Hey, Nick, thanks for joining us. Jim, along with the Buckeye boy from the Beaux Art Miller, Chevrolet Buick Studios, the most trusted name in automobiles. Right, rookie, that you hope to see make the Broncos 53-man roster. Hey, Jonah Coleman, that's a given, right?
Right? Yeah. I think Red Murdock's kind of a given for me. The other thing I keep reading about him, oh, yeah, it feels like he will be on the 53-man roster.
So that and should Jonathan Cooper be in practice right now for the Broncos, in light of the charges against him, of domestic violence. And this is not a, they had a little verbal spat. She pushed him, he pushed her, it got chippy in that way. But nobody got hurt.
Going to reports from a hospital that his girlfriend suffered hypoxia from being strangled. That's not just a verbal altercation because initially, Cooper said it didn't get physical. And then he admitted, yeah, I put my hands around her throat. So you got some thoughts on that today.
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All right, yesterday was the first day of training camp. That wasn't really like a normal one. I mean, it's normal now here in 2026. They call it an acclamation day, which is a, you know, the process of kind of getting guys back to football things.
It's another way to sell a hat I think next year or year after. It's your acclamation day. Available for one day only at the team store. Exactly.
At the physical store. Can't get it on fanatics. You got to go to the stadium for acclamation day. Hello.
That surprised you? No, not at all. Not at all. Hundreds of people lining up for acclamation.
They're going to change them every year or two. So we know in 23, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 80, 80, 80, 80, 80, we know that. You've ruined sucker. Yeah.
So the Broncos went through Red Zone Work 7 on 7, no pads, about an hour and change of work, nothing real significant as a gradually these guys back into the football mindset, the football movements, all those kind of things, even it's simple. Just basically a walk through to a degree. But there was a little bit of individual work. So yesterday, John Payton met with the media.
We debated. We thought somebody, the first question should be about Jonathan Cooper. It was not. It was about, well, Sean, what do you think of the new facilities?
Yeah. And obviously, Sean Payton loves the new facilities. At least the second question was about Jonathan Cooper. So let this run for a little bit, because it's Sean Payton talking about Jonathan Cooper's situation.
Also, the assistant coach, defensive assistant, like a Wilhoyt, they got fired about a year and a half ago after he allegedly punched a police officer, got tased when he was at DIA. Park supposedly where he was not supposed to park and was told not to park there and got into the altercation with police officer. Charges later were reduced and then dropped. But there's still a civil case involved in the police officer that he'll once again allegedly hit for injuries to his face, which sounds like he punched him in the face.
So here's Sean Payton on both the Cooper situation, the Wilhoyt situation at the first day of training camp at the Broncos Park. Well, we're staying the course with the league. We're staying the course with league protocol, club protocol, relative to what we're advised to do. He's been fantastic working away from the building and will continue to do that and monitor it.
We're supportive and yet very much aware of the seriousness of these type of things. But pretty much what I said in the spring, there's a schedule in a course to this. And that's what we have to follow. Is there any with the uncertainty of the situation and hearings going on?
No, I said worry about it. It'd be a distraction. No, not at all. Bring back Michael Lohoyt as coach.
Yeah. And so, Manny, he's obviously been away for a little bit over a year and a half. I'm a huge fan and he too went through a long and lengthy process was cleared and met with all of us. We felt real good.
And I'm excited to have him back. Give him the weeks review of matters still ongoing. Does that mean that he is a eventual spot under roster standing organization come to the decision comes after that? Or have you made a decision?
No, we don't get to do any of that. So there's a process relative to league, relative to the legal process. And then as that all comes together, we can make the right decision. And that's simply it.
There's no follow up. There's no other underlying. It's just today's protocol. And there's probably maybe a dozen players in other camps that are going through a similar protocol.
And remember, we're proud of the work he did. These last call it month and a half, wasn't easy. And it'll continue to be a challenge. And we'll see where it goes.
But fully supportive of him right now as we gather all the information. And then we go from there. Yeah, let's not use the word fantastic. OK?
