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Nationals Stumble in Weekend Series, Dropping 2 of 3 to Marlins · District Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Terry Pop District Territory Podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm Eric shell House alongside me, Kevin Franzen and the
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Speaker 1: Washington Nationals and Spencer does Baund the athletic. The Nationals
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Speaker 1: coming off a challenging series in Miami over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: They get the first win on Friday, they lose on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: they lose on Sunday. A difficult series, but they get
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Speaker 1: an off day today as they look ahead to a
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Speaker 1: sixteen game stretch. We're going to recap the Marlin series
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Speaker 1: for you and give you a preview into the future.
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Speaker 1: But Franny, how you doing today? Well, I'm good. Could
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Speaker 1: have used the series win just saying would have made
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Speaker 1: us sleep a little bit better. But yeah, Spencer, you
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Speaker 1: have a good safe travels down into from Miami. Are
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Speaker 1: you you're still in Florida right now?
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Speaker 2: I am still in Florida. It's still too hot in here.
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Speaker 2: It's still too cold in the insides of these rooms.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, I'm I can't complain, wit did you.
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Speaker 1: Complain about being too cold in there?
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Speaker 2: It's my own fault. So yeah, I guess I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: complain about something.
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Speaker 1: You know, I have to always have to before we
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Speaker 1: get into the series recap. Those of you watch online,
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Speaker 1: bring up the NL's standings. The Nationals now nineteen and
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Speaker 1: twenty two. All of a sudden, it got really crowded
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Speaker 1: there for second place. You see three teams jumbled up.
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Speaker 1: That's tied there with the Marlins and Phillies. The Mets
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Speaker 1: dropped two out of three to the d Backs over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, and the Braves with a commanding twenty eight
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Speaker 1: and thirteen record, good for nine games up on second place.
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Speaker 1: Some other breaking news we had in the Nats world
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Speaker 1: this morning. Welcome Natty to the Nationals family, the official
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Speaker 1: pup of the Nationals. I'm not sure. We don't know
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Speaker 1: too much about Natty just yet, so I'm sure, Well, Natty,
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Speaker 1: it is a good looking pup right there. Naddie is beautiful.
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Speaker 1: That's a good looking pup. And the final news I
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Speaker 1: want to read that really quickly. We talked about on Friday,
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Speaker 1: Jackson Rutledge was designated for assignment. The Philadelphia Phillies claim
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Speaker 1: the NAT's twenty nineteen first round pick. I do want
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Speaker 1: to give him a quick shout out, he responded to
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Speaker 1: my Instagram comment when he got drafted signed lots of
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Speaker 1: baseballs for me over the years. Great guy, so wish
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Speaker 1: him nothing but the best in Philly. But Spencer, what
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Speaker 1: does this mean for the bullpen right now? Does it
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Speaker 1: mean anything? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean I don't know that Rutledge was going to
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Speaker 2: be a part of this team's future at some point.
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Speaker 2: What I'll say, if it means anything, is it freed
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Speaker 2: up a spot to bring Zach Kenton. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know exactly how he'll fit into the future plans, but again,
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Speaker 2: that's kind of the cycle and turnstile we've talked about
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Speaker 2: all year. So yeah, it's another free spot on the
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Speaker 2: forty men and we'll see how they cycle through that
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Franny, any thoughts on that transition? You know in
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Speaker 1: the organization, I'm going to miss him dearly. Was room
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Speaker 1: form heavy, but hopefully as it turns over a new
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Speaker 1: leaf in Philadelphia. Yeah, you hope.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean they got a he's got the body
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Speaker 3: for it. But I mean I was surprised that it
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Speaker 3: was the Phillies that was the one that picked him up.
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Speaker 1: Did see him as a fit there? Why?
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Speaker 3: Uh, just doesn't He just doesn't have enough whiff, just
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Speaker 3: doesn't have enough swing. Of miss doesn't have enough power
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Speaker 3: in the fastball, and who knows, maybe they turn him
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Speaker 3: into a starter again.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's as right. Who knows? Found time will tell,
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Speaker 1: Tom will Tell. Let's dive into the Nats series recap
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of than lapping about all the transactions.
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Speaker 1: Get over to the pitching box score on Sunday. This
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Speaker 1: is a tricky one. You made a comment over the
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Speaker 1: course of the game of Orlando or Balta Spencer, and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to give credit to that really quickly. It
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Speaker 1: is a small sample size, but he has been really good.
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Speaker 1: And you know, it's tough to circle the loss here
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Speaker 1: on Barland's name, but he had a he had a
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Speaker 1: difficult outing and uh, other than that, the bullpen is
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Speaker 1: a job. Bullpen as a whole did their job. But Franny,
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Speaker 1: I'm curious, you know, what are you circling from Sunday's loss.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot that just did not pan out.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot that that consistently is coming up
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Speaker 3: bad base, many decisions.
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Speaker 1: Or you know, poor poor bullpen work.
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Speaker 3: And it's this usually it would be about poor bullpen management,
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Speaker 3: but putting guys in the right, you know, positions that
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Speaker 3: you look at the pocket that you know from Saturday
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Speaker 3: night for Mitchell and it was like, all right, it's this,
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Speaker 3: this is where you should have them right, and it
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Speaker 3: just didn't pan out.
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Speaker 1: Guy.
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Speaker 3: You know, Xavier Edwards had no homers against uh lefties
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Speaker 3: all year. So you get to Sunday and you're watching
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Speaker 3: this thing and you're going, okay, So if they clean
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Speaker 3: up a couple of these things, it's just too many
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Speaker 3: mistakes that they're giving up, you know. And and you
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Speaker 3: know Nas being in scoring position already with like there's
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Speaker 3: certain things like you want to take the aggressive aggressiveness
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Speaker 3: away from Nas, but like ball and dirt it like
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Speaker 3: I get it. You think that you're going to get
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Speaker 3: there to third, but James is up already, You're in
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Speaker 3: scoring position.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to take that opportunity away. And I
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Speaker 3: feel like we've seen that too often. The you know,
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Speaker 3: contact play ball back to a picture on like a
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Speaker 3: on a high hopper James in the first and just
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Speaker 3: you can't you can't run in that out like day one, Yeah, contact,
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Speaker 3: it's not down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And when I talked to Nas about that play
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Speaker 2: after the game, he had kind of chastised himself for it.
