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Which Cardinal is on the rise? · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, a very special Sunday morning edition of the
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  Speaker 1: show for you all. Welcome back to Cardinal Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Katie Wu flying solo today. Have no fear,
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  Speaker 1: though Bernie Nicholas will be back with me after today's
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  Speaker 1: game to break down the Cardinals race series. Saint Louis
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  Speaker 1: going for the series victory. On this early Sunday game,
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  Speaker 1: first pitch, eleven, ten Central Standard time, Matthew Libertora takes
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  Speaker 1: the mound against right hander Ryan Peppio, former Dodger.
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  Speaker 2: I believe and hey, going forward to this road trip
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  Speaker 2: would certainly be a win.
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  Speaker 1: Heading into the next week, which is full of NL
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  Speaker 1: Central matchups, the Cards have a quick homestand back at
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  Speaker 1: Bush starting Monday, four games against the Pirates, and then
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  Speaker 1: straight to Cincinnati for an even quicker road trip, just
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  Speaker 1: three games at Great American Ballpark, a chance to pick
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  Speaker 1: up some ground in the wild card race if we're
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  Speaker 1: still doing that, you know. I actually saw tweet on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter that was like, look, I'm not saying the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: are good. I'm not saying the Cardinals are entertaining, but
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  Speaker 1: I am saying the Cardinals are still mathematically in it.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that's kind of real. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals are a whopping at this point of recording,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen point five games back in the division behind the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: which is insane. They are five games out of the
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  Speaker 1: last wildcard spot in the National League. It's not late
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  Speaker 1: enough in the season to definitively declare them out of
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  Speaker 1: this playoff picture entirely. But we know what we're watching here,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Okay, let's talk some pitching. Let's break down
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  Speaker 1: some of the performances from our first two starters of
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  Speaker 1: this series. And if you're wondering why there was this
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  Speaker 1: random off day on a Saturday yesterday, it was not
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  Speaker 1: originally planned this way.
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  Speaker 2: The Cardinals were supposed to have.
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  Speaker 1: Three days in Miami Wednday, Tuesday, Wednesday, have the off
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  Speaker 1: day in Tampa on Thursday, and then player traditional weekend
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  Speaker 1: series Friday, Saturday Sunday at George Stein Bernner Fields, as
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  Speaker 1: traditional as it can be to play a Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball game in a minor league stadium. But I digress,
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  Speaker 1: But what happened was when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers released
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  Speaker 1: their preseason schedule, they had a game across the street.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in Tampa obviously, but apparently where the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Bucks play, it's very close to Steime Bernerfield. That
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  Speaker 1: game was scheduled for Saturday, so the Cardinals and Rays
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  Speaker 1: were flexed to the original off day, which was Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: The Bucks play Saturday, hence the random off day over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Bad time for an off day apparently, though.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it rained all day in Saint Petersburg. So
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  Speaker 1: so sorry for my friends out there who very much
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  Speaker 1: deserved a Saturday day off.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get very many of those, maybe next time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, back to it all right, Let's look at Thursday starter. First,
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  Speaker 1: Sunny Gray, nothing special, but he gave him a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Five innings pitched, six hits, three arned runs, one homer,
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  Speaker 1: a walk, six strikeouts.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals win seven four behind a big day at the
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  Speaker 1: plate for Alec Burlison. He was a late scratch Friday
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  Speaker 1: with some right wrist discomfort soreness. Hopefully the off day
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  Speaker 1: helps and he's back in there on Sunday. Cardinals obviously
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford to lose any more starters. No Donovan, no
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  Speaker 1: Victor Scott. Aronado's still on the aisle, and I believe
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  Speaker 1: he swung about for the first time on Friday, so
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  Speaker 1: technically has rezume baseball activity, but still remains a little
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  Speaker 1: bit aways Friday, Miles Michaelis not good. Two and two
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  Speaker 1: thirds innings, ten hits, four and runs, two homers, a
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  Speaker 1: walk and a strikeout. The road home splits are kind
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  Speaker 1: of crazy for Miles Michaelis. He's made twelve starts at
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  Speaker 1: the friendly confines in bus Stadium. He has a three
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  Speaker 1: seven oh ERA that'll work sixty five and two thirds innings,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen walks compared to forty strikeouts for a guy that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of swing and miss.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you'll take that. On the road, though, has
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  Speaker 2: not been the case.
