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Milwaukee Brewers 2026 Season Preview + POBO Matt Arnold and P Kyle Harrison join FT @Brewers camp · Foul Territory

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: You know a j The Brewers do have a back
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  Speaker 1: to back champ for Manager of the Year but also
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: for Executive of the Year. And you're sitting next to
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  Speaker 1: the great Matt Arnold right now.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna get on about. I didn't
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: even know that he won those awards until I pulled
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  Speaker 3: up his wiki page. So I thought that he'd be
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: like Murph, carrying the awards around with him everywhere. But
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: he doesn't even have a quarter zip on, so how
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  Speaker 3: can we expect him to to win a third one?
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  Speaker 4: It's tough, man, I mean, if you got is that
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  Speaker 4: the quarter you gotta wear the quarters if to get
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  Speaker 4: an award, I don't know you to be a GM
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  Speaker 4: you have Oh yeah, I got plenty of I got
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of those.
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  Speaker 5: I got plenty of those. It's a little warmer today.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to go with something a little thinner,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't sporty. Yeah, a little sporty. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sporty. No, I mean that's not I'm not an athlete. No,
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  Speaker 4: I try.
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  Speaker 2: But the best shape of your life.
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  Speaker 4: I know, coming to most people coming to camp in
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  Speaker 4: the best airline I'm probably in the worst my life. No,
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing all right. Well, yeah, we play a little
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  Speaker 4: pickleball with the guys and staff coaches for front office.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: I call like our front office group is kind of
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  Speaker 4: the G League a little bit like when we play
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  Speaker 4: together and then we get the coaches involved, and that's
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  Speaker 4: that's the NBA.
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  Speaker 5: So we have those guys are really good.
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  Speaker 4: Who's the best, oh Man, probably somewhere between Matt Erickson
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  Speaker 4: and Jason Lane. Those guys are. Those guys are both exceptional.
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  Speaker 4: So and I love playing with him. To keep you humble,
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  Speaker 4: Layer's really good, Lefty with some with thunder, It's it's good.
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  Speaker 5: He's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a blue bit over the net guy or
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: you I.
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  Speaker 4: Got a little I got a little hammer. But it's uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's a it's a it's a mixed bag. I just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm not consistent enough. Like, those guys are
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  Speaker 4: really good, and I just love to play. It's like
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  Speaker 4: whiffle ball, you know, It's just so much fun and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's it's way better than being on a treadmill,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So I love it.
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  Speaker 6: Murph calls you guys the Ivory Tower. Is that a?
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  Speaker 7: Is that a derogative term that you prefer not to use.
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  Speaker 7: Or is your pickleball name the Ivory Tower.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have any pickleball name. Uh, but no, I
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  Speaker 4: I don't look I mean, I I think it's uh Murph.
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  Speaker 4: Murphy has all kinds of nicknames for everybody, and usually
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  Speaker 4: they have a double meaning, so that can be fun
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  Speaker 4: depending on what he's he's saying, and maybe there's an
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  Speaker 4: underlying meaning to to to things. But no, he's he's
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  Speaker 4: got nicknames for all of us. Man, and he comes
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  Speaker 4: at you and and he he wants to keep you humble.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the most important thing with with Murph
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  Speaker 4: is uh coming to work every day, working hard, being
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  Speaker 4: about the team, you know, and all the great things
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  Speaker 4: that he brings. And I love working with him.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, is that why you weren't at his
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  Speaker 3: award when he got his second manager? Were you too
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  Speaker 3: busy a playing pickleball or be accepting your award?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, none of that.
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  Speaker 4: So last year, if you remember the year before, I
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  Speaker 4: I gave the speech to it to announce his award.
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  Speaker 4: This year, this year we had we had all those
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: cancelations with the weather, so like all of our flights
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: got canceled going to New York. I mean they canceled
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  Speaker 4: all of our flights going going in and out of
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  Speaker 4: New York.
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  Speaker 5: It was a mess.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going that good man. We got to come
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  Speaker 4: on a few more games to get there, but that
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  Speaker 4: was okay.
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  Speaker 5: We had a good year.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't want to my speech. Is that what happened?
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  Speaker 5: I would love to hear your speech always. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I would always.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to had flights booked and everything. We were
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  Speaker 4: going to go, but we didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Uh it.
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  Speaker 3: We need to call mister Antonosio and figure out the
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  Speaker 3: PJ situation.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you can make that phone call on.
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  Speaker 1: The show was streaming on Foul Territory Lives, so he
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  Speaker 1: was able to catch it. There, no big deal.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't matched.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there you go. We provided the live stream
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  Speaker 1: question for you just because AJ mentioned and joked about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever asked front office exact this.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on best shape of his life?
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  Speaker 1: When you hear that, when you see that in an article,
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean to you? And how often does
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  Speaker 1: that actually mean anything? In the grand scheme? Obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: want your players to be in shape, but best shape
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  Speaker 1: of your life first couple of weeks of camp seems
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of a running joke these days.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, it's funny. Like I think back in the day,
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  Speaker 4: you heard it all the time. You know, guys would
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  Speaker 4: come in and say, I'm in the best shape of
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  Speaker 4: my life. I think now we can actually measure a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more of that, and so guys are guys
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  Speaker 4: are coming in with intake and the physical process, and
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  Speaker 4: so you can kind of get a better sense of
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  Speaker 4: what that looks like from guys coming in. So if
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  Speaker 4: they're if they say they're in the best shape of life,
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  Speaker 4: you can actually tell if they are, because we try
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  Speaker 4: to get baselines on guys coming in and out of camp.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm certainly not at that point that
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  Speaker 4: nobody wants to see.
