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Pirates nightmare, Chandler Simpson’s need for speed, Rockies abyss · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: They've they've been slow to pivot, so when will they do?
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Speaker 1: They will require an eventual ownership change, whenever that day
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Speaker 1: might come. But yeah, the Rockies are behind the curve
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Speaker 1: in a lot of areas.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 3: We're excited to have Travis Sauchik back on the show
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Speaker 3: with us MLB writer for the Score. Has really great
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Speaker 3: books out there as well, a really good follow up
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Speaker 3: at Travis Underscore saw Chick.
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Speaker 2: Travis.
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Speaker 3: Great to have you on. We're going to start with
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Speaker 3: a team that is near and dear to your heart.
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Speaker 3: I'll let you start. There's a lot of different layers here.
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Speaker 3: What happened in Pittsburgh this past weekend.
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Speaker 2: Well, they lost, they lost, which we knew what is
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Speaker 2: going on?
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Speaker 1: Oh man. I was a beat writer for the Tribune
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Speaker 1: Review in Pittsburgh in twenty thirteen to twenty sixteen, which
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Speaker 1: was the peak period to be there since like the
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Speaker 1: seventy nine World Series, they made three straight playoff trips.
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Speaker 1: So I was there for the good times. But this
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Speaker 1: pack week, this past weekend was was It was interesting.
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Speaker 1: I know there's been a lot of animosity between the
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Speaker 1: fan base and ownership just because of the lack of
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Speaker 1: spend during Bob Nottings nineteen years as the principal owner,
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Speaker 1: they've been a bottom a twenty six or lower opening
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Speaker 1: day payroll in seventeen of nineteen of those seasons. So
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Speaker 1: the fan bases of course frustrated with that. And then
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Speaker 1: there's a performance on the field, and then in winning
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Speaker 1: that lottery ticket that is Paul Skins, there's this expectation
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Speaker 1: that if not now win and then there's just a
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Speaker 1: lack of commitment this offseason to improving the club. So
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Speaker 1: you have all that, and then a pile on top
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Speaker 1: of that heap of anger are two pr hits in
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Speaker 1: which during the opening homestand the Clemente Wall signage had
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Speaker 1: been which had been their last several seasons. I think
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Speaker 1: it's a Clemente twenty one, of course, the great pirate
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Speaker 1: and humanitarian to commemorate the wall, and that had been
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Speaker 1: removed ad for a hard lemonade beverage had been placed up,
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Speaker 1: so that angered people, including Clementi's own son on social media.
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Speaker 1: And then the real the other prsna FU was these
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Speaker 1: Bucco bricks in which people had purchased personalized brooks of
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Speaker 1: sorts that were put in the pavement outside of PNC Park.
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Speaker 1: So they're just folks names or messages to loved one,
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Speaker 1: honoring the ceased loved ones. Folks, some fanc ha notices
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Speaker 1: were removed and they had asked a local I think
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Speaker 1: it was a local CBS affiliate, and Pittsburgh had gone
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Speaker 1: out to investigate and they found that they had been
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Speaker 1: removed without The pirates had not informed anyone, but they'd
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Speaker 1: removed these bricks and they'd sent them to this recycling center,
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Speaker 1: so I think it was Katie K and Pittsburgh had
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Speaker 1: images photos of just this heap of bucko bricks, these
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Speaker 1: personal mentos that had just been discarded without any notice.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: The pirates claimed that they were going to you know,
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Speaker 1: put up another way to honor folks that had purchased
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Speaker 1: these bricks and whatnot, but just to see to have
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Speaker 1: that image and not give fans a chance to reclaim
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Speaker 1: the stone the bricks that they have. Like in Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: my own dad had bought us bricks back when Progressive
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Speaker 1: Field open and when they remove those, they gave chance,
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Speaker 1: they gave fans a location day to pick them up
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Speaker 1: if they wanted to retrieve them. They've removed from renovation.
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Speaker 1: So I think you saw all that we saw them
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Speaker 1: to sell the team chance and just all this animos.
