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Tigers sign Verlander, Lindor’s potential surgery, Ken Rosenthal on Braves losing Spencer Schwellenbach · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: This is how I want to start. You know how
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  Speaker 1: pitchers and catchers are coming through and it's awesome, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great time of year. Football's done. And what is
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  Speaker 1: one of the first questions that comes through from reporters
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  Speaker 1: to managers about their pitching staff.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have enough pictures?
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  Speaker 1: After that? It's who's opening bam? Okay, Alex Corus shows
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  Speaker 1: up day one today and this morning he goes, let's
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  Speaker 1: get this shit over with crochet opening day. And sorry,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't like that, we curse. We don't do
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  Speaker 1: it that often, but that is directly what Alex Corras said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading the quote that Tim Healy posted on twinter. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to put that out there. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's funny. You know, people get obsessed with who you're
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  Speaker 1: who cares first game.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone knows on most teams you already know. Now there's
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  Speaker 2: very few teams where you don't know. Most teams, you
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  Speaker 2: can go through the list and pretty much name most
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  Speaker 2: of them. For most teams, yamotos for the Dodgers more
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  Speaker 2: than likely. I mean, if you start, if we start
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  Speaker 2: running through the teams, you can pretty much come up
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  Speaker 2: with almost I mean again, I'm gonna have to look
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  Speaker 2: at him real quick. But like most teams can you
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  Speaker 2: can tell without even thinking that hard about it, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you go White Sox, that's because it
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  Speaker 2: could be anyone start, But no, it's just too popped
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  Speaker 2: up on the scores. Okay, Cubs, Alex Bregman, Matthew Boyd,
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  Speaker 2: Sure No, Okay Yankees or Kate Horton. Yeah, Yank, it
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  Speaker 2: won't be Kate Horton, Yankees, Max Freed, Max Freed, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore No, or Trevor Rodgers or Trevor Rodgers, Okay, Boston Crochet,
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City, Reagan's if he's healthy, right, Texas Jacob de Grom, Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: Merrill Kelly probably m hm. Colorado, Sigana. Now they just
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  Speaker 2: signed up.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that later.
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  Speaker 2: San Diego. Joe muskro were paveda, probably paveda. Okay, Michael Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: But you're kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of proving he's probably kind of going against my point
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  Speaker 1: that it's like whatever matters.
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  Speaker 2: It was more Okay, it doesn't matter, it matters.
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  Speaker 1: Opening Day is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and it matters. But like there's certain places
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  Speaker 2: like if Garrett Cole is healthy, Guess what he's opening
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  Speaker 2: day right for the Braves Chris Sale. If he's healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what I mean. Obviously you got to throwing if healthy,
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  Speaker 2: because there are people that get hurt in spring training.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, the Braves Chris Sale is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the opening day starter if he's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Sanduel Contract for my Eric School for Detroit. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: would say you were picking some teams where it was
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  Speaker 1: a little more questionable.
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  Speaker 2: Logan, Okay, the only reason the Cubs is questionable is
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  Speaker 2: because Justin Steele isn't going to be there probably right.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise it would be Justin Steele.
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  Speaker 1: Half the teams. We've got it down already. So I
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  Speaker 1: just thought it was a fun.
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  Speaker 2: Giants logan Web, Yes, I mean it's it's not it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of funny Braves Chris Sale, which takes me right to
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  Speaker 1: what I want to do.
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  Speaker 2: But before that, before we get into this, I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say this. I went, so I don't know, Krats,
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  Speaker 2: how much Cratz has ever been to Orlando and you
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  Speaker 2: live here now. Last night I decided to go to
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  Speaker 2: Disney Springs. And if you don't know what Disney Springs is,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a shopping area of Disney.
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  Speaker 1: Then there many times circ.
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  Speaker 2: The solet in a restaurants, a bunch of restaurants, and
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  Speaker 2: it has a movie theater and has all this crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: For Disney vibes. But you don't have to pay to
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  Speaker 1: get in.
