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Rowland-Smith’s Mariners checkup · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, we've got our buddy Ryan Roland Smith joining us
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Speaker 1: right now. Mariners TV Analysts, top Set podcast, great accent,
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Speaker 1: just the whole thing working for him and he's covering
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Speaker 1: one of the best teams in baseball right now.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, Great to have you on here. Yeah, and the
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Speaker 2: head I'm ready to go to a game here in Baltimore.
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Speaker 2: He had no. I it's Look, it's been fun, man,
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Speaker 2: since the since the trade Deadline'm not gonna lie a
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Speaker 2: completely different feel with this team because this is really Look,
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Speaker 2: they've been really aggressive every trade deadline the last couple
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Speaker 2: of years, but this is the first time where it's
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Speaker 2: like there's no like justification or explaining the move, right,
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Speaker 2: It's basically like, Yep, you wanted the offense. You're banging
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Speaker 2: that dramall off season and into the season. You want
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Speaker 2: that extra piece, extra pieces offensively, and they got it.
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Speaker 2: Here it is and there's no like yep, twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five and that's it as opposed to, you know, trying
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Speaker 2: to work around the edges or add this because it's
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Speaker 2: a future move or we're trying to have controllable players
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Speaker 2: or whatever it is. And then everyone's fired up. Man,
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Speaker 2: they try stand that took nine to ten. You know,
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Speaker 2: they had the Etro weekend. It was just it's just
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Speaker 2: a really good thing happening right now in Seattle, that's
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Speaker 2: for sure.
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Speaker 3: Did it need to be at the trade deadline? Did
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Speaker 3: it need to be a move that was like, hey,
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Speaker 3: we're you know, as a front office, we're looking at
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Speaker 3: it like I don't know ownership, I don't know how
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Speaker 3: good this team really is. Is Julio really good? We'll
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Speaker 3: wait and see till the trade deadline. Because Suarez wasn't available,
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Speaker 3: Josh Naylor was available, you could have gotten another third
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Speaker 3: base back to come in and play that position all year.
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Speaker 3: They might not be tied right now, they may be
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Speaker 3: up on the Astros.
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Speaker 2: You're talking gone back into the off season right in
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Speaker 2: regards to making those music, Well, put it this way, man,
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Speaker 2: like the Marylands. You know, as we know free agents, Man,
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Speaker 2: it's competitive. It's sometimes it's more than just dollars and
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Speaker 2: cents to bring some of these guys in there. There's
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Speaker 2: more the guys into it, as you guys know, and
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Speaker 2: you go do a little bit of recruiting as well.
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Speaker 2: I feel like they're big draw card is where the
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Speaker 2: players where you get it via trade. And I feel
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Speaker 2: like coming out of twenty twenty four, their biggest chip
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Speaker 2: was going to be pitching, whether it was in the
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Speaker 2: minor leagues, anda a Triple A, or even in the
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Speaker 2: big leagues, dismantling that five man rotation, and they just
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Speaker 2: weren't willing to do that. They just period weren't willing
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Speaker 2: to do that. So that move really wasn't out there,
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Speaker 2: I feel like in the off season, and I feel
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Speaker 2: like because they weren't, like I said, willing to give
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Speaker 2: up their biggest strength. And then they get into a
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Speaker 2: season they kind of play, see how we go a
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Speaker 2: little bit. They were slipping behind the Astros, who, by
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Speaker 2: the way, were not very good at these last you know,
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Speaker 2: a couple of months in regards to how they were built.
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Speaker 2: They'll winning. I don't even know how they were winning,
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Speaker 2: to be honest with there, with all these injuries and
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Speaker 2: everything else. But you're looking at this going, man, well
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Speaker 2: how good are we? If the Astros are able to
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Speaker 2: get this lead in the West and we can't keep
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Speaker 2: up with them, you kind of ask yourself, well, how
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Speaker 2: good is this team? And so I feel like it
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Speaker 2: got to that place, and you know, we know cow
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Speaker 2: role the last couple of years has been vocal about it,
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Speaker 2: and they've gotten to a place now where it's like,
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Speaker 2: we've got five all stars on this team. We've got
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Speaker 2: a cow ruler who's having a historic year knocking over
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Speaker 2: like Johnny Bench and you know, heading towards Mickey Manlin
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Speaker 2: regards to home runs for a switch hitter, it's insane.
