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Ken Rosenthal’s Inside Scoop: Weekend Chaos + Scariest Oct. lineups · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Let's hit the inside scoop and let's talk absolutely insane
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Speaker 1: postseason picture with FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to bring this question right to you, Ken, Todd father
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Speaker 1: brought it up. Do you like the way that the
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Speaker 1: American League is lined up right now where all of
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Speaker 1: the divisional battles are going to happen early in the
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Speaker 1: postseason or do you think that there should be some
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Speaker 1: type of levers in place to try and prevent that
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Speaker 1: which can happen. I mean, MLB can do that if
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Speaker 1: they wanted to and say, hey, you got to play
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Speaker 1: a non division or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I'm not really that fervent one way or the other
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Speaker 2: on this topic.
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Speaker 3: I understand what Todd and Eric are saying in that
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Speaker 3: you don't want to see the Yankees and Red Sox
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Speaker 3: in the first round in the best two of three.
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Speaker 3: It's not ideal, but at the same time, that's the
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Speaker 3: way the playoff system is set up. I don't mind it.
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Speaker 3: I understand again that the argument would be save those
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Speaker 3: matchups for later and then the division series. The way
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Speaker 3: it lines up right now, you'd also see a divisional matchup,
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Speaker 3: but with the schedule more balanced now not totally balanced,
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Speaker 3: but more balanced than it used to be.
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Speaker 2: This is okay with me?
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Speaker 4: Can you? And we also had this conversation, I feel
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Speaker 4: like the Astros are gonna bump one of these top
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Speaker 4: two teams out, and I don't think. I don't see
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Speaker 4: the Astros losing. Do you see the Astros getting in?
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Speaker 4: And maybe the Tigers are maybe even the Red Sox
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Speaker 4: after all the fight they've been through or out of
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Speaker 4: the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Todd for me or anyone else to predict anything at
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Speaker 3: this point would be sheer folly.
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Speaker 2: We've all spent the season.
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Speaker 3: Trying to figure this thing out, and we've been all
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Speaker 3: wrong every step of the way. Two weeks ago, you
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Speaker 3: would not have foreseen where we are right now.
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Speaker 2: There's no way.
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Speaker 3: Now you're asking me which teams I think are in
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Speaker 3: the best position. Cleveland and Detroit are in better positions
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Speaker 3: than Houston simply because of the way the math shakes out,
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Speaker 3: Houston not having the tiebreakers and being a game back
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Speaker 3: of the Tigers. But that said, while Houston is not
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Speaker 3: playing well, and while Jeremy Panna seemingly is out the
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Speaker 3: rest of the way and without Alvarez. In addition to that,
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Speaker 3: if they sweep the Angels. If they somehow find the
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Speaker 3: gumption to sweep the Angels, then maybe there's a way
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Speaker 3: in for them, depending on what happens with Detroit and Boston.
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Speaker 3: But it's going to be pretty difficult, it seems to me.
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Speaker 5: Do you see any indication that the trend of home
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Speaker 5: or teams winning at home during a regular season continuing
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Speaker 5: into the playoffs. Obviously that's a crapshoot, but is there
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Speaker 5: anything that's leading to that, like the drastic change this
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Speaker 5: year and teams winning at home, and then because the
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Speaker 5: other year in the World Series, I think every road
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Speaker 5: team won every game for all game, all seven games.
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Speaker 3: Eric, I haven't looked at it that closely, but if
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Speaker 3: I recall correctly the last time I looked at it,
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Speaker 3: that home field advantage in the best two of three
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Speaker 3: is not as meaningful as you might think it's meaningful.
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Speaker 3: Of course, you would rather play at home, and if
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Speaker 3: you're let's say San Diego or Seattle, which of course
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Speaker 3: is not going to have to play in that round
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Speaker 3: one of these teams that plays really well at home,
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Speaker 3: Philly is another one, then yeah, you'd rather have that.
