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MLB power rankings, Skubal's future, Roman Anthony's hand issue · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: where We're excited to start off the show with Power
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  Speaker 1: Rankings and it is presented by Game Changer. Okay, AJ,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to go first. And just know that I've
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  Speaker 1: been witnessing the braves atop many power rankings lists. The
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  Speaker 1: Athletic has them number one. CBS has them number one.
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  Speaker 1: Believe ESPN has them number one, but as the representative
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  Speaker 1: of foul territory, which team is number one in the
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  Speaker 1: power rankings?
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  Speaker 3: Wait?
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  Speaker 4: Name those people again? Name the people you said athletic
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  Speaker 4: people who work there? We don't like Ken Katie. I
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  Speaker 4: mean the list goes on Evandrelk. I mean who else
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  Speaker 4: works there? I mean there's a whole long list of
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  Speaker 4: those people we don't really like, so we can. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so they're wrong. What was the next one?
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  Speaker 3: CBS?
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  Speaker 1: CBS Jim Gowden.
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  Speaker 4: He works for them, right, Yeah, he's wrong. He also
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  Speaker 4: thinks McGonagall is going to be Rookie of the Year,
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  Speaker 4: so he's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Next, Yes, Ben, Well, they think follow.
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  Speaker 4: ESPN thinks the Houston Astros won the two thousand and
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  Speaker 4: five World Series, and they also think Lebron James plays
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  Speaker 4: in every sport, so they're out that.
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  Speaker 5: Red Sox are the only thing that happens in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: So also true.
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  Speaker 1: I think America had the Braves number one too on
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  Speaker 1: their power rankings. J Yeah, we do, like JJ, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'll confirm that as you talk, So you lay out
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  Speaker 1: what you think the top ten should look like right now,
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  Speaker 1: and why.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, y'all can laugh. I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: I went Homer. I went so Homer on this, But
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  Speaker 4: first of all, I went LA because LA is never
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  Speaker 4: going to go anywhere until someone beats them.
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  Speaker 3: They're number one. They're gonna be number one until they lose.
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  Speaker 4: The Braves are number two, though they moved up because
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  Speaker 4: they have the best record and they're playing really well.
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  Speaker 4: Then the Yankees, who are also playing really well. Then
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  Speaker 4: this hurts my heart. The Cubs four, because they are
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  Speaker 4: unbeatable at home. I mean Michael confordo walk off. Homer
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  Speaker 4: says that last night. Then the Rays because their record's
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  Speaker 4: really good. And then it's then we're gonna get this.
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  Speaker 4: Surprises Cardinals because they're playing really well, and I love
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  Speaker 4: Allay Marma. We went to same high school, so he
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  Speaker 4: deserves love for what they've done earlier this year. Then
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  Speaker 4: we're going reds Padres. I need someone from the West.
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  Speaker 4: So the Mariners, I think, are gonna win that division,
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  Speaker 4: even though the A's are beating them. And then Lo
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  Speaker 4: and behold, the mighty Chicago White Sox are just creep
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  Speaker 4: grip grip grip, led by Davis Martin who went on
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  Speaker 4: city cruises with me along with Sean Burke, and they
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  Speaker 4: have pitched out standing the last couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: So poopoo poop, Chicago White Sox number ten.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice. So just to clarify for Braves fans that
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  Speaker 1: might be angry, what do the Dodgers need to do
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  Speaker 1: to not be number one? When you say they need
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  Speaker 1: someone to beat them, you mean, no matter what, if
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  Speaker 1: they're in a playoff position, you are not knocking them
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  Speaker 1: off a power rankings list based off their past two
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  Speaker 1: years until you see them lose in a postseason battle.
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  Speaker 1: And of course if they somehow shock the world and
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  Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs, I don't think anybody sees that,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not even gonna bring that up.
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  Speaker 5: But they're gonna win the West.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's pretty much given. Look at the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the teams in the West. I mean the Padres,
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see over one hundred and sixty two where they finish.