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Speaker 2: So this is the time is now, and it got
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Speaker 2: to a place where it was a month after month
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Speaker 2: is saying this team has something here, there's a good
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Speaker 2: young core of players you need to add, and it
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Speaker 2: took up into the deadline. Put it this way too, man,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to give a ton of credit to Justin
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Speaker 2: Hollander because look they made the move with Josh Naylor
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Speaker 2: and you look at that and fans like, yeah, great,
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Speaker 2: we added and we added a player finally who's just
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Speaker 2: pure rental for twenty twenty five. But you're look at
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Speaker 2: that gun hold On. He's on the same team as
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Speaker 2: Juno Squires. What happened to that? We love Gino, like,
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Speaker 2: how come we couldn't pull that off? And Justin Hollander
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Speaker 2: that door wasn't closed. He just kept calling, calling, calling,
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Speaker 2: And by the way, on the on the bullpen side
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Speaker 2: as well. I think I a little disappointed they didn't
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Speaker 2: get another bullpen piece because I pushed so hard to
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Speaker 2: get that second guy in that ballp and a bridge
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Speaker 2: that gap to Brash and Munnos, but I got to
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Speaker 2: give it to him, and they just kept pushing, pushing.
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Speaker 2: I think that doing the deal with Josh Naylor a
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Speaker 2: little earlier, you developed that relationship where the DBAC say, yep,
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Speaker 2: we're happy with what we got. Thank you. You're happy
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Speaker 2: with what you got, all right, let's keep that door open.
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Speaker 2: And then I feel like the value for Gino just
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Speaker 2: kind of kept sort of slipping a little bit because
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Speaker 2: there's other options out there. And then they struck Man
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Speaker 2: and by the way, they didn't give up any of
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Speaker 2: their top one hundred prospects, so a plus at the
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Speaker 2: trade deadline. And to answer your question short in the winner,
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Speaker 2: I think if you were the goal was to go
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Speaker 2: get offense, you're probably gonna have to give up your
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Speaker 2: you know, your your biggest attribute, and that's pitching. I
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Speaker 2: just don't think that willing to do that. I'm kind
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Speaker 2: of glad they didn't do that, honestly, you know, until
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Speaker 2: until this point. But why this year? Why not last year?
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Speaker 2: Why this year?
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Speaker 4: Is it just because of the cow rawle of the
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Speaker 4: year and what they look around at the West and
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Speaker 4: say the West is vulnerable this year. You kind of
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Speaker 4: you kind of glossed over a little bit, But is
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Speaker 4: that the main reason? Because Houston's banged up beyond unbelief? Right,
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Speaker 4: they're not, They're not the same Houston. Regman's gone, All
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Speaker 4: these guys are gone. Then you look at the Rangers,
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Speaker 4: they're not playing very well. The Angels are the Angels clearly?
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Speaker 4: Is this is why finally Depoto in the front office
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Speaker 4: was told, hey, you can do this this year, and
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Speaker 4: it's awesome. They didn't give up their top prospects.
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Speaker 2: It's yeah, that's the way.
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Speaker 4: It's supposed to work. But you know, in years past
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Speaker 4: they've had the ability and they've had a you know,
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Speaker 4: a luxury of the starting pitching. But why in twenty
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Speaker 4: five is it because the West is just not as
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Speaker 4: good as it used to be?