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Speaker 3: But I remember Texas going into Baltimore a couple of
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Speaker 3: years ago and sweeping them without home field advantage. It
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Speaker 3: just doesn't seem to be that big a deal. That
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Speaker 3: was the Division Series I'm referring to, But there have
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Speaker 3: been other cases too where the home field has not
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Speaker 3: always won in this best of three round. And really,
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Speaker 3: what matters to me most, or which should matter most,
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Speaker 3: it would seem based on the way this game has
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Speaker 3: been played forever is the starting pitching and how it
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Speaker 3: lines up, And that too is something that will be
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Speaker 3: determined this weekend. If Detroit, for instance, does not clinch
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Speaker 3: by Sunday, they've got to throw Schoob then.
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Speaker 2: Don't want to do that.
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Speaker 3: I'd rather save them for the Game one of the
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Speaker 3: Wildcard series if they get there. Same for Cleveland with
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Speaker 3: Gavin Williams. And there are some other possibilities like that
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Speaker 3: and play as well.
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Speaker 5: How about health? How about work here, because we talked
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Speaker 5: about Todd and I talked about it going in here,
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Speaker 5: you have those days off the teams that aren't getting
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Speaker 5: the buye that they usually do get the buy The Dodgers,
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Speaker 5: the Yankees are they at a disadvantage based on where
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Speaker 5: their team is healthy wise, because the Dodgers are spent
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Speaker 5: the whole season trying to get healthy. Now they are healthy,
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Speaker 5: and they still don't like some of the guys that
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Speaker 5: they have in their bullpen who aren't hurt.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that it's affecting those teams as much.
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Speaker 3: Certainly the Red Sox are one example. If Roman Anthony
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Speaker 3: isn't decapable of playing in the playoffs, and we don't
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Speaker 3: even know where he is in that recovery from the oblique,
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Speaker 3: but if you could get the buye in their situation,
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Speaker 3: it would be helpful. It's going to be helpful for
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Speaker 3: the Phillies with Trey Turner. It would be helpful for
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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays with Bob Boushett still on the men.
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Speaker 3: So there are individual circumstances where certainly the buye is
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Speaker 3: helpful with regard to health, and Giancarlo Stanton was quoted
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Speaker 3: last night as saying, it's always helpful because there are
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Speaker 3: guys who are banged up that we don't really know
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Speaker 3: about or we don't know the extent of how they
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Speaker 3: are banged up. And it's also helpful for bullpen arms
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Speaker 3: that need a little bit of a break, which is
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Speaker 3: pretty much to say every bullpen ar I'm going right
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Speaker 3: now so it's definitely viewed by teams as an advantage.
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Speaker 3: At the same time, we have seen over the years,
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Speaker 3: especially in twenty three, when you sow two Wildcors make
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Speaker 3: it to the World Series, that momentum you build in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs can carry you through. And there's not really
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Speaker 3: a correlation between late season success in the regular season and.
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Speaker 2: The playoffs, but there is.
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Speaker 3: Once you win that first series, you start getting it rolling,
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Speaker 3: like the Rangers and the Diamondbacks did, and maybe then
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Speaker 3: you have something.
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Speaker 4: I want to ask this question about Cayl Rowley. I
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Speaker 4: mean you may be hinted on this a little while ago,
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Speaker 4: but are we not talking enough about him getting to
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Speaker 4: maybe sixty two home runs and tying the record? Have
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Speaker 4: we not gotten into that as much? I mean, I
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Speaker 4: feel like I've you know, you see it, but it's like,
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Speaker 4: all right, whatever, Like I don't know, I feel like
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Speaker 4: it's not being touted up enough.
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Speaker 2: It's funny Todd.
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Speaker 3: A few days ago, I started thinking, we're not talking
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Speaker 3: about Judge enough and what he's doing. And you might say,
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Speaker 3: how can that beak? And he plays in New York.