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  Speaker 3: That is your intake. You get on the scale with
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  Speaker 3: the little handles. It gives you your body mask.
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  Speaker 4: Wygo, you know, a little marbled meat. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it's not. You don't want front office. You don't
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  Speaker 4: want the most delicious delicious.
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  Speaker 2: And it is the most expensive.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: You guys had an interesting offseason and you're you're in
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  Speaker 3: charge of what happens. How hard is it to trade
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  Speaker 3: a Freddy Peralta, How hard is it to trade Durbin?
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  Speaker 3: How hard are the he's moved to Megan? And how
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: far in front of things do you have to stay
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  Speaker 3: as the Milwaukee Brewers to win ninety seven games again
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  Speaker 3: like you guys did last year?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Really tough.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you move guys like that that mean a
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  Speaker 4: lot to the franchise, mean a lot to the room.
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  Speaker 4: You know, don't take that lightly at all. We've had
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  Speaker 4: to do this for a number of years here with
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  Speaker 4: Devin Williams and Corbyn Burns, Josh Hater, etcetera. Like those
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  Speaker 4: are really hard, hard on the franchise. And I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we have a great support group. I think
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  Speaker 4: around to try to insulate ourselves with good coaches and
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  Speaker 4: good you know, obviously good character guys that we have
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  Speaker 4: in the room. And I think a lot of times
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  Speaker 4: when you make those kind of moves, it's also saying
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  Speaker 4: we want to bet on the people that are still here.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's not anything against the people that are leaving,
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  Speaker 4: but we really want to do what we can to
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  Speaker 4: bet on the people in the room and then also
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  Speaker 4: bring in talent to help us win now and tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And that's always the balance that we're trying
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  Speaker 4: to to. We're trying to walk that line every single
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  Speaker 4: day here with the Brewers.
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  Speaker 7: When I look at when I looked at the team
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  Speaker 7: going into about three weeks ago, I said, this was
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  Speaker 7: the year that since twenty eighteen when I was there,
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  Speaker 7: it's like this team is always there, always there, always there.
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  Speaker 7: Do you guys look when you do your projections and
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  Speaker 7: say what would it mean to this team and could
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  Speaker 7: we be a World Series champion if we were to
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  Speaker 7: add a Trek schoobl if we were to add a
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  Speaker 7: one year piece instead of losing the one year piece.
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  Speaker 7: Do you guys make those projections and say no, it'll
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  Speaker 7: never happen, or you just say no, we're not going
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  Speaker 7: to waste our time with an exercise like that that
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  Speaker 7: could put us back three or four years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Krasy, I think that's a great question.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we've done that in a lot of cases.
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  Speaker 4: I mean going back to Yasmani Grendal and even this
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  Speaker 4: year of bringing back somebody like Brandon Woodruff as the
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  Speaker 4: highest aav of any pitcher that we've ever had in
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  Speaker 4: this franchise. You know, I mean to have the support
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  Speaker 4: from our ownership to bring back somebody like what do
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  Speaker 4: you mean so much to our franchise and our room
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  Speaker 4: and the huge games that he's pitched in that really
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  Speaker 4: means a lot, you know. So we have gone out,
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  Speaker 4: Mike Mustak. We we've bringing brought in a number of
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  Speaker 4: those types of guys. We just can't do it all
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  Speaker 4: the time, but we've had great support to do so
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  Speaker 4: over the years, and and you know, when the time
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  Speaker 4: is right, you know, we felt like the time was
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  Speaker 4: right with with Brandon Woodruff and we're we couldn't be
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  Speaker 4: more thrilled to have Woody back in our in our
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  Speaker 4: mix here.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, krats as bad at you. Why because
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  Speaker 3: when you brought Grandell and you had to fire him.
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  Speaker 3: So he oh he still has yeah, still has feelings
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, I still love you, Cratsy. I mean, come on, man,
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  Speaker 4: come on, we loved having you here, so you're always welcome.
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  Speaker 6: Not enough, not enough. I could have been there, We
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  Speaker 6: could have been somebody.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go. We were somebody. A great run man,
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  Speaker 5: you get hey.
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  Speaker 7: Huge in nineteen. I'll never forget. I'll never forget. It's
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  Speaker 7: totally off topic. We've talked about grand All. When they
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  Speaker 7: brought grand All in it's spring training. I was walking
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  Speaker 7: by it counts, goes Craig. Council goes, well, you know what,
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  Speaker 7: the catcher has to bat four times a game too,
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  Speaker 7: so I feel like this is a good upgrade.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, well, the catcher doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a bad four times. They can get pinch it for
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  Speaker 3: their second at bat, maybe cratzy, depending on how the
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  Speaker 3: game's going. I don't know what that was like for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of my time, but I used to have
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  Speaker 3: to be the guy would have to pinch it for
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  Speaker 3: the other guy.
