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BONUS SHOW: Mick Abel goes to the IL in another blow to the Twins · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, hello, and welcome back to Twins City's territory
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  Speaker 1: for a bonus show here on this Monday, April the twentieth, afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Pierce here with you, editor at the Athletic Joined.
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  Speaker 1: Let me make it at the point that yes, that way,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hayes, our Athletic Minnesota Twins Beat writer Tyler Duffy
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  Speaker 1: has the afternoon off, but we'll be back with us
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  Speaker 1: later this week. We're coming to you for a second
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  Speaker 1: time today because shortly after we published our latest episode
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  Speaker 1: this morning, we got some breaking news from the Twins Beat, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: and what better way to show the world than to
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  Speaker 1: play your tweet. Look at that Twins starter Mick Abel,
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  Speaker 1: who is scheduled to start the series opener against the
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  Speaker 1: New York Mets Tuesday night, is instead headed to the
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  Speaker 1: injured list fifteen day with right elbow inflammation. It's obviously
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  Speaker 1: disappointing news.
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  Speaker 2: Dan.
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  Speaker 1: We spent a good chunk of the show today earlier
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  Speaker 1: today talking about how starting pitching had been the one
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  Speaker 1: bright spot from a weekly sweep against the reds. Abel
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  Speaker 1: did not pitch in that series, but had two great
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  Speaker 1: outings his last few times out coming off a great
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  Speaker 1: one against Boston last time you pitched, so he had
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  Speaker 1: been a real bright spot. The Twins all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden look like they have a wealth of starting pitching,
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  Speaker 1: even in a light of Pablo Lopez's spring training injury.
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  Speaker 1: But now able heads to the il. Twins aren't too
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  Speaker 1: worried about it, though, Dan, what's the latest there in
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  Speaker 1: that situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the ambiguity earlier when we talked about Connor prelib
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  Speaker 2: coming up to the taxi squad and Kendrew Rojas coming
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  Speaker 2: up on what they were going to do. Now we
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit more clarity to it. It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a ten to fifty seven am is
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  Speaker 2: when we got the news and tweeted it out, and
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  Speaker 2: I think I have literally just tweeted out our new
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  Speaker 2: episode a few minutes earlier. So it definitely I'm surprised,
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  Speaker 2: but not surprised just because we knew something was up right,
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  Speaker 2: like the fact that there were two guys coming up.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed a little strange. You're right, the Twins. I
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  Speaker 2: got word from one person in ables camp that they're not.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like it's too serious with the injury.
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  Speaker 2: It's right elbow inflammation for Mickabel, and I got the
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  Speaker 2: Twins to also confirm that a little bit later. So
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  Speaker 2: I guess if there's a silver lining in it. As
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  Speaker 2: Cosmo walks around in the background, I guess if there's
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  Speaker 2: a silver lining in this. Both parties don't seem overly
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  Speaker 2: concerned about mcabel's right elbow inflammation. This is something they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get out in front of We'll get way
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  Speaker 2: more information on this on Tuesday. This is something where
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  Speaker 2: it's an off day. The Twins are in New York.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still at home flying on Tuesday morning, but no
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  Speaker 2: access to them. But I'm guessing that the MRI has
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  Speaker 2: already occurred. This It's been a few days since Makeabele
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  Speaker 2: pitched last Obviously it was gonna pitch Tuesday's opener in
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  Speaker 2: New York. So I would imagine the MRI has occurred.
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  Speaker 2: For them to come out and say it's not too serious,
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  Speaker 2: that is something that you should breathe a sigh of relief.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta tell you, Zach, you won't believe this.
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  Speaker 2: But the reaction online when we said mick Abel has
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  Speaker 2: right elbow information, everyone handled it miraculously. Well, wow, was yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nobody jumped off the hen Bridge nothing like.
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  Speaker 2: There was no fans going crazy over it being facetious
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  Speaker 2: every like I had I already to tweet somebody that
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  Speaker 2: they use their jump to conclusions map because he said,
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  Speaker 2: Tommy John, look, typically this is early. And Cody Laurson
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  Speaker 2: also had the same elbow inflammation and was optimistic last week.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's young guys that know themselves well and
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  Speaker 2: speak up versus pitching through it, which is where you
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  Speaker 2: get into trouble. And it's April and it's cold, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully this is just a scare. The Twins
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  Speaker 2: will be very cautious with Mick Abel There's no question
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  Speaker 2: about that, Like this is a guy that they are
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  Speaker 2: very happy with what they've seen so far. Last thirteen innings,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about him finally getting some good conditioned games.
