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Fair Territory: All-Star snubs, HOT Jays, Nats fire Rizzo/Martinez · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: What this is is a testament to their culture and
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Speaker 1: what they have built over the years. It starts without Tuve.
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Speaker 1: Joe Spoda and his coaching staff also deserve a ton
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Speaker 1: of credit. Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory.
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Speaker 1: We are coming off a rather interesting Sunday, expected developments
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Speaker 1: with of course the All Star announcements and unexpected developments
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Speaker 1: from the Washington Nationals, who fired their president of based operations,
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Speaker 1: Mike Rizzo, as well as their manager Davey Martinez. And
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Speaker 1: as I wrote last night in The Athletic, the move
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Speaker 1: itself is not so odd. The moves, I should say themselves,
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Speaker 1: are not so odd. National since winning the twenty nineteen
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Speaker 1: World Series, have the second most losses in the majors
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Speaker 1: second most. But the timing is rather odd, and not
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Speaker 1: just because this announcement was made on the day that
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Speaker 1: two of Mike Rizzo's prize acquisitions, James Wood and Mackenzie Gore,
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Speaker 1: were named to the NL All Star Team. A third
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Speaker 1: acquisition from the Jan Soda Trade cj Abrams a worthy
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Speaker 1: candidate as well. No, the timing was odd because the
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Speaker 1: draft at the time was one week away. The deadline
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Speaker 1: was less than a month away, and general managers presidents
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Speaker 1: of baseball operations just generally do not get dismissed at
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Speaker 1: this time of year. I looked it up. The last
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Speaker 1: time I think it happened was in twenty sixteen. The
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins dubbed Terry Ryan in July twenty sixteen. But
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Speaker 1: back then the draft was in June, so we had
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Speaker 1: already gotten through the draft. He just had the deadline
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Speaker 1: to go. A couple of years ago, the draft was
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Speaker 1: moved to July, So now it's the draft and the
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Speaker 1: deadline that the interim general manager, Mike de Bartelow is
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Speaker 1: going to have to account for it. Now, the draft
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Speaker 1: boards this close to selection day are in relative order.
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Speaker 1: It's not like the Nationals don't know who is at
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Speaker 1: the top of the board. The only difference this year
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Speaker 1: from previous years as far as the national are concerned,
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Speaker 1: is that they might want to do some strategic operating
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Speaker 1: with the draft. When I'd say that, what I mean
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Speaker 1: is when you have the top pick, or a top
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Speaker 1: five pick, top ten pick, even you can offer that
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Speaker 1: pick a lower bonus value, lower slot than he would
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Speaker 1: be normally getting below slot. It's called and then maneuver
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Speaker 1: with the rest of the draft give other players more money,
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Speaker 1: so that way your bonus pool is spread out a
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Speaker 1: little differently. The Nationals under Rizzo did not do that
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Speaker 1: with Dylan Cruz in twenty twenty three, did not do
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Speaker 1: it with Elijah Green in twenty twenty two. Those were
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Speaker 1: top five picks. They got slot value. Now the Nationals
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Speaker 1: with the Bartolow can negotiate and they can figure out
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Speaker 1: some things and operate strategically if they want to. There's
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Speaker 1: no clear number one pick, so maybe that's the way
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Speaker 1: they want to go. It's not rocket science. But again,
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Speaker 1: this is a major upheaval one week before the draft,
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Speaker 1: less than a month before the deadline. The deadline for
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Speaker 1: the Nationals doesn't figure to be very active. Kyle Finnegan,
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Speaker 1: their closer, would likely be the one guy on an
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Speaker 1: expiring contract to go. But again, they made this move.