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  Speaker 7: Yep, seventh thinning, you're gone. You had too bad at batch,
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  Speaker 7: You're out of the game.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: To say you, Hey, Matt, I have a question for you.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: We had the you know on and off because the
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: reporters are good at getting as much info as possible.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Conversations with are they going to trade Freddie p or not?
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  Speaker 1: So what is that communication like with you and Freddie
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  Speaker 1: and with the agent where it's like, I think you're good,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: maybe not. Things are picking up again because I'm sure
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: you don't want to just constantly be making phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: But Also, this is the guy who has earned respective
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: the org been there for a while, and you want
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: to be as communicative as possible, especially as you get
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  Speaker 1: closer to spring training and he's gonna suddenly be in
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Florida instead of Arizona.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no question. Freddie and I had a great relationship.
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  Speaker 4: I've known him since he was nineteen eighteen years old
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  Speaker 4: when we first got him, and always tried to keep
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  Speaker 4: the line of communications open with him and his agent,
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  Speaker 4: Seth Lovinson, and so we have really good relationships with
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  Speaker 4: those guys. Tried to be very open and honest, and
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  Speaker 4: it was a two way street, you know, just making
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  Speaker 4: sure we're on the same page and what's going on,
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  Speaker 4: what's happening, and trying to make sure that we kept
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: him in the loop. I think the worst thing to
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: do is surprise people on these types of things, and
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: just having those conversations, being open and honest with your guys.
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  Speaker 4: Having that kind of culture here something that really really
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  Speaker 4: matters to me certainly. And I love Freddy to death.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: I was talking to David Stearns yesterday about him, and
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: it sounds like he's doing great over there, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: a huge Freddie Perulta fan. I hope he has a
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: great season, a great career, nothing but the best. Wish
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: nothing about the best for Freddy.
• 9:52
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  Speaker 7: I think when gms say that sometimes I feel like
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  Speaker 7: it's eye wash with Matt Arnold, with David Stearns before you.
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  Speaker 7: It's not eye wash. It's actually honest. The communication is
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  Speaker 7: there and you guys care about the communication. But my
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  Speaker 7: question is on Freddie p Corbyn, Burns, Josh Hater and
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  Speaker 7: Devin Williams, which one was the toughest communication because of
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  Speaker 7: anything that happened, because of how it was going with
• 12:31
  Speaker 7: not necessarily like oh man, you know, it's a tough
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  Speaker 7: relationship and each relationship is unique. But of those the
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: big guys that have been traded recently, which one was
• 12:40
  Speaker 7: the toughest to communicate too in the sense of like,
• 12:44
  Speaker 7: you know, ah, man, like got close to this guy.
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  Speaker 7: This was at the beginning of my tenure. You were
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  Speaker 7: assistant GM during a couple during one of those trades.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, I mean I think it's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're all they're all different, they're all challenging
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  Speaker 4: in their own ways. I think probably the hater one
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  Speaker 4: just because it happened in season. You know, the others
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  Speaker 4: were were more in the off season. And when you
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: do something like that with your closer in season, I
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: totally understand, you know, the ramifications around that and how
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: challenging that can be to digest for everyone, for our fans,
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  Speaker 4: for our clubhouse, for our front office, like everybody. I
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: think that's those are certainly challenging, But you know, you're
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  Speaker 4: able to zoom out a little bit and sort of
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: understand what that what that pain looks like. And fast forward.
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  Speaker 4: Now you have somebody like like William Petreras in the
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  Speaker 4: in the clubhouse, you know, and and couldn't be more
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  Speaker 4: thrilled to have that guy. He's been a warrior for
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  Speaker 4: us for a lot of years. And so again it's
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  Speaker 4: just the finding that right balance. But the you know,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: going through those processes, especially in season, are certainly challenging.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Matt, why do some of the trades take so
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: damn long? This is the question from fans. Sometimes they're
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: like it finally happens in late January, or even we
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: just saw the Durbin deal in February. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with other moves
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  Speaker 1: like free agents finding a home and then teams jump
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  Speaker 1: back into the trade well, or is it, Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: have a conversation with some teams, feel like we want
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: this next tier prospect that we're looking for, and finally
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: it comes around at that point, Like, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think is one of the biggest reasons why the stall
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: happens from November December up until close to spring training.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, some of it's probably just deadlines, right, Like
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: deadlines are powerful in this game, and so when you
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  Speaker 4: have team you know, moments where you're about to report
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: to camp, or you're you're about to start the season,
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  Speaker 4: or there's a trade deadline like those, those deadlines are
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: impactful to speed up conversations, you know. But but ultimately
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: you know they're they're all different and unique, and you're
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: always one phone call away. You know, you can feel
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: like you're far apart, and then you know one phone
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: call can change that, you know, And then so you're
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: layering in that conversation you're having with the other team,
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: but then at the same time you're also talking to
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: the rest of the market and seeing what happens and
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: things can emerge. Maybe there's an injury, or there's a
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: situation where somebody else makes a trade and there's a
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: need there and somebody else emerges that was that was
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: in the mix that you didn't an dipate, And you
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: just want to be thorough, you know, And so I
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: don't know if we you know, you don't want to
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: miss out on anything and move too fast, but you
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: want to miss you know, move too slow and also
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: miss out on something either. So it's just trying to
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: find that right balance and and do what's best really
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: for both sides.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: You know. I think when you you make.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: A trade, whether it's a Durban trade or a Freddi
