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Answering your Twins questions about All-Star Joe Ryan and more · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Joe Ryan looked pretty darn good in the All Star
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  Speaker 1: Game on Tuesday night. The Twins. Ace had a solid
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the fourth inning for the American League. He
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  Speaker 1: faced the heart of the National League order after giving
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  Speaker 1: up a leadoff single to the Mets Juan Soto. He
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  Speaker 1: then struck out the Dodgers Freddie Freeman, struck out the
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  Speaker 1: Nationals cj Abrams, and then got LA's Max Munsey to
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  Speaker 1: pop out to shallow center to end the inning. Every
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  Speaker 1: American League pitcher did well against the National League last
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  Speaker 1: night to be fair in a shoutout, but six swings
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  Speaker 1: and misses and sixteen pitches for Ryan. Pretty efficient and
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  Speaker 1: quick inning despite the little blip at the beginning, But
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  Speaker 1: a solid night for him in Philadelphia last night. This
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  Speaker 1: is Twin City's Territory You're Minnesota Twins podcast here on
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network. I am Zach Pierce, editor of
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  Speaker 1: The Athletic. I will be joined shortly by Dan Hayes,
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  Speaker 1: the Athletics, Minnesota Twins beat writer, and Tyler Duffy, longtime
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  Speaker 1: Major leaguer and former Minnesota Twin. With the Twins off
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  Speaker 1: this week because of the All Star break, we decided
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  Speaker 1: to do a mail bag show which we taped before
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game, so no talk about Joe Ryan's
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  Speaker 1: night on Tuesday. We might have a little more to
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  Speaker 1: say about that on Friday when we come back to
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  Speaker 1: preview the second half of the season, but today we
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a good chance to answer your questions.
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  Speaker 1: We do answer one about Joe Ryan and what it
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  Speaker 1: would take for the Twins to keep him around long term.
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  Speaker 1: We also had some great conversation with Tyler Duffy about
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  Speaker 1: a couple behind the scenes clubhouse things, one about what
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  Speaker 1: it was like playing with Josh Donaldson during that era,
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  Speaker 1: and also what happened exactly that night in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one when Tyler Duffy found himself being asked to throw
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  Speaker 1: at the White Sox your mean Mercedes during an ongoing kerfluffle,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, between those teams. So some great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody who put in some questions. I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate it. We tried to answer as many as
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  Speaker 1: we could in the time that we had together, and
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  Speaker 1: also thank you so much for the great response for
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  Speaker 1: the last episode. It was our most popular episode yet,
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  Speaker 1: so that was awesome to see and we hope you
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  Speaker 1: support with that. Without any further ado, here's our mailbag show.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you enjoy. Okay, we are back. It is mail
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  Speaker 1: bag time. We first said we were going to do
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  Speaker 1: this a few weeks ago, then we got sidetracked with
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  Speaker 1: some news. But it's the off week, it's All star week,
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  Speaker 1: it's perfect time for it. So here we go. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna we thank you for everybody who participated, who dropped
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  Speaker 1: a question in wherever we put out the call. We
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  Speaker 1: grabbed about six or seven of them here to get
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  Speaker 1: through today. So we'll get started with the topic that
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  Speaker 1: we've already talked about quite a bit this week with
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  Speaker 1: the Twins drafting von Lackey on Saturday. But this one
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  Speaker 1: comes to us X from Jennifer on X. It says,
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  Speaker 1: what are the Twins going to do with all their catchers?
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  Speaker 1: They have quite a few. Dan's the what's the word there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do They do have a few, and Jennifer
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  Speaker 2: asking that question the day before they drafted to new
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  Speaker 2: catchers with Von Lackey and Carson Tini. But certainly an
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  Speaker 2: interesting question because with Ryan Jeffers back, what do you
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  Speaker 2: do with Alex Jackson? Alex Jackson is out of options
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  Speaker 2: and for right now they're running with three catchers.