Yeah. When it comes to him, what he's doing away from the team after he allegedly physically assaulted his now ex-girlfriend. Yeah. Well, I mean, he's tackled these challenges wonderfully.
You mean the ones he created for himself? And that this whole, wow, he's got to let it play out. We're just doing what the league's protocol is, what everybody else normally does. Like there's a helpless thing here, right?
That, well, we just got to let it go through the process. Denver's not helpless here. Denver could cut him and cut him right now. Cap, it would be $18.2 million.
So you're taking bigger hits for less? Yes. How about $53 million in 2024 and $32 million to let go of Russell Wilson? You know, to let go of Russell Wilson.
The difference there is Russell Wilson was not going to be contributing as much. No, they wanted him to be gone. Yeah. Look at that.
No, that's the fact of the matter is if you can play, you're going to have a job in the NFL, no matter what you have done outside of the team facility. It's just disappointing still that that's the case. And the Will White thing too. It's he punched a police officer.
He was lucky they dropped the charges eventually. And OK, his case was different. It wasn't domestic violence. He was away from the team for 16 months.
He was still facing the civil lawsuit. I I'm not crazy. But the Will White thing, I'm not crazy about it. I don't like it.
But you can you can swallow that one at least even a little better. Then you can the Jonathan Cooper thing right now. And once the legal process, they drop the charges. The S.E.
face of the civil court case. Still don't think he should be there. I mean, I'm going to just you have to say that he shouldn't be there. He shouldn't have rehired him.
But at least they've got better footing to stand on with him. They do what Jonathan Cooper right now. Yeah. At least that court case for all intents and purposes is adjudicated.
Yeah, it's it's gone through the legal system. Charges downgraded, charges eventually dropped. And that's where we stand with Michael Wilhoyt, the defensive assistant coach. I just don't stand there and tell me you can't do anything about this.
If you're the Broncos, yes, you can. If you want to say we're choosing not to make a decision one way or the other until blah, blah, blah, blah, fine. But can't is the word I agree with you. That's not ethical here.
You can. You can't do it. You're choosing not to. You're choosing not to at this point in time because you know the value that he has to your football team.
I'd be careful how much I express my support of him. He is a player for Sean Payton. Yeah. He is a teammate for guys.
You don't want to destroy. You know, isolate him and throw him out in the wilderness. And I know we were talking about this a week or two ago. I mean, I'd be careful how much I put the work he's done.
It's fantastic. And you know, we totally have his back and I would say we we support him. He's a he's a player on this. He's part of our organization.
We want we want to see him do the best he can to progress through this process. Something that does not, you know, we we're hoping that we can, you know, we can we see him make the kind of progress we need to see him make as a person or whatever the case, maybe. Yeah. We talked about something not so strong.
We've got your back. You know, we support him. You know, that sort of thing like we talked about this couple of weeks ago. There's somebody on the text line that was like, well, you know, the rocks, you know, the chiefs are going to have him because they don't care what happens with players off the field.
Well, you can replace the chiefs with the Broncos now too, or any other team of the league. It's not strictly your rival. That is the one that employs felons and guys that punch cops. Like the rest of the she rice thing for the chiefs.
He was racing. Yeah. It was he was breaking the speed limit. He was doing that kind of thing.
He was just to get somebody killed himself and other people. He didn't go out and intentionally harm a woman. It's a different thing. Is it not?
I mean, I just to me, people try to use that as some kind of, you know, well, we don't we like to do what about stuff a lot. What about that? Well, that's not the same thing as this though. Yeah.
Yeah. Do we want another Henry Ruggs III? No, which was she rice? You know, that's that's not far.
You know, that's not I don't think that's going too far. In light of what happened with Henry Ruggs III. But that's different than this, or he tried to strangle his now ex girlfriend allegedly. Yeah.
Then after he was after there was a restraining order put in place, proceeded to contact her to tell her, Hey, can you just, you know, tell us a misunderstanding. You know, it's not a good look. It's not a good look for the team. It's not a good look for anybody really.