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Speaker 2: He said, you know, I'm a player that relies on instincts,
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Speaker 2: and I think that works.
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Speaker 1: For him a lot.
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Speaker 2: But what he said is, you know, if he were
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Speaker 2: to do anything differently, he went back a little on
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Speaker 2: that play, so he almost didn't trust his instincts. I
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Speaker 2: ultimately do think it's more about the situation and having
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Speaker 2: James up then the instincts themselves. But I think if
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Speaker 2: you are going to rely on them, you kind of
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Speaker 2: have to go full throttle. And that's where the Gnats
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Speaker 2: you still see their youth as they're kind of caught
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Speaker 2: in the middle a little bit, which I think has
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Speaker 2: burned them at least a little bit as of late.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the play at third was not particularly close, but
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Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, the hesitation certainly did not help.
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Speaker 1: But most importantly, with James up, you don't need to
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Speaker 1: be on third base for James Would to score you.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't even need to be on first base
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Speaker 1: for James Wood to drive home a run. A quick
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Speaker 1: scoring recap. That was the only game in the series,
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Speaker 1: I believe in the nets and not the only game
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Speaker 1: where the Marlins drew first blood. That was something of
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Speaker 1: note to me. The Nats left seven on base in
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Speaker 1: Sunday's game, that number kind of just continued to tick
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Speaker 1: up a little bit. But as beginning to Saturday. This
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Speaker 1: was tweeted out by you Spencer. During Saturday's game, just
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Speaker 1: to empty your notebook, James would either leads or was
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Speaker 1: tied in the NL in barrels, walks, average exit v low,
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Speaker 1: and you know a whole bunch of other stats for
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Speaker 1: those of you that are watching online. And he did damage.
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Speaker 1: He did damage in the series as well. There was
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Speaker 1: absolutely no doubt about this ball off of the bat.
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Speaker 1: You also sent out this tweet for our visual learners
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Speaker 1: like me. Myself included it landed where that blue little
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Speaker 1: circle is those of you watching online, that ball was
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Speaker 1: tattooed four hundred and forty two I think on the distance, Franny,
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Speaker 1: how did that just get them rolling right off of
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Speaker 1: the bat that day?
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean there are three for three with his
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Speaker 3: leadoff homers this year and three for three with losses,
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Speaker 3: So it's like e homer's.
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Speaker 1: And you're like, damn it to lead off the game.
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Speaker 3: I'm kidding, But it's also a fact he's just so
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Speaker 3: different because I mean he saw literally Jansen junk through
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Speaker 3: every single one of his pitches, and that a bat
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Speaker 3: to him. It was the first time that he doubled
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Speaker 3: up on a pitch and even double up on it
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Speaker 3: through it for the second time. I should say doubling
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Speaker 3: up be back to back, but goes to back to
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Speaker 3: the slider and it's a middle middle slider that again,
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Speaker 3: should it be hit like that? Sure early in the count,
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Speaker 3: you're not thinking two strikes deep that he's gonna do that.
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Speaker 3: And it's just like, I did not see the bat
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Speaker 3: speed metrics on it, but I bet you was one
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Speaker 3: of the like the smoothest, like not even that insanely
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Speaker 3: you know, high bat speed. It was the most perfect
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Speaker 3: swing I've seen from him all year. Like it was,
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Speaker 3: oh man, like you could hear it.
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Speaker 1: It was still here. It sounded different. But how about
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Speaker 1: that it was a new the throw from the kid
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Speaker 1: in the second deck I did. I'm disappointed when kids
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Speaker 1: do that. Even with the broken arm, the instincts were
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Speaker 1: still there. I wish I had. I know, I'm disappointed
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Speaker 1: when kids do that.
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Speaker 3: I just want I want kids to just take that
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Speaker 3: ball and run with it, because it's like it's James Wood.
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Speaker 1: Don't ever let anybody tell you to throw it back exactly.
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Speaker 1: That's a James Wood home run, not just anyone, but
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Speaker 1: I was. I was amused by that. The Nationals on
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Speaker 1: Saturday struck for three in the first inning and out
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Speaker 1: of a fourth on a Dale and Lyles sackfly. But
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Speaker 1: the rest of the game was what it was. Is
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Speaker 1: I bring up the pitching box score for those of
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Speaker 1: you on Saturday. Richard Lovelady opened. I think that's the
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Speaker 1: first time we've seen him in the role this season,
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Speaker 1: maybe the second, but he was quite effective. Zach Lttel
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Speaker 1: from there, and then Mitchell Parker Franny as you alluded to,
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Speaker 1: they sent him back out there. What were your thoughts
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Speaker 1: on that at the time. I liked it.
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Speaker 3: I didn't mind it because he's come in, it's not
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Speaker 3: been for one inning, and in the pocket that he
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Speaker 3: was getting, I liked it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mind it at all. It's just again execution.
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Speaker 3: You could say that about all the guys and the
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Speaker 3: way that they've gone about things, and it's not about
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Speaker 3: how they've done it.
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Speaker 1: Well is how we've done it all year.
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Speaker 3: But with Mitchell Parker, like you're extending him a little
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Speaker 3: bit more and in that I liked it, and I
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Speaker 3: would you know. I hope they don't second guess that
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Speaker 3: one because I thought the pocket they had in that
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Speaker 3: was perfect and.
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Speaker 1: Just didn't happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to push back a little bit. I think.