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Speaker 2: I think so, I really did, man. I think it's
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Speaker 2: you know, gone back to last year again, twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Gone back to that pitching, right, That's what kind of
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Speaker 2: that's what got them close. And whether or not there
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Speaker 2: was a move last year. Look that was still aggressive
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Speaker 2: and they still went and got you know, Justin Turner
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Speaker 2: and Randy rose Arena. I mean, they still got some offense.
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Speaker 2: They still got you know, Jimmy Garcia in the bullpen
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Speaker 2: as well, and they again weren't they didn't need to
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Speaker 2: give up a whole lot to get them, and so
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Speaker 2: they still were aggresive last year. Ye pride of that
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Speaker 2: they went and got Luis Castille, who was the biggest
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Speaker 2: piece out there, and they added to that starting pitching
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Speaker 2: wasn't as good as last year in twenty twenty three
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Speaker 2: to go get Luis Cassid to fill that void. And
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Speaker 2: that's kind of what the That was their anchor, that
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Speaker 2: was their you know called their aircraft carrier. That was
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Speaker 2: what it was going to take him to that next level.
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Speaker 2: So going into twenty twenty five and you guys know, man,
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Speaker 2: it's so tough to replicate what they got out of
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Speaker 2: their starting pitching last year. And that's kind of been obvious, right,
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Speaker 2: Bryce Miller goes down, he struggled. You had a situation
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Speaker 2: where George Kruby didn't start the year he was on
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Speaker 2: the IL. You had you know, Logan Gilbert missed seven
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Speaker 2: weeks as well, so you're not going to replicate what
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Speaker 2: they had in twenty twenty four. But I feel like
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Speaker 2: they went into this season saying, all right, yeah, we
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Speaker 2: might be limited in what we can do in regards
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Speaker 2: to going and getting paying money for free agent, but
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Speaker 2: we do have their capacity to make a trade at
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Speaker 2: some point, and the time was right. Man. They got
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Speaker 2: to a place as a group, as a team and
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Speaker 2: as a front office to say, all right, we're really good,
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Speaker 2: yet we know what we need. We're going to be
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Speaker 2: aggressive like they with last year and the year pride
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Speaker 2: of that, and let's go and get a move that
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Speaker 2: services twenty twenty five only really for the first time
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Speaker 2: the last couple of years. So again, the aggression has
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Speaker 2: always been there, but this year it just feels different
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Speaker 2: because it's straight up not the situation where it's like
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Speaker 2: we have controllable players or we can do this and
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Speaker 2: that and no, no, they just went all in on
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Speaker 2: pure rentals. We just haven't seen that the last couple
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Speaker 3: All right, let's move ahead to the rest of the season. Now,
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Speaker 3: Henyo Suarez has got like a three thirty ops since
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Speaker 3: he's come over, and the nailer's got one thousand ops.
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Speaker 3: How do you see, because you see this team day
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Speaker 3: in and day out, how do you see pitchers navigating
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Speaker 3: the lineup differently with those two guys in especially even
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Speaker 3: because people will be like, oh, Suarez trade soft, like
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Speaker 3: he's not doing to me. You add a guy like
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Speaker 3: Suarez who will get hot at some point and carry
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Speaker 3: the team, but he's there all the time looming. Do
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Speaker 3: you see a difference in how teams are pitching and
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Speaker 3: navigating How he got a throw to a certain guy
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Speaker 3: that's feasting during this time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. The biggest shakeup, which was interesting coming out of
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Speaker 2: that deadline was you had you know, JP Croft was
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Speaker 2: at the top line. By the way, he's quietly having
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Speaker 2: a really good year and he was at the top
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Speaker 2: of line. As a matter of fact, I was kind
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Speaker 2: of hoping he was gonna make the All Star team.
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Speaker 2: Didn't happen. He's having an awesome year, but man, he
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Speaker 2: was struggling going into that trade deadline. He was struggling.
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Speaker 2: Then they get obviously Naylor, and then they get a Gina.
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Speaker 2: They come out of August first, you got to figure
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Speaker 2: out how you kind of put this line up together.
