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Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell/Hold + Rockies 1B TJ Rumfield joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And that showed you how deep the rabbit hole goes own
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  Speaker 1: Poindexter joining us from the Athletic for the first time here.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited to talk to him about a little fantasy
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  Speaker 1: sports and what's happening here in the baseball world. He
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  Speaker 1: just put out a fresh article in the Athletic about
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  Speaker 1: buy sell hold. So Owen, first off, great to have
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  Speaker 1: you on here. And if you just want to kind
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  Speaker 1: of start saying hello to us the same way you
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  Speaker 1: said hello in the article, you can just tell everybody
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  Speaker 1: in any league that you're participating in to yes, sell
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  Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez, trade him to you. You will take him
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  Speaker 1: for pennies on the dollar right now.
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  Speaker 2: Right absolutely, yeah, if you want my WILLI or Breu, which,
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  Speaker 2: as you can see from the stat line, he's like
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  Speaker 2: the new Mic Trout. I'll all do your favor. Take
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  Speaker 2: j rud off your hands, Roman Anthony too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: drop that guy not doing anything for you. I'll just
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  Speaker 2: I'll be the nice guy and then do that for you.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks for having me on. Guys told to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I want to start here. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: a cell guy. We'll hit a couple on each parts
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  Speaker 1: of your list, right, So I want to hit a
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  Speaker 1: cell guy and let's go to Munautaki Morikami. Right, Munataka Morikami.
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  Speaker 1: This is a guy who's a rookie who was highly,
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  Speaker 1: highly debated in the off season, and you are not
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  Speaker 1: buying what he's selling with the power right now? Is
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  Speaker 1: that correct?
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  Speaker 2: That is basically correct? So I mean this the cell part.
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  Speaker 2: I found the hardest part of this because I can't
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  Speaker 2: just tell you to, like, you know, sell the guy
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  Speaker 2: with the six hundred bad bit because everyone knows they're
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  Speaker 2: coming down. We're too savvy at this point. You need
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  Speaker 2: someone with a narrative of you know, this guy has
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  Speaker 2: never failed. You know, he's got incredible power. He's never
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  Speaker 2: failed in MLB. Now's the time to be like, look,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is who he is. Like he's showing
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  Speaker 2: us like he's a monster. And the thing is he
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  Speaker 2: is a monster. So I do buy the power. I
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  Speaker 2: also buy the I think he's struck out in a
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  Speaker 2: third of his plate appearances that I think is going
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  Speaker 2: to be steady. I think he's also got a forty
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  Speaker 2: percent homer for fly ball, that it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: high because he does have monster power, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna stay this high.
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  Speaker 3: This is probably basically.
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  Speaker 2: The best version we're gonna see of him, and if
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  Speaker 2: someone wants to pay for that, then go for it.
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  Speaker 2: If no one wants to pay for that, then that's
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  Speaker 2: okay too. You can hold on to him. He'll give
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  Speaker 2: you thirty something. Homer's probably a pretty bad batting average.
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  Speaker 2: He's basically another Colson Montgomery. Maybe this is the new
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  Speaker 2: White Sox model. But with the sell things, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying this guy is bad. I'm saying there's a narrative
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  Speaker 2: here that might be suggesting that they're better than they are,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Murakami is an easy case for that
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  Speaker 2: because we've never seen him fail.
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  Speaker 4: What is the narrative on Sandy Alcantara. I mean, this
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  Speaker 4: guy's been absolutely filthy his past two starts. Talk to
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  Speaker 4: me about that. You got selling on him too.
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  Speaker 2: I got selling on him too, And it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Sandy's great. If you're a Marlins fan, you're thrilled to
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  Speaker 2: have Sandy, and then you're gonna be thrilled to have
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  Speaker 2: whoever they get for him in a trade at some point.
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  Speaker 2: But unless they're contending, who knows. But yeah, is again
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  Speaker 2: not a knock on Sandy himself. What I'm saying is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are gonna see these first couple starts,
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  Speaker 2: which I think at home against the Rockies, which is
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  Speaker 2: just you know, a great matchup for him, and at
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  Speaker 2: home against the White Sox's he's.
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  Speaker 3: A great pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: People remember that twenty twenty two season where he was
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  Speaker 2: awesome and the early start might make you kind of
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  Speaker 2: wash from your brain, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: when he wasn't pitching at all, twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Five, when again not great.
