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  Speaker 1: And as for my own personal aspirations and qualifications to
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  Speaker 1: manage a major league club, there are none. There are
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  Speaker 1: no aspirations, there are no qualifications. I'm going to stick
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  Speaker 1: to the day job and try to do it as
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  Speaker 1: well as I can. Welcome everyone to the Monday edition
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  Speaker 1: of Fair Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal. Busy, busy weekend that
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  Speaker 1: you might have watched or didn't watch the game I
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  Speaker 1: was on with Fox eighteen to two Dodgers over the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: But on this show today, we're not going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about either the Dodgers or Yankees. There is plenty else
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  Speaker 1: to discuss, And let's start off with Arizona, a team
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a serious injury scare right now, if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see the video, Corbyn Burns left yesterday's game with
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  Speaker 1: right elbow tightness. Now, this could have serious implications for
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  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks in the sense that they're already without Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery for the season. Edward Rodriguez remains out with left
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  Speaker 1: shoulder inflammation. And here's a team that is right there
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  Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Braves in the National League for the
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  Speaker 1: most disappointing in baseball. They're twenty eight and thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: They're eight out in the division, they're five out in
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  Speaker 1: the wild card, and if they lose Corbyn Burns, who
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  Speaker 1: has been their best pitcher, that would be a significant
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  Speaker 1: blow to any postseason chances, any dreams that they might
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  Speaker 1: have of getting back to the World Series for the
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  Speaker 1: second time in three years. This is a team with
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  Speaker 1: a record one hundred and eighty seven million dollar payroll.
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  Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns, if you might remember, signed a six year,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and ten million dollar contract last offseason. He
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  Speaker 1: has an opt out after the second year if in
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  Speaker 1: the worst case scenario, he needs elbow surgery. The opt
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  Speaker 1: out is not going to be an issue. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to stay. But the issue will be for the team,
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  Speaker 1: and the issue will be you lose Corbyn Burns for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the year, You lose him for next
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  Speaker 1: year two if he has a major elbow operation, and
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  Speaker 1: then where are you as a team? Do you shift
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  Speaker 1: your focus from being a potential buyer at the deadline
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  Speaker 1: looking for bullpen help to a potential seller the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 1: if they do become a seller, and yes I'm jumping
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  Speaker 1: ahead here, I'm speculating. We don't know the extent of
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  Speaker 1: Burns's injury just yet. But if the Diamondbacks become a seller,
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  Speaker 1: they have arguably the two best starting pitchers on the market,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Gallon and Merrill Kelly, to offer both potential free agents.
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  Speaker 1: Their other potential free agent is Josh Nayler, a first baseman.
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  Speaker 1: That is a position where there generally isn't much need.
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  Speaker 1: But I can think of one team that has a
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  Speaker 1: need for a first baseman, and that would be the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners. So on this Monday, we are waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the news on Burns, obviously hoping for the best, obviously
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  Speaker 1: hoping that the Diamondbacks remain a competitive team for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of this season in the National League West. But
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a really interesting scenario regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what happens here, because even if Burns is in the
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  Speaker 1: best case not heading for surgery, it seems almost certain
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  Speaker 1: after what we saw Yesterd today that he is going
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  Speaker 1: to require a trip to the injured list. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that already is reeling. On the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the coin, we've got the Milwaukee Brewers, a
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  Speaker 1: club that was struggling earlier in the season, a club
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  Speaker 1: that kind of was flummoxing its manager Pat Murphy, who
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  Speaker 1: said repeatedly I want to see the same edge from
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  Speaker 1: this team that we saw last year and in recent years. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. The Brewers have won seventh straight. They
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  Speaker 1: just swept the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia. Not easy to do,
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  Speaker 1: and they did it in a variety of ways. Two
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  Speaker 1: home runs from Christian Yelich on Friday, They just rocked
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  Speaker 1: haesus Lozardo on Saturday, and then Sunday they got to
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies bullpen late in the game and it was
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  Speaker 1: just a really terrific all around performance. Injury scare of
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  Speaker 1: their own, Christian Yelich got hit on the right hand
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  Speaker 1: and suffered a contusion, but the x rays were negative.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it's going to be day to day.