It's not a good look for the Walton Penner group right now. Like we've talked about an organization that is pride themselves on doing the right thing. And it's built up a tremendous amount of goodwill and good positive publicity. Absolutely way more positive than negative by a long shot.
This is the kind of stuff that eats away at that. It erodes that goodwill. You know, those that are saying that they're putting the reputation at stake by this. It's take by saying by Jonathan Cooper that that's spot on.
That's accurate. It's a lot easier to ruin a good one than it is to clean up a bad one. And agreed. Totally agreed.
So they're going to have to make the right decision a hundred times before it will counteract the bad decision once. Yeah, I just a bad decision. No doubt about it. Where you could solve this right now.
You could put you could put this to rest and I'm not even saying cut him. Send him home. Just don't have him there. I'm I'm I'm okay with him not cutting him at this point.
You think send him home. We're only talking about players who are here today. I agreed to say, you know, well, Jonathan Cooper's got things that he's going through. Soon as those are straightened out, then we'll approach the football topic.
But we're talking about players that are here today. But you're putting yourself in such a bad spot. Such a bad spot for the Broncos by having him there. I agree with you.
You don't have to cut him at this moment. Better think about it though. They're considered that as a absolute option on the table. Yeah.
Because now you can't send him home. You already welcomed him with open arms back to camp for two days. You brought him in. And so now you're kind of stuck, aren't you?
Yeah, you're stuck. If you're standing home, you look like an idiot. If you cut him, you look like an idiot. You know, generally, like, well, you need to tell me three days of information now that has come out, which none extra really has.
You know, like it just you put yourself in a corner one you don't really want to be in. All right. So we'll move on from Jonathan Cooper. I'm talking about that to BONIX on the field or the first team offense coming off the ankle surgery that of course the fractured ankle and the Buffalo game and the last play of the game here.
So Sean Payton talking about what he's seeing from his starting quarterback. He just finished one in 14 games and having a really good season. I do. I think he's going to continue to improve.
Yes. Man, I'm pleased with the shape. He's in the timeline relative to everything we've discussed injury wise is falling into place. It's good to have him back out there in the team periods.
And I think there's certain areas for us offensively that can help with the quarterback, you know, the consistent run game throughout the year. There's some things that we can do to help him. So we're we're often getting started. All right.
So there's Sean Payton on BONIX. Sean Payton, by the way, will be at Can O'Hail for the Hall of Fame game. No, the Broncos are not playing in it. It's Arizona and Carolina.
Do you know why he will be there at Can O'Hail coming up in the Hall of Fame game in that weekend? Somebody he knows is going in? Yes. And he's going to induct that somebody.
Drew Brees. All right. He's going to the profile Hall of Fame coming up. I don't understand how the coach can take his focus away from the team at this very crucial part of their development.
Yeah. That'll be fine. Anyway, Sean Payton will induct Drew Brees into the profile Hall of Fame. There's another Saints quarterback in the news today.
Who was that? Take some Hill not rejoining the team. He doesn't know if he's going to retire, but he's not going back to the Saints, whether he does or not. A lot of rumors that he's coming to Denver.
Yeah. He's going to fly to where Sean Payton's jet leaving can see if it swings by wherever it takes him. He'll live. You think he ends up with Broncos?
No. But he just decides he's done. I think so. They already have plenty of guys.
They don't know how they're going to get the football to you. I don't know how they can bring in taste. Is there for nine years? Playing a little tied in.
A little slot receiver quarterback. Planted once or twice? Yeah. How about a guy that found a newt?
Found a way to get into the league right and be a contributor. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You have a horrific knee injury.
He's a quarterback at BYU. And was I feel like Tim Tebow could have had that kind of career if he would have had better receiving skills. He could have had a taste of him like career or did a little bit of everything. Yeah.
But taste of him. He'll do a little bit of everything from the jump. It wasn't. He was a quarterback.
