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Ken Rosenthal’s Inside Scoop: LA pen, Yanks-Jays preview, Cora’s L · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's ft senior insider Ken Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 2: Ken, I'd like to actually start with the Phillies and Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't mind, because I think it might be
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  Speaker 2: two of the best teams, if not the two best
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  Speaker 2: teams in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree, and what do you think this is
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  Speaker 1: going to look like?
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  Speaker 2: With Shoho Tani finally pitching in a postseason game for
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  Speaker 2: the first time.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, Scott.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be an amazing series and
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to see how it transfer.
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  Speaker 3: It's so interesting on so many levels.
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  Speaker 4: This for the Phillies is not a last dance, but
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  Speaker 4: this corps has some questions going forward, and you look
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  Speaker 4: at the team and the roster the way it sets up.
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  Speaker 4: Schwarper's a free agent after this year. Real Newtow is
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  Speaker 4: a free agent after this year. Both are expected back.
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  Speaker 4: But how many chances does this group get and how
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  Speaker 4: often are.
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  Speaker 3: They going to be able to do it? It's not
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  Speaker 3: a young team necessarily, so that's one element.
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  Speaker 4: The other element, from just a baseball perspective, the Phillies
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  Speaker 4: left these against the Dodgers' big lefties at the top
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  Speaker 4: of the lineup, o Otani and Freeman obviously, and then yes.
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  Speaker 3: Otani pitching the Dodgers' bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: There are so many layers here, there are in every series,
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  Speaker 4: but this one because of the star power with Otani
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  Speaker 4: and Schwarber, because of the environment that we're gonna see
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  Speaker 4: in Philly, which is always great.
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  Speaker 3: It's just gonna be really good, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: One more on the Dodgers side bullpen question marks heading
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  Speaker 2: into the series. Do you feel like anything was answered
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  Speaker 2: or determined? And of course I need your thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: the wild ride of Roki Sazaki from signing with the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers in the off season to not really giving them
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  Speaker 2: much during the season to potential closer.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Sasaki question is sort of answered. It is
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  Speaker 4: not answered in full in my opinion, Scott, but they closed.
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  Speaker 3: With him the other night.
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  Speaker 4: Not a safe situation, but he was the guy who
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  Speaker 4: finished the game. I expect that he could be used
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  Speaker 4: in that role here as well. Now their bullpen is
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  Speaker 4: a serious question. Now they'll have Kershaw available in relief
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  Speaker 4: in this particular series. I would imagine they'll have Glass now,
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  Speaker 4: even though he's pitching Game four, would be scheduled to
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  Speaker 4: pitch Game four.
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  Speaker 3: They can do some things with the bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: But ultimately the guys they have Vesia the others, they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to get out and Sosaki is not going
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  Speaker 4: to save the team.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm also not so sure about Sasaki strictly.
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  Speaker 4: From the standpoint of here's this young guy, indis crucible.
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  Speaker 4: Now we saw a young guy in a crucible last
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  Speaker 4: night do amazing things. I'm talking, of course about Cam Schlitler.
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  Speaker 4: But with Sasaki, it seems like he's a different guy
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  Speaker 4: than he was when he first came up, when he
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  Speaker 4: was sort of nervous, sort of feeling for his spot
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  Speaker 4: and the team and all of that. And now there's
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  Speaker 4: a confidence about him. The stuff is, of course the stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It's really good that confidence translates into performance, at least
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  Speaker 4: it has so far. Will it sustain itself and will
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  Speaker 4: he be able to do that in this series? It's
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  Speaker 4: an intriguing thought for sure. The Dodgers sort of need
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  Speaker 4: it to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just not sure it will hitting on show.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Otani, the starter for Game one is his workload
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  Speaker 5: built up to exactly where the Dodgers wanted to be.
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  Speaker 5: From the outside, it looks like it was perfect. They
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  Speaker 5: slowly worked him in they were doing something that had
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  Speaker 5: never been done, somebody rehabbing Tommy John in the big
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  Speaker 5: leagues while still dhing. But is he worked up to
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  Speaker 5: where they want him to be because you saw Lake,
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  Speaker 5: Snell and Yawamoto both go career high pitches or distances,
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  Speaker 5: and so do they feel like show heyes where they
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  Speaker 5: want him to be?
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  Speaker 4: Eric, I don't know that it's ideal, And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that he's going eight or nine in any of
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  Speaker 4: these games.
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  Speaker 3: Kenny go six, he has done that, and Kenny go seven.