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  Speaker 1: In his thirteen road games, Miles has allowed let's see,
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  Speaker 1: forty five earned runs over fifty nine and two thirds innings.
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  Speaker 2: That's good for a six seven to nine ERA. Not
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  Speaker 2: what you want. He's actually walked less batters.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen compared to seventeen at home, and struck out just
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  Speaker 1: one more at forty one. It is strange to me
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  Speaker 1: why it's such a jarring difference at home versus on
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  Speaker 1: the road, But I think we all have a lot
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  Speaker 1: more confidence in Miles when he's pitching at home and
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  Speaker 1: on the road.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of just watched with their eyes closed a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know now here, what if I told you
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  Speaker 1: here on our Cardinal Territory podcast that I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: either of these pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Will be back in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Now, granted, that's probably a no brainer for Miles Michaelis,
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  Speaker 1: who's in the final year of the two year extension
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  Speaker 1: he signed in twenty twenty three. He's making almost eighteen
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  Speaker 1: million dollars this year. The Cardinals certainly will have you
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  Speaker 1: bringing him back. Definitely, not at that at that price
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  Speaker 1: point for an organization looking to build and pointing towards
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  Speaker 1: the future, I'm not quite sure where the thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old Miles Michaelis fits on their plans. I would
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  Speaker 1: be shocked if he is in the Cardinals' uniform next year.
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  Speaker 1: And I would also be surprised if Sonny Gray was
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  Speaker 1: wearing the birds on the bat. And I'll preface this,
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  Speaker 1: but this is my speculation. I'm just wondering out loud here.
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  Speaker 1: Sonny Gray is also in the final year of the
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  Speaker 1: three year deal he signed as a free agent heading
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  Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty four season. If you do recall,
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals when they signed him, had kind of a
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  Speaker 1: broken down contract where it escalated severely.
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  Speaker 2: After each year. So he was only making of the.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy five million dollar contract, not including the thirty million
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  Speaker 1: dollar club option for twenty twenty seven, and he's only
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  Speaker 1: making ten million dollars in twenty twenty four, and then
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  Speaker 1: it became twenty five this season, and we thirty five.
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  Speaker 2: And twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: I personally cannot see Cardinals ownership or the new front
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  Speaker 1: office stomaching thirty five million dollars for one player in
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  Speaker 1: a year.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be about rebuilding and the future. And
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  Speaker 2: it gets a little.
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  Speaker 1: Complicated here because Sunny Gray, as we all know, does
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  Speaker 1: have a full note trade clause. But I do wonder,
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  Speaker 1: as he approaches his final year and he's getting a
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  Speaker 1: little older too, if he misses the desire of competing,
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  Speaker 1: if he wants to play in meaningful games again, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that those games will happen in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six here in Saint Louis, So I do wonder
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  Speaker 1: if there's maybe mutual incentive again speculation, but hear me
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  Speaker 1: out for Sunny Gray to waive his no trade clause
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  Speaker 1: for a team that he would consider going to, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what those teams are, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if this is on the table, because that
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  Speaker 1: would help the Cardinals financially move some money off the
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  Speaker 1: books and allow Sonny to go and play for a
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  Speaker 1: competitive organization and play some meaningful games.
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  Speaker 2: Again, we'll see. But if that's the case, then what
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  Speaker 2: the heck will the Cardinals rotation look like next year?
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  Speaker 1: I think we can pretty much plan for mys Michael's
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  Speaker 1: to be out of it. Let's say Sonny Gray isn't
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  Speaker 1: here next year either, Well, you're looking at Matthew Libertre,
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  Speaker 1: Michael McGreevey, Andre Polante and who knows, Well, the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: have to go to the free agent market and get
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  Speaker 1: a mid tier rotation starter maybe probably because I don't
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  Speaker 1: really see anyone in triple A to co Roby had
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  Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery, Quinn Matthews has looked all right, He'll
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  Speaker 1: probably get a shot in spring training, Tank Kent has
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  Speaker 1: been hurt. Cooper Jerby the twenty twenty two first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery Sama versa Tommy John surgery.