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Speaker 2: You put Randy at the top, Randy Rose Arena, who's having,
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Speaker 2: by the way, best power year as well, and plus
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Speaker 2: he's swiping a bunch of bags too. I think he's
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Speaker 2: already you know, beating his career best in stolen bases,
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Speaker 2: and so you look at that and say, all right,
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Speaker 2: you've got the first one through. I'll throw Polanco in
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Speaker 2: there as well, because he's back to what he was
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Speaker 2: doing in April one through six. Man, it's a gauntlet.
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Speaker 2: It's tough because you look at that, there's no breathing room, right.
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Speaker 2: Kl is still getting pitches to hit, which I thought
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Speaker 2: after that home run derby, after that All Star break,
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Speaker 2: all right, they're gonna have to, you know, be a
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Speaker 2: little bit more careful with him. But he's still getting
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Speaker 2: pitches to hit, and he's starting to figure out that
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Speaker 2: swing as well. Three home runs in the last four games.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got right behind him Julio all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, you know, August and September said it's a gaunt.
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Speaker 2: But now the biggest question was when you saw JP
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Speaker 2: go from the leadoff spot and you guys know, man,
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Speaker 2: like you see a guy lose his leadoff spot and
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Speaker 2: he goes he shuffles down to seventh. All right, how's
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Speaker 2: he going to react? Like, how's he gonna you know,
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Speaker 2: around the around the cage or in the dugout? Wherever
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Speaker 2: is he going to be that guy. But now that's
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Speaker 2: that's just not his style. Man. He's kind of come
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Speaker 2: in and basically said, so excited for what we've got.
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Speaker 2: Randyo Roserena wasn't upset about leaving the four spot behind
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Speaker 2: cal get more pitches. He's going to have to liadoff spot.
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Speaker 2: So everyone's pretty fired up about what they have in
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Speaker 2: this in this lineup. Now, you mentioned Gino hasn't quite
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Speaker 2: gotten hot just yet, but it's just a tough line
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Speaker 2: up to navigate, and the only breathing room you look
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Speaker 2: at and say, all right, you've got three left, he's seven,
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Speaker 2: eight nine, and see you're like, oh, they're going to
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Speaker 2: get matched up. But the problem is JP hits left.
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Speaker 2: He's pretty well and by the way, pitches per played
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Speaker 2: appearance is insane. So you've got seven to eight and
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Speaker 2: nine all of a sudden since the trade deadline, seeing
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Speaker 2: about four and a half pitches per plate appearance on
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Speaker 2: basis over four hundred and flipping that lineup back over.
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Speaker 2: So there's really no breathing room. Now. I know they
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Speaker 2: only put up a one run yesterday, but going back
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Speaker 2: to that homestand in Seattle, it was, man, it was relentless.
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Speaker 2: You could just have that feeling, and we just haven't
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Speaker 2: had that in Seattle. You've always had those pockets where
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Speaker 2: it's like, oh man, so it's coming up with two
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Speaker 2: outs and you know there's run around second. You just
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Speaker 2: feel like there's just gonna be that swing and miss.
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Speaker 2: Especially last year, it's just not the case. Right now.
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Speaker 2: I see August first and everyone can feel it. Man,
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Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun to watch.