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Speaker 1: He's just been reaching a boiling point. And I think,
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Speaker 1: just in addition to the on the field failures, that
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Speaker 1: the pr hits of just fans are at a breaking
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Speaker 1: point in Pittsburgh. And I think you know we can
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Speaker 1: understand that just as baseball fans.
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Speaker 2: Travis.
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Speaker 4: So, you mean they took the bricks out, got rid
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Speaker 4: of them, and now they're going to resell more bricks,
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Speaker 4: probably to try to make more money without giving.
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Speaker 2: The old people.
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Speaker 4: And that's crazy to me that you don't give people
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Speaker 4: a chance to come get their bricks and you do this.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I'm way off on this one.
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Speaker 4: That just seems crazy that they would not give people
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Speaker 4: a chance to come get the brick that they paid
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Speaker 4: their money.
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Speaker 1: For, right right, You think it would be simple PR
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Speaker 1: to allow the folks if I think they were intending
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Speaker 1: to replace them, but just even if you are, just
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Speaker 1: to allow folks to reclaim them, it just seems like
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Speaker 1: an obvious pr PR thing to do. Other teams have
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Speaker 1: done it. There's a roadmap, and I think the Pirates
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Speaker 1: over the weekend now there it was supposed to. I
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Speaker 1: believe the first twenty thousand in for the Skiens Bibbleheaday,
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Speaker 1: I believe it was Saturday. It was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: limited to twenty thousand. I think the Pirates are looking
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Speaker 1: for some PR wins, so now they're any fan who
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Speaker 1: is at the game will get a Skien's bobblehead. So
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Speaker 1: they're trying to They're trying to make up with some
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Speaker 1: other PR victories. But yeah, just it is one thing
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Speaker 1: after another in Pittsburgh. And it's a shame because there
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Speaker 1: is a gre There's a sleeping giant fan base there.
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Speaker 1: We saw it in the I think back to the
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen wild Card game that environment there when Pirates
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Speaker 1: beat the Reds and Johnny Quato dropped ball on the mound.
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Speaker 1: So there is a sleeping Giant fan base. We see
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Speaker 1: how the Steelers are supported, the Penguins when they're in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, how they're supported. So you know, this isn't
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Speaker 1: a city that needs a new stadium. They have a
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Speaker 1: great stadium. They have a great sleeping giant fan base.
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Speaker 1: They just need they need a better on the field product.
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Speaker 1: They need more ownership commitment, and you know, I think
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Speaker 1: baseball be better if there's a legitimate effort to build
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Speaker 1: a winner around Paul Skeen's and Bubba Chandler who's on
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Speaker 1: the doorstep. So hopefully parts fans get that one day.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 5: I have two questions. First one is not serious, the
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Speaker 5: second one serious. Did they can you confirm that they
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Speaker 5: sent surfside hard lemonades to the people who their bricks
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Speaker 5: got taken out instead of sending the bricks back, So
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Speaker 5: it's kind of like a full circle thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's a Clemente edition surfside lemony. Can I
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Speaker 1: don't know? Okay, okay, yeah, Yeah.
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Speaker 5: The serious question is because I saw Ertal Clemente Junior
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Speaker 5: and his family throughout the first pitch, do you any
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Speaker 5: idea or inkling or have you heard anything? Has the
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Speaker 5: relationship been mended? Because synonymous with the Pirates is the Clementes.
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Speaker 5: Roberto Clemente, what he did for Latin players in the
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Speaker 5: game is seen throughout baseball, but in the Pirates organization,
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Speaker 5: I mean you go down to Pirates City, you go
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Speaker 5: down to Pirate City in the dr the complex that
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Speaker 5: they built down there, like it's Roberto Clemente everywhere. Has
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Speaker 5: that relationship been mended or is this something that will
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Speaker 5: take a little bit of time.
