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Cubs mailbag: How will the team replace Kyle Tucker? · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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  Speaker 1: guys have a ton of questions and want them answered.
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  Speaker 1: Last episode, if you missed, it was focused more on pitching.
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  Speaker 1: This one, we're going to talk about the offense. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you guys want to know are they adding offense you
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  Speaker 1: have some thoughts, you have some ideas. Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: to it. Gary's garage wants to a cub. Definitely need pitching.
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  Speaker 1: The offense definitely needs another hitter. Tucker is gone, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't seriously think guys like happens to.
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  Speaker 2: Be depended on Patrick.
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  Speaker 1: Like we ended the last episode talking a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about app and I just you know, he is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the punching bag for as long as he's here.
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  Speaker 1: He just doesn't fully get appreciated. But he he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be twenty percent above league average year in and
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  Speaker 1: year out. That's his offensive production. Is he a superstar
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  Speaker 1: on offense? No? Does he get hot for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months, Yes, that that almost always happens. Does he
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  Speaker 1: have like little slumps here and there. Sure, but he
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  Speaker 1: takes his walks, he doesn't chase. He puts up good
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  Speaker 1: at bats. He usually hits Righty's really well. I just
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  Speaker 1: you know, I get it depended on I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like is he a star like? I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like he he puts up solid offensive numbers. He's a
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  Speaker 1: good ballplayer. I think there's just reasons why he gets crushed.
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  Speaker 1: And I think strike like I think his early career
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  Speaker 1: probably colors some stuff. And Danzy Swanson's an average league hitterer,
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  Speaker 1: that's just what he is. Yeah, I think I get,
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  Speaker 1: Like I totally I shouldn't say. I think I totally
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  Speaker 1: get the consternation of like if they're gonna let Tucker walk,
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  Speaker 1: like what are they doing? Like, I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: have this conversation beyond just the podcast. I have it
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  Speaker 1: with friends and random fans that I happen to run into,
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  Speaker 1: like are they really not adding offense? I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a completely fair question, and I think it'll I think
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  Speaker 1: in the end it's going to just be like they'll
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  Speaker 1: be opportunistic with it, but it isn't their top priority.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to be super aggressive. They buy a
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  Speaker 1: Steros and Casey are going to play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think wherever Gary's garage is, whatever that is.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's onto something.
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  Speaker 4: I think we had to establish from our side, on
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  Speaker 4: the reporting side of just like, okay, where are their
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  Speaker 4: heads at? Yes, it's pitching, pitching, pitching. It's an obvious need.
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  Speaker 4: They need some kind of like insurance policies, some safeguards
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  Speaker 4: for after the season, as well as you point out
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  Speaker 4: to how to there are just more, more and better
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  Speaker 4: pitchers out there than position players. That's a part of
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  Speaker 4: it as well. But I think as we get deeper
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  Speaker 4: into the offseason and once you see the team that
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  Speaker 4: shows up in Mesa, once the Cups start playing real
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  Speaker 4: games in April at a cold Wrigley Field, that might
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  Speaker 4: be the worst offensive environment.
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  Speaker 2: In the National League.
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  Speaker 4: Like, yes, Tucker's absence, what they did on the pitching
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  Speaker 4: side will become a bigger, much bigger part of the story.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, we shouldn't just gloss over like Kyle Tucker. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: he had a disappointing second half, He's still going to
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  Speaker 4: get paid. He still has the track record of an
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  Speaker 4: elite offensive performer, and that you know, when things were
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  Speaker 4: going really well, Tucker wasn't like, you know, necessarily the
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  Speaker 4: main the main guy like you had Saya, you had
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  Speaker 4: Pete kind of doing big things offensively. But your counsel
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  Speaker 4: made this point and it really stuck with me. It
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  Speaker 4: was probably just before the All Star break when Tucker
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  Speaker 4: was you know, about to go to Atlanta, was still
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  Speaker 4: his numbers are still obviously he was still sort of
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  Speaker 4: like dealing with stuff and things were going.
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  Speaker 3: To begin to trend. The other way.
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  Speaker 4: But Counsel's point was, like, even when Tucker has a
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  Speaker 4: quiet game, you look up or you look at the
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  Speaker 4: box score and he might have like a single.
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  Speaker 3: In a walk, you know what I mean, or like.
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  Speaker 4: A double stolen base and run scored, like just like
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that. Like even just because of how he
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  Speaker 4: sort of carried himself and how consistent he had been
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  Speaker 4: earlier in his career, just the way he kind of
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  Speaker 4: goes about the game.
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  Speaker 3: He was just kind of put up numbers. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's gonna be hard.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe Moisspiosteros as a star, maybe one case that
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  Speaker 4: he runs with this opportunity, But I don't I know
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  Speaker 4: they say we could play a game tomorrow with this
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  Speaker 4: group of hitters. I still think they're they're looking, they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be looking, And I don't know if this
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  Speaker 4: is just how we're kind of consuming or processing the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if like maybe the pitching markets moving first.
