JP and BMitch discuss the Nationals slow start to the 2025 campaign. The guys believe Washington will get better, but don't expect much from the team overall.
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00:00What seems more concerning is early.
00:07I can't point out enough that it's very, very early.
00:10Okay, but the Nats who we kind of I found it interesting.
00:17I went and worked at red gala carpet thing.
00:19They have like the the homecoming gala and CJ Abrams said it and
00:24I heard this kind of from a number of different people, but CJ
00:26Abrams said it directly.
00:28He's like, yeah, you know for years.
00:30It's been the Nats are coming.
00:31Well now the Nats are here.
00:32We got some talent and I was kind of just surprised by the tone and
00:36I think it's good for players to be excited about this the upcoming
00:39season, but I feel confident and that's the whole thing about it.
00:43He's there every day.
00:44He sees what's going on.
00:45He they may have it, but it takes time for all these new faces to
00:49come together.
00:50Okay, so I asked you this Brian.
00:53What's more concerning the Nats one in five start?
00:58Or Dylan Cruz had another game with no hits.
01:02He I mean there.
01:04He has no hits through six games.
01:07I'm going to go with the the start is more concerning.
01:11I think the young look that it may not happen.
01:15It may you don't like it to happen, but there are a lot of people
01:18who come into this league.
01:20And when they first started it up, it looks it doesn't look like
01:23they think it's going to look.
01:25Because balls in college are normally fastball.
01:29Somebody might have a slider may have a curve, but they completely
01:32change up what they're doing.
01:34The pictures at this level.
01:36Everything looks the same and the ball comes out different angles
01:38different patterns and you you get a quarter a little bit.
01:44If it's still going on about month and a half from now got some
01:49problems.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Yeah, right now.
01:52I'm letting him slide.
01:53I'm letting him slide, but that needs to get out of here real
01:56quick.
01:57I am more concerned by the Nats overall start than I am Cruz.
02:03I remain a but Cruz believer and baseball is game of getting hot.
02:09Whatever if they can pull off three out of four that the record
02:12is going to look a lot different, right?
02:14Yeah.
02:17I believe they've got probably a very welcome day off today after
02:23getting swept in Toronto and then the D-backs are coming to town
02:26Arizona pretty good though.
02:30Last year.
02:30I think the Nats got off to a much better start than a lot of people
02:33expected and a lot of that was driven by starting pitching.
02:38Yeah that at least outperformed what their career numbers look like
02:46and I think eventually that that kind of that hot start fell off.
02:51Mm-hmm.
02:52I just I still don't think they've spent enough and like the moves
02:58that they made that people try to get jacked up about were I feel
03:02like we tried to talk ourselves into them being way better than
03:04they were this fast and I just I still don't know that there's
03:09enough talent to really compete on that team.
03:12And I think the the opening day they were playing very good baseball
03:17McGore was until they got to their bullpen.
03:21Yeah, and I think you cannot if your bullpen is weak.
03:25You're not going to get complete games from your pitchers your
03:28starting pitchers.
03:30You got to get the bullpen ready.
03:32Sure, because that game completely they lost it once they went to
03:35the bullpen.
03:36Yeah.