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Speaker 2: So it's tough, right because you have to bring in
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Speaker 2: Pool in the night before, because CJ makes the error
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Speaker 2: in the ninth, you know he's probably you want him
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Speaker 2: on the third game of the series. Pitch him three
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Speaker 2: in a row would be tough, and so at that point,
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Speaker 2: like Pool and isn't available and Parker makes sense matchup wise,
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Speaker 2: But Mitch, I think if you looked at the first
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Speaker 2: two at bats of that inning, he had really kind
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Speaker 2: of lost it a bit. And I know it's hard
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Speaker 2: to make those reads in the moment, but me, Mitch
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Speaker 2: even talked about like between innings he kind of felt
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Speaker 2: like he lost it a little bit. And that's one
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Speaker 2: where I don't know if you need more communication in
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Speaker 2: that moment or if you're just kind of hamstrung and
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Speaker 2: unable to do anything. But I don't know. I think
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Speaker 2: overall they're smart to have these relievers face these pockets.
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Speaker 2: I just I kind of view Saturday as a time
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Speaker 2: where maybe this is Monday morning quarterbacking it. But I
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Speaker 2: feel like they could have made a move there. But again,
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Speaker 2: maybe that's me not knowing how quickly a guy needs
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Speaker 2: to warm up in the bullpen or just the options
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Speaker 2: that are available. But yeah, I don't know. Just looking
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Speaker 2: at the first two at bats of that inning, Mitch
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Speaker 2: really didn't seem to have the commands that he had
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Speaker 2: in the past, and I think that kind of burned him.
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Speaker 1: Now there wasn't anyone warming up to start that eighth inning, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was the rock was his the you.
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Speaker 3: Know, right, well here here's here's so my pushback on that,
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Speaker 3: like with PJ Pool and going back, his back to
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Speaker 3: backs have not been great.
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Speaker 1: His back to backs have not been great. Right.
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Speaker 3: You look at the uh you know, I think they're
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Speaker 3: two for nine, which signals like, oh hey, what's wrong.
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Speaker 1: There's five walks.
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Speaker 3: In there, and and that that always makes me think
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Speaker 3: I'm like that that that that's the reason why I
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Speaker 3: all go with the Mitchell Parker in that right, I
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Speaker 3: mean his zero day's rest, He's an eleven five to
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Speaker 3: seven e RA in that time. So I think trying
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Speaker 3: to avoid him on a back to backs is like
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Speaker 3: the bigger part that's what that's just trying to look
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Speaker 3: into it and try to figure out in the moment,
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Speaker 3: like I'm not you know, they're still trying to figure
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Speaker 3: this out, you know, in the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Sure it is and is there? Is it right and wrong? Sure? Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: there's right and wrong. There's always right and wrong. But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like I.
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Speaker 3: Think, when it comes down to it, for Mitchell, understand that,
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Speaker 3: like if you say, hey, I don't have it, it's
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Speaker 3: not the early two thousands, late nineties where you're going
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Speaker 3: to be sent out afterwards, right, because you're honest.
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Speaker 1: You know you're gonna be like, okay, thank you, all right.
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Speaker 1: There's trust.
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Speaker 3: There's trust in that, and it has nothing to do
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Speaker 3: about being scared being anything.
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Speaker 1: It's just like I don't have it, And it's.
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Speaker 3: Not like as a starter for him, I'm sure it
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Speaker 3: would be totally different, right, not having it and being
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Speaker 3: able to kind of find his way through, but in
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Speaker 3: a relieving role.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's such a different deal.
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Speaker 3: So I wonder if that's a big a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a part of it of being able to be open, right,
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Speaker 3: not being in that role long enough to understand, like.
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Speaker 1: Because we know Mitchell, Like what a beautiful human.
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Speaker 3: Love love talking to him, and I just you know,
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Speaker 3: at times, you just want to make sure, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: be honest, it's okay to be honest.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally handles losses with grace as well. And I
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Speaker 2: guess the other point I would make there is like
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Speaker 2: in the past, Mitchell was someone where as a starter,
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Speaker 2: he would rely so heavily on his pregame bullpens to
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Speaker 2: decide what he was going to throw that day, Like
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Speaker 2: he would drop a pitch if it didn't work in
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Speaker 2: one of those pregame bullpens are only throw a few times.
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Speaker 2: Like Mitch is so reliant and heavy on the slider
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Speaker 2: right now that like, if he has that pitch, you
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Speaker 2: aren't hitting him. And if he doesn't have that pitch,
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Speaker 2: he's in trouble. And so I think that's maybe the
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Speaker 2: lesson too, is if you don't have that slider between innings,
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Speaker 2: you really do need to let h the manager of
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Speaker 2: the pitching coaches know, Hey, we got to get someone
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Speaker 2: out there if I don't have it after a batter
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Speaker 2: or two. And yeah, I think that's kind of the
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Speaker 2: compelling piece of this is like I think that Mitch
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Speaker 2: actually is going to work out and going to work
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Speaker 2: out quite well in the bullpen, but it's still a
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Speaker 2: learning process and so I agree, Yeah, that'll be really
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Speaker 2: fun to watch it, and I'm glad you brought that up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about one more play from
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Speaker 1: Saturday's loss before we can take a break and get
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Speaker 1: in some lighter stuff like the victory on Friday. But Franny,
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Speaker 1: what did you see on this play with one out
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Speaker 1: in the top of the ninth inning? NAT's how to
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Speaker 1: run around second with one out? And then Joey Weimer,
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Speaker 1: although the game day replay seems to think it's Louis
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Speaker 1: s Garcia there with a leg guard on his I
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Speaker 1: don't know. It looks like did not did an update
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Speaker 1: quite quick enough there and on the game day replay
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Speaker 1: whatever we're calling that. But you know, what did you
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Speaker 1: see on that plays? It's a tricky play as a
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Speaker 1: base runner there, you know, you think it looks like
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Speaker 1: a line drive. I mean that the instinct has to
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Speaker 1: be to go back. It's not a tricky play. It's
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Speaker 1: not tricky to be to go back.