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  Speaker 2: No exactly. And so I went to dinner. I went
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  Speaker 2: to Morimoto, by the way, if you haven't been to Morimoto,
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  Speaker 2: to have the best duck ever. But that's a whole
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to get into that. But the traffic,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, the Morimoto and Philly Crats is off,
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  Speaker 2: oh so good. Every time I'm there. I try to
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  Speaker 2: go there. The traffic for me to get from my
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  Speaker 2: house to Disney, which is like under ten miles, easily
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  Speaker 2: under ten miles.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful.
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  Speaker 2: What you're about to say is ridiculous. It's only one
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  Speaker 2: road in and out, so you can only go one way.
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  Speaker 2: The traffic it took me to go get three quarters
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  Speaker 2: of a mile just because they're working on a new interchange.
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  Speaker 2: But that little area, I know you're saying about rays,
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  Speaker 2: but to get that to get like that three quarters
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  Speaker 2: a mile took me twenty five minutes because the lights
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  Speaker 2: can we not synchronize lights. Can we not synchronize light
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  Speaker 2: you're the mayor of Orlando.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not just here, it's everywhere. And then the
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  Speaker 2: other thing that I want to say this about Disney.
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  Speaker 2: They have this thing in their parking garages at the
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  Speaker 2: Disney Springs that has the red light and it tells
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  Speaker 2: you how many parking spots are opened down each row,
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  Speaker 2: and it tells you so you can look up at
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  Speaker 2: the I can't everywhere do that. You look up at
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  Speaker 2: the light and if it's green, that means there's nobody parked,
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  Speaker 2: and then you can turn down there and go park
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  Speaker 2: if you want it. And it says like seven, so
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  Speaker 2: you know down that road there's seven.
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  Speaker 1: The good ones, the modern ones have it. It just it
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  Speaker 1: costs money to say. It's a system.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It is awesome, but just be careful because after our
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  Speaker 1: whole segment a week and change ago about how Orlando
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  Speaker 1: can handle a big league team, I did get many
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  Speaker 1: texts like Orlander's traffic is so bad. I was like, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the other side of town. There's no traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have a lot of traffics now, except
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  Speaker 2: if I go to Disney, which I don't ever go.
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  Speaker 1: You've been to Magic Games. There's no traffic around there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean not right when you're like pulling up around
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  Speaker 1: the arena, but like nothing. No, I am desensitized. I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming from New York City, thirty minutes on a street
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  Speaker 1: or an avenue all the time. I know, so everything
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  Speaker 1: with a grand.
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  Speaker 2: The point was more like, can we get everywhere to
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  Speaker 2: have those little lights things? So when you go to
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  Speaker 2: park you're like, oh, I could like that here.
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  Speaker 1: New York City does have the traffic lights lined up
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  Speaker 1: on the streets and it works.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, agreed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's still disaster, but it's way better that way. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we will try and introduce Orlando to that concept at
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  Speaker 1: signs to joonahiin but also sneaking into that little post.
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Schwellenbach right elbow inflammation. He is going to miss
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  Speaker 1: significant time sixty day injured list. I mean you figure
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  Speaker 1: he's probably going to miss the first half their hope
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  Speaker 1: he's just dealing with bone spurs and that it's not
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  Speaker 1: some ucl.
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  Speaker 2: He had tell me John last year, right, what do
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  Speaker 2: you have he missed them significant amount of time?
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  Speaker 1: No he didn'tj No, he.
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  Speaker 2: Had tell me John in college.
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  Speaker 1: I know that he had a fractured elbow in early
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  Speaker 1: July of last year.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, this sucks. Hopefully it does bone spurs, because bone
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  Speaker 2: spurs are pretty you can pretty much go in and
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  Speaker 2: cut them out and be back not too long. But
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  Speaker 2: if it's not bone spurs, Man, the Braves can't lose.
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  Speaker 2: Can't afford to lose Schwallenbach for sixty day. Maybe Zach
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  Speaker 2: Gallon slideshoo.
