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FairT: Orioles fire Hyde, Dodgers overhaul, ABS questions remain · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal and people always ask me Ken the ever
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: run out of things to write about? And actually it's
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: the opposite problem. Covering the entire sport, there is always
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  Speaker 1: almost always too much to write about, and that is
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  Speaker 1: the case right now, and that is the case with
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  Speaker 1: this particular show. We're not gonna go to in depth
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: today on the Jose Albarado suspension, which obviously hurts the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies bullpen. He'll be out for the postseason. He'll return
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  Speaker 1: this season after the eighty games, but no playoffs for him.
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  Speaker 1: We're not gonna go too and deep on the Twins
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  Speaker 1: thirteen game winning streak, though of course it's an amazing
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  Speaker 1: feat by a team that started off so badly. And
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  Speaker 1: we're not even gonna get to in depth on the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals seven and two road trip, which was really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: They are only two games back in the NL Central.
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  Speaker 1: I've got other things to this and don't yell at
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  Speaker 1: me for not getting too deep into the topics most
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  Speaker 1: passionate to your heart. The things I want to discuss
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  Speaker 1: are the things that to me seem most newsworthy from
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  Speaker 1: the weekend and let's start with the Baltimore Orioles. The
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  Speaker 1: firing of Brandon Hyde not exactly a surprise. Their game
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  Speaker 1: Friday night was horrible, and it was the kind of
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  Speaker 1: game that you look at and say, I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if the manager gets fired tomorrow. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: said watching that loss to the Nationals. But the real
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  Speaker 1: question here is not why this happened, and not a
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  Speaker 1: rehash of all that michae Elias did as general manager
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  Speaker 1: to not set up Brandon Hyde very well for this season.
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  Speaker 1: I want to look ahead, and I want to show
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  Speaker 1: you first just how bad the Orioles situation is. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: They are fifteen and thirty, and let's look at the
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  Speaker 1: al standings for starters to show you just how buried
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  Speaker 1: they are even at this early stage of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out. They're fifteen and thirty. They were eleven
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  Speaker 1: and a half games back in a division in which
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  Speaker 1: only the Yankees are playing well, then the only team
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  Speaker 1: above five hundred. I know teams have rallied in the past,
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals in twenty nineteen, the Astros last season, and others.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's happening for this team, so
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  Speaker 1: where are we going with this? As I said on
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  Speaker 1: the Fox broadcast Saturday on the pregame show, Tony Mancelino
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  Speaker 1: is the interim manager. I don't know that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the manager of the rest of the season
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  Speaker 1: if they're truly intent on salvaging this thing and shooting
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  Speaker 1: for a wild card. This is a very inexperienced staff.
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  Speaker 1: Mansllino's never managed in the majors. You've got a first
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  Speaker 1: year bench coach, You've got a first year hitting coach,
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  Speaker 1: and a second year pitching coach. Now, these guys might
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  Speaker 1: all be quite good at their jobs. I understand that,
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  Speaker 1: But is this the group that's going to lead this
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  Speaker 1: team out of its current state? I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that is yes. And then if this
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  Speaker 1: team cannot rally, and right now they have the fourth
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  Speaker 1: worst record in the Major leagues worst. If they cannot rally,
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  Speaker 1: then what do you do with the deadline? And if
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  Speaker 1: Mike Elias, in the ownership's estimation, is perhaps not the
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  Speaker 1: right guy, then what is he the guy you let
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  Speaker 1: take this team apart at the deadline. They've got some
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  Speaker 1: interesting pieces. Cedric Mullens Junior. He's streaky, but he's a
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  Speaker 1: good center fielder still. Zach Efflin. I know he had
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  Speaker 1: a bad start the other day, but he's a good