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Speaker 4: Hey, you brought up Julio Rodriguez and he was a
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Speaker 4: controversial All Star pick because of where he's at. His
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Speaker 4: numbers are good. Now what changed though? What He's done
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Speaker 4: this for a couple of years. Now, wait where April
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Speaker 4: May even in the June, it's really kind of a
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Speaker 4: struggle and in July, August, September, come what what is
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Speaker 4: the difference in second half Julio and first half Julio.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so going back to you know, last year, I
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Speaker 2: haven't had that big of a sample size. Really, It's
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Speaker 2: not like he's done it for six years. It's been like,
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Speaker 2: you know a couple of years there where he went
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Speaker 2: off as a rookie, expectations through the roof, and then
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Speaker 2: you know, going back to last year, right, last year,
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Speaker 2: he was just trying to reinvent the wheel. The guy
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Speaker 2: was like he was trying to have more plate discipline,
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Speaker 2: but he was he was getting he was kind of
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Speaker 2: taking away that aggressiveness on that first pitch. He just
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Speaker 2: wasn't I'm not saying the Mariners didn't allow him to
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Speaker 2: be an athlete, but I feel like with him, he
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Speaker 2: was just trying to He's trying to be you know,
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Speaker 2: super pro at bat and all of a sudden wear
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Speaker 2: a pitcher down or something. It's like they just go
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Speaker 2: and swing man, see the ball, hit the ball, just
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Speaker 2: rip it. And then this year it was kind of
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Speaker 2: this situation. I feel like where he hits everything, he
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Speaker 2: incides out to everything to right field and it's ridiculous. Man,
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Speaker 2: Like all comes off his bat just different to everyone else.
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Speaker 2: It just does. That's why all those ground balls can
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Speaker 2: just kind of shoot her. It's like he's playing on
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Speaker 2: a little league field. And then the big conversation was,
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Speaker 2: look in order to get the ball in the air
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Speaker 2: with some authority and get some power, some more of
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Speaker 2: the power numbers, because that was lacking. It's been lacking.
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Speaker 2: The first half. It's like he's so you know, undercooked
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Speaker 2: in regards to some of the power numbers, you know,
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Speaker 2: get the ball in the end of the pull side,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like he was trying to do that.
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Speaker 2: He was getting a little bit beaten inside. And then
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Speaker 2: right before the All Star break, it's like something click. Man,
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Speaker 2: he all of a sudden was able to get that
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Speaker 2: bad head out and he was launching balls in the
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Speaker 2: left field. Wasn't the ball in the ground, like when
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Speaker 2: you look at the ground ball rate to the left
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Speaker 2: side of the infields through the roof, but the exit
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Speaker 2: you is still good. I see he's still getting good contact,
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Speaker 2: but you just can't lift the ball. And then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, right before the break, I want to say,
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember who he took deep. I was
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Speaker 2: watching he got that spin, little spinn and breaking ball,
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Speaker 2: got the bad head out, cheated a little bit, and
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Speaker 2: he launched ones foul into the seats and I was like, oh, man,
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen I've never I haven't seen him do
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Speaker 2: that for forever. And then next piece, whack boom took
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Speaker 2: one into left field, and so I kind of eliminated
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Speaker 2: just guys just beating him up middle ind in my opinion,
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Speaker 2: And now I feel like from that point. You know
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Speaker 2: he took you mentioned the All Star Game, you know,
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Speaker 2: controversial pick. He took that off because he wanted to
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Speaker 2: get some work in whatever it was. But now all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, I feel like he's just got this
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Speaker 2: nice little He's in this groove where he can hit
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Speaker 2: that ball in the right center field with authority, but
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Speaker 2: he's just able to pick his spots where you can
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Speaker 2: just get that bad head out and cheat a little
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Speaker 2: bit on some of those pitches inside. So it's kind
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Speaker 2: of you can't just eliminate half the plate for Julio.
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Speaker 2: So I think there's a little bit of that and
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Speaker 2: plus two, I don't know what it is man psychologically,
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Speaker 2: if it's something where like you get to that point
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Speaker 2: where dust settles, trade deadlines, happened you had the All
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Speaker 2: Star break or the All Star game, you know, whether
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Speaker 2: you around your peers at the game or taking the
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Speaker 2: time off and you look seeing the finish line, you
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Speaker 2: just kind of have that nothing to lose sort of mentality.
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Speaker 2: I think maybe there's a little bit of that too. Psychologically,
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Speaker 2: he gets to a place where it's like, all right,
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Speaker 2: this is my swing right now. I'm not trying to
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Speaker 2: overthink it. I'm not trying to be more patient on
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Speaker 2: the plate because dude, he swings man still a ton
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Speaker 2: first pitch, like it's ridiculous, and it's like, just have
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Speaker 2: Adam and just swing, just be an athlete. So I
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Speaker 2: feel like there's a little of a combination of that.