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  Speaker 1: Makes too much sense, doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Kratz. Let's remember last year Atlanta had every picture
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  Speaker 1: missing significant time from what I recall. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to agree with AJ and take the easy route and
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  Speaker 1: say the Braves do public earnings calls. They're a publicly
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  Speaker 1: traded company. They make a ton of money. They have
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  Speaker 1: said that they like to be aggressive. They have a
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  Speaker 1: high ranked payroll, so this is not a cheap thing.
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  Speaker 1: But when you do have resources and you have an
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  Speaker 1: injury to someone you were expecting to give you one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus innings Zach Allen online one, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Bassett online two, etc.
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  Speaker 3: I bet it becomes the Chris Bassett play. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying he's better than I'm not saying I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: he's better than Zach Allen. I'm just saying it feels
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  Speaker 3: like the Braves won't dip into the possibility of a
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  Speaker 3: two or three year deal with the first year opt
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  Speaker 3: out for Zach Gollen. You know, I don't know where
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  Speaker 3: Zach Allen's market's at. It just feels like a Chris
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  Speaker 3: Bassett signing would be very very Braves esque in the
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  Speaker 3: sense that I think he's besides Gallon of the veterans
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  Speaker 3: that are left, he's the best pitcher. He pitches, he
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  Speaker 3: knows how to make pitches, and he's had success in
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  Speaker 3: the East. Yeah, I would I would say that would
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  Speaker 3: be the route. But man like to me, it should
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  Speaker 3: have happened before because of how many guys were hurt
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  Speaker 3: last year. All of those dudes are not going to
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  Speaker 3: be healthy this year, so they knew this is going
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  Speaker 3: to happen. This is where your depths. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk about some other teams that have some depth issues.
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  Speaker 3: You can't all be the Dodgers. Maybe the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 3: have it perfect, but you have to. It's it's time.
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  Speaker 3: It's time. You got to go out and get one
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  Speaker 3: of these guys in their fortunate there's still some available.
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  Speaker 1: Are the Braves the most cursed injury team over the
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  Speaker 1: last year because many of their fans feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: the case. When almost every starter was hurt last year
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  Speaker 1: and Hassan Kim was signed, boom he gone for a while,
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  Speaker 1: slipped on ice, Spencer spelling back, boom he gone before
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  Speaker 1: guys are even putting their name tags back on at
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  Speaker 1: spring training.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, cursed, most curse, I don't want to say cursed
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  Speaker 2: happens to every other teams have problems.
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  Speaker 1: They're up there, They're in my power rankings for injury
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  Speaker 1: bit teams.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but also you know what's been weird about the Braves. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they've been injury bit and they don't have the depth
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  Speaker 2: that they thought they had, I don't think, but they've
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  Speaker 2: also been bit by guys just haven't had as good
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  Speaker 2: of years. I mean, Acunia obviously has had some knee
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  Speaker 2: problems and have been hurt. But some of the other
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  Speaker 2: guys that they were counting on for a while, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know, haven't had the years that they were counting
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  Speaker 2: on and they've been banged up. So maybe I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say a curse, but I'm just saying it's
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  Speaker 2: the natural progression of life at this point because guys
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  Speaker 2: are just it seems like, again, I don't know, it
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  Speaker 2: would have to dig into the numbers here. I just
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  Speaker 2: feel like more guys go on the IL now than
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  Speaker 2: it used to in the past. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's a medical thing, a team thing, a load
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  Speaker 2: management thing, or what it is, but it just seems
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  Speaker 2: that way. It might not be true, but it just
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  Speaker 2: seems like that more guys go on the IL for
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  Speaker 2: minor things than they used to.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like their rotation last year it was almost
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  Speaker 3: historic like to lose as many guys as they did.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't feel like we should put them in
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  Speaker 3: the all the Braves are breaking pitchers category for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: And this is maybe just this is just my feeling
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  Speaker 3: on the outside watching it. It just feels like they
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  Speaker 3: were snake bit maybe cursed. I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 3: just feel like they pitching last year for them. The
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  Speaker 3: fact that they did as well as they did based
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  Speaker 3: on how many guys were injured, just shows what the
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  Speaker 3: organization has and they rarely need to go outside of
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  Speaker 3: the organization on a big, huge, big, huge, long term deal.