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Speaker 3: The instinct is like it's in front of you and
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Speaker 3: the guy is in You got to see the ball
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Speaker 3: through anyways. Yeah, right, And in that situation, it wasn't
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Speaker 3: It was a it was a low one one hop
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Speaker 3: skitter to like maybe a second hop, you know, short
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Speaker 3: hop on him.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, you can't. You can't run blindly in that.
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Speaker 3: You're trying to make something happen in the moment. And
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Speaker 3: I love Joey on that. It just you cannot. You
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Speaker 3: cannot have that happen. You're the tying run. Now here's
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Speaker 3: the other part of it. Should he have been on
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Speaker 3: second base anyways?
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Speaker 1: Right, because Louis just doubled him in or sorry, just
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Speaker 1: double Louis doubled him in. Sorry, Louis had doubled in
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Speaker 1: runs and they pinched ran for Weimer. Louis tripled him in. Wait,
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Speaker 1: he came, How did Weimer get on second base there?
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Speaker 3: Well, they went to review and said the ball was
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Speaker 3: stuck underneath the They brought him back. And that to
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Speaker 3: me the whole thing, the box that to me is
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Speaker 3: the BS of this whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was function so watching from across the country
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Speaker 1: because the box score was a little slow updating everything
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Speaker 1: and then watching it afterwards. It was just a funky play.
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Speaker 1: And and to be down by one run in that
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Speaker 1: moment after having led for nothing. It was just gut
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Speaker 1: wrenching for me to watch. It was tough.
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Speaker 3: A couple of replays that got the best of them
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Speaker 3: on that night. I mean it started off in the
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Speaker 3: first and and then that that that play. For whatever reason,
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Speaker 3: even with the story reres playing playing through, it never
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Speaker 3: even like putting his hands up to say, hey, ball's
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Speaker 3: lodged here. We were always taught the moment you go
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Speaker 3: in after something. Yeah, like plays live and he never hesitated.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been fortunate enough.
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Speaker 2: How many did you think that that Blake might have
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Speaker 2: I just say, how many think they might get ejected.
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Speaker 3: Three times twice in one game?
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Speaker 1: I'm again, yeah, yeah, that he was certainly close. He
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Speaker 1: certainly close. The first, the first anyone with with C. J.
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Speaker 1: Abrams was still the one. I might have to kick
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Speaker 1: Spencer out here real quickly. I think we're gonna go
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Speaker 1: ahead and take a break. Spencer, you want to try
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Speaker 1: and join again, and we will run a quick gay
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Speaker 1: break so we will see you after that, big dog.
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Speaker 4: I know it helps you out the house. Old Wifey
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Speaker 1: All right, we are back in just a nick of time.
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Speaker 1: Spencer here to join us. There we go, Oh not
18:50
Speaker 1: quite yet, Okay, we will look to have Spencer back
18:54
Speaker 1: in a second. For now, it's just be me and Franny.
18:56
Speaker 1: He's struggling on joining. But Franny, let's take a look
18:59
Speaker 1: at the schedule ahead. Nationals are about to start a
19:02
Speaker 1: sixteen game stretch. There's a lot of opponents that you
19:06
Speaker 1: could circle on this upcoming stretch, but they have Reds
19:10
Speaker 1: and then the Orioles come to town. That's after that
19:13
Speaker 1: for four game sets and then off to Atlanta and
19:16
Speaker 1: Cleveland again, sixteen days without an off day. The that's
19:20
Speaker 1: just had a pretty grueling stretch without many off days.
19:24
Speaker 1: Seventeen yeah, how many? I mean, who on this upcoming
19:29
Speaker 1: schedule are you circling as the most reditting opponent? The
19:33
Speaker 1: Reds right off the rip here the Reds. Yeah, yep.
19:36
Speaker 3: They you know, they lost eight in a row. They looked,
19:39
Speaker 3: they looked terrible, and then they got hot. They got
19:42
Speaker 3: hot against the Astros. They got two games, you know,
19:44
Speaker 3: back to back that they just they finally looked like
19:47
Speaker 3: they were the Reds of earlier.
19:50
Speaker 1: The pitching that they have.
19:51
Speaker 3: I will always sit there and let you know that
19:55
Speaker 3: I'm I'm always wary of them, Like I will never
19:59
Speaker 3: look ahead to their teams. Uh, they're more problematic than
20:03
Speaker 3: the Mets will ever be, you know, in this in
20:06
Speaker 3: this time. And yeah, the power pitching that they have
20:11
Speaker 3: can put you in a absolute.
20:13
Speaker 1: Blender for a while.
20:14
Speaker 3: And now I'm worried about that because you start out
20:17
Speaker 3: with Brady Singer tomorrow. Uh, and then you're gonna get
20:20
Speaker 3: what Burns and Lodolo or Lodolo and who's.
20:26
Speaker 1: The other one that they have going? Final match will
20:28
Speaker 1: be Chase Burns and Foster Griffin.
20:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got like Lodolo and Burns going. You got
20:33
Speaker 3: two of the nastier pictures that young pitchers in the game.
20:36
Speaker 3: So I'm interested to see how this, uh, this ends up,
20:39
Speaker 3: you know, going. But I will never sit there and say,
20:43
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna look ahead at those teams because
20:46
Speaker 3: the Reds are the Reds as a whole.
