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Offseason news coming in HOT + Yankees Top Prospect Dax Kilby joins · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hot corner segment, hot stove starts immediately.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you have to make your decisions on
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  Speaker 2: player options and qualifying offers to your own free agents
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  Speaker 2: by Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So not much time.
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  Speaker 2: And then Monday, 5 o'clock, you can open up free
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  Speaker 2: agency and let it begin.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to be the first one to sign?
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to be the first guy to sign?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody random.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You think someone big is going to sign right away?
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  Speaker 2: It's like a reliever that gets a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: What I've seen, AJ, is often there'll be a team
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  Speaker 2: that overvalues a player versus the market, and they'll grab
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  Speaker 2: them quick. They'll be like, we want this guy. We
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  Speaker 2: think he's worth more than what the market says. We
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  Speaker 2: don't need to squeeze him down to the last dollar
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  Speaker 2: and have him receive the same 10 offers from everyone,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll just give him an offer now, and then
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  Speaker 2: they get it done. I mean, the famous ones like
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  Speaker 2: Brett Cecil from the Cardinals, and that didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Work out, but there are many like that. You guys
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  Speaker 1: remember that. But there are many like that. And some work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Alex Anthopoulos has done it sometimes to a
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  Speaker 2: really high degree of success where he's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want this guy. I'm not going to make him
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  Speaker 2: wait for four months and risk us losing him and
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  Speaker 2: piss him off.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just get him now.
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  Speaker 5: Dylan Cease. Dylan Cease.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Cease was early.
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  Speaker 1: Good call. He was incredible this past season too.
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  Speaker 5: I say Nate Eaton gets traded. I say that's going
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  Speaker 5: to be the first move of the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: Done. It happened.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me bring up some other situations then.
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  Speaker 4: Shall I?
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  Speaker 2: Let's start with this tweet from John Heyman. Michael King
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  Speaker 2: is officially a free agent, as he deserves to be.
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  Speaker 2: He had a player option, and he is going to
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  Speaker 2: be one of the most sought-after players on the free
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  Speaker 2: agent market.
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  Speaker 1: There it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to get paid this time around, AJ.
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  Speaker 2: Padres crafted things well for him to be able to
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  Speaker 2: basically do the pillow situation for a season, but now
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  Speaker 2: he hits the market.
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  Speaker 1: Proving that he had a healthy year. He's a big
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  Speaker 1: game pitcher, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going to get paid. He's going to get
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  Speaker 3: a bag. He deserves a bag. He's been good. He
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  Speaker 3: proved he could help. He can pitch. He can pitch
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  Speaker 3: in big series. He can pitch in big games. He
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  Speaker 3: can be an ace. He can make a bunch of starts.
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  Speaker 3: He deserves to get paid, and I'm interested to see
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  Speaker 3: where he ends up. Will it be a Mets? Will
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  Speaker 3: it be a Cubs? Will it be a Yankees? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know about the Yankees, but will it be a Giants?
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  Speaker 3: Will it be someone like that? Or will the Padres'
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  Speaker 3: new owners step up to the plate and start signing.
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  Speaker 5: Some guys again? I would say this is one of
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  Speaker 5: the most prepared, even in minor leagues, prepared pitchers for
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  Speaker 5: each one of his starts. So yes, you're getting, you're
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  Speaker 5: getting a pitcher that's going to give you hopefully all
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  Speaker 5: 32 of his starts as any free agent pitcher. But
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  Speaker 5: to me, I think you're signing him on for whatever
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  Speaker 5: you're signing over a hundred million dollars for a guy
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  Speaker 5: who can lead your rotation. So I look, if I'm,
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  Speaker 5: if I have like two young guys in my rotation
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  Speaker 5: that I, Look for the future to be with. This
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  Speaker 5: is the type of guy that I think you bring
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  Speaker 5: into the fold. Pay a little bit extra, and you're
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  Speaker 5: going to get every dollar worth.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The Padres, they got their money's worth. He cost them
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  Speaker 2: $ 22 million this year. The insurance part on the player's
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  Speaker 2: side was really well constructed. He signed a three-year $ 75
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  Speaker 2: million contract last offseason.