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  Speaker 2: All of that history is relevant, including the cy Young
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  Speaker 2: season when he was incredible. He hasn't given up a
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  Speaker 2: home run this year, which two starts. Nothing crazy about that,
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  Speaker 2: but he will give up home runs. He's like a
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  Speaker 2: twenty one percent ish strikeout guy. Not terrible, but not elite,
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  Speaker 2: certainly not like the Schemes and Scooples of the world. Again,
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  Speaker 2: the narrative is there that he might give you another
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  Speaker 2: of these cy Young seasons, and so you might be
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  Speaker 2: able in your fantasy league, or perhaps if you're in
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  Speaker 2: the Mark front off as you might be able to
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  Speaker 2: sell him as that of like twenty twenty two, Sandy
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  Speaker 2: is back maybe he is. That is the risk when
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  Speaker 2: you trade. Every trade has risk, and the risk is
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  Speaker 2: that you're wrong, the risk of that I'm wrong, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying he's, you know, probably gonna settle into mid threes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: twenty one percent strikeout rate, mid Threeszra, that's a good picture.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a like aces Ace though, And you might
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  Speaker 2: get someone remembering twenty twenty two when he was the
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  Speaker 2: best picture in baseball. Unless I'm forgetting someone and saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that guy is who I'm getting, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: you get someone to pay up for that.
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  Speaker 5: So you work for the Marlins, is what you're saying.
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  Speaker 5: You're you're you're going there and you're saying, Okay, Sandy
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  Speaker 5: al Contra is going to be a guy that isn't
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  Speaker 5: like you better buy him now because or the Marlins
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  Speaker 5: better sell him now because he's gonna regress back to
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  Speaker 5: the to the meme, or that's actually the maturation of
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  Speaker 5: a picture. Who puts the ball on the ground, looks
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  Speaker 5: for innings because of your fantasy league gives you innings,
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  Speaker 5: gives you complete game bonuses. It might make up for
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  Speaker 5: the fact that he's only going to strike out one
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  Speaker 5: guy per inning.
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  Speaker 3: Which is still pretty decent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you do get a complete game bonus, then
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  Speaker 2: hang on to Sandi al Contra because he's like one
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  Speaker 2: of like one guy that's going to give text. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: school throws one in there once in a while, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be like four complete games this season, and
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  Speaker 2: like probably three of them from him.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, so I'm gonna trade you your Sandy al Contra
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  Speaker 5: for Cam Smith. Are you are you taking that by?
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  Speaker 3: That's that is?
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  Speaker 2: I love Cam Smith. I love Camp Smith. That is
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  Speaker 2: a French for Smith. Just you know, all the bye
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So I'm imagining a market, right, I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: people don't really know Cam Smith yet and maybe we're
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  Speaker 2: just calling this a hot streak. I was on him
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  Speaker 2: at the start of the year because the tools are awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He's super fast, he's got power, he's got something of
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  Speaker 2: a hit tool, and all of a sudden he's putting
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  Speaker 2: that together. He's not going to be the guy he's
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  Speaker 2: been for the first two weeks for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the season, but he's exciting right now and if you
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  Speaker 2: can get him, I mean, he might still be on
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  Speaker 2: the waiver wire in a lot of leagues at please
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  Speaker 2: pick him up right now. If you can, you might
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  Speaker 2: be able to get someone like I mean, Sandy's a
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  Speaker 2: little rich, but you know, you can probably find someone who's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just like a decent player. I'm struggling to
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  Speaker 2: think of, like what is perfect in all leagues are
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different right now. But if someone wants
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  Speaker 2: to say, you know, I just I pick Cam Smith up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with my last pick in the draft, and
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  Speaker 2: he's been great. But maybe I'll I'll give you someone
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  Speaker 2: or I'll trade for someone who going into this season
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  Speaker 2: I liked a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: I'd go for that because I do love Cam Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Sandy would be a lot for Cam Smith, just because
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  Speaker 2: one's in the bikelum and ones in the cell column.