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Speaker 1: Now they made this move, and as I mentioned, it's
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Speaker 1: not without justification. Nationals record this season and the last
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Speaker 1: six seasons is horrible. And I know Rizzo did some
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Speaker 1: things in the front office a couple of years ago
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Speaker 1: to kind of try to improve their player development in
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Speaker 1: international and amateur scouting, but those failures in those areas
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Speaker 1: player development, amateur scouting, international scouting. Three pillars. They go
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Speaker 1: back more than a decade, and as I wrote over
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Speaker 1: a month ago, yeah, the Nationals remain among the Nationals
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Speaker 1: among Major League Baseball's bottom feeders, despite a lengthy rebuild
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Speaker 1: and the trade, the great Soto trade could not mask
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Speaker 1: all that. So this move, these moves do not come
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Speaker 1: without again, some justification. The problem here, the biggest problem here,
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Speaker 1: as it's often the biggest problem with franchises, is that
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Speaker 1: the issue starts at the top. When Mark Lerner issued
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Speaker 1: a statement yesterday announcing these dismissals, he made no mention,
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Speaker 1: of course, of ownership's culpability. How they used to run
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Speaker 1: top ten payrolls and no longer do. That's part of it.
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Speaker 1: And part of it also is this ownership. As I
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Speaker 1: wrote today, they've been indifferent, they've been apathetic, they've been disconnected,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, yesterday they wake up.
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Speaker 1: It's just odd, just odd timing.
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Speaker 2: Overall.
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Speaker 1: They're going to name an interim manager today. We'll see
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Speaker 1: how their draft goes, and we'll see how their deadline goes. Now,
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Speaker 1: continuing on the All Star announcements yesterday, the rosters filled out.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we had some snubs. We always had some snubs,
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Speaker 1: And as Chad Jennings writes in The Athletic wrote in
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Speaker 1: The Athletic last night, to the nature of it, there
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Speaker 1: are always good players who are left out. But of
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Speaker 1: course I want to focus on some of those players,
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Speaker 1: and I want to start with the player's ballot. Now,
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Speaker 1: as you know, the fans elects, the players elect some,
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Speaker 1: and then MLB fills out the rosters. The players their
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Speaker 1: ballots were due on June twenty ninth. That was a
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Speaker 1: week ago Sunday. They had five days to vote. They
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Speaker 1: made some curious choices. To me, the most curious perhaps
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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. This guy's been out since late May, and
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Speaker 1: the players name them to the All Star team. Here's
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Speaker 1: another curious choice. George Springer left off the team, Julio
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Speaker 1: Rodriguez on Let's look at their stats just to start
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Speaker 1: this discussion. Julio Rodriguez is not even close to George Springer,
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Speaker 1: way below in batting average, on base and slugging slightly
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Speaker 1: below in home runs. They're not the same player. Now.
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Speaker 1: I know Springer has come on of late, but again,
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Speaker 1: the ballots were due a week ago. Sunday. It's not
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Speaker 1: as if George Springer was kind of invisible out there.
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Speaker 1: So let's get into some other ones as well. Now,
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Speaker 1: not all of these snubs were accountable or related to
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Speaker 1: the player ballot. They're just something that happened kind of naturally.
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Speaker 1: Trey Turner, Philadelphia Philly shortstop, outstanding offensive season, much improved defensively.
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Speaker 1: I had him on my team and he did not
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Speaker 1: get picked to the All Star team. Now, Trey Turner
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Speaker 1: could have been the third shortstop with Lindor and Elie
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Speaker 1: Dela Cruz, but instead MLB in this particular case, named
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Speaker 1: Matt Olsen as a third first baseman. Now, Matt Olson
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Speaker 1: was not good through May fifteenth, but has been really
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Speaker 1: good since thousand ops or neo thousand. That said, I
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Speaker 1: know Matt Olsen is a hometown guy going to play
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. But Trey Turner arguably should be the starting shortstop.
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Speaker 1: Fans didn't elect him that way, of course, but he's
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Speaker 1: a guy who if you look at his f war
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Speaker 1: compared to the other shortstops, he is way up there
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Speaker 1: and the other guys are not. So Trey Turner he
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Speaker 1: gets snubbed. I'd like to see him on there the
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Speaker 1: Matt Olsen selection. If you were going to go to
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Speaker 1: a third first baseman, well, that also accounts for another snub.
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Speaker 1: And this is one that Cubbs fans are screaming about,
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Speaker 1: and rightly so. They screamed at me when I left
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Speaker 1: this guy off my team nationally. First base admittedly is
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Speaker 1: a very deep position. I got all kinds of guys
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Speaker 1: Freeman and Alonso and Bush and Olsen others as well.