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  Speaker 2: I know they were big in on Nola.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that was to just get the Phillies to pay more,
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  Speaker 3: but they've really done an incredible job of the reclamation
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  Speaker 3: project of Rinaldo Lopez reclamation Project of Sale, who they
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  Speaker 3: ended up extending afterwards like that is an absolute steal.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that they've been able to call guys up
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  Speaker 3: from the minor leagues, not just this past year, not
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  Speaker 3: just this last ten years, thirty years, They've always the
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  Speaker 3: Braves have always done this. So if there's a team
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  Speaker 3: that I feel like can overcome injuries, especially in the pitching,
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  Speaker 3: it's them. When you talk about the position players, that's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit different. Like Acuna still had a great
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  Speaker 3: year coming back from that injury, and you know he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be the guy, But are the other guys going
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  Speaker 3: to step up and have even close to career years
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  Speaker 3: like they did when they had that unbelievable regular season
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  Speaker 3: and got bounced in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Lopez is he back? Firs? Do we know that he's back?
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  Speaker 3: That's why we got to find out when when all
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  Speaker 3: the pitchers and catchers report all of a sudden, it's like,
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  Speaker 3: oh wait, yeah, we got to talk about these guys.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta oh, what happened to Schwellenbach? Like they knew
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  Speaker 3: about Schwellenbach before today, he didn't just all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden get swelling. They call once every two weeks, once
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  Speaker 3: a month in the offseason something is something is swelling.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you don't want you don't want to have to
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  Speaker 3: go get imaging. But when you have swelling in your
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  Speaker 3: throw elbow, it's rarely is it Like, Oh, I just
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  Speaker 3: I just pushed it a little bit too early. So
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  Speaker 3: hopefully it is just bone spurs and that can be
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  Speaker 3: like a five six weeks shut down, which another five
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  Speaker 3: six weeks started up, then you go on your rehab.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you're looking at possibly end of June early July,
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  Speaker 3: if that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, on Lopez, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like he's going to be a camp doing his thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the shoulder was the latest to kind of
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  Speaker 1: bite him towards the end of the year. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he barely pitched last year, so we'll see. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: to Ken about this right now, to the Inside Scoop
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  Speaker 1: with Ken rosenthal Ft senior insider, Ken, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think of this? News for the Braves. Losing Spencer Schwellenbach
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  Speaker 1: for significant time never fun to start camp this way.
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  Speaker 5: Not at all, especially when the Braves already were looking
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  Speaker 5: for a starting pitcher Scott, so they were in the
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  Speaker 5: market one. Now this only increases the urgency for them
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  Speaker 5: to make another move. The good news is, if there
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  Speaker 5: is good news here, and it's certainly not good news
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  Speaker 5: when you hear any picture getting hurt, is that there
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  Speaker 5: are plenty of pictures available, and Zach Gallan obviously is
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  Speaker 5: the best of them, but you've also got Lucas Gilido
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  Speaker 5: and Chris Bassett, Max Chuerz or Justin Verlander, Jose Quintana,
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  Speaker 5: any number of others, Zach Luttel. So it's not as
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  Speaker 5: if the Braves cannot go out and get someone. But
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  Speaker 5: of course they were counting on Spencer Schwellenbach to be
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  Speaker 5: a big part of what they were going to do
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully what they still will do with him in
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  Speaker 5: twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of tiers of pictures, tiers of how
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  Speaker 3: much a pitcher's gonna cost, tiers of ability, tiers of age.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any idea of what tier they were going in?
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  Speaker 3: Do they have a certain amount of money allotted. Can
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  Speaker 3: they go over ten million? Is over fifteen that they
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  Speaker 3: were looking at, and could that go up now the
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  Speaker 3: schwellenbox hurt.
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  Speaker 5: It's not clear exactly what they are willing to spend. Eric.
