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Starling Marte signs w/Royals, Oli Marmol joins FT to discuss contract extension, Yarbrough in for USA · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: start today's show with a little bit of WBC news.
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Speaker 1: We learned that Ryan Yarborough Kratz is going to replace
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Speaker 1: Joe Ryan for now. Joe Ryan still might pop up
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Speaker 1: later in the tournament, but for pool play, Team USA
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Speaker 1: will have Yarborough. It actually makes sense to me because
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Speaker 1: if Joe Ryan wasn't going to start during pool play
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Speaker 1: since he is, you know, has a little bit of
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Speaker 1: an injury he's dealing with. Yarborough is the guy that
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Speaker 1: I can eat innings for you.
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Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 4: For sure he can eat innings and he has got like,
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Speaker 4: you know, Swiss army knife where he's gonna be able
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Speaker 4: to go a decent amount. And I don't think the
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Speaker 4: Yankees will be too pissed because this is exactly how
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Speaker 4: they want to deploy him during the season. I love
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Speaker 4: the I love this pickup for them, and Joe Ryan
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Speaker 4: could still be back, which is which is also a
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Speaker 4: huge pickup, which you kind of the best of both
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Speaker 4: worlds for him.
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Speaker 2: It's almost as if somebody said that this could happen
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Speaker 2: and we heard about Joe Ryan's injury. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I thought someone on some show said that they forget
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Speaker 2: the regular season. This was more about WBC for Joe
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Speaker 2: Ryan when he was scratched, Oh yeah, that was our show.
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Speaker 2: So uh yeah. It sucks for him that he's not
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Speaker 2: gonna be able to be one of the starters. But
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Speaker 2: yarbs to go out there, funky Lefty to go out
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Speaker 2: there and throw eat innings can match up for you
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Speaker 2: can get righty's and lefties out. It's awesome for him
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Speaker 2: that he gets the opportunity to be part of this team.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for Team USA, AJ it's still going to
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Speaker 1: be the delicate balance of managing the pitching that they have.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody's worried about them in pool play.
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Speaker 1: I think the concern will be when they have to
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Speaker 1: face some of the big boys moving forward. How will
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Speaker 1: things look against Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Japan, who they lost
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Speaker 1: to last time around. That's the real concern here, AJS.
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Speaker 1: How do you get yourself to a place where they
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Speaker 1: can use their best weapons in the quarters, the semis
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Speaker 1: and the finals.
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Speaker 2: Well, they got to get there, and then if they do,
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Speaker 2: I mean Skeen said, he's already pitching one of those games,
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Speaker 2: So you try to match up him right with whoever
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Speaker 2: you think is going to be the toughest challenge. I know,
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Speaker 2: you got to win to get there. But then they
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Speaker 2: also have Matthew Boyd who can start for you. Listen,
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Speaker 2: they have Logan Webb who said he's pitching too, So
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Speaker 2: Skeen's Web and Boyd. That's three pretty good options for
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Speaker 2: any team, especially the USA, and you match them up
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Speaker 2: who you think could be the best one in each
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Speaker 2: situation and go from there. But I mean, can you
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Speaker 2: imagine if it gets a semi final again and it's
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Speaker 2: Skeens versus the Japan or Skeens versus dr or something
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Speaker 2: like that. That'd be electric.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, that's what everybody wants to see.
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Speaker 2: But you do have to win.
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Speaker 4: Playing international baseball, you gotta win the pool play. I
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Speaker 4: know fans were like, oh, they're definitely gonna They're definitely
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Speaker 4: gonna beat these lower level two baseball's crazy. Just ask
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Speaker 4: Paul skiings like he shouldn't have lost any game so
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Speaker 4: far this year, and if your team doesn't score, which
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Speaker 4: can happen. We're gonna hear it so many times on
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Speaker 4: Fox One about you know, pitchers are ahead of hitters
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Speaker 4: at this time of year. I don't care if you
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Speaker 4: have the best hitters in the world. You can get
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Speaker 4: beaten in a nine inning game. I mean, Dartmouth almost
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Speaker 4: beat l s U yesterday. I would say that's an almost.
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Speaker 4: It didn't happen. But you gotta win every game. So
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Speaker 4: every every every inning, every game is important.
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Speaker 1: Sure it is. And you would think, you know, the
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Speaker 1: first two games for Team US areas teams they should pummel,
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Speaker 1: even just offensively, even even if they end up being
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Speaker 1: high scoring games. You know, for no Aj, I mean,
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Speaker 1: don't they didn't get him approved. Do you think he
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Speaker 1: was going to smash that freaking team?