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  Speaker 4: But the Dodgers are going to win the division. So
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  Speaker 4: they're going to get in. And we saw all they
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  Speaker 4: got to do is get in the last two years
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  Speaker 4: and they win. So until someone beats them in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: are going to be number one. If the Dodgers could
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  Speaker 4: be one in one and sixty one and the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the teams in that division could be oh in
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  Speaker 4: one sixty two, and I still have the Dodgers one in.
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  Speaker 3: My power rankings because they're in the playoffs and they
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  Speaker 3: have a chance.
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  Speaker 5: That's why, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean if I told you before the season started
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  Speaker 1: that on May fifth, AJ would have the Rays, the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: and the White Sox as three teams in his top ten,
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  Speaker 1: what would you have said to future AJ.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going off what I was the assignment. I
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  Speaker 4: was told to do the power rankings as of right
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  Speaker 4: now in today's game, because I look at it like this.
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  Speaker 4: The Cardinals in the in the central are playing really well.
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  Speaker 4: And I like the Cardinals too. I'm a big Cardinals fan.
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  Speaker 4: As you guys know, I played there. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: put my Cardinals hat on because people like when I
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  Speaker 4: put my Cardinals hat on. So I'm gonna put my
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  Speaker 4: little Cardinals homer hat on. Okay, I mean they are
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  Speaker 4: just behind the Cubs two games back twenty one and fourteen.
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  Speaker 4: Their run differential is in the positives. They beat the
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  Speaker 4: Brewers last night, and they're playing really well. They're seven
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  Speaker 4: and three, they're twenty one and fourteen, and I love
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  Speaker 4: their manager John Jay and Daniel descalso not so much,
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  Speaker 4: but their manager Ali. I love Pop Warner is a
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  Speaker 4: great third base coach, and I think they, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: they have something going right now. And this again was
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  Speaker 4: for right this second. It wasn't for three weeks from now,
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  Speaker 4: a month from now. This is for May fifth, Cinco
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  Speaker 4: de Mayo, May the fourth be with you yesterday, all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, but on Sinco to Mayo.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 4: I have the Cardinals. Yes, I have the Rays because
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  Speaker 4: look at their record, what are they They're twenty two
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  Speaker 4: and twelve, nine and one in their last ten. Hard
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  Speaker 4: to argue against that. And they're keeping the Yankees on
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  Speaker 4: their toes, and then the White Sox because who the heck,
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  Speaker 4: someone's got to win the Central and right now, the
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  Speaker 4: Tigers just lost Google Frowner hasn't been great, the rest
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  Speaker 4: of their rotation hasn't been great, and the Guardians are
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  Speaker 4: five hundred and the White Sox are coming, so that's
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  Speaker 4: why they're ten.
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. Yep, you're a homer, but you haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to put them in a top ten of basically
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  Speaker 1: anything in four seasons of this show. So I'll give
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  Speaker 4: You know, listen, when you have when you have multiple
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  Speaker 4: bubble heads, then yes they deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: You're bringing it today, all right, Kratz, Where do you differ?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, AJ doesn't even believe that the White
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  Speaker 2: Socks are in the top ten, So that's an easy one.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the car who's better? Who's better than
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  Speaker 4: the White Sox? Get my list, we'll get there. You
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  Speaker 4: don't believe it yourself, so I put them there.
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  Speaker 2: So when you let's let's just put my Let's just
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  Speaker 2: put my my list up, and that way I can
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  Speaker 2: explain what I'm thinking. I also agree, I think the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers are They had a little swoon here when they
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  Speaker 2: go like six games, five games without hitting a homer,
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  Speaker 2: and they're still one of the best teams record wise
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  Speaker 2: in the league. So I have the brave second, the
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  Speaker 2: Yankees are easily the best American League team. I struggled
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  Speaker 2: putting American League teams in here. I really did, and
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  Speaker 2: I made it.
