Trey Lipscomb

So exciting stuff on the horizon on the docket for today's show.

But before we do that, Trey is back with me.

What's going on, brother?

Nick, it was a truly great season this year, and I think that someone maybe coming from the outside who hasn't followed this team would look at a 77-85 record and kind of be confused when we say that.

I don't have that stat in front of me, but I would venture to guess that's probably one of the only times, if not the only time in MLB history that happened where one season, everyone on your roster has career highs and home runs.

um, just crazy, crazy, but six in a major league baseball, 210 home runs.

Um, you know, we were just unbelievable offensively, but what's your big takeaway, Trey?

My big takeaway is the approach change all throughout the lineup, uh, batted ball distribution.

It wasn't quite as like lights out every time, you know, and maybe some of the hitters normalize as opposed to these rocket ship.

you know starts Trey Lipscomb was just doing crazy things and maybe he just becomes more of a good player as opposed to like the best player on the you know it's just hard to keep up a pace for that long and you know you bringing up that Josh it's just two games but we've seen that in in the NFL like it happens teams start off eight no and next thing you know they're 12 and four, and they get beaten the second round of the playoffs.

You're like, what, what happened? It's just, it is an interesting phenomenon.

Yeah.

And certainly that ended up being the case.

So when you see this, and you see Trey Lipscomb hit 32 home runs this year in triple A, like that's really, really, that's real.

That's something to hang your hat on.

And with Matthew LeCroy, I love Matthew LeCroy, and to me, the biggest mistake of last season, 2025, Mike DeBartolo should have hired him instead of Miguel Cairo to be the interim manager for the final few months.

Again, with all due respect to Michael Lorenzen.

But, you know, when he talks about hitters grinding him, the, the five hitters he faced for the Rochester Red Wings, Washington Nationals' top farm club, were Sever King, Buddy Kennedy, Trey Lipscomb, Kaden Wallace, and Riley Adams.

And Adams, the former Blue Jay, is the only one who has significant Major League experience out of the bunch.

Uh, again, it was thirty-four pitches to five hitters, so an average of seven pitches per plate appearance, including a nine-pitch walk to former Blue Jay Buddy Kennedy.

You've got a couple of VFLs doing incredible things.

Trey Lipscomb, named the Rochester Red Wings' most valuable player, hitting .285 this season in AAA, 31 home runs to lead the team.

His 90 runs batted in leads the International League.

And then, of course, Andrew Fisher just finished the regular season as he started in Wisconsin, finished in Biloxi, but for his minor league campaign, and he is headed to the playoffs, just like the Smokies are.

And Pinckney's already on the 40-man roster, not a big deal to call him up for a couple of days.

If you're going to make the move with Seaver King or Trey Lipscomb, as we've talked about, that's a 40-man roster spot for a guy who would you then keep him up here the rest of the year? Maybe they would, maybe they should.

But I guess they viewed this as we just need somebody for a couple of days until Nunez is ready to come back.

And so that's, to me, would be why they chose Pinckney for that spot.