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Speaker 1: I think if it has been damaged, it'll it will
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Speaker 1: be mended over time. And to the Pirate's credit, there
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Speaker 1: is there's many tributes to Clemente and throughout pnc P
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Speaker 1: and c Park throughout the organization, as you mentioned, but
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Speaker 1: this was one of the most visible ones. So why
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Speaker 1: take that signage down on the wall Clemente wall? It
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Speaker 1: was it was an odd choice not to communicate with
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Speaker 1: the family or given anyone heads up, just these unforced
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Speaker 1: communication areas. So you know, you can make an argument
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Speaker 1: that twenty one should be you know, retired everywhere, and
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Speaker 1: I you know the pirates have I believe, pushed for that,
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Speaker 1: so I think we'll see that relationship mended over time.
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Speaker 1: This is just an unfortunate case that of course had
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Speaker 1: a lot of eyeballs on it too, since it was
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Speaker 1: the home opener opening weekend and an addition to all
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Speaker 1: the other Pirates related issues going on. But yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was an unforced air and you don't like to see those.
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Speaker 3: So let's get into the team for a moment here.
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Speaker 3: What did you see this weekend that is really not
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Speaker 3: working out for the ball club. Of course, they lose
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Speaker 3: on the schemes Bobblehead Day. I mean, his quotes seem
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Speaker 3: honestly kind of depressing, where he's like, positive things in
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Speaker 3: friendships don't win championships. The other thing I don't want
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Speaker 3: to overlook is Andrew McCutcheon tweeting. His tweet got overshadowed
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Speaker 3: by Accunya's tweet, but cut put out a tweet like
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Speaker 3: you're sitting me. Gotts looks pretty damn good for them
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Speaker 3: right now. So what are they doing? They do a
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Speaker 3: little platoon city with Ben Charrington and the boys in
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Speaker 3: the front office, And why is the offense so bad?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I saw the mccutch and tweet and that
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Speaker 1: was interesting. This lineup, there's just so many below replacement
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Speaker 1: level performers right now offensively, and it's unfortunate because you
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Speaker 1: think about schemes. Of course, Mitch Keller's is at the
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Speaker 1: very least competent innings eater. Hopefully they have Jared Jones
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Speaker 1: coming back in a few months, getting you have Buffa
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Speaker 1: Chandler in a doorstep, arguably the top pitching prospect of baseball.
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Speaker 1: But you have this lineup that just has too many
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Speaker 1: voids in it. Outside of O'Neil Cruz and Brian Reynolds
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Speaker 1: has been dealing with the triceps injury, and he's your
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Speaker 1: most consistent offensive performer. And just to you know, one
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Speaker 1: of the big issues is under ben Cherrington, they have
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Speaker 1: not produced an above average position player yet in year six.
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Speaker 1: I think of the regime regime, I think they've had
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Speaker 1: some more promising drafts later, but internally they haven't found solutions.
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Speaker 1: They're big off season addition with Spencer Horwitz from the
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays who's been hurt with a wrist injury, and
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Speaker 1: even Hords at his best is probably a platoon option
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Speaker 1: in first base. The other external ads or you know
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Speaker 1: Tommy fam and Andrew McCutcheon who's off to a solid start.
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Speaker 1: But these are older players, and to think that there's
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Speaker 1: no ability to add more, to not be a little
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Speaker 1: more urgent and making a trade, if ownership as a commitment,
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Speaker 1: it's a little baffling. Considering the young starting pitching wealth
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Speaker 1: you have as a club, you could it's almost like
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Speaker 1: the equivalent to having a star quarterback in the NFL
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Speaker 1: and a rookie deal with these young arms. To not
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Speaker 1: build around that advantage is baffling, and it has a
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Speaker 1: lot of folks in Pittsburgh questioning, if not now, when
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Speaker 1: this should be the time to bolster that lineup and
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Speaker 1: build a better supporting cast for schemes and company.
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Speaker 4: Well A Skeen says, positive things and friendships don't win championships.
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Speaker 4: So another team we want to ask you about is
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Speaker 4: the Rockies. They get all kinds of positive things and
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Speaker 4: friendships going on in Denver, they draw almost three million
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Speaker 4: fans a year, but they still aren't very good.
