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Potential Bullpen Reinforcements · Bucco Territory: A Pittsburgh Pirates Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Buckos Territory,
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Speaker 1: presented to you by the Foul Territory Network. My name
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Speaker 1: is Noah Hyles. Joining me as always are my co
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Speaker 1: host Josh Harrison and Platinum Key aka Mark. It's Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: which means is time for another mail bag. We've got
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Speaker 1: a couple questions to answer on today's show, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get right to it right now. Mark, start us off.
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Speaker 1: What's our first question?
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Speaker 2: Perfect? So our first question comes to us from Daniel Holding,
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Speaker 2: who asks what reliever are you bringing up? If you
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Speaker 2: had the choice right now?
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Speaker 1: All right, So I'm going to start off by saying this,
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Speaker 1: we're recording this on Tuesday afternoon. This is typically when
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Speaker 1: we always record our mail bags because I have to
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Speaker 1: record or I have to cover baseball games on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: nights and it's kind of hard to record after those
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Speaker 1: with the other schedules of people on that show. Just
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Speaker 1: so just keep that in mind moving forward on your
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Speaker 1: mail bag Wednesdays. So if there is another reliever called
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Speaker 1: up Tuesday evening, just know that's why we answered these
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Speaker 1: questions this way. I just want to provide that context
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Speaker 1: before we answer with that being said, Mark, if you
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Speaker 1: could call up one believer right now, who would it be.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a few options right now in Triple A.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to pull up just the pictures available in
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Speaker 2: Triple A right now. Anyone that's shaded in if you're
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Speaker 2: watching on YouTube, those are guys already on the forty
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Speaker 2: man roster. So wouldn't necessitate a move. But if you're
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Speaker 2: making a call up, you're probably either sending down or optioning. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Jose or Keigi I would think, or maybe I guess
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Speaker 2: he would be Yeah, So you'd either DFA. Lawrence or
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Speaker 2: Kid would probably be the two most likely. So if
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Speaker 2: you have to add Mike Clevenger to the roster, that
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Speaker 2: would solve itself right there. So I think Mike Clevenger
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Speaker 2: is probably one of the first names the Pirates are
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Speaker 2: going to be looking at in Triple A. He's pitched
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Speaker 2: in six games. They've been using him as a relief role.
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Speaker 2: He's pitched for eight point two innings, has a five
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Speaker 2: point one nine ERA, a lot of five hits, five walks,
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Speaker 2: nine strikeouts, so middling stuff. I mean, Clevenger could give
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Speaker 2: you a different look out of the bullpen. He has
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Speaker 2: an experience, so you know he at least has been
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Speaker 2: and done there before, where a lot of the other
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Speaker 2: options that you're looking at have limited MLB experience. We
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Speaker 2: saw Thomas Harrington for a little bit last year, just
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Speaker 2: eight innings where he really struggled. Had a fifteen point
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Speaker 2: five eight ERA in twenty twenty five with the Pirates,
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Speaker 2: but he has a two point eight four ERA after
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Speaker 2: twelve point two innings right now in Triple A. So
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Speaker 2: if you're looking for longer relief, maybe to fill the
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Speaker 2: role they were getting out of Orkidi, I would look
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Speaker 2: at Thomas Harrington as my first option, But Mike Clevenger
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Speaker 2: definitely has an argument as well.
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Speaker 3: About you, Josh, I had a feeling that obviously Clevenger
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Speaker 3: could get some looks just been at veteran presence to
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Speaker 3: where you know, it still makes sense early in this
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Speaker 3: season if he finds his way on there.
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Speaker 4: But coming from the forty man the names that you
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Speaker 4: had highlighted, and I'm gonna go based off of I
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Speaker 4: was in my daughter's volleyball tournament this past weekend in Louisville,
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Speaker 4: and I was trying to tune into the Pirates game,
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Speaker 4: and my my app wouldn't let me, but it let
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Speaker 4: me tune into the Indianapolis Indians and Louisville Bats, and
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Speaker 4: I got to watch a little bit of the game.
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Speaker 4: But a source close to me that was also at
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Speaker 4: the game, who all remain name, was right now, we
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Speaker 4: talked about Wilbert Hotel and I got to see a
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Speaker 4: little bit of his stuff. It's pretty electric just from
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Speaker 4: from what I got to see on there, just from
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Speaker 4: names that we had talked about the spring and throughout
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Speaker 4: the course of our you know, recordings. I don't remember
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Speaker 4: covering him, and he was you know, it was just
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Speaker 4: a norm at us that was like, you know, if
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Speaker 4: you're interchanging pieces, you got to pull from the forty man. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: I know Antoine Kelly, you know Thomas Harrington, but he
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Speaker 4: was a guy that intrigued me just from a little
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Speaker 4: bit that I saw and after talking to my source
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Speaker 4: from you know, his start on Sunday, it was pretty promising.
