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Looking ahead at the Nats biggest storylines after getting swept · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric Shellhouse
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  Speaker 1: from bat Boys Baseball and joining me today Spencer Nusbaum
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  Speaker 1: of The Athletic. It was a sweep in New York
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend for the Mets over the Washington Nationals.
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  Speaker 1: Their record drops to sixty and sixty six. But let's
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  Speaker 1: open on a brighter note. Abby melick Ortiz, this guy
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  Speaker 1: has been lighting the world on fire since being called
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  Speaker 1: up to the big leagues. His fifth home run already, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: he has just been on a tear lately. But pull
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  Speaker 1: up his game log. We have to remind ourselves. Still
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  Speaker 1: just eleven games here in the big leagues. He hasn't
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  Speaker 1: even registered his last thirty games. Abby's been on a tear.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from him at the plate?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting, right because you don't want to say this
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  Speaker 3: guy is going to be Luis Garcia junior. But he's
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  Speaker 3: shown a lot of those same characteristics and the same
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  Speaker 3: sort of production. Right where this is someone who I've
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  Speaker 3: been high on since he came in the organization. But
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  Speaker 3: you still are unknown when you come up from Triple
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  Speaker 3: A and from talking to people around the org, from
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  Speaker 3: talking to Abby himself. You look at the sort of
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  Speaker 3: profile that he has right where it's some chase, but
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  Speaker 3: not a lot of chase. It's some with but less
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  Speaker 3: than you're usually getting from a power hitter. And he
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  Speaker 3: hits the crap out of the ball. When you hit
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  Speaker 3: the crap out of the ball, and you do those
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  Speaker 3: other things at least decently, okay, you're usually in a
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  Speaker 3: really good position. And so in a sense, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of a similar profile to Louis. There's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit less back to ball skills and there's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit less chase than Louis had, both of which kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the end might end up evening out. But
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  Speaker 3: there's just kind of a maturity and a strength with
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  Speaker 3: him that that makes him so impressive. And I could
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  Speaker 3: I could probably talk for an hour about this guy.
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  Speaker 3: But that's that's kind of the big picture wrap up
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  Speaker 3: is if you were looking for a Louis replacement, that's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty good one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean the home run yesterday just screamed like
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  Speaker 1: a Luis Garcia Junior type of swing to me. And
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  Speaker 1: to have found a guy in a matter of seconds
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be filling that void is really helping
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  Speaker 1: out their lineup, especially with James Wood on the injured list.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into a bit of that later on, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: but how important has it been, especially just to plug
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  Speaker 1: him in at the top of the lineup? And I
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  Speaker 1: heard you ask Blake, you know, where do you think
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  Speaker 1: he finds the confidence from? How much has the start
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  Speaker 1: kind of eased it for him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well again, it's it's funny you bring that up because
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  Speaker 3: I had asked Blake that question, right, like, why has
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  Speaker 3: he been so comfortable and confident? I've asked him version
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  Speaker 3: of that question and he said, yeah, back in spring
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  Speaker 3: training or so, Aby Melick wasn't super confident, right, He
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  Speaker 3: was putting a lot of pressure on himself, obviously coming
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  Speaker 3: over from the only organization he had ever known. But
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  Speaker 3: it really helps to see how well he's been producing
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  Speaker 3: in Triple A. And then when he came up, basically
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  Speaker 3: right after the Garcia trade, he hits a home run
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  Speaker 3: and I think is his first at bat up if
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  Speaker 3: I'm remembering correctly, maybe the second one, I think his
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  Speaker 3: first one. And from there it's like, why would he
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  Speaker 3: put any pressure on himself if he can do that
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  Speaker 3: right away?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's a matter of the Triple A
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  Speaker 3: coaches really helping him find that power and find that
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  Speaker 3: swing and beyond that just you know, again, once you
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  Speaker 3: hit a homer your first at back back up in
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  Speaker 3: the big leagues, maybe it is as simple as hey, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I know I can do that up here. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: with James went out, they need as much slug and
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  Speaker 3: power as they can get, and he has definitely provided it,
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  Speaker 3: and he's done it with a smile, which is really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of leading into this series against the Rangers that
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  Speaker 3: the team that you know selected him and eventually traded
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  Speaker 3: him away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be an exciting series for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't even imagine, you know, to be in
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  Speaker 1: the big league box. But I feel like it's got
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  Speaker 1: to take more than just the one home run, sure,
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  Speaker 1: like two, three, four. Maybe that's helping with the confidence
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too. Let's get into Saturday's game, which
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  Speaker 1: was another one run loss for the Nationals. But will
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  Speaker 1: Dion absolutely incredible. He had a plan of attack and
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  Speaker 1: he was locating his pitches extremely well, But the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the box score from there not terrific. The Nationals