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  Speaker 3: Alex Jackson is making one point three to five million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: He has been outstanding as a backup coming in when
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  Speaker 2: Jeffers went down with the broken hamte bone in May.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, you know, between Karattini, who was just
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  Speaker 2: fantastic and probably one of their best hitters in June
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  Speaker 2: and July, it certainly makes a dilemma for now they're
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  Speaker 2: running with I don't know. At some point you wonder
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  Speaker 2: if they would expose Alex Jackson to waivers. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he'd clear, So does that mean maybe they trade
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  Speaker 2: one of these guys? You know, it's it's interesting to
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  Speaker 2: think about that. There's no question Ryan Jeffers certainly being
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  Speaker 2: a free agent after this year if the Twins were
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  Speaker 2: in a much worse spot where they're losing and it's
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  Speaker 2: clear that they needed to be sellers, Jeffers would be
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  Speaker 2: at the top of the list of guys they would
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  Speaker 2: be looking at moving But we saw it over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: He came back and made an instant impact. He had
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  Speaker 2: to go ahead double on Sunday. You know, Jeffers is
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  Speaker 2: really good at the abs, although, man, he flubbed one
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  Speaker 2: of the abs challenges in his few chances over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: so he's a little rusty there. But you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you think about him, and it's like, man, if they
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  Speaker 2: traded him, maybe they could get some real relief help.
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  Speaker 2: But look, Ryan, Jeffers is clearly your best catcher, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they want to go down that road
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  Speaker 2: and start.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they they like what they have. I you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you have.
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  Speaker 2: To make aids that are difficult and move on from guys.
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  Speaker 2: If the Twins have a rough stretch out of the break,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they do trade him, But I just don't anticipate
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  Speaker 2: them being that far out of the picture where they
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  Speaker 2: raise the white flag and trade him again. If you do,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be getting major league pieces back, something
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  Speaker 2: they think can help them now. But maybe they run
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  Speaker 2: with this for a little while. Alex Jackson is fast enough.
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  Speaker 2: He's played outfield in his career, he's played third base,
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  Speaker 2: so the thirteenth spot on the position player side, especially
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  Speaker 2: now we have twenty six man rosters, you can hide
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  Speaker 2: guys for a while. Kyler Fedco at the end was
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  Speaker 2: essentially just pinch running. You know, Jackson can move around,
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  Speaker 2: play outfield, third base. I don't think we'll see him
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  Speaker 2: in those spots, but Keratini has been first base, Jeffers
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  Speaker 2: has played first base.
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  Speaker 3: They've DHD that would.
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  Speaker 2: Remove Josh Bell effectively from the lineup, But I think
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  Speaker 2: they're going to kind of roll with this for a
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  Speaker 2: little while and try to figure it out as they
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  Speaker 2: get closer to the deadline. Maybe you know, somebody wants
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  Speaker 2: Jackson closer to deadline and you can still get back
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  Speaker 2: some triple A depth because you don't really want to
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  Speaker 2: shorten give yourself a take away, that third guy. We
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  Speaker 2: saw how valuable it was these last two months, and
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  Speaker 2: they selled because of it having that third guy. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a different position. You know, at spring training they
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  Speaker 2: had to put Jackson through waivers at that point. Alex
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  Speaker 2: Jackson wasn't very accomplished as a hitter. His last year
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  Speaker 2: was good, but he's had a pretty rough career. Offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's backed up his career year last year, and
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  Speaker 2: the amount of money he's making is negligible. At that point,
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  Speaker 2: I think a team would grab him. So you got
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  Speaker 2: to figure out a way and be creative at this point.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe for me that thinks that means keeping three
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  Speaker 2: for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler, do you keep three catchers? What do you what
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  Speaker 1: do you do?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think if they keep playing well, what could work
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  Speaker 4: out is they're going to be in a position where
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  Speaker 4: teams are calling them and they're not going to have
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  Speaker 4: to worry about necessarily making the move. It's going to
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  Speaker 4: be you know, who presented the best meal for them
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  Speaker 4: to pick, you know kind of thing. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think that to that point. Like Carotene is a
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  Speaker 4: switch hitter, he's under controlled deal. You know, Jeffers has
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  Speaker 4: been the one that's already been rumored and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Yankees need the catcher whatever, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: the switch hitting guy who's hitting very well this year,
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  Speaker 4: he's through next season. So like a team who needs
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  Speaker 4: a guy to fill a full year for them next year,
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  Speaker 4: like they have three options of you know, big league
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  Speaker 4: ready talent, and it creates a very unique and fortunate
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  Speaker 4: situation for him. And you know, it's one like we
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  Speaker 4: keep saying, they got to keep playing well for this
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  Speaker 4: to really be a problem for them. A good problem,
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  Speaker 4: but it is, you know, carrying three catchers that you
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  Speaker 4: run into it once a position player at another spot
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  Speaker 4: goes down, then you need a guy and it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: do we plug the backup, backup catcher or do we
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  Speaker 4: just get an actual outfielder here or a second basement
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  Speaker 4: or first baseman, you know, and like Dan said, you
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  Speaker 4: have to start moving your first basement around and then
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  Speaker 4: they start losing at bats. It just it can get sticky.
