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Jim Bowden: AL MVP & MOY picks, key to postseason dominance, Mets, Blue Jays + Astros playoff hopes · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It is time now for front office unfielded.
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  Speaker 2: We are always privileged and pleased to be joined by
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  Speaker 2: our GM, our resident GM, Jim Bowden. Of course you
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  Speaker 2: can follow him on x at Jim Bowden GM, MLB
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  Speaker 2: Analyst and Insider CBS Sports. Of course the Athletic MLB
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  Speaker 2: Network radio series Exam. The man is all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: and now he is on foul territory. Jim, What are
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  Speaker 2: the Mets doing? I tell you what, this has just
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  Speaker 2: been such a wild wild ride. What say you, my friends?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think they're really happy that Arizona traded away
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  Speaker 3: Merrill Kelly and Josh Naylor and you Henneo Sprez at
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  Speaker 3: the trade deadline, because that's the only reason today they
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  Speaker 3: stand in third place for that last wild card spot.
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  Speaker 4: Look, it's going to be a fund race to the end.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who would have thought the New York Mets
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  Speaker 3: would be standing here with Senga being optioned out, Manaia
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  Speaker 3: going to the bullpen, three rookies in the rotation. The
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  Speaker 3: ace of the staff is Nolan McClain, who will pitch
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  Speaker 3: Game one if they get in. I mean, I love
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  Speaker 3: this Mama drama. It's great.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: Even with losing those three guys, they're not gonna go away.
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  Speaker 3: This team has plays with a lot of energy, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of enthusiasm. They're playing loose and free. They've got
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  Speaker 3: nothing to lose, and it's fun to watch. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad at least in the National League we have one
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  Speaker 3: final race that we can kind of encapture over the
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  Speaker 3: next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you agree with me, but I
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  Speaker 5: would cringe when guys would say, it can't get much
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  Speaker 5: worse like we're doing it. Can it get worse? For
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  Speaker 5: the Mets. I know they've won recently, but I feel
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  Speaker 5: like they're getting a lot out of guys they had
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  Speaker 5: no expectation of getting out of and the guys that
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  Speaker 5: they're expecting haven't played well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, except of course One Soda has played extremely well,
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  Speaker 3: as you know here over the.
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  Speaker 4: Last couple of months. But to your point, you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean to sit there and do what they're doing
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  Speaker 3: with the rotation the way it is has been interesting
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  Speaker 3: for sure, and the offenses, as you mentioned, been really inconsistent.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't gotten a lot from Nimo or McNeil in
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of that lineup. But I think at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, as we head down to crunch time,
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  Speaker 3: I think Lydnore, who hit that home run after his
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  Speaker 3: wife at a tremendous job on the national anthem. I
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  Speaker 3: think lilydn No will get hot. He's been really cold
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  Speaker 3: for a month.
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  Speaker 4: That's not going to stay.
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  Speaker 3: So lid Nore and Soto and Alonzo, even Viento's and
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  Speaker 3: the biggest moments here down the end, I think they'll
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  Speaker 3: get enough runs. I think it all comes down to
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  Speaker 3: their starting pitching and can the rookie pitchers do the job.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, McLean and Sprott have been their two best starters,
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  Speaker 3: believe it or not. Can Clay Holmes get that sinker
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  Speaker 3: working again to get the ground ball outs. Can David
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  Speaker 3: Peterson pitch like he did in the first half. That's
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  Speaker 3: going to be the key hit the Mets get to October.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Since we're talking about the races right now,
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  Speaker 5: what is the most dominant trait if you had to
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  Speaker 5: pick one, what is the most dominant trait of a
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  Speaker 5: winning a team that wins in the postseason? Is an
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  Speaker 5: offense for hitting home run or not striking out? Is
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  Speaker 5: it starting pitching? Is it bullpen is it strikeouts for pitchers.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go with bullpen and defense at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day. But I mean each team could win in
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  Speaker 3: a different way, right, I mean, you look at the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 3: they finally got their starting pitching healthy. If they're matched
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  Speaker 3: up against the Padres, you know they get a lead
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  Speaker 3: early on, and then what are the Dodgers going to
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  Speaker 3: do with their rotation? Are they going to put two
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  Speaker 3: of those guys in the back end of the bullpen
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  Speaker 3: to fix that problem at the end. So I think
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  Speaker 3: it's all matchups. I think in theory though, watching October
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of years being on the field, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think bullpen and defense is key. Bullpen depth, especially
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  Speaker 3: in those series, I think is the most important.