He was like a place of quarterback. We like him doing some other things. He had to be in the right place. He had to be in the right organization that was willing to let him do those other things.
And Sean Payton found a way to maximize the talent of taste. Yeah. I think it's pretty impressive. All right.
So a 20. Sean Birch is going to join us coming up in just a moment. Of course, he's a pal Cade softball coach. We'll have that conversation.
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Sean, how you doing? Good morning, Jim. Great. How about you guys?
Doing fine. I've played season fast approaching in August 18th, you have Eagle Valley. So this season is coming up very, very quickly. You went 14-11 last year, four and five in the South Western League.
You ended up losing in the postseason in the 48 tournament in a wide field eight to two. And losing players will go more in depth in that in just a moment. But boy, you have a lot of players coming back from last year. It did bodes well for which it would be a really successful season for your ball club.
Yeah, you're right, Jim. We're hoping for that for sure. Plus two seniors last year. We only had two seniors that were healthy.
We had three on the roster. But yeah, two seniors last year. And honestly, we had two juniors on the roster. So we're back at this year with two seniors.
So definitely a youth movement for us last year, but it's exciting to have a lot of players back. That's a very experienced. And among them, she'll now be a sophomore Lexi Trotter that hit 464 for you 22 RBI. That was second best on your team last year.
You have 32 hits. What have you seen from her? I know she's probably been playing a lot of travel ball, things like that. But some things that you've wanted to see her improve on maybe at the plate, discipline, some of those things.
What are some of the things you try to get Lexi Trotter to work on heading into her sophomore campaign? You know, last year, she had a great season. Lexi just she's just a tough out. So hitting wise, you know, she definitely brought the power for it.
She made it. But our team and home runs actually last year as a freshman. So yeah, for her, just to stay consistent and stay with that same approach that she has. She's a tough out.
She's hungry at the plate, which you like to see, right? She wants to get a base. She wants to get a hit. And she just battles.
And this year, you know, we're looking at her at the core position again. So defensively, not quite sure where that will be. But yeah, just as long as we can keep her going defensively and then if she stays strong hitting and, you know, is working on staying aggressive and keeping that battle mentality at the plate, she's a very tough out for her. And in the tie to the baseball team with her brother, Tobin Trotter, who graduated this last season, another player that has a tie to Palace A baseball.
It's been a couple of years though for a writer, Mancuso. But Jameson Mancuso will be a senior this year, one of the seniors you were talking about that you'll have this year. She had four 12. She had a 28 RBI.
She led your team in RBI. She had a couple of home runs last year. She led your team in doubles in 10. So Jameson Mancuso, prime for what she hopes will be a big senior campaign.
Absolutely. She's going to be one of our leaders and again, same as Lexi Jameson. It's just a tough out. Jameson, she just comes out.
She likes to play softball. She brings the great attitude every day of practice, every day of the game. Really competitive. And yeah, she's just a pleasure to have on the team.
And she's so competitive. And just loves the game of softball. Like I said, at the plate, you know, I think two years ago, she had the hit that got us to win against Fruida. You know, she just so calm up the plate and relaxed.
I think at all times in a matter of the situation. So yeah, she's a great hitter and a great player to have for sure. We're going to miss her when she's gone. Sean Birch, coach of the Palisade Girls softball team with us.
Joey Donaldson's another player. I want you to talk about Sean that had a really good season for you last year. But once again, like Lexi Trodier, a freshman, I'll be a sophomore this year. She hit 348.
Playing 23 games for you. You know, had nine RBI didn't drive in a lot of runs, but she had 24 hits. And I know you expect big things from Joey Donaldson in her sophomore year. Absolutely.
So Joey's one of those unique players that we really, she played a lot of different positions for us. So she has that type of talent. So yeah, you're going to see Joey. She plays infield, outfield.
We worked during a catcher. So yeah, she's going to be a huge piece for us this year. And again, just a great contact hitter. Like you said, maybe she's not going to lead the team.