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  Speaker 2: I'm imagining that people coming into or like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sandy's a cy young winner, Cam Smith, like, what's he
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  Speaker 2: even done yet? So yeah, if you give me Cam
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  Speaker 2: Smith in the next eye on that list Jordan Walker
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so that was gonna be My next question is
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  Speaker 5: the next two guys on your list are Jordan Walker
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  Speaker 5: and Williadamas. Will Adamas clearly a more established player, but
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  Speaker 5: when you're talking about fantasy value. You're talking about Williadomas
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  Speaker 5: in San Francisco. Does that make you a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more nervous? And with Jordan Walker's hot start, Charlie Manuel,
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  Speaker 5: he might not be a forty home run guy, which
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  Speaker 5: he's on pace for right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, at least that. Yeah, Jordan Walker very similar
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  Speaker 2: to Cam Smith. Incredible power like Murra COMI like power
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  Speaker 2: and combine that with elite speed. Now that he's hitting,
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  Speaker 2: very exciting player. The danger is that the strikeout Mcami,
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  Speaker 2: the strikeouts are going to be there. We are seeing
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  Speaker 2: the best version of Jordan Walker. It's only two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: but he's only twenty three, Like you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, Bubba Chandler's twenty three. I think Cam Smith's
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  Speaker 2: brown twenty three. I mean, this is the age of
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  Speaker 2: a player that might just be coming up. The difference
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  Speaker 2: with Jordan Walker is we've seen him fail for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years now, and so he has the narrative
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  Speaker 2: going into the year is going in the opposite direction
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  Speaker 2: of he's kind of a forgotten man, but he's young
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  Speaker 2: enough that this could be the start of a true
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  Speaker 2: breakout and he's got the tools where if that hit
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  Speaker 2: tool just gets a little bit better, he's he could
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  Speaker 2: be a true star. A Damas is on the opposite
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  Speaker 2: side of things, where and I listed a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: players on the column of like, these guys are probably fine.
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  Speaker 2: Adamas is probably fine. Last year wasn't great, But first
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  Speaker 2: year in a big contract in yeah, in the stadium
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  Speaker 2: that suppresses power a bit. He's still hit a lot
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  Speaker 2: of homers. I forget exactly how many, but it is
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  Speaker 2: something like twenty five or something like the ball can't
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  Speaker 2: leave the park in San Francisco. Okay, Yeah, so even
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  Speaker 2: more than I was remembering. He's still got power, he's
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  Speaker 2: still got speed. He's gonna be in there every day
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  Speaker 2: because he plays great defense.
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  Speaker 3: He's the shortstop.
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  Speaker 2: Teams tend to not mess around with a shortstop too much.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just a cold start, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he's better than he was last year. That first year
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  Speaker 2: on a big new contract, players tend to chase a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more than usual. I tend to avoid those
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  Speaker 2: players in fantasy, just because there's a lot of hype
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  Speaker 2: from the contract and from the big year they probably
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  Speaker 2: just had. If they had that contract and they tend
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  Speaker 2: to want to show off. He might be seeing that
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  Speaker 2: with Pete Alonzo right now and in Baltimore for one example.
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  Speaker 2: Those players tend to be a little rocky at least
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  Speaker 2: the first month or two. Adamis is one of many
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  Speaker 2: players who I think is going to be fine. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in like a ten team league with one shortstop,
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  Speaker 2: then he's kind of borderline. But you know, if you've
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  Speaker 2: got some depth in your league, he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: useful and you might have that narrative of he was
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  Speaker 2: bad last year. He's in the pitcher's park bad relatively
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  Speaker 2: obviously that relative to what we've seen from him. I
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  Speaker 2: think he can kind of straighten out and be something
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  Speaker 2: closer to the Brewer's version.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, some of the people you have on your
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  Speaker 5: whole list, One of the guys I want to definitely
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  Speaker 5: hit on here is Todd's buddy, Matthew Libertore. Could he
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  Speaker 5: be on people's list and somebody that you should be
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  Speaker 5: buying if he's not on your list because of the
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  Speaker 5: fact that the way that he's kind of been given
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  Speaker 5: this you know, opening they start, the fact that he's
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  Speaker 5: now you know, kind of coming into his own on
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  Speaker 5: a team that doesn't have any veterans that you know,
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  Speaker 5: are the step up guys in the rotation. Couldn't he
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  Speaker 5: be more of a definitely should buy kind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, with the whole list a lot of them,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of being pulled in two directions. There's there's
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  Speaker 2: a good case for buying or tour, and certainly if
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  Speaker 2: he's on your waiver wire, you know worth picking him
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  Speaker 2: up and seeing what you can get. The by cases, yet,
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  Speaker 2: he's not going anywhere in that rotation unless they trade him, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but they'll be trading him into a team that wants
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  Speaker 2: to use him. He's there the closest thing they have
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  Speaker 2: to just to start him every five days and hope
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  Speaker 2: for the best kind of thing. This stuff is looking
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. He's got a history of at least being
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  Speaker 2: an average pitcher. You're probably gonna get some decent run suppression,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's him finding a few more strikeouts or just
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  Speaker 2: keeping the ball on the ground. I like the kitchen
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  Speaker 2: sink approach a lot to like there. The sell or
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  Speaker 2: just be less enthoosed case is that these strikeouts have
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  Speaker 2: not shown up. He's getting a lot of those like
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  Speaker 2: luck stats like his strand rate is very high.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's babbit.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you off hand, but I think it's
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  Speaker 2: on the low side. And so we might be seeing
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  Speaker 2: a couple of nice starts where once those those hits
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  Speaker 2: start finding more holes, maybe the weather warms up. He's
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  Speaker 2: in a picture's park as well. But you know, the Midwest,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is a place where the start of the
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  Speaker 2: year and the middle of the year are going to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty different because the ball is going to the
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  Speaker 2: physics are going to change. It changes everywhere, obviously, but
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  Speaker 2: you see it especially, you see it more there than
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  Speaker 2: you see it in California.