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  Speaker 4: But you need every element you got to pitch.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta be able to score runs, you gotta be
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  Speaker 3: able to catch the ball, you gotta be able to
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  Speaker 3: run the bases. It's everything. I could never narrow it
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  Speaker 3: down to one thing. But when all the teams are
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  Speaker 3: matched up and we're getting the game seven and most
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  Speaker 3: of these series, I look at the bullpen in the defense.
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  Speaker 5: Jim, the Mets are going to get in there.
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  Speaker 6: I know that it's two games in the loss, it's
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  Speaker 6: three games because they have the tiebreaker. The Mets are
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  Speaker 6: gonna get in. As nice as of a story as
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  Speaker 6: everyone is in full panic mode up there in Queens.
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  Speaker 6: The Mets are in. Okay, they're gonna get in. There's
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  Speaker 6: ten games left, eleven games left for some teams. They're
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  Speaker 6: gonna get in. They're not gonna blow a three game
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  Speaker 6: lead with ten or eleven to go. I'm calling it now, Sorry, guys,
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  Speaker 6: but now I want to talk about those is the
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  Speaker 6: American League, okay, Because the American League, the team seem
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  Speaker 6: to be set the Yankees Astros, But now the Astros
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  Speaker 6: have jumped the Red Sox in the standings, and that
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  Speaker 6: I think is a bigger deal than people give it
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  Speaker 6: credit for. Because if I'm the Red Sox, I'd much
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  Speaker 6: rather go to New York and play the Yankees than
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  Speaker 6: have to travel cross country and possibly play the Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: I would agree with that, although I think, and first
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  Speaker 3: of all, the Mets have a game and a half
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  Speaker 3: lead over Arizona, and I think the Mets are gonna
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  Speaker 3: get in two.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it'll be a race to the end.
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  Speaker 3: And in this league, look, I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: Yankees one, Red Sox two, Houston three. I think Alvarez
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  Speaker 3: his injury is huge. I'm really worried about the offense.
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  Speaker 3: And I was talking to GM Dana Brown the other
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  Speaker 3: day because my initial concern was the rotation after Hunter
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  Speaker 3: and Brown, but because Javier and Alexander have pitched so well,
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  Speaker 3: that kind of issue went away. And as Dana told
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  Speaker 3: me on Sunday, he said, no, we just don't score
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  Speaker 3: enough runs.
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  Speaker 4: That's my concern.
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  Speaker 3: That's before Alvarez sprained his ankle, and I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna see him again this year, not even in
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  Speaker 3: the postseason. That's a pretty bad high ankle spring. But
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  Speaker 3: are they going to score enough fronts Now? It looks
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  Speaker 3: like eastak Paradis is going to be back for the
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  Speaker 3: Seattle series, so that could be huge. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if Zach Cole is real. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna find holes or not, but he sure has
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  Speaker 3: given them a big lift. This is a very right
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  Speaker 3: handed hitting lineup that concerns me, you know, down the
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  Speaker 3: stretch that could be a problem. Even Paradis is right handed,
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  Speaker 3: so Zach Cole, Haesu Sanchez become very important left handed
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  Speaker 3: bats in that lineup for Houston. I think Houston's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get in, but I think the Red Sox will end
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  Speaker 3: up as the second wildcard team. But I agree with
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  Speaker 3: you Aj in terms of who I'd rather play up
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  Speaker 3: on Boston.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, You're talking about the Houston Astros a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And I know, obviously with your Don Alvarez in the
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  Speaker 2: ankle issue, estock parades perhaps is being rushed up there,
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  Speaker 2: but coming off of a hammy injury and not doing
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  Speaker 2: any sort of like rehab appearance. I mean, what type
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  Speaker 2: of savior are they looking for in terms of ESOC
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  Speaker 2: parades and how I know it seems obvious, But how
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  Speaker 2: big of an issue is this your Don Alvarez sing
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  Speaker 2: for the Astros moving forward?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's huge. Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: If Paradis is down there in the minor leagues taking swings,
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  Speaker 3: he looks really good. According to Dana Brown, the general manager,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to come up the DH only that they're
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  Speaker 3: not expecting to play in the field. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: if they make the playoffs, that may be a time
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  Speaker 3: that Paradis ends up at second base without two ve
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  Speaker 3: going to left field. But as of now, they're thinking
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  Speaker 3: is that he can DH and they think his legs
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  Speaker 3: are going to be good enough to do it, and
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  Speaker 3: they think he can provide the power that they need
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  Speaker 3: to extend this lineup a little bit. But again, as
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  Speaker 3: you know, the top of the lineup, all four of
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  Speaker 3: the hitters are all writing it hitters and the big
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  Speaker 3: boys have to get it done. It's updal A, Tuba
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  Speaker 3: and Korea and Christian Walker to do the damage. But
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  Speaker 3: they will miss Alvarez, there is no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do. So it's next man up.
