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00:00Getting the trust tree, Keefe. The team kind of stinks.
00:03Team stinks, and the guy on the mound yesterday, I think, is one of the faces.
00:07It'd be unfair to put him as the only face.
00:09I mean, you can't be 8-10 getting blown out by the White Sox,
00:12blown out by the Rays, and blame only one guy.
00:14But let's start with Houck, because last year he was an All-Star
00:18and a deserving All-Star.
00:19At the break, he was a Cy Young candidate.
00:22He fell off in the second half, but he didn't implode in the second half.
00:27It wasn't like this.
00:28He sort of went from being an All-Star pitcher to an average pitcher,
00:31and then the end-of-year totals looked like above average.
00:34Like, hey, that's somebody that you got going.
00:37Now, I think the Red Sox even knew, eh, maybe not the most reliable guy.
00:42It's why they went out and got Crochet.
00:43That's why they got Walker Bueller.
00:45But he is the second starter right off the rip, right in your rotation.
00:49He's right after Crochet, so they're kind of rewarding him from last season.
00:53He was terrible in the spring, awful in the spring, but working on stuff.
00:57He was working on stuff for a while.
00:58That's what I was told on the Nessun broadcast.
01:00He was working on stuff all spring while he's getting his brains beaten in
01:02at his first two starts.
01:03But work is not finished.
01:04He maybe needs to go back to spring, because we have seen him for four starts,
01:08and only one of them has been good.
01:12Only one of them has been good.
01:13He has already given up five home runs this year.
01:15You were talking about how he's not a big home run allower.
01:18Yesterday was obviously atrocious, but he's got an ERA over nine on the season.
01:24The team is one and three in his four starts.
01:28So, yeah, he's been brutal, because he's one guy, even if you didn't expect him to
01:33duplicate his all-star season, that'd be a lot better than this.
01:37He'd at least be like an average major league starter, and we haven't gotten that out of him.
01:42Tanner Houck, 11 home runs last year in 178 and two-thirds.
01:46It's all he allowed all year.
01:47Wow.
01:48Five already in 18 and two-thirds.
01:50Not great, Bob.
01:51I would agree with that.
01:52Not great is one way to put it.
01:54His strikeout-to-walk ratio is almost a push.
01:56It's like 11 Ks to nine walks.
01:58Not great.
01:59No.
01:59So, Houck, in his first start in Texas, five and two-thirds, four earned,
02:03a couple of home runs.
02:04All right, first start of the year off spring.
02:06Maybe he's working on stuff still, whatever.
02:07He's working on it, tinkering.
02:08Next one against Baltimore, four innings, three earned,
02:11gave up another home run in that one.
02:13He goes six and two-thirds against Toronto, an earned run.
02:15They lose the game, which we were lamenting at the time.
02:18Yeah, but that was his best start by far.