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Speaker 2: What the heck's going on in Denver?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.
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Speaker 1: I looked this up and not that it's a bill
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Speaker 1: end all, but the Fangrafts playoff odds going the as
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Speaker 1: of April twentieth, the Rockies haven't had better than zero
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Speaker 1: percent playoff chances a cornet Fangrafts since twenty nineteen, I believe.
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Speaker 1: So it's just part of that is a testament to
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Speaker 1: the strength of the NLS.
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Speaker 2: Wait, can you say that again? I don't think my
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Speaker 2: earpieces work. You say that again, please. Yeah, it's twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 2: April twenty.
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Speaker 1: Tieth, April twentieth, they haven't had maybe it's higher than
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Speaker 1: one percent playoff chances, but it's been below one percent
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Speaker 1: as of April twentieth every year.
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Speaker 4: Since, so that since four twenty, the Rockies can't get
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Speaker 4: high enough.
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Speaker 2: And I mean there's a million, there's a million jokes
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Speaker 2: in there, but go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just it's unfortunate because it's such a
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Speaker 1: great ballpark to go watch a game, and yeah, it
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Speaker 1: speaks to it's a challenge to win in Denver, of course,
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Speaker 1: to build a pitching staff, and it speaks to the
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Speaker 1: quality of the Dodgers, Diamondbacks Padres of course, but the
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Speaker 1: Rockies are viewed as being behind the curve and not
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Speaker 1: just analytics, but player development and how well they've scouted
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Speaker 1: and developed. So it's organizational. It's not even so much
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Speaker 1: a spending issue like in Pittsburgh as they've signed players
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Speaker 1: like Chris Bryan to large deals. It's more of a
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Speaker 1: are you on the cut do you are you involved
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Speaker 1: in creating the best practice as possible from not just
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Speaker 1: analytics building out that department, but player development, scouting. I
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Speaker 1: think you talked to folks in the game and they're
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Speaker 1: one of the lower ranked organizations across the board in
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Speaker 1: those categories. So they really need sweeping investment in those
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Speaker 1: areas and change the organization, and I don't know. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they've they've been slow to pivot. So when will they do?
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Speaker 1: They won't require an eventual ownership change whenever that day
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Speaker 1: might come. But yeah, the Rockies are behind the curve
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Speaker 1: in a lot of areas.
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Speaker 5: Let's go to Spencer Strider and the conversation that you
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Speaker 5: had with him about his second elbow surgery. Are we
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Speaker 5: at the point in the game where we still don't
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Speaker 5: know anything? I think one of your quotes was doctor
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Speaker 5: meister even didn't really give him an idea of where
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Speaker 5: he should be, if if I read that correctly, when
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Speaker 5: Strider was talking to you about it. Are we at
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Speaker 5: the point where such a good player that's young like
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Speaker 5: this having a second surgery, he could be the one
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Speaker 5: that's the like the next Nathan Valdi, or is he
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Speaker 5: going to fall into the category of every other pitcher
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Speaker 5: that has had their second Tommy John surgery or bracing
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Speaker 5: whatever elbow surgery.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I spoke to Strider because I was curious. Yeah, of course,
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Speaker 1: so many pictures have had Tommy John. Now I believe
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Speaker 1: it's like something else outrageous, Like thirty six percent of
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Speaker 1: active Major league pictures have had Tommy John, and the
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Speaker 1: first time you have Tommy John, it is something of
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Speaker 1: a miracle procedure where almost all pictures come back and many,
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Speaker 1: the majority come back to a performance level near where
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Speaker 1: they were prior to the surgery. But it's that second operation,
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Speaker 1: that second Tommy John, where the track record is really poor.
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Speaker 1: MLB's injury studying December, I believe it was fifty they
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Speaker 1: found fifty six percent of second Tommy John recipients returned
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Speaker 1: near their previous level, which is not good. And Jeffrey Dugas,
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Speaker 1: who innovated the internal brace procedure, told me that only
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Speaker 1: forty two percent of second Timmy John cases have exceeded
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Speaker 1: ten plus out starts in the major leagues after that.