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  Speaker 4: That seems to be why they signed spin Rate, Like
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  Speaker 4: we'll see who's round kind of after a Cubs convention,
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  Speaker 4: who's still out there. I think they can still be
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  Speaker 4: opportunistic and add an interesting hitter, even if it's not
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  Speaker 4: on like a ten year contract or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're spending a lot of time focused on
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  Speaker 1: pitching because that's just how they've framed it and how
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  Speaker 1: we've expected things to go. Yeah, I mean by steros
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  Speaker 1: in case he could be really good and maybe it
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  Speaker 1: is time for them to get playing time, every day
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  Speaker 1: playing time. I just wouldn't I understand all the concern
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  Speaker 1: about like Tucker. They went out of their way to
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  Speaker 1: get Tucker like they obviously think highly of them. I
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  Speaker 1: think the way he gets he will eventually get paid,
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  Speaker 1: will show that the league thinks highly of him. He's
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  Speaker 1: an impactful player, There's no doubt about it. Also, just look,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say this about Ian Half. He
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  Speaker 1: had he had a good He had a good season.
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  Speaker 1: It was probably like a down season for him, but
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  Speaker 1: he had a one sixteen way to runs created plus
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  Speaker 1: that was that that's pretty good on a on a
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  Speaker 1: really good offense, on a team that was you know,
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  Speaker 1: top ten offensively, top five offensively depending on some statistics.
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  Speaker 1: I also, I think it's important to give Ian Half
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  Speaker 1: props for the leader he became and and the like
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  Speaker 1: he sets an example for younger players. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he was always on that trajectory, at least from the
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  Speaker 1: outside looking in.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't seem like he was early on. He is.
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  Speaker 1: He sets an example for others. I believe he he
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  Speaker 1: showed he loves being in Chicago. He understands uh like
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  Speaker 1: the history of the Cubs.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He he talks a lot about how you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you have to appreciate being in this city and with
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  Speaker 1: that organization. And I think he rarely cherish cherishes his
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  Speaker 1: time in Chicago. Frankly, I think, you know, fans may
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  Speaker 1: want him out. I think he'd love to be a
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  Speaker 1: cup forever. I think he his preference would just be
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  Speaker 1: to retire a cup. But I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 1: that'll happen. But that's that, that would be his preference.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, actually that's a that's a later that's a
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  Speaker 1: later question. So we'll get to that question later. I
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  Speaker 1: was going to talk about extensions, but uh, here's here's
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  Speaker 1: more Tucker talk. Do you think there is zero possibility
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  Speaker 1: that the Cubs resigned Tucker or is there at least
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  Speaker 1: a minimum chance. I think it's pretty close to zero.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the answer is does his market crater
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  Speaker 1: and and he's still on the you know, on the
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  Speaker 1: market by February.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the only shot, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't after how the Cubs pulled off the Dexter
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  Speaker 4: Falery Union, which I think he had a reported deal
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  Speaker 4: with like the Orioles, and shows up at spring training,
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  Speaker 4: and even I think players were like, wait, that looks
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  Speaker 4: like Dexter, Like it's not zero, but I mean highly
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  Speaker 4: unlikely he comes back. I know Cubs fans who watched
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  Speaker 4: Tucker every day in the second half, or followed, you
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  Speaker 4: know whatever, the September trip to Tampa to or his
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  Speaker 4: physical therapists, I know, like that final image in Chicago
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  Speaker 4: was not the greatest. But I think if you look
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  Speaker 4: at his overall body of work and understand how the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the baseball industry views him, I think the
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  Speaker 4: Cubs are operating under the insumption that he will be
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  Speaker 4: playing on a different team next year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, All right, let's take a quick break and
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  Speaker 1: come back and answer more questions about the offense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're talking about potential offensive editions. Hamdbone has
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  Speaker 1: a couple ideas he wants someone like au Hannio Suarez
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  Speaker 1: or Kazuma Okamoto be a fit for this team. I
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  Speaker 1: think that players could get every day be He had
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  Speaker 1: a longer idea. His His thought was like, these guys
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  Speaker 1: could get some playing time at third base, and then
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  Speaker 1: vers lefties moved to d h. Shaw would then play
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  Speaker 1: on those days and and then you'd insert Casey uh
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  Speaker 1: and and Biasteros versus rities. I think it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yes, do these guys make sense. I think
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  Speaker 1: Suarez probably isn't going to get the type of deal
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  Speaker 1: that maybe it seemed like he would at the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know off the.
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  Speaker 1: Top of my head how old he is, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that he's going to get some monster contract.
