty I had a chance to work with Kyle Wright, starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, and a couple days after we started working together, he got sent down.

Um, he got demoted from the big leagues.

And I remember calling him, and again, at this time I didn't know Kyle very well, and I said, "Are you doing okay?" Because it's tough to get sent down.

You know, I got sent down a couple times in my career and, and it's a tough, uh, it's, it's a tough scenario.

And his response was, "Yeah, I'm good." And I'm like, "Well, why are you good?" And he says, "I'm good because this is gonna give me the time to focus on the things that I need to focus on to get better at." And a- as we all know, and if you don't, go check out the Kyle Wright story, but you know, this year he led baseball in wins.

So he went from struggling, getting demoted in twenty twenty, you know, a couple years later to, to going out and then, and leading baseball in wins.

I mean, you just never know Randomly one year, one of those guys could become a Spencer Schwellenbach and come up and dominate, but you have no idea if that's gonna happen and you have no idea when that's gonna happen.

I mean, Kyle Wright came up to the Braves 15 times before he finally, like, made a significant contribution, and then as soon as he made a significant contribution, he got hurt and he's basically out of baseball.

Like, that's just young pitching in a nutshell.

So it's very difficult to rely on any of them if they haven't proven, which is why, you know, we spend an ungodly amount of time on this podcast constantly asking for more starting pitching, and we will do the same thing this offseason because you just don't know.

Outshined Clayton Kershaw." Okay? If I said to you, "Tyler Matzek," [laughs] you'd all make big signs about marbles with what Tyler did in 2021.

If I said, "Kyle Wright," you go, "Oh, he did great in the World Series, piggybacking when the Braves were starting Tucker Davidson against the Astros in a game they won." If I said, "Jorge Soler and Eddie Rosario," you know the end of the story.

There you go.

Well, Ray Kerr, it's not on the World Series stage.

But if they had a game where they had to start with Dylan Lee and Tucker Davidson two games.

So they had to fill roles with Kyle Wright for four innings, or then mix and match.

Or when Charlie Morton broke his leg in the World Series opener.

All that stuff changes how you do it.