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Speaker 2: Dude, I watched. You just never know, You just they
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Speaker 2: might throw a guy throwing seventy miles an hour and
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Speaker 2: it might take four or five innings for the USA
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Speaker 2: to make it adjustment. You just don't know, Scott. It's baseball, man,
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Speaker 2: it's baseball UABB University of Florida, who smashed your Miami
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Speaker 2: Hurricanes this weekend. So, I mean, you just never know.
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Speaker 2: In baseball, anything can happen.
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Speaker 1: Feels a little different, but okay, well anyway, all of
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Speaker 1: those games are going to be on Fox. Fox one
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Speaker 1: app has all of those games for you as well,
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Speaker 1: So if you'd like to figure out how to get
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Speaker 1: those games. Then go for it.
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Speaker 2: Well, you get to see me. You get to see
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Speaker 2: me in that USA verse Brazil USA verse Great Britain.
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Speaker 2: By the way, can you imagine this, What if Joseph Contreras,
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Speaker 2: who's all of seventeen years old, pitches for Brazil against
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Speaker 2: USA and goes out there and shoves. Think you'll help
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Speaker 2: his draft stock?
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Speaker 1: I think so. We've seen that in the past. Remember
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Speaker 1: we spoke to Millio O Pegan last week at Red's
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Speaker 1: camp and he talked about how that was a huge
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Speaker 1: coming out party for him. I mean, he was obviously
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Speaker 1: already a pro at that point, but it really helped
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Speaker 1: him become a name in baseball and his career has
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Speaker 1: really taken off since then. Cardinals manager Ali Marmal is
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Speaker 1: here and AJ, we're going to be able to say
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Speaker 1: that for a long time now, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean extension period, extension season is now. It's
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Speaker 2: usually for players, but for some reason him Bloom said, Oli,
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Speaker 2: here's a two year deal with the.
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Speaker 5: Club option, no doubt, And I'm glad he did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we get the terms. Will we be allowed
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Speaker 2: to hear that term?
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Speaker 5: No, no terms, no turns turned, But I'm pumped about
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Speaker 5: the two years with the club option. We've been talking
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Speaker 5: about it now for for a little while, so to
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Speaker 5: be able to execute that and get it behind us
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Speaker 5: is huge, man. So I'm definitely pumped.
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Speaker 2: Does it make you feel more relaxed? Does it change
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Speaker 2: anything other than your richer than what you work?
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Speaker 1: So?
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Speaker 2: Now, does it change anything?
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Speaker 5: You just want to make sure that you go into
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Speaker 5: this year and ownership and the new president actually have
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Speaker 5: a vision for wanting you here and being a part
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Speaker 5: of what we're building. Right, So from that standpoint, absolutely
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Speaker 5: changes some things because you want to be a part
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Speaker 5: of it.
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Speaker 2: Can you yell at guys more now?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, rookie, No, man, I'm glad we got it done.
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Speaker 5: It definitely changes the mentality of making sure that everybody's
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Speaker 5: on the same page.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because one of the things that you always talk
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Speaker 4: about when you're on here is, oh, we just take
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Speaker 4: care of everything that we can each day and not
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Speaker 4: worry about other stuff. Do you do you now? Are
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Speaker 4: you now able to live that out because of the extension,
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Speaker 4: because of the opportunity to say, hey, young guys, I'm
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Speaker 4: going to be here with you guys.
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Speaker 5: That's exactly it, man, Because you're you have a really
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Speaker 5: young group. There's a ton of enthusiasm. There's a ton
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Speaker 5: of just really good energy around the clubhouse right now,
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Speaker 5: and a lot of it is because all these guys
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Speaker 5: are kind of in the same oh when it comes
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Speaker 5: to their careers. They know they're going to be together
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Speaker 5: for a long time, and to be able to step
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Speaker 5: into that room and stand in front of them and
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Speaker 5: know that you are the one that's going to help
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Speaker 5: them grow, grow with them, but help them get to
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Speaker 5: the point where we feel really good about showing up
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Speaker 5: every day and what the vision is here is important, man.
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Speaker 5: So like getting that done and communicating it to the
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Speaker 5: players and staff was important for me, it was important
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Speaker 5: for him, and I'm glad we were able to to
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Speaker 5: get it to execute that.
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Speaker 1: I promise we'll talk about your players in a moment.
