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Colt Emerson & Cooper Pratt extension szn, ABS 2D v. 3D, Cody Ponce’s injury, Boston missing firepower? · Foul Territory

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Day, big guest list excited for it. Ron Kratz aj
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Og crew here. Aj. We didn't have you yesterday. So
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: how was your first Fox game? You called Little Braves
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Royals and Ernaldo Lopez looked like he was.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, right, Yeah, his villo was there, which they were
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: worried about.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it was a great game if you didn't see it,
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: walk off Grand Slam for Tom Smith. Braves were down
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: to nothing. I'll tell you what, man, I don't know
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: what's going on with Carlos A. Steves, but oh boy,
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: his villa was down, and I think that's got to
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: be a concern for the Royals. He was like eighty
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: nine to ninety. It was weird, and he didn't really
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: have a lot of stuff that day, and he gave
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: up a six spot obviously took a ball off his foot.
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: I think it wasn't good for him. But the Braves
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  Speaker 3: pitched really well. Uh, Sale pitch well, Lopez pitch well.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: The bullpen was nasty for the for the Braves. So
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: they're off a nice start. But it was a great game.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: Dom Smith walk off Grand same. You don't get to
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  Speaker 3: see those very often, so that was cool.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, and we talked about it yesterday in
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: case anyone missed it. During slap Pants, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: the connection for Dom Smith, who had lost his mother
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  Speaker 1: just a couple weeks prior. So, yeah, cool game to
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  Speaker 1: start the year, full of emotions and storylines and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. Right, we have a stacked show for you,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, so, we're going to charge fast right
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  Speaker 1: now so that we can get into some of these
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  Speaker 1: extensions that have been handed out. They usually get handed
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  Speaker 1: out before this, but let's run it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's charge it.
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  Speaker 1: AJ extension. Season's supposed to be in spring training. What
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  Speaker 1: is going on here? We'll take it though. CLT Emerson
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  Speaker 1: and the Mariners agreeing to an eight year, ninety five
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  Speaker 1: million dollar contract. The deal includes a ninth year club option,
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  Speaker 1: a full no trade clause, and escalators that can bring
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  Speaker 1: it north of one hundred and thirty million dollars. Emerson
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  Speaker 1: is represented by Aces Agency. That's Robert Murray on the
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  Speaker 1: scene breaking the news first. About AJ Emerson for some
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  Speaker 1: is a question mark because if you don't follow prospects,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: you don't know who he is yet. He's been on
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  Speaker 1: this show, but he has not cracked the big leagues yet.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about deals like this for a
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  Speaker 1: player who has a super high ceiling, well.
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  Speaker 3: It's smart for both sides. I listen, I'm never going
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  Speaker 3: to fall the guy forgetting what ninety five million dollars
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  Speaker 3: and he hasn't even sniffed the big leagues yet, Like,
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  Speaker 3: are you kidding me? Someone would have came to me
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  Speaker 3: when I was in Triple A or Double A and said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: here's ten million. I would have been like, where do
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  Speaker 3: I sign? I'm never going to make that much money
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  Speaker 3: in my life. So I just, yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have a fall with this and
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand it. But uh, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how you can be mad at this.
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  Speaker 3: I know agents will say, oh, he could have got more,
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  Speaker 3: he could have got this, he could have got that.
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  Speaker 3: But then you have the guys who never make it.
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  Speaker 3: And what was the guy for uh Philadelphia Kingery?
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  Speaker 2: Is that his name? Kingry? Carry signed?
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  Speaker 4: Like a yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Never really? I mean, listen, here's what. Here's what teams do.
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: Teams go to the players sometimes, now listen, they go
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  Speaker 3: around the agent and go directly to the players and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: here's we offer you sixty million dollars or whatever, blah
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  Speaker 3: blah blah, will you take it? And then they go
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  Speaker 3: to their agent. And so for some of these guys,
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  Speaker 3: if they're super excited to get it, and I can't
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  Speaker 3: blame them, it's smart. And then the team's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: we got this guy locked up for six, seven, eight
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  Speaker 3: years whatever it is, and we know where he's going
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  Speaker 3: to stand. And I don't care what teams say. It
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  Speaker 3: helps them have a guy move up faster if they're
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  Speaker 3: making big league money in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, totally.