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  Speaker 1: ad yet another blown say they are up to thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: just five away from the major league record of thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: There's two things I want to talk about from this game, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: you can choose which we dive into. First, the blown
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  Speaker 1: save record. Of course, that they are on pace I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if they're on pace four. I haven't done
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  Speaker 1: the math. But also Will Dion just fantastic, I mean ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: the swing and miss we saw from him the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's honestly fair to talk about simultaneously, right,
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  Speaker 3: because you have an interesting dichotomy here where both Will
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  Speaker 3: and Yovanni Cruz come over at the deadline in trades
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  Speaker 3: and kind of need to or needed to find their
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  Speaker 3: footing here.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's always something that's difficult, is adjusting to a new
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  Speaker 3: organization on the fly, especially when you're like a prospect,
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  Speaker 3: even a high level prospect. Your name isn't being floated
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  Speaker 3: in trade rumors, so it really does kind of hit
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  Speaker 3: you like a ton of bricks, Like there's there's no
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  Speaker 3: real way to see it coming. For Will, he had
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  Speaker 3: some familiarity with, like being in a starting pitching role
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  Speaker 3: before comes from McNee State. He kind of has described
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  Speaker 3: himself and others have described him as like just your
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  Speaker 3: prototypical grinder, and I think that his personality has fit
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  Speaker 3: pretty seamlessly on this team and his production. Obviously, he's
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  Speaker 3: very comfortable kind of being shoved into those roles that
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  Speaker 3: others might feel uncomfortable being shoved into, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming in in the first inning or coming in in
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  Speaker 3: the sixth and being asked if there are three innings
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  Speaker 3: like these are all things on the fly that are
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  Speaker 3: hard to ads to, but he has an arsenal that
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  Speaker 3: can get as we've talked about before, righty's and left
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  Speaker 3: he's out, and he throws strikes, and those two things
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  Speaker 3: are are pretty impactful on Cruise's front. Again, this is
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  Speaker 3: a guy who I'm still quite bullish on in the
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  Speaker 3: long term. But he mentioned, yeah, it's been difficult trying
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  Speaker 3: to adjust to being in a new org with I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to say, different priorities than the Yankees had,
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  Speaker 3: but you're you're always getting different coaching, you're getting kind
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  Speaker 3: of a new environment. And he's been pretty forthcoming, which
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate about how challenging of a transition this has been.
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  Speaker 3: He's also said, yeah, I need to figure it out,
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  Speaker 3: and it doesn't all come back to command or control
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  Speaker 3: or whatever you say it. But yeah, he hasn't had
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  Speaker 3: his fastball command over the last couple of games. He's
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  Speaker 3: he's just been throwing slider after slider. He's been shaking
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  Speaker 3: off the catcher when they have called for a fastball
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  Speaker 3: because he doesn't believe he has control over that pitch
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  Speaker 3: right now. And so yeah, it's really a case of
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  Speaker 3: two guys who I think can both be helpful for
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  Speaker 3: the organ the long term, but one has adjusted to
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  Speaker 3: his role seamlessly and the other one is still kind
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  Speaker 3: of finding his footing. So that's kind of just what
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  Speaker 3: happens after a deadline. And when we talk about the
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  Speaker 3: blown save record being kind of roped into that, you
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of guys who are you still getting
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with those back end spots. So I'd expect to
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  Speaker 3: see probably more of a Rebalta beater. I shouldn't say
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  Speaker 3: more of, but we should expect to still see Rebalta
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  Speaker 3: beater in the seventh, eighth, ninth. It's just a question
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  Speaker 3: of who else can fill that final ending there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just it amazed me, like we've seen it
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  Speaker 1: so many times this season, guys being thrusted into roles
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  Speaker 1: that maybe they were not expecting to go into literally
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours before before being called up, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: that was not the game plan going into the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then to see the way that will succeeded the
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  Speaker 1: other day, absolutely incredible stuff from him, really quickly. Want
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  Speaker 1: Spencer, the other day you put out a story what's
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  Speaker 1: next for sever King? I'm sure many Nationals fans are
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  Speaker 1: wondering this question. We did a lot of chatter around
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  Speaker 1: his name in the last episode. Certainly seems like a
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  Speaker 1: call up is the next step here? What did people
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  Speaker 1: miss the other day in that story?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I kind of laid out the case for
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  Speaker 3: and against calling him up. I'm going to be looking
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  Speaker 3: down at my phone right now because that is where
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  Speaker 3: the information in the store, and I want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure I get all the points in here. Argument kind
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  Speaker 3: of against. I guess we could start for the argument
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  Speaker 3: four bring him up, because that is maybe the more
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  Speaker 3: compelling one. The main argument is he's flat out earned
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  Speaker 3: it right like he's he's been crushing the ball. The
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  Speaker 3: chase rate has come down. The shortstop looks way, way,
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  Speaker 3: way better than it did at the start of the season.