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  Speaker 1: It just had opt-outs after years.
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  Speaker 2: One and two so that he essentially could turn it
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  Speaker 2: into a one-year deal but you give yourself insurance in
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  Speaker 2: case you get hurt or something happens and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about a player who's opting in in a moment but
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  Speaker 2: they constructed it for the Padres to kind of mess
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  Speaker 2: with their payroll in a good way five million bucks
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  Speaker 2: on the salary twelve million bucks on the bonus and
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  Speaker 2: then a five million dollar buyout on his opt-out so
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  Speaker 2: that's how you're able to kind of spread the money
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  Speaker 2: around you're able to do a little bit of tax
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  Speaker 2: manipulation there too we don't have time to get into
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  Speaker 2: how all of that works right now but He would.
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  Speaker 1: Have made $ 28.
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  Speaker 2: Million in 2027 and $ 30 million in 2028 over.
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  Speaker 1: The course of that $ 375 million.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, now you figure he's going to get $ 100- something
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  Speaker 2: million based off what he just did.
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  Speaker 5: And no qualifying offer on him either.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he got one already, right?
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  Speaker 5: He got one already.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, so he can't get one again.
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  Speaker 3: That could all change, though. By the way, that could
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  Speaker 3: all change.
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  Speaker 4: Not if he signs before it.
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  Speaker 3: No, true. But you know what I'm saying? If the
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  Speaker 3: owners really don't want a salary cap, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to give something up. And so, I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. We're going to see. This is where it's
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  Speaker 3: going to get wonky because what are the owners willing
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  Speaker 3: to give up in order to try to get a
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  Speaker 3: salary cap? Is it the qualifying offer? Is it less years?
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  Speaker 3: To your free agent, there's so many questions that we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have going into this offseason. That's why it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be so, so crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why there's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: activity before things change. Because even I mean, forget the
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  Speaker 2: cap talk for a moment. Every CBA institutes changes. So
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  Speaker 2: there will be changes to the system.
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  Speaker 1: There always is. They might be more minute, but there
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  Speaker 1: will be changes.
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  Speaker 2: OK, next up, Jesse Rogers tweeting on AJ's favorite team,
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs, and we're on their channel every day. He
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  Speaker 2: said they're going to be busy on the mound. Clay
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  Speaker 2: Holmes and Matthew Boyd are turning down their player options.
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  Speaker 2: They'll become free agents.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Shota Imanaga, Kevin Gossman and David Peterson are all free agents.
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  Speaker 2: So they have to rebuild their staff. He said, guess
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  Speaker 2: is that one or two of above could return. So
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  Speaker 2: they have to redo their rotation this off season. And Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it might not be the worst thing. This is no
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  Speaker 2: knock on the current players. Cause a lot of those guys,
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  Speaker 2: they had just acquired. The point was AJ that, They
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  Speaker 2: had to acquire all those arms in the past year, basically, right? Holmes, Boyd, Gossman,
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  Speaker 2: Imanaga's been there, Peterson, because they've had so many arm injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the pitchers they've developed have gotten broken. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Cade Horton was supposed to be a stud. He went down.
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  Speaker 3: Justin Steele was supposed to be their ace. He's gone down.
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  Speaker 3: But the Cubs have done a good job supplementing it,
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  Speaker 3: and they've always been pretty good at it. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: But it's crazy that it's basically a whole rotation. But
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  Speaker 3: don't forget, Horton's supposed to come back. Steele's supposed to
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  Speaker 3: come back. So there's two guys they have, and they
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  Speaker 3: always love the other guy.
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  Speaker 5: I want to call him.
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  Speaker 1: Edward Cabrera.
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, they have Edward Cabrera. But the other guy
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  Speaker 3: who pitches a bullpen. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: Assad.
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  Speaker 6: Assad.
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  Speaker 5: Assad.
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  Speaker 3: They also have Assad, who at some point I think
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  Speaker 3: they want to be a starter. So they have options.