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Speaker 3: But because of Raleigh getting to sixty, which is an
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Speaker 3: incredible accomplishment, there has been in my view, at least
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Speaker 3: from what I've read and seen a lot of attention
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Speaker 3: on him and a lot of people coming out and saying,
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Speaker 3: how can this guy not be the MVP when he's
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Speaker 3: a switch hitter with the most home runs by a
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Speaker 3: switch hitter ever, When he's a catcher with the most
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Speaker 3: home runs by a catcher ever, when he's doing all
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Speaker 3: the things he's doing behind the plate. What I feel
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Speaker 3: has gotten lost somewhat, and I know people might take
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Speaker 3: exception to this is the historic nature of Judges season
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Speaker 3: as well. And Jason Stark, who I believe you're going
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Speaker 3: to have on later in the show, he'll point this
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Speaker 3: out and he'll explain it better than I can, because
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Speaker 3: he wrote it in his column today. We are witnessing
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Speaker 3: yet another all time great season by a right handed
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Speaker 3: hitter in Aaron Judge. And while there's nothing as dramatic
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Speaker 3: as Raleigh's sixty home runs, and it's certainly not being
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Speaker 3: done by a catcher, it's being done by a right fielder.
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Speaker 3: His advantages in average on base slugging are so distinct
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Speaker 3: and so unique that that's something too. So we're gonna
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Speaker 3: be talking a lot about both these guys as the
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Speaker 3: season ends, and if Raleigh gets the sixty two, that's
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Speaker 3: another data point. I guess I've said all along there
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Speaker 3: is no wrong choice for MVP, and I just don't
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Speaker 3: know which way this is going to go. It's such
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Speaker 3: an interesting race because in many ways, guys, this is
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Speaker 3: apples and oranges, and that's what makes it so difficult
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Speaker 3: to judge and evaluate, and it's also what makes it
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Speaker 3: so interesting and fun to talk about.
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Speaker 1: Ken. Let's cover your latest article, Fifteen MLP teams that
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Speaker 1: could change their manager head of baseball operations this offseason.
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Speaker 1: Last I checked, that is half of the league. So
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Speaker 1: there are some more obvious ones on there, but I'll
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Speaker 1: give you dealer's choice on the one that you wrote
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Speaker 1: about where you said, wow, this would stand out to me.
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Speaker 1: Where's one that people should be like, WHOA, I didn't
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Speaker 1: even think about that.
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Speaker 3: I would say pretty much all of these have been
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Speaker 3: thought about.
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Speaker 2: Now. There are fifteen teams in there.
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Speaker 3: I included the Mets and Tigers and their managers just
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Speaker 3: because their teams have collapsed in an historic way.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe either.
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Speaker 3: Aj Hinch or Carlos Mendoza is going to get fired
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Speaker 3: or should get fired. The one thing that jumped out
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Speaker 3: at me in compiling this story was really the Pirates situation.
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Speaker 3: And Ben Sherrington, I learned and reported, is signed through
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven. He is their general manager. He's been
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Speaker 3: their general manager for six years. They've had a losing
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Speaker 3: record every year. A couple things that are interesting here.
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Speaker 3: The last time owner Bob Nutting cleaned house, Neil Huntington
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Speaker 3: had three years left his GM, Clint Hurdle had two
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Speaker 3: years left as manager. He wound up eating more than
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Speaker 3: ten million dollars. So the fact that Sherrington is signed
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Speaker 3: for two more years won't necessarily preclude Nutting from firing him,
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Speaker 3: if that is what he chooses to do. But the
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Speaker 3: other interesting part about Sherrington is they've got some pieces
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Speaker 3: in place, and its schemes, of course, but all that
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Speaker 3: young pitching surrounding him. It's Connor Griffin, the game's number
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Speaker 3: one top prospect coming up probably as soon as next year.
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Speaker 3: He's a shortstop. They're clearly imbalanced, too much pitching, note
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Speaker 3: enough hitting, and that needs to be addressed. So will
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Speaker 3: Nutting addressed this? I don't know, And it's an interesting
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Speaker 3: question that he faces here. I know a lot of
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Speaker 3: people in Pittsburgh want to see change, understandably so, and
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Speaker 3: a lot of people in Pittsburgh believe the biggest change
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Speaker 3: needs to come all the way up top with nutting.