Hit the ball of the yard a lot, but she gets on base a lot. And she has good speed. She's a soccer player for Palisade as well. Great speed.
Just a great athlete that we're really excited to have because again, all those players that we can play her in multiple positions depending on the need that evening or that day on game day. So having those type of athletes that are just kind of the jack of all trades, so to speak, is phenomenal. Yeah, at the plate, she's great. Great contact hitter gets on base.
And then hopefully we can utilize her speed a little bit this year as well. Sean Burge, coach of the Palisade Bulldogs. All team with us today on the team sports network. You lose McKinsey, great graduation in the pitching circle.
But Chloe Cummings was a good year played as well. Chloe Cummings got some time there. You last year, she picked up a couple of wins. You also have another returning pitcher as well, then Kylie Hoskin that got some time in the pitching circle as well.
So there's particularly with Cummings, you've got some experience there. And that really helps in terms of your pitching. Yes. Last year, we had a great one, two punch with Kinsey and Chloe.
Chloe had a great year. She's going to be a senior this year. And she's going really well. She played summer ball and did a fantastic and summer ball throwing.
And so yes, she'll be a tough one in the circle for opponents, for sure. And now we're looking for that number two. We did lose Kinsey. That was a huge loss for us as well as her sister behind the plate.
Those are two big holes to feel pitcher and catcher, right? That's the two positions I lost. But we have some girls in the mix for that number two spot in the circle. We have some great freshmen coming in.
We have some softballers that will battle as well. So yeah, right now it's looking for number two. And then now we're trying to find a catcher as well. Who's in the running for that position?
For your softball team. For catcher, we have a few girls. Joey's one of them. We have a girl by the name of Cambry.
We have some freshmen coming in that will battle for it. Caitlyn Mathis, Kennedy Coster. They played summer ball for me. And they both caught a ton of games trying to get them some experience behind the plate.
So yeah, we have four or five girls that are going to battle it out. And they're all right there. And they're going to do well for us, which are ones behind the plate. And it could be catcher by committee to start the season to see.
We get that right fit and maybe not who's pitching as well. So nice thing is that a lot of options and a lot of girls take out some time beyond the dish this summer. So we'll definitely have a good competition for that catcher spot. Sean Birch, coach with Alistatia, a softball team with us on the team sports.
Norakal, how involved are you with players when it comes to the travel ball, the summer stuff, keeping in touch with them? Sean, what does that look like in regard to the lead up of the season and how you kind of keep tabs on what everybody's doing? And they're picking your brain and you're providing some input? Yeah, absolutely.
So the nice thing is this year, so my travel ball team I had for the last eight or nine years was primarily central players, right? It was that class that graduated in 25. So this summer we had some policy girls that weren't on the summer ball team. So I actually picked up about, honestly, five or six palisade girls, so I had case in Kennedy, cadence, Tyler Hoskin, right?
We grabbed those players to play on my summer ball team. Then the others, they were on other teams throughout the Valley and I kept in good communication with them. As far as where they were playing, even coaches, asking like, hey, where do you see this player playing for your high school team? We can help get them some work there this summer.
So that was fantastic. But yeah, the next up tabs, you kind of follow on. You see them throughout the summer. We didn't play against a lot of those other teams, but we definitely kept tabs on them and seeing how they were doing and watching what positions they played, because kind of fun at high school.
We told girls right off the bat, you may have been a left fielder for your travel team, but you might be a second baseman at Palisade. It depends on where our need is, right? And so yeah, we kept tabs on them and I kept in touch with them quite a bit. We started summer workouts around mid-June.
We share our softball fields with the little league. So once little league ends, then we're able to get out there and do a little bit of field work. So we'd go out a couple days a week if they could make it. So I got to check in with them, maybe now I'll then do that.
How does field be one of the more longer tenure coaches in the Southwestern League in softball? Because I mean, that's the reality. I mean, with now, like, Carely, Keller be taking over at Central, and Randy Denton at a Fudel Monument. Scott, even though Scott else was at Central for 11 billion years, he's not only a second year at Grand Junction High School, so he's a relatively, a relative newbie.