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Speaker 4: It looked pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Doe tell us only twenty three, uh, and
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Speaker 2: he finished last year in double A. He had a
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Speaker 2: four point one five ERA after one hundred twenty five
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Speaker 2: point two innings, So uh, definitely a kid on the rise.
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Speaker 2: In that in the Pirates system, the pitching factory continues.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my tenfoil hat on here for a second,
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Speaker 1: and honestly, if this theory I have is true, we
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Speaker 1: might know it by the time this video publishes. The
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Speaker 1: Pirates haven't announced their starting pitchers for Wednesday and Thursday's games,
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Speaker 1: so Wednesday would be Carmen Majinski's turn in the rotation.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that they have an announced that maybe
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Speaker 1: makes me think that they're gonna call up a starter,
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Speaker 1: and that could be. That could be something where it's
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Speaker 1: like DFA or Katie and have Clevenger give a spot
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Speaker 1: start and then move or move him back into the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's you recall Thomas Harrington and move Carmen Maginski
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Speaker 1: back into the bullpen. Maybe they call up Harrington or
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Speaker 1: Clevenger or whoever else and go to a six man
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Speaker 1: rotation for a little bit. They wouldn't be the only
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Speaker 1: team in Major League Baseball deploying that right now. So
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Speaker 1: that's kind of where my mind is at. I could
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Speaker 1: be way off. I mean, the easy, the simple answer
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Speaker 1: is you DFA or Kid and you either recall someone
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Speaker 1: on the forty man or add his replacement to the
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Speaker 1: forty man and select that contract, and that could be Clevenger.
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Speaker 1: That could be I mean, Joe Losorsa was a guy
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Speaker 1: who pitched really well in the World Baseball Classic for
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Speaker 1: Team Italy. You could go to tell obviously, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Harrington's already on forty man, so there's that. But the
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Speaker 1: the fact that they don't again at the time of
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Speaker 1: this recording, have their starting pitchers announced for Wednesday and Thursday.
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Speaker 1: That's interesting makes me think that maybe they had something
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Speaker 1: planned and that could obviously change depending on how their
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Speaker 1: bullpen usage goes in Tuesday night's game. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: only threw three guys on Monday. But I see Josh smiling.
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Speaker 1: You can see like this this is how baseball.
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Speaker 4: No. No, I know, But given everything we talked about,
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Speaker 4: even though there's no starters listed, do you really think
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Speaker 4: they feel comfortable going with a bullpen starter, opener, opener.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's been one of the struggles. So I
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Speaker 4: was just laughing or smile because I can see your
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Speaker 4: theory being like, yes, maybe a starter is coming up
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Speaker 4: because the bullpen hasn't been the greatest, so I don't
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Speaker 4: think you would want to open with your you know
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Speaker 4: what I mean, So that I was kind of smiling,
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Speaker 4: like thinking, like, you know what, I ain't even think
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Speaker 4: about that. I wouldn't want to start with.
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Speaker 1: The bullpen unless you know, I think it would be
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Speaker 1: more that they would. Maybe they're bringing up a starter
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Speaker 1: and moving Karmen. Yeah, yeah, and I agree and that
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Speaker 1: from the Yeah, if I'm not saying Carmen deserves to
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Speaker 1: be moved back to either uh he's pitched well, but
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Speaker 1: like if you move him back to the bullpen, that
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Speaker 1: kind of fixes all your bullpen problems.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes the team for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes your team significantly better. So that's where
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Speaker 1: my mind's at. I think, Uh, do we cover this
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Speaker 1: final shots on this first one?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a couple more names that I think aren't
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Speaker 2: ready to come up yet. But we could see added
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Speaker 2: to this bullpen later if they continue to succeed. I
7:53
Speaker 2: mean we we didn't see Isaac Mattson last year until
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Speaker 2: May twenty second, right, so give some of these bullpen
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Speaker 2: guys some time to get adjusted in triple A and
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe we see some nasty stuff come up
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Speaker 2: to the majors Midsummer. But a couple other names, Brandon badoit.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 2: He's got seven point one one ERA right now after
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Speaker 2: six point one innings pitch, so he's still figuring out.
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Speaker 2: But he's only twenty four. Cam Sanders is a name
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Speaker 2: that a lot of people in the pirates or really like.