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  Speaker 4: If he's done six, yes, I would expect if the
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  Speaker 4: pitch count is at a reasonable place. But with him,
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  Speaker 4: there are so many other factors involved, fatigue where you
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  Speaker 4: want him the rest of the series. Now, the reason
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  Speaker 4: he's pitching where he's pitching in this series, and the
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  Speaker 4: reason he was lined up for Game three in the
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  Speaker 4: previous series is because they want him to get a
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  Speaker 4: day off after.
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  Speaker 3: He starts, which makes a ton of sense.
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  Speaker 4: Give him a day off, get his legs back under
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  Speaker 4: him for the offensive part of his game too. But
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  Speaker 4: if you're asking me if he's going nine and doing
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  Speaker 4: to Cam Schlitler even eight innings and one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: seven pitches. I don't know that that's happening, but they
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  Speaker 4: should be able to win without him doing that.
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  Speaker 3: They should be able to handle it. So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how it all goes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this Yankee Blue Jay series is gonna be one
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  Speaker 6: for the record books. I just got a weird feel
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  Speaker 6: and it's gonna come to a lot of one run games.
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  Speaker 6: We know you're there, we know you're talking about it.
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  Speaker 6: Talk about this Yankee team. They're on a real high
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  Speaker 6: right now. Big game yesterday from Schutler, and they got
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  Speaker 6: most likely.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Hill on the mound tomorrow. What do you think?
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  Speaker 6: How do you think this Blue Jay team stacks up?
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  Speaker 6: We know the regular season is totally different than the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Then been there in a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Talk a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I love the Jays and I love the way they
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  Speaker 3: go about it.
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  Speaker 4: Low strikeouts and actually lower strikeout rate in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 4: They have a number of role players who contribute. Springer
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  Speaker 4: with this amazing comeback of the year story. Bishett is questionable.
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider, the manager, spoke earlier before and he said
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  Speaker 4: they have not made a decision yet.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if he were on the roster.
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  Speaker 4: Schneider said, if he's going to be on the roster,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to have to play and play regularly. It's
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  Speaker 4: hard to imagine that happening, but they have not ruled
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  Speaker 4: it out yet. Without Bashett, Guerrero has not been quite
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  Speaker 4: the same. I don't know if it's because Bashett is
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  Speaker 4: not hitting behind him or not, but that's going.
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  Speaker 3: To be something for them that is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a huge Factor's Laddie in this series?
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider basically said he just wants Laddie to play free.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: As for the Yankees, it's interesting to me, and Schneider
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  Speaker 4: noted this in his press conference, it's not quite the
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  Speaker 4: same team or it's not quite the same style that
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  Speaker 4: we've seen from them.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Granted, they hit home runs, they led the majors in
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  Speaker 4: that category, that's what they do. But they've also shown
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  Speaker 4: other ways to score and they've been more resourceful.
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  Speaker 3: They've been a better base running team.
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  Speaker 4: So I expect them to play well because they've played
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  Speaker 4: well for several weeks now.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, pitching.
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  Speaker 4: Will always be the question and how that bullpen is
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  Speaker 4: going to perform. That's a big question with the Yankees,
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to be that way until I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: they figure out a way to just get consistency out
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  Speaker 4: of that group.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm with you, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: It should be a really interesting series, no doubt.
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  Speaker 6: Hold On, I didn't want to clarify the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 6: were there in twenty twenty three. I said, it's been
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  Speaker 6: a while since they've been there, so.
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  Speaker 1: Since Yes, though it's been a while. Yes, they kept
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  Speaker 1: losing the.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's been ten years, so yeah, incredible.
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  Speaker 6: So my question to you is basically what the team
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  Speaker 6: you said with the Blue Jays, like, how do you
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  Speaker 6: do you think the hitting is going to be enough
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  Speaker 6: for this team coming through or do you think the
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  Speaker 6: Yankee pitching is going to be there again with their
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  Speaker 6: starting staff?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do expect the Yankee pitching to be there again,
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  Speaker 4: and freed Rodin and now Schlitler.
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  Speaker 3: You have to like that. The Blue Jays offense.
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  Speaker 4: Is something of a question and they are not this
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  Speaker 4: powerhouse that you might want from them, right. You want
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  Speaker 4: ideally a team that slugs and does everything in the postseason,
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, they remind me somewhat of Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 4: They're not quite the pressure or putting the pressure on
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  Speaker 4: the same way that Milwaukee does on the basis, but
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  Speaker 4: they're good that way, So yeah, would I like to
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  Speaker 4: see them hit the ball of the ballpark a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more, sure, but that's not generally the way they play,
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  Speaker 4: and they are a team that finds ways and that
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  Speaker 4: is one of the things that's been there defining Mark
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  Speaker 4: this year now. Also in the regular season, the Yankees
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  Speaker 4: played pretty poorly.