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  Speaker 1: starting pitcher. Sir Anthony Dominguez in the bullpen. Frankly, this
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  Speaker 1: team is a mess. I don't see them coming out
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  Speaker 1: of it. I don't see how that by the deadline
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  Speaker 1: they're backing contention. So yes, I see them as sellers.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neal. They're big free agent signing from the offseason. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. He's on the injured list for
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  Speaker 1: the sixteenth time in his career. They gave this guy
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  Speaker 1: three years, forty nine and a half million dollars. He
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  Speaker 1: has an opt out. Guess what, he's not opted out,
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  Speaker 1: not when he keeps getting hurt. It's his second trip
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  Speaker 1: to the aisle this season. They just put Kyle Gibson
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  Speaker 1: on effectively waivers. They dfad him. Top to bottom. This
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  Speaker 1: team is a complete mess. And again the questions in
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  Speaker 1: the future, what do you do about the manager for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the season, What do you do with
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  Speaker 1: the deadline? They're a lot more pressing now than they
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  Speaker 1: were before you fire Brandon Hyde. And the ultimate question
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  Speaker 1: is going to be what does the new ownership with
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  Speaker 1: David Rubinstein as the head of it. What do they
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  Speaker 1: do with michae Elias. Do you hold him responsible for this? Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you probably should, But does that mean he loses his job?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that. All right, that's
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  Speaker 1: the Orioles. But staying in the Al East, because I
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  Speaker 1: was in Boston this weekend. It was quite an interesting
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  Speaker 1: set of circumstances. To say the least. There's no drama
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  Speaker 1: in baseball quite like Red Sox drama. I think we
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  Speaker 1: can all agree on that. And the Raphael Devers drama
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  Speaker 1: has been in the news for quite some time now.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that he is not going to play first base,
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  Speaker 1: But it also seems that for all the people criticizing him,
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  Speaker 1: he's the best DH in baseball, first career walk off
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  Speaker 1: home run on Saturday, then a Grand Slam yesterday. He's
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  Speaker 1: not the reason they're one and six in their last seven,
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  Speaker 1: not the reason they're under five hundred and largely a
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  Speaker 1: disappointment this season. The question remains, though, what are they
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  Speaker 1: going to do about first base now? The Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: on Friday started working out Christian Campbell, the rookie second baseman,
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  Speaker 1: at first and the idea could ultimately be if Campbell
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  Speaker 1: can play first, then you can have David Hamilton, a
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  Speaker 1: better defender than Campbell at second, and you open up
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  Speaker 1: a spot perhaps for Marcelo Meyer down the line. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to show fans just what Alex Cora told
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  Speaker 1: reporters yesterday about learning first base. And this applies not
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  Speaker 1: just to Campbell, but it really applies to Devers as well.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, it was a selfish look on Ralphael Dever's
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  Speaker 1: part not to be willing to learn the position. But
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  Speaker 1: here's what Alex Corras said. It's not easy. He's talking
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  Speaker 1: about their transition to first base. We're taking a chance here.
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  Speaker 1: This is referencing Campbell. All this talk about this guy
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  Speaker 1: can play first and this and that. I can give
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  Speaker 1: you five examples why it didn't work the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just plug a guy over there. Here we go,
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  Speaker 1: let's see what happens. There's more than just standing there
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  Speaker 1: and catching the throws. That's the point I made in
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  Speaker 1: my column last week, and it's a point that Korra
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  Speaker 1: elaborated on referencing the injuries to Kyle Schwarber and Christian Arroyo.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to play first for the Red Sox, referencing Franchie Cordero.
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  Speaker 1: They tried him at first, didn't work. So with Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: this is not fat accompany by any stretch of the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to go back to Devers again, because
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  Speaker 1: he is not the athlete that Campbell is. He's a
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  Speaker 1: guy who really is not a very good third baseman.