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Speaker 3: But this's one situation that is particularly interesting. I'll give
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Speaker 3: you something else to Scott that in again, researching this article,
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Speaker 3: did jump out at me the fact that teams like
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Speaker 3: Colorado and Anaheim, which might seem obvious teams that are
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Speaker 3: headed for change, they might go for short term solutions
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Speaker 3: or no solutions at all because of the concern of
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Speaker 3: a lockout coming in twenty seven. Why commit long term
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Speaker 3: and we don't even know what's going to happen in
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Speaker 3: twenty seven. That might seem self defeating in many ways.
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Speaker 2: You got to fix your team, right.
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Speaker 3: But owners think differently than you and I often, and
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Speaker 3: they might be thinking along those lines. Like Colorado if
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Speaker 3: they were going to fire their GM, and they still
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Speaker 3: might probably should have done it already and started their search,
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Speaker 3: much like Washington did. But maybe their owner Dick Montfort's thinking,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I'll stick with Bill Schmidt for one
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Speaker 3: more year, Warren Schaeffer for one more year, and then
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Speaker 3: once twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: Is resolved, I'll figure it out. I don't know that
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Speaker 2: his fans will be happy with that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that the industry would look well upon that,
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Speaker 3: but that is one scenario that was presented to me.
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Speaker 5: Which of these positions is most coveted by somebody, say,
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Speaker 5: like a David Ross, somebody who's not going to just
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Speaker 5: take any managerial job, like I have to be a
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Speaker 5: manager and get your foot in the door. Which of
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Speaker 5: these positions is that, like, hey, you know what, I
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Speaker 5: kind of see a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you three. Atlanta is the most obvious.
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Speaker 3: If Brian Stiker retires, and as I wrote, that is
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Speaker 3: not a sure thing, he might decide, you know what,
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Speaker 3: we're going to be pretty good next year. I want
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Speaker 3: to one more shot at making this thing go. Texas
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Speaker 3: if Bruce Boci retires would be another intriguing possibility, though
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Speaker 3: they're going to reduce payroll.
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Speaker 2: After what happened this year.
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Speaker 3: And then there's Baltimore, and Baltimore is a team that
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Speaker 3: clearly needs more out of their young position players, a
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Speaker 3: lot of whom are stagnated or regressed this year. Really
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Speaker 3: needs to find an ace for the top of its
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Speaker 3: rotation and also needs to rebuild its entire bullpen. But
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Speaker 3: when you have that young core position players, you have
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Speaker 3: the potential to do what they did what in twenty
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Speaker 3: three and twenty four when they made the playoffs. So
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Speaker 3: I would say those three are the most appealing. Washington, Colorado,
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Speaker 3: Anaheim if it opens not as much.
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Speaker 1: Hey Ken, I know in the beginning of the article
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Tory Lavello. How much can things change in
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Speaker 1: that form? And I know you also prefaced it by saying, Hey, Ken, Kendrick. Definitely,
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Speaker 1: I would say one of the more competitor appearing owners
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Speaker 1: in the sport, So he might do something crazy. But
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Speaker 1: in this case Arizona selling away what half of their
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Speaker 1: team and still being in it with a few days
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Speaker 1: left Ago has to tell you that the manager still
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Speaker 1: very much has his players in focus and liking what
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Speaker 1: he's bringing to the table right.
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Speaker 3: No question, and he's not on the list. I used
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Speaker 3: him as an example of how things can change so
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Speaker 3: quickly for managers and teams in general. I remember in
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Speaker 3: late May the Diamondbacks were struggling. They went through like
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Speaker 3: a one to nine stretch, and remember they had signed
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Speaker 3: Corbyn Burns, they had put in some effort into winning
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Speaker 3: this season, and I was thinking to myself, my Tory
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Speaker 3: Lavello be in trouble, and I made some calls and
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Speaker 3: turns out he wasn't. And then just a couple of
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Speaker 3: weeks ago, Buster only a ESPN had him on his
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Speaker 3: own list of managers who could be in trouble and
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Speaker 3: not because he necessarily believed it, and he said, it
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Speaker 3: almost seems silly to include him on this list, but
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Speaker 3: he mentioned that Ken Kendrick, the owner, is a really
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Speaker 3: competitive guy. Now let's look at the Diamondbacks whole picture.