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  Speaker 5: I made a.
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  Speaker 2: Concerted effort to say, Okay, there has to be three
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  Speaker 2: American League teams in my top ten, and the reality
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  Speaker 2: is to me after seven. I don't think any of
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  Speaker 2: these teams deserve to be in the top ten. But
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  Speaker 2: I had the Cubs, who I think I could have
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  Speaker 2: put ahead of the Yankees. But I'm like, no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna do that. I'm just gonna make sure I
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  Speaker 2: have an American League team in the three spot.
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  Speaker 5: I had the Padres.
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think the Padres have this like vaunted
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable lineup, but I think they have like just a
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  Speaker 2: knack for winning that I think, yes, they're starting rotation.
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  Speaker 2: You would look at it and you go, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: is it gonna be enough to be a playoff contend
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  Speaker 2: or to be a force in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: I could care less what their rotation does.
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  Speaker 2: It's the one team in the league where I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this bullpen is elite shutdown. And I think who had
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  Speaker 2: a Mory Holne I think has a has a six
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  Speaker 2: era in that bullpen. And I still believe in this bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: like anytime you have Mason Miller, you have a strata,
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  Speaker 2: you have Adam Who's back, Like those guys are legit.
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  Speaker 2: I really love the Reds. I know they went on
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  Speaker 2: a little meh streak and the team that beat them,
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  Speaker 2: the Cardinals. I don't have them in the top ten.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're a top ten team, and I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of it revolves around their pitching or
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  Speaker 2: their lack of pitching that I think is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of ballooned up there. Their real record, their expected
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  Speaker 2: record is probably closer to five hundred, and I think
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  Speaker 2: they're playing like a five hundred team that's figured out
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  Speaker 2: ways to win, which is awesome. The Rays pitching staff
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  Speaker 2: is killing it the exact opposite, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners are. Yes, the record isn't as good as the A's. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're not winning the West right now, and cal Raley's
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  Speaker 2: been out. I think they're slowly getting better. The last
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  Speaker 2: two weeks. I feel like the Mariners have slowly been
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  Speaker 2: getting better. I think the Pirates could have been ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the Mariners because I think they have shown that
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  Speaker 2: the moves that they made has increased their offense. I
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  Speaker 2: think their offense is like fifth or sixth in the
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  Speaker 2: league right now. Their defense hasn't gone down as much,
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  Speaker 2: even though I think they have guys that are not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily in the positions that would be the best. Before
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  Speaker 2: they were built on defense, and they were kind of
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  Speaker 2: they were a little above average on defense, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they're continuing that, but they're doing it with better
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  Speaker 2: offensive guys in each position. And obviously the pitching is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And the Brewers, I don't know if they're a top
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  Speaker 2: ten team or not, but I can't not put them
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  Speaker 2: in there. That's my homer pick.
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  Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that when you had to
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  Speaker 1: make a decision between some teams that were in similar
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  Speaker 1: spots standings wise, you sided with the team that had
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  Speaker 1: more pitching because you believe in them more long term.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals are a good example of leaving them out,
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  Speaker 1: and say the Mariners coming off a rough weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: know they rebounded yesterday, but being placed in there based
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  Speaker 1: on the pitching that they have, I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 1: big difference between Seattle and Saint Louis with pitching.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But I mean, I think it's the power rankings
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  Speaker 2: for the first month here too. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: necessarily what's going to happen. I think it's the power
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  Speaker 2: rankings for the first month, and I think I believe
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  Speaker 2: more in the Mariners than I do in the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: And is it because of what I see out they're
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  Speaker 2: starting rotations.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, White Sox beat the Brewers too, I mean the
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  Speaker 4: Padre's two out of three, so shouldn't they be ahead
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  Speaker 4: of them in the power rankings?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Marlins beat the Dodgers two out of three.
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  Speaker 2: Social the Marlins to be ahead of them?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just asking you said, I'm just asking you. I know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe they should, but the Dodgers are the best team.