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  Speaker 4: But it's it's never a bad problem to have three
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  Speaker 4: big league ready catchers on your staff.
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  Speaker 1: It's seems it's a good position, right, Like, no one's
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  Speaker 1: going to be upset if Ryan Jeffers stays in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: But if the right bullpen offer comes your way, Like
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  Speaker 1: to your point, Tyler, he's obviously the most attractive piece
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  Speaker 1: they have to offer anyone else, anyone else better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just not not having to offer it up yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Like when teams are coming to you, then it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: we can't say no. To you know x y Z prospect,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for for our guy for six months, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Mason Miller. Sure, there we go.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, one more point.
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  Speaker 2: The versatility on the rest of the roster helps them
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  Speaker 2: have a third catcher on that thirteenth spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because Cody Clements can play four spots. Lukey Schult
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  Speaker 3: can play two.
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  Speaker 4: Outfields, sing centerfielder.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like it just helps when you have guys wanting to
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  Speaker 2: move around because it makes the rest of the roster
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  Speaker 2: more functional.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next up on the list, this question comes
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  Speaker 1: to us from baseball enthusiast.
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  Speaker 4: Uh noted Yeah, noted Twins guy.
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  Speaker 1: Big yeah, yeah, Big Twins guy. Look at that. Could
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  Speaker 1: mick Abel return before the playoffs? What is the latest
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  Speaker 1: on mick Abel Dan?
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  Speaker 2: No timeline has been established, but I'm gonna go with yes,
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  Speaker 2: he could. He he's optimistic and it'll be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit before they get the follow appointment with I think
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  Speaker 2: he had his surgery doctor Keithmeister and Dallas he had
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  Speaker 2: some uh the bone shaved down. We were talking about
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, he's a legend.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's either your bone is shaved or loose bodies
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  Speaker 2: He had his bone shaved. But Nick Mickabel is upbeat, optimistic.
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  Speaker 2: I think he hopes they'll be back before the season's over.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Twins hope you will. But there's just
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  Speaker 2: no official timeline as of right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he could. He could be a good bullpen piece too. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: to a fun one and put Tyler on this. Sorry,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: this one's coming to us from Tim on X. He
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: wants to know what were the clubhouse and dugout like
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: in the Josh Donaldson era. I think he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: is trying to elicit a reaction.
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  Speaker 4: On it was fun. It was fun, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's seen JD. He's got his own show going to
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: and all the past interviews. You know, the was the
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  Speaker 4: one he told if your hitting coach tells you to
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: hit the ball, on the ground, tell him now, you
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  Speaker 4: know kind of thing. So it's he JV is incredible
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  Speaker 4: because he is a master of the game of hitting,
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  Speaker 4: like he was so good for so long, and listen
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  Speaker 4: to him break down things like that. He was very
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: much a huge piece to helping guys learn some things.
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  Speaker 4: He also come in guns blazing sometimes and that was
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  Speaker 4: like part of the experience. You know, he's a big personality.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoyed every minute. You know, he was the guy
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  Speaker 4: I love to just get him going on something. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's those guys I'll get riled up about things too,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, you could gass him up a little
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  Speaker 4: bit and he'd go and run with it, and sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you never knew it was gonna come out of his mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Which makes for an entertaining season because baseball the long year,
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  Speaker 4: it's one hundred and sixty two games, you know, plus
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  Speaker 4: all the spring training, it gets monotonous, and you need
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  Speaker 4: a guy with some color to him to break up
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  Speaker 4: the monotony sometimes. And you know, like Dan was saying,
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  Speaker 4: he's the media really wasn't in the locker room for
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  Speaker 4: those years he was there, so it made it tough
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  Speaker 4: for everyone to get the experience but you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: a guy who was an MVP. He played in some
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  Speaker 4: huge moments. You know, he's he kind of did everything
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  Speaker 4: you could do. He checked all the boxes as a
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  Speaker 4: big leaguer and so he's a he was a huge
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  Speaker 4: piece to have around uh. You know, but he was
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  Speaker 4: a big personality and I loved it. I'd never had
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  Speaker 4: any issues with him. You know, it's a if you
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  Speaker 4: ask ten people, you're going to get ten different answers.