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  Speaker 5: The one thing that is a little bit different with them,
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  Speaker 5: and they've been unwilling to deal with this because of
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: the qualifying offer situation is the loss of a draft pick.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: They've got their pick that they would lose would be
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: number twenty six overall, and that's kind of a high
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: pick to lose. They've been reluctant to do that. They
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: would do it for the right picture. I don't know
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: that Zach Gollan on a short term deal is going
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: to be the right picture. I still expect him to
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: go back to Arizona, but I don't know that it
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: changes anything for them financially. They were going to spend
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: what they were going to spend, and the guys out
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: there now are only going to get a certain amount.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: They're not going to be incredibly lucrative deals. But again
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: my question would be, Okay, do you now need two
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: instead of one? Maybe you take one of the veterans
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: that is still out there and you trade for someone else.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I'm not exactly sure. Obviously this's just happened, but again
• 16:54
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• 16:57
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• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Wow, so Ken, was it Verlander? Is it Sureser? I mean,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I know we can't speculate on this, but Hurston Waldrup
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: is already there. You know, Where's Smith? Sharver is Ronaldo Lopez?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Does this?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: How much? Does this? I guess hurt the Braves right
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: in the long run in the division that is not easy.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Phillies are loaded again, the Mets reloaded.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: The Braves are supposed to be able to compete with them.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Everyone you know in our internet chats is the Marlins
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: are going to be really good, even though I have
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: to see it. And then you have the Nationals, So
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: the teams in that division and the National League in
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: general is going to be tough to make the playoffs
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: how quickly? I mean, gosh, this is this is just
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: one of those moves. It seems devastating almost for the Braves.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And we haven't even started spring training yet. Aja.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: We reluctant to call it that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: And the only reason I say that is because he
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: is only the first pitcher who's going to get hurt
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: this season. There are going to be so many others
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: that occur. They are going to be so many things
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: that happen that we can't anticipate. We do know the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Braves probably are going to find at least one other
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: starting pitcher, So it's a little early for me to
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: get into a doom mode on any team. But clearly
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: this is a setback in what you correctly described as
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: one of the game's most competitive divisions. There's no doubt
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: about that. Phillies, Mets, and Braves. You probably could flip
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: a coin before today on which one you think is
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: the best. Obviously, different people will have different opinions. The Marlins,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I don't expect them necessarily to be with those three,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: but they won seventy nine games last season and their position.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: To do even better.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: So it's a tough division, and any injury is going
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: to swing playoff odds and all of that. It's just
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: a question of one, how long is he out? And
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: two who do they find to replace him?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Ken, you said you won't play dude by the way,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Smith Sharver had TG in June, so he's probably he's
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: not gonna be around this year more than likely, maybe
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: at the end. But also you said it's too early
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to put the doom on somebody because of an injury.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't even do that with the Colorado Rockies and
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Chris Bryant going on the sixty d l You won't
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: give us the doom and gloom for the Rockies and
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you think they still have a chance at the playoffs
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a j I.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Was worth talking about teams that actually have changs.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh you just said no teams.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: You're right, you're right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: You took me literally, and I appreciate you taking me literally,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: agent instead of misquoting me. So I take it back.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: The Colorado Rockies. I'll put the doom on them.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Wow, they want to springs trading. Such a glass app
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: full conversation, breaking news everyone. Justin Berlander back to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers. I knew it was happening before it was happening.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And the Tiger territory shirt today.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: We were that. I know why you wore that shirt
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: and then not, just In Verlander, can you tell us why? Yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: because Scott wors is coming on. You're trying to kiss
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: up because the.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Scot well, no, the Tigers went against Scott.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: So you're wearing that.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm just wearing it as a theme. There's no bias here.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just showing it as a theme because we're going
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to talk.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: About I love this signing, do you yeah? Listen? It
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: gives him another guy and he bitched really well in
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the second half. Did And also, if this is Justin's
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: last year, he goes back to where it all started,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and if they have a nice year and make a
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: nice run and he does, okay, it doesn't do okay.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: At least he went back to where it all started