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  Speaker 2: I think one thing that we can agree on. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think after six or seven on this list, you
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  Speaker 2: could probably find five teams. One of those teams wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the White Sox that I found. But I'm not really disagreeing, Like,
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  Speaker 2: go through the standings and look at the teams, and
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  Speaker 2: who really are you going to choose? Who really are
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  Speaker 2: you going to say? Man, it's solidified, has to be
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  Speaker 2: a top ten team here. And I may have put
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  Speaker 2: the Rays a little bit too low. I may have
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  Speaker 2: put the Brewers shouldn't have been in the top ten.
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  Speaker 2: The Cardinals could be in there. You know, are the Tigers?
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  Speaker 2: Are the Tigers? Am I saying?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? Schools out?
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  Speaker 2: Now? I can't put the Tigers in there? You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think the Tigers are still the best team in
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  Speaker 2: the Central, but it's it's very it's very muddled there,
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  Speaker 2: very muddled.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think it's fair when you're discussing power
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  Speaker 1: rankings still look at a team like Detroit and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're in a similar spot as many other teams in
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  Speaker 1: the American League Central and even the American League, and
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  Speaker 1: they just lost by far their best picture. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's fair to ding them for that when it happens
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  Speaker 1: right before we're releasing our power rankings. Yes, we know
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  Speaker 1: for those of you listening afterward or those of you
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  Speaker 1: live in the chat, it is May fifth, but we
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  Speaker 1: like to dance around a little bit and just get
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  Speaker 1: a check on where we think everyone is. If you
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• 15:55
  Speaker 1: ten on AJ's power rankings. White Sox picked them up
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: after the Yankees cut them AJ.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just another another another weapon to add to the
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: arsenal for Will Venable in the tenth place White Sox.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: They're coming, yeah place.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: They're gonna smash lefties now, that is for sure.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: That's just everybody right now.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: But that's his job. He gets some platoon action in there,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: get grit chick in the right matchups, and the dude
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: can still hit the ball hard.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Their outfield hasn't been good either, so they need something
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: out of the outfield.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Right, So this makes a lot more sense.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Really good, And.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: They moved him up? Did they move him up to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: lead off?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: When's Teal coming back?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Last I heard, he wasn't even running yet, so he
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: was supposed to go and rehab and he tried to
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: run and didn't go good.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: So is it his hamstring or hamstring? But the Romo,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Drew Romo is doing all right.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: So he's he's stepping up.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Are they making them sit on the traject machine for
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: four hours a day? That two homer game he did
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: like four hours on it? And then they were like, Okay,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: now you have four hours of your life. You're losing
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: every single day. You're gonna have to do that every
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: day you can't hit.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: I do it. I'd do it for two homers.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I would bang my head into the traject machine. They
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: meant two homers. There's nothing Aj maybe AG doesn't agree
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: with me. There's nothing I wouldn't do for two homers
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: on the baseball field.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, didn't you just see him the other day?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: AJ?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Jonah him who let go by the Braves because Sehn
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Murphy's back, so the A's quickly scoop him up. I mean,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: he's barely played so far this year because Jerke Baldman
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: was getting most of the pt. He's not gonna play
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a ton with shy langer Lears in front of him.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But he's looked a little bit better in his plate
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: appearances that I've seen.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Jonah Hymen is actually doing all right for the Braves.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: And this is a nice pickup for them. He he
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: he started with the A's. Let's not forget he started
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: with the Athletics his career before he went to Texas
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: winning a World Series.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I like this pickup for them.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: He'll give lang Lears a chance to d h when
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: he when he needs a day off, and they have
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: a backup catcher that's trusted and can also do some damage,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: especially right handed when they excuse me, when they face
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: a lefty.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: So I love this pickup.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: It's not going to cost him a ton, and for
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the A's, any little piece helps to try to fend