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  Speaker 3: You just need so much depth now in the game
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  Speaker 3: today because everyone gets hurt and misses time. And basically,
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  Speaker 3: most teams pitch with a six-man rotation, too. Let's not
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  Speaker 3: forget about that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Kratzy, here we are again, man. How many times
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  Speaker 6: do we have to tell people to get the best
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  Speaker 6: tickets in the house? Where do we got to go?
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  Speaker 6: We got to go to SeatGeek. It's been worth it
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  Speaker 6: so many times, so many years. The green light will
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  Speaker 6: let you know when it is time to go and
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  Speaker 6: the best seats available. The red will let you know
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  Speaker 6: if it's not the best. Kratzy, tell them how easy
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  Speaker 6: it is.
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  Speaker 5: Todd, I know it's easy, but I'm looking for the
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  Speaker 5: deals because that's what I do. Even so much, like
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  Speaker 5: we're getting such a good deal, I want you to
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  Speaker 5: come across the river and we'll go to a Sixers
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  Speaker 5: game together. I don't know where to sit in the stadium,
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  Speaker 5: but it'll let me know that it's a perfect view
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  Speaker 5: because I'm not a big NBA fan, but I got
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  Speaker 5: to go see the Sixers play with LeBron and the boys.
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  Speaker 6: And of course I have a code for you all.
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  Speaker 6: You can use code TERRITORY10 for 10% off your next
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  Speaker 6: set of tickets at SeatGeek. That's 10% of all tickets
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  Speaker 6: in the description to download the app and have the
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  Speaker 6: it later.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's why they made the trade for
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  Speaker 5: Edward Cabrera. It didn't work out. I bet he gets
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  Speaker 5: another shot again. And Steele and Horton, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 5: when Horton's supposed to come back, but this was the
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  Speaker 5: weakest part of the team. If you look at If
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  Speaker 5: you look at where they were in rankings of defense, offense,
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  Speaker 5: even the bullpen, which has been a struggle for them,
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  Speaker 5: this starting rotation was 30th. I think in ERA and
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  Speaker 5: maybe whatever it was, 30th, last among all teams. And
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  Speaker 5: now you're losing all those guys. Normally, if you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we made the playoffs and we're losing four-fifths of our rotation...
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  Speaker 5: We're cooked. Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe it's a
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  Speaker 5: good thing that they start over. I don't think they
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  Speaker 5: wanted to bring Shota back last year. They offered him
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  Speaker 5: the qualifying offer and he goes, sure, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 5: And they were like, okay. And they're not a cash-strapped team.
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  Speaker 5: But to get the depth that AJ's talking about, they
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  Speaker 5: got to go far. Some teams need like three pitchers
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  Speaker 5: to get depth. They need like five. Five to be
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  Speaker 5: able to have seven starters.
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  Speaker 4: And one more.
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  Speaker 2: Um, on the pitching front, this was what I was
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  Speaker 2: alluding to earlier in this segment, Ryan Helsley ops in.
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  Speaker 2: So he signed with the Orioles, right? I remember he
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  Speaker 2: had a weird situation. I mean, he was one of
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  Speaker 2: the best relievers in the sport really for two, three years.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And was pitching really well with St.
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  Speaker 3: Louis.
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  Speaker 1: It's traded to the Mets.
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  Speaker 2: Stop me if you've heard this one before, but the
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  Speaker 2: pitching doesn't work out for him there. He said he
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  Speaker 2: was healthy this year. He was not healthy for a
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  Speaker 2: good chunk of the year. This is actually one of
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  Speaker 2: the easiest decisions to make. So you had a $ 14
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  Speaker 2: million option. AJ, he pitched just over 15 innings this
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  Speaker 2: past season. Plus you have the lockout coming up. If he,
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  Speaker 2: even if he was coming off an okay year, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not opting in, I mean, you could be waiting
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  Speaker 2: for a long time to figure out where your home is.