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Speaker 1: So it's really the second operation there's so troublesome much
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Speaker 1: second Tommy John. And I wanted to speak with Strider
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Speaker 1: because he wanted to avoid Tommy John if he could,
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Speaker 1: and he did. But as you mentioned, going in that
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Speaker 1: procedure before he was put under anesthesia, it was I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to it was meister who did the surgery, and
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Speaker 1: as good as MRIs are, Meister wasn't didn't want to
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Speaker 1: commit until he actually opened up the elbow and he
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Speaker 1: wanted to have a menu of options available, including Tommy John.
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Speaker 1: But when he began the operation, he found that Strider's
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Speaker 1: damage wasn't as bad as they had feared, and because
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Speaker 1: of the location of his injury, he was a candidate
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Speaker 1: for the internal brace. And I was curious in writing this,
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Speaker 1: speaking Strider and writing this piece, is why do so
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Speaker 1: many second Tommy John's fail And are there breakthroughs and
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Speaker 1: surgery and medical sports science advancement where we can have
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Speaker 1: some better outcomes in second operations? And can we avoid
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Speaker 1: second Tommy John's with something like an internal brace. So
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Speaker 1: Strider was and we can get into details if you'd like,
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Speaker 1: but Strider was a candidate for the internal brace, and
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Speaker 1: the hope is that there can be some better outcomes.
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Speaker 1: It'll that because of how the procedure works, there will
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Speaker 1: be more successes like Brian wu is an example in Seattle,
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Speaker 1: and the NFL brought Purty is probably the most notable
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Speaker 1: exam success story of the internal brace. But Strider did
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Speaker 1: take a risk as when he had the surgery, I
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Speaker 1: think there only been forty pitchers above the Division one
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Speaker 1: college level that had the internal brace done. So it
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Speaker 1: is something to go into that surgery room and be
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Speaker 1: open to that as an option. It was a little risk,
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Speaker 1: but Strider is very He's a very science data minded
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Speaker 1: based player, and he trusted my Street, trusted the early returns,
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Speaker 1: and so far in the field it looks encouraging for Strider.
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Speaker 3: Travis last one for a Chandler Simpson made his debut
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Speaker 3: this weekend.
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Speaker 2: I love speed.
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Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to this getting some Billy Hamilton comps,
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Speaker 3: although technically, if you look at the power it's even
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Speaker 3: less than what Billy brought to the table. I just
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Speaker 3: want to know if he's going to get on base
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Speaker 3: enough to really be a problem. Plus, right now they
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Speaker 3: actually have some outbuilders playing well. So anyway, add it
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Speaker 3: all up. Are you excited about this player when you
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Speaker 3: think about him? What do I guess numbers say in
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Speaker 3: terms of how he could fare in the big leagues?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just as a fan of the game, it would
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Speaker 1: be so great if he can stick for the rays
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Speaker 1: and be this hundred base stolen base through at the
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Speaker 1: top of line. That'd be great for the game that
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Speaker 1: we do. Hear to Billy Hamilton comps and Hamilton if
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Speaker 1: he just got on base, he could have been such
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Speaker 1: a fun, dynamic player. And I don't think Chandler is
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Speaker 1: going to be Simpson because if you look at his
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Speaker 1: minor league track record, he doesn't have any power. I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's ever hit an out of the park
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Speaker 1: home run, but he's always been an elite contact hitter.
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Speaker 1: In last season, he had an eight and a half
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Speaker 1: percent strikeout right of minors, which amongs. They were like
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Speaker 1: eleven hundred qualified minor league hitters, he had the thirteenth
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Speaker 1: lowest strikeout rate. So this is a player with great
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Speaker 1: back to ball skills. And when he puts the ball
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Speaker 1: on the ground in play, as we sell over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: he's a threat to get on base. As we say,
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Speaker 1: the hit that broke up freeds no hitter, Well, I
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Speaker 1: guess later rule to hit, but he's going to contact
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Speaker 1: the ball. He is going to get on base at
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Speaker 1: a greater clip than Hamilton ever did. And like when
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Speaker 1: Simpson told me in the spring, when he gets hunt
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Speaker 1: for space, he views himself as being in scoring position.