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: off those pesky Mariners.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Hey, the A's didn't crack the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: top ten for either of you guys in your power rankings,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure they were pretty close right on the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: piff free there. Okay, Yeah, it's the same story cords there.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the offense. I don't think anybody is.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Jaylanklears was on fire at the end of last year
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and he's carried it right into this year. He's been
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: freaking great for them. They have a couple slow starters
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: that you're not worried about. It's just are they going
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to have enough pitching in August in September to stay
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: in the race. Don't you feel like that's the only question.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the question.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, Sevarino needs to figure out how to pitch
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: in Sacramento. The rest of their starter, there's springs hasn't
• 19:01
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• 19:03
  Speaker 4: really count on him, So yeah, they need to figure
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: out the pitching. The bullpen's actually been all right. It's
• 19:08
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• 19:09
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• 19:14
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• 19:17
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• 20:14
  Speaker 5: It's great.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: I'm feeling really great. I feel like this is a
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: great time for me to get brought up. I told
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: I told Jared earlier. You know, I'm feeling sexy.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: At the play right now, so I'm trying to.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: Keep that moving. And you know, obviously this is it's
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: a different ballgame, but it's not. You know, it's the
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: same ballgame. I'm gonna keep trying to trust myself and
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: trust my teammates and.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Urm me a long way.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Bryce Eldridge bringing the viral quote, you want to hear
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: that aj from a guy coming up to try and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: honestly rescue a team they they need pop.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he hopefully feels sexy right now. He
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: just got called up to the big league. He's been
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: doing all right down in Triple A, down down in
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the minor league, so he got called up. Hopefully he's
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: feeling sexy and he can help this team because right
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: now they need all the help things, especially with Devers
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: struggling and adamis no power.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: They have no power on this team.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: He'll add some power, I mean, but how much power
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: can one guy add. It's kind of like over in Boston,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: how much pressure or how much can you put on
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Roman Anthony's shoulders? Young guys, that stuff gets put on
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: their shoulders. It's tough for Bryce Eldrids if he does well,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: if he hits for the power that they hope he does.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It's because the Big Three are clicking and teams are like, well,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: we're not really as worried about Bryce Eldred's strikeouts, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: then he's gonna clip a few of them. But if
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: he has to carry him and a Domis and Devers
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and Chapman don't step up, it's gonna be a lot
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of the same stuff.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: It's just it'll be a cool story about Bryce Eldrid.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Buster Posey called that out, saying, we need the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Big three to get us out of the funk. Can
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: produce the way we know they can produce. Dever's, Chapman
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and Adamis. If Eldridge does hit from the ump and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: brings a spark to them. AJ. This might lead to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a big sexy nickname. I know we had one in basketball,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but we didn't have one in baseball, right Colne, Oops,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I forgot about Big Juicer.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Should have been but no, I mean, Eldrid's still striking out.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: He might feel sexy. But I've never seen anybody go
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: from the bushes as a power hitter and come to
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the big leagues and strike out less. I just haven't
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: seen it. So the hitting coach in the big leagues,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it's got a lot of work, more of just an approach.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Because the power is there, how do you unlock it consistently?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: That's what he said.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: That's what he said.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, let's start with Roman Anthony. The Red Sox don't
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: need this. And the line I keep thinking about AJ
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: is how Ken said the Socks were expecting him to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: be a big pop level contributor this year. That's a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: tall task if you look back at Big Poppies career.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: So for him, it's not been a great year. This
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is his first full season, yes, and he's dealing with
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a hand issue. This is what he said yesterday.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I got X rays right after it happened, so
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: they looked negative. And I'm gonna go evaluate with a
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: hand specialist tomorrow and you know, leave it up to
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: them and probably get an MRI to see, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: what's actually going on.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: But that's that's what I know.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: What did you feel?
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: Just took a swing and it didn't feel good, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: as I came back in and went under to continue
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: to swing, it just was painful.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, what did he say a word? Hurt?