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  Speaker 3: So I like Liberatore.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on your league how much you get punished
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  Speaker 2: for having a picture who doesn't have the same strikeout
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  Speaker 2: rate as some of the other guys you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be looking at.
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  Speaker 3: He's steady, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be in there a lot, and yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 2: he's got a little bit more that he can work with.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the stuff can come up, and maybe the strikeouts
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  Speaker 2: can come up. That's the by case. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of feel like I want to buy him
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  Speaker 2: at What you see is what you get, and you
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  Speaker 2: hope for more. You hope for you know, where you're
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  Speaker 2: buying is something like a high three CRA and twenty
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  Speaker 2: ish percent strikeout rate, and and you hope he's got
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more there.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I want to ask you about Carson Bench. Rookie,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of excitement, a lot of hype makes the roster.
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  Speaker 1: They left a spot open for him. He's slumping lately.
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  Speaker 1: He's hitting a buck about of one hundred so far
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  Speaker 1: on the season. You know, had the first big game
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  Speaker 1: and then you haven't heard much about him since then.
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  Speaker 1: He's on your hold list.
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  Speaker 2: Why for all the reasons you said at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: there he's I mean the reason he's on the team
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  Speaker 2: over a serviceable player like Tyrone Taylor where he's starting
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  Speaker 2: starting over Tyrone Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Is he can hit.
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  Speaker 2: He's fast, you know, he's he brings a lot to
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  Speaker 2: the table. He hasn't done a whole lot so far.
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  Speaker 2: And that is I would assume one because slump's happened too.
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  Speaker 2: This is his first time facing major league pitching. It
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  Speaker 2: turns out it's pretty hard, and so he you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is a pretty normal process to go through it. Looke,
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  Speaker 2: just like he wants to steal. So at least here
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  Speaker 2: you're getting that when he gets on base, he's looks
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  Speaker 2: like he's looking to run and more and more. That's
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  Speaker 2: something I look for in players of not only are
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  Speaker 2: they fast? Are they I mean look at like south
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  Speaker 2: Stewart is my current favorite example of him. I think
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  Speaker 2: he might be the new Josh Naylor and that he
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  Speaker 2: might just be a slow guy who steals like twenty
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  Speaker 2: thirty bases this year. Some guys just choose to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Ben's fast and choosing to do that, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be better than this the cell cases. Maybe he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be better than this at Triple A while
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  Speaker 2: the Mets let him, you know, build his confidence back up,
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  Speaker 2: sort things out a bit, send them down for a
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  Speaker 2: month or two, and then you know, maybe bring him
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  Speaker 2: back up in the summer when there's a need. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would like to have a roster spot for him.