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Speaker 3: What has happened here. They lost Burns and two of
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Speaker 3: their top believers, Justin Martinez and Ajpuck to season ending injuries.
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Speaker 3: Then they lost lords Gurrel Junior to a season ending
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Speaker 3: injury as well. In August, they traded I don't need
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Speaker 3: to go through the whole list, but three of them
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Speaker 3: were Merril Kelly, Ajohanno Suarez and Josh Naylor. And yet
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Speaker 3: as we enter the final weekend, they are still in contention.
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Speaker 2: Now that's partly.
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Speaker 3: Because they have three great position players, Carol Perdomo and Marte,
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Speaker 3: but it's also because Tory Leavello has figured some things
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Speaker 3: out with them kept them going and all of that,
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Speaker 3: And I mentioned two other examples of how things can
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Speaker 3: change quickly.
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Speaker 2: Dave Roberts last year's Division Series.
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Speaker 3: They lose that to San Diego, get knocked out for
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Speaker 3: a third straight year by a division rival in the
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Speaker 3: first round.
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Speaker 2: I would think he was getting fired.
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Speaker 3: Turns out he gets an extension for winning the World Series,
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Speaker 3: highest average salary by a manager ever. And then Mike
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Speaker 3: Shilt a few years ago with Saint Louis. You remember
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Speaker 3: the seventeen yame winning streak, the third straight playoff appearance,
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Speaker 3: he gets into a fight with John Mazzelock, not a fistfight,
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Speaker 3: but a philosophical difference kind of fight, and he's gone.
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Speaker 3: So I made this list in the article fully aware
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Speaker 3: that something might happen this postseason, or something might happen
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Speaker 3: behind closed doors that changes everything for a particular manager
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Speaker 3: in a particular situation.
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Speaker 2: We'll see how it all plays out.
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Speaker 5: But the expectation isn't there isn't there an expectation for
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Speaker 5: some clubs over other clubs, Like, oh, it's neat that
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Speaker 5: the Guardians are making the playoffs, voter's not in there.
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Speaker 5: The expectation of an Aaron Boone because once all the
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Speaker 5: crappy teams stop playing, it's all the good teams. And
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Speaker 5: if you're the first one out. Are there any managers
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Speaker 5: because I don't think there's any general managers I can
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Speaker 5: think of, but any managers that could lose their job
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Speaker 5: if this postseason doesn't go well.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mentioned too, and Aaron Moon certainly would be
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Speaker 3: one if indeed they get knocked out early, and I'm
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Speaker 3: not even sure, then he would get fired. He's so
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Speaker 3: close with Brian Cashman, the GM, so well thought of
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Speaker 3: by their owner house Steinbrenner. I know fans have wanted
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Speaker 3: him fired, as I wrote in the article six hundred
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Speaker 3: and twenty seven times already, but it hasn't happened.
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Speaker 2: In it would take a lot for it to happen.
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Speaker 3: I would think it would take a first round exit
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Speaker 3: or an early exit with them playing poorly for even
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Speaker 3: it to become an issue. And then Rob Thompson in
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Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Phillies, they go to the World Series in
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Speaker 3: twenty two, they lose in seven games in the NLCS,
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Speaker 3: their final two at home to the Arizona Diamondbacks in
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Speaker 3: twenty three, and then they lose in the Division Series
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Speaker 3: to the Mets. Last year, They've gone backwards each year
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Speaker 3: they added it. The deadline had maybe one of the
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Speaker 3: best deadlines with Duran and Bader and signing David Robertson
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Speaker 3: as a free agent, and now they have a team that,
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Speaker 3: even without Zach Wheeler, looks like a World Series type team.