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Peerult trade, like hopefully works out for both sides.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: I think that's they're getting good players, you know. There's
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: when you're getting a guy like Caleb Durban, who meant
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: a lot to our franchise. The Red Sox are getting
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: a really good play there, and we hope we are
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: as well, you know, with with Harrison and Johann and Hamilton,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Like we're really happy with those guys. And again, I
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: just hope when you're making good deals with with teams
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: that works out for both sides.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: We had price on.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: We already talked to Bryce, We've already talked to sal
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: We've already talked to miss.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Any extensions in the.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Future, always open, Yeah, I mean you well, I mean
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: it's a two way street. I mean we can reach
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: out for sure. I mean, let's we can go on
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: a little walk and talk. I'm an agent, that's up
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: to you, that's coming from them, So you can negotiate
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: that one if you want. But no, we we love
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: those guys and and uh obviously we've done that with
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: a number of players here, and certainly always open to
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: having those kind of conversations.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Okay, I mean always open to having the coma.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: That's fine, that's fine, that's GM speak one on one
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: right there. Last thing for the Rays. You were a
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: raised guy. You have Sterns you mentioned was a raised guy.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Freedman was a raised guy. Brandon Gomes and the Dodgers
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: was a raised pitcher. What do the Rays do because
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: there's they're just raised people. Him Bloom is a raised guy.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: They are just spread out throughout the league.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: What are the Rays do? Because every team wants to
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: be the race.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, it's it's had a lot of really
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: good people, you know, And I think it starts with people.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: That's that's the thing we've tried to do here more
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: than anything else. It's it's just have good people, whether
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: that's in the clubhouse or the front office. And I
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: think like just partnering with guys like Eric Neander and
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: him and James and Andrew and Matt Silverman and so
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: many people there that I was fortunate to partner with
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: for for many years really helped me get better. And
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I think we were able to challenge each other and
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: and and learn from each other. We all had kind
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: of different strengths and weaknesses. And a partner with those guys,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: you know, I consider them some of my best friends,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: you know, And I really care about him and I
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: really enjoyed partnering with him.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Does make it easier to make trades when you worked
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: with them.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: All sometimes you know, and sometimes they you know, they'll uh,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: they know they know how you you negotiate sometimes because
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: and we know how they negotiate, and so you can
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: kind of figure out quickly, but you can get right
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: to it and the conversations are obviously really natural with
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: those types of guys, so they're they're great to work.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So it was Freedman like the godfather of all of you.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: It's kinda I mean, I don't know. I don't don't
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: tell him that, but well we had him on the
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: other day, so clear. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's he's
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: kind of graduated in the clouds now and he's like
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: doing stuff for the Lakers, and I don't know, he
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: didn't come to media day, like I don't know, he's
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: he's a little big, don't know, he's changed a little bit. Yeah,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I've shared this with him. This is not Yeah, when
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: you win World Series.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I get it. Yeah, I get it us.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Plus I'm not bringing up the series with you all
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: last year, so we'll just skip that. He has a
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: little bit of uh.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Sure clout right now a little bit. Yeah, he does,
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: wait and well deserved. He's great. He's really.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It's good one nerdy stack craction because that's what I
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: do here. I don't think Stearns was in the raised tree.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you guys know each other, but no,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: no work there, right, So yeah, my.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Partnered partnered here uh in Milwaukee for the first time
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: and he's great. I mean, he's as good as it gets.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: You talk about eight plus people and like always super
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: well prepared, just the best in the business. I really
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: really love working with David.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Well Matt awesome to catch up with you. Really appreciate
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the time. Thank you for joining us. Good luck this season.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Thank you guys, appreciate you having me.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Were season previewing the Milwaukee Brewers. They won the most
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: games in Major League Baseball last year. We're going to
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: go through a roller coaster right now, are you ready.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: We're going to do additions and subtractions, but we're going
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to keep reminding everyone how good this team was last year.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: They are going to be missing significant pieces. So let's
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: look at the fact that Freddy peralta top of the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: rotation out of the mix right side first, Okay, Caleb Durgan,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Durbin moving on to the Red Sox, Mears and Collins
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in that Royals deal. Also Monasterio in the deal with
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Durban and Rhys Hoskins ends up signing with the Guardians.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: On the left side of the screen. They do add arms.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: They like Kyle Harrison a lot. You'll hear from him
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: later on the show. Angel Zerpa. They like him a
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: lot as well. Gary Sanchez is back, Luis ran Hifo
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to play all over the diamond. So Kratz, you're a
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: former Brewer. I feel like we go over this every year.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: They do not get a lot of hype from projections.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think they get a lot of hype from media.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think they get a lot of hype from odds.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Bet MGM has them at eighty four and a half wins.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Fangrafts has them at eighty two wins. You pointed something
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: out to me today. I think it was you. Actually, no,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it was producer Lady. The Pittsburgh Pirates are projected for
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: one more win than the Milwaukee Brewers in twenty twenty six.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Is that possible or a disaster prediction by Fangrafts.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean anything's possible. But to me, it's about
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: did the Brewers overplay? Were they not seventy nine wins
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: good last year?