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Speaker 1: But Michael Bush has really come on. And let's look
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Speaker 1: at his adjusted ops compared to some of the other
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Speaker 1: players in baseball, because right now it is way up there.
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Speaker 1: If you were going to choose a third first baseman,
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Speaker 1: this is the guy you would have chosen. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a look at this. This is updated through yesterday's games.
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Speaker 1: Judge of course at the top, followed by Raleigh Smith,
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Speaker 1: o'tani Michael Bush fifth in adjusted OPS. Yes, I should
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Speaker 1: have had my mind team too. I'll concede that one
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Speaker 1: won't concede many others. And even if you go down
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Speaker 1: that list further, there's Juan Soto also off the All
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Speaker 1: Star team. Now, it's interesting to me that the players
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Speaker 1: did not vote one Sodo on he wasn't good through
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Speaker 1: the end of May, but he had an incredible June.
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Speaker 1: And I'll say it again. The player ballots were due
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Speaker 1: June twenty ninth. The players had five days to vote.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't as if Juan Soto was invisible in June,
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Speaker 1: second highest OPS for a calendar month in Mets history,
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Speaker 1: but the players left them off. That's their choice. That
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Speaker 1: wasn't as egregious as some and some that we've already mentioned,
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Speaker 1: some that we'll get to right now, say a Suzuki.
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Speaker 1: This is another guy Cubs fans of screaming at me
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Speaker 1: about and screaming in general about and understandably so seventy
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Speaker 1: seven RBIs leads the Major leagues. Problem is he's a DH.
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Speaker 1: Chey Otani was the leading vote getter. He is the
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Speaker 1: DH of course for the National League. The starting DH
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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. Now he doesn't have the RBIs, but the RBIs,
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Speaker 1: of course are dependent on your teammates to a large extent.
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Speaker 1: When you look at ops, yes, Schwarber is way ahead
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Speaker 1: of my sayas Zuki, way ahead, and it's like forty
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Speaker 1: points something like that, not even close. So Schwarber was
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Speaker 1: in my view, the more deserving selection, says Zuki. However,
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Speaker 1: also deserving. And once the injuries start happening, once the
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Speaker 1: players start dropping off and finding their excuses, some legitimate
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Speaker 1: some not so legitimate, then I will expect a number
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Speaker 1: of these players will get named to the team, but
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Speaker 1: certainly not all of them. And I want to give
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Speaker 1: you one more before we go. I could do this
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Speaker 1: all day, actually, from Bervaldez. From Bravaldez pitched brilliantly in
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Speaker 1: the Fox game, actually not so brilliantly in the Fox
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Speaker 1: game on Saturday, but he was good. He hung in
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Speaker 1: there despite allowing four runs for the season. I want
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Speaker 1: you to look at from ber Valdez. This guy has
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Speaker 1: had a really good year for a outstanding Astro's team.
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Speaker 1: Valdez is eleventh in the American League in ERA, he's
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Speaker 1: second in innings by one third of an inning to
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Speaker 1: Garat Crochet, and he is sixth in F four. The
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Speaker 1: guy's an All Star. He should be on the team period.
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Speaker 1: So those are the All Star snubs of note. There
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Speaker 1: are others as well, And I just want to say
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Speaker 1: this before I move on to the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Speaker 1: When I publish my picks, fans gave me a lot
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Speaker 1: of heat. That's just the nature of it. That's the
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Speaker 1: fun part of it. But if you look at my picks,
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Speaker 1: outside of a few misses, they're looking pretty good. That
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Speaker 1: column was published last week. All right, Before we end
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Speaker 1: the lead segment, I want to talk about the Toronto
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays, and I've said this before, and maybe Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays fans will start acknowledging that I do not hate
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Speaker 1: their team. I do not hate any team. I have
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Speaker 1: hated at times the way the Toronto Blue Jays have operated,
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Speaker 1: the way their front office has gone about it. But
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Speaker 1: credit where credit is due. My goodness, the J's are
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Speaker 1: a rocket ship right now. Eight straight wins. They have
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Speaker 1: taken a three game lead in the American League East,
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Speaker 1: largely fueled by, of course, that sweep of the Yankees
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Speaker 1: last week in Toronto, the four games sweep. And they're
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Speaker 1: doing this so surprisingly without major contributions from their offseason editions.