Montrose is softball coach, he's not been coaching there. She's going to be her second or third year team. So I mean, for you, I mean, you're the grizzle little veteran, Sean. Isn't that funny?
I was just thinking about that. Like it's my third year, I think really at Montrose is going into her second. Yeah, a little bit of a lot of. I think the Durango Coach and I started at the same time.
I was kind of laughing with somebody. I think the Durango Coach and I, the whole three years in, they're the veterans at our current school, right? Of course, like you said, Scott's been around forever, but you know, year two at Junction. It's going to be great having Carely and Randy at Central and Fruit at Carely.
And I've coached together for the past nine years in club all so that's going to be a very fun game. So it's like super excited for her to get that job. So fantastic. Yeah.
Yeah, you're right. Three years into it on the veteran. Kind of fun. Sarah Claire Durango, right?
She's their softball coach and so you guys start at the same time? I think so. I think she started in my first year as 24. OK.
Yeah. I thought that was her first year. She had the daughter down there. That's all that team down there.
So give me your thoughts about the league. I mean, of course, we'll have some selected Slade of Games right here on the team sports network. Junction's a defending league champion. They had a great year last year.
You obviously hope to be in position to win a Southwestern league title. It's going to be a lot of fun this season. Oh, man, the league is just like last year this year. The Southwestern League for softball.
I mean, I highly recommend anybody to go out and catch a game. It's a great league right now with all the teams in the Valley. I think it's a crapshoot on who can win the league title. Durango is very strong.
They have a good lineup down there, right, as far as their players go in. And their pitchers, you know, if they get that one good arm, you know, put them in the mix. Montrose is definitely in the mix for a league title. They have a really good team there.
Yeah, they had a great season. They got a great pitcher down there. She's only going to be a sophomore, maybe. You know, fruit is always going to do fruit.
They're just good with talent up and down the lineup on the end of the circle. Central's going to be good. It's just where you're softball, right? They have that tradition.
So you know, they're going to be really competitive and going out playing hard. And then the junctions got a good lineup, got a great pitcher. And then, you know, us, I mean, we're hoping that with our additions on the freshman class and our current sophomore juniors and seniors, but you know, we can come out of the fall with nine or 10 and go out and challenge for a league title. I really like our chances.
I like the experience we have. Are you showed last year, so to speak? But, you know, starting three freshmen and, well, actually, we had two seniors, two juniors on the field and the rest were sophomores and freshmen. So we may have picked them all around a little bit, or we may mistake that maybe don't show up in the scorebook, right?
So but with that maturity, then those kids getting another season of summer ball, you know, in the book. So we're hoping that a lot of those mistakes that we made last year, you know, will be corrected. Not all will be because it's still kids in sports. But I really like our chances of being competitive in the league this year.
I think it's wide open. So I'm excited. I'm really excited for softball season to start and start playing high school softball. All right.
Sean, appreciate the time. We'll see you soon. You bet. Thanks again.
Have a good day. Take care of John Birch, coach of the Palisade Bulldog softball team. All right. August 18th against Eagle Valley.
All right. It's say 38 to have a winner yet for who is it? Yes, we do. OK.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, winner of the contest. He's another winner on the team sports network. Him first in the door identifying the Major League Baseball career, home run leader by players only today. View at Coorsfield, which is or who is, you know, I do not want to want to take a guess.
Top 10 all time, Major League Baseball home runs. Oh, debut to Coorsfield. Yes. Retired.
Oh, not yet a Hall of Famer. National American League. Nationally. Well, nationally debut.
Nationally. OK, nationally debut. Yeah. We're lots of red and a little splash of blue.
Played made his debut in left field, but did not play left field, not primarily played a 10th of his games in left field, about 260, almost 3,000 played 10. Play 20. Play 10 here play weather position mostly corner in field and designated hitter in the American who single digit number was trying very hard to be a manager last year. Oh, wow.