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  Speaker 5: Scott Kingery I think signed for twenty four million. I
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  Speaker 5: think was his number. John Singleton Jonathan Singleton was like
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  Speaker 5: ten or twelve. There were some other things with Singhy
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  Speaker 5: in there that he had to kind of resurface his
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  Speaker 5: career later. But with Scott Kingery, I remember when he
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  Speaker 5: signed it was there twenty four or twenty six million. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: he didn't pan out, you know, I don't think that's
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  Speaker 5: entirely his fault. I think you know, they they moved
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  Speaker 5: him around, thought he was super utility guy, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 5: At the time, I said, you want to know what
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  Speaker 5: big league teams think of twenty four million dollars. They're
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  Speaker 5: giving it to somebody who had zero time in the
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  Speaker 5: big leagues. Did they think he was gonna be a
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  Speaker 5: big leader. Yeah, absolutely, But they showed twenty four million
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  Speaker 5: dollars was fine. If this doesn't workout, we're find taking
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  Speaker 5: a twenty four million dollar gamble essentially. So now with
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  Speaker 5: Colt Emerson, I'm not saying Colt Emerson's Scott Kingery. I'm
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  Speaker 5: saying that it shows the value of money to teams
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  Speaker 5: understanding that this is a ninety million dollar gamble. I
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  Speaker 5: think we're past the times when like injuries for position
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  Speaker 5: players are like massive, like career ending type of injuries.
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  Speaker 5: It's more of does this guy pan out to be
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  Speaker 5: an All Star? Is cold Emerson pan out to.
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  Speaker 4: Be that guy?
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  Speaker 5: And teams are like, yeah, it's worth it. So this
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  Speaker 5: is how I gauge what teams think of actual the
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  Speaker 5: actual cash that's being given.
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  Speaker 4: So I love this. I love this contract for both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets a full note trade clause and AJ
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  Speaker 1: he's twenty twenty, so in eight years he's twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: in nine years he's twenty nine. He still gets another
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  Speaker 1: crack at pre agency. If he's a superstar. Just like
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  Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong will.
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  Speaker 2: Have what's the what was the guy in Milwaukee's name?
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  Speaker 2: Not Emerson, the Pratt.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to him, Cooper Pratt. You want to get
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  Speaker 1: to him. I can cueue that up to get because
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  Speaker 1: all that yeah, yeah, okay, let's do it. Let me
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  Speaker 1: let me set it up and then I'll swing it
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  Speaker 1: right back to you, just so I can let ever
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  Speaker 1: know about the money. So Cooper Pratt even lesser known,
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  Speaker 1: I would say prospect compared to Emerson, who's been in
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  Speaker 1: the scene for a couple of years. Pratt was a
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  Speaker 1: sixth round pick in twenty twenty three, sixth rounder, so
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  Speaker 1: not a first round guy. Eight years over fifty million
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  Speaker 1: dollars guarantee. There's two option years that can push this
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  Speaker 1: to around eighty plus. He's twenty one years old and
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  Speaker 1: last year was a full season in Double A. He's
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  Speaker 1: played three games so far this year in TRIPAA for
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: the first time. Cut down his kra last year. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a good on base percentage in his career, but
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  Speaker 1: last year his slash line in a full season was
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  Speaker 1: two thirty eight three forty three on base three forty
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  Speaker 1: eight slug. He does not have much pop in his
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  Speaker 1: profile right now. He's a defense first shortstop and he
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  Speaker 1: is the fiftieth overall prospect ranked by our friends over
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  Speaker 1: at Baseball America. They'll have hot sheet later today and
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  Speaker 1: they'll talk about it too, But anyway, aj your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this one For a player who I don't think
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  Speaker 1: has as high of a ceiling as cold Emerson.
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  Speaker 2: From what I was told.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, he was defense first base running, super fast, can
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  Speaker 3: cover a lot of ground.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The team came to him and said, hey, here's what
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  Speaker 3: fifty million a fifth whatever, fifty I forget, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: fifty million.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: If you're him and you had just do you have
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  Speaker 3: these numbers in what Double A last year? Would you
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  Speaker 3: not accept a fifty million dollar contract? I'm sorry, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Like, I can't say no. If I'm under
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  Speaker 3: twenty one years old and they offer me fifty million
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  Speaker 3: dollars and I hit two thirty eight in Double A
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  Speaker 3: with eight homers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now could he make more?
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  Speaker 4: Possibly? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Because people that I talk to, you know, in baseball,
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  Speaker 3: because I didn't. I'd never heard of this guy when
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  Speaker 3: he signed him, Like, who the heck? So I reached
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  Speaker 3: out to some people.
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  Speaker 4: I now.
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  Speaker 3: Most people say he'll be a solid big league player.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be a two probably two minimum of two win
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  Speaker 3: war guy every year because of his speed and his defense. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but then if he figures out how to hit more,
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  Speaker 3: he could be higher.
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  Speaker 2: But he's still got fifty million in the bank and
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  Speaker 2: he's twenty years old.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty I think he's twenty years old, twenty one, twenty.