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  Speaker 2: The weather was good for both those starts. Thirteen innings,
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  Speaker 2: sixteen strikeouts, no runs allowed, Twins win both those games.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's what his potential is. We didn't know if
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  Speaker 2: he was going to reach that when he came over
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  Speaker 2: last year. He struggled a little bit with the Twins.
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  Speaker 2: After the trade. He was in the Joan Durant trade,
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  Speaker 2: first guy from that to come to the majors and
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  Speaker 2: he's definitely got the stuff. He started to show it.
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  Speaker 2: So this is it. It's rough news, there's no question,
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  Speaker 2: because this is a big hit to the rotation. But
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  Speaker 2: it's not season ending news at the moment, and that's
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  Speaker 2: a you know, given the two months ago. It really was.
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  Speaker 2: I was right now two months ago when Pablo Lopez
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  Speaker 2: we found out he was out for the season with
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  Speaker 2: Tommy John needing Tommy John surgery. So if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: you know, comparing it to that, that's it's a much
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  Speaker 2: better place to be. Still is a major hit. The
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  Speaker 2: one part is they like the two pitchers that I
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  Speaker 2: assume we'll see Connor Prelip and Kendrick Rojas on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: They piggybacked in their last outing at Triple A. The
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  Speaker 2: Twins have a TVD for Wednesday, Sam and Woods Richardson
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday. The Twins really like Rojas and Prelip and
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  Speaker 2: we can get into them here in a second, but
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  Speaker 2: you know it, they have some power arms coming up
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  Speaker 2: to replace a power arm, so at least there's that,
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  Speaker 2: and this is one of the few areas the team
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  Speaker 2: has depth is in that starting rotation area, but unquestionably
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  Speaker 2: it's still a big hit because Mickabel's been so good
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  Speaker 2: those last two times out in full of promise.
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  Speaker 1: Able is twenty four years old, a former first round
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  Speaker 1: pick for the Phillies, came over in that trade with
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia at the deadline last year. Made four starts at
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  Speaker 1: the end of last season, and actually they weren't all starts.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, two starts, two relief appearances. The first two
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  Speaker 1: did not go well, the last one very similar to
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  Speaker 1: these last two games. He went six innings against his
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  Speaker 1: old team, the Phillies, struck out nine, just three hits,
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  Speaker 1: allowed no run. So he's had a good stretch even
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  Speaker 1: dating back to last season for the Twins. Certainly certainly
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  Speaker 1: a setback. Of course, the team is always going to
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  Speaker 1: say it's not too serious, and I have no information
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  Speaker 1: to the contrary. But we'll see how it goes and
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  Speaker 1: the Twins, as you mentioned, Dan are going to have
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're back again special bonus episode this Monday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: after the news that mckabele Twins starting pitcher has gone
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  Speaker 1: to the injured list. He was scheduled to start Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: series opener against a New York Mets team that is
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  Speaker 1: very desperate for a win, which we spoke about on
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  Speaker 1: our show earlier today. Dan Simeon Woods Richardson was scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to pitch Wednesday. He will now move up to Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins have had had days off Thursday and Monday,
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  Speaker 1: so rest not an issue for moving him up. And
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  Speaker 1: then what is the plan for Wednesday or do we
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  Speaker 1: not know the plan yet for Wednesday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't know the plan untill sometime Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: My guess the Twins will keep it shrouded in secrecy.
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  Speaker 2: Bit that's their right to do that. They don't want
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  Speaker 2: to give the Mets an advantage and looking to it. However,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be some form I would imagine of Connor
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  Speaker 2: Prelip and Kendry Rojas. Both guys have pitched in a
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  Speaker 2: piggyback situation. In their April twelfth April sixteenth outing, Prelip
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  Speaker 2: went five, struck out eight. Rojas came in followed him
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  Speaker 2: with three scoreless out of the bullpen. So it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: shock me if we see something like that and pre Lip,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Rojas is the number nine prospect in Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Gleeman's Athletic Top forty rankings. Second shout out to that today,
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  Speaker 2: Prelip is number five in those rankings. And this is
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  Speaker 2: a guy that they've really been high on. They used
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  Speaker 2: the forty eighth overall pick of the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 2: draft to select him out of Alabama. He's a Wisconsin guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's from Toma, left hander. He's had Tommy John surgery twice,
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  Speaker 2: including after coming to the Twins. So this is a
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  Speaker 2: guy that was their minor league pitcher of the Year
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  Speaker 2: last year, and basically he was on a very short
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  Speaker 2: schedule last year. They were really just trying to build
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  Speaker 2: him up and give him innings because Connor Prelib, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because of all the arm issues, had not pitched, had
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  Speaker 2: not built up much of a workload in his pro career.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we're talking about a guy that, even though
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  Speaker 2: we're now talking he's in his fifth season in the organization,
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  Speaker 2: he only has one hundred and twenty eight innings one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight and the third and he only
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  Speaker 2: got twenty eight in college, so there's not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of wear and tear on that arm. Last year he
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  Speaker 2: got to eighty two and two thirds innings between Wichitah
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  Speaker 2: and Saint Paul, and this year because he went that
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  Speaker 2: whole season and it was on a regular starting schedule,
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  Speaker 2: or they had him on a once a week schedule
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  Speaker 2: last year as a starter just to build up that workload.