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  Speaker 4: But JD was He's a fun team are.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to answer this a little less diplomatically. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't in the clubhouse. And I will say this,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to own this. We gave him media good
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  Speaker 2: guy in twenty twenty one, and I will say for
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  Speaker 2: our purposes, Josh Dohnson was awesome because he would come
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  Speaker 2: on zoom. Do you remember the incident where he kicked
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: dirt across the plate at UH to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: strike zone with the umpires and and he brought up
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  Speaker 2: sticky stuff on the base.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised you're speaking so glowingly.
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  Speaker 2: Other stuff he's like I remember like he called out
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  Speaker 2: Garrett Cole essentially, and from media perspective, he was awesome,
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, I will say it's widely known after
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  Speaker 2: the fact, especially after Nelson Cruz got traded, that Josh
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  Speaker 2: Donson had a big personality and it didn't always go well.
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  Speaker 3: And Duff, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know if you want to talk about any of this,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that that he and Miguel snow It's
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: like he dressed Miguel snow down at one point.
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  Speaker 3: I know there was some incident with Bill Evers, the
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  Speaker 3: bench coach. Josh Donson was look when they moved him.
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  Speaker 2: They felt very fortunate when they traded him before the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two season, right after the lockout. They got
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  Speaker 2: rid of that fifty million dollars one. They knew his
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: skills were kind of on the way down, and they
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  Speaker 2: knew when they signed him. I remember at the time
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  Speaker 2: it was a four year, ninety two million dollar deal.
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  Speaker 2: It was the biggest free agent deal in Twins history
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  Speaker 2: at the time. They knew the last year or two
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  Speaker 2: might be tougher, but they were trying to sign him
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  Speaker 2: to win in twenty twenty, especially that team was loaded
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  Speaker 2: for bear. After the Bomba squad in twenty nineteen came back,
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  Speaker 2: they went out and spent in free agency, they did
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  Speaker 2: some things. They brought him in to be a difference
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  Speaker 2: maker because they thought his defense at third and the
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  Speaker 2: attitude and edge that he was gonna bring were good.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say two men in that twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: season when Nelson Cruz was there, Josh Johnson, I know,
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  Speaker 2: was thought of as a good soldier just like brought.
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  Speaker 3: Something that the team didn't have.
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  Speaker 2: When Nelson Cruz left, I heard that, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: took the leadership role and took the reins and maybe
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  Speaker 2: it didn't go as well as the Twins hoped. And
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  Speaker 2: what do you know, he was only there for a
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  Speaker 2: few more months and then they shipped them to New
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  Speaker 2: York and I think the clubhouse might have been happier
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  Speaker 2: at that point. You know, sounded pretty tense. But again
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  Speaker 2: for everything that they asked of him when they were
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  Speaker 2: winning and they didn't ditch the idea of winning, Josh
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  Speaker 2: Jahnson gave them what they were looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there wouldn.
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  Speaker 4: No man, it was the electric I said, you never
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  Speaker 4: knew who's coming in because he'd be on one one
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  Speaker 4: day like he'd be all you know, he'd be locked
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  Speaker 4: in and focused, and the next day he was like
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  Speaker 4: over here talking about stuff. He was a collector of things.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he'd watch a game whatever, he'd get on something,
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  Speaker 4: and if you're on the wrong side of it, like
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  Speaker 4: you were gonna get it. And so it's just one
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: of those like kind of duck and cover. But it
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: was refreshing for me because it was the first time
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: I'd been around a guy not not in the same vein,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: but not unlike Carlos when he came where it's like,
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: we're trying to win baseball games, like period, and everything
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: I'm doing is to win games, and if you're not
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: on board, you better get out of the way. Like
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: that was it. And that's that's why you rub people
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: the wrong way because you may be doing your best
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: and it may not have sat well with him, and
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: you're just gonna hear about it. And so it was
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: one with dad. Coaches that were on my mask. Yeah,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: it was you know, if you had to call it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: I had a college coach that would just two on
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: you for fun. And so it's like, you know what,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I've heard it before. You know, whatever, call me whatever
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: you want, but you know, I know I'm doing my best.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: So it was a if you didn't have enough thick
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: skin at times you were gonna you were gonna feel
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: it a little bit.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Well, that twenty twenty one team was so dead in
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the water. I mean they traded Nelson Cruz ten days
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: before the deadline because and that got them Joe Ryan.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: That was a great trade that worked out. Remember Taylor
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: got hurt. Taylor was going to get traded to San
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Diego pol Taylor got hurt.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Yep, And you.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Know, nothing went right for that team. I think Jay
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Happ signed and as he signed, they found he had COVID,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: so he missed part of spring training with COVID. Like
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: everything that could go wrong that year did. Royce Lewis
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: reported the camp. They were hoping roy Lewis by making
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: an impact on that team, and he had the torn