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  Speaker 3: So let's have a story, right I love stories at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Let Zach Cole be a story.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the first pitch he saw on the big
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  Speaker 3: leaguesy homeward to right field. They'd made a nice play
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  Speaker 3: against the wall. He's very athletic.
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  Speaker 4: I like the swing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if he can keep it up. But
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  Speaker 3: I love these late season unexpected stories and it makes
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  Speaker 3: the Pennant race is a lot more fun.
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  Speaker 4: That's made for fall all right.
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  Speaker 5: A non story is Otani winning the MVP, so we
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  Speaker 5: have to go to the American League. Since you like stories,
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  Speaker 5: should the MVP in the American League be a story?
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  Speaker 5: Because there's a lot of conversation and everybody's vitual hate
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  Speaker 5: on either side comes out. What do you say about it?
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  Speaker 3: Though, Yeah, I think I think the conversation's great. I
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  Speaker 3: think the discussion is phenomenal. I mean, you're asking my
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  Speaker 3: opinion today. I think Garret Judge is the MVP of
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  Speaker 3: the league. But what cal Rally has done is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, passing Mickey Mannel, Are you kidding me? For
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  Speaker 3: switch hitters. He may end up getting to sixty home runs.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows, he might get past Roger Merris. This has
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  Speaker 3: been phenomenal. And then I think when you look at
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  Speaker 3: what he has done behind the plate, calling a game,
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  Speaker 3: framing pitches, blocking balls, shutting down the running game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do both of these things to
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  Speaker 3: the catcher, I mean, arguably, this is, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 3: the best season we've ever seen a catcher in the
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  Speaker 3: history of Major League Baseball. What we're seeing is phenomenal,
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  Speaker 3: and I think what you're going to find is a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the writers are going to look past the metrics,
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  Speaker 3: look past the algorithms, and they're going to say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you did all that offensively, and you caught and you
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  Speaker 3: at sixty home runs. I think Rally's got a really
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  Speaker 3: good chance of getting the votes because it's votes right,
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  Speaker 3: the writers vote for this, so it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: be formula. So I think he's got a legitimate chance.
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  Speaker 3: If I were to give it today, i'd give it
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  Speaker 3: the judge just because the numbers he's putting up are
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  Speaker 3: just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: They are. But cal Rawley's the MVP. Sorry, Jim, I know, no,
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  Speaker 5: I know, I look it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's a catcher that ever caught in
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  Speaker 3: the history of life that isn't thinking. Rally's the MVP,
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  Speaker 3: and I get it makes sense, I get it, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, that's fine. We all have our opinions. Some people
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  Speaker 6: are wrong, some people are right. We'll find out again
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  Speaker 6: when the writers vote. I'm gonna have to slip some
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  Speaker 6: of these guys a nickel when I see him, just
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  Speaker 6: to try to help me out here. Okay, we all know.
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  Speaker 6: But all right, So I wanted to talk about this
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  Speaker 6: the Twins. I played for the Twins a long time ago.
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  Speaker 6: I was drafted by the Twins. Side of the Twins,
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  Speaker 6: they've gotten rid of all their scouts. How can they
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  Speaker 6: do drafts and proke scouting and all this stuff if
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  Speaker 6: you don't have any scouts out there actually watching players.
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  Speaker 6: I know the video is good now, and you can
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  Speaker 6: put metrics on everything and this and that, but don't you,
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  Speaker 6: at the end of the day want to see a
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  Speaker 6: guy how they perform under pressure, how how their mom
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  Speaker 6: and dad are, how you know their girlfriend breaks up
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  Speaker 6: of them? Can they still play things like that that
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  Speaker 6: a videotape can't measure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did not give up all of their scouts.