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  Speaker 2: See where this goes. At least bank those steals, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, hope that the guy they that they left
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  Speaker 2: a spot for is the guy who shows up in May, June, July.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: It's hard to say when someone's under the windows a
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: ligne though.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Oh and last one for you, we have a fan
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: question asking if they should buy, sell or hold Adley Rutchman.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: So this is a good example of someone who's been
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: fine right now in terms of OPS plus and how
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the front office is valuing him just for the first
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: couple weeks of the season. A lot of that has
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: to do with his on base percentage. Most leagues don't
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: have on base percentage three point fifty three OBP. He's
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: in one seventeen OPS plus and for catchers, the OPS
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: plus league averages one hundred. Usually it's it's lower for catchers.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: So that's a good number. If you get that for
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the whole year, and you're a front office, you're like,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: that's a very good catcher. That's a valuable catcher if
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: he can play defense. Right, But let's focus on what
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the fantasy stats look like. Two forty one, no homers,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: three RBIs, three runs scored, and last year he hit
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: two twenty with nine homers and twenty nine RBIs. Of course,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: he missed significant time. That was in a little over
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: half a season, but even now, you know, going to
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the year before two fifty nineteen seventy nine, so like,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: it's fine, but it doesn't look like a star like
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: we thought about do you think that you're going to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: see those numbers get back to at least what he
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: was doing early in his career. How would you measure
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: him at this point?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Adley. I think he's at least a
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: hold for me. And again, those like runs RBI numbers
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: early in the season, they just don't mean a whole lot.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: It's arguable how much they mean in the middle of
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the season. It's a lot of it's that's just luck.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: That's I mean, it's your team context, that's where you
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: hitting the lineup. But it's also like you hit a
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: double great and then you know the next three guys
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: struck out. That's not your fault.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: You did your job.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I think that that's gonna be a good lineup. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: think Adley's a goodhitter. I mean you're seeing it in
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: what he's doing right now. And those are the guys
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that you can sometimes profit on of, like, oh this guy,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: you know, it's like what have they done for me lately?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Or what have they done for me my fantasy stats
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: so far. I wouldn't worry too much about the runs RBIs.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I'd be more encouraged to say, like this guy he's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: hitting right now, he's getting on base. I think the
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: production's gonna be there, especially at catcher. I think Adley
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: is I would say a light by for me. Again,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: it depends a bit on the two catcher league absolutely. Yeah,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: don't don't get rid of Ali Rushman. I think two
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: catcher leagues are kind of insane. But even as you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: like a twelve team one catcher situation. Yeah, I like
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Adlie enough. I think he's got those core skills. Catcher
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: is a hard position, and he had a sort of
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: rough injury interrupted year last year. He's still pretty young.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I know that when these guys aren't like instant stars.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, Mike Traut is an instant star, you know, like,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: come on, I can get with the program Adley. But
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you know, it's there's there's a lot to take in
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: for him, and it hasn't been a smooth ride. I'm
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: willing to see where this goes with him because I
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: think the core skills are there. Don't assume he's going
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to be a superstar right away or maybe ever, but
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: a pretty good hitting catcher in you know, at a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: position where it's hard to find that level of production.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take that. Owen, good stuff, man. We enjoyed
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: hearing from you. Thanks for the time. Good to have
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you on here for the first time. Hope you had
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: fun too, And also you can catch the article that
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: we're talking about with many more names in the athletic
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: from Owen.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Thank you, dude, Yeah, anytime. Thank you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You're having fun with this team. They've won four in
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a row. Like to paint the picture for us, what's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: it like right now? What do you think is the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: identity of the team and who are some of the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: personalities that stand out that keep things fun and loose
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: for you guys.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we just have a real tight knit group of guys.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: I feel like, you.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Know, we have a better like Tole Freeland, and you know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: other guys in the locker room that just you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: are good key pieces to our you know, already good team.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: We have Hunter Goodman who's an All Star already, other
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: players that I'm just forgetting the name. But we're a
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: tight knit group and we just try to go out
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: there and win ball games.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: I got I got one simple question for you. How
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: many people's names have you forgotten? Because when a rookie
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: would come up I would call it. When I would
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: call people to the front of the bus, I would go,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: I would go, dis my name Poppy. Because you just
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: got to the organization. You're trying to learn these guys.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: How hard is that as a as a one, as
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: a young player two, coming into a new organization. All
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: you've had is spring training with these dudes.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just, you know, coming to a new new organization.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: It's just you know, trying to learn names. As you
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: all know, it's just trying to remember people's names and
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: saying hello every day and just trying to be the
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: same guy, you know, being consistent, saying you know, saying
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: hello to the right people, to the you know, to
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: the kitchen staff, you know, all the way to you know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: front office managers, coaches, just making sure that you're there
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: every day and doing the right things.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Hey, you're hitting really well right now. I love your approach.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: I love the way you're doing things. Can you explain
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: to me, one, give me your routine. I always want
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: to ask these guys a routine, especially as the youngster
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: coming up. Give me specifics on the routine you do
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: and what's your approach right now? Going up there to
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: the play.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: I feel like I try to keep it as simple