20:49
Speaker 1: They're just nasty. Yeah, and Braves matchup isn't gonna be
20:55
Speaker 1: any fun either. But for me, it's the end of
20:57
Speaker 1: this stretch when you're looking at at Lansing Cleveland. I know,
21:01
Speaker 1: Cleveland's not playing as good at baseball as they'd like
21:03
Speaker 1: to be playing in the Reds are in the most
21:06
Speaker 1: competitive division in baseball right now. But as I mentioned,
21:09
Speaker 1: sixteen games and you get to those final six on
21:12
Speaker 1: the road against some tricky opponents, the Braves one is
21:15
Speaker 1: the one that I'm really circling. See, hey, what's the
21:17
Speaker 1: record at this point time? Two weeks. You know, got
21:19
Speaker 1: some time till we get there, But that's the one
21:22
Speaker 1: that kind of stands out to me. I did say
21:24
Speaker 1: before the break, we were going to talk about that
21:26
Speaker 1: win really quickly too. How about Jacob Young showing off
21:29
Speaker 1: the pop in the first inning? Little four h two
21:32
Speaker 1: I think was the projected distance on this one. And
21:35
Speaker 1: nice welcoming for Robbie Snelling to the big leagues. And
21:37
Speaker 1: then give you a look at the pitching box score
21:39
Speaker 1: from Friday. Cannot say enough good things about Foster Griffin.
21:44
Speaker 1: Seven innings, nine strikeouts, just two runs, one of them
21:47
Speaker 1: earned on four hits in a walk, His ERA down
21:50
Speaker 1: to two twelve on the season, Franny. Just spectacular stuff
21:54
Speaker 1: from Foster all season long.
21:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, another one of those starts where it was like, Okay,
21:59
Speaker 3: what's he going to be like after that first inning?
22:01
Speaker 3: You know, Xaber Edwards elevates one out of the zone
22:05
Speaker 3: homers in his first at bat to lead off the game.
22:07
Speaker 3: After the you know, Nat score three and then he
22:10
Speaker 3: just found his way. And Foster has been this way.
22:12
Speaker 3: It's just like he gets in these grooves that aren't
22:17
Speaker 3: like you know, I would say other guys grooves where
22:21
Speaker 3: they're just going for swing and miss. He's just going
22:23
Speaker 3: for soft contact and then the strikeouts happen. You know,
22:27
Speaker 3: he has his career high and nine career high and
22:30
Speaker 3: innings and you're you're you're just going like, well, how
22:32
Speaker 3: and it's like, well, you just watch the game. This
22:35
Speaker 3: guy watch He's like he's watching the game like we are.
22:38
Speaker 3: When he's pitching, he sees the hitters, he's reading hitters,
22:42
Speaker 3: he's reading hitters, swings. You know, he's following his game plan.
22:45
Speaker 3: But he's also letting the game like come to him.
22:47
Speaker 3: And that that that it's such a fun thing to watch,
22:52
Speaker 3: it really is. And so you know, forty six and
22:54
Speaker 3: two thirds innings, thirty three hits giving up so far
22:56
Speaker 3: this year, fifteen given up, only eleven earned, and he's
23:03
Speaker 3: been bit by some bad defense too behind him. And
23:05
Speaker 3: I think that's like the part where like it could
23:08
Speaker 3: even be better, it could still be better.
23:11
Speaker 1: Yeah. What stands out to me too on the mount
23:14
Speaker 1: out there is is he seems not like any of
23:16
Speaker 1: the guys stand out like this, but he is so unshaken,
23:20
Speaker 1: whether it's the first inning or the seventh inning, if
23:22
Speaker 1: it's bases loaded, nobody out, or he's tossing dare I say,
23:27
Speaker 1: a perfect game into the ninth inning, Like he just
23:28
Speaker 1: seems like the same pitcher out there throughout the entire outing.
23:32
Speaker 1: And that's just really something refreshing that I feel like
23:35
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him Washington in a little bit. No,
23:38
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree, we haven't seen someone be able
23:42
Speaker 1: to be.
23:46
Speaker 3: It's not about pitch efficiency either, because he's pitch efficient,
23:50
Speaker 3: but it it's morphing in games into into being like,
23:55
Speaker 3: all right, I could do this today. I could do
23:57
Speaker 3: this today, I could do that tomorrow. It just like
24:01
Speaker 3: I don't. He doesn't have this like set pre set.
24:06
Speaker 3: I gotta throw X amount of curveballs. I got to
24:07
Speaker 3: do X amount of cutters. I got the X amount
24:10
Speaker 3: of fastballs. It just never feels like that, and it's
24:15
Speaker 3: a it to me. That's that's one of the coolest
24:17
Speaker 3: things with with him and watching him is like he
24:19
Speaker 3: was he was cutter, change up, sweeper, four seamer, curveball, sinker,
24:23
Speaker 3: and they just they all like aligne. The cutter was good.
24:28
Speaker 3: I thought his change up was fantastic. That's the first
24:30
Speaker 3: time we seen his change up better than his splitter.
24:32
Speaker 3: I feel like all year and he kind of just
24:35
Speaker 3: ditched the splitter. You know that that's one of his
24:38
Speaker 3: pitches that he loves to go do, but he didn't
24:41
Speaker 3: have it. To see him just be like, all right,
24:43
Speaker 3: it's it's out.
24:44
Speaker 1: It's out. I don't need to use it. We're good. Yeah,
24:47
Speaker 1: And then to still see him just go out and
24:49
Speaker 1: ball like that, Like I got a text from my
24:52
Speaker 1: friend saying, hey, is this a guy that the Gnats
24:55
Speaker 1: look at as a trade candidate or is this a
24:57
Speaker 1: guy that they say, hey, this is some one that
25:00
Speaker 1: we want to be a part of this team. And
25:01
Speaker 1: I say, hey, man, it's it's May. I don't remember
25:04
Speaker 1: when he sent that. It was like May ninth or
25:05
Speaker 1: May eighth, and I was like, it's way too early
25:07
Speaker 1: to be thinking about that sort of stuff fish, But
25:10
Speaker 1: he's certainly I don't think it is. I mean, he's
25:13
Speaker 1: an exciting point.