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Speaker 2: Uh again not exactly having like the best start to
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Speaker 2: Triple A. We saw him for six innings last year
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Speaker 2: in the Majors and had eight point one zero ERA.
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Speaker 2: But another name that they could rely on, and another
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Speaker 2: name Angoine Kelly that Josh mentioned. He's only twenty two.
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Speaker 2: It could be a future closer. Has a really great
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Speaker 2: fastball and plays really nicely with his off speed stuff.
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Speaker 2: But he's had a rough start down in Triple A
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Speaker 2: with a twelve point twelve seven e RA after giving
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Speaker 2: up seventeen hits and twelve walks and seven point one innings,
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Speaker 2: but again only twenty two. U only pitch forty eight
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Speaker 2: innings in Double A last year, so give them some
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Speaker 2: time in Triple A and maybe come September he could
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Speaker 2: be an option. So those are my final thoughts on that.
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Speaker 1: We sent you, all right, Mark, what's our next question?
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Speaker 2: All right? Next question comes to us from Trey who
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Speaker 2: asks any worry on if Jerry Jones will be plugged
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Speaker 2: back into their rotation right when he returns or start
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Speaker 2: out in the bullpen. The pen could sure use him
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: So I'm glad someone brought this up because we've asked
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Speaker 1: Ben Cherrington about Jared Jones a ton over the last
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Speaker 1: year since he's been injured, and pretty much every time
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Speaker 1: he's been brought up, Ben has exclusively talked about him
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Speaker 1: as a starter until this last time we talked to Ben,
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Speaker 1: which was Tuesday, right, Yeah, it was a week ago
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Speaker 1: from the day we're recording. It was right before. It
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Speaker 1: was funny Ben had a press conference the day before
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Speaker 1: this extended Connor. I don't know why they wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: just waited another day to have that, But hey, that's okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll take We'll take all the access we can get.
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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. But I remember someone asked him about
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Speaker 1: Jared during that pressure and something that stood out to
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Speaker 1: me about his answer was that they're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: get creative and actually, let me find the exact answer
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Speaker 1: that he gave you, guys, I'll let you guys weigh
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Speaker 1: in on this as I try to find the quote
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Speaker 1: in the meantime, Jashuan sarasof.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'll weigh in on it. To be honest,
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Speaker 4: I was gonna say I would see them wanting to
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Speaker 4: keep him as a starter just because that's where he's
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Speaker 4: gonna be at. And they'll probably still be, you know,
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Speaker 4: very cautious with him with his workload, especially coming back.
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Speaker 4: But just from a standpoint, I feel if he's going
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Speaker 4: to be back in like August or September, it might
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Speaker 4: make sense to use him, you know, in that bullpen,
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Speaker 4: if you want to use him in moments to say, Okay,
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Speaker 4: we're gonna need you for this playoff push. But if
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Speaker 4: he's a guy that you're count on to be one
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Speaker 4: of your five arms, I think when he comes back,
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Speaker 4: you're you would like to start him just because that's
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Speaker 4: gonna you know, put guys back into you know, what
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Speaker 4: would be considered maybe you know, a stronger role for
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Speaker 4: the team. As we've mentioned, Majensky moving possibly this series.
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Speaker 4: We don't know what's gonna happen, but uh you know,
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Speaker 4: if Jared Jones comes back, I think it makes your
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Speaker 4: starting pitching that much better, which as you mentioned or
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Speaker 4: we've mentioned, uh no, Majensky might be able to go
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Speaker 4: to the pen and help that much better. And I
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Speaker 4: don't think you really want him coming from injury and
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Speaker 4: hopping in the bull pen and having you know, maybe
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Speaker 4: a high stress you know, granted you can bring him
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Speaker 4: out of the bullpen and low leverage situations, but I mean,
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Speaker 4: how often are you going to have those moments? You know,
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Speaker 4: you can't really dictate what's going to be which game
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Speaker 4: is going to have high leverage or low leverage moments.
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Speaker 4: The game is going to dictate that for you. So
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Speaker 4: I think it would make sense to bring him back
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Speaker 4: as a starter and just you know, watch him as
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Speaker 4: he progresses and get him ramped up going towards the end.
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Speaker 1: Suit So here was Ben's Yeah, here's Ben's exact quote.
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Speaker 1: He said, we know, and he knows, we're going to
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Speaker 1: have the budget some innings this year. It's not going
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Speaker 1: to be a hundred eighty innings. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: less than that. We have to manage that volume for
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. We haven't gotten that far into how
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Speaker 1: we're going to exactly do that. He's going to be
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Speaker 1: on a very structured, scheduled program. He's someone who is
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Speaker 1: really important to us as a starter long term, he's
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Speaker 1: going to know when he's pitching. We will figure out
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Speaker 1: exactly how to make that work when we get closer
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Speaker 1: to the big leagues. So that answer tells me that
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be exclusively a starter.