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: and he could finish out. He knows Lakeland very well.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: He knows the Tigers are trying after the from Brevaldez signing.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: He knows from Brevaldez very well. He I mean schoolble Valdez, Flaherty, Verlander,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: ries Olsen, whoever the other fifth guy is, I mean
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the Casey myes. That's pretty good five, right, And then
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: how if they could just get some hits. We need
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: some hits. But h but other than that, I mean, listen,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the rotation is nice.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: They added, They added Finnegan, they added Kenley Jansen as
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: AJ said, like they do it to score runs. But
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Aj Hinch came on and he told us, look like
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: we scored runs last year.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: We were not.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, it didn't go well at the end, it didn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: go well. The end of the end of the season.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I mean you have a you have an extra you
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: have an extra uh extra inning game to end your season,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: and you don't and you don't score any runs. Like, yeah,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be the narrative. But maybe they believe in
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: the offense more than we believe in them. Maybe they
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: aren't afraid of the strikeouts like we're a little bit
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: afraid of it. But justin Verlander, I would say slots
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: in is the number five. And with the second half
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: that he had and the fact that he put together
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: a nice I think he's got below a four year
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I think it was like a three eight three eight
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: five something like that. Like he's gonna give you some
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: nice innings. That's what that's what they're bringing him in for,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: especially until Reese Olsen is one hundred percent. And it's
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: something that like you went, I was saying it before
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: we got cut off.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Is this all in?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Like, did they go and get the two best free agents?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: No?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Did they see a need to add someone else to
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: their rotation? Yes, they added Framber, which I said before
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: makes them, in my opinion, the best one two punch
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: just because you could add me to it and the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: one two punch of me and Scooble becomes one of
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the best. Like obviously with Framber it is a massive upgrade.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: And to me, this is a case.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: This is a case where you sit there and you go,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: would Verlander have signed there.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: If it was just Scooble.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Maybe he saw that they've made the they've made the
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: they've made the post season in the last two years
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: with Scooble, and it feels like it can help him out.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Verlander thirteen mil, you can so eleven of that's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: deferred until twenty thirty.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: He doesn't care. He's got plenty of of course, that's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: my point.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: It's all good. Why are only the Dodgers getting crap
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: for giving out deferrals where.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Most teams are doing it now. A lot of teams
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: do it now. Yeah, a lot of teams has been
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: doing it. A lot of advance paying Chris Davis still
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: like forever, a lot of Boni is still getting paid
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: from like thirty plus years ago. This has always been
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: a thing.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: A lot of fans think, like that's one of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: big problems in the sport. I'm like, it's really.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Because he's making seventy but he's only making two.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Otani's ruining a lot of things because he's really good.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He's really marketable, so anyone that has him that knows
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: what they're doing, has a significant advantage.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Also, listen, what he did was smart, not only for
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the team but also for him personally because of the tax.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Then, right, but he's not the only person to avoid
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: taxes by getting signing bonuses or tals.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker just did it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Half the league does that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I tried it every time I'd signed a free agent contract.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I tried it all. I always wanted a signing bonus
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: because I live in Florida and I didn't have a
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: state tax. It would save me a lot of money.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Right well, I was always like, yeah, give me a
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: signing I'll pull you for the minimum during the year,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: give me a signing bonus.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: It's not avoiding anything either, It's just that's what every
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: but he does.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I know we're talking about Berlander and all that, But
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: did you see the thing on uh? I think Boomer
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Sison did it. And I know we're past football baseball
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: season where Sam Darnold lost money playing in the Super Bowl.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: That was a little bit better. It was a little bit,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: but it was just interesting because of the way they
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: did it. Anyways, you have to watch it if you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: haven't seen it. He made it. Players made one hundred
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and seventy three thousand dollars, but he got tax like
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand, so he ended up like
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, but it's it's he manipulated a little bit.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: But it's just kind of like, whoa wait, funny. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: don't know if it's true or not, but there's a
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: couple of people that I've seen do it, but Boomer
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Sizon was kind of the one that brook Anyways.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I would take the loss to win the super Bowl.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: But it is funny.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: It is Yeah, of course you take the loss to