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  Speaker 3: One, twenty one years old, and he just by the way,
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  Speaker 3: he got fifty million, and you're in double A. I
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  Speaker 3: guess who's buying that McDonald's on the road every day
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  Speaker 3: double A?
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  Speaker 4: Oh this guy?
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  Speaker 1: Oh that better be Capital Grill on the road now
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  Speaker 1: kidding make me fifty still?
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  Speaker 3: But like, how do you tell a kid who's twenty
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  Speaker 3: one in double A hit two thirty eight ers fifty million?
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  Speaker 3: And I know, I mean, I think his agent might
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  Speaker 3: be Boris, which I remember Boris never signs extensions except
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  Speaker 3: for when he does. But think about it, he's fifty,
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  Speaker 3: twenty one years old, he's got this money in the bank,
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  Speaker 3: he invested this, he can grow and he's set no
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  Speaker 3: matter what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Same with Carrie when.
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  Speaker 4: He did it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know I get why you would hold off.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a you got the chance to be a
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  Speaker 3: super superstar. But if you're not, dude, take the money, man.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, this is guaranteed fifty million. If you got
• 9:26
  Speaker 5: fifty dollars when you're in Double A, you're like, what
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  Speaker 5: are we doing with this? But fifty million for a
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  Speaker 5: guy who signed in the sixth round. He also he's
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: done a really good job of maximizing value sixth round.
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  Speaker 5: He signed for one point three to five million in
• 9:45
  Speaker 5: the sixth round.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: So there's a there's a there's a solid ceiling that
• 9:51
  Speaker 5: people are saying, Okay, he's gonna hit this type of ceiling.
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  Speaker 5: But to me, this is also what I just said
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  Speaker 5: about what teams think of what fifty million dollars is.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't have. He didn't have a successful season statistically
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  Speaker 5: at Double A last year and now he's at Triple A.
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  Speaker 5: And for a player, you really need to just get
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  Speaker 5: the opportunity in this contract. When they bring these contracts
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: to young players, they're probably not allowed to say the
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: exact words, this will accelerate your time to the big leagues,
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: but you know it will. And if he's defensively ready,
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: you can learn to hit in the big leagues. And
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: if you never learned to hit in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 5: because a lot of guys don't, you still have fifty
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  Speaker 5: million in the bank.
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  Speaker 3: Also, also, by the way, let me add this, this
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: isn't the Dodgers. This isn't the Mats, This isn't the eighties,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't this is a small market team that did this.
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: By the way, this isn't again, this isn't the Dodgers saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we don fifty million, so there must be something to
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: this hole we have money thing again?
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  Speaker 2: Could he have gotten more?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely? No, he did it and he's still suffered. He's
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: suffer life.
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  Speaker 4: Good job, Brewers. Brewers are ruining baseball. Now.
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  Speaker 5: They've locked up Christian Yellis. Years ago, they locked him up,
• 11:10
  Speaker 5: they locked up Jackson Churio. Now they locked up Cooper Pratt.
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  Speaker 4: What next? What next? This is hideous, is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's show that board with the pre debut deals.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: As Kratz is talking, Guy Kratz.
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  Speaker 4: Guess who else is super excited about this? Connor Griffin.
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: Connor Griffin's going, Okay, I get my I get what
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: my value is, and I made the right call because
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: these dudes are getting it, and I'm the number one,
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  Speaker 5: the consensus, number one overall prospect.
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  Speaker 4: I can wait.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the contracts have now boosted the value for Connor
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  Speaker 1: Griffin before he even snips the big leagues, right, he
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  Speaker 1: turned down a deal in the low ones. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be asking for the mid ones based on
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  Speaker 1: what's out there. Yeah, hey, I'm I'm the top prospect
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  Speaker 1: in the sport. This guy's the number fifty and whatever
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  Speaker 1: Emerson is, it's not one. So Griffin's number goes up.
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  Speaker 1: With that last part of the puzzle here, is it
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  Speaker 1: curious to you that the Brewers do this?
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  Speaker 4: Aj?