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  Speaker 1: And this assumption, then in the middle of a season
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  Speaker 1: he can go play first and succeed at it. That's
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  Speaker 1: a mighty big assumption. Now, it doesn't mean he shouldn't try,
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean when you're making three hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars plus and the team asked you to do something,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't do it. But at the same time, I've
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  Speaker 1: said this from the beginning. It's a big ask, and
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  Speaker 1: now they're asking Christian Campbell to do it. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how that goes, all right. Finally, this weekend some really
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  Speaker 1: interesting news out of Los Angeles. Actually, for the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. First we had the dfaing of Austin Barnes,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who had been the longest tenured Dodger until
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  Speaker 1: well he was defade. And now on Sunday we get
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  Speaker 1: the release of Chris Taylor. He was the longest tenured
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  Speaker 1: player on the Dodgers after Barnes, so two of their
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  Speaker 1: mainstays over the years are now effectively going to be gone.
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  Speaker 1: What's interesting about this is not that these two guys
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  Speaker 1: had secure roster spots and that they should have avoided
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  Speaker 1: this fate. No, we could all see this coming. Barnes
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  Speaker 1: is not the defender he once was, never really was
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  Speaker 1: a hitter. Taylor has had a couple of bad years
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  Speaker 1: in a row, and with the emergence of Haisong Kim,
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  Speaker 1: there was simply no spot for him. What's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: me is that we're sitting here, it's not even May
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  Speaker 1: twentieth yet, and the Dodgers are acting with urgency. They're
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  Speaker 1: not waiting around to let things marinate. They had Dalton
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  Speaker 1: Rushing in the minor leagues. He was hitting, they said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Austin Barnes. No, they had Haishan Kim a very successful
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  Speaker 1: major league debut, Chris Taylor. That's it for you. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason they kind of had to act on these
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  Speaker 1: matters was not just the performance of those players. Rushing
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  Speaker 1: good prospect, no question, Kim absolutely deserves to be in
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  Speaker 1: the major leagues, But there's a question on whether they'll
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  Speaker 1: get playing time for them in the majors, both of them,
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  Speaker 1: especially after now well, especially now that Tommy Edmond is back.
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  Speaker 1: That compromises Kim. When Taoscar Hernandez comes back, it becomes
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  Speaker 1: a greater question for playing time and rushing. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: how much he'll play with Will Smith the primary catcher.
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  Speaker 1: What's interesting here is the NL West standings and the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: For all this talk of how they were going to
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  Speaker 1: run away and ruin baseball, they're not running away and
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  Speaker 1: ruining baseball. Look at this. The Padres are one game back,
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  Speaker 1: the Giants are one game back after sweeping the A's
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. The Diamondback's not really playing all that well consistently.
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  Speaker 1: They are only four out the Rockies. Forget about the Rockies.
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  Speaker 1: So here are the Dodgers. They're not running away with anything.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to show you also their latest pitching
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  Speaker 1: injuries or the latest version of the injured list, which
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  Speaker 1: includes fifteen players. These aren't all of them. They've got
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  Speaker 1: three fits of a rotation on the il still Tyler Glasnow,
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  Speaker 1: Rookie Sasaki and Blake Stell and really an entire bullpen
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  Speaker 1: is now on the il Rusdar Gradol, Michael Kopek, Evan Phillips,
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  Speaker 1: Blake Trianon and Kirby Yates. The Los Angeles Dodgers, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, same as it ever was Armageddon. Yes, arms
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  Speaker 1: injured again. Yes, it's the Dodgers every year. So this
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  Speaker 1: idea that they're running away and ruining baseball, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Rid of players right now because they feel urgency, they
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  Speaker 1: feel like they're getting pressed. They know the importance of
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  Speaker 1: winning the division, they know the importance of getting a
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  Speaker 1: buy out of the wildcard round, and they are not
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  Speaker 1: messing around. So that's it, Orioles, Red Sox, Dodgers. We've
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back in time now for the INTI inside Dish
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  Speaker 1: the part of the show I talk about maybe a
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  Speaker 1: story I've written, maybe a trend in the game, maybe
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  Speaker 1: something else entirely, And today I want to focus on
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  Speaker 1: a story that was published this morning that I co
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  Speaker 1: wrote with Jason Stark. It's about ABS and the coming
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  Speaker 1: automated automated ball strike system that Baseball has experimented with
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  Speaker 1: in the minor leagues for several years now, experimented with
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  Speaker 1: in the Future's Game last year and experimented with for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in the major leagues or at the
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  Speaker 1: major league level in spring training, and the story is
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  Speaker 1: about how the converse sayations around ABS need to continue.