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: I didn't see anything. I didn't see anything, because.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, it could be risked, it could be hand made,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: it could be thomb it could be there's a lot
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: of little bones and ligaments in here that it could be.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: So it's going to see a hand specialist. I wonder
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: who's going to see. Probably Thomas Graham, who's the guy
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: who's like the best in the world at dealing with
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: hands and stuff.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So we'll find out.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: But yeah, they can't afford this, and to put this
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: on Roman Anthony to be David Ortiz, that's not for you.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: When David Ortiz got to Boston, he barely made the team,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: and then he was coming from Minnesota where we had
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: defaied him for I don't know why, because he didn't
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: enough for you know. Anyways, there was a whole flu
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: a reason he didn't play defense this and that he
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: goes to Boston, doesn't start right away, and then after
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: a month or so, Jeremy Johnny wan't doing well, so like, hey,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: let's try David and he took off from there. So
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: like to throw this on a twenty one year old
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: kid is tough. Twenty two year old kid, that's tough
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: to throw David Ortiz on top of them. You know,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Roman Anthony's going to be a really special player. But
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: you can't go into the season say, man, we need
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Roman Anthony, Marcello Meyer, you know, Rafaela, some of these
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: younger guys to carry this team.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: You need guys like.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Wilsoner Dress who's doing nice job, Trevor Story, you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: you need some of those guys Jaron Duran to step
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: up and really take the lead. And so far that's
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: the one thing the Red Sox haven't had. They haven't
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: had a lot of offense. And also now they're pitching's banged up.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: So this is just a team that seems like everything
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: that could go wrong is going wrong. And if Roman
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Anthony's out for a while, it can only get worse.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Usually you can't do anything about it. But your hands
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: and feet are so so important when you're playing a
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: game one hundred and sixty two times in one hundred
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and eighty four days, whatever the big league season is like.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: It sounds stupid, but if you got something wrong with
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: your toes, if you've got turf toe, if you have
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: if you have something you know that you're dealing with,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: you're always on your feet. If you have something you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: dealing with in your hand, you're always swinging. You're always
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: That's why you know you look back at aj stats
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: about how many games he played and how he hit,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: like you're always getting banged up in your hands and
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: you're having to play through things you're hitting just as
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: much as you're standing like you're swinging you got the
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: bat in your hand. So, yes, the Red Sox are
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: in shambles right now. Yes, it could have been avoided
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: by making a couple different offensive upgrades in the offseason
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: that they didn't want to do. But yes, they need
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: to take time with this. They cannot let him rush
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: back and sometimes hands because of the fact that circulation
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: they don't heal as quick, it's tough, and hopefully he
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: doesn't come back. It's one of those things you go
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: to an MRI and you go, well, I hope you
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: don't find anything in there. But if you don't find anything,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: he's also saying he's experiencing more pain than he's ever
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: experienced in his hands.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: So you want to find it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: You want to nip it in the butt, and you
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: want to take the time to say it's one hundred percent.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, this is one of the bright players in
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: our sport who was fantastic and about a half season
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of games last year. But see what happens here with
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the news on the hand, and I want to get
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to Trek's school Part two. So AJ asked this question
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to Ken Rosenthal and it was brought up on our
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Injury Territory show. So we had Will Carroll on our show.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: But then on his separate show Injury Territory that just
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: talks about yet you guessed it injuries. The thought was
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: brought up that maybe school doesn't return at all. Let's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: listen to this.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: Trek scooble heading for surgery. We saw on his last
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: time out he was shaking his elbow. I said, hey,
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: let's keep an eye on this, and darn it if
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: it's not loose bodies. The Tigers are calling this loose bodies.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: We used to call these bone chips. But it's definitely
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: not good news. It goes back to Edwin Diaz, it
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: goes back to Carlos Dan. We're seeing more and more
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: of these. Is that because we're catching these earlier that
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: we have better imaging. I'm not sure, but losing Schooble
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: for two months at the low end certainly doesn't help
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: the Tigers. It probably doesn't help Scott Boris as he's
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: put together his book to get a big, big check.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: Long term, I don't think this really affects schoobl But
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: the short term, this is a gut punch.