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot of really good young talent. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they might have floated deals like this to others,
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  Speaker 1: like Heyzus made who's supposed to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: They have a number of other middle infield prospects that
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  Speaker 1: should be making their way up to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: They have big leaguers already that are middle infielders that
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  Speaker 1: should be in the bigs for a long period of time,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: like a Bryce Terrang. They acquired Jet Williams. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot there, There's a lot jam. That's why again, I
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  Speaker 1: think if I'm Cooper Pratt, I don't get lost in
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: the shuffle anymore. I get paid. But do you think
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers are looking ahead at the CBA and wondering
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  Speaker 1: if things are going to tilt where younger players get
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  Speaker 1: paid more, and this is a way to get some
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  Speaker 1: cost certainty with a guy who could end up costing
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  Speaker 1: them more down the line, because I look at someone
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  Speaker 1: like Cooper Pratt and I'm like, what's the ceiling? Is
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: it Brendan Donovan and a better defended You know, Donovan's
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: a good defender. Is this a better defender Brendan Donovan
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  Speaker 1: who's shortstop, it could bounce around and has a get
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  Speaker 1: on base percentage, not a twenty five plus homer guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think exactly what you said, Scott.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to get ahead of this because they don't
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  Speaker 3: know what's coming, right, So they're thinking because everything I've
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  Speaker 3: heard is if they push hard for salary cap or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: but they want to up the minimum. Everyone I've talked
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  Speaker 3: to and heard talk says, well, if you just up
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: the minimum and then you can bring down the top,
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: then there's your salary cap and your salary structure and
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: all that.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Take it from what is a seven to fifty or
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  Speaker 3: seven fifty and eight right now, make it a million
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  Speaker 3: or two million dollars in that makes other people happy
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  Speaker 3: and all this and that. So yeah, I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a way of teams to get in front of it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the Brewers have always kind of been
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: in front of the curve of certain things, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: signing guys, making trades before they need it to people say,
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  Speaker 3: but then it works and they still competitive. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is smart. I mean, Matt Arnold is not a
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  Speaker 3: dumb person. Mark Antinasio, the owner of the Brewers, is
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  Speaker 3: not a dumb person. And if you're the Marriers, is
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: JP Crawford a free agent at the end of this year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know his contract status, but I believe I'll check. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So then guess what they did. They just signed up
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  Speaker 3: their hopeful short stoff for the next seven or eight years,
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  Speaker 3: right depending on when he comes up. So boom, Why
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  Speaker 3: would you not if you're the mayors, Hey, we know,
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  Speaker 3: we know we're gonna pay our hopeful starting short stoff
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  Speaker 3: for the next seven or eight years. That's a win
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: for the organization, and it's a win for a twenty
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  Speaker 3: year old kid who just got tinety could be one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and something million dollars exactly.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: MJP is a free agent after this year.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I thought, Okay, And there's and there's there's
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: different companies that pop up buying value in players early
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: on to give them the money. To me, when teams
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: do this, they're just doing that themselves. They're just doing
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: there's a reason those companies start. There's a reason that
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: people go to minor league baseball players and say I'll
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: give you X amount of dollars for future earnings. They're
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: not doing it because they're like, well, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: had some extra money.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like being a charity case.
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  Speaker 5: No, there's value in signing people up that don't that
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: aren't making a lot of money. And when teams can
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  Speaker 5: find that value and do it and be like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: this is the amount of risk. Plus we've seen them,
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  Speaker 5: we see how they work, we see how they play
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  Speaker 5: day in and day out. To me, it's a no
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  Speaker 5: brainer to me. I think teams should do it more.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: And it can benefit the players, especially if they're not
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: taking these contracts out till they're like thirty two years old.
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: They still have their prime years to be able to
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: get those contracts.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Yep. It's called surplus value. It is a great way
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: to show your ownership group, how much the player is
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: worth versus how much he costs. We're gonna show this
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: video of Luis Castillo dealing a pitch that was called
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: a strike in then ABS said no, it just missed,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: and pitching in just said umpire incompetent or a rulebook
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: ABS mismatch issue. This pitch may have been both a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: strike according to the rule book strike zone three D
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: at the front of the plate and a ball according
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: to ABS two D mester at the middle of the plate. AJ,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I'll give you this minute here to rant and it'll
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: be like a good prequel to our Joe West conversation later.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: The strike zone is three D. Why is it not
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: three D?