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  Speaker 1: And in a competition meeting, competition committee meeting on May one,
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  Speaker 1: the players were there with the owners and the umpire
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  Speaker 1: representatives and for the first time the owners or the
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  Speaker 1: management of Baseball Baseball people revealed to the players that
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  Speaker 1: there's a margin for error in the system. You see
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  Speaker 1: our story as MLB weighs its introduction in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: the conversation about the automated ball Strike system is just beginning.
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  Speaker 1: So Corbyn Burns told me, yes, there is a margin
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  Speaker 1: for ERA. I don't know that players were aware of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that fans were aware of it. This
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  Speaker 1: was Corbin speaking, and he made the point that they
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  Speaker 1: were told, the players were that the margin for ERA
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  Speaker 1: can be about a half inch with ABS. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: you're watching in spring training, if you did and you
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  Speaker 1: saw the animation for the ABS, you didn't think there
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  Speaker 1: was a margin for error. You thought it was just perfect.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the assumption we all had. Now that's
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  Speaker 1: not a proper assumption because all of these ball tracking
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  Speaker 1: systems include some margin for error. They use them in soccer,
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  Speaker 1: they use them in tennis. They're going to use them
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  Speaker 1: in football to mark downs or mark first downs where
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  Speaker 1: they are places on the field. So there's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be some margin for era in all of these systems.
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  Speaker 1: Usually it's quite minuscule and not as extreme in the
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  Speaker 1: league's estimation as a half inch. As the article explains,
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  Speaker 1: there are all kinds of ways to measure this. The
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  Speaker 1: median outcome of any pitch that is tracked on ABS
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  Speaker 1: will be a point one point seven inch margin for err.
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  Speaker 1: That's less than one fifth of an inch. That's the
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  Speaker 1: median outcome. There's a ninety five percent confidence level that
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  Speaker 1: will be something like point three to nine, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a ninety nine confidence level that it will be zero
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  Speaker 1: point four eight percent. That's the half inch that Corbyn
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  Speaker 1: Burns is talking about. That's pretty good. It in the
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  Speaker 1: league's estimation, is better than the umpires can do. But
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  Speaker 1: the question Burns rays and the question other players have
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  Speaker 1: is is this worth it? Is it worth going to
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  Speaker 1: this system when the umpires under a reduced buffer zone.
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  Speaker 1: We've written about that as well, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: go research it. I'm not going to explain it all here,
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  Speaker 1: but under a reduced buffer zone, the umpires are calling
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  Speaker 1: balls and strikes more accurately than at any point since
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  Speaker 1: that cast was introduced in twenty fifteen. The umps are
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. And what the players are asking is, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if there is this margin forever, if there is this
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  Speaker 1: disparity that potentially could exist. If you're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: pitch that can be one tenth of an inch inside
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  Speaker 1: and yet the system sees it as four tenths of
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  Speaker 1: an inch outside, what are we doing here again? MLB
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  Speaker 1: sees this as still worth the trouble in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of where they are with it, and they
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  Speaker 1: haven't made a decision yet. Nothing is decided. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, the way the Competition Committee works, and
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  Speaker 1: you guys know this, there are six owners on that committee,
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  Speaker 1: there are four players on it, and there is one umpire.