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  Speaker 1: So this was an easy choice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This was one of the easiest ones of all time,
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  Speaker 3: because like you said, he didn't pitch and when he
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  Speaker 3: did pitch i mean it wasn't wasn't that great so
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  Speaker 3: 14 million dollars sure i got it guaranteed if you
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  Speaker 3: like where you're at sign me up coach someone pick
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  Speaker 3: me to sign for 14 million dollars i'll tell i'll
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  Speaker 3: pick up my own option at 14 million thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys well the game has changed You guys held firm
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  Speaker 2: on not suppressing players' salaries, and guys are reaping the
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  Speaker 2: benefits of it these days. Ryan Helsley getting paid for 2027. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it could be partial pay, but that's a different story
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  Speaker 2: for another.
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  Speaker 4: Day, kids.
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  Speaker 1: Dax Kilby is one of the Yankees' top prospects.
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  Speaker 4: He's out in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: He's joining us right now. Dax, great to have you
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  Speaker 1: on the show, man.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you all
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  Speaker 4: for having me on. thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, we were just talking about Cooper Pratt
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  Speaker 2: and I was excited to like his own, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Homer on a social media post and all that. And
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  Speaker 2: I actually brought it up somewhat on purpose because I
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  Speaker 2: don't know your social media interest. You can let me know,
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  Speaker 2: but I also heard that you have some old school
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  Speaker 2: interests in terms of what you do off the field.
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  Speaker 1: Is this true?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm definitely on social media. I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't say I'm like super prevalent on the app, but, um,
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  Speaker 4: definitely try to have some sort of footprint on like
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  Speaker 4: Instagram or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you do off the field?
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  Speaker 2: So, um, that I'm leading to, like, I heard there's
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  Speaker 2: a game that you play that would, you know, make
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  Speaker 2: you have an old soul.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Um, my, my aunt and my mom and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of my mom's friends are all super big on Mahjong.
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  Speaker 4: So they kind of got me into it. And so that's,
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  Speaker 4: that's something we all do all the time while we're
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  Speaker 4: back home. Um, They'll be me and, what, probably five
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  Speaker 4: to six are my mom's friends, and we're all playing Mahjong.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a good time.
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  Speaker 5: Have you found any 50-year-old women on your baseball teams
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  Speaker 5: that also play?
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  Speaker 4: No, not yet.
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  Speaker 5: Not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Still searching.
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  Speaker 5: How about coaches? Do you get to play during the season,
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  Speaker 5: or do you go back in the offseason and go,
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  Speaker 5: I'm rusty, I'm rusty?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the sets are super expensive for like a nicer one.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't have a set, so I can't play
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  Speaker 4: with any of my roommates or anything right now. But
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  Speaker 4: maybe in the future, maybe I'll get a set and
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  Speaker 4: try to teach some of my buddies.
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  Speaker 3: Dax, you're a first-rounder, dude. You signed for a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of money. You can afford to. You're a bonus baby.
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  Speaker 3: You can afford to buy a Mahjong set for the boys.
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  Speaker 3: You can afford to buy a Mahjong suit. I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know. I'm assuming since you have a New Balance
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  Speaker 3: jacket on, you probably have a New Balance deal too.
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  Speaker 3: They could probably even supply you with the whole team
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  Speaker 3: with Mahjong suits for the boys.
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  Speaker 4: That would be pretty awesome. I need to get them
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  Speaker 4: on that.
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  Speaker 3: How long did it take you to learn? Because I
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  Speaker 3: know people try to learn and they say it takes
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  Speaker 3: a while. So do you sit down with your mom?
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  Speaker 3: Was it Bridge or Mahjong? What was it, Bridge or Mahjong?
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  Speaker 1: Mahjong, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably... Handful of games, you kind of start to
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  Speaker 4: get used to it. I definitely had to have, like,
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  Speaker 4: my aunt is, like, the master of it. She's very
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  Speaker 4: into it. So just kind of having her over my
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  Speaker 4: shoulder teaching me how to play helped out a lot. But, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Because AJ knows nothing about Mahjong, is there any direct
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  Speaker 5: correlation between your baseball career, like your abilities in baseball
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  Speaker 5: and Mahjong?
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  Speaker 1: Um....