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: acl that he had hurt over the winter, like he
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: slipped on ice at his home in Dallas. So the
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: twenty one, the twenty to twenty one team was was
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: in trouble from the start. And and so I'm sure
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: like when you're brought in to be winner, that would
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: probably give you the ass by July when all that continued,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: suck it the wheels fall off.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: My mother definitely agrees. With Josh Jnson about Miguelson. No,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that. She was never, never
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a MIGUELSONO fan. She she loved everybody all the time,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: even like on the worst Twins teams, just everybody was great,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: but just did not make Miguelson.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: My grandma used to think Barrios was why I wasn't
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: a starter anymore, and I was like, Grandma, he's really good,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: so he's an all star.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of pictures, this one is from Dave Peterson
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: on X how much and how many years would it
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: take to keep Joe Ryan.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I think in light of Tom Polead's comments that this
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: is definitely pretty relevant to address it.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: And look, I think Joe Ryan.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Payrolls, he is pretty much Joe Ryan is.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Worth every penny of what he's going to get.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: The thing is is, I think he was looking like
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: we were talking about the end last year and if
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: they were going to extend him then it was like
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: he wanted something like a seven year deal and like
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: thirty million a year.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: I love Joe Ryan.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think the Twins are the kind of team
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that can do Joe Ryan until he's thirty seven. You
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: can probably do Joe Ryan on a short term deal,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: like a you if Joe Ryan was willing to take
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: like three years and one hundred and twenty five million, Okay,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I do that heartbeat, because you're giving him his value
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: in his peak years and he's going to pitch for
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: you and he's gonna be great. The problem is when
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: he gets to thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven years old,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and I think, you know the further along and he's
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: thirty right now. So the further along he gets, maybe
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the years come down, but that money's gonna be up there.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So if you can get him on a shorter term deal, yes,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: But Joe Ryan's looking for long term and he's looking
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: for sustain and he deserves it. He's pitched himself into
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: this position where it is he's going to get a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: nice big contract and he'll get his due. And I
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: wonder what it would be like if he was in
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: New York doing this or in Boston doing this instead
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: of in flyover country, which is what the Twins are.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been doing this under the radar, but
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: he's outstanding and he's an All Star for the second
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: time for a reason. Hey in a different market, you
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: guys know it. You know it's true. In a different market,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Joe Ryan is just much bad.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And so.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I understand the sentiment Twins fans are like, we have
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: this guy, why aren't we doing something about locking him up?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: It's a very valid question.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: It's just I don't think Joe lots Joe Ryan's timeline
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: because he's thirty, already turned thirty in June, and wanting
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: a longer term deal. I just don't think that works
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: for the Twins. It's why they didn't bring Sonny Gray back,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: knowing he's gonna be thirty seven in the last year
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: of that three year deal. The terms were not outrageous
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: on Sonny. I think he got twenty five a year
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and maybe a little bit more. But the terms were
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: not outrageous for Sonny. It's just the timing of it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: If the Twins are gonna locked guys up, I think
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: it's gotta be earlier in their career. Makes me think
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: TOAs Bradley is the guy you look at locking up
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: if you can, and it's gonna be a lot more
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: expensive after this year than it was going into this
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: year for Toash Bradley. But you know that's where you
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: probably spend your money with the younger guys.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: From a player's perspective, the like, obviously, the logic makes
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: sense that you don't want to pay a guy for
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: his age. Yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just like I don't know the right
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: trying to think the right words. He's Unfortunately for him,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: he went to college. Like that's kind of the one
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: of the talking points of the new CBA. So because
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: he went to school, and basically for no other reason,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: he's now gonna get dinged because he's a little older
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: as a free agent, and you know, that's something nobody
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: wants to hear, you know, or wants to deal with.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: And so to that point, he's gonna say, whoever's gonna
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: give me the most money possible, Like that's where he's
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: gonna go. Why wouldn't you you know, And unless you
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: know he's fallen in love with why Zetta or something
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and you know, wants to make that his home, you know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: he's gonna go. He's he's in. He's a California kid,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: you know, I think he's Northern California grew up, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: so I'm sure there's some roots there. You know, there's
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: gonna be some big teams probably on the East Coast
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: that won in on Joe Ryan, you know, the Rays
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: for all we know, might want him back and throw
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: a bunch of money at him. You know, it's there