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Speaker 3: If they get knocked out in the first round, will
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Speaker 3: the question be raised. I'm sure it will be raised.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that it will lead to change. In
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Speaker 3: my view, Rob Thompson is the perfect manager for that team,
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Speaker 3: but Dave Dombrowski, President Baseball Operations, could decide. And I'm
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Speaker 3: just speaking hypothetically. You know what, we haven't gotten there
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Speaker 3: with dis manager. Let's try another one. I don't know
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Speaker 3: who it would be. I don't know what logic there
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Speaker 3: would be behind that, but these are the kinds of
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Speaker 3: things where at least the questions would be raised. I'm
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Speaker 3: not sure that they would lead to anything, but yes,
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Speaker 3: there would be noise that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at Philly last year was
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Speaker 1: certainly disappointing in the playoffs, and people thought they were
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Speaker 1: going to drastically switch things up. They didn't. They made
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Speaker 1: are the scariest lineups in Major League Baseball heading into
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Speaker 1: the postseason? Who wants to start?
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Speaker 5: I'll go Yankees.
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Speaker 4: Okay, that was easy.
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Speaker 1: Wow, you stole Todd's pick.
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Speaker 4: No no, but it was just easy answer for sure.
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Speaker 5: I really, I really think they've gotten a lot of
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Speaker 5: flack and a lot of issues when you break down
20:31
Speaker 5: the numbers that, in my opinion play in the postseason.
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Speaker 5: And I'm not saying I'm picking the Yankees. I'm saying
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Speaker 5: the Yankees lineup. Those numbers play I heard somebody talking
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Speaker 5: about it before. Like balls that are put in play
20:45
Speaker 5: at ninety plus miles an hour, are you know, have
20:48
Speaker 5: like a two to eighty average. Ninety five plus is
20:52
Speaker 5: like three ten. One hundred plus is like four eighty,
20:55
Speaker 5: and anything over one oh five is like a five
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Speaker 5: eighty clip something rediculous like that. The Yankees hit the
21:02
Speaker 5: baseball hard. Do they strike out? Absolutely? Do they kick
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Speaker 5: the ball around? Sure, That's not what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 5: That is a lineup to me that is feared because
21:14
Speaker 5: they have a lot of balance. They have a left
21:16
Speaker 5: right combination that hits the ball harder than any lineup consistently.
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Speaker 5: One to nine.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll back that up with eight guys with
21:26
Speaker 4: twenty plus home runs. I mean, that is absolutely phenomenal.
21:31
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with your squad, the Phillies. I think
21:33
Speaker 4: the Phillies lineup is incredible, especially if they get this
21:36
Speaker 4: guy Sosa they hit hitting three home runs in a game,
21:38
Speaker 4: He's back mashing the ball, Swore or Harper. I mean,
21:43
Speaker 4: I love everything about this Phillies lineup. They've been there before.
21:47
Speaker 4: And where they play is pretty incredible too. So I
21:51
Speaker 4: wouldn't mind a Yankee Philly ending to this beautiful major
21:57
Speaker 4: league season for sure.
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Speaker 1: If not the Yankee, what else do you like on
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Speaker 1: the American League side? Name another lineup where you're like,
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Speaker 1: that's scary lineup? Yes, I think there's I don't think.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I guess you're gonna have to go to
22:14
Speaker 5: Boston for me, go to Boston.
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Speaker 1: Who in Toronto? You guys aren't scared of Toronto?
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Speaker 2: Scary?
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Speaker 5: You said scary? I think Toronto's a better I think
22:28
Speaker 5: they I think they produce more runs. Clearly, I think
22:31
Speaker 5: they actually do produce more runs. It's not like even opinion,
22:34
Speaker 5: I think they've scored more runs. I just think Toronto
22:37
Speaker 5: scores it in a different way that I still have
22:40
Speaker 5: a few days until I get to pick my playoff predictions.
