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Steve Robertson’s Baseball Update: Draft Picks, Returns & Roster Questions ⚾🐶 · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: the out of Bound Show, ESPN one oh five nine
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  Speaker 1: to the Zone. We welcome in. Steve robertson jean'spage dot com,
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  Speaker 1: uh I followed the board all weekend. UH. Steve and
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  Speaker 1: his crew had like ninety seven articles or post and
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  Speaker 1: so on what was going on with the Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball draft with everybody from Ace Reese. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: knew Ace was going right, which is great for him,
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  Speaker 1: Awesome for the Mississippi State baseball program to pump out
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  Speaker 1: another first round pick. Ben Davis went pretty early. Blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. And we're gonna get an idea on how
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  Speaker 1: the roster could look right now. There'll still be some
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  Speaker 1: other movement and transaction. Steve Robertson joins us on the
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  Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Insurance guest line jeanspage dot com. They're all
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  Speaker 1: over this baseball draft and Brian O'Connor squad. All right, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: So tell me what the we're getting. Asked when I
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  Speaker 1: was promoting you the last couple hours coming on the show,
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  Speaker 1: people are asking about the catcher's position, Muluski's coming back,
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  Speaker 1: what else do they have? What are your expectations there
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  Speaker 1: because it was hit and miss the first six weeks
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  Speaker 1: of the season while they were trying to get Maluski healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Well, you got Berkeley Mabos coming in from Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: who's an absolute dude. And you know last year catcher
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  Speaker 2: was a concern. I don't think it's nearly the concern
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  Speaker 2: this year because you're bringing in an elite offensive player,
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  Speaker 2: but more importantly and even better defender than you had
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  Speaker 2: last year. So I think they've addressed that concern. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Will Brick wasn't going to help us much
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  Speaker 2: this year, especially offensively. The hit told is hitting quite
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  Speaker 2: there yet, but yeah, I mean I think it did
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  Speaker 2: really well. But Berkeley Maybos is a guy that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: make this club better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you feel you don't just feel better, you
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  Speaker 1: feel much better considering what they had to navigate this
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  Speaker 1: past year at that position.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And listen, we knew last year early in
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  Speaker 2: the fall that the catching position was yet a little
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  Speaker 2: bit questionable. And I think Mloskey came home down the stretch,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the last six weeks ago. He was really good.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, competition makes everybody better. And Berkeley Mabus
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  Speaker 2: is the guy at Oregon wanted to keep and now
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  Speaker 2: he's headed to Mississippi State. So I mean, you're excited
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  Speaker 2: about that aspect of it, But no, I'm I'm no
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  Speaker 2: longer concerned about catcher.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Steve robertson jeanspage dot com, they'll get you updated.
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  Speaker 1: They've got tons of content on jeanspage dot com with
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  Speaker 1: the draft over the weekend and Brian O'Connor setting up
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  Speaker 1: his twenty twenty seven roster and by the way, we
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  Speaker 1: do need to do this. Congratulations I mean to all
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  Speaker 1: of them, right, but what a con I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity And how cool is it for Ace Rees
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  Speaker 1: to be a first round pick out of Mississippi State?
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  Speaker 2: Steve, Yeah, you know, I spoke with him run a
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  Speaker 2: Team USA stuff, just to got to get some contexts
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  Speaker 2: for the guys that made that team. And I told him,
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  Speaker 2: I said, hey, man, best of luck with the draft,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm confidence you're gonna go into first round and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to change that outfield graphic just for you, brother.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like he had never thought about that aspect
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  Speaker 2: of it. He goes, Yeah, that is pretty cool with this.
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  Speaker 2: It is cool, you know. I mean, you go back
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  Speaker 2: Dell Anster the first ever number one pick in Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: State history. Now Ace Rees number twenty one. That's super cool.