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: No?
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: They were.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: They figured out how to win games. I don't buy
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: into the buy into the playoff teams, regular season teams,
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: all that stuff. As much as you know we talk
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: about it, I think they figure out how to win games.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: I think they figure out how to play as much
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: as you can in this game without an ego. And
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: I don't think the Pirates are better than them because
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: of the experience that they are returning, because of the
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: fact that I don't know what Connor Griffin's gonna be
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: cam Paul Schemes. You know, are they gonna score enough
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: runs for Paul Schemes to have another cy young year?
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: Well he didn't need it last year, So does it
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: automatically give them more wins? I think the Brewers are
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: a better team than the Pirates, but I don't think
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: they are much better than what the projections are. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: think they could be, they could be a little bit
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: above five hundred, and I think it's a little short
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: of the playoffs where where they could be because of
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: what Freddy Peralta brought to this rotation and to the bullpen, I.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Think that, uh, I think they're I think they're gonna
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: be still over five hundred. I'm never going to sell
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: these Brewers short every year. This is the year they're
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: gonna fall off until then, I actually see it with
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: my own eyes. There's a reason why they traded away.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, they trade them on the sterio and they
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: got Rinhifa, right, so they're kind of maybe up that
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: a little bit. They made some moves and every time
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: we question what are they doing, what are they doing? Well,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: they have Woody Big Wou Woodriff coming back, right, they
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: get Sprot, they get Harrison. There's a reason why they
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: went out and traded for these guys. And they always
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: seem to be trying to stay ahead of this curve
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: of when they're gonna start in the downcycle. And they've
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: done a really good job of being ahead of this curve.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: And remember, they lost Hater. Oh, the world is ending.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: They lost Devin Williams. The world is ending. They lost
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Corbn Burns. The world is ending. They lost Willia Domas.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: The world is ending. Now it's Freddy for now, it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Freddy Peralta, and it's Durvin right, the world is ending. Well,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: the Brewers just believe in themselves. Murph has an unbelievable
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: way of talking to these guys and getting to believe.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: So listen, I.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Think they're an eighty for eighty six win team the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: way they're constructed. And do I think the Pirates are
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: better than them?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: No? Do I like what the Pirates did? Yes?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: But I still think until someone should approves it to me,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna bet against the Brewers. I made too
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: many mistakes doing in the past.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: I mean they got rid of Isaac Collins and Durbin,
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: two guys that were three and four in Rookie of
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: the Year voting. Would they have gotten any votes for
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: MVP or anything. No, But if you look back to
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty four when they picked up Joey Ortiz, Joey
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Ortiz was I think I would have to look it up,
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: but I think he was a he was almost a
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: three war player. He had a drop off in the
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: season last year for twenty twenty five as the essentially
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: he was their shortstop and he had a drop off.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: So it's not like everybody just has career years. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: for them to have a good season, not everybody has
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: to have a career year. Everybody has to contribute though,
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: And I think when I when I look at their
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: projected lineup, when I look at their projected rotation, I
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: see it being top heavy. And I think the one
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: thing that Murph talks about is do something to help
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: the team win. It's you know, people will say, oh,
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: it's a college type of thing. And Murph kind of
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: bristles at that, but it really is a mentality of
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: what are you going to do to help the team win,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: because in pro ball it sometimes is rare because you
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: look at a Garrett Mitchell who's been injury laid, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: you look at a South Freelick towards the bottom of
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: their lineup. How do you get paid? Home runs? You know, RBIs,
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: stole bases, all that stuff is what ends up getting
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: you paid. They are bought into what it takes for
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: this team to win. When I say they're top heavy,
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: this lineup, Jackson Churio, Bryce Terrang, William Contrere's Christian Yelich,
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: they all have to have above average years. They all
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: they are the guys who drive their team just like
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: any other team. Their names aren't as big. Bryce Terrang,
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: I think was fourteenth in the MVP voting, and those
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: guys have to continue to produce at that level for
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: this team to be able to withstand the I don't
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: know what's gonna happen if we call up Jet Williams,
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: is Joey or Tiz a big league shortstop, like all
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: those things have to get figured out. And they do
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: have that top of the order and top of the
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: rotation pieces that are almost like like, you can't they
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: can't miss. You can't have a bad year from those guys,
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: and expect this team to get over those projected wins.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Also, you said RBIs get you paid. Those don't get
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you paid. But you're saying, you know the personal stats
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and arbitration. Sure, some of the personal stats get pushed
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: aside with a team like this, and Pat Murphy has
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this unique ability to create more team baseball. It's not
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: an old school versus new school thing, at least not
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: in my mind. AJ. It's a selfish versus self liss thing.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes you look at a team and you're like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it's not all clicking together. And last year with the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Brewers offense, you were like, this isn't full of superstars,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but it's all clicking together. And then if you can
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: just maintain level and stay in the five hundred range,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you get one pop where you get hot and all
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you win ten in a row or
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: whatever they did. It was a lot and boom, you blink,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you're a ninety seven win team.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that the way murph Ron's this team,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: we've talked about this, and he doesn't love this comparison.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: That's why I like bringing it up to him is
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: he runs it like he was a to the college
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: coach a little bit. It's a little bit smaller ball.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: It's a little bit we're gonna take the extra base,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: we're gonna play great defense, and we're just gonna out
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: fundamental a lot of teams. And they can win a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: lot of games like that, and they've proven that fact.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: And I love that way to play because there's action,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: there's excitement, there's pressure on the other teams, and m listen.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Murph just does a great job of getting everyone to
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: come together. He's a leader of men. He's funny, he's quirky,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: he's all those things that Murph is. But at the
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: end of the day, this guy is a leader of
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: men and he knows how to push the right buttons.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And with that, I think the Brewers will be good
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and I think they will be better than the Pirates.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: They also have a good farm system. Pirates too too,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: but Bruce have a good farm system. It was a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: little bit of an issue for them like five years ago,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and they've really built something up and they continue to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: get stronger on the young core department too. We'll see
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: how Brandon's Sprote and Jet Williams look like in the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta deal. So I think the Burers are going
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to be a pain. Are they going to win ninety
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: seven games?