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  Speaker 2: This year he's on a more regular starting rotation schedule
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  Speaker 2: and he's added a curveball to give him a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more to attack hitters from both sides of the plate.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a guy that they're excited about. He
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  Speaker 2: throws ninety five. There had been talk that he could
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  Speaker 2: play his way into the bullpen and we'll see like
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  Speaker 2: what his long term projection is. But he's got an
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  Speaker 2: electric arm, and so it's somebody that you know, we
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  Speaker 2: talked about Kendrick Rojas's electric arm in the earlier show,
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  Speaker 2: throwing ninety eight, ninety nine with a slider, and he's
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  Speaker 2: got so much stuff too. These guys both project as
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  Speaker 2: starters and could be very talented guys. So you're you're
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  Speaker 2: dropping off from Mickabel, but you're adding to very probably
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  Speaker 2: the two hardest throwers aside from TODs Bradley on this
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  Speaker 2: entire pitching staffer are now joining the team here on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: So there is a lot to be intrigued by with
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  Speaker 2: Connor Preliv coming up, and I wouldn't again be shocked
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  Speaker 2: if he gets to start because he's been acting as
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  Speaker 2: a starter. Both are lefties, so it's gonna be something.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday should be an interesting game to watch just because
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  Speaker 2: of all that intrigue with these two guys.
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  Speaker 1: With the bullpen issues the team has had to dan
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  Speaker 1: currently twenty third in e r A in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Five point seven I believe was the number. Any audition
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  Speaker 1: of a fresh arm is probably something Twins fans are
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  Speaker 1: at least intrigued to see. Obviously, you don't want it
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  Speaker 1: to happen via injury to a promising starting pitcher, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly Kendrick Rojas and Connor Prelib will have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to at least get themselves a spot in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Also of note, Royce Lewis returns on Tuesday to the
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  Speaker 1: Twins lineup, so as one player leaves, another comes in
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  Speaker 1: back from injury, so hopefully that gives the Twins a
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  Speaker 1: boost as well. Four game losing streak now mckable to
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  Speaker 1: the il certainly a tough few days after that nice
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  Speaker 1: stretch of three straight series wins and how uplifting the
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  Speaker 1: conversation seemed just a week ago after they touched up
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet for eleventy billion runs or whatever it was
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  Speaker 1: in those first few innings. But we'll see how they
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  Speaker 1: weather this storm, and we'll see whether Mickabel really can
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  Speaker 1: make it back after fifteen days. Dan prediction, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be Okay, I'm asking you, I'm asking
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  Speaker 1: you to predict an injury now. So this is this
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  Speaker 1: is where we.
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  Speaker 2: This is a segment for all our Calci and poly market.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the Twins will be a little bit cautious.
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  Speaker 2: He's too big of a prize to rush back now
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  Speaker 2: them saying it's not too serious. He's gonna miss Attle time.
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  Speaker 2: But it will be something I think where they think
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  Speaker 2: they can rehabit. It's not gonna be fifteen days. That's
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  Speaker 2: just my guess. And by the way, last time I
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  Speaker 2: made this prediction was Royce Lewis Royce Lewis is guess
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  Speaker 2: who I was dead wrong on Royce Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Royce Lewis so back as soon as possible? Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Royce is first game eligible to come off the IL.
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  Speaker 2: Royce Lewis has come off the Aisle so Calci and
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  Speaker 2: poly market listeners don't listen to me, so.
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  Speaker 1: That might be a good omen Twins fans Dan Hayes
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  Speaker 1: predicting a longer absence for Mickabel. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Twins are back on the field in New York. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be back with you on Wednesday, barring some more breaking
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  Speaker 1: news in the meantime. But as always, thanks for listening
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