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  Speaker 1: Against the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 3: Those were those crazy era games and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: That was going on. So I expect the Yankees are
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to clean it up because if they give
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  Speaker 4: the Jay's opportunities like that, that will be difficult for them.
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  Speaker 5: Everything's under a microscope, especially what managers do at this time.
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  Speaker 5: Has there been any discussion or if you heard John
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  Speaker 5: Schneider re visit what happened the last time they were
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs with a bullpen that was ready to
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  Speaker 5: go and he decided to take Barrios out early in
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  Speaker 5: Minnesota and it essentially fell off of it, and I
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  Speaker 5: felt like it was the front office. Has it been
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  Speaker 5: addressed since you guys have been up there and having
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  Speaker 5: these press conferences.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was asked just in general what he's learned
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  Speaker 4: about managing in the postseason, and basically he said you've
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  Speaker 4: got to read and react and gave the normal answer
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  Speaker 4: you would expect from any manager.
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  Speaker 3: He is well aware of what happened with Barrios. We
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  Speaker 3: all are well aware of it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know I that there's any need for anyone
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  Speaker 4: to rehash it, so to speak, but I would expect that.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever made that decision, whether it was the front office,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was Schneider, whether it was some combination of both,
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  Speaker 3: they learned their lesson and hey, I wrote about this today.
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  Speaker 4: Managers in these moments, they do things that are questionable.
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  Speaker 4: That's just the nature of the beast, and it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be that way in this series, is going to
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  Speaker 4: be that way and every series going forward. That's part
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  Speaker 4: of the this time of year. But often what we
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  Speaker 4: judge is outcome based, and that can go either way.
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  Speaker 4: When the Burrio's decision was made, that reminded me somewhat
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  Speaker 4: of well, what happened in some of these series in
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  Speaker 4: the wildcard rounds, where you could second get it right
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  Speaker 4: away and say what are they doing? I thought with
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  Speaker 4: BeO the other night, I know I wasn't pitching well necessarily,
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  Speaker 4: but I thought.
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  Speaker 3: That was early for Alex Cora. I thought last night
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  Speaker 3: he stuck with Connelly early too long.
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  Speaker 4: These are all debatable things. The managers always have their
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  Speaker 4: reasons for doing things. But I would expect a better
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  Speaker 4: version of the Blue Jays game management than we saw
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  Speaker 4: in that Wildcard series.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and that's where I want to finish, just if
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  Speaker 2: you can elaborate more on what you put together last
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  Speaker 2: night about Alex Korra and how that blends into the
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  Speaker 2: way that the Red Sox roster was constructed. Not a
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  Speaker 2: good defensive team. I didn't feel like they were very
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  Speaker 2: intimidating offensively. Obviously they traded Devers Roman Anthony quickly became
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  Speaker 2: a key piece. Do you place a lot of blame
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  Speaker 2: on Core for managing? Did the Red Sox really have
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  Speaker 2: a chance here?
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  Speaker 4: I don't place a lot of blame necessarily. I thought
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  Speaker 4: he managed add a character for him. He was aggressive
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  Speaker 4: in Game two, that was more in character last night.
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  Speaker 4: Sticking with Early as long as he did that surprised me.
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  Speaker 4: Now he said there was poor defense. There were some
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  Speaker 4: balls that got.
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  Speaker 3: Through, okay, but it was a long time.
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  Speaker 4: He was in there thirty one pitches before he was
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  Speaker 4: removed in a game that must win, it's an elimination game,
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  Speaker 4: and it wasn't the way he managed the night before
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  Speaker 4: with BeO. So it was just different, and that surprised me.
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  Speaker 3: Were they as good as the Yankees?
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  Speaker 4: No, and Scott, the things you mentioned, I believe are
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  Speaker 4: exactly right. Defensively a little short and offensively short as well,
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  Speaker 4: especially without Anthony, So they've got some work to do.
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  Speaker 4: Gregman's got the opt out. Stories got the opt out.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know this story will opt out, but I
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  Speaker 4: would expect Bregman will, and they're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Have to find some more offense. Even beyond that, was
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  Speaker 3: this Alex Corus fault that they lost.
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  Speaker 1: This is a reason.
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  Speaker 4: No, what surprised me, and the reason I wrote what
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  Speaker 4: I did is because it just didn't seem to me
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  Speaker 4: that he demonstrated the normal Alex Kor feel for the
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  Speaker 4: game that we've come so accustomed to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the expectations are high for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a great job in games, very often, including
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  Speaker 2: to a World Series title several years ago. Ken, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We're excited for the broadcast. We'll be watching Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: and Yankees and you on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's Ken Rosenthal, that's the inside scoop. Fair Territory is
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  Speaker 2: the postseason schedule, so you can get Ken's thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: the series he's covering and everything else, just like you
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