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Probably not?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: But could they win eighty six? They win eighty eight?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Could they win the division? Absolutely? Could they make a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: playoff spot?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Could they just miss the playoffs because the Cubs got
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: better and some other teams in the division got better.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Reds have a full run of a year.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Sure that could be the case too. We have one
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of the newest Milwaukee Brewers, Kyle Harrison, is here. Kyle,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: great to have you on the show and tell us
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: about the whole process here because it happened pretty late.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: You're probably like, here we go getting ready Red Sox
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: spring training. Oh wait, I'm going to Arizona.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Right, No, one hundred percent.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: You know, was out there in Fort Myers for a
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: week early and got out there early. You know, was
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: you know, trying to go out there, and yeah, I
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: couldn't make it through the physical I guess, you know. So,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: uh No, I'm like, like we were talking about earlier,
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: just happy to be back in Arizona. Man, and no
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: man pump for this opportunity.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: You have no idea how good spring training is in Florida,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: though I don't.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I don't, I know.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: So you almost got to go to God's Country for
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a while for about seven weeks, and you have no
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: idea what how much it's how cool it is to
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: have like beaches and shakes and water and trees and
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: all these cool things that they don't have in Arizona.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Now that now the travel is better in Arizona, right,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: So I'll give you guys that, but you know, Florida's.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Oh trust me, I was looking forward to it would
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: actually you.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Would have sweated when you're pitching out in Florida. We've
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: been all these crazy things. You live here, so it
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: obviously is better for you to be here. And I
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: try to explain this all the time, explain how important
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: those extra six to seven weeks are just at home.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I didn't even realize that. It's funny
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: you say that.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: You know, the off season just felt a little shorter
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: because you know, I've been out here, you know, for
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: spring training for what four or five spring trainings now,
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: and yeah, just you know that two months kind of
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: extra two months is huge. You know, they able to
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: sleep at home and recover, you know at home.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: You know, it's awesome. Man. So uh, that's the biggest thing.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: I'm just happy to be in a familiar place and
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: a little bit of a commute in the morning.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: But not too bad.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: You were already out you said, you're already out in
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Fort Misery for a week. Correct, that's what you just said.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny you call it that. I've heard that
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: only a couple of times.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Okay, well only the people that well, you were in
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: the good side of Fort Myers, the Twins side of
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Fort Myers. That's fort that's Fort Misery.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: There.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: You go, take us through.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Take take the fans through before we get into your stuff.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: Take the fans through what it is like. You're out there,
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: you have an apartment getting everything back out to Arizona.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I know you live here, but it's not like, oh cool,
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: get my glove, I'll get my cleats, and I'll just
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: stroll onto the plane.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: Like there's more than that.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: The team has to cover your apartment that's out in Florida.
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: Correct, one hundred percent, you know, and I'm lucky enough.
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: I know a great guy over there, Cutter Crawford, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: I was living out of his place, so it made
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: the transaction a little easier over there. So yeah, man,
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: but like you said it, you know, it was like
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: got the rental car all figured out out there and
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: then uh, you know, it's just a lot of moving pieces.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: And yeah, it was was back the Arizona the next
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: day and here we go again, you know.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: Just ready to go exactly.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: You don't have had, you don't have a family, just
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: a girlfriend and yeah, it's very very to do everything right.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: She takes care of a lot of it. So yeah,
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, you know, like you're transuming. Krats is
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: like twelve kids.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah he got traded, he got he had to transport
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: like twelve kids back and forth. Oh yeah, so it's
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: a little bit different. What did you think when you
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: got traded? Because it's already your second time being traded.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: It's not like you're an old old guy, right, Yeah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: you know, it's crazy it's twice and for some big
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: name guys, yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: For sure, in a short amount of time too, you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: the two teams. But you know, for me, it's just
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: you know, after that first one. Like I've been telling
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: everyone earlier, it's like, yeah, I knew everyone in San
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Francisco very well, and that was more of the shock,
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: you know. But you know, we didn't really get my
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: feet settled into Boston. So it's you know, once it
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: happens once, you know, Man, I'm like, you know, it's
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: baseball at the end of the day, and I'm ready
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: to just get the ball and go compete.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Man. That's it. That's all you got to look at it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: So you so you played in the PCL, the Pacific
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: Coast League and the IL.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: We talked about travel before.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously it's the minor leagues. But were you ever
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: able to get your feet under you making that transition
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: you changed an entire new league.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: You obviously want to be in the big leagues.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: You know, you have the pressure of being a centerpiece
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: for the Raffie Devers trade, all of that going on.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: How could you have made it or how could the
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: team have made that transition easier for you?