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  Speaker 1: And and maybe he uh, maybe he lingers on the market.
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  Speaker 1: Okamoto is obviously posted, and I think he's I don't
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  Speaker 1: know when the window closes for his posting, sometime in January,
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  Speaker 1: I would assume, And like, it just depends on his
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  Speaker 1: market as well. I do think both could make sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be all about cost. Maybe the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: are doing that thing that they did with Showda and
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  Speaker 1: just being quiet about their interest in Okamoto, and he
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  Speaker 1: could be a fit I think I think these types
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  Speaker 1: of deals are the type that the Cubs do. Like
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  Speaker 1: Okamoto is someone he's about the same age, say it
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  Speaker 1: was when he came over, you know, I think a
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  Speaker 1: slightly different profile, but he is more contact oriented with power.
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  Speaker 2: I do think the Cubs probably like his profile.
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  Speaker 1: I just it depends on their budget what type of
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  Speaker 1: picture they add, because pitching is the priority. So I
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  Speaker 1: just think, you know, I understand where you're coming from,
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  Speaker 1: handbone and think it does make sense. I hate that
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  Speaker 1: we always, like a lot of times we end up
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  Speaker 1: we're just like, well, what it was cost?
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  Speaker 2: What's the price? What's the budget?
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's probably the what it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to here. But both of these guys are the type
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  Speaker 1: where I don't think the market gets out of hand
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  Speaker 1: and the Cubs could be on the periphery probably not
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  Speaker 1: like these are the leaders for this player.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's how the front office looks at it.
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  Speaker 4: They're like, Okay, what's the price, how many years, how
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  Speaker 4: many dollars, how's it fit in to the budget. And
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  Speaker 4: part of that is just their philosophy, and part of
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  Speaker 4: it is the parameters in which they're operating as a
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  Speaker 4: big market team that does not quite spend to the
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  Speaker 4: level of a lot of their peer franchisees, and so
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  Speaker 4: Suarez this is more of a gut feel like.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: Sort of viewed him as a lit to all or nothing,
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  Speaker 4: hot and cold, like that's part of why they didn't
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  Speaker 4: bring him in for those two months. They just didn't
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  Speaker 4: really know they're going to get. Obviously, he had a
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  Speaker 4: monster season overall. It felt like he was a little
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  Speaker 4: more quiet after that trade Arizona, but still had some
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  Speaker 4: some moments on a playoff team there in Seattle, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: in Seattle. So like sure makes sense, not quite sure.
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  Speaker 4: But I think what Hambone's getting at is how the
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  Speaker 4: Cubs are looking at this of like, all right, maybe
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  Speaker 4: we're not jumping out to sign a position player, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Thanksgiving week, but we want to be involved in all
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  Speaker 4: these conversations. We'll see what sort of fits. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's leaves Sowars is thirty four years old. I still
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  Speaker 4: think a team could come in there and just offer
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  Speaker 4: him like a monster aav maybe over over two years,
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  Speaker 4: and kind of be like all right, like see you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably someone's going to offer too much for what
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  Speaker 1: they're they're looking to do there, but I think those
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  Speaker 1: would be like the top end offensive editions. Right, they're
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  Speaker 1: not shopping in the Tucker Schwarber, Peter Alonzo.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably missing a big name.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, well, you know what, I guess we we haven't
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  Speaker 1: brought up Yeah, Bregmant.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't brought up Bregman.
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  Speaker 1: You can't rule it out because they were so heavily
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  Speaker 1: involved last time. I just don't know where that market
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  Speaker 1: is going, and I haven't heard a lot yet about that,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting, which may be what we have been
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  Speaker 1: getting at. Uh. Maybe the pitching market is just the
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  Speaker 1: one that moves faster and earlier, and and that's that
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  Speaker 1: they've felt that out, and and that's what they're focused on.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's all it is. Maybe it's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Okay, here's the question I was kidding app before,
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  Speaker 1: David Pollar. With so many players off the books after
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, can we talk extension?
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  Speaker 2: Nico would be most preferable, but comps are tough. He
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  Speaker 2: mentioned a couple of comps.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned, Tommy Edmund, JP Crawford, one other name that
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  Speaker 1: I'm blanking on that he mentioned, and then does it.
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  Speaker 2: But he also added, like all those guys.
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  Speaker 1: That he mentioned have more power, different profiles, and he
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  Speaker 1: wonders just something like five eighty million work. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: done enough research on comps here, but I think if
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about all the guys who are entering their
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  Speaker 1: final season, it'd be Nico, Hap, Saya, Suzuki, Jamison Tyne,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd, Carson Kelly. I'm probably missing one one or two,
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  Speaker 1: but that's those are the main names. I think Nico's
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  Speaker 1: the one that would make the most sense. You're talking
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  Speaker 1: about an elite defender. You're talking about someone that I
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  Speaker 1: believe will be entering his age twenty nine season. So
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  Speaker 1: not not it's not getting out of hand. He's got
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  Speaker 1: the type of characteristics that I guess you could be concerned,
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  Speaker 1: like the speed and athleticism could degrade. So it all
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  Speaker 1: depends on what he's willing to take, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: think he it's not exactly like Hap, but I do
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  Speaker 1: believe his uh is it his wife now?