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: they could get you know, uh different with the contract.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Maybe trying to incentive base it. I don't know, but
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: he would never say yes to that to try and
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: save money on the front end. But you know, he's
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be one of the big fish when he's
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: a free agent. I don't know who all the classes
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: at the moment, but as far as between health and
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: performance and velo and all the metrics, like, he's kind
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: of a you know, one of those guys with him
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: and Scooball and a couple others. So you know, and honestly,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: if Scooble gets an early deal, that's going to drive
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: up his bottom line anyway. So it's he has no
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: reason to take an early deal, especially at a discount
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: unfortunately for Minnesota fans. But he is. He's going to
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: garner a heavy, heavy contract.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I take three years, one twenty five to live in.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Why is that? Oh?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Sure, come on, Joe, it's pretty obvious what to do there.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: But that's a bit like I said, Pitt Peril is
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: one hundred. He's gonna get at least one hundred, so
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: you're just gonna double.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, remember Tom Pouladd did say. Tom Poulad said, they're
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: one hundred million dollar payrolls not gonna cut it, so
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: they are looking to spend. I don't know what the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: upper realms of that pat that future payroll look like
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: if they get there. Again, got to get there. But
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: if they get there, I don't know what it looks like.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But man, they're not gonna be one hundred million forever,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: at least according to Tom pull Out, So we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We will see indeed, all right, moving on to the
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  Speaker 1: next one, Wyatt wants to know, Tyler Duffy, what's your
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: velo at right now? And if Dan or Zach want
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to answer weekend too.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: That was ninety four my last doubting I'll give it
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: that ninety four curveball, whatever slide you're gonna call it
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: was up at the low eighties, you know, just couldn't
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: get anybody out. So here we are, all right, Dan,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: this wasn't quite there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't ask any scouts. I didn't ask scouts.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I was I wait, so ninety four, Like, was that
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: your top out or what were you saying?
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I topped out at four? I was sitting two to
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: three one, probably ninety one ninety four, where I guess
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: we'd call it on the sheet, and then I actually
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: had a good little change up I was working with.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I was pretty proud of it, but like I said,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: nobody was swinging at it, so it's not really useful.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: But at your peak? Were you at your peak? Were
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you like ninety six ninety seven.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I my best years, I probably averaged like ninety four
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: and a half ish. Yeah, I want to say six.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: I touched in ninety eight. I believe it is one time.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: And there was a day. It was a day I
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: was supposed to get sent down, actually if I remember correctly,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: and I came in against Detroit in the day game.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I think I punched out six and two innings and
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: then I got the call afterwards like hey, don't get
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: on the plane tomorrow, we're going to make a move.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, thank you God. So I think that
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: was in twenty eighteen when I was on the roller
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: coaster where I got to stay for a little longer.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Shelter, Get deliver you good news. Shelter, Get deliver you
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: good news.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so that's a good.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Oliver you all the bad news well.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: He had the yeah, the the change of the guard.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I mean between front office and Molly and everybody, like,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: he had all the moving parts. He was the only like,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you know, stable thing in there, unfortunately for everybody else.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: But yeah, then and then, yeah, the Tiger seemed to
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: bring up Villa and me. I think I had a
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: few good games against them where I just like had
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: a tick up. It's probably having I had to face
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Meggi every time I pitched, so it was easy to
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: get going. Dan, have you tracked your Villa recently any idea?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I was fifty two there to day.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, great.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I topped out at fifty three point eight, so I
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: rounded it to fifty four.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: It was also got it being sprint speed in the airport.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, I know, Tyler Rogers, but I was a side
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: armor when I pitched way back.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Wow, it's never a good sign.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Was that No, No, I was tall and lankey. I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: scared the kids. I started out my arm angle because
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I was tall, lanky. My arm go would start behind
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the batter essentially, and so that the game's getting thrown
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: at him and shocking off with.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: The deception.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, hey, Tyler Rogers got a big fat deal
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: out of it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: So all right there, Toronto, David.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll have to next time I'm at Valley Fair.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I'll have to do the game where you throw the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: ball and see. But let's just say there's a reason
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I played first base my entire baseball career.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: That's there's a reason I played left out.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Nice, all right. The last one should be from Josiah
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Waldner Waldner for Duffy, Did you purposely throw that's supposed
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to be your mean Mercedes? Correct?