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  Speaker 2: So not a lot of options in Triple A. But
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  Speaker 2: we know this. Longtime listeners of the.
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  Speaker 1: Podcast know that this has been a problem for the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: not just the season, but multiple seasons before. So if
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals do trade Sunny Gray, they're almost going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go to either the trade or the free
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  Speaker 1: agent market to add some arms because they don't have any.
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  Speaker 1: And let's not act like what we've seen out of
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  Speaker 1: Antre Polante in particularly in the second half, gives us
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  Speaker 1: a ton of confidence going forward. Now I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to write him off completely. The whole point of this
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  Speaker 1: year was to give guys an entire season, not just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months, not just a first or a
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  Speaker 1: second half, unless you're Michael McGreevey I digress, but an
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  Speaker 1: entire season to show what they have and that means
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  Speaker 1: riding out the highs and the low So while Andre
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  Speaker 1: Polante's second half has not been good, Matthew Liberto, our
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  Speaker 1: second half has been just okay.
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  Speaker 2: Much too early to.
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  Speaker 1: Write them off for the twenty twenty six plans. If
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals go and pursue a starting pitcher via trade,
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  Speaker 1: be a free agency where they're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: especially if they trade Sonny Gray, pump the Brakes. Cardinals fans,
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  Speaker 1: don't expect it to be a marquee signing. Expect a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bulk moves. Dare I say expect some John
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  Speaker 1: mozaylock signings esque. I know he won't be doing the ones.
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  Speaker 1: He won't be doing the signing that'll be hind bluem obviously,
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  Speaker 1: But what the Cardinals will be looking for is depth,
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  Speaker 1: not a blockbuster arm. So that's my precursor to whatever
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  Speaker 1: pitching problems we have right now will probably look nothing
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  Speaker 1: compared to next year. Just something to keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: as we go forward again. Matthew Libertoor taking that start
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, had a much better start against the Marlins
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  Speaker 1: last series. Held that Velo completed five innings for the
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  Speaker 1: first time since the All Star Break. You could kind
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  Speaker 1: of feel the confidence and the relief talking to him postgame.
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  Speaker 2: I personally have loved what we see out of Michael McGreevy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see his start on Monday, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: just kind of go from there, with Polante needing to
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  Speaker 1: show some improvement as well. The rotation looks right now
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  Speaker 1: like it might be a problem, but I cannot stress
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  Speaker 1: enough that we do not know what this Cardinals rotation
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  Speaker 1: is going to look like Come Pictures and Catchers on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty third. We can only evaluate the internal options
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  Speaker 1: right now, and right now, I think if I'm a fan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling confident about McGreevy and mostly confident.
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  Speaker 2: About Libertor, and a lot nervous about everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, let's hear from our friends at DraftKings. It
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  Speaker 1: is time for our DraftKings player Spotlight.
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  Speaker 2: Player to watch. Let's get to it all right.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen him lately in more headlines, more stories. Both
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  Speaker 1: reporters in Tampa Bay and John DETTNEVMAB dot Com and
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  Speaker 1: store worries on Lars new Bar our Player Spotlight. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and look up Lars Newbar and the reason
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  Speaker 1: why he is in there.
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  Speaker 2: We talked with Oli Marmel, myself.