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: It makes you wonder if he's going to be pitching
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: in a Tiger's uniform ever again. You know, that was
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: my first reaction when reading the breaking story was there
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: are a lot of reasons, both medically and logistically, why
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: it might make sense for him not to pitch again
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: the rest of the season, and that's devastating for baseball,
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: devastating for the Tigers.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: May not be devastating if you know.
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: He plays his cards right for Schooble just because you know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: you look at his track record, it's phenomenal. But still,
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: you know what this means long term, there are still
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: a ton of questions where everything around Schooble very much
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: dealing with some real fallout.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I have to imagine that if tire schools and good,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be back to pitch late in the year
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and it's twofold one. He wants to play and win
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and do some playoff ball with the Tigers. AJF he's doing,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: he's feeling good, and also he's going to be a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: free agent. You want to see it come out of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the hands like it usually does after the surgery.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, I mean he wants plus, he wants
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: to be able to pitch for his team. I mean
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: that's the biggest thing. I mean, free agency is there.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: But he also has been a Tiger's whole career. They've
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: been to the postseason, they've made some runs, have many
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: able to get over that hump. So I think he'll
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I think he's going to do everything in his power
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: to be back plus. And then let's talk about this
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: on a personal level. As a free agent, you want
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: to go out and show teams you're healthy, because this
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: is his third elbow malfunction whatever you want to call it,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: over his career, So teams are going to want to say, hey, man,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: we don't want to be bidding on damage goods here.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: If you can't prove you're healthy, that's.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: A big deal.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: It means a lot, and that's why he sometimes rush.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: I hope he doesn't rush back, but I hope he
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: comes back when he's healthy and can pitch, because the
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: game is better when Terrek schools on the mound every
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: five days.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Had I had bone chips removed from my or a
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: loose body removed from my elbow in the offseason one time.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I am not Trek's koble, but I had to throw
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: at the highest possible level that I had to throw
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: at when I got into spring training a month and
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: a half later. So you know, I think he knows
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: his body, and I know that he will. I would
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: say he would push it. The fact that he's not
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: going to pitch for the Tigers, I would be surprised
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: unless they go in there and they find something that says, ooh,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: you know this is causing or this was caused by
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: this because bone chips just don't happen. They just don't.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: They don't appear out thin air. They appear, like he
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: told us yesterday, because one there's something else is going wrong,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: or it chipped off and broke off from another place.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: So what was that? Why did that happen?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: The fact that he the fact that he did this
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the game, he's like, oh, whoa
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: what is that? Gave himself a massage and then he
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: struck out. The side is like Terry Scoble can pitch
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: at a reduced level and still be pretty.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Good, no doubt, Yes, all of that. So we'll see.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We'll look at what the timetable is for him. If
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: it ends up being three months, that's taking us into August.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: But even if that's the case, I mean you're still
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: in August. You still have a month and change in
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the regular season, plus hopefully for his cause. Yeah, other
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: people definitely need to step up, and then they're down
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: some other starters like we've talked about. So we'll see.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be easy. They're not a lock for
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. The American League is not great. That's the helper,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and the American League Central is not great. Either. That's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: also a help to keep the Tigers involved in the mix.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: They my guess would be only one team makes it
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: from that division. I know it's way too early to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: think about that, but that's the helping point for the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Tigers to get through this without their their big dog. Hey,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: back in the break here. The Angels have the worst
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: record in the major leagues. That was fast. They've dropped
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: nine of ten and against Casey, the White Sox and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the Mets.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is this surprising?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Zero zero surprise? Bill shaking with that? Sweet?