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  Speaker 1: Yelich had just gotten hot last eight games, eight game
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  Speaker 1: hitting streak. He was hitting four seventy two with five
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  Speaker 1: homers in that time, so clearly the Brewers want their
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  Speaker 1: offensive leaders to stay healthy. He is a huge part
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  Speaker 1: of what they do, even though he is not producing
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  Speaker 1: at the same levels he was maybe in the late
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  Speaker 1: twenty tens. So here are the Brewers. They are red hot.
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  Speaker 1: They are a team that again always seems to compete,
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  Speaker 1: and a team, as I wrote Friday, that has an
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  Speaker 1: interesting surplus of starting pitching that they could be dealing
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  Speaker 1: with in the immediate future. And I want to show
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  Speaker 1: you what I'm talking about here, because it's rare for
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  Speaker 1: any team to be in this kind of position. But
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers are in a really good spot right now
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  Speaker 1: with their rotation. Of course, Freddy Peralta is at the
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  Speaker 1: top of that rotation, is Aaron Savali, Jose Cantana, Chad Patrick,
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  Speaker 1: d L. Hall. That's the current group, and then TRIPAA possibilities,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruff on a rehab assignment right now, Logan Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: who was pitching really well, did not deserve a demotion
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  Speaker 1: and got one, Tobias Myers, who's kind of trying to
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  Speaker 1: recapture his twenty twenty four magic, and Jacob Miserowski. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Mizerowski is their top prospect, a dude who throws one
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour. So the Brewers are in a
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  Speaker 1: rather interesting position here if all these guys stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, there's no guarantee of that, and there's no
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  Speaker 1: guarantee that all will continue pitching well enough to remain
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  Speaker 1: viable options. But we've seen the Brewers trade from strength
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  Speaker 1: at the deadline before. We saw them do it with
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hater and with Freddie Peralta, a potential free agent
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  Speaker 1: who is a guy that will be in demand from
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  Speaker 1: some teams. Yeah, he's got a club option, so you
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  Speaker 1: can keep them from next year. But he is someone
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  Speaker 1: that the Brewers might think, you know what, we can
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  Speaker 1: survive without Freddy Parolta, and we can get something good
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  Speaker 1: maybe for the present and the future for him. That
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  Speaker 1: would be something that I would expect they would consider
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  Speaker 1: regardless of where they are in the standings. Remember when
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  Speaker 1: they traded Hater, they were in a really good spot
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  Speaker 1: and that Hater trade kind of dismantled the franchise a
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  Speaker 1: little bit or discombobulated them, that would be a better word.
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  Speaker 1: So they might not want to do that kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing again. But Savali is a veteran who will be
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  Speaker 1: in demand. They can do some things if these guys
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  Speaker 1: stay healthy and productive. So the Brewers, as always are
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  Speaker 1: looming as a potential thorn in the cub side. We
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't expect anything less. And finally, staying in the Midwest,
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  Speaker 1: big news out of Kansas City last night, the Royals
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  Speaker 1: are promoting their top prospect, Jack Caglion, and here's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that is really interesting, really exciting for a team
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  Speaker 1: that desperately needs offense. The Royals right now as we speak,
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  Speaker 1: are pitching great, and they also are tied for twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighth in the Majors in runs per game, tied with
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates for the second worst offense in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: ahead of only the Colorado Rockies. Here's Caglione, a guy
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  Speaker 1: that was drafted just last year, the sixth overall pick
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four draft, and he's a guy
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  Speaker 1: with immense power. There's some concerns about his chase, and
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. We'll see how that all plays out. But
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  Speaker 1: he is someone with vast offensive potential. Let's take a
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  Speaker 1: look at just who he is before I get into
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  Speaker 1: what his role with the Royals will be, because that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of interesting too. Jack Caglion, as I said, the
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  Speaker 1: sixth pick of the twenty twenty four draft. He becomes
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  Speaker 1: the third player from that draft to reach the majors.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Smith, of course, was the first. He broke Opening
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  Speaker 1: Day with the Astros and Nick Kurtz currently on the
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  Speaker 1: IL with the Athletics was the second Caglione six foot five,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pounds sounds like some dude out
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  Speaker 1: of the WWE. And finally, his combined stats at Double
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  Speaker 1: A and Triple A in this his first full professional
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  Speaker 1: season slash line three twenty two, three eighty nine, nine
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, fifteen homers in Double A and Triple A.