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: as possible. You know, see the ball, hit the ball.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: My routine in the cage is just kind of, I mean,
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: pretty bland. I just asked the coach to get on
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: one knee and shoot me some darts and just try
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: to hit home runs to the right field. And you know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: if I can do that in the game, then I'm successful.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: And that's what I mean. The plan is just keep
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: it simple, damage to right field.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: And I gotta be honest with you. That is so
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: refreshing to hear from a younger guy coming up, like
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I know, Cratzy, I'm clicking Cratzy, let me talk again,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: because he had a question like for me, there's no
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: drill in the world that can make you successful. Then
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: one your brain being there focus up here, and two
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: making sure my hands are where they need to be.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: And that's basically what you're saying. Give me some flips,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: let me square the ball up, let me hit down
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: on it. And I'm trying to get directional with the ball.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I don't care what numbers can tell you anything. I
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: don't care about any launch angle, I don't care about
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: any of that stuff.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Well, you just.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Said I need that and I need that buttoned up.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna show all my young kids that I work with.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: You don't need to do extra stuff that is not
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: worth doing you if people who do all that crap,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: it's just crap at the end of the day. For
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: you to say that, and you're being successful right now,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: kudos to you and stick with that plan, young man.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: This is very You just woken me up. Bro, This
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: is fantastic, absolutely good for you.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Todd usually spends most of the show on his phone,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: so for you to like get his attention, that's awesome.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But I want to add, like, Okay.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: All these dudes, all these dudes went through the whatever
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: they call it, the digital height measuring and spring training.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: I see you out on the field. I watch because
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: you guys are doing well. I've watched a few Rockies
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: games this year. Last year I didn't watch any. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: see you out on the field. Did you lie on
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: your height on your thing because it says you're six'
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: five and you look way taller than six y five
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: or everybody else on The rockies is short.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Short, no they came in and measured, us and so
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: if they have me at six y, FIVE i wasn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: bending at all BECAUSE i don't want. THAT i don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: want the lower part of the strike zone to be even.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: LOWER i kind of want that to be as high
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: AS i. Can SO i was standing straight up as
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: tall AS i could when they measured.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Us that is such a great.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Point nobody has talked about that because everybody's talked about
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: the fact, that OR i haven't seen anybody talk about
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: it because everybody talks, About, oh you, KNOW i want
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: TO i want to make Sure I'm i'm, shorter so
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: that the so that my strike zone is. Smaller but
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: you're saying that you standing up make sure that the
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: bottom part of your strike zone is, smaller or you're
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: saying the bottom part of your strike zone is at
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: a higher.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: Height H i think it's at a higher, height is
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: What i'm is What i'm. Understanding so IF i wanted
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: to be, shorter THEN i would have a you, know
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: a strike.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Zone i'm a smaller. Guy that's not WHAT i. WANT
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: i don't want the lower part of the zone Where
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: i'm not familiar.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: WITH i love.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: THAT i love that talk about hitting In. Colorado i'm
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: assuming you didn't you heard for about six weeks in
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: spring training people tell you all the things About colorado. Everything,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: oh it's so tough to. Recover it's all this stuff
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: when you got there and you finally got to play
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: in your first big league game In, colorado, which by the,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: WAY i wrote it down your big league player number
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: twenty three, thousand six hundred and twenty four to ever
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: step foot on the. Field so not that you're gonna
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: remember that or get a tattoo of that, number but you.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Should but, yeah talk.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: About playing In colorado compared to the friendly confines OF
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Pnc park up In Scranton.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Wilkesbury, YEAH i mean that is a huge.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: JUMP i you, KNOW i think my Manager Shelley duncan
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: there And scranton would say the, same just trying to
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: like but the preparations the, same even though the exterior
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: and all the fans are are. There and that's that's
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: that's fun and. Nice it's you, know you still kind
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: of focus on the, game the, pitches the pitchers that's coming,
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: in you, know all the things in.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Order to be a successful baseball. Player it's you kind.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: Of learned that at THE p AND C park In,
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: scranton how to be a big leaguer and it's kind
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: of working.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Out, HEY.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: TJ i wanted to take you back to course field
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: for a. Moment there was a viral moment last, night
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: AND i was just wondering if you called on all
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: your friends to start a party section deep in the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: outfield in the upper. Deck did you see this little
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: party from where you were during the game or was
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it something you caught after the. Game i'm guessing you
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: can't really miss it despite trying to be as locked
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in as.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Possible, no it was kind of. HARD i mean when
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: you're looking up.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: There they started off as like a small, GROUP i,
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: think and then every TIME i looked up. THERE i
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: must have looked up there maybe three or four times after,
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: that and they just kept on multiplying and multiplying. It
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: and it was kind of refreshing to see that these,
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: fans you, know they still want to, win they still
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: care about The, rockies and you, know they took their
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: shirts off for.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: It so that was that was.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Amazing it looked, like you, know a football kind of
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: thing with those kind of. Fans BUT i want to
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: talk a little about Your yankee, experience you, know talk
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: a little about sharing first base With Ben rice and
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: you know how you learn from all?