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  Speaker 3: He's making I think plays where earlier this season I
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  Speaker 3: had heard kind of a description of, Hey, this guy
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  Speaker 3: might be kind of similar to cja Abrams at shortstop,
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  Speaker 3: where the highlight plays are really strong, but the routine
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  Speaker 3: plays are a bit of a struggle. He has fixed
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  Speaker 3: all those routine plays. He's made like one air in
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  Speaker 3: the last two and a half months or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: And it could allow the organization to get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of clarity right where I don't think they know exactly
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  Speaker 3: who their starting shortstop is going to be on opening day,
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  Speaker 3: whether it is Nasi Nuniez, dj Abrams, sever King someone else.
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  Speaker 3: Allowing him to get that sort of runway this season,
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  Speaker 3: get that relationship with coaches, with the organization at the
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  Speaker 3: big league level, those could be really important reps. There
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  Speaker 3: is the flip side of it, which is that the
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  Speaker 3: Nationals really like Nasi Nudean's defense. They believe that he
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  Speaker 3: can be as impactful, probably as any shortstop in baseball
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And something that wasn't mentioned explicitly in the article because
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  Speaker 3: I didn't directly hear from the Nationals, but it's maybe
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  Speaker 3: just a helpful consideration for all fans to think of
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  Speaker 3: going forward with the lockout looming. The consideration of putting
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  Speaker 3: guys on the forty man roster not is impactful because
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  Speaker 3: if you're if there is a lockout heading into actual
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  Speaker 3: games being played next year, the players who are on
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  Speaker 3: the forty man roster can't be contacted by the organization
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  Speaker 3: and can't play in minor league games next year. And
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  Speaker 3: so if you're putting sever on the forty minutes, you
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  Speaker 3: won't get to see him there this season and beyond
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  Speaker 3: that again without because it would be set to begin
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  Speaker 3: December first, you don't get to be in contact them
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  Speaker 3: without season. So those are like five of the twenty
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  Speaker 3: five considerations I guess, but maybe probably the five most
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  Speaker 3: important ones. And so all of that to say, I
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  Speaker 3: don't have a direct answer on when he'll be called up,
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  Speaker 3: but I wouldn't be surprised probably by any date that
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  Speaker 3: it happens, just because there's so much maybe merit to
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  Speaker 3: both arguments or both sides of the case.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well let us know, you know, and the replies
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  Speaker 1: and the comments down below. When do you want to
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  Speaker 1: see sever King? Why should we be seeing sever King
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  Speaker 1: this September? I think, like you said, to give them
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  Speaker 1: that rumway, I think it is really exciting because spring training,
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  Speaker 1: those reps really count. The simulation just isn't quite as realistic.
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  Speaker 1: We put out a tweet last week asking for some
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  Speaker 1: fan questions, and Joe d replied, this season has been
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  Speaker 1: a thrill ride. I would be curious about how you
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  Speaker 1: guys look back at some of the storylines from earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the season, like the negative coverage regarding the younger coaches,
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  Speaker 1: the youth movement in the front office. Joe, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: it first personally, I just look at myself and laugh
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  Speaker 1: because I know I was feeding into that narrative a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't think it was going to go well.