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  Speaker 3: They did not touch their amateur scouting department. All the
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  Speaker 3: amateur scouts are still employed. What they did was, like
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  Speaker 3: a lot of teams, they decided to eliminate their pro scouts,
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  Speaker 3: which consisted of four people. And the four people didn't
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  Speaker 3: go to games. They weren't at the ballpark meeting players,
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  Speaker 3: talking to players, talking to families. They weren't doing any
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  Speaker 3: makeup or character or heart. They were just sitting at
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  Speaker 3: home watching games on TV and giving opinions. And you
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  Speaker 3: know that you don't need that anymore. Right, there's enough
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  Speaker 3: good minds that are watching every single game. The analytic
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  Speaker 3: departments are breaking all that down. The video guys all
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  Speaker 3: have that taking care of. You don't need four people
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  Speaker 3: to tell you something you already know. What is the
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  Speaker 3: most important is exactly what you said. AJ These aren't robots.
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  Speaker 3: These are human beings. And you win with people. You
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  Speaker 3: win with who do you want to play with? Game
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  Speaker 3: on the line, Who's that guy you want? That's character,
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  Speaker 3: that's intestinal fortitude, And the only way you get that
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  Speaker 3: is to know the people. And so we are never
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  Speaker 3: going to lose the value of scouts, and the value
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  Speaker 3: of scouts. You know, it's not as important to measure,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the five tools of a player anymore. We
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  Speaker 3: can measure all of that. We don't need to dissect
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  Speaker 3: the swing in person. We can do that on video now.
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  Speaker 3: But the human element is how you decide, right. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to look at Kyle Schwarber as an example,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just the fifty to sixty homers he hits.
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  Speaker 3: It's his makeup, his character, his leadership, the kind of
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  Speaker 3: teammate he is, how he makes everyone around him better.
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  Speaker 3: There's no one that's going to catch all that on video.
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  Speaker 4: You have to be there.
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  Speaker 3: You have to hear him, see him, talk to his teammates,
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  Speaker 3: talk to his manager, talk to everybody that's around him
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  Speaker 3: to get that. So to your point, just to be clear,
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  Speaker 3: the Twins did fire four professional scouts, but they did
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  Speaker 3: not fire the amateur scouts, But you are.
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  Speaker 5: A gm at at middle and small markets. Isn't that
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  Speaker 5: the case where those teams should be having more people
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  Speaker 5: so they can get more value around the edges in
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  Speaker 5: those cases where they're able to talk to people and
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  Speaker 5: have people boots on the ground at a pro game
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  Speaker 5: to see how somebody's moving in the field to be
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  Speaker 5: able to get that little extra advantage.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, the amateur scouts are doing that. The amateur scouts
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  Speaker 3: aren't just doing the June Draft. They're also scouting the
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  Speaker 3: Midwest League, the Carolina League, the Florida State League.
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  Speaker 4: They have boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: They're not just doing this from an office and watching
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  Speaker 3: video those games. They are there. The four guys that
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  Speaker 3: were fired, which they called the pro Scouting Department literally
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  Speaker 3: was just watching major league games on video and nowadays
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  Speaker 3: you just don't need that.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, let me ask you this about the American League
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  Speaker 2: East and particularly the Toronto Blue Jays. Are the Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jays for real? If they are, how far can they go?
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  Speaker 2: And in your opinion, why won't Schneider win Manager of
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  Speaker 2: the Year.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so, yes, Toronto can go all the way. You
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  Speaker 3: look at their starting pitching and you look at how
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  Speaker 3: they're pitching now. Kevin Gosman's last five starts, it's a
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  Speaker 3: one adra, Shane Bieber's last five starts three seven ERA,
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  Speaker 3: Bass's last five starts two three ERA. And they bring
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  Speaker 3: up Trey Savage, who looks nasty, nasty, nasty. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even mentioned that.
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  Speaker 4: Suers Jose Barrios.
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  Speaker 3: George Springer is going. Is the player we covered when
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  Speaker 3: he won World championships with Houston. Laddie Daddy is playing
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  Speaker 3: like he's completely worth the five hundred million they gave him.
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  Speaker 3: And look, this team is one of the elite defensive
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  Speaker 3: teams in baseball. They have the best defensive outfield in
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  Speaker 3: the sport. They have plus defenders all over the field.
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  Speaker 3: I think Bobaschet, the shortstop, was the only below average
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  Speaker 3: defender on the field.
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  Speaker 4: That's huge.