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  Speaker 1: And Daniel Guerrero, who were the reporters in in Miami
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about newpar earlier in the week, just
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  Speaker 1: about what is the fair expectation for him going forward,
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  Speaker 1: and the answer that Ali Marble gave us was the
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  Speaker 1: same that he gave John and Derek in consistency. We
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  Speaker 1: all know that the big concern for Lars Newfar this
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  Speaker 1: year was the injury tendency. New Bar knock on wood
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  Speaker 1: has hit the ile, stint has hit the il. It's
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  Speaker 1: one stint roughly three weeks including the All Star break,
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  Speaker 1: with some rib discomfort. But he's done a nice job
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  Speaker 1: of staying on the field. I think you know missing two,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks out of the entirety of one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty two game season. I think the Cardinals would gladly
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  Speaker 1: take that from Newfar, who has missed much more. He
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  Speaker 1: has not completed a season in which he's recorded more
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred and twenty games played throughout his.
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  Speaker 2: Four year career. So Newbar one has to finish the
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  Speaker 2: season healthy. Two should start producing a little bit more consistently.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at Lars new bars Baseball Savant page,
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  Speaker 1: his stackcast metrics, it's a analytics nerds dream, all right.
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  Speaker 1: His average exit below ninety one point seven. That's in
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  Speaker 1: the top fifteen percent of the league hard hit percentage
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  Speaker 1: fifty two percent of the time. He's hitting the ball
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  Speaker 1: hard fifty two percent of the time.
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  Speaker 2: That is a dream. Again, you love that.
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  Speaker 1: That is better than that's in the ninety third percentile
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  Speaker 1: of all hitters in baseball. He remains having a very
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  Speaker 1: strong play discipline. He has an eighty five percent chase
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  Speaker 1: rate and a five percent of twenty point eight walk
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  Speaker 1: rate eleven percent, you'll take all of those. He's striking
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  Speaker 1: out twenty one point six percent of the time. That's
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  Speaker 1: right around La Gabage. So all of these on new
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  Speaker 1: Bar's savant page. His baseball metrics all point to him
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  Speaker 1: having a much better offensive profile than he does right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, he's hitting two forty one with a three
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  Speaker 1: thirty one on base percentage and a three ninety slugging
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  Speaker 1: good for a seven to twenty one OPS. That to
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  Speaker 1: me puts you right around fourth outfielder status for a
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  Speaker 1: competitive organization.
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  Speaker 2: And I've wont said, and I think Bernie agrees with me.
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  Speaker 1: We've had to talk about this earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 1: that Lars Newbar is a player that good teams can
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  Speaker 1: burn around or build around.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, not burn that's what the Cardinals are doing.
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  Speaker 2: That was a joke. That was a joke. They're not
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  Speaker 2: burning it down, They're just rebuilding with new Bar.
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  Speaker 1: He might not play every day on a competitive team
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking at a team like the Dodgers or
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies, but he's a key part because good teams
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  Speaker 1: have players like Newbar that can come in do the
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  Speaker 1: lefty righting matchup. He's a strong outfielder, he can he
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  Speaker 1: really profiles well in the corners. I think the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: are good at building supplementary pieces. They don't have the star.
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  Speaker 1: Like we've talked about on the show, they have a
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  Speaker 1: ton of supplementary pieces that don't necessarily fit. Unfortunately, Lars Newbar,
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  Speaker 1: because those pieces are so redundant, his future is going
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  Speaker 1: to be in jeopardy as well, mainly because he's already
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  Speaker 1: in his first year of arbitration. He has two years
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  Speaker 1: left before he'll be a free agent. Well, the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: be a competitive franchise in the next two years, who's
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  Speaker 1: to say they probably aren't going to be next year.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I think the.
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  Speaker 1: Pure is on new Bar this next month to fit
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  Speaker 1: to post for one and to produce, to perform a
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  Speaker 1: lot of alliteration right there. But because Newpar is going
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  Speaker 1: to play for his future, this next month is going
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  Speaker 1: to be about the future. We have talked about the
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  Speaker 1: runway with Nolan Gorman and Jordan Walker to an exhausting point.
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  Speaker 1: They were players A, one A and one B in
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  Speaker 1: terms of this whole transition season. Lars Newpar was player
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  Speaker 1: one C. We just didn't talk about him as much.