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Speaker 1: Santanderra is out, Jeff Hoffman hasn't been great. Andreas Jimenez
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Speaker 1: has been on the injured list, I believe twice now,
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Speaker 1: and he hasn't been good. But they're getting really good
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Speaker 1: contributions from guys like Nathan Lucas Addison, Barger I pronounced
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Speaker 1: his name wrong last week, and Ernie Clement the bit guys.
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Speaker 1: And of course there's George Springer right there. He has
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Speaker 1: had an incredible comeback season, just playing the way he
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Speaker 1: used to play in Houston. So the Blue Jays have
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Speaker 1: done a lot of really good things, and they're doing
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Speaker 1: a lot of really good things now as we get
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Speaker 1: to the deadline, they're going to be aggressive. Ben Nicholson
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Speaker 1: Smith on Sportsnet this morning wrote an article about how
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Speaker 1: this front office mark Tapyro Ross Atkins has generally been
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Speaker 1: aggressive when they are buyers at the deadline. What do
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Speaker 1: they need starting pitcher, controllable starter, preferable sures there is
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Speaker 1: a free agent after this year. Bassett is a free
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Speaker 1: agent after this year. Gossman and Burrios could lead after
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Speaker 1: next year. So yeah, controllable starter would be, of course
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Speaker 1: the priority. They could also use perhaps one impact bat.
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Speaker 1: They've got a good offense. They don't necessarily need a
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Speaker 1: particular position, but if they could find a significant upgrade
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Speaker 1: good and also was mentioned to me by someone in
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Speaker 1: their organization last night, a high leverage reliever. Every team
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Speaker 1: wants high leverage relievers. The good news is they are
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Speaker 1: an ample supply, so the Blue Jays. Good for them.
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Speaker 1: They've had a tremendous run. Here, a city is alive,
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Speaker 1: the fan base is alive. Toronto Blue Jays in first place.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that any of us expected that. All right,
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Speaker 1: that is it for the lead. We will be back
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Speaker 1: Time Now for the inside Dish, the part of the
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Speaker 1: show where I talk about a story I've written, maybe
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Speaker 1: a trend in the game, maybe something else entirely. And
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Speaker 1: today I want to talk about the Yankees and Aaron Boone. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees, of course, have lost sixteen of twenty three.
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Speaker 1: This has been a June swoon extending into July. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't say it's for the ages, but it's certainly been
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Speaker 1: a significant downfall. Yankees were swept four games by the
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays last week in Toronto, lost two of three,
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Speaker 1: and the first two to the Mets this weekend when
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Speaker 1: the Mets had virtually no pitchers of any repute on
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Speaker 1: the mount. So here are the Yankees again, losers of
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Speaker 1: sixteen of twenty three, Aaron Boone tells the players after
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Speaker 1: the four games sweep in Toronto, according to Jash Chisholm Junior,
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Speaker 1: that were the best team in the league. And fans,
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Speaker 1: as they often do, are going nuts about that comment
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Speaker 1: and about Boone in general, as they have in the past,
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Speaker 1: because the perception of many Yankee fans is that Boone
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Speaker 1: isn't tough enough, He isn't a guy who holds players
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Speaker 1: accountable enough. At least that is true in his public comments.
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Speaker 1: When you're looking at this from the outside, what is
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Speaker 1: going on in the inside, we don't know. And I
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Speaker 1: want to focus on this today because when fans talk
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Speaker 1: about getting a new manager, we want a new manager,
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Speaker 1: we want a more fiery manager. Well, okay, but guess what,
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Speaker 1: those managers don't really exist anymore. Think about this for
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Speaker 1: a minute. Name a manager right now who holds players
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Speaker 1: publicly accountable. I can't think of any who do that.
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Speaker 1: Ron Washington and the Angels when he's managing, and he's now,
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Speaker 1: of course on medical leave, is probably the closest to that.
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Speaker 1: But other than that, they're pretty much all the same personality.
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Speaker 1: And the reason they're like that is because if you
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Speaker 1: rip players publicly, you lose players. And when you lose players.