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  Speaker 1: It is cool. All right? Will you walk our listeners
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  Speaker 1: through why you're excited about Wilson, Anderson, Landon Brown and
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  Speaker 1: Ditton Lord, Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, typically those guys go pro you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like when you begin to think about
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  Speaker 2: this class. At the end of the day, you lost
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  Speaker 2: three position players and two of them reclassed for the
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  Speaker 2: draft in the first place, right. I mean, you take
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  Speaker 2: a flyer on Willbrick and Rocko Mannecago, hoping they come
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  Speaker 2: to school and hoping they don't get what they want
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  Speaker 2: out of the draft. But you know, Martin Sheeler is
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  Speaker 2: the only true twenty twenty six you lost, and that's
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  Speaker 2: an outfielder. It prob he wasn't gonna play a lot
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  Speaker 2: this year. So none of those guys would have made
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  Speaker 2: stay better this year. Obviously, you want their long term potential,
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  Speaker 2: so to say it's not a you know, a loss,
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  Speaker 2: is to be disingenuous. But you know this baseball club
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  Speaker 2: got a lot better, especially on the pitching side. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Wilson Anderson is a guy whose brother played
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  Speaker 2: at Florida. It was a lot of chatter when he
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  Speaker 2: committed that he was going to be a high draft pick,
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  Speaker 2: but nobody would meet his asking price and high up
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  Speaker 2: the brand. The four go college ball, and you know
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  Speaker 2: you were hoping to get maybe two of those three.
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  Speaker 2: He ended up getting all three of them. And then
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  Speaker 2: you throw in Jake Carbaugh, who ended up having a
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  Speaker 2: really good, uh you know combine situation where he ended
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  Speaker 2: up bring right at number two of three in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of your concerns on the pitching side
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  Speaker 2: were a dress. And that's the thing. You know, how
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  Speaker 2: many times this year did you wish you had just
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  Speaker 2: one more pitcher? Right? Well, now you've got a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a nice foundation. Not just the help this year the
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  Speaker 2: bullpen in, but these guys are going to all compete
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  Speaker 2: for a weekend roles in year number two. And that
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  Speaker 2: just again Justin Parker and bron O'Connor stacking great pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Steve robertson talking uh Brian O'Connor's Mississippi State baseball team
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  Speaker 1: text me earlier this morning, so I'll let you tell
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  Speaker 1: our listeners what Aidentill's going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Well. The fact that he goes in the eleventh round,
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  Speaker 2: I think's big volumes and that tells me he wants
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  Speaker 2: to sign you. He got calls last year, but I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to come to Mississippi State and chase a national championship.
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  Speaker 2: He was a draft eligible sophomore last year, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he has some leverage this year, and the five of
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  Speaker 2: five probably plays in a little bit. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they take him in the eleventh round, you know,
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  Speaker 2: tells me that they're probably going to pay him over
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  Speaker 2: that one p fifty. You know, everybody in eleventh through
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  Speaker 2: twenty with leverage gets at least one fifty. I suspect
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  Speaker 2: he'll get better than that. But yeah, I mean we
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  Speaker 2: went into the draft expecting him to have an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to sign on. That's the expectation today.