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  Speaker 1: But Spencer, when you look back at where this team
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  Speaker 1: was and what the chatter was in January and February
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  Speaker 1: and what it is like on August seventeenth, that there's
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  Speaker 1: still maybe, just maybe there's a chance. How remarkable is it?
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 3: Remarkable, and I won't necessarily speak to all the chatter
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  Speaker 3: either from I think honestly what Joe was getting at
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  Speaker 3: here is probably like the fan base's thoughts or maybe
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  Speaker 3: the kind of larger outlook I can speak to my own,
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  Speaker 3: which is that coming into the season, I was like
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  Speaker 3: very bullish that the coaching changes would work, and I
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  Speaker 3: had some guys in the organization as like likely risers
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  Speaker 3: from it. I also thought this team might lose one
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  Speaker 3: hundred games, right, And so squaring those two things and
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  Speaker 3: saying like, I thought they were going to do a
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  Speaker 3: great job, and also I thought it wasn't going to
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  Speaker 3: be enough where it was going to be more focused
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  Speaker 3: on the minor leagues particularly, it really puts into perspective
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  Speaker 3: just how impressive it is what they've done at the
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  Speaker 3: big level. I can confidently say I was I was
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  Speaker 3: wrong about a lot with how this would work out.
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  Speaker 3: But I think anyone who's been around the organization for
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  Speaker 3: at least a few years now understands that changes needed
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  Speaker 3: and knew that the Nationals were probably going to be
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  Speaker 3: better off by the changes they were making. Again, I
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  Speaker 3: just had no idea quickly, I think other around baseball
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  Speaker 3: whether it's in other front offices or fans or whatever
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  Speaker 3: also didn't think it was going to happen this quickly,
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, if you do take a step back
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  Speaker 3: and acknowledge what they've done, it's it's remarkable to see
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  Speaker 3: not just how the front office or excuse me, how
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  Speaker 3: the farm system is turned around, but what they've done
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  Speaker 3: at the big level of the fact they'll probably and
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  Speaker 3: into ten more games than they did last year. That's
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  Speaker 3: definitely not nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think Baseball Writers Association used to
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  Speaker 1: come up with like a one eighty award or most
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  Speaker 1: Improved sort of thing, perhaps something to acknowledge just how
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  Speaker 1: incredible this season has been, even if the Nationals ultimately
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  Speaker 1: fall short of some of the goals they laid out
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season. One other question we had from
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  Speaker 1: the curly w dude. He seems to be advocating that
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of Nats fans don't want Jordbert Vivas on
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  Speaker 1: his team. Learn how to spell his name. Jody was
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  Speaker 1: there to defend him. The reason I included this was,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if Vivas is the next guy on the
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  Speaker 1: chopping block, if sever King is to be promoted here,
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  Speaker 1: is he kind of the odd man out in the
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  Speaker 1: group the way that you look at this roster right now, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: because I see the value that he brings off of
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  Speaker 1: the bench, and he's certainly had a knack for that
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  Speaker 1: in moments this year. But when I look up and
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  Speaker 1: down the word roster, he's kind of the one that
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  Speaker 1: stands out to me. If there's going to be some
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  Speaker 1: September call ups here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would just say before I get into actual points,
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  Speaker 3: as you alluded to, if you are going to criticize
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  Speaker 3: something about the roster, i'd recommend spelling players names correctly.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think larger curiosity among the fan base,
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to dive into it, right. I think the
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  Speaker 3: organization is still like higher on vivative understands right or
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  Speaker 3: at least heading into the last few weeks. They have
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  Speaker 3: been part of why they acquired him, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's fair to say, honestly, one of the reasons is
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  Speaker 3: because of the swing decisions are really hard to teach,
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  Speaker 3: and he has, believe it or not, some of the
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  Speaker 3: best swing decisions baseball when it comes to swing pitches
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  Speaker 3: inside the zone and laying off pitches. Unfortunately, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the other stuff around his game if you're the
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  Speaker 3: national or and so it does become a question of
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  Speaker 3: runway right where you know you're wanting to get Brady
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  Speaker 3: House and maybe some other guys reps and more rep
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  Speaker 3: see if they can actually do it at the big
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  Speaker 3: league level. What is Vvos's rule appear kind of same
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  Speaker 3: thing at second base, Like if you're figuring out where
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  Speaker 3: all these guys fit together, how does Vivos fit into it?