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  Speaker 2: His his wife is in the area. I believe they're
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  Speaker 2: they're happy in Chicago. UH.
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  Speaker 1: And Nico, for me, has gone like we talked about
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  Speaker 1: Ian Hap before, but Nico went to another level this
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  Speaker 1: year when it comes to leadership and and makeup and
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  Speaker 1: the intensity that he brings. We mentioned this, I I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned this after they were eliminated. But the way he
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  Speaker 1: reacts to losses and the way he the expectations he
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  Speaker 1: puts on himself and the people around him. Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: really liked that. I admire it, and and like it
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  Speaker 1: was almost hard to talk to him after that loss
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  Speaker 1: to the Brewers because he was so intense. It was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're gonna put You're gonna make everyone depressed, like
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  Speaker 1: you like you're this is really like, uh, but.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. I like that intensity.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I remember specifically in Atlanta, they had an awful showing
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  Speaker 1: in game one of a three game series against Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: and Council.
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  Speaker 2: Was who was pretty direct about how bad.
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  Speaker 1: They looked and and Nico was just like called him out,
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  Speaker 1: Like and I like that. That's a he's a leader,
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  Speaker 1: he's an elite defensive second baseman, and he just put
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  Speaker 1: up his best season. So it's a good idea for
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  Speaker 1: him to probably uh talk about that, uh and talk
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  Speaker 1: about an extension and try and maximize it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he had a one O nine way to
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  Speaker 1: runs great a press plus that's his best year. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: go go out there and try and get your money.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe maybe he's just gonna say, like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: hit free agency and you know someone's gonna pay middle
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  Speaker 1: pay me like a shortstop.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: The comp.
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  Speaker 4: That is tough that you have to keep in mind
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  Speaker 4: is yes, this guy is a proven major league shortstop.
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  Speaker 4: And so how do you sort of h you get
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  Speaker 4: paid like a shortstop? Do you market yourself as a shortstop?
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  Speaker 4: Do you not explore your options because you are this
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  Speaker 4: five and eighty for an everyday shortstop sounds kind of light.
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  Speaker 3: But Nico can't be an everyday shortstop on the Cubs
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  Speaker 3: as long as Dansby Swanson is still there. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that.
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  Speaker 4: David's on the right track of like an interesting story
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  Speaker 4: that we're going to be following, certainly Nico Horner's short
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  Speaker 4: term and long term future.
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  Speaker 1: One final question here, it's about minor league system. We
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  Speaker 1: know Rachel Folden Rich Strickland are gone from the Orgies
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  Speaker 1: hitting coaches any any cation, the Cubs are looking to
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  Speaker 1: shake things up a bit in regard to their hitting infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: That's from Greg Huss. Greg, I know, I think those
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  Speaker 1: are just both. I don't think those departures have to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: do with the Cubs making massive changes. I do believe
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  Speaker 1: they're pretty happy with their hitting infrastructure. That's you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of led by Justin Stone.
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: My understanding is the new Triple A hitting coach is
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Damon Minor, who was an MLB coach for the Giants
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  Speaker 1: last year. That is their fourth MLB like their fourth coach,
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  Speaker 1: like hitting coach in the system that has MLB experience,
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  Speaker 1: Andy Haynes. So Damon Minor, Andy Haynes, who was with
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs for a long time and has comeback after
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  Speaker 1: a few.
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  Speaker 2: Years on MLB staffs.
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  Speaker 1: Drew Headman who was with the Diamondbacks. I believe he
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  Speaker 1: was an assistant hitting coach there. And then it is
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  Speaker 1: a Guillermo Martinez who was with the Blue Jays. I
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  Speaker 1: believe he was either lead hitting coach with the Blue
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  Speaker 1: And all four of them are or now it coaches
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  Speaker 2: They're they're you know, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Believe they need to make some changes with the maybe
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  Speaker 1: not changes, adjustments, that is that a softer word. When
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it comes to pitching. We talked about this a couple
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  Speaker 1: episodes ago, but they're just not producing enough pitching in
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  Speaker 1: the minor league system. And I think you could make
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  Speaker 1: the argument that there's not a ton of hitting coming out,
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  Speaker 1: but I do believe it's it's better than the production
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  Speaker 1: they're getting from the pitching.
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  Speaker 4: One quick correction here, it is Rick strictly, But yeah,
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• 24:10
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