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: That's the only thing.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: And I reached out to people on MLB to try
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: to get an answer, and they haven't heard back from
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: him yet. But it's three The strike zone is supposed
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: to be three D. And for everyone bashing Mike Esterbrook
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: and with the Yankees game yesterday, those balls were an
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: eighth of an inch or whatever it is underneath the
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: strike zone. So okay, if that's the middle of the plate, well,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: the middle of the plate is about this far from
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: the front of the plate. So if that ball is
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: going down, it had to hit in the strike zone.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: So actually he got it right, but he got penalized
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: and got it wrong, and all the fans like, Ah,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: this guy sucks. In reality, he actually got the call right.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: So this is where I'm confused with it. I thought
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: it was I thought the ABS was a three D
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: like some some of the broadcasts have the three D
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: plate with the thing, because that's how the strike zone
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: is supposed to be. It's not supposed to be just
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: a pane of glass. It's supposed to be like a
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: three D plate of the person. So I don't I
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: don't understand this. I don't get it. Why if we
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: don't have the technology, and then why are we running
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: with something that's not in the rule book.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: That's that's my that's my question.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: What I heard was that the three D zone was
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: less accurate, and it was also way bigger than intended,
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: and they felt like it would hurt offensive production.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Hey we're here, and I want to point out the
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Baseball America tweet from JJ Cooper's article that is fresh
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: on the rule changes in baseball. This is going back
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: for a while now. AJ. I'm critical because I want
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: these rules in the league earlier ABS is the one
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: where you can make a case that they were getting
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the tech down. Pitchclock for me, was ready a long
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: time ago. But here's where credit is due. The ones
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: they are selecting to be implemented in the majors are
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: working pitchclock, ban on infield shifts, n l DH, reduction
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: in pickoffs, three better rule, ABS challenge system. Do you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: agree that they're nailing what they're changing, because there are
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: probably some rules being toyed around with that would not
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: work out so well.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I think everything on most of these have all worked.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know what hasn't worked. I mean, bigger base,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: more stolen bases, less shifts, more hits, more offense, everything
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: at quicker games, which we all know that I love
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: because I don't have talked for three and a half hours.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: You only have to listen to my tired act for
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: two and a half hours, so uh, that's fine.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I think everything they've implemented has work. Now the ABS,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I think it needs some tweaks. I think it's been good.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: The fans have been receptive, the players have been receptive,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: but most of the stuff has been good.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's changing the way that fans, of
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: course young and old, are viewing the game, enjoying the game.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: ABS challenge is so entertaining. Yeah, they might have to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: get some kinks worked out, but you're seeing fans roaring
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: like it's a home run on pitch getting overturned. Will
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that change? I actually don't think so. I think it's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: going to carrycrats. I think the fans are going to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: be excited like that from here on out because we
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: live in a world where people love trolling and they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: get to say, ha, I told you so, do umpires.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: The only way it changes is it for some reason
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: fans aren't engaged in it. Gauge no stoppage and play.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Do fans ever not pick their phone up? Now this
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: stoppage and play? They leave their phone down and they're
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: all riveted to the screen.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Our corner time. Let's start off with the Red Sox.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: But I'm also just going to open this up to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you guys to see if you have any overreactions from
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the first week of the season. There are certainly some
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: in Boston that are already a little bit perturbed, even
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: though it's been five minutes. So we can show the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: tweet here to kind of sum up how some are
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: feeling up in Boston based on their off season. Did
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: they do things? Yeah, they did a lot. They did
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: a lot on the pitching front. Did they do enough
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side. Gabrielle Starr said, it's only the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: fourth game of the season, but it is quite a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: picture of the Red Sox offseason moves, two key pitching editions, struggling,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: virtually no offensive contributions. They picked up Durban for the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: most part, the lineup is gonna rely a lot on
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: some of the youngsters, like a Meyer and like a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony aj. For me, I didn't get to throw
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: my predictions in. We were busy running things around the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: one team that I had. I said it the other
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: day on Opening Day on an Orioles radio station. Conveniently,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I think the Red Sox, out of the four contenders
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: in the AL East, have the highest chance in my mind,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: of missing the playoffs. That's just how I feel based
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: on offenses. It is really hard for me to see
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the Yankees or the Blue Jays missing the playoffs. So
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: then for me, it comes down to the next tier.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I think there's Tier one. Tier two is Boston and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Baltimore and I think the Orioles have a slight edge
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: based on their offense. The Red Sox might pitch a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: little bit better, but I think there's enough of a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: gap between those two lineups, especially when Holiday and Westburg
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: come back. I'm not sure I see it for Boston.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I think I see a good team could be an
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: eighty four win team that misses the playoffs.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Well, if the Blue Jays, if they keep losing starting
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: pitchers left and right, it's going to be it's going
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: to be really tough for them. I mean, they're losing guys.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: It seemed like every time they take the field. So
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: for that it sucks. But as far as the Red
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Sox go, you know, two of their offseason acquisitions struggled.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Who I mean, Sonny Gray went four innings. Listen, Sunny
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Gray's a five to six inning guy at most. Anyways,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: if you look at his track record, he's always been
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: kind of a five inning maybe get into the six
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: every once in a while kind of guy. And then Lozardo,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I think, is the other one she's probably talking about.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It was his first start, it was their first starts
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: of the year. Let's can we just it's just amazing