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's a tough question.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: You know, I personally enjoyed my my experience over in
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Boston because I got to try new stuff. Man, you know,
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: I got to experience experiment with the cutter. You know,
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: it didn't go go too well down to Worcester there
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: a little bit kind of throw it for a strike
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: for a little bit there, but got the experiment with
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: that a new change up as well and throwing a
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: sinker to lefties. So I think by the time there
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: was honestly cool. They just kind of learned new things,
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: take different things from different guys and the coaches that
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: were great to me. So no, man, it was just
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: taking what I could from there and then now applying
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: it to my game now and just seeing how I
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: could grow day by day.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: What is the tinkering balance? Like when you're with the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: new team like Boston, they probably come to you, like
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: you said, with some ideas. You want to try it out,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: but you also want to put up numbers, you want
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to perform. And then now you head to Milwaukee here
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and did they have some information or some conversation with
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you about anything different and how you balance that with
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: performance on the field.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I'd say, you know, when I got here,
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: you know, it's a very very chill environment. You know,
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: they kind of let you run the show. You know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: hookies out there watching you every day, he's on you
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: during catch play and holding you accountable. So it's just
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: been little talks here and there, you know, worrying about
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: the arsenal stuff later as I get into games more
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: and more or and no, man, you know, it's just
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: there's still a lot of confidence in here and I've
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: I've sensed nothing but great thanks from these guys, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: I'm just excited to get better each and every day here.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Man. It's it's a great organization and I'm just happy
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: to be here.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: What do you think they do different here?
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: Sorry, I don't know, man, It's it's hard to say,
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: you know, just because I've only been here for what
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: a week and a half, so, but I'd say just
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: the attention, the detail to everything, you know, catch play.
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: You know, I was telling Hooky, you know, I'm like,
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: I haven't worked this hard and catch play in my
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: you know, five years I've been a pro ball and
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: it's just little stuff, you know, an external cue.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: To play catch?
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Do you know they answer that question play catch.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Because you're not supposed to play.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: You're supposed to have a catch.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, it's called catch play.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: It's a catch play, you know, it's it's uh, you know,
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: it translates to the mound, you know, and that's what
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: you know. It's crazy that's taken me this long. Toy
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: kind of realize that. But you gotta treat every day,
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: you know, like you're just working hard man, you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: that's it. And you know they're looking at my external hughes,
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: you know, setting up cones, you know, in front of
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: a home plate to just keep me in line, you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: keep everything in there. So just a lot of different
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: stuff that I'm trying. And it's cool, man, it's cool experiment.
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: And yeah, these guys are great.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: You haven't been there very long. What's the one thing
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: you constantly keep hearing? You talked about catch play, talked
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: about the work. What's the one thing that's a constant
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: that you're hearing throughout from Matt Arnold when he traded
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: for you to Murph, to Hooky, the pitching coach, all
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: that stuff.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that we don't I mean honestly that we don't care.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: We just we want to work hard.
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: And you know, standings, projections, all that stuff. You know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: we don't care about that stuff, you know, And that's
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: something I've I've felt and it's just about the work
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: each and every day. And we work hard here man,
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: and it's it's cool to see.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Does Murph I have a nickname for you yet?
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Not yet?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: You know, does he know your name? Does he call
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you by the proper name?
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: He does?
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: He does every everybody he calls by something, right, So
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: you haven't gotten to that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I haven't gotten to that point yet.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: You know. I got him a little cup of ice
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: the other day. You know, I was, I was shaking
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: a little bit. It was down in the dugout. He
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: was asking me. You know, hey, you've been in big
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: leagues before, right, you could fill me up so someone
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: can find some ice. And I'm over there over thinking
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: the world of it. So I think he's gonna have
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: some fun with me for sure.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, did you grow up a Giants fan because you
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: grew up in the Bay Area?
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: No, I wasn't really a Giants my fan, because you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: we just go to the A's games right there, you know,
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: little little tailgate play catch. You know, it's a couple
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: of glizzies. I mean, walk down behind home plate, get
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: the bleacher. Growing up going to those games.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: So then it didn't break your heart that much when
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: you got traded from the Giants.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Not too bad, you know, just the relationships.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: No man, no man. Obviously that was a team that
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: drafted me.
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: Being home was awesome, but no man, this, as you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: baseball season consumes you anyway, So it's it's baseball.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Well, since your as I was thinking of, you're a
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Giants fan, your family could have talked about the legend
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: that was me as of San Francisco Giants. They did
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: retire my jersey.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Ye, my dad was a Giants fan. I'll give you that.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: So yeah, sure, so just make sure you're reminded them
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: that you met a guy who's retired by the Giants.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I will let him hold out and then you.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: What real quick while we're on that, because you know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: we don't talk to a ton of players and necessarily
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: grew up in the area and we're going to A's games.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: Did you did it.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Break your heart when you saw that the team left
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: and they're in Sacramento now, but obviously they're going to Vegas.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think oh.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, minor leagues. I mean last year to Sacramento.