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say so right now. It's a, I learned
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  Speaker 4: fairly recently, probably like a year ago. I think it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's good to be able to do that and not
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  Speaker 4: sit like how we were talking about being on Instagram
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  Speaker 4: all the time. I think it's better to kind of
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  Speaker 4: spend some time doing some thinking rather than just flipping
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  Speaker 4: through your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So let's, let's talk a little baseball. Let's talk a
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  Speaker 3: little ball here. You're out in Arizona. You're 19 years old.
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  Speaker 3: You're out there banging. in the arizona fall league what's
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  Speaker 3: it like out there because are you enjoying it are
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  Speaker 3: you excited to meet new friends who are your roommates
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  Speaker 3: what do you guys do on you know say a
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  Speaker 3: thursday night tonight like what do you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Do oh i've loved it been being out here so
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  Speaker 4: far the weather's been amazing especially like compared i was
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  Speaker 4: in tampa like a couple weeks ago before i came
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  Speaker 4: out here and uh you don't like there's not there's
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  Speaker 4: not not a lot of sweating out here like tampa
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  Speaker 4: is like so humid and it can be rough sometimes
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  Speaker 4: but yeah i've loved it though like the competition's been
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  Speaker 4: great um i'm with the two other yankees hitters out
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  Speaker 4: here so core and kyle but it's it's been great
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  Speaker 4: we've been we've been trying to golf um we don't
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  Speaker 4: get home till pretty late on game days especially like
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  Speaker 4: on these these night games but uh we've been we've
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  Speaker 4: started to play a little bit of cards and stuff
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  Speaker 4: so it's been it's been fun though.
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  Speaker 5: We had core on yesterday or the day before And
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  Speaker 5: I was like, wow, core Jackson. We asked about his
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  Speaker 5: name and that, you know, how he like core Jackson
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: is such a big league name. And then today we
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: have Dex Kilby. So are you guys like, are you
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: guys going to continue to change your name so that
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: you are the biggest big league name of all time?
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: No, I haven't really thought about it, but yeah, I
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: guess we do have pretty, pretty unique, pretty cool names.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: So it's pretty sweet.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: What did you get? What did you do coming into
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: the fall league? after you have an injury, I'm assuming
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: this year was the first time you've ever been injured. You're,
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: you're a young player to this extent. What did you
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: do to say, okay, I've learned from this. This is
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: why I had the, I had the hamstring. How are
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: you doing? And are you able to implement that your
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: routine to stay healthy while playing in the fall league?
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. I had the hamstring was obviously bothering me
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: most of the year. So We spent a ton of time, like,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: dialing in a routine, ISO holds, all sorts of stuff
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: like that. And I think staying on top of that
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: this season and both going into the future and, like,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: staying on top of that routine will be super essential
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: to kind of keeping them healthy and strong.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Dax, you're talking about staying strong. You're making some adjustments
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: at the plate, right? You went from a– where'd you go?
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: From a wide closed stance to a narrow open one?
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: What's the advantage to going from one to the other?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Is there something you're trying specifically trying to pick out?
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah. The biggest thing has been, uh, we've been trying
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: to work on some counter rotation and kind of like
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: getting more into my legs and my back hip. It's,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: it's helped a lot so far. I think with just like,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I used to kind of have a habit of crashing
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: forward and kind of, I'd be late on fastballs. I
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: think this has kind of helped me gain some control
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: and be able to like be more consistent in the
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: timing aspect of getting.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: My swing off.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: The easiest thing when you're changing your swing is, Oh,
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: I love it. Why do you love it? Because you're
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: having success. You're clearly having success. But do you, do
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: you measure yourself against guys that you're watching? Obviously, the
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: World Series is the only games that are on. Those
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: guys have, besides Junior Caminero, they have a different approach
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: than what a lot of guys in the game are teaching.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Do you measure this new success, this new stance, and
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: the vernacular that you want to use and go, oh, well,
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Bryce Terang does that, or oh, Cooper Pratt does that,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: or this guy does that when you're watching these games,
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: or are you still new into your new stance?