22:44
Speaker 5: If I have to decide, is the Blue Jays lineup
22:48
Speaker 5: is the Brewers lineup? Two lineups that are going to
22:51
Speaker 5: play in the postseason? Is it going to be based
22:55
Speaker 5: on matchups? Do the Blue Jays get that buy Who
22:58
Speaker 5: do they draw in the first round? Do they draw
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Speaker 5: a pitching staff that's just going for strikeouts? If they
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Speaker 5: do to me. I think the Blue Jays lineup has
23:06
Speaker 5: the advantage if they draw a lineup, if they draw
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Speaker 5: a pitching staff that executes pitches and isn't necessarily big
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Speaker 5: punch out team. I think maybe the Blue Jays have
23:16
Speaker 5: a little bit of a disadvantage. So that's why I
23:18
Speaker 5: don't pick them over it. I think there's just more
23:24
Speaker 5: I think there's more punch that there could be in
23:27
Speaker 5: the Red Sox lineup.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's interesting. I mean their neck and neck in
23:32
Speaker 1: terms of run score this year, I would still give
23:34
Speaker 1: the advantage to the J's and the Red Sox definitely
23:36
Speaker 1: have more of a hitters park, So if you're going
23:38
Speaker 1: to look at some of the other park adjusted stats,
23:41
Speaker 1: the Jays probably have the advantage. But yeah, what do
23:43
Speaker 1: you think, Todd Father? You see both of those teams
23:46
Speaker 1: pretty frequently scarier offense. If you're a team facing the
23:50
Speaker 1: Blue Jays or the Red Sox, where do you feel
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Speaker 1: like there's a little more intimidation?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I really don't know. I think read
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Speaker 4: the Blue Jays have had their number this year. I
24:03
Speaker 4: mean they definitely have five and eight.
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Speaker 1: Uh you're saying against the Yanks.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, against the Yanks. I'm not I'm not sure. I
24:12
Speaker 4: you know, I just honestly, I honestly think the Mariners
24:16
Speaker 4: are probably the only other team that can stack up
24:19
Speaker 4: against them in the playoffs. Right now, I don't and
24:22
Speaker 4: you know, they've been hitting pretty well. Their pitching staff
24:24
Speaker 4: is pretty good. I you know, I think it's the
24:27
Speaker 4: Yankees to win the AL. In my opinion, I think
24:30
Speaker 4: the AL is for the Yankees to win. I don't
24:33
Speaker 4: care what happened in the regular season. They have the
24:35
Speaker 4: line up loaded, even with all the injuries they have.
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Speaker 4: Luis heel Is back, you know, Max Freed, Carlos Rodin.
24:44
Speaker 4: It's Theirs to lose.
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Speaker 1: It is crazy when you just look at run scored
24:50
Speaker 1: and again, I know some ballparks are not as easy
24:53
Speaker 1: to score. In the first eleven on runs scored are
24:58
Speaker 1: all either play teams are in the mix. I mean,
25:01
Speaker 1: the only team that you could single out really would
25:04
Speaker 1: be the Diamondbacks. They have the fourth most run scored
25:07
Speaker 1: as of today, and they're on the outside looking in,
25:10
Speaker 1: but barely. Everyone else is a playoff team. Yankees, Dodgers, Brewers,
25:13
Speaker 1: that's your top three, then the Diamondbacks and it's Red Sox,
25:16
Speaker 1: Blue Jays, Phillies, Cubs, Mariners, Mets, Tigers. They're all playoff teams.
25:21
Speaker 1: You know, for a while we'd always look at run prevention.
25:24
Speaker 1: Run scored is the bigger indicator for this year. I mean,
25:27
Speaker 1: if you can score runs, you're going to be a
25:29
Speaker 1: playoff team.
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Speaker 5: M Yeah, I get it. I mean, but I bet
25:36
Speaker 5: the pitching staffs are all right up there too. You're
25:38
Speaker 5: not going to have a twenty fifth ranked pitching staff
25:41
Speaker 5: and oh your lineup. So I mean if I think
25:43
Speaker 5: if you did the same breakdown for the pitching staffs, nope,
25:47
Speaker 5: I think.