25:14
Speaker 3: Well the reason why, the reason why is because you know,
25:19
Speaker 3: you always look at We heard it from Dombrowski. A
25:21
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago saying that you know, the the
25:24
Speaker 3: you know with the topper stuff going on that trade
25:27
Speaker 3: season is the talks at all that have happened a
25:30
Speaker 3: little bit sooner than everyone has has expected. And then
25:33
Speaker 3: you have Patrick Bailey get traded this weekend, so you're
25:36
Speaker 3: you're looking at it going you know, it is a
25:40
Speaker 3: thought and is it someone that they could trade, Absolutely
25:43
Speaker 3: if it meant getting something back, But I also see
25:47
Speaker 3: someone that you can is it a build around no,
25:51
Speaker 3: but being a huge part of this going forward. Yeah,
25:55
Speaker 3: because he's a veteran presence that you you love like
25:59
Speaker 3: you see and you you love the way he works,
26:02
Speaker 3: the way he interacts with his teammates.
26:03
Speaker 1: He's not.
26:06
Speaker 3: There's someone that is looking for the limelight or the attention.
26:11
Speaker 3: He's just he's him all the time. And that's the part,
26:15
Speaker 3: the consistency of the human You're like, yep, I'm in yep.
26:19
Speaker 1: And we've talked about this in previous episodes. Guys just
26:22
Speaker 1: seem to be leaning on each other a lot more
26:24
Speaker 1: this season. And how important would he be to have
26:27
Speaker 1: for a young pitching staff moving forward? Very important?
26:32
Speaker 3: I think I think the way he goes about like
26:34
Speaker 3: the way he pitches right again, he is himself right.
26:37
Speaker 3: There's no one else that has a seven pitch arsenal
26:39
Speaker 3: that that mix and matches that he like he does.
26:43
Speaker 3: But to watch someone work and understand and have that
26:45
Speaker 3: communication with a guy that's that's like that, that has
26:49
Speaker 3: the ability to adjust within a game, I think is
26:52
Speaker 3: invaluable to have on a team.
26:55
Speaker 1: Agreed, one hundred percent agree with you on that take.
26:58
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna get Spencer back for
26:59
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27:01
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27:03
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27:05
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Speaker 1: All right, we are back, Franny. I sure wish we
28:10
Speaker 1: had Spencer for this next topic. I want to bring
28:13
Speaker 1: up really quickly, but we've talked about it before. The
28:15
Speaker 1: Nats currently have six in the top one hundred after
28:18
Speaker 1: the latest rang and Ronnie Cruz cracking in there at
28:21
Speaker 1: the top one hundred. We are a big fan of
28:23
Speaker 1: this guy, but why should Nationals fans be paying attention
28:27
Speaker 1: to him a lot of different reasons, but.
28:32
Speaker 3: Man, I'll say this, Uh, Paul Tavonian and Devid Pearson
28:39
Speaker 3: came over this year justin Horwitz and literally like a
28:44
Speaker 3: couple of weeks into spring train they're like, Uh, this
28:47
Speaker 3: guy is incredible, and that's an unbiased opinion. Right, you
28:52
Speaker 3: come in fresh for a whole new organization. And literally
28:57
Speaker 3: the first time we had Pultavoni on national TV doing
29:01
Speaker 3: our interview during in game a couple of weeks ago. Like,
29:06
Speaker 3: who's you know, who's impressing? He goes, it's hard not
29:08
Speaker 3: to start with Ronnie. Uh, it's a dynamic bat. It's a.
29:15
Speaker 1: It's a dynamic but like it's hard to say other
29:18
Speaker 1: than dynamic.
29:20
Speaker 3: He has speed, the powers reel, the defense is really good.
29:25
Speaker 3: It's only going to get better. He could play multiple
29:28
Speaker 3: positions on this. Trying to get comfortable with the whole
29:31
Speaker 3: you know, they're trying to like kind of hone in
29:33
Speaker 3: a little bit more of the.
29:36
Speaker 1: You know, the approach a little bit.
29:37
Speaker 3: But you also don't want to, you know, hinder him too, right,
29:40
Speaker 3: Like you also don't want to, you know, hold him back.
29:43
Speaker 1: He's already up into.
29:45
Speaker 3: What he's nineteen years old, it's just about six. He
29:53
Speaker 3: has high chase rate chase rate right now at thirty
29:56
Speaker 3: nine percent, but he heart swing percentage this year and
30:01
Speaker 3: you want that to continue to go higher.
30:02
Speaker 1: And that's what you want to see. You want to
30:03
Speaker 1: see that is there with sure, but there's walks in
30:06
Speaker 1: there too.
30:07
Speaker 3: That's the part that's like kind of baffling me with him,
30:10
Speaker 3: is there's an eleven percent walk rate this year. Like
30:13
Speaker 3: they're swinging miss there's some chase, but those that do that,
30:17
Speaker 3: they don't walk.
30:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, as usually, Like that's right.
30:24
Speaker 3: So he hits ball hard, uh, you know, get the
30:28
Speaker 3: ball in the air on the pole side. Well, I
30:31
Speaker 3: think he's got seven bombs this year, he's hitting three
30:33
Speaker 3: twenty five. The part that it to me, this stands
30:37
Speaker 3: out like being one hundred points higher on your on
30:39
Speaker 3: base than your your average is like beyond ideal. Right,
30:44
Speaker 3: it's cook at it. That's good and like FOI yes,
30:48
Speaker 3: And I think that's a part that you look at.
30:50
Speaker 1: So Ronnie Cruz is just he's.
30:53
Speaker 3: A dynamic player, man, and and and then you go
30:55
Speaker 3: on with the others. What Eli Willis has done last
30:58
Speaker 3: few weeks. He's got four homers now he homeward from
31:01
Speaker 3: the right side, elite chase rates right where he's like,
31:05
Speaker 3: I think sub twenty chase rate. Luke Dickerson another one
31:10
Speaker 3: of the young kids, Like here's the one that's not
31:13
Speaker 3: getting enough love that that should be in the top
31:16
Speaker 3: hundred right now is Devin fits Gerald because you got
31:20
Speaker 3: to make sure that you say it with the the
31:22
Speaker 3: hyphen in there. But Devin Fitzgerald is in Wilmington right
31:26
Speaker 3: so they got him in the Mackenzie Gore deal. He's
31:29
Speaker 3: twenty years old and he is absolutely raking.