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Speaker 2: But may what it is August September, he just lights up.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's a it's a good song for the Marinids.
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Speaker 3: And I think some people forget he's still not even
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Speaker 3: twenty five years old yet.
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Speaker 2: I get it.
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Speaker 3: Some guys have MVPs and all that stuff, but he's
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Speaker 3: a like he's still learning. So I mean, I think
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Speaker 3: it's cool that you you know, you you see all
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Speaker 3: those different things that he's learning.
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Speaker 2: To do in the big leagues. Yeah, for sure.
15:22
Speaker 3: Last question, last question for me. Anytime I talked to
15:25
Speaker 3: an Australian baseball player, I have to ask because I
15:29
Speaker 3: haven't seen my friend Jared MANGIONI is almost exactly your
15:32
Speaker 3: same age. Yes, do you know what he's doing? And
15:36
Speaker 3: do you know who I'm talking about?
15:38
Speaker 2: A dude on that manage? Of course of that Jared Mangier,
15:41
Speaker 2: of course, what is he doing? Oh man, you stump me?
15:46
Speaker 2: Know what he and I should know this man because
15:48
Speaker 2: all the all the Aussies past and present, we all
15:51
Speaker 2: tend to, you know, stay in the same circles. You know.
15:53
Speaker 2: You guys had Grant Balfour on months ago. He's one
15:56
Speaker 2: of my best friends. He was a groomsman at my wedding.
15:58
Speaker 2: We're really close all the way down to everyone else.
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Speaker 2: So I should know what men Jerney's up to. I'll
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Speaker 2: find out though, Eric, I'll get back to you and
16:06
Speaker 2: I'll find out exactly what he's doing. But there's a
16:07
Speaker 2: that's a man, that's a name. I haven't heard it
16:09
Speaker 2: for a long time.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Prospect with the Blue Jays that I played with
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Speaker 3: for for a few years. One of the guys, one
16:16
Speaker 3: of the guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah he was Yeah, he was good man. I remember,
16:20
Speaker 2: like high school age, he was a stud. If the
16:22
Speaker 2: thing is though in Australia, like I say that now,
16:25
Speaker 2: if I say this all the time, if I grew
16:27
Speaker 2: up in the States, yeah, I know A J's got
16:29
Speaker 2: some boys right now playing you know the Showcase, doing
16:32
Speaker 2: the Showcase rounds and all that. Yeah, I feel like
16:35
Speaker 2: if I grew up in the States, man, I don't
16:36
Speaker 2: know if I ever would have gotten a chance, dude,
16:38
Speaker 2: because like you're a big fish a small point. So
16:40
Speaker 2: I'll say me and Jerney was a study. He may
16:42
Speaker 2: know the he was out in Australia because no one,
16:46
Speaker 2: no one plays. So there you go. Ryan.
16:48
Speaker 4: A couple of things. First of all, I mean I
16:50
Speaker 4: can go back to like Darren Fidge. I mean games
16:52
Speaker 4: that you guys are talking about. These guys, yeah exactly Williams. Yeah,
16:58
Speaker 4: I mean baseball Australia. He's big time now yep, Willow
17:03
Speaker 4: Pete Pete Moylan, you know, and he was, you know,
17:05
Speaker 4: in jail with our hitting coach the same night. I mean,
17:07
Speaker 4: I've don't do a lot of Australian stuff. Okay, all right,
17:10
Speaker 4: so listen, but here's what I want to know. I
17:13
Speaker 4: got two questions. Were you one we played in the
17:15
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame game like it was like seven eight
17:17
Speaker 4: years ago. Has your shoulder recovered from that yet? Because
17:20
Speaker 4: it was the first time you touched the ball forever?