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: how or sorry, as Rangers sware as it started.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Sorry about my apologies.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It's their first start of the year.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: They've been four games, sorry, four games they've played, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: we're all panicked about this. Four and a third, seven hits,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: four in runs. Okay, so maybe the sinker wasn't sinking
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: as well as he.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Wanted it to.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Again, it's been one start. It's been one start for
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Sunny Gray. Garrett Crochet looked amazing. We talked about how
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: good Cincinnati's pitching is. The Red Sox played Cincinnati the
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: first three games, right, They won one when Crochet threw
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: a shutout, and then they didn't score and neither team
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: really did a lot of scoring, so it lost one
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: game in extra innings. I think this is just trying
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: to get people to overreact, which we're really great at today,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: especially with social media. Let's put a headline out there,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and we love Gabrielle Star, but let's put a headline
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and she's not just the only one guilty.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: This is everyone. Hey, let's put a.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Huge headline out there that gets people to click on
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: our article, and then if you start digging in a
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: little bit, you realize again, much like Tony Vaitello, it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: been four games.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They haven't even been through the rotation one time. Everyone
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: chill out in Boston.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: I think the Boston offense issues are going to be
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: talked about the entire season because of the fact that
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: they didn't resign. It's the easy it's the easy route,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: it's the easy commentary that all they didn't resign Bragman Like,
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Bragman's not like an MVP candidate at the plate. He
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: helped everybody else. He helped all the young guys in
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: their plate discipline. So to me, that's where his value
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: is going to be missed in this lineup. My opinion
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: is they didn't do enough offensively. What wins championships pitching
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: in defense. Absolutely so. Is their defense the defense that
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: started the year first half of the season, or is
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: it how they finished in the second half of the
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: season where they had guys that were a little bit
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: out of position.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Similar things are happening.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: They have one of the better center fielders in the game,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: but last year they were like, Okay, he's going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: be in center. He could play really good at second.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: What's the to me if they're going to have success offensively,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Because I think that's the question I could care less
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: about their pitching. I think their pitching is going to
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: be legit. When you have three guys in Gray Ranger
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: and Garrett Crochet, I think they're going to be totally fine.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: My question is, are they going to run the same
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: lineup out there every day or are they going to
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: do like they did on Opening Day? I think it
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: was Opening Day where they're platooning for Marcella Meyer. Maybe
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: he's not ready yet to be an everyday guy. To me,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I think that's where do they have the consistent lineup
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: for these young guys to know they come to the
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: ballpark every day they're playing. They come to the ballpark
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: on the third game of a three game series and
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: they go, I know what this team has done to me.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I'm smart enough based on what I've learned in the
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: big leagues. I'm going to make the adjustment and I'm
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: going to have a much better third game of this series.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: That's how I think this team's going to have success,
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: not trying to be cute Nicolin diming here and there.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: So that's where I think the offense will do well
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: for Boston. But I still think they're really built to
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: be a five hundred team. Unfortunately.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: M Yeah, that's what I'm feeling. Yeah, you're a few
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: shades above or below the five hundred mark, and if
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: you get a few shades above, you could sneak into
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's just it's a really, really good division.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It's a gauntlet division. While we're on this topic, by
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the way, AJ actually, for me, since we're not going
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to talk a ton about last night, we'll spin it forward.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I think the theme was all of the pitching that shine.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You had some guys making debuts like an Edward Cabrera
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: with his new team at Luis Steele looking fantastic after
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Mariner's staff said he looks as good as he has
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: since a few years ago, with some pitch mixed tweaks
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and with a little bit of a VLO bumped there.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Lance mccullors going seven innings giving up one run for Houston.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: That one stands out. I mean, I'm probably missing a few.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Mike Soroka making his debut this season, ten strikeouts and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: five innings. There were a lot of good pitching performances.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Bryce Elder carrying what he did late last year. Braves
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: fans have been all over him, but he had the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: velow boost, and he again looked good in a four
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to nothing win for the Braves. Chase Burns looking good
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: picking up his first win. He's got big time stuff
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: for the Reds and I think could be the difference
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: maker for them, hanging around in a wild card spot
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: while Hunter Green is out and what else? I mean,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: that's a lot. Oh, last one you'll like this was
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: he great? I don't think he was great, but he
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: gave four innings, gave up one run. Roki Sazaki didn't
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: look like the guy who was lost in spring training,
• 25:58
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of it's also cold, it's early
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: in the year. Pitchers are always a head of hitters,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I feel like early in the year, so let's let's
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: give them. But there was comment we didn't eve mention early.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: By the way, he pitched really great for the Red
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Sox and his one start, so let's not forget about him. Yeah, listen,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: pitching has been great. The scores have been way down
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: for me. There's a lot of low scores three to twos,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: three to ones, four to threes, not a lot of
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: ten to nine ball games like we saw in spring training.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: So the pitching has been really good and it's fun
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: to watch if you like pitching and defense. I mean, Atlanta,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: everyone was worried about their starting pitching. Look at what
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: they've done in their first four games. They've been pretty
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: darn good. So I think I think it's the way
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: it is right now. It's throwing in the air, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: as far as Aszaki goes, yeah, he threw it over
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: the plate. It's weird crowds, so you throw it over
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the plate, How much better you do?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Gee bird days?
