hey guys welcome back to the channel we got another trade recap this time it is Michael lenzen heading to Kansas City from the Texas Rangers rangers acquired minor leager Walter Pennington um seems to be a relief pitcher this deal I think has to do with um deg Gro coming back and then also sherzer now getting activated uh you know obviously very crowded rotation once all those guys are healthy um but yeah what is your initial reaction I'm gonna go ahead and go over to Pennington right here but what's your initial reaction while I do that yeah um it's uh it's a pretty good trade for Kansas City you can never have uh enough starting pitching depth you know KC's rotation is really good but say somebody goes down loreny can slide in there maybe they go to a six-man rotation not kind of not quite sure what they're going to do with that but what they're getting in Pennington is a guy that had uh a 272 ra and triaa over 60 Innings and uh yeah pretty solid guy in Triple A um might step into um might step into Texas's Bullpen I'm not sure obviously they've struggled uh in the pen last couple Seasons he's only 26 years old as well so um some control there as well so yeah good piece uh good little cheap option for the starting pitching Market uh it's been a crazy buyers market for the for the pitching the before this deadline so um yeah solid solid get for the Royals yeah and then if you go over to that rotation for the Royals uh does have Lorenzen sliding at six maybe Alec Marsh moves to the bullpen um I mean Lorenzen has out pitched him through 18 starts they both have 18 starts Len at 10123 while Marsh's at 96 and two3 the whole run difference e wise um you know Alec Marsh will strike out more batters it seems um than Lorenzen will um and Lorenzen walks more guys than Marsh does so some give and take there uh Loren is a is a guy that can get some ground balls um in the bullpen you know it it's pretty tight as well so maybe there's another move on the horizon here for the Royals maybe they're going to move one of these starting pitchers maybe Alec Marsh uh for a bat um they could use it um they're not a team that's that's been slugging MJ Melendez is batting 193 they can use some help in the Outfield y u maybe even a platoon for him um you know they have been linked t reward maybe maybe it's a marsh for reward you know I'm just thr spitballing right here but yeah uh maybe something like that um but yeah interesting move I wouldn't I was I wouldn't say confused but you know with how well the Royals starting staff has been to see them go and AD Lorenzen um definitely very interesting and it makes me feel like maybe there's another move you know that they're looking to make um and Loren and stepping in here maybe it's a Brady singer but he's got 282 this year so yeah you know but uh yeah other than that I think that's going to do it for this one um if you like this video make sure you hit that like And subscribe as always we appreciate you guys for listening and we'll see you on the next one later