John of Blake Albert Pujols, Albert pool. He made his debut at Coorsfield. I did not know that we had guesses for Larry Walker who Coorsfield didn't exist when he debuted. Yeah.
And no one are not on Todd Hilton. You sneaky good guesses. You'd think, but neither of them debuted at home. And who holds with the leader of career home runs to debut?
Coorsfield because the guys ahead of him, Coorsfield didn't exist when bonds were with an Aaron made. Our goal, I think our goal is he'll be a manager at some point. Yeah, he'll get a shot. He'll get a shot.
He debuted April 2nd, 2001. Eight nothing Rockies win. So we have oil and made a guess of Christian. Yellich, we should knowledge.
We should know which waylings daughter Emerson Ingram really did not sorry to get a chance to bring up during our conversation with the church at 265 last year as a freshman. Get a chance to play quite a bit this year as a sophomore. So Christian Yellich, Waylon pre-clote, he did make his debut at Coorsfield back in 2013. He is about 460 home runs shy of outer football.
But of all the guesses, he did fill the parameters. Yeah, closer to the peer on that. Yeah, then the other ones. Yeah.
All right, eight forty one. We will take a break. We'll come back. Who might we see as call ups for the Rockies like Charlie Condid could we see other guys will dive into that coming up next on the gym David show?
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And thunder steel was when they kind of changed to be a little more speed metal issue from sorts of tequila. All right, so the major league baseball call up period September 1st when the roster expands to 28. And so who might get a call up with the Rockies? Charlie Condid feels like a lock, doesn't he?
He does. Condid right now has got 20 home runs with Albuquerque, of course, AAA isotopes, 63 RBI. It's got six triples on the season. And you're hitting two eighty seven right now.
It feels like Charlie Condid who's been playing primarily for space. Now question becomes where does Charlie Condid fit in going forward in the Rockies organization? Because you've got TJ Rumfield, who they acquired in the deal with the Yankees, who's put himself, I would say put himself least in the strongly in the conversation for National League Rookie of the Year. Yeah, yeah, you should be.
So you feel like with what you've got there that you've got your first baseman at this point in time, then where does Charlie Condid go? What do you do with Charlie Condid? Does playing the out? He can't play in the outfield.
But that's, you know, like we've talked about the log jam. It's said that log jam could be less than though by the trade deadline coming up on Monday, if Jake McCarthy or Mickey Monty, I could go on. True. That also clears up designated hitter positions for somebody.
You know, whether that be Tyler Freeman, who's a serviceable bat, also kind of super utility guy or Willie Castro, who until Carlos is back is pretty much entrenched at third base there, I think, for Willie Castro. He's had a pretty decent month. You know, and I know it's a pipe dream. It's kind of a long shot, but if they do move, he's the kill too far.
That clears up outfield space because you can stick cold care and get short stuff. Not a long term solution there. I don't think I think we'll care. He's destined to be an outfielder, but he can play shortstop and he can be serviceable there.
We're going to know a lot more Monday night and Tuesday about what this team looks like in a potential Charlie Condon call it. Something he's called getting called it before he goes right now. The 40 man roster's full. Yeah.
So you're going to have to move somebody either out or off of it to make room for Charlie Condid, right? Because Condon's not on the 40 man yet. No, correct. That's correct.
Yes. And so if there's also been some rallies, a Troy Johnston could get traded. That's possibility as well. McCarthy and Moniac have been the two names mentioned the most, but there's been a little traction in regard to Troy Johnston, possibly getting dealt.
Yeah, he's another one of those guys that is in the mix in the outfield, right? Because like he's sitting close to 290, you know, it's a guy that can get on base, can do a couple of different things for you. Plays the corner outfield spots can also play a little first base if you need them to. So I think the thing we're seeing about these new young Rockies with the exception of coperos, maybe.
Yeah, four or five of these guys can play multiple positions. You can kind of move him around. They kind of did play some third. He did.