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Wow, what a what a novelty, especially because you're not
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: in the big leagues if you don't have good stuff.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Goneer the days where I mean I watched I watched
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Foster Griffin throw. You know, he was eighty nine to
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: ninety one. He was living on the corners. He was
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: throwing from a from an awkward angle where you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: the ball was sweeping from a different distance that guys
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: are not used to like unless you do something funky
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: like that rowing on the plate with good stuff, it's
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: hard to hit. As much as aj made it look
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: easy getting two thousand hits, I'm pretty sure he would
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: say hitting is hard.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one more shout out to Kyle Harrison. Five innings,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: one run, eight k's for the Brewers. Many people high
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: on what he'll look like with Milwaukee. And then yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: let's go back to Griffin. So that's my next topic
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: for you, Kratz. So he goes five innings, two runs,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: five strikeouts, coming from overseas back to the US pitching
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for the Nationals, who were off to a three and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: one start. They pounded the Phillies thirteen to two. I'm
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: not going to spend a ton of time on how
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: we think the Phillies are going to look for the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: year after four games, But what did you think about
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Rob Thompson being tossed because they allowed Drew Millis to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: meel us to return to third after that replay review,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the overturn out at first base.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't see how you can't get tossed.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: There's just there's certain situations where when it doesn't go
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: your way, you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Have to get thrown out. Like it's just a it's
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: a I don't understand.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: I don't understand how like the play is supposed to continue,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the play is not stopped. When replay started, they said,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: play the play out. There is nothing that is telling
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: you that this play is what it is called on
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: the field. You have to play it out. That is
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: like one of the basic I remember back in twenty fourteen,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: they were like, if there's a play, play it, like
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: it was called safe, it was called out.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Whatever it is.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: This is a live ball. There's no way he should
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: have been given the base because because they said it
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: was the third out. No no, no, no, no, you
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: play it out. I completely agree, And now I'm I
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: was glad to see Donnie baseball at the Helm for
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: the Phillies last night.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: All right, listen, here here's the problem we have with replay.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: This is one of those situations where where do you
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: put runners?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: What do you do with him?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: The runner looks up, he's rounding third, he sees the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: umpire call him out. Should he have kept running? Sure,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: but most guys are gonna stop. They're like, okay, third out.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: They don't even think that far ahead of replay or whatever.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Now I give the pitcher for the Phillies credit. He
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: fired at home. Marshaun tackled the guy at third, which
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: was also kind of funny, but then he helped him up.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: But Rob Thompson has to get thrown out of this game.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: But this is one of the weird things with replays
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: is sometimes they don't know where to put runners, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: they also can't The thing is you can't go back
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: to the replay and say, oh, well, he was gonna score.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: He wasn't gonna score. Maybe the easy thing to do
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: was to put him back third.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Was it the right call.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know it just as funny. But Rob Thompson
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: did the right thing. He had to get kicked out.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: He was defending his player. They were getting crushed by
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: the Nationals at home. The fans are already starting to
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: boo in Philly. They already they're like, ah, this team
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: stinks D D. And by the way, when we did
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: our prediction, Joe Dad, I said, no manager. I didn't
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: think it was gonna get fired. I didn't want to
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: say any But when you talk about managers that are
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: probably a little bit under pressure because listen, Rob Thompson,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: we love him. I think he's a great dude. I
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: think he's doing a great job. But the guy sitting
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: next to Rob Thompson on that bench is Don Mattingly.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: He's managed before, he's had success before, he's a You
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: can make the argument he should be in the Hall
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: of Fame as a player. He's sitting right there, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: he's an easy thing for Dave Dombrowski if things don't
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: go right to say, hey.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: So Rob Thompsons stand up for his guys. I like it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I understand why he did it. Was it the right
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: call by the Empires. I don't freaking know. I don't
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: know what.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: There's nothing in the rule book that says this guy
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: has to go here or do this, So I don't know.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: But Kudo's the topper for getting kicked out.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to feel more heat in the division
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: this year. I think the Mets are going to give
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: them more of a run and the Braves are going
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to give them more of a run. You don't think so, Kratz, Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Think they definitely are. I think it's you have to
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: be seen at the Mets pitching. Is Freddy Peralta going
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: to be the guy?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Is? You know? He has to be the guy? There's
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: no choice to me.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: I think this might be crazy if I think the
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Mets offense is actually better than it was last year.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: I get it they don't have Pete Alonzo, but I
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: just think it's a different looking offense than the Bats
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: are different looking than what I saw from the Mets
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: last year.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Obviously it's five games.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, the Mets front office field the same way.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: That's why they made the changes they made despite getting
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: some blowback from people. Hey, there was a pretty tough
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: looking injury yesterday for Cody Ponce in his debut. You
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: got thirty million bucks over three years to sign back
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball with the Blue Jays. Kp Kem Pelar,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: who's a host on Bluebird Territory. You see him here
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: on FT sometimes, former Blue Jays star. So don't want
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to speculate about ponce. But I've been in sports a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: long time.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I know what that looked like.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I'm really hoping the best for him and that it
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: isn't as serious as it looked. Waited a long time
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to be back in this position. We don't have word yet.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: We'll probably get word today on how bad it was
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: for him. And like you mentioned a the Blue Jays
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: are down some starters. Early on, people were like, oh,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: where the classic, where's everybody going to pitch?