17:22
Speaker 4: And then also, who has better hair in dress game?
17:25
Speaker 4: You are Goldsmith because you guys have are always on
17:28
Speaker 4: point with the hair and the dressing game.
17:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, now Goldsmith man rolls out of bed. He's just
17:33
Speaker 2: got that lego hair about him. It's unreal, like it's
17:36
Speaker 2: legit and it's got You have to cut one should
17:39
Speaker 2: otherwise it goes all over the map. He doesn't need
17:42
Speaker 2: to do that. It's pretty pretty on point a gold Smith,
17:44
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Now the Hole of Fime, I do
17:46
Speaker 2: have a story about that Hall of Fame classic real quick,
17:48
Speaker 2: because I was fired up to pitch. Was Victorino there?
17:52
Speaker 2: He might have been, yeah, I think so, yeah, he
17:54
Speaker 2: might be. Well he he comes up to me and
17:56
Speaker 2: a couple of the guys pitches like hey man and
17:58
Speaker 2: Jack Wilson too, was like, hey, dude, make sure you
18:01
Speaker 2: throw breaking balls, change ups. You know, we want to
18:03
Speaker 2: make this competitive, not just like you know, just slogging
18:06
Speaker 2: in there like this. I was like, yeah, no worries,
18:08
Speaker 2: no problem. And my back was killing me because I
18:11
Speaker 2: did that fun, that fun run thing in the morning too,
18:13
Speaker 2: like the five K, Like I said, oh, I'll run
18:15
Speaker 2: it like an idiot, and then my back was all
18:17
Speaker 2: blown up. But I remember you were catching and I
18:19
Speaker 2: was all fired up. Dude, like breaking balls, change ups,
18:21
Speaker 2: warm up. You walk out to the man, You're like,
18:23
Speaker 2: hey man, listen, don't be throwing any breaking balls. Change up,
18:26
Speaker 2: just start right down the middle. Let's get the hell
18:28
Speaker 2: out of here. I was like, dude, man, so there,
18:30
Speaker 2: I am just coughing up just dudes with just lacing
18:32
Speaker 2: balls everywhere because you were just going to the hosptball.
18:36
Speaker 2: I'm like, Dade, I want to spin a breaking ball.
18:37
Speaker 2: Let's go. It's been forever, let's go. So you ruined
18:39
Speaker 2: it for me that way. Oh yeah, it's all my fault.
18:41
Speaker 4: But but you know why I did that because the
18:43
Speaker 4: year before I did it, and Kevin Gross did it,
18:45
Speaker 4: and he's like he was a big curveball guy and
18:47
Speaker 4: he had to have like arm surgery because he He's like,
18:50
Speaker 4: I couldn't he blew his arm out the year before.
18:54
Speaker 4: So I was like, dude, just lob it in there.
18:56
Speaker 4: Let's get the hell out of here. You wanted to
18:58
Speaker 4: go full like sliders on everybody.
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Speaker 2: Dude. I was waiting for, like you know, like in
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Speaker 2: spring Train this I roll it. I just just kept
19:04
Speaker 2: crushing balls, and there was a popple. I was like,
19:07
Speaker 2: what's his name, collos Pen You dropped us like a
19:09
Speaker 2: bullock for the third out, and I'm like, dude, I
19:12
Speaker 2: can't stay out here. Can we just roll this inning,
19:14
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't roll it, so I just had to
19:15
Speaker 2: keep just coughing it up. It was brutal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, c AJ had your back. He was trying to
19:20
Speaker 1: look out for you and for any potential future surgeries
19:23
Speaker 1: that you'd avoid. But anyway, Ryan, this was awesome man.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for catching up with us. Great
19:28
Speaker 1: to see you have fun calling obviously all the action
19:31
Speaker 1: here and keeping track of what the m's are doing.
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Speaker 1: It's a fun follow right now. Good to talk to
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Speaker 1: you man, appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Thanks guys,