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Speaker 1: Wrong, wrong, Okay, And again there are deeper stats, So
25:52
Speaker 1: I'm just doing what is now looked at as the basics.
25:55
Speaker 1: But if we just look at tm ERA, number one
25:58
Speaker 1: in baseball is the Rangers. Then you have the Brewers,
26:00
Speaker 1: but the Rangers aren't in there, they're very much out.
26:03
Speaker 1: Then you have Brewers, Padres, Guardians, Red Sox. Then number
26:07
Speaker 1: six is Kansas City, Number seven Pittsburgh. Then you're at
26:11
Speaker 1: the Phillies, the Cubs, the Mariners. Then you've got the Rays.
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Speaker 1: So it's a little more balanced. In that top eleven.
26:17
Speaker 1: You've got almost half the teams in there that are
26:19
Speaker 1: very much not postseason teams. Just a little thing that
26:22
Speaker 1: I noticed.
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Speaker 5: It's a little got a score differential.
26:30
Speaker 1: One more on the National League side, I just want
26:33
Speaker 1: to spend another minute there. In terms of run scored,
26:37
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are first, the Brewers are second, then, like
26:40
Speaker 1: I mentioned, the Diamondbacks. Then you've got the Cubs, Mariners,
26:44
Speaker 1: and Mets. I asked this to Jim Bowden Yestra, I
26:48
Speaker 1: ass this to you because you're you're fresh with us today,
26:50
Speaker 1: Todd Father. If the Mets do make it in, don't
26:53
Speaker 1: you think that their offense is pretty damn good. I mean,
26:55
Speaker 1: they're pitching is somewhat in shambles, especially starting pitching wise.
27:00
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a good looking lineup. Like I think
27:03
Speaker 1: they're gonna give the Dodgers trouble in the best out
27:05
Speaker 1: of three series if they meet up with them, because
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Speaker 1: I think the lineup can keep up with l A.
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Speaker 4: I do too. I do too. I would agree with
27:13
Speaker 4: you on that. I don't know why that slipped my
27:14
Speaker 4: mind a little bit, but they they have a stack
27:18
Speaker 4: lineup and when they're clicking, I mean, they just went
27:20
Speaker 4: into Chicago and found a way to win games that
27:23
Speaker 4: they needed. I know, they lost a big game, but
27:26
Speaker 4: they took two out of three, and you know, the
27:29
Speaker 4: only thing that's gonna hinder them is the pitching, and
27:32
Speaker 4: we all know that. But I mean, they have a
27:36
Speaker 4: squad that can mash too. I mean, Pete Alonzo, what
27:39
Speaker 4: a year he had. I mean, honestly, good for him
27:42
Speaker 4: coming off of the you know, the Bowl that they
27:44
Speaker 4: were giving him. Not trying to pay the man exactly
27:47
Speaker 4: what he deserves, and you know he has he has
27:49
Speaker 4: something to think about in the offseason. But they do
27:51
Speaker 4: have a team that can go into LA and win
27:54
Speaker 4: three out of five games three what excuse me? Excuse me?
28:00
Speaker 4: Two out of three my fault, Yeah, and go out
28:03
Speaker 4: there and all of a sudden, Bye bye LA. They
28:06
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Speaker 1: Sodo Star, Lindora Star and clutch. Pete had plenty of
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28:17
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Speaker 5: Marte's playing well, Bientos is rolling in the form, He's
28:24
Speaker 5: starting to hit the ball out of the park opposite field,
28:27
Speaker 5: and you know what he did in the playoffs last year.
28:29
Speaker 5: That lineup is awesome. But there is no bigger team
28:32
Speaker 5: that is more counterbalanced in the playoffs right now, maybe
28:37
Speaker 5: the Guardians pitching staff and their lineup would be. Their
28:43
Speaker 5: pitching staff is so awesome and their lineup is poop
28:46
Speaker 5: soup right now. The match are the other way. Their
28:49
Speaker 5: lineup is that could be really devastating and their pitching
28:54
Speaker 5: staff is poop soup.
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