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Then yes?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Or were you or were you told to?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So first off, Tyler, tell us what Jessiah is referring
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to you. There set the scene for.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Us, so I believe it was. That was COVID twenty twenty,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and we were down like twelve to one or zero.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Maybe it was just a blowout. And williams Ostadillo, the
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: fan favorite, comes into pitch in the ninth and goes
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: three to zero to his fellow countryman from Venezuela, and
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Yerman proceeds to leg kick slow pitch softball a bomb
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: and it's you know, it's one of those it's a blot.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Who cares? But it was three to zero and he
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: swung and so he hits the homer and like half
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: of the team's kind of like, eh, whatever, like who cares.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: So game finishes and the bullpen, like we're talking about
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: the walk off the other day, we get in, you know,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: five minutes later, and there's just like this stir in
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: the locker room, like what the hell is going on? Well,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: a pretty good sized group was pretty pissed off that
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: he swung, and so we're like, Okay, what's gonna happen yat?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: So next day rolls around and we as a group,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: we're's kind of like, hey, look, if it's a close game,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: we're not going to mess around. Like half of us
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: honestly could give a shit, and the other half was
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: pretty upset. So we have a meeting. It's like, look,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: if it's a game, we're not messing around, Like we're
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: just gonna play baseball. So fast forward. I think it
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: was like a three to two game. I think we're
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: down one. I'm warming up, you know, phone call comes
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: to the bullpen while I'm throwing. You know, we're gonna
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: get him, And I'm like, what I thought we talked
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: about playing me straight. You know, I thought we were good.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: We're not good. Anymore. So I come in. This is
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: my first time doing this, especially in the big leagues,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, all right, here we go. You know
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: we're gonna do this. And you know, I'm not naming
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: names for a reason. So we come in and I
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: tried to get him, you know, the old school was
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: hit him below the belt. You know, you're not trying
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to hit anybody in the head, you know, do damage whatever.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: So I let one lose. Well, I got armside to
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: begin with, so I kind of looked at his belt,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: you know whatever, and it just went straight behind him.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Everybody knew what was happening. It was instant, just uproar.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: You know, all hell breaks loose, nothing, nothing ever happens.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Like I love, everybody's tough in the moment, you know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: especially when they don't even get hit. It's like, go
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: get somebody if you want to get them. You know,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: if we're gonna do it, let's do it. So luckily
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: for me, Tony larusa kind of buried Mercedes after the fact,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and it saved me from getting a lot of the
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: fire because it was definitely you know, I was gonna
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: wear it, you know, and be the sacrificial lamb for
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: the team. So Yeerman, you know, he gets all upset
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: and Larusa postgames like kind of weirdly goes at him,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: which I'm very grateful for now, you know. And then
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: next day I ended up I got fined and it
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: was like during COVID, so that the find was like
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: you risked, you know, guys getting infected and by clearing
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: benches and all.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: It was crazy times. You know, we all lived through it,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: but Baseball World was especially crazy, and so it was
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: a yeah, it was. It was not my decision, I guess.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I'll say I won't say any names, but it was
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: for the better of your teammates, you know, when you're
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: a group like that, you got to go with the boys,
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: and so I was willing to do it. I missed.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I kind of regret that part at least, but yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: it was it was, uh yeah, one of those moments
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: after the fact, I was like, what just happened? And
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: then I got suspended for two games. Ended up sitting
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: in a suite with Roco because he also got suspended,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I guess because of it. So we're at the Angels stadium, yeah,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and I'd like, yeah, it led to a lot through
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: like a long outing because I was going to be suspended.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: I sat in the suite with him for two games.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Then we had that horrible flight to Cleveland where we
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: had to play the makeup game or something like. It
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: was just a disaster of a few days. But yeah,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: what a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So some some parts of this where I can add
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: to the memories. This occurred during twenty twenty one.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: On that team.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I could remember, Yeah, that's.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: The red ash here, that's the red ash here already
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: r Yeah, we're all just you guys are terrible, and
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the White Sox were like getting to be good that year.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: They you guys, won the division in twenty twenty. White
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Sox made the playoffs in twenty twenty. Then the White
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Sox added they got Lanceline on that twenty twenty one team,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: they went out and they did some things and like
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: they had some fire to them and your Meine Mercedes
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: was having a career year at the time. But also
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I remember, like he's older, he's like thirty years old
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: at the time, and it wasn't like very old.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: He had, right, he had had some stuff.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Go on that had prevent him from getting to the
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: major leagues, but I remember the radio guys asking me
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: about it and are like, hey, that that seemed purposeful,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: and I was like.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: No, no way, not tough. I'm like that, no way.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I was like, no way. Did the thing before lead
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: to that?