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: win the super Bowl. But think it's just amazing that
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that's even being brought up because when you were in
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, you're like, man, I made so much money. Anyways, Uh.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: For Berlander, by the way, just going through some of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: his profile from last year, felt like something clicked mechanically
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in around July is when he talked about it, and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that does track with the numbers four nine ninety first
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: sixteen starts, two six zero era last thirteen starts and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: he did this what about a month in the first
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: half with the strained right peck, but still gave the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: team one hundred and fifty two innings. So there are
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: some signs that JV could have a very strong season
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: here all right, back to some segments. We're up and running,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and this is not one that we love to do,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but this is a normal segment during the season. We
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: don't have to do it much in the off season.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Spring training has begun. Unfortunately, we started our show with
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the Spencer Schraenbach News and now we learn during the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: last interview we had that Francisco Lindor might need hammetbone surgery.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Now you look and go, okay, recovery timetable six weeks.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: If he ends up needing this, he could still be
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: ready for opening day. It could be tricky.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: The hammer I had it, I had it. I don't
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: know if we can do my my zoom in I talked, okay, yeah,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: he kind of. I have a scar right here. I
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: did mine at the end of the year. I also
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: saw David Ortiz have this happen to him, and he
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: he did not have surgery, and he tried to play
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: through it. He did lose his power because you don't
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: understand how bad this hurts. It's a little tiny handmate,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: it's a little tiny hook. It's like it's like, I mean,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: it's like this big right but it goes right here
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: in your hand and it holds all these ligams and
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: tendons in place, and you don't really need it. It's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: just kind of there. And but when you break it off,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: it hurts so bad. I remember I was My hand
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: was stuck. I couldn't move. I couldn't move these three fingers.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I was like, what am I like? The game I did?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: It was in triple A. I did it off a
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: position player and I had to have the umpire throw
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the ball back to the picture in the top of
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: the ninth inning, so he was I was like, here,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I can't throw, and so the umpire had to throw
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the ball back to the picture of the entire inning.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: And I've never felt anything like that. And then go
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: and get surgery. I was lucky mine was at the
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: end of the year. It cost me a September call up,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: but whatever with that. But guys that rush back from this,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: it bothers him for a long time. So if I'm
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: listening to Francisco, you got a long year I know
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you want to be there on an opening day, but
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: make sure you're right, whatever hand it's in, make sure
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you're right, because again, I saw David Ortiz come back
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: from this without having surgery, and it took him a
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: long time to be right because every swing it hurts
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: like it hurt hurts.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Here's the problem for the Mets. They missed the playoffs
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: barely last year. The team could look totally different this
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: year and it could be a much rosier season for them.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, but a sixty percent Francisco Lindor is not going
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: to be as good as if you wait a week
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and he's one hundred.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Percent totally agree. I'm just saying it sucks that one
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of your superstars in this spot when you get to camp.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, of course, he originally wanted to play in
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the WBC. I don't know when this popped up. In particular,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: he didn't get cleared insurance wise anyway, but now it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: sounds like he could miss some time. It's not confirmed,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: but this was brought up by the team. This isn't
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: like a rumor. This isn't the spreading rumor segment, Kratz.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: This is David Stearns talking at Metz camp today and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: actually giving out two bits of news. The other side
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: was Wan Soda moving from right field to left field
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: this year. But here's more. He's going to see a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: hand specialist talking about Lindor on Wednesday, and hamt surgery
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: could be an option. Also Soda moving to left your
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: thoughts on both.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: So the moving to left is I think is a
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: bigger deal than people will let on. I mean, he
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: has a lot of he gets a lot of assists
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: in the outfield, but it's because guys keep running on him.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: He made a concerted effort to improve his defense. I
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: think there's less ground to cover in left field in
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: city field, but I don't know. I think it's interesting. Obviously,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: the big news is possibility that they could lose Lindor Or,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: which I think Aj alluded to or said, maybe not
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: losing for any real games, but rush him back because
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: if you look at Lindoor, he has been the picture
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: of health. He has been out there, he plays every