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  Speaker 1: Has actually been even better at Triple A than he
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  Speaker 1: was at Double A. So this is an exciting guy.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, he'll chase. Of course, he chased in the minor.
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  Speaker 1: He's chased at Florida. That's a concern. He's gotten better
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  Speaker 1: with that, but that's going to be the question offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively is really interesting too, because he is a first
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  Speaker 1: baseman and a DH mostly. He also pitched in college
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  Speaker 1: at the University of Florida. But with the Royals, he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to play first base or DH, primarily because
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  Speaker 1: they've got Vinnie Pasquentino and they've got Salvador Perez who
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  Speaker 1: sometimes plays first sometimes DHS. So what the Royals have
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  Speaker 1: been doing is playing Caglion in the outfield, and they
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  Speaker 1: feel he'll be able to hold his own out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to be great at least initially, but
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  Speaker 1: he did some one on one work with the Royals
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  Speaker 1: great longtime coach Rusty Kuntz in the minor leagues and
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  Speaker 1: they feel that he is ready enough. Let's put it
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  Speaker 1: that way, that he'll be adequate at the position. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the major leagues, Jack Caglione, and from the
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  Speaker 1: Royals perspective, a big welcome because they need the offense.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back after a quick word from our friends
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• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Well, time now for the Inside Dish, the part of
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  Speaker 1: maybe a trend in the game, maybe something else entirely.
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  Speaker 1: And today I want to talk about something that has
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  Speaker 1: been going on for quite some time that has been
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  Speaker 1: chronicled by the Athletics Chandler. Rome Chandler also hosts Crush
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  Speaker 1: Steady Territory on this network. And it's a rather disturbing
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  Speaker 1: issue because it kind of has layers to it, and
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  Speaker 1: it's an issue that involves the Houston Astros and their
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  Speaker 1: lack of transparency and seemingly a lack of competence on
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  Speaker 1: the medical land and you see the headline there Hereddan
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  Speaker 1: Alvarez's small hand fractor adds another chapter to the astro's
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  Speaker 1: ambiguous medical history. This goes back to last year and
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  Speaker 1: even beyond that, which I'll get into. But last year
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, the astro said for almost three months that
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker had a shin contusion, and the club eventually
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  Speaker 1: had to acknowledge that he had a fracture in the
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  Speaker 1: chin area because Chandler was about to report that he
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  Speaker 1: had a fractor. So only then did they go public.
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  Speaker 1: Now where they went wrong with the diagnosis, how they
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  Speaker 1: all played out not exactly clear, but what they said
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  Speaker 1: and what actually was going on were two different things.
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  Speaker 1: And for Kyle Tucker it was rather disturbing, I would imagine,
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  Speaker 1: since they're saying he's got a contusion and fans are wondering,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a contusion and you're sitting out three months, Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: he had a fracture. Well here we go, with Halvarez
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  Speaker 1: history repeating itself. Suffers the hand problem in early May.
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  Speaker 1: His last game was May second, hasn't played since then.
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  Speaker 1: On May sixth, he gets imaging. It shows inflammation and fluid.
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  Speaker 1: The team calls it a muscle strain on the top
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  Speaker 1: of his hand. Now, in fairness to the club, you
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  Speaker 1: can't always see a fractor when they're swelling around the
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  Speaker 1: area that is affected, because the swelling needs to go down,
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  Speaker 1: and only then on the imaging does the fracture become apparent. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Alvarez was working his way back. He takes live batting
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  Speaker 1: practice on Friday and guess what his hand hurts. Again,
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  Speaker 1: goes for more imaging and you look at here, he
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  Speaker 1: has a fractor. Now the question that comes up here
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  Speaker 1: is why didn't you send him for imaging before he
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  Speaker 1: started hitting off live pitching? Again, at that point you
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  Speaker 1: could have detected the fractor. Why didn't you send them
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  Speaker 1: for imaging the moment the swelling went down to see
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  Speaker 1: exactly what was there? These are fair questions. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: astro general manager, Dana Brown came out and said, this
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  Speaker 1: is sixty percent healed. They hope he is back quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But again questions about the astros and just what they
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  Speaker 1: are doing in their medical evaluations. And Chandler had an
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  Speaker 1: interesting line in his story about this whole situation in
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  Speaker 1: which he said, nowhere in Dana Brown's team written biography
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  Speaker 1: does it describe any medical education in the past. Yet
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  Speaker 1: he sat atop a bench on Saturday afternoon attempting to
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  Speaker 1: explain how it two billion dollar entity has now twice
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  Speaker 1: failed to discover a fracture in one of its franchise
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  Speaker 1: players now again. In fairness, general managers often speak for
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  Speaker 1: the medical staff, not all do, and Chandler has pointed
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  Speaker 1: out on Twitter, at X and other areas as well
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  Speaker 1: that other teams make medical personnel available on a frequent basis.