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  Speaker 1: So anything Baseball wants to do, they have the votes
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And it certainly seems like in everyone's estimation,
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  Speaker 1: Baseball wants this system in place next season. The challenge
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  Speaker 1: system where you get a couple of challenges and if
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  Speaker 1: the call is reversed, you keep your challenge. It's much
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  Speaker 1: like replay in that regard. So this discussion that is
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  Speaker 1: taking place right now is going to have to continue
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  Speaker 1: because with ABS, it's not just simply implementing that system,
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  Speaker 1: you're also changing the definition of the strike zone. It's
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  Speaker 1: a different zone than what is currently being called right now.
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  Speaker 1: It dips lower at the top, it comes up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit at the bottom, and it's a narrow on
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  Speaker 1: the sides. So it's a different zone. And what the
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  Speaker 1: league is going to do in the coming weeks is
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  Speaker 1: enable players to see on their dugout iPads how the
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  Speaker 1: two zones compare, how ABS would call a pitch and
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  Speaker 1: how the current umpires are calling a pitch, and that
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  Speaker 1: way the players can at least learn or see how
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  Speaker 1: this is going to evolve. Remember, the system was only
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  Speaker 1: in place in sixty percent of spring training games. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in every park. Some parks weren't technologically equipped to
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  Speaker 1: do it, so some players, some veteran players who didn't
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  Speaker 1: experience this in the minors, have no experience with ABS
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  Speaker 1: at all. And there has also been talk of a
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  Speaker 1: buffer zone with ABS, and what that would be would
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  Speaker 1: be an area where if ABS called it one way,
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  Speaker 1: but it would say just one tenth of an inch
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  Speaker 1: of a miss by the umpire, then the umpire would
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  Speaker 1: be granted leniency on that pitch and the call would stand. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as the article explains, as Jason and I wrote, the
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  Speaker 1: league has some problems with that. They're not sure that
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  Speaker 1: is the wisest thing to do, and there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reasons for that. One is the players might
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  Speaker 1: not want that. They might just want to call by
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  Speaker 1: the ABS zone as accurately as that ABS can do it.
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  Speaker 1: And also if fans are watching an animation and they
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  Speaker 1: see a pitches off and yet they see that the
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  Speaker 1: pitch is upheld, they're not going to like that very much.
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  Speaker 1: So that too, is a conversation that is taking place.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing that I will say about the league here.
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  Speaker 1: We wrote that article, I don't know it was about
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  Speaker 1: a week or two ago about how the players, the umpires,
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  Speaker 1: actually the players and the clubs were not aware of
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  Speaker 1: the reduced buffer zone, how it went from two inches
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  Speaker 1: in the current way the game is called to three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of an inch inside and outside the zone, and
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  Speaker 1: it caught the players by surprise in this particular case,
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  Speaker 1: as we go forward with ABS, and as these conversations
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  Speaker 1: are taking place, it certainly seems like the league is
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: being diligent about soliciting the player's input and the umpire's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: input for that matter. Now, in the end, will the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: league do it at once, Yes, it absolutely will do it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, at least they're talking. At
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: least these discussions are ongoing, And in talking to league people,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I did not get the sense that while they have
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the right to ram it down the player's throats and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the umpire's throats, I don't know that they want to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: do that. They want to decide whether this is the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: right thing to do, and they want to understand the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: implications of it. Now, part of the implications are that
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: there's going to be margin ferer that's going to have
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to be accepted, and it's accepted in other sports. You
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: don't see this question come up in soccer and tennis.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And by the way, the same technology used for ABS
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: is the technology used in statcast for all the things
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that we measure with players' performance, and really you don't
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: hear ever complaints about that. So it's a really interesting topic.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: It's going to continue to be an interesting topic and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I would suspect this is not the last time I'll
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: be talking about it. All right, we'll be back after
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: a short message.