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: But we had just reach started being able to talk
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: to players at the end of April that year. That's
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: when everybody started to get their their shots, and that
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: meant that we could be closer to each other. So
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: we get to do distanced interviews, so the players could
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: stand on the field and we could sit in the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: front row of the stands and interview them walking off
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the field. And I remember asking Duff and Taylor Rodgers
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: as they were walking off and I got sort of
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a noncommittal answer, but I have one hundred percent new
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: it was then real. After the fact, I'm like, ooh,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: you didn't answer that how you typically do?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Like you absolutely through it?
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: And it only added more fuel to the fire.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: But here's the interesting thing. That was one of four
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: williams Astadio appearances that year, it was the only one
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: he gave up a run in. He finished the season
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: with a two to twenty five year and it was
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: like one of the best moments of the year. Phil
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Miller asked, asked Todo why he was so good at pitching,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and the Asidia was literally one of the funniest people
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you ever covered. And his interviews were the same. And
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: he turned to fill and he deadpans serious as Gasolina puppy.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: He's forty two.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: His forty two mile an hour lobs He's like Gasolina Puppy.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: And it was like so convicted the way he said it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: I love that guy's confidence.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: He's one of the best players, most fun to be around,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: a totally weird character. Everything about him was just like
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: it was a side show. And you know the package
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he was an he was a good athlete for that frame.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Oh he got a lot of mile in job his career.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and he lived on pre workout.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I still remember the video of him like legging out
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a triple where he flicks the helmet off and the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: hair comes out.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, that was the Yankees in twenty eighteen.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: I think, oh yeah, that long ago it was. And
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: he said he had the show that chubby people can
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: run to this quote, I think.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: It was. That was the exact quote. The guy was
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: a gem.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It was May seventeenth, twenty twenty one, the White Sox
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: were leading fifteen to four when it was close when
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Mercedes hit the the homer off asked Thedo on a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: three to zero count, as you think you said that
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Tyler in the ninth. The next day, Tyler came in
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: top of the seventh inning, got Yoan Mancata to ground out,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: and then Mercedes came up. You ended up walking him
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: on four pitches. Yeah, and then you got two strikeouts.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: It's the bit outside happens.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it slipped. It slipped, slipped.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: There's no more sticky, so slip.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Well. Thanks again to everybody who took time to send
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: in some questions. Uh, there's a few we didn't get to.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I know some people asked about an injury update on
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: David Festa, which we're still waiting to hear it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, let me throw throw that in. We are waiting.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: We didn't.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: This week was so busy with the draft. We only
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: got a few players from Jeremy's ol. Jeremyszl has been
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: updatings lately and there are a couple guys at slubkeeper Cracks.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Festa was one of them. I would imagine we'll see
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Jeremy zol in Chicago over the weekend.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I'll try to get an answer on that as soon
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: as possible, because curious myself, that's a guy who potentially
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: can come up and be a part of this bullpen
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: if he gets right.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: And I don't know where he's at.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: In his program.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and Cole Sands, by the way, did throw
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: a second scoreless inning on the eleventh at Triple A
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Saint Paul. Because most of minor leagues is off, He's
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: going to Florida to do a little bit more work
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: because he just needs to keep throwing. And it had
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: been every four days on the first two appearances, so
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: they want to get him thrown more often before he
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: comes back. He's gonna have to throw like two out
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: of three or maybe even a back to back. But
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the velos are up for him so far on all
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: of his pitches, so that's a good sign. The Twins
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: could absolutely use Cole Sands the healthy version and just
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: give them another guy in that pen.
• 38:05
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