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Um, not, not necessarily. I feel like I have
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: just been trying to my, all my misses with like
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: during this past season where like I'd hit the ball
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: straight into the ground or hit it, like pop it
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: straight up, just being like super late. So I've been
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: trying to just really dial in like the process of
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: getting ready to hit. So I think it's, um, just
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: been focusing more on the process rather than results. Obviously
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the results have been great so far, but I think
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I'll kind of look more at my misses, which have
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: been hard hit fly balls or even like line drives.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Dax, how long does it take? How long does it
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: take to change your stance? Did this start in Tampa
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: before you got to Arizona? I'm assuming you were in
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: instructional league, right?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah. They had me go down to Tampa for a
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: week for like the fall camp. And that's kind of
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: when they introduced it to me. So I had, a
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: week to kind of play around with it. So it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: a pretty quick turnaround, but I've had, had some, had
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: some success with it so far. And I think going
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: into this off season, just continuing to work on it,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I think it set me up nice for next year.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: All right. You're a shortstop. How hard is it in
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: this day and age as a young prospect who's athletic
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: to say, Hey, you know what? I don't know if
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: I really want to play second base or third base.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Like I want to be a shortstop because when AJ
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: and I came up, it was like shortstops who are
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: going to be shortstops in the big leagues play shortstop
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: every day. Now in the minor leagues, guys are like,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you've played other positions, but do
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: you feel like that increases your value? Or do you
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: feel like you're like, bro, I want to be a
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: shortstop in the big leagues?
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, obviously I've, I've always played shortstop through
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: high school. Like I've mainly just been a short, but, um,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I've i've talked to some of the yankees guys like
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: i'm i'm totally open to playing some second base third
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: base just kind of whatever just kind of having that
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: versatility i think would help me a lot in the
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: long run especially um just trying to get up to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: the big leagues i think that would be the most
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: beneficial thing is just having that versatility to play wherever
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: i'm they need me.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: To i'd ask core this the other day And maybe
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: it's the same answer that he's going to have. But
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: the Home Run Derby is going to happen during the
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: All-Star game out in the Fall League. Who do you
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: want to see that you've seen other team or your
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: team taking BP in the Home Run Derby? And you
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: can't say Kyle because that's who Core said yesterday.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I know our teammate Jack O'Dowd is going to be
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: in the Home Run Derby. So I would love to
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: see him win it. I think that would be sweet.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Let me jump in on this one because, yeah, I've
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: known Dan for years. Jack is Dan Sundin was a
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: longtime Rockies GM.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: What are you seeing from Jack?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I remember Jack was trying to find his
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: way in the college game, get some playing time, all
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I think he started at Vanderbilt and then I think
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: he might have transferred somewhere. But man, he is Texas. OK,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, man, he is broken out now and really
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: found it in the minor leagues. So what have you
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: seen from him? Yeah, I think it's awesome for him.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I know I've been able, I've had the opportunity to
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: talk to.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Him and kind of get to know him a little
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: bit better and learn his story. And I know he
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: was like an indie ball, ended up signing, I think
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: last year with the Rockies. But I mean, he's been,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: he's been one of our best hitters with the Raptors
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: so far this season. I mean, he's seems like every
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: other game he's hitting a home run. So he's, he's been,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: he's impressed me a lot over this season so far.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Dax question for you and what you learn from any
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: big leaguers or even coaches that you come across at
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: a big league experience. What kind of questions do you ask?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: And do you have any questions for one of our
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: two knucklehead catchers that played for a long time? Kratzer,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Perzynski about the game on the field, off the field,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: anything else, right? Whether it's something you've asked others, what
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: do you got?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Not necessarily. I feel like I had the opportunity to
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: feel like, when Volpe was doing his rehab, I got
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: to do field ground balls with him. So getting to
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: talk with him about it, same with George, like they
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: were both in Tampa while I was rehabbing. So I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: got the opportunity to sit and talk to them a
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: little bit and see how they go about fielding. So
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: that was, that was super awesome to have that opportunity.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: As far as questions go, I don't, I don't really
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: have anything. I know AJ played with the Braves for
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: a little bit, so I got to grow up watching
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: him for, I think it was a couple seasons you
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: were there.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: You were like nine. You were like nine years old.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I was little. I was little.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: But you had my jersey. I know you did. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: know you had.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: What number do you wear now?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: What number do you wear now?