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  Speaker 3: If CJ a left handed hitter, as you're starting second baseman,
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  Speaker 3: and so you put all those considerations together, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't necessarily think it's any sort of certainty. Is like,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: you know, a fixture on this roster. They view him
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: as like the most you know, the guy who's going
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: to stick around forever. But yeah, from the ORGS perspective,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I think they've given him this much more because they
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: believe that much in the swing decisions and they've wanted
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: to help their kind of position players because the platoon.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: And that being said, I know that they are, you know,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: actively having conversations all the time how much to throw
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: young guys in the fire, just the sort of platoon
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: and matchup advantages. So we'll see how this all works.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Out.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: But it's definitely not a settled debate.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: As you apply, men like, we'll see what the organs
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: because I don't think so.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: We will see what the rest of the month has
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to hold and into September as well. Let's take a
• 18:37
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• 18:39
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  Speaker 1: So the Nationals with a Monday off day, but then
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: prepare to open up for a three game set out
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: in txis against the Rangers and then three against those
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: feisty Marlins. They've given them issues all season long. Jackson Kent,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: ramping up for his second big league start on Tuesday night,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: really liked what we saw on the other days. Answer,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but you know, preview tomorrow's matchup if.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You will, yeah again, I think for Jackson, so much
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: of this is going to come down to staying in
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: the zone. It was very like uncharacteristic to see him
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: outside of it so frequently, and you still saw the
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: stuff play, even with what he called his C stuff,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: And I think he would also probably argue like his
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: C location or command. And so if that is the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: worst version of Jackson Kent that you get, still not
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: a bad picture now Again, it's it's too early in
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: his career to make any sort of, you know, qualifications
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: about who he's going to be specifically or anything like that. Yeah,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: if you're looking ahead to this Rangers game, I'm fascinated
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: to see if the command holds up, and if it does,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: just how much he can stay in the zone and
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: still be effective, because I think that's a big thing
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: for the organization down the stretch is figuring out who
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: has command and more than that, whose stuff plays in
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: the zone. So fascinated to see how that plays against
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: a Ranger's line that has been kind of up and
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: down this season.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to pay attention to too. Is like, even
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: though the Nationals sit here at sixty and sixty six,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I think we can probably accept we are not stiff
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in October, but who knows what happens in the next
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: three games. The Rangers are just two games back of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the division at sixty one and sixty four, So I mean,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: this series has got serious implications for them right now.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: They are in the thick of it in a crazy
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Al West race right now. One final thing from yesterday's game,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Man Brady House took a tumble on a dive on
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a foul ball down the left field foul territory line,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: just very scary moment. He stayed in the game. And
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: then you also spoke with Blake Terra about james Woods
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: recovery the other day. James, it sounds like is maybe
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: something we need to pay attention to. It's taking a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: little bit more than ten days. But Brady shockingly is
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: okay after that, and I guess there's maybe not a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: lot of reason to worry unless there is something I
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: missed in the post game.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, No, nothing to worry about with Brady at
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: least it seems at the moment it was kind of
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: just uh, and I should clarify it was more like
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: a soldier shoulder thing we found out after the game.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: James is the one that I guess invites curiosity or
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: worry here. The fact that it hasn't been progressing the
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: way that they wanted to is never a good sign,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: especially because obliques can be kind of a tricky thing.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: And so again, the Nationals are in wait and see mode.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: But most optimistic outlook would have had games ramping up
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: and getting pretty close to returning. At this point, I
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: don't get any sort of indication he's close to returning,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: so Googe hit for the Nationals. We'll see how they
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: kind of fill in that that spot, or I should
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: say that production. That's that's gonna be hard for the
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: lineup down the stretch, and if they want to finish
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: with a winning record, that'll that'll make it even tougher.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wait and see, though, seems to be the attitude
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and I don't think you can blame them with that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: kind of talent that James brings to the lineup. Really quickly.
• 23:07
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• 23:23
  Speaker 3: No, I hope everyone enjoys the off day. And it'll
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: be really fun to see Abby Millick against his old team.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: And it'll be fascinating to see, in particular, if we
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: see CJ at second base in the series, just how
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that looks because we didn't see it in New York.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I have some pregame stuff and I'm fascinated to see
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: how that all plays out. I think that's probably down
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: the stretch the biggest storyline for.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: This team definitely, hopefully the debut. I'm excited to see
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it if we get to see it here in Texas soon,
• 23:52
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