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Speaker 1: I think that one part he's going to be a
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Speaker 1: starter learned long term, he's going to know when he's pitching.
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Speaker 1: I think that this is a guy that will sometimes
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Speaker 1: be used as a starter. Sometimes they'll piggyback him, which
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily hate, because I think they could option
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Speaker 1: bar like they just optioned Barco. They could recall Barco
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Speaker 1: and have Jared and then bam, there you go. There's
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Speaker 1: your two starters that one day. And with Carmen moving
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Speaker 1: back into a long relief role, you have can probably
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Speaker 1: one of the best long release bridge guys in baseball
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Speaker 1: at that point. So you can have an armshy of
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Speaker 1: your bullpen. When you have that type of I don't know,
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Speaker 1: productivity depth there, you don't really have a weak link anymore.
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Speaker 1: So that's how I could see that playing out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, It's it's a good problem to have right where
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Speaker 2: you're just like, where do you want to put this
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Speaker 2: super effective flamethrower guy. I think people forget just how
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Speaker 2: good Jerry Jones is. We haven't seen him in a
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Speaker 2: little bit. And when he was dominant, you know, it
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Speaker 2: was Skemes was also just showing up onto the scene
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Speaker 2: and make taking all the headlines. So yeah, this this
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Speaker 2: team is going to improve significantly when we get Jerry
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Speaker 2: Jones back. But again, it's going to be a ramp up.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: He's not going to be fully stretched out to pitch
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Speaker 2: six innings probably until maybe the end of the year,
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Speaker 2: and if you do, you really want him to start,
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Speaker 2: you know, going that length just at the end of
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Speaker 2: the year. So I could see this year being like
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Speaker 2: Ben Juring was alluding to, where it's bits and pieces
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Speaker 2: fitting that mold, where if you need a spot storry,
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Speaker 2: if you need the piggyback, He's willing to do that.
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Speaker 2: And it just gives Don Kelly even more flexibility with
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Speaker 2: how he's going to manage his pitching staff. So good
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Speaker 2: problem to have and can't wait to see Jared back.
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Speaker 1: All right? Final question, what do you got for us?
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Speaker 2: All right? Our final question today comes from Josh, who
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Speaker 2: asks is there a world Skeens gets extended before the lockout.
15:31
Speaker 2: Obviously must prove they're committed to winning by a five
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Speaker 2: to six year extension. So he's a free agent at
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Speaker 2: twenty nine doesn't sound totally off base. If Skeens is
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Speaker 2: headed all up to it, maybe another grandfather contract and
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Speaker 2: there's a salary cap. Or if there's a salary cap.
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Speaker 1: I can handle this one. If you guys, I got it.
15:52
Speaker 1: I will say this from conversations I've had covering Connor's
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Speaker 1: extension talks, I've heard I heard more about schemes liking
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Speaker 1: it here in Pittsburgh in the last two to three months.
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Speaker 1: Then I have the entire time prior covering him in
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Speaker 1: the majors, never heard that he didn't like it here, right,
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Speaker 1: But like, it does seem like he's really taken a
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Speaker 1: liking to that this place. But as far as the
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Speaker 1: answer to that question goes, I don't see how logistically
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Speaker 1: it's gonna get figured out at this point, like we're
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Speaker 1: I mean, they would have to already have like progress
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Speaker 1: being made in the off season to get any sort
16:33
Speaker 1: of deal done mid season. I don't think that that's
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Speaker 1: where they are with this. I mean, I've heard in
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Speaker 1: the past that like they have floated some type of
16:42
Speaker 1: offer of an extension, but like nothing that was ever
16:45
Speaker 1: seriously considered. And at this point, I mean with the
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Speaker 1: lockout looming, he has at most three years remaining here
16:56
Speaker 1: and if there's no baseball next year, then two. So
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Speaker 1: I just think that like he's nearing free agency now again,
17:04
Speaker 1: so that that question kind of noted like, oh, you know,
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Speaker 1: an extension you get grandfathered in. But like, I don't
17:10
Speaker 1: think Paul skin is ever gonna have to worry about
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Speaker 1: getting no. I just don't like he's he's more valuable
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Speaker 1: than just baseball, Like he's he's a guy that you
17:21
Speaker 1: sign for, you know, to to have in your jersey
17:25
Speaker 1: on banners and stuff like it's it's good market value
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Speaker 1: for your team as well. So I just don't I
17:31
Speaker 1: think we're too late in this process for that to happen,
17:33
Speaker 1: especially now. If this off season and every if all
17:39
Speaker 1: this positivity happened last year, I think there would have
17:43
Speaker 1: been a chance for maybe something to at least give
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Speaker 1: a push. But I just don't think the timing allows
17:50
Speaker 1: for this to happen now. I and from talking with
17:53
Speaker 1: people after the Griffin extension in the front office, I
17:56
Speaker 1: kind of said him like, you got anything else going on?