31:37
Speaker 1: He's in Wilmington right now. Have you seen his numbers?
31:41
Speaker 1: Not paying close enough attention, but I do know he
31:44
Speaker 1: is balling out.
31:46
Speaker 3: Okay, well if you like, for two weeks three, ten, four,
31:51
Speaker 3: thirty nine on base, five ninety three slug He's thirty
31:55
Speaker 3: five for one thirteen with seventeen extra base hits, six
31:59
Speaker 3: of them being homers. He's got twenty two walks, twenty
32:03
Speaker 3: two strikeouts, and he's ten for eleven stealing bases.
32:08
Speaker 1: And this has all been at Wilmington. Yep. This is
32:12
Speaker 1: a guy that was forced down to Wilmington because of
32:16
Speaker 1: the surplus of infielders that are currently at IA Fredericksburg.
32:20
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the lower level of this
32:21
Speaker 1: farm system. There is so much infield talent crammed up.
32:26
Speaker 1: It's remarkable. Have you seen Jermi Cabrera. I haven't got
32:31
Speaker 1: to see any of these guys in person yet I
32:33
Speaker 1: need ary I get back.
32:36
Speaker 3: Jermi Cabrera was also a part of this Mackenzie Gore deal. Right,
32:42
Speaker 3: have you seen what he's done? You got the numbers,
32:46
Speaker 3: rip me, rip them on.
32:47
Speaker 1: Three thirty he's in. This is the part.
32:49
Speaker 3: He's in three thirty three with a four to sixty
32:51
Speaker 3: five on base six forty nine slug. He's at nineteen
32:57
Speaker 3: extra base hit, seven homers. He's got twenty eight walks,
33:01
Speaker 3: thirty five strikeouts, eighteen of twenty stealing bases. Like I'm
33:06
Speaker 3: telling you the video game number, the stuff that we've
33:10
Speaker 3: seen out of two of the guys. Gavin Fien's in
33:12
Speaker 3: that top hundred that you pulled up, and he's done
33:16
Speaker 3: nothing because he's been heard, right, and and Devin Fitzgerald
33:21
Speaker 3: and Jeromy Cabrera have put up these just absolutely monster
33:26
Speaker 3: numbers in their respective for their respective teams. And they're young,
33:33
Speaker 3: they're exciting, like you, Yeah, there's so let's be honest here.
33:40
Speaker 3: For the first time, and now this is my fifth year,
33:44
Speaker 3: uh doing National's TV. This is the first time part
33:50
Speaker 3: of my routine is looking up every day what these
33:53
Speaker 3: guys have been doing in the minor leagues.
33:57
Speaker 1: The first time.
33:59
Speaker 3: I'm happy to admit that because I wasn't intrigued by
34:02
Speaker 3: any of the stuff that we had seen before, and
34:05
Speaker 3: now you're starting to see it at the lower levels
34:07
Speaker 3: and it's like you're scouring these every day seeing what
34:09
Speaker 3: these guys are doing.
34:10
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is this is incredible? Right? Can they
34:13
Speaker 1: keep it up the whole year?
34:15
Speaker 3: I don't know, But what I love to see is
34:17
Speaker 3: how they how they come out and you know, seeing
34:20
Speaker 3: some of these walk walk to strikeout numbers to go
34:22
Speaker 3: along with the batting averages, right old school batting averages,
34:26
Speaker 3: but see you know, the guy's doing damage and it's
34:31
Speaker 3: just it's it's fun. So uh, you know, congrats for
34:34
Speaker 3: the Nats to feel like there's there's a chance that
34:36
Speaker 3: there's going to be more.
34:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great call. I'm I'm in a similar
34:41
Speaker 1: position where I've had the incredible privilege to cover the
34:44
Speaker 1: Nationals for this being my fourth or fifth season, and
34:47
Speaker 1: this is the first time I get up to the
34:48
Speaker 1: press box and I see report on the farm and
34:52
Speaker 1: I want to pick it up because I want to
34:53
Speaker 1: read what's going on because it's exciting me. For the
34:56
Speaker 1: first time in many years, it is exciting me, and
34:59
Speaker 1: I want to pull up the sweet really quickly, like
35:01
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and get this out without laughing. This
35:04
Speaker 1: was in response to one of Spencer's final tweets the
35:06
Speaker 1: other day. Long time past, long past time for Tiboni
35:10
Speaker 1: to make changes to the team. Miles has to go,
35:12
Speaker 1: please stop playing Garcia first phantom DL for LTEL, bring
35:16
Speaker 1: up Morales, promote some guys long overdue in the mind.
35:18
Speaker 1: I just it was comical for me to read this
35:22
Speaker 1: tweet like that. There wasn't enough going on. These guys
35:25
Speaker 1: are working their tails off every single day, you know that, Franny,
35:29
Speaker 1: And maybe we can just provide some insight for the
35:32
Speaker 1: fans listening or watching right now. There's something going on
35:36
Speaker 1: every single second at every level of this organization.
35:40
Speaker 3: Right and they need to get fans need to get
35:43
Speaker 3: over the fact that this is not the result time
35:45
Speaker 3: where if a guy had a hot two week stretch
35:48
Speaker 3: and everyone's clamoring for him to get moved up, he
35:50
Speaker 3: got moved up.
35:50
Speaker 1: It's not that right.