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  Speaker 1: But as we find ourselves towards the final five weeks
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  Speaker 1: of the season, thirty plus games to go, Whi's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's pretty clear that newpar is going to be
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  Speaker 1: playing for his future as a Cardinal with this last month,
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  Speaker 1: so let's see what he can do there.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to get some consistent.
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  Speaker 1: Time, especially with Victor Scott out, so we'll see new
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  Speaker 1: Bar and center a little bit more than the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: have planned, but Nathan Church will still get the bulk
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  Speaker 1: of the reps there. Shout out Nathan Church first career
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  Speaker 1: hit and first career home run. Really cool to see
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  Speaker 1: his family celebrating in the stands. Love those moments. But
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  Speaker 1: for new Bar, hate to say it, but the pressure
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  Speaker 1: is kind of on for him to produce the final
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  Speaker 1: month of the season and showed the organization why he
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  Speaker 1: is worth building around.
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  Speaker 1: Right, our final segment of this quick show today, because
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  Speaker 1: we'll have so much to break down after a Sunday's game.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully, hopefully it's a good one. What's up with Jordan Walker?
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  Speaker 1: We talked about players that need to take an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: or take advantage of this final opportunity of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Walker is right up there. If I read you
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  Speaker 2: his stats on the season, I'm not quite sure he'll
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  Speaker 2: be super impressed. Let's get to it. On the year.
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  Speaker 2: Coming into play on Sunday, Jordan Walker is hitting uh
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  Speaker 2: where is his average?
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Walker is hitting two twenty nine with a two
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  Speaker 1: to eighty five on base percentage and a three twenty
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  Speaker 1: slug that's good for a six oh five ops a
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  Speaker 1: seventy one ops plus. He has just four homers and
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  Speaker 1: he has missed about a month of play with multiple
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  Speaker 1: il stints. It has not been the year that the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals or Jordan himself have been hoping to see out
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  Speaker 1: of him. This was supposed to be a big jump
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  Speaker 1: forward for Jordan Walker. On Bernie Show Tuesdays on KMOX
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  Speaker 1: the Gas House Gang, he has Ali Marmalon for thirty
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  Speaker 1: minutes along with Chris Ronji Tom Ackerman.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really good show.
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  Speaker 1: I know we talk about it a lot here, but
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  Speaker 1: I strongly strongly, strongly encourage Cardinals fans to go check
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  Speaker 1: that out. It's every Tuesday at noon Central. Because you
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  Speaker 1: get such an expansive excuse me, look into how the
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  Speaker 1: manager of the Cardinals is viewing all these players. And
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  Speaker 1: credit to Ali Marmle, he's as transparent as he is
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  Speaker 1: on the show, as he is with us.
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  Speaker 2: In his room every morning, every afternoon, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And he's talked about Jordan Walker. This is long winded explanation,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm getting there. He talked about Jordan Walker last
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  Speaker 1: week and said, you know, we're seeing things that are encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: He's buying back in.
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  Speaker 1: But it has been kind of a slow process. He
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  Speaker 1: has played. We look at his August. Let's look at
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  Speaker 1: his August. Let's take a small sample size. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of Oh, Jordan Walker is not
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  Speaker 1: playing every day. He's not getting the runway stop that
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Walker has played in fifteen games in August.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's August twenty third, with a couple of op days,
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  Speaker 2: He's played in fifteen games. That's the overwhelming majority.
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  Speaker 1: He's sitting in those fifteen games two twenty six with
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  Speaker 1: a five seventy ops one double one homer seventeen strikeouts. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's very similar to his overall production on the year,
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  Speaker 1: and it is not nearly good enough for the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: who are hoping to develop a right handed hitter besides
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  Speaker 1: Ivon Herrera this year. It has not been good enough
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  Speaker 1: for Jordan Walker this year. And I'm not saying we're
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  Speaker 1: giving up on him, because we're not. This is a
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  Speaker 1: pro Jordan Walker podcast. It has been since spring training.
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  Speaker 1: But this September, I'm not sure. While Newport has a
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  Speaker 1: significant amount of pressure, like we just said, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if anyone's facing.
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  Speaker 2: More than Jordan Walker.