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Speaker 1: And we saw that first steel in the second game.
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Speaker 1: So I do think he's a better bet to stick
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Speaker 1: to be a productive hitter in the major league's and
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Speaker 1: he knows who he is like he is trying to
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Speaker 1: model his training his game. His training routines off like
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Speaker 1: a luritz arias he's not trying to put the ball
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Speaker 1: in the air. He knows he does his damage when
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Speaker 1: he's a low launch angle guy. When he's putting the
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Speaker 1: ball in the grounders are good for Chandler Simpson. So
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Speaker 1: I hope he's not Billy Hamilton. As far as the
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Speaker 1: hitting profile, I don't think he will be. I think
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Speaker 1: there's a legitimate chance he'll be an everyday player, but
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Speaker 1: it all comes down to the bat, and there's some
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Speaker 1: fear that pictures will knock it out of his hands.
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Speaker 1: But I do think he'll make enough contact. Even weak
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Speaker 1: contact is gonna be good enough for a guy with
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Speaker 1: just incredible You see those home to first times, they
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Speaker 1: are just incredible. So hopefully for the sport, for the Rays,
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Speaker 1: it works.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he already started almost a riot with Yankee
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Speaker 4: fans yesterday when he was gonna beat that ground ball out,
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Speaker 4: and I mean, holy cow, I mean that should have
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Speaker 4: been a hit. I don't know, but his speed you
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Speaker 4: saw right there, Goldsmith, as soon as he went to
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Speaker 4: the right, he was saying, Freedom wasn't beating him there.
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Speaker 4: That's why I mean, I'm glad someone else got a Mangham,
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Speaker 4: I think got a hit later on, but I'm happy
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Speaker 4: someone else got a hit because that poor of official score.
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Speaker 2: That should have been a hit from the get go.
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Speaker 4: And I know we're gonna talk about it later, but
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Speaker 4: come on, Trow, that's a hit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Simpson makes the first basement move to his right
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Speaker 1: to field a ball. It's it's gonna be a hit.
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Speaker 1: You think Kevin Cash was saying that in the spring.
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Speaker 1: So I'm glad for the official scorer's sake that there
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Speaker 1: was another hit in that game. But that was a hit.
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Speaker 2: That was a hit exactly. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: There was a play in the miners where I think
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Speaker 3: it went to the first baseman and he was way
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Speaker 3: close to the bag and Simpson beat him.
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Speaker 2: I saw Johnny Damon do that in high school. He
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Speaker 2: really fast, dude, I saw, and he did like a
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Speaker 2: ground ball of the first basement like one stept was right.
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Speaker 5: He beat it, and I was.
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Speaker 4: Like, that's real speed right there. And I mean, Simpson
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Speaker 4: looks faster than anyone I've ever seen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope he makes it because it'd be awesome.
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Speaker 2: Oh he doesn't beat.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I mean not that like Terrencecore and
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Speaker 4: those guys, you know, even Quintin Berry, they didn't have
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Speaker 4: nice careers. But I want to see this dude do
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Speaker 4: some stuff. Billy Hamil, you know, Billy Hamilton had a
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Speaker 4: nice career. Yeah, but I feel like this guy could
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Speaker 4: be maybe better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, get on base and still first. That was the
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Speaker 2: biggest problem, right.
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Speaker 3: You just got to get on first and then it's
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Speaker 3: a double, so then then he's a doubles machine because
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Speaker 3: then you're still in second most of the time after
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Speaker 3: Chandler Simpson.
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Speaker 2: So, Travis, this was awesome. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: joining us. Always great to have you on again.
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Speaker 3: Courage everyone to give Travis a file and then check
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Speaker 3: out all the work he's doing for the Score and
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Speaker 3: everywhere else.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you talksing it. Thanks fellows
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Speaker 4: Hip.