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: This, yeah, Dude ben Is ben is a great hitter
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: and even better first, baseman better, person better. Teammate can't
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: have you, know enough good things to say about that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: Guy coming up through the minor leagues with The, yankees
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: it was just always their philosophy was hit strikes, hard
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: AND i think that was that was refreshing for me
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: BECAUSE i could hit, STRIKES i just couldn't hit them very.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: Hard so for them they're playing with me was to,
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: just you, know do, that keep it simple and hit
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: it hard and working with the hitting coaches there and
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: the sports you, know science and all the things that
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: they have as The yankees and developing. Players they do
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: a great job of, that AND i took advantage of
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: every single bit of, IT i, think AND i think
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: it's working.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Out, WAIT.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: TJ i have to keep it real because people listen
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: to this show because they want to hear a player's
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: point of. View you were not twenty one years old
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: when you made your big league. Debut you were in
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: the minor. Leagues Ben rice was a. Catcher when you
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: See Ben, rice you're in the minor leagues and you
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: See Ben, rice a guy you were playing around at first.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Base move to first base and take advantage of that.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Opportunity you can be happy for him because of the
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: guy he, Is but how hard is that as a
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: first basement only in the minor. LEAGUES i looked up
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: your stat you didn't play any other position but first,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: base and you're, like wait a, MINUTE i hit seventeen home.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: RUNS i hit fifteen home. RUNS i hit sixteen home
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: runs in back to back. YEARS i hit almost three
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: hundred every year in the last three seasons in the minor,
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Leagues and.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Why AM i not getting that?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Opportunity because very few people ever see that side of the.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Game i'd love to hear your feeling as far as
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: and then they didn't keep you on the forty man,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: roster and now you're getting your. Opportunity but take us
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: through those times when you're like this, sucks LIKE i
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: WANT i want this bad And i've done EVERYTHING i.
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: Can, YEAH i think it's just something that LIKE i
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: just you, know just NOTHING i can. Control SO i
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: don't really try to work on it or like really
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: feel any sort of way about it BECAUSE i can't control,
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: it you, KNOW i can just try to put my
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: best foot. Forward AND i think that's WHAT i like
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: tried to do in the minor leagues was just you,
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: KNOW i had good, years but it was always LIKE
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: i could be better Because i'm seeing these Other i'm
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: seeing the underlying data And i'm seeing that like, okay
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: Like i'm getting lucky AND i could be, Better like
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: how CAN i get?
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: Better that sort of.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: Thing it wasn't necessarily like OH i need TO i
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: need to BE i should be in.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: The big leagues or or any of.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: That it was, like it kind of makes me hungrier
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: to get better at this, game because IF i was
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: JUST i wouldn't necessarily say you've ever given anything in this.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: Game but it kind of just you, know turned a
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: fire on in my belly and just LITTLE i mean
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: little spark in me to try to get better.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: At this game to the HIGHEST i, mean to the
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: highest level. POSSIBLE i love.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: THAT i love that because so many people that make
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: the big leagues never go through any adversity until they
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: get to the big. Leagues while you had success in
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: the minor, leagues that was kind of your, adversity like
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: why is this guy not getting a? Shot he keeps
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: hitting dingers out of a absolutely Massive park In, scranton
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: and he's still not getting a. Shot So i'm glad
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: you finally got your. Shot talk about how to. Dude,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: now MAYBE i have my timeline, wrong but talk about
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: how a dude From texas gets To Virginia tech to play?
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Baseball, YEAH i. WAS i was actually gonna touch on that.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: TOO i, started like my adversity started off At Texas.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: TECH i red. SHIRTED i didn't even play a year in.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: Twenty, nineteen or didn't even play a pitch in twenty.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: NINETEEN i sat and watched the whole entire year just
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: BECAUSE i wasn't wasn't good enough to. Play SO i
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: had to sit there and watch baseball and had to
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: get better at baseball without. Playing and that was kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: of the first major roadblock in my career was in
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: twenty nineteen trying to figure, Out, Okay i'm not on the,
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: field how DO i get better at this? Game Because
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: division one baseball it's when, now when? Now not developed,
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: Players so that that kind of kicked started, that and
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: then twenty TWENTY i kind of got my opportunity there
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: BEFORE covid hit AND i hit four hundred there and
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: just still wasn't getting to play every, day AND i was,
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: LIKE i need to go play every single. Game and
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: Coach John chef From Virginia tech gave me a shout
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: and he never looked. Back he said THAT i would
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: play every day and he kept his, word AND i
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: told HIM I i told HIM i drive in some
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: runs and he told ME i play every day and
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: we just both kept our promise and look at where
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: we are.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: NOW i love.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: That all, Right, Well i'm gonna give you a. PROMISE
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  Speaker 5: i want to know your father's still alive BEFORE i
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: asked this.
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  Speaker 3: Question.
