Walt Weiss

You even saw it in, I forget which celebration was it, but the wild card series, I think it might've been the wild card series after they won that.

And there was a question to both Mike and Walt Weiss about the approach for Michael Harris at the plate.

And, you know, why Walt Weiss basically just said it, it is, it is who he is.

And, and, And Michael kind of in the same same vein saying, you know, that's the approach that he has.

So it seems like nothing is going to change there with that approach, that there is no desire to to change that approach.

November 10th through 12th is the GM meetings.

That might become even more pivotal this year with the upcoming lockout.

November 9th through 12th will be the announcement of many major awards, including Manager of the Year, which I think Walt Weiss might win, even though Pat Murphy is probably deserving of it.

He was the best shortstop you've had since Dansby left.

But if you commit to bring him back and put him there, you lose the versatility that Alex Andopoulos and Walt Weiss and so many people talked about was incredibly valuable over the course of the season.

knowing that you could pinch hit with whoever was best at that moment because the guy you took out of the game, Dubon could just replace them no matter who it was, that was incredibly valuable to Walt Weiss.

So do you find an external ad for shortstop? Do you bring Dubon back? What do you do? And I think the answer here is not replace the core to fix the offense.

You've got to add enough production that you don't need an Austin Riley rebound and Ronald Acuna Jr.'s health to determine whether the offense sinks or floats.

But that's not all.

We want to talk about potentially Atlanta looking for a shortstop and the iraqis be wanting to move on from ezekiel tovar and what is ezekiel tovar's trade value really after a uh for him really really down season we'll talk about that and more and talk a little bit about walt weiss as well another connection between the iraqis and braves that uh Maybe Braves fans, I don't know how much they remember that that's where he got his start, at least managing at the big league level here in Colorado.

So we'll talk a little bit about that and more all on today's episode.

But before we dive into all that, today's episode is brought to you by Kalshi.

Gets a lot of ground balls, might be an interesting little... deal possible there where here's a guy who outside of this season he's never gone on the injured list he's posted he's been able to give you some pretty good stretches of performance and you know here he has no options can't send him down here's a guy that maybe would work for you guys

Yeah, and the Rockies need guys that can eat innings for them.

All right, we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to just take a quick little trip down memory lane, talk a little bit about Walt Weiss here, and just see if there's anything that might be a splash that happens for the Braves or the Rockies here as the season potentially could come to a close as early as this recording.

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It's just the expectations that everybody else puts on somebody because they're a small market.

I think for me, manager of the year in the national league has got to go to somebody like toy Lovello, who got a lot out of Arizona or the one that I would vote for would be Walt Weiss in Atlanta.

You know, they had, an 18-game swing from the year before with pretty much the same guys.

They kind of ran it back a little bit, and he got a little bit more out of those guys this year, his first year at the helm.

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So,

I mean, Walt Weiss is a great story, but Murph continues to do this.

You know what I mean? Like, it's impressive what he's done this run as a manager.

You know, the voting's done in the regular season.

It's going to be either him or Walt Weiss.

But just unbelievable what he's done there.

If they win game four today and complete the sweep, who would you vote for for the World Series MVP?

Travis, until recently, I would have said one of the arguments for...

Like in our lifetime, man, that A's team with Ricky Henderson and Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire and Carney Lansford and Walt Weiss and Tony LaRusso is their manager and Dennis Eckersley is at the back of the bullpen with Dave Stewart.

Those guys are dealing.

That's a great team.