35:52
Speaker 3: These guys they need to dominate levels, not for a week,
35:56
Speaker 3: not for a month, for a couple months, and then
35:59
Speaker 3: when you have the depth and the added depth, it's
36:02
Speaker 3: they're going to graduate you. When you need to, not
36:05
Speaker 3: because I want to. And I think that's a big
36:09
Speaker 3: factor in this, is like they you know, part of
36:12
Speaker 3: part of development is choosing, picking and choosing when these
36:15
Speaker 3: these guys elevate to the next level.
36:18
Speaker 1: You know, for Ronnie Cruz, it was because it was
36:20
Speaker 1: going to be an.
36:21
Speaker 3: Overcrowded, you know, shortstop spot there in Fredericksburg, and you know,
36:26
Speaker 3: obviously he was dominating that level offensively, but it was
36:29
Speaker 3: more about the fit where he was going to be.
36:32
Speaker 3: Why I think this is actually more relevant is like
36:34
Speaker 3: sever King's done a great job too, right, he could
36:37
Speaker 3: be in that top hundred.
36:38
Speaker 1: He actually could.
36:41
Speaker 3: And they treated Zach short just what a week week ago.
36:47
Speaker 3: It's the opening. It's the opening for them to bring
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Speaker 3: up stever King the Triple A if they wanted to.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, stay there, continue to do what you're doing,
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Speaker 3: and you're yes, And it's a huge part of the
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Speaker 3: development side. And to me, we've overlooked that quite often.
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Speaker 3: And you could see it with fans, tweets and all this.
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Speaker 3: They're getting wrestles, they're like why just stop, please stop,
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Speaker 3: Like understand, there's a process to this, and it just
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Speaker 3: because you have a good two week stretch doesn't mean
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Speaker 3: that you need to move up right. You need to
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Speaker 3: be check all the boxes. All the boxes needs to
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Speaker 3: be checked, nothing overlooked to move on to the next
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Speaker 3: level where there'll be more boxes that.
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Speaker 1: You need to check.
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Speaker 3: Until you do that, the development side is going to
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Speaker 3: always went out on that for me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about what the Nationals are trying to
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Speaker 1: do here and what Paul Taboni said in the offseason,
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Speaker 1: we're trying to build something that is the envy of
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Speaker 1: all of sports. Rome was not built in the day people,
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Speaker 1: So the fans, fan base, we need to have a
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Speaker 1: little patience and little grace in this process as well.
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Speaker 1: And take a look at this record right now. I
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Speaker 1: think if you had said this is going to be
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Speaker 1: the record on May eleventh, ten out of ten Nats
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Speaker 1: fans would probably take that. So, yeah, you got to
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Speaker 1: keep it all in perspective.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to nine out of ten because there's one
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Speaker 3: that's always under a rock.
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Speaker 1: That's true. You know, we love that, we love them.
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Speaker 1: So looking ahead, we got the Reds. The Nats head
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Speaker 1: off to Cincinnati on Tuesday. Well I guess they're probably
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Speaker 1: headed off to Cincinnati today, but they have the day
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Speaker 1: off today and then Tuesday Wednesday Thursday against the Reds.
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Speaker 1: As we mentioned, Miles, Michael Lists, and Brady Singer are
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Speaker 1: the probable starters for Tuesday. I also circles a few
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Speaker 1: matchups here for Michael Lists going into the outing, Will
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Speaker 1: Benson five eighty three and twelve at bats, Brian Hayes
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Speaker 1: three forty eight and twenty three at bats, Spencer Steer
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Speaker 1: four thirty eight hitter off of him in sixteen at bats.
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Speaker 1: Which of those three concerned not concerned you the most,
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Speaker 1: But I think Will Benson with that left handed swing
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Speaker 1: path against Michael List, that's a guy that I'm definitely
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Speaker 1: circling going in to this series.
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Speaker 3: I'm never going to circle him, never going to circle
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Speaker 3: any of those guys other than Ellie de la Cruz
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Speaker 3: and Sal Stewart ever.
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Speaker 1: Well s, yeah, but yeah, that he is crushing the
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Speaker 1: ball this season.
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Speaker 3: Those two are always like, you could go with guys
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Speaker 3: that are hot against one guy and do that, but
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Speaker 3: I will never.
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Speaker 1: I will always.
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Speaker 3: I always look at Ellie de la Cruz whereas he
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Speaker 3: and where is Sal Stewart, Because that kid's the kid's special.
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Speaker 3: The kid's got he's had, he's had a rough couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks here to start May. But it's always there.
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Speaker 3: It's always there.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he could just keep May to like his sophomore
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Speaker 1: slump and then totally skip over next season. International. I
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Speaker 1: would I would like that. Yeah, I'd like to see
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Speaker 1: that for him internationals uniform. Yeah, for those of you
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Speaker 1: that are curious, Elie de la Cruz a three thirty
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Speaker 1: three career hitter off of Michaeliss in fifteen at bats,
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Speaker 1: so that's a pretty fair sample size as well. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Stuart has not seen him yet viewing this season, Franny,
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Speaker 1: we'll be back on Wednesday recapping the Tuesday game and
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Speaker 1: then projecting Wednesday. Is there anything else you want to
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Speaker 1: have before we take off?
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Speaker 3: No, No, just enjoy the ride, because I feel like
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Speaker 3: it's been a pretty decent one so far, and it's
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Speaker 3: one that you're gonna see some bumps even more. But
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see what the response is after
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Speaker 3: those like two heartbreakers in Miami.
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Speaker 1: What it's gonna be like Tuesday night here in Cincinnati. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think the off day comes at a great time.
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Speaker 1: Considering how many off days they get over the course
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Speaker 1: of the season, this is a big, very few. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the very few, the limited. You know, hey, like take
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Speaker 1: take the day off and just mentally reset and kick
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Speaker 1: ass in Cincinnati. I agree. Yeah, that's gonna do it
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Speaker 1: for us today. We will see you again on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll have Spencer for the full episode that one.
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Speaker 1: We'll see you then, Peace,