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: single day. This contract he signed with the Mets has
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: been a steal.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So far.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: He has been exactly what they wanted. He's slightly getting
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: better every year, Like I get it. He had some
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: slow starts, but he finishes right around his his career average,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: his career ops plus every year. He had a bump
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: up last year, Like he's out there every single day,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and when a guy has something little a handmad bone
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: is never going to break again. The issue what AJ
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: is saying is if you come back too soon, and
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I think six weeks is on the longer side. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: usually hear guys trying to rush at four weeks. But
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: to me, if he comes back and he's not one healthy,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: does a wrist get hurt? Does he hurt his shoulder?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: People are like, what is a hamdmate and the shoulder?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Just because you're manipulating something that you do. Last year
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: he had seven hundred and thirty two played appearances. If
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: that hand hurts, are you compensating with something else? So
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: hopefully they have everything set up and he knows you
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: got to be one hundred, one hundred and fifty games
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: of Francisco indoor at one hundred percent is better than
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: him at one hundred and sixty two games at eighty percent.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: No doubt. And also, while we're at it in the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: NL East, we did learn over the past twenty four
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: hours a confirmation that Zack Wheeler is not going to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: be ready for opening day, but hopefully back somewhat soon.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: It still does bring up the last year. Yeah, take
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: it s low. It still does bring up the question
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: if the Phillies are going to explore adding another arm.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: True, they could, absolutely.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: There's still enough veteran arms out there. Are they going
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: for Gallon? I don't think so, although.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: That would be ambassatres or something like that would look nice.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some veteran arms. Julio hasn't signed. Ye. Yeah,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I know the injury issue at the end of the year,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: but he had some good arts last year, so we'll see.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: We knew that though, right Kratz, because I saw it
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: pop up yesterday. But Philly knew that it was going
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to take a little time for Wheeler.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone expected them on day one.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think they were.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: I think they were hopeful for it, which begs the
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: question do they have enough depth. We won't get to
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: it today, but the Phillies are a team that that
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: depth used to be Christopher Sanchez, that depth used to
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: be you know, some guys in the minor leagues. They're
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: testing that depth right now.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, two signings we didn't have time to get to,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: but we will do them for thirty seconds each right now,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Iron Savali and the Ace, the thirty year old getting
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: six million dollars this coming season to be a veteran
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: arm on the team also can make an additional one
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and a half mil via incentives. Hey, this is what
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the A's need. Cool, No, but they need pitching down cool.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: It falls off there for.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Them, I know. Cool. So if allays a veteran guy.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Good, happy, great, nice, because they're going to bang I think,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I mean got a nice core of hitters there that
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: are lot. No, it does not. They just got stronger krats.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: As we keep moving along, Chicano signing with the Rockies
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: five million bucks on a one year contract. It was
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a slow off season for him for a while, but
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: he finds a home and he looked like a back
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: end starter, right. He had his good moments, his tougher
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: moments for a team that was in a tough spot
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: last year, and he actually was adamant. I saw on
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: one show, like maybe a podcast in Japan or something
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: like that, how he said he had no thoughts of
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: returning to Japan. He was like, I'm staying here. I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: want to get a major league job, and he did
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: five million bucks to keep rolling in a very tough environment.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: He likes to challenge himself.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Two dudes that are cop potent big league pitchers, where
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: you have them in the rotation, no big deal. They're
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: set up. They're set up for a tough season. Not
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: the teams that they're on, the environment that they're pitching in.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: It's like saying, hey, I'm a home run hitter. I'm
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: gonna go sign with the Giants and approve it. Deal,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Like that's tough. Likes there's some parks that you avoid.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: We'll see how these guys navigate. Colorado for Chicano and
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Sacramento for Savali.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Half your games are on the road, but half your
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: games are in a tough, tough environment for pitchers who
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: do not strike out enough batters.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Yep and Chicano initially tried to get into the bigs,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and then the posting window expired. He decided to stay
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: in Japan, and then he stayed with the Yumi or
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Giants out there. I was looking back men. He got
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: four years forty nil back then. It's good money in
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the NPB, but then came back here for twenty twenty
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: five and he'll continue in twenty twenty six. All right,
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