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: So yeah, man, you know, just yeah, I definitely playing
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: that last game there with the Giants.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: I didn't pitch in it, but I was sitting.
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: That was my first time playing a game there in
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: the dugout and just standing up in that dugout, I
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: was like looking up at the you know, second deck.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: It was only a second deck.
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: I was used to seeing third decks, and I'm like, yeah,
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: I'm going to miss this place, man, just this is
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: where you know, I grew up going to games. My
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: brother was the biggest Coco Crisp fan. So yeah, man,
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: you know, it was just an awesome spot and for
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: sure gonna miss it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Then when you went to the Red Sox, didn't Coco
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Chris get in a fight with the Red Sox when
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: he was with the Red Sox or against the Red Sox?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Which one was it?
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: Which one was it?
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: He was with the Red Sox. He went after James
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Shields right yeah, yeah with the race.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: So when you then you.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Became a Red Sox where you're like, i know, put
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: the same uniform on as Coco Cris.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my brother definitely was probably high.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. You grew up it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: You went to day LaSalle High School? Yep, disappointed my dad.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: I didn't play football there yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, what was it like going to
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: a football school.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: It was, uh, you know, it was good, you know,
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: but baseball wasn't far behind. That's what I didn't even
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: like four hundred games in a row. It was like
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: a documentary on Dayla style football. Yep, when the game
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: stands tall and the movie that came out what crap
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: like twenty thirteen, you know, something like that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: So that's some history there.
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: And definitely wanted to have a summer, want to have
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: a future in baseball, I felt like. So I had to,
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: you know, unfortunately not play football there, but couldn't run
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: the vier anyway.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: So if you were a quarterback, would you have been
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: like a dropback?
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: You know, I like to think I had an armed
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: but you know we ran them veer, so you know,
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: we just I wasn't fast enough.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: You can do all the fakes and stuff.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: Well, that wasn't my game, you know. It was more
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: of the drop back a little quick. We left the
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: quarterbacks look weird.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: When do you throw in a game? Here?
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I want to say next at the end of this week.
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: Next week I got to go a little bullpended Day
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: Live VP coming up soon. Two ups, So we'll be
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: in the game here soon.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Are you excited?
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I am? I am?
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: I am a good opportunity here, and just the guys
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: are great. You know, you know how many pitchers you
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: use in the season somewhere of stressing, you know, we're
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: using a lot of guys. So yeah, man, it takes
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: a village to you know, get to the postseason.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: When you face the Giants. Well, I guess you played
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox too. Will there be a little more
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: adrenale for which one? Maybe for the Giants or the
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Red Sox.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: I don't know personally, you know, I just think I
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: think there's gonna be adrenaline every time I go out there, man,
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: I think.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: But you know, there'll be a little there'll be a
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: little more spike for probably for the Giants because they
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: drafted you in trade first, right, you were rolling your
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: retsy for a short time.
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I have no bad feelings, but you know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: you know it as well as a player. You know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: it's just you want to go and improve yourself any time,
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: you know, show them what they're missing to say it, right,
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: you know?
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I like that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Well, Kyle, we really appreciate the time. Great to see you. Yeah,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: welcome to Arizona and we'll talk to you during the year.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Bet I'm Jim Futures. Here's a special ninety plus wins.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Dodgers aren't on here. It's too high. They're not going
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to put them on the board. But it starts with
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the Yankees and Mets at minus one twenty five, Phillies
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: one fifteen to one hundred one hundred, Mariners minus one ten,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and then you get into the plus money teams like
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the Braves and Blue Jays at plus one oh five,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the Cubs at plus one fifteen crafts. Last year, there
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: were eight teams that one ninety are more games? Which
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: one is your favorite from this list.
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: Because of the money and because of the team less
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: things going on around them. The Mariners, I think the
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: Mariners in that division, they did it last year. I
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: think they learned this is what it takes for us
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: to make it to the playoffs. They seem like they're
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: in Oregon that's not afraid to make moves. Obviously signing
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: Nailor and making the two acquisitions, the two big acquisitions.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: It's a trade deadline last year. So I'm gonna go Mariners,
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: because that's who I got coming out of the the
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: American League West Okay, And they're all close here.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: The ones that we're showing between one twenty five minus
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: won twenty five and plus one fifteen. AJ's their team
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: on the board here you feel really good about for
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: ninety plus wins.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Well, the Mariners I picked them to win the AL
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: and the blue Jays. The blue Jays are plus money.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, they won ninety four last year and everyone
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: feels like they got better. So I think the blue
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Jays are another one that should should be up there.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: The Cubs, the division got has gotten better, so that's
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: the one thing I worry about. With the Cubs and
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: the Phillies, I think will probably figure out a way
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: to win ninety games. It's actually surprised to be the
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Yankees and the Mets or the two that have the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: highest odds. Maybe that's just because of where they're located
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: in a little East Coast bias, but I think the
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Mariners and the Blue Jays and me are the two
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: on this list that make the most sense.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Yankees and Mets being the same as kind
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: of wild too. I think the Mets, ceiling wise is
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: just as good as the Yankees, but I think the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: floor is much lower. I think the Yankees floor is
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: much higher than what the Mets have just based on
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: so much roster turnover. But the projections really like the Mets.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: Clearly.
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