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  Speaker 1: If there's can you give me give me? Well, we
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  Speaker 1: just talked about a couple and you can reference those
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  Speaker 1: guys again. Can you give me Jacob Parker's not fair
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  Speaker 1: and the impact that he had this past year? Good lord,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like he wants to be generational like Raffi
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  Speaker 1: and will so. But can you give me one to
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  Speaker 1: three names of guys freshmen coming in that you think
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  Speaker 1: could put themselves in position to have an impact on
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  Speaker 1: the Mississippi State's team Because of fall ball in the
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  Speaker 1: four weeks coming out of Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I love the transfer class, but I
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  Speaker 2: think mainly it's freshman arms that can really show some
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  Speaker 2: ben this year. You know, from the signing class, you
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  Speaker 2: got some younger guys too that have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: be dudes in time. Noah Dan's is a guy too
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  Speaker 2: that got a lot of drafts hype. And I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: kind of knowing Rocko was going pro kind of made
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  Speaker 2: his decision a little bit easier that he can come
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  Speaker 2: in here and possibly be, you know, the shortstop of
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  Speaker 2: the future. You know, when roder Woodson moves on after
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  Speaker 2: this year, and and Dans will probably play a little
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  Speaker 2: bit this year, especially in the midweek, kind of get
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  Speaker 2: his feet wet, see what he can do, and get
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  Speaker 2: him ready for next year. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: one probably the only question mark you really have is
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  Speaker 2: who's going to play second base? Right? Is it Graw?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the infielder from South Dakota State. Is he
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the mix. There is Sean James
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  Speaker 2: in the mix at second base. You know, we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: but I think right now, you feel like now you've
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  Speaker 2: got to establish roles for these young pitchers. But I
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  Speaker 2: think from a positional standpoint, you're probably right where you
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  Speaker 2: want to be. Really, the only true maybe competition is
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  Speaker 2: second base. You got three portal outfielders coming in and
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  Speaker 2: that pretty much replaces what you're losing in Bryce Chant,
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  Speaker 2: Dayton Deal and Bitis Malenkas. But I think Brian O'Connor
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be kind of in the same situation he
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  Speaker 2: was last year, where he's gonna have more guys table
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  Speaker 2: to play in those nine spots than he's got guys
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  Speaker 2: that you know, spots availablefore Okay, any.
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  Speaker 1: How much more movement do you expect from O'Connor and crew.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm confident they're gonna take another picture. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wish they could find a solid left handed reliever
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  Speaker 2: somewhere because you're a little bit being on left handed pitching.
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  Speaker 2: You know, William Kirk is the guy working back from
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  Speaker 2: an ACL injury. You know what you got in Tico
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  Speaker 2: Maddix Miller of course as a dude, and but uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're probably a soft Paul Shore. You need
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  Speaker 2: another matchup guy out of the bullpen if you can
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  Speaker 2: find one. You don't want to take a guy just
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  Speaker 2: to take a guy. If he's not capable of winning,
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  Speaker 2: then you don't want to go get him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Shine flu is a guy that transferred in from South
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  Speaker 2: Alabama that can be uh, you know, kind of a
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  Speaker 2: long reliever or a matchup guy. But you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: where I think having a guy like Dame Burns back
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  Speaker 2: would have been kind of big, even though you Dane's
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  Speaker 2: looking for more endings, but you need that guy that
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  Speaker 2: can get you that lefty left he later in a matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, did I miss you? You covered shortstop
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  Speaker 1: and oh you mentioned second base? What's going to happen there?
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  Speaker 1: But they've got options. You feel much better about the
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  Speaker 1: catching position, sounds like you feel better about the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also wait and see to see what plays
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  Speaker 1: out in the fall.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, Yeah, I think so. And again, you know where's
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  Speaker 2: Overbeat gonna play? Going to be at first? You know
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  Speaker 2: where he was much of last year. Uh, he wants
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  Speaker 2: to compete at third, but he understands him. So that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the thing too. It's kind of just settling
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  Speaker 2: where everybody's gonna be. But you know, I think you've
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  Speaker 2: met your knees and I think you feel great about
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  Speaker 2: where you stand. And now it's about getting their body
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  Speaker 2: to campus and uh and getting the work. And all
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  Speaker 2: those pitchers are either bargbore or on their way there today.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big deal, okay.
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  Speaker 1: on the Out of Bounds Show. Thanks, Steve, appreciate you. See.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that was a good update y'all got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of the fix there. You know. Wilson, Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: Landry Brown, Denton Lord, all these guys coming in. These
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  Speaker 1: were guys that, eh, you weren't sure you were gonna
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  Speaker 1: get all on campus, and so I think it looks
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Landon Brown, Wilson Anderson, Landon Brown, Denton Lord,
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  Speaker 1: among others are according to Steve, they'll be there today
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  Speaker 1: so or tomorrow. So that's a good thing. You want
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  Speaker 1: to