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  Speaker 1: The Reds are one, the Pirates or another. There are
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  Speaker 1: a couple of teams that do that. Rather than let
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  Speaker 1: the general managers speak. It's better to have the expert talking.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also better to be transparent with what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with your injuries. I want to show you here
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers injury report, and they issue this, I believe
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  Speaker 1: twice a week, two separate injury reports. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you can see this exactly in detail, and
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  Speaker 1: you certainly can't read it all, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to do that on the show. But it's a very
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  Speaker 1: detailed injury update on where each injured player stands. This
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  Speaker 1: is what every team in the Major leagues should be
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  Speaker 1: doing if they want to be transparent, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in an era of gambling, maybe a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: transparent it would be even more welcome, so people know
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  Speaker 1: what the heck is going on, what the heck they're
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  Speaker 1: betting on. Now, in the NFL, there is an injury
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  Speaker 1: report that is provided every week. Now, granted, these injury
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  Speaker 1: reports don't always go into the detail we'd like you hear.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes lower body injuries, sometimes stuff like that, but it's something.
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  Speaker 1: And the NFL has an injury report policy, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to read you from that and show you exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it says. The policy requires that teams provide credible, accurate,
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  Speaker 1: and specific information about injured players to the league office,
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  Speaker 1: their opponents, local and national media, and the league's broadcast
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  Speaker 1: partners each week during the regular season and postseason. Not complicated,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it's done, and that's the way it
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  Speaker 1: should be done in baseball. But in baseball, what we
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  Speaker 1: see too often, and not just with regard to injuries,
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  Speaker 1: is the sense in the league allowing the teams to
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  Speaker 1: do essentially whatever the heck they want. You want to
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  Speaker 1: open your clubhouse at a certain time, do that you
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  Speaker 1: want to announce injuries, do that, do whatever you need
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  Speaker 1: to do. We're not going to stop you. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to set policy. There are any number of areas
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  Speaker 1: in which the clubs, I won't say run a mark,
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  Speaker 1: but are too independent. Put it that way. They have
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  Speaker 1: too much control, and it's time, high time for the
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  Speaker 1: league to take control. And it's really high time for
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros to get it together with regard to
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  Speaker 1: what they're announcing about injured players and more importantly, the
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  Speaker 1: way they're diagnosing injured players. Alvarez is going to come back.
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  Speaker 1: The team is in really good position right now, even
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  Speaker 1: though they've played about a month without him, even though
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  Speaker 1: they've been incredibly right handed without him. But this whole situation,
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  Speaker 1: it seems, is another example of the Astros not getting
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  Speaker 1: it right on medical. You need to get it right.
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  Speaker 1: We all acknowledge, all of us, we've all been through
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  Speaker 1: this in our own lives, that sometimes diagnoses are not accurate,
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes you have to go to a second opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes things just don't work out the way they should.
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  Speaker 1: But in the Astros case, when they didn't send Alvarez
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  Speaker 1: for second imaging, when the swelling gets subsided, I don't
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  Speaker 1: see how there's just any good explanation for that. Tune
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  Speaker 1: into the latest Crush Citty Territory episode for more on
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  Speaker 1: your Don Alvarez's injury fallout. The Athletics channeler Rome and
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Stafford host former Astros outfielder Josh Reddick also stops
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  Speaker 1: show where I answer your questions. Let's get right to them.