They did a George, any line of early in his minor league career. So, you know, it's and if cop heros is healthy, you don't need him to play over there, right? But you still have a log jam at first. You have a log jam in the outfield.
So, you know, hopefully the trade deadline provides some clarity. If they stand Pat again, I don't know when when Charlie Condon's getting called up because of which you mentioned like the 40-man roster's full. Like it's not just it's there's like 40-48 guys on there because of the interlist players. Right.
So they're going to have to do some finagling when like a written oil be healthy, right? So all of this is that's what's going on with Britain doing forward. I mean, that's that's another question. Another question is Zach Veen, who we did see up with the Rockies earlier.
Then, you know, send back to Albuquerque. I do think it's kind of crazy. The Rockies have one regular position player on the interlist. That's Brent Doyle.
Everybody else is everybody else. Pretty healthy or events and down. Yeah, they've been really lucky in that regard. Pinching on as much.
Yeah. But they've been fairly positionally. They've been really healthy. They're all with the same eight guys.
Well, same 11 guys, but pretty much same guys are available every day. Don't you think that also speaks to why they're better to another reason? Why they're better? Yeah, because there's consistency in the lineup.
Guys are getting regular at bats. They're in their routine slumps. Don't stretch for weeks at a time because they have a chance to get their way out of it because you're going to get nine at bats in a weekend. True.
And so that's another thing that maybe has not been acknowledged nearly enough among the reasons why they're they're much better than they've been. Guys are healthy. Guys are staying the lineup. They're getting their at bats and it's just there's there's the consistency, the continuity there.
Seven guys have played at least 93 games. Wow. And then you have that Julian at 85. Three minutes, 73.
Mickey Moneac at 71. You know, at this point right now, there may be the healthiest they've been. Four years. Yeah, easily.
And maybe not even maybe even then maybe a little farther back than that. You know, the name's Derwin Thompson who has been up with the Rockies previously, but the exact means got 17 home runs right now. He's hitting three 11. He's got 27 doubles to lead the isotopes right now.
Guy, the big lead team, right? Yeah. Guy that's obviously had his challenges, that to make some lifestyle changes this offseason. Did he ever hit the double?
Did the smoke in the bong thing, which come on that? Come on. Got to be a little more self-aware than that. Come on, man.
Let's be much more mature than that. I mean, it is Albuquerque. It could be so smoking some else. Yeah.
So there's that, I guess. It's a Walter White, Isaac Berg. Not I'm not going to go get, you know, specify, but, you know, it's just the stickiest of the day. Yeah, it could be worked.
Yeah, there could be others. There's potentially way worse in the case of that. But you mentioned Sterling Thompson. He's a guy that could potentially get called up again.
They also have other guys they've tested out. I don't know if they're going to get another crack this year, like Jordan Beck, Rex and Fulfer, those type of guys. But did you always have? They seem to have plenty of options.
Do you know, try to take a crack at things? It does feel like from a farm standpoint, they're in a better place than they've been in a while. Yes. Cause some of these names we talked about and Colkere was obviously down in, you know, with Albuquerque.
He's been with the Big League ball club and been productive. And it's poised to get better if they have a good trade deadline. Yes. Adding adding prospects, adding some major league ready guys, hopefully from other teams.
I'm very intrigued about Charlie Condon because Charlie Condon for me. And this is this is a little more Cleveland dish, but bear with me. There's a couple of years where at the top of the draft, it was chaste a lot of Charlie Condon, Travis Bazzana, like these three guys are going to carry whatever team drafts them for the next 10 years. And that's working in Cleveland with DeLaudor and Bazzana.
They've been fantastic this year, both of them. And now Charlie Condon is like, all right, Charlie, my team got both. My team's got all three of them. Now we need Charlie Condon to step in there and let's make it happen.
Something else that speaks to the minor league system getting better for the Rockies, the Arizona Complex League Rockies won the ACL championship Tuesday. It's all revealed. All right. Let's go.
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