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  Speaker 1: And the only reason I would maybe say new Bar
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  Speaker 1: is again because of the arbitration and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he's more of a trade candidate because of that than Walker.
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  Speaker 1: But Walker simply has to take advantage of September. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear that he's not starting every day
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  Speaker 1: so he's not getting his fair share of runway.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how many games Jordan Walker has played
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  Speaker 2: this year? Okay, we'll go play appearances.
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  Speaker 1: How many played appearances Jordan Walker has had this year?
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and ninety eight. All right, He's on pace
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  Speaker 1: for probably about three hundred and seventy five of those
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  Speaker 1: to finish the season. That is plenty of time and
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  Speaker 1: a plenty substantial enough factor to declare what his season
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  Speaker 1: was and what's fair to count on him going forward.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's not in the starting lineup every day.
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  Speaker 1: You know who else isn't in the starting lineup every
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  Speaker 1: day or hasn't been until Arnada got injured, Nolan Gorman,
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  Speaker 1: Lar's new bar. Okay, these guys, minus the exception of
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  Speaker 1: Alec Burlason and Ivon Herrera, who have played their way
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  Speaker 1: into consistent playing time every day. Your none of these
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  Speaker 1: guys are going to be in the lineup every single
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  Speaker 1: day because it's mathematically impossible. We've talked about this throughout
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  Speaker 1: the entire season. We're seeing at work a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more now because Arnada's on the il, which allows Borman
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  Speaker 1: to play at thirds. The j City get consistent playing time,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think that we're seeing some gradual improvements
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  Speaker 1: with the jac's pitch selection and approach. But just because
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Walker is playing let's say, five out of seven
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  Speaker 1: games or four out of six games a week, does
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  Speaker 1: not mean that he's not getting enough runway or not
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  Speaker 1: getting enough playing time.
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  Speaker 2: He's had plenty of that.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting the most that he can given how the
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  Speaker 1: roster is constructed. And if you want more playing time
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  Speaker 1: for Jordan Walker, let's look at the roster construction and
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  Speaker 1: place the blame there. It was never set up for
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  Speaker 1: this runway season where either front office went out and
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  Speaker 1: promised things that they could not do mathematically. Okay, what
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  Speaker 1: is in Jordan Walker's control and what is in the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals control is making sure that he's in the best
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  Speaker 1: position to succeed in September. And that is a two
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  Speaker 1: way street. It is not just on Olie Marmel, Bran Brown,
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  Speaker 1: John Jay to make sure Jordan Walker succeeds. It's also
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  Speaker 1: on Jordan Walker to make those adjustments, to listen to
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  Speaker 1: the feedback from the coaches, to decide what works for
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  Speaker 1: him from a prepping aspect, from an in game performance aspect,
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  Speaker 1: from a played approach aspect, that's on Jordan to decide.
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  Speaker 2: That's on Jordan to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're seeing him buy into that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more, definitely more than we have in prior seasons.
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  Speaker 1: But he has to finish strong otherwise him Bloom in
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  Speaker 1: the front office will have very difficult decisions to make
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to Jordan Walker's future. So let's manifest
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  Speaker 1: some good things for these Cardinals as they looked for
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  Speaker 1: some answers on what their career looks like for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six and beyond. Jordan Walker, Lars Newbar, the spotlight
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  Speaker 1: is indeed on you. That's all I got from you
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: for the Sunday morning edition of Cardinal Territory. Again, like
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  Speaker 1: I said earlier, Bernie Michlsson and I'll be back to
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  Speaker 1: break down what is hopefully a series win. Keep our
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  Speaker 1: fingers crossed, and then we'll have some discussions about what
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  Speaker 1: the week of the Nlcentral looks like as we head
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  Speaker 1: into the final month of the season. That is crazy, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe we have one month left together. The
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  Speaker 1: good news for you is this Tampa Bay series was
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  Speaker 1: my last off series of the season, so you and
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  Speaker 1: I were stuck with each other pals.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait? All right, I'm Katie wo this is Cardinal's Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good Sunday. We will talk after the game.