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  Speaker 1: First question comes from apparently j Palm, who asks can
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  Speaker 1: the Braves turn their season around? It's funny it looked
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: like the Braves had turned their season around when they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: went nineteen and ten nineteen and ten from April eighteenth
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  Speaker 1: to May eighteenth, But in their last eleven games, even
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  Speaker 1: with a Kunya and Strider back, they've gone three and
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  Speaker 1: eight and raising fan concerns yet again about just where
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  Speaker 1: this season is going. I would say to any fan
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  Speaker 1: that is concerned about the Braves to keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: that the Mets and the Astros at this time last
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  Speaker 1: year were just taken off. The Mets were pretty horrible
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  Speaker 1: in their first two months. The Astros had their own struggles,
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  Speaker 1: and both of those teams eventually found their way. It
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  Speaker 1: is not too late for the Brave to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: And akun You're being back is certainly helpful. Strider eventually
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  Speaker 1: will find his stride, so to speak, and that will
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  Speaker 1: be helpful as well. So I expect that the Braves
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  Speaker 1: are going to be in the thick of this thing,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not for the division title, but certainly in a
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  Speaker 1: wild card scenario. And if you get in and you
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  Speaker 1: get hot, and you're playing well at the right time,
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  Speaker 1: as we have seen, you can go a long way
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. The Braves clearly need to be playing better,
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  Speaker 1: and at times this season it's almost seemed like that's
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  Speaker 1: not their year. But again I would stress that we
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  Speaker 1: felt that way about the Mets last May, we felt
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  Speaker 1: that way about the Astros last May, and then as
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  Speaker 1: a turn to June, things started to turn right before June,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, for both those clubs. So I would expect
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  Speaker 1: again that the Braves will be there, if not different conversation,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have that conversation in July. All right, Next question,
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  Speaker 1: should the Reds sell more than their rentals? Kyle essentially
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  Speaker 1: is asking should the Reds give up on their season
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  Speaker 1: and really go into a full rebuild mode. I would
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  Speaker 1: say no to that question, and yes, the Reds are
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  Speaker 1: in a four and seven stretch right now, and they
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  Speaker 1: got outscored in their final two games against the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: after winning the opener, outscored nine to three. Scoring runs
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  Speaker 1: has been a problem at various points this season for Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: but it's weird they still entered Sunday. Actually, even right now,
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  Speaker 1: they are a top ten offense. They're tenth in the
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  Speaker 1: majors in runs per game. They are seventh in the
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  Speaker 1: league in rotation era. So if you've got a top
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  Speaker 1: ten offense and a top ten rotation, why would you sell.
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  Speaker 1: You'd look for more consistency in your offense, and certainly
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  Speaker 1: they need another bat, we've been saying that since spring training.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd also look to fix your bullpen, something that
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  Speaker 1: they've been working on and something that they can keep
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  Speaker 1: working on through the deadline. But I see no reason
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  Speaker 1: for them to sell, and I see no reason for
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  Speaker 1: them at this point to look at selling beyond the
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  Speaker 1: players who are potential free agents. They don't even have
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  Speaker 1: many of those. So again, Cincinnati is not in quite
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  Speaker 1: the same kind of place as Atlanta is. But they've
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  Speaker 1: been an inconsistent team. They've been disappointing at times, but man,
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  Speaker 1: they've got a terrific rotation. And when you've got a
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  Speaker 1: rotation that good, and when you've got an offense that
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  Speaker 1: has the potential to be quite productive, you don't give
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  Speaker 1: up on a season. All right. Next question, This one
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  Speaker 1: comes from Jake Wilson, who asks, as we wait to
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  Speaker 1: hear about Burns, are we seeing the end of long
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  Speaker 1: term contracts for pitchers? Jake, The answer to that is no,
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  Speaker 1: But your raise a really interesting point. David Stearns, the
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  Speaker 1: Mets president of baseball operations, he basically has seen the
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  Speaker 1: end of long term contracts for pitchers. He doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: them out. The biggest contract he has given a free
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  Speaker 1: agent starting pitcher since taking over with the Mets is
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  Speaker 1: three years, seventy five million, and that was for Sean
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  Speaker 1: Maniah in free agency this year. Three years. Again, that's
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a short term seventy five million. Nice aav for Sean Maniah,
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  Speaker 1: but not anything crazy. So Stearns is basically pivoted away
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  Speaker 1: from that, and the Mets, because of their great pitching development,
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  Speaker 1: have been able to kind of keep things going and
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  Speaker 1: develop new guys each year, kind of make something out
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  Speaker 1: of nothing in many cases, Griffin Canning being the latest example.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the free agent class coming up, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good one of starting pitchers Zach Callen, Merrill,
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Michael King, Dylan Ceese from ber Valdez, Seth Lugo.