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: What day?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: There's too many starters? Until then you go, wait, there's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: not enough starters.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've lost Ponts, Birio says, and then you Savage
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: already down. That's three starters and Boden Francis is out
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: for the year. Right, So there's four there down already
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: proven big league starters. So luckily they do have some
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: depth there. But man, I don't never want to speculate.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know what KP was saying. I saw the injury.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he was what he was thinking.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: He never want to speculate it, but it didn't look good.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Let's just hope him. Pray for the best.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Bieber too, Oh, Bieber. Yeah, there's a lot of guys
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: missing already, and this is part of the World Series hangover.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You don't have to win the World Series to feel
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the hangover. I'm not saying that the playoffs caused the injuries,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: but you do see teams feel it, especially on the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: pitching front, after they go deep into it in October.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Run Let yourself get healthy. The Dodgers did it last year.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying there's their rotten. Rotation is as good
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: as the Dodgers. Let yourself. Let your rotation get healthy.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: You don't have to have five guys throw thirty one starts.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: I texted ponce this morning. He responded, So that's good.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, sometimes when guys are down and out about
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: an injury, there's no response. So it's just it's tough.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: It's tough when you do it in the first game.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: You come back to the States to play and hopefully
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: it's a speedy recovery yep.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Wishing him a speeding recovery for sure. And for the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, they actually got beat up pretty good. Find
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the Rockies yesterday and their fans were doing the expectations
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: get set very high, very quickly.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, But the Blue Jays lost their starter in with
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the first inning, so then they're scrambling to cover.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: So, I mean it was one game.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Guys were getting extended. Guys were getting extended in that
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: game like they were pitching. Probably should have been out
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: and you know, after they got their first three or
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: four outs, but in a game like that, you got
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: to stretch that three or four outs to seven or
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: eight outs if you can. And that's that's where they
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: started to get a a little bit thin yesterday.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And if you stuck around, you saw another homer from
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Okamoto in the ninth. He's got too.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Pall was so high.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's good. A couple other things news wise, guys,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the Mets are hiring JD. Martinez as a special advisor
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to baseball operations. It's going to be a similar role
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: to what Carlos Beltron's doing time around the players in
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse, on the field, et cetera. He last played
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: when he was with the Mets in twenty twenty four.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: So that basically calls it a career for JD Martinez. AJ.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great career for him too, by the way, great
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: career for him. He turned himself.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: He was remember he was a prospect and he came
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: up and he couldn't hit, and he went back to
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: work and he changed his whole swing and became a
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: really good player that was on some really good teams.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: And congratulations JD on a great career and he's one
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: of the good guys too in baseball.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Really change.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: I mean you hear people change your swing all the time.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: I saw him in Houston. I think it was thirteen
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: or fourteen. I mean yeah, so it was thirteen and
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: you were like he was doing that like foot down
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: super early. And then in fourteen he went to Toledo
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: with the Tigers and just hit like ten homers in
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: cold Toledo in April and people were like, ah, whatever,
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: he's still hitting triple A dingers. And then he went
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: and had an incredible run for homer game. I think
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: he made four All Stars, five All Stars, six All Stars,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: MVP fourth in MVP voting in twenty eighteen World Series Championship.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: It's a good swing change.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, made a big impact on some teammates too. You know,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he kind of became a pseudo coach at times for
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: some and you'll be able to see him do that
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: now as a special advisor with.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: The menage when you film VP. He made it a
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: thing to film VP, and he was the first guy
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: to ever do that.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: You'd always see like all the phones with the tripods
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: out before most of the other teams were doing it,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and then other teams are like, uh, maybe we should
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: do this, and then everyone's doing all kinds of stuff
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: like that. All right, ft, everyone else for hanging around.
• 37:11
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• 37:25
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• 37:28
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