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: In the season this year, I wore three. But I've
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: always worn six. But I feel like I kind of
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: just get thrown a random number. So I kind of–
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I don't really have a number to wear, to be honest.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Does that matter?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Three is fair.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Three is fair.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Do you need a number?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Not really.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I feel like once, especially with like the Yankees, every number,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: like most people wear like one through 20 is retired.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: So you kind of just get a random number and
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: that just kind of becomes your number.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: So, uh, yeah. You know, one through 10, you're out.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Now, now, yeah, they're, they're all, they're all retired.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: No.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: You can wear three.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: No, I'll just, you know, I'll just be a number.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Do you know Yankee history in the sense that like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: I know when you go to big league camp, Zillow
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: just locks you in a room for three hours every
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: spring training and you got to learn like how to
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: be a Yankee. And then you got to do it
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: for the next six years until you're arbitration eligible. Do
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: you know Yankee history being somebody from Georgia?
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Um, not a lot of it. I mean, obviously I
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: know like the, the pretty popular info, like, but other
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: than that, like nothing like too deep in detail.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Uh, last one from me.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And I know we talked a lot.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: We started this conversation with, with Mahjong.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: What else do you like?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: What else do you do off the fields? Um, you're
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: like movies, music, like what are you doing on an
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: off day? What are you doing if you're hanging out
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: with a teammate? Yeah, in the offseason, I golf a
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: good bit.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: My little brother plays golf for our high school team,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: or like my old high school. So I'll go golf
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: with him. I love fly fishing. We have a mountain
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: house up in North Georgia. So I'll try to get
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: up there a good bit this offseason and go fly
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: fishing for trout. Other than that, I think just being outside,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: not being inside, stuck on my phone, I think is
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: a big priority of mine.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: All right, Dex, I got to ask you, what travel
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: team did you play for?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I played with team elite from the time I was
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: like 12 to 17. Okay.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Cause my son had to have played you at some point.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Cause my son, we were at, we were on the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: same East coast pro team. I guess it would have
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: been June. We were on the same team that season
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: or that for that event. So it's pretty cool.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Was he nice?
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Not you.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was. He was nice.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: That's all I care about.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: He's at UAB.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Right now, right?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: He's at UAB. He's doing good. He's doing really well.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: That's nice. I'll have to tell him that you remembered
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: who he was.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: I'm glad.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: That was a fun time. Hottest thing I've ever been
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: through in my life, by the way, was Hoover in August.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I know. It's rough. We played there earlier in the
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: summer before that. It was terrible. I got COVID during
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: that tournament. I felt like I was about to die
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: during the– it was like a summer game. I, like, won.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: It was terrible.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: All right, so I know you're from Georgia. You're from Noonan, Georgia.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I know– I think you signed with Clemson at a
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: high school, but there's a Florida-Georgia game this weekend. So
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: since you don't like Georgia, tell me you're rooting for Florida.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: No, I'm a– my dad went to UGA, so I
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: grew up with Georgia fat. Okay, interview's over.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Interview's over. Scott, cut him off. Scott, time to go.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Wait, you actually timed that perfectly. This is the end
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of the interview. You're going to let them go out
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that way?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Give me a prediction.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: How bad are they going to beat.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Them? They're winning by three touchdowns. Blown them out. Nice blowout.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: That's good.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Georgia lost to Auburn. Florida throttled Auburn.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I understand.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I did. I did. All right, good. Well, I need
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: a redemption week. Yes.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Redemption week.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And yeah, AJ, you can, can leave in the third
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: quarter if it's a three touchdown game like that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: So I never leave.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I always, I always stay in the finish line. I
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: enjoy the grind.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: He only, he only leaves world series games early before
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: the walk-off hits. That's, that's the only games he leaves early.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: When I have a two and a half hour drive home.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, I do. At midnight.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, we'll let them bicker. Dax, you go do your thing.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, man. Hope you had fun.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Thank you all for having me on.