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  Speaker 1: If he does not exercise a player option. Are all
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  Speaker 1: teams going to take the approach of Stearns and and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we're just not doing this. I seriously
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  Speaker 1: doubt it. The market is what dictates contracts for starting
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  Speaker 1: pictures and other players as well. It's Saijan Soto got
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  Speaker 1: his amazing deal. It was the market. And when you
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  Speaker 1: have a shortage of quality starting pictures, as this sport does,
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  Speaker 1: quality starting pictures who can stay healthy, that's an even
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  Speaker 1: bigger shortage. Well, you're going to see teams bid and
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  Speaker 1: bid up. That's just the nature of the game. Will
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  Speaker 1: they be reluctant to do it, Sure, they'll be reluctant
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And will they perhaps be inclined like
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  Speaker 1: the Orioles were with Burns to go short term, high
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  Speaker 1: dollar Remember the Oriols offered Burns four years, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty million dollars. Now you could say, well that
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  Speaker 1: would have been better in some respects. It's less risk
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the term the length of the contract,
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  Speaker 1: But here's Corbyn Burns if he had signed with the
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  Speaker 1: Orioles and was in the same physical situation, facing at
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  Speaker 1: least the question of a major elbow operation. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got on a four year deal, you're losing two years
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  Speaker 1: pretty much. That would have been almost calamitous for the Orioles.
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  Speaker 1: So there is no great answer here. We all know
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  Speaker 1: that starting pictures get hurt, we'll leaf pictures get hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and the sport has yet to find a way to
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  Speaker 1: do a better job. We're not going to ever avoid
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  Speaker 1: injuries entirely, but to do a better job of keeping
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  Speaker 1: pictures healthy. Let's hope one day we get to that
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  Speaker 1: point where they are healthier and able to keep going
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  Speaker 1: in a better way. I don't know how it's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, if it's ever going to happen, but until
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  Speaker 1: then we're going to face these questions, and teams are
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  Speaker 1: going to face these questions about how to pay their
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: starting pictures. All right. Finally, the last question of the
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  Speaker 1: day from Jeff Wax, who asks are you available on
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  Speaker 1: short notice to manage the Boston Red Sox? And I assume,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: because this is grilling Ken, and because I am the
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  Speaker 1: host of this show, Jeff is directing that question to me,
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  Speaker 1: Am I available to replace Alex kra as manager of
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox. Ladies and gentlemen, you often have
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  Speaker 1: problems with the way I do my present job, So
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: why would I take a job for which I have
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  Speaker 1: no qualifications, for which I could not do on my
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  Speaker 1: best day and manage a team and a team as
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  Speaker 1: good as the Boston Red Sox, or as well regarded
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  Speaker 1: a franchise as the Boston Red Sox. Kidding aside, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: know what you're asking, and you're asking the question. A
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: lot of people are asking, Hey, what's going on with
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Alex Corar? Why aren't the Red Sox playing better? There
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons for that, and sure, maybe
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Cora is one of them. They just have not played
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  Speaker 1: to their potential yet. But Cora is in the first
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: year of a three year extension. He's not going anywhere
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon. If they have a disappointing season, if they
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: get off to a bad start next year, could I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: see him being in jeopardy. Yes, but not just yet.
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  Speaker 1: And as for my own personal aspirations and qualifications to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: manage a major league club, there are none. There are
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: no aspiration. There are no qualifications. I'm going to stick
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to the day job and try to do it as
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  Speaker 1: well as I can, so I don't get crushed on
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: X and in comments and everywhere else for just what
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a poor job I do covering this sport. Want to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: thank everyone for their questions, even the one about me
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  Speaker 1: becoming a manager. Thank you for listening, for watching, and
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• 25:24
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