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  Speaker 5: Correct, Yeah wikipedia doesn't makes me ask those awkward. Questions
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: does he have more power than? You or did he
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: have more power than? You and does he feel like
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: he has more? Power because looking at his minor league,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: stats my guy had twenty nine pumps in when he
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: was twenty one At Winston, salem not the easiest part
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: to hit some dingers out.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Of does he talk about that and how much has
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: that helped shape your? Career?
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: YEAH i think as far as the power, THING i
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: THINK i still have some work to, do BUT i
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: can put SOME i can put some numbers up. There
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: but he you, know he helped me in my entire,
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: life just you, know being around the, game.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: You, know the joy for.
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: Baseball kind of just trying To he told me to
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: just be the same guy every day and kind of be.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: CONSISTENT i think that's WHERE i kind of got that.
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: From but just trying to put my best foot forward every.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: DAY i THINK i think it runs in the.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Blood one, QUESTION i got a fan question here from
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: r J m double zero two to. One can you
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: ask the meaning of the purple fur coat for the
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: home run? Celebration what is it about this purple fur
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: coat that you guys?
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: Use, yeah our pitching one of our pitching, Coaches gabriel Reebas,
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: HE i think he acquired this coat from SOMEBODY i
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: don't know, where but he showed it to me the
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: day before we got it and he was, like what
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: do you. THINK i was, LIKE i love, It and
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: then he brought it the next day And nicky hit
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: the home. RUN i think he was the first one
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: to wear, it IF i If i'm calling, Correctly but
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: it was kind of sick seeing the purple.
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  Speaker 6: JACKET i want to wear it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Now doesn't does? Everybody did they all fit into?
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: It BECAUSE i THINK i Saw Hunter goodman hit With
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: homer and he like just put his one arm. In
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: But hunter's kind of a thick dude, Too so does
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: it fit?
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: EVERYBODY i think it's a one size fit all sort of.
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  Speaker 8: Thing SO i think we JUST i think we're just
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: gonna roll with.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: It all. Right so something that rookies have to.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Do AND i always bring it up when rookies come
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: on the, show you got to sing on the. Bus
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: do you have your song prepared or have you already
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: sung your song on the?
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: BUS i THINK i have a song THAT i was
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: given And i'm trying to memorize. It so it's just
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: it's just one of those Things i'm trying to, remember
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: like remember.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: A good performance for all the.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Guys what's the?
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  Speaker 8: SONG i think IT'S i think it's Some Justin bieber,
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  Speaker 8: song something Like. SORRY i don't, know some remix to.
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  Speaker 4: That is it too late to, Say i'm?
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: Sorry you're on?
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: It you're right on.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: It that's WHAT i got. YOU i got.
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  Speaker 3: YOU i don't beat the boys. Hype they won't. Care
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  Speaker 3: it's singing. It take your shirt.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: OFF i saw something to take his shirt off and
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: his pants off and sing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: It nobody remembers at.
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  Speaker 5: All what the song, was but they remember that he
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: was standing up there.
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  Speaker 3: In front of the bus with their shirt and pants.
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  Speaker 8: Off, yeah it's almost it's you have to take your
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: tarp off if you're up there in the bus doing.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: Anything so that's all that's a.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Given, yep, Amazing, hey last one? Here what was the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: call up? Moment like the HEY i made the roster?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Moment like for, you, like what was the? Reaction who
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: did you? Call run through?
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  Speaker 3: That for?
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: Us, yeah it was JUST.
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: I just came out of chapel in spring training And,
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Schaeffer Warren schaeffer kind of gave me the point and it,
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: was you, know the end of spring training and you
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: kind of have feelings about what's going to. Happen and
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: he pulled me in there and he Him josh burns
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: OUR gm And paul De. Podesta they told me THAT
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: i was going to the big. Leagues AND i THINK
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: i just you, KNOW i THINK i shot up out
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: of my chair AND i JUST i gave everybody a
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: hug and was just like so. EXCITED i think first
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: PERSON i called was my wife because she's been with
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: me through this thing in the minor leagues that we've
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: been grinding through and our and.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Our little baby, girl our two year old.
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: Daughter you, know it was a big moment for, us
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: just kind of a big sigh of relief for our
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: whole entire family calling. Them it was just so great
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: to spread the news and everybody was just so, happy
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: and everybody got to come out To, miami which was
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: fun for the debut and opening, day which was pretty.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Special that's super, cool very cool story. There awesome to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: hear man and well. Deserved and it's looking good right,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: now so keep it. Up it's been fun to. Watch
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: we really appreciate the. Time great combo with you and
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  Speaker 1: good luck all, right thanks for having.
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  Speaker 6: Me