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Speaker 1: Then as a manager, you are in big trouble. The
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Speaker 1: best managers, what they do is they keep their teams
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Speaker 1: going and they keep them playing and playing hard. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees have a playing crisply problem. They don't play crisply.
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Speaker 1: This goes back to the World Series, it goes back
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Speaker 1: to last season. That is the fairest and best, biggest
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Speaker 1: criticism that you could have of Aaron Boone. This team
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Speaker 1: does not play in a crisp fashion. Now there are
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Speaker 1: reasons for that, and we'll get into those reasons. But
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Speaker 1: you tell me who that fiery manager is that you
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Speaker 1: want to replace Aaron Boone, Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, Jim Leland.
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Speaker 1: They're not walking through that door. That's not the modern manager.
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Speaker 1: Now you see Boone, he argues with umpires pretty well.
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Speaker 1: He has some pretty colorful arguments with them, and that
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Speaker 1: is only That is the only time with Boone and
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Speaker 1: with other managers, you really see them get excited, You
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Speaker 1: really see them publicly vent their frustrations. Obviously they have them.
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Speaker 1: So it's a different time. It's a different era in
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Speaker 1: the game's history. When I came up, late eighties early
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Speaker 1: nineties were for lack of a better term more often
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Speaker 1: hard asses red asses is the baseball term. In fact,
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Speaker 1: that's for a hot tempered individual. And it wasn't unusual
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Speaker 1: for reporters to get yelled at by managers. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: unusual for managers to take off on players once in
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Speaker 1: a while publicly and privately. This kind of thing happened.
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Speaker 1: Game is less colorful now, I would admit that it's
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Speaker 1: less lively in some ways, but when you're dealing with players, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of the way it has to be.
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Speaker 1: And you saw dave Martinez. He had some comments a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago how the owners is never on
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Speaker 1: the coaches, it's on the players at some point, and
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Speaker 1: look what happened to him didn't go so well. So
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Speaker 1: you don't rip players. You do that, you're in trouble.
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Speaker 1: You might be in trouble with ownership, as Davey Martinez
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Speaker 1: seemed to be. You probably would be in trouble with
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Speaker 1: your own clubhouse. So you don't want to lose your clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: And the best way to judge a manager, again is
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Speaker 1: not by the way he us his pinch hitters, or
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Speaker 1: not by the way he uses relievers, line up construction,
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Speaker 1: all that stuff is yes, subject to debate, and the
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Speaker 1: reason we all love the game because we can talk
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Speaker 1: about this stuff. But it's also outcome based, and outcomes
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Speaker 1: often can go either way. How you judge a manager
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Speaker 1: is whether he keeps his team going, and the Yankees
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Speaker 1: under Boone have generally done that. They had a crazy
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Speaker 1: swoon last year when five and sixteen in June, and
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Speaker 1: they somehow got through it, won the Al East, got
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Speaker 1: to the World Series. The one hundred and sixty two game.
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Speaker 1: Grind is a real thing, and players, managers, coaches, they're
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Speaker 1: going to have issues with each other from time to
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Speaker 1: time during that, but generally speaking today they are handled
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. And it was interesting. I was talking
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Speaker 1: with a Mets official a couple of weeks ago about
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Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza. He, of course, was Boone's bench coach for
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Speaker 1: a number of years. The Mets named him and their manager,
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Speaker 1: and he has done an extremely good job as Mets manager.
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Speaker 1: And what this person with the Mets said was that
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Speaker 1: Mendoza is really good at demonstrating urgency while maintaining consistency,
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Speaker 1: demonstrating urgency while maintaining consistency, and he does that behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes. Carlos Mendoza doesn't rip players publicly, he but
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Speaker 1: he I'm sorry. Behind the scenes, though, is someone who, definitely,
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Speaker 1: according to this Mets person, is holding players accountable. We
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Speaker 1: don't know if Boone is doing that or not behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes, I would imagine that he is, And in
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Speaker 1: fairness to Boone for all the Yankees' problems right now,
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Speaker 1: he has some players out of position, Justism Junior at
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Speaker 1: third base. Most notably, he has some young players too.