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I mean they're not playing good. They don't pitch, they're
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: not hitting that greade either. I mean, Trout's doing all right,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: but the rest of the I mean it's Netto and
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Trout pretty much for the for the Angels to score
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: in the offense. And the pitching has not been good.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: They lost Cacuchi. Soriano cannot pitch against the White Sox.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: We have discovered that. And if he doesn't pitch well,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: then it really puts him in a bad spot. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: this isn't a surprise. We knew this coming in. They
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: weren't going to be a good team. They keep saying this,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: they keep pushing this. You know, we love perryman Agi,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: and he keeps saying, oh, there are best baseballs right
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: around the corner, when it's been a long time.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It really has. They have not been able to figure
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: out putting the pitching together for a long time, but
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: even more recently with some of the moves that they
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: have made, they have turned into disasters. Robert Stevenson basically
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: never pitched for them. They invested real money in him
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that never turned into a thing.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Every time he's gotten hurt, he pitched. Had one basically
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: one good year.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like two good months and that was
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: one of those where I remember Krats we were pretty confused,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and then he was out pretty early on in the season.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You're just like, really, this is finally where they're going
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to spend all of their money on a guy who's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: had all kinds of injury risk. They did, and here
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: they are. The difference for me aj between this team
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and how we mentioned the Oriols the other day, both
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: teams certainly not pitching or hitting well. I just don't
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: see it for the Angels like I don't see it
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: on paper with the top end of it, and I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: also don't see it with building a team that's able
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to last throughout a whole season. Sometimes they'll give you
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a flash for a couple months. We didn't even make
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: it to that point. It's just not being built correctly
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: consistently a problem.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: You're right, and they haven't been good for one you
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: might trot has him into the postseason since twenty fourteen
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: or whatever it is. I mean, come on, and then
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: now you're starting to see where people want him to
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: get traded. Would they trade him? Would he accept the trade?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: That's the real question is is it time? And we've
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: talked about this before.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: You would think they have.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: You'd think they have the pieces, like Netto Shanowel. Trout's
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: obviously playing well. Christian Moore is supposed to be legit.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Ben Joyce was supposed to be legit. Joe Adell was
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: supposed to be, by these exact words, a future Hall
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: of Famer by Scouts in their organization. Like you would say,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: there's pieces, so then you have to build around it,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: and they don't have it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Let's slap a couple other things we didn't
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: get to. First off, injuries, Aja angel Zerp has got
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a talented arm. I watched his first four or five
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: starts with the Brewers were fantastic out of the bullpen
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: for them. He's snuck I think one or two saves
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: in there when McGill was struggling. Then he fell apart
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and it turns out his elbow was falling apart. So
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he's got the UCL reconstruction surgery. That's our Kurt Hoague,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: who is the host of Brewer Territory, doctor Keith Meister,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: getting it done next week with him. So Zurpa will
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be out until spring or summer of twenty twenty seven.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Remember he was involved in that trade that included Isaac
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Collins and Nickmuer's moving over to the Royals. So there's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: low loss for the Brewers. I mean, it sucks, but
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: they're so good at turning so many pitchers into gold.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I gotta give them credit. I mean, well they skip
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: much of a beat, I don't think so. And also,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I mean he was hurting them as Era ended up
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: being I think in this seven range by the time
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: he was hurt getting evaluated. I know, So he's out
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: one more injury. Stephen Mattz today placed on the injured
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: list left elbow inflammation. That's a bummer for him, I know,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: he's battled injuries throughout his career. He was off to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: a pretty nice start too. Seven starts, three eight six
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: cra and you know, he did a lot of bullpen
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: time last year with Boston when he was traded over there,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and even with Saint Louis. I mean, he was mostly
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a reliever last year and he was really good. Rays
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: We're like cool, we like what we're looking at. Do
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you want to be a starter? And that's part of
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the pitch for the Rays. They're able to do that
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: with free agents to entice them over. Hey, is your
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: deal close enough to this one. Let's get you a
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: year as a starter and re establish your value on
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the market. But he's going to miss a little bit
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of time too.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully he gets back healthy because he was off
• 36:41
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