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  Speaker 3: Hoffmann, relatively speaking, has done the job as the closer
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  Speaker 3: for them, so they mix and match well. They do
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  Speaker 3: a good job of platooning their players with left rights.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, they I think they're missing Baschet's bat, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's one of their best hitters. But there's
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  Speaker 3: a good chance that he is back for the postseason,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I look at the American League, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think there's a great team, and in fact, I
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  Speaker 3: would take probably four National League teams over all the
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  Speaker 3: teams in the American League. But when I look at
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Toronto Yankees, Red Sox, Mariners, Astros, Tigers, I don't look
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: at any of them and say, oh, this is the
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: best team. They're going to the World Series. So my
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: answer to that is yes. My second answer on Schneider is,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: you know, I wrote an article predicting awards in The
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Athletic and I had Schneider finishing second, So I had
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: great respect for what he's done. I'm all the managers.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I had him second out of fifteen this year, I
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: had aj Hinch winning Manager of the Year. And the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: reason I had him slightly over Schneider, and I means slightly,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: is I just think the job he has done with
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: a bullpen has been ridiculous. He's just so good at matchups.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: He's the best, one of the best in the game
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: at doing that. And then to watch the platooning that
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: he did with that Tiger team, the way he uses
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: guys like Kerry Carpenter, I mean, he just has a
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: great feel for that, even pinch hitting I mean, no
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: one's had more success pinch hitting this year than the
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers. AJ just has that great sense. I don't
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: think AJ has as good a team as Schnyder has
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: with Toronto, but I think I think he's been more
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: important to the Tigers than Schneider has been to Toronto
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: by a little bit. Again, I had Schneider's second, so
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I respect what he's done, and he's done a great job.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: What's the process of trying to figure out if you're
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: the GM of the Blue Jays, if Trey you Savage
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: is going to be on your playoff roster because he
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: didn't just come up to the big leagues and go, oh,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I'm thrown from this ridiculous arm angle downhill plane splitter.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: He looked nasty in his minor league starts, So how
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: do you make that? Do you make that decision saying, Okay,
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: he's probably not fitting in into our rotation because our
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: rotation is already pretty nasty, But how can he not
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: get us outs in the playoffs?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: He pitches Game four for me. I didn't see the
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: delivery with that kind of angle. Since Diego Sagie with
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox way back in the day. Look gosmind
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Bieber Bassett and you Savage is what I want. I
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: want to see if Mighty Max will go to the
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: back end of the bullpen with me. I'll let Barrios
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: kind of be a guy that can go long if
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: one of the starters start to falter, because we know
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Schneider's gonna have a quick hook because he always does.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: But you, Savage, from what I saw, it's like McClain
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: of the Mets.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Why not.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I don't care that they haven't been to the Big
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: League is a long time. I just want outs. Who's
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: gonna give me the best chance to get outs? And
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: you Savage to me, he's one of the top four
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: guys for Toronto. Love what I've seen. So if I
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: were a GM and I was talking to John Schneider,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: that would be my thoughts in my recommendation.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Jimal, I want to know is where to you get that?
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: At?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Which LV outlet? Did you get that snazzy jacket? And
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: can I borrow it?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: You definitely can borrow it without a doubt.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: It'll be way too big for you, but yes, you
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: can borrow any time you want.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: And present from my wife at the holidays last year very.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Nice, Louis Vaton. I'm digging it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Jim Bowden, we appreciate you very much as always, Front
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Office Unfiltered. Much more to come on Foul Territory guys.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Jim Bowden just talked about it for a hot second there.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: It doesn't look like Boba Shitt will be back for
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the regular season. We knew that, but he could very
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: much be back for the postseason. This from Mitch Bannon.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: His second opinion didn't show anything new confirm the spring
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to PCL Blue Jays hope he can start ramping up
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: later this week to be back as soon as possible.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: AJ what void does this create?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: A big void? Offensively? It's a big offensive void. I
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: think defensively with the min as they can cover it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: But I think I think offensively in the presence he
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: brings hitting in the middle of that lineup, getting on base,
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: getting big hits, and just Oba shit. I mean, he
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: just has a he has a thing about him. So
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: hopefully can get back for the postseason. We'll see, but
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: you better get some the bats before then because he
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: needs to be ready to go once they jump into that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Alds Kratz, is this team this year better prepared to
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: cover this type of void this season versus in seasons past.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Do you think, I mean just because they went out
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: and spent a lot of money in a trade on
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Andre Semenez, I mean they covered Miles Miles Straw's contract
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: from the Guardians, and they're paying andres Semennez a lot
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: of money because he didn't play shortstop at a big
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: league level and he hasn't played for a while, but
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: that's what he came up as. So yes, they can
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: cover