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Speaker 1: Austin Wells is twenty five, Volpi's twenty four, admittedly with
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Speaker 1: almost seventeen hundred played appearances in the big leagues. Jason
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Speaker 1: Domingo's twenty two, So it's a younger group. Guys get
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Speaker 1: rushed to the majors now when they make mistakes, it
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be that much of a surprise. Again, Volpi has
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Speaker 1: been around the world while so what you can hold
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Speaker 1: Boone responsible for, in my opinion, is the general sloppiness
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Speaker 1: that we've seen from the Yankees over the past two years.
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Speaker 1: That is a manager's responsibility in the end, that comes
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Speaker 1: back on him. Now again, players out of position, young players,
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Speaker 1: that's going to come into it, and that certainly has
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Speaker 1: come into it. But there has to be a level
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Speaker 1: of accountability by the players shown by the manager for
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Speaker 1: this kind of play. And the Yankees were good early
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Speaker 1: in the season, and they are improved defensively this year,
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Speaker 1: there's no question about that. But they've slipped in this
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Speaker 1: swoon now again. They had that five and sixteen swoon
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Speaker 1: last year. They came out of it. Okay. I suspect
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Speaker 1: they're going to come out of it okay. Again. This
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Speaker 1: is Aaron Boone's eighth season. This is Brian Cashman's. I've
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Speaker 1: lost count of how many seasons. Cashman, another target of
20:54
Speaker 1: fan criticism, has never had a losing season. I know
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Speaker 1: there are some things that you can rightly complain about
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Speaker 1: with the Yankees right now. Roster construction. That's on Cashman.
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Speaker 1: The job of Cashman now is to fix that at
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Speaker 1: the deadline. The job of Boone now is to come
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Speaker 1: out of this and come out of this in a
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Speaker 1: way where the Yankees are again what he called the
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Speaker 1: best team in the league. We haven't seen it in
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Now. If we don't see it again,
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Speaker 1: and if the Yankees somehow missed the playoffs or in
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Speaker 1: this season of disappointment, then we can have a discussion
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Speaker 1: about Aaron Boone, but I just want people to keep
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Speaker 1: in mind that no manager, none is out there ripping
21:35
Speaker 1: players publicly. And when Davey Martinez tried, didn't work out
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Speaker 1: so well for him. All Right, that is it for
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Speaker 1: runaway favorite to win the Al? Henry, I won't call
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Speaker 1: them the runaway favorite, but what they have done this
23:32
Speaker 1: season is nothing short of amazing. Remember they lost Bregman, Tucker,
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Speaker 1: loss one or the other during the season. They've been
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Speaker 1: without Juradan Alvarez since about May fifth. They've had six
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Speaker 1: pictures starting pitchers go on the injured list, six and
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. They're doing it with some unexpected contributions. Cam
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Speaker 1: Smith was not even on their radar as a significant
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Speaker 1: contributor at the start of spring training. He might be
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Speaker 1: the rookie of the year even over Jacob Wilson Izak
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Speaker 1: Parades came over in the Tucker trade. He's done a
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Speaker 1: a testament to their culture and what they have built
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Speaker 1: over the years. It starts without Tuve. Joeespota and his
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Speaker 1: coaching staff also deserve a ton of credit. Kudos to
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Speaker 1: the Astros. All right, next question. This one comes from
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Speaker 1: Elvis Santoya, who asked, it's becoming evident the Saint Louis
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Speaker 1: Cardinals are going to be competitive leading to the trade deadline.
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Speaker 1: Do you think they will trade anyone of value and
24:35
Speaker 1: if they do, how will the fans react? Elvis, I'm
24:39
Speaker 1: not so sure that the Cardinals are going to be
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Speaker 1: competitive leading to the trade deadline based on the performance
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Speaker 1: of their rotation in Chicago this weekend. And as I
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Speaker 1: was talking about, I don't know a week ago, two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. You gotta wait, wait until the end to
24:54
Speaker 1: see where these teams are. Wait until the end of July,
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Speaker 1: and then they will decide what they're going to do.
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Speaker 1: Cardinals right now are not in a position to say
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Speaker 1: though I would suggest they're leaning toward the ladder. This
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