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  Speaker 3: do like I do and just leave my cards in
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• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Ah. Yes. Time now for grilling Ken, the part of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the show where you guys get to ask me questions.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Let's get on with it. The first question comes from Michael,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: who asks how realistic is it for Paul Skins to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be traded this year. I'm starting to see this bubble
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: up a little bit on X and some writers speculating
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: as well about the possibility of the Pirates trading Paul Skins.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I do not see it happening this year. Paul Skins
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: is under club control for four more years after this one.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: The Pirates have many problems, and of course they need
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to solve those problems. But I don't know that trading
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Paul Skins is the way to do it. The way
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to do it, and I know this might be objectionable.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: In the owner's estimation, Bob Nutting's estimation, the way to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: do it is to spend money and build around him. Now,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I don't expect the Pirates to do that, which is
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: why you're going to hear these questions about Skins. He
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: has four years of club control remaining after this year.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He's still cheap. And yes, the Pirates might be inclined
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to think about trading him before he gets hurt if
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he's going to get hurt, which of course is a possibility.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, where are you as a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: franchise if you do this? And it also gets back
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to what I was talking about earlier with the Orioles
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and Micha Elias, the GM there being entrusted to handle
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: their deadline. If indeed this is the direction they continue
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: going with him as their GM. Ben Charrington is in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: his sixth year, he might not be back after this season.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: They just fire their manager who is also in his
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: sixth year. So are you going to have Ben Charrington
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a GM? You might be firing? Trade Paul Skeins. Is
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that the decision you want to make? I just don't
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: see this happening right now. Can it happen in the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: future under a new GM, if that indeed is what happened,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I can see that very much in the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: near future. All right. The next question, this one comes
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: from Rocky, who ask who's the next manager to be fired? Rocky.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I actually believe we might be done for a little bit.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: We've had three managers fired before June. That's the first
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: time it has happened since two thousand and two. That's right,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: three managers fired before June for the first time since
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: two thousand and two. But that doesn't answer your question.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Your question is who's next? And if there was one
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: manager I would guess might be in trouble, but not yet.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It could be John Schneider the Blue Jays. Now. The
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays keep talking about how they're fighting, how there's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a different spirit this year, how they're really kind of
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: together as a team, and that's great, good to hear
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and a good reflection in some ways. I'm the manager.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: But there's still five hundred right now, and they're a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: team that has its moments, but a team that's still
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: is quite flawed. Their rotation has been something of a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: disappointment so far. They've had some good things happen offensively,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: but not with the rotation. Not hitting home runs either.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Santander has been hurt. So do I think that leads
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to John Schneider getting fired? Not necessarily, But here too
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: is an interesting situation with the entire leadership structure. We
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: all know Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro, they are under scrutiny.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Ross Atkins the GM, Mark Shapiro the president. Do they
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: fire the manager while they're under scrutiny? Well maybe maybe
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they try to salvage the season if they feel it
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: needs salvaging. But I don't believe the Blue Jays are
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: there yet come the offseason. We could see some different
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: things happen in different franchises situations with their manager. All right. Finally,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the final question, and this one comes from Henry Cochel,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: who asks, Ooh, who is the most interesting player you've
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: ever covered and why? The answer I always give to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: this is Pedro Martinez and it kind of harkens back
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to what I was talking about earlier with Devers, though
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Pedro was an entirely different guy. But Red Sox drama,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: there's a long history of Red Sox drama and Pedro
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: was the principal actor in that drama during the years
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: he was there. I know Manny was there, I know
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Big Poppy was there, but there was always some kind
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of tumult around Pedro. And beyond that, he was a great,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: great pitcher and so much fun to watch So I
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: loved covering Pedro because he was so much fun to watch.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He was so compelling as a player period, and I
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: love covering him because there was always something. If you
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: remember the Mango Tree press conference at Yankee Stadium when
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he said, Hey, I was a kid sitting under a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: mango tree in the Dominican and now I'm commanding the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: attention of the entire city of New York. It was
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: always something with Pedro and good stuff. For the most part. Yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: he had some diva and I'm okay, a lot of
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: players do, but covering Paedro was a ton of fun.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I loved every second of it. So he is the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: guy that I would choose to be the most interesting
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: player I've ever covered. All Right, I want to thank
• 25:12
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• 25:21
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