17:58
Speaker 1: Or can I actually relax for a little bit, And
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Speaker 1: they all smiled and said, like, I think we're good
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Speaker 1: for a minute. So now they could be lying to me.
18:05
Speaker 1: I mean, they could break a Steen's extension tomorrow, but
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Speaker 1: I personally I don't see that coming this year. Now.
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Speaker 1: If they keep winning and if a new financial system
18:16
Speaker 1: incentivizes them to stick around, then maybe I just think
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Speaker 1: that I don't see how that would get done based
18:22
Speaker 1: off of where things currently stand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gone from a zero percent chance
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Speaker 2: that he resigns to like a five percent chance or
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Speaker 2: something maybe at this point. And again that they continue
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Speaker 2: to win. If anything changes in twenty twenty seven with
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Speaker 2: a salary cap or something like that, things can change
18:41
Speaker 2: really quickly, as we've seen already. I mean he's already
18:44
Speaker 2: we've already heard more of that willingness out of his
18:47
Speaker 2: camp to stick around Pittsburgh in appreciation of the city
18:51
Speaker 2: like that since Connor signed. But also you have to
18:54
Speaker 2: look at would that be like the best use if
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Speaker 2: there is a salary cap of the Pirates right financial resources,
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Speaker 2: because they're gonna be limited no matter what happens in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. You have seth Rnandez, you have Bubba Chandler,
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Speaker 2: you have Braxton Ashcraft, you have all these young I
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Speaker 2: can go on and on, and so if you want
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Speaker 2: to keep bringing in all stars in the off season,
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Speaker 2: like All Star Bats, or extend to Brandon Lau, or
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Speaker 2: extend to Ryan O'Hearn past the two years we have him,
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Speaker 2: that money has to come from somewhere. And if you're
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Speaker 2: gonna commit all this money to Paul Skeen's obviously, yeah,
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Speaker 2: in a perfect world, that's great. You're not gonna have
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Speaker 2: too many opportunities to sign a superstar, generational pitcher like that.
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Speaker 2: But with the market of Pittsburgh, it's like, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 2: we lock them down, But are we just going to
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Speaker 2: be the Angels where we gave all this money to
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Speaker 2: Mike Trout and now can't build anything around him. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'd love to see a Skins extension, but I don't
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Speaker 2: know if that's even in the best interest for the Pirates.
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Speaker 2: But we'll see down the line.
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Speaker 4: You all answered it pretty well, answer pretty sure. I
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Speaker 4: don't think a deal gets done. Yeah, I agree, not
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Speaker 4: enough time, and just I don't foresee it happen he's
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Speaker 4: he's too big of a guy for the game. And
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Speaker 4: even for him, I know he's not gonna want to
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Speaker 4: rush into anything without the you know, the uncertainty of
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Speaker 4: the future. He wants to know that what he's going
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Speaker 4: to be locked into is something that is going to
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Speaker 4: be comfortable.
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Speaker 2: And I think it'd be hard for any team to
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Speaker 2: sign Screens to an extent. Not just yeah, like.
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Speaker 1: Kind of wrap this up. I mean you're paying when
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Speaker 1: you sign a guy like Connor Griffin to an extension,
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Speaker 1: you're paying him for what you think he might be.
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Speaker 1: We know what Paul Schemes is, so you're not only
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Speaker 1: paying him for what he is now, you're paying him
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Speaker 1: for what he's already achieved and for what he's going
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Speaker 1: to be. And he's about the safest bet in baseball
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Speaker 1: as far as pitching is concerned right now. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening. But before we wrap up,
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Speaker 2: Let's go score seventeen runs tonight? Yeah, I guess last
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Speaker 2: night if yeah, listening Wednesday. But yeah, let's let's keep
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Speaker 2: the double digit run scored trend going. I'm liking that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was nice to see the offense get going.
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Speaker 4: And you know, guys, you know, keep turning the lineup
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Speaker 4: over and you know a little bit of everybody you
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Speaker 4: know contributing. Those are always fun games when you're on
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Speaker 4: the sixteen hit sixteen run side.
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