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Speaker 1: Just one more here on this for me, So him
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Speaker 1: takes over now Officially, I feel like some of the
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Speaker 1: chatter was like, oh, you know, he's got to see
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Speaker 1: how he gets along with and communicates with his manager,
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, doesn't he already know him. I know
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Speaker 1: that he wasn't calling every shot, but you guys clearly
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Speaker 1: got to communicate and work together quite a bit. So
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Speaker 1: to me, when I saw this news, I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this this makes sense.
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Speaker 5: This is a you nailed it. You're absolutely right. It's
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Speaker 5: a really unique situation because really doesn't work out this way,
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Speaker 5: right Like new president comes in, manager gets fired, they
10:04
Speaker 5: bring in their own guy, and you go from there.
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Speaker 5: What was a benefit was that he was with the
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Speaker 5: organization for two years and we got to kind of
10:12
Speaker 5: build that relationship because at the end of the day, man,
10:15
Speaker 5: it all comes down to trust, and that's the most
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Speaker 5: important thing for me, it's the most important thing for him,
10:21
Speaker 5: and we were able to build that over the last
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Speaker 5: two years. So we've had some very direct and honest
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Speaker 5: conversations and got to a point where we both were
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Speaker 5: super aligned on kind of the vision, how we see
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Speaker 5: player development, how we see the game, how we see
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Speaker 5: the staff. It was just it all started to line
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Speaker 5: up really, really well. So I'm glad that I get
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Speaker 5: to stay here and be a part of actually building
10:44
Speaker 5: this to where we wanted to get to.
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Speaker 2: When you signed that extension, did you ask for Scotch shirt? Guys? Man,
10:49
Speaker 2: can we get you a shirt that fit you?
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Speaker 5: Give me one of these and I'll wear an account boom.
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Speaker 2: You want cardinal territory or foul territory, which both, thank
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Speaker 2: you both. Okay, look there right there, one right just
11:00
Speaker 2: they're waiting for him. But this is Scott's Baby Gap
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Speaker 2: store that you went to.
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Speaker 5: What is this medium? Give me a real question.
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Speaker 2: That was a real question, Like, I mean, you went
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Speaker 2: Sammy Sosa on the arms. But the elastic so tight, incredible,
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Speaker 2: it's amazing.
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Speaker 5: Yours is tight and the rest right there stand up around. No,
11:22
Speaker 5: don't tuck it in. Don't suck it in, tuck it in.
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Speaker 2: Anyways, let's go back to your players.
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Speaker 4: I have I have a real question. I have a
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Speaker 4: real question for you, Ali, and you have to answer
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Speaker 4: it or you don't get whatever T shirt you want.
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Speaker 4: Who's your opening day starter going to be?
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Speaker 5: It'll it'll be one of the guys that are in
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Speaker 5: this clubhouse, So it'll.
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Speaker 2: There's not a trade. What do you mean there could
11:45
Speaker 2: be a trade?
11:45
Speaker 5: No, he's in that clubhouse. That that's the That's the
11:48
Speaker 5: only thing I'll say. But no, we have some good options.
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Speaker 5: We really do. Uh. That's what I feel really strong
11:56
Speaker 5: about is the depth of our pitching. When you look
11:58
Speaker 5: at the rotation, there's something to get excpt about every day.
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Speaker 5: You got bringing in May, there's real stuff coming out
12:03
Speaker 5: of that hand. You got Libby who's taken a real
12:06
Speaker 5: good step in the right direction in his career with
12:09
Speaker 5: Greevy Polante fits. You go down the list man of
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Speaker 5: guys that have done a really nice job and then
12:13
Speaker 5: lay getting that opportunity to step into the starter rule
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Speaker 5: and just show what he's capable of doing. We did
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Speaker 5: that with Libby last year and it worked out really,
12:21
Speaker 5: really well. This guy has the pitches to do it,
12:23
Speaker 5: the demeanor to do at the confidence. So I'm looking
12:26
Speaker 5: forward to continuing to evaluate that. But there's there's more options,
12:31
Speaker 5: which is a good place to be.
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Speaker 4: What does it need to What do you need to
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Speaker 4: see in spring training? Because I know for hitters it's like,
12:39
Speaker 4: whoa this dude four hundred, Well he was ripping you know,
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Speaker 4: some first pitch heaters out of the ballpark. What do
12:46
Speaker 4: you need to see for pitchers or have you already
12:48
Speaker 4: seen like majority of what you need to see? And
12:51
Speaker 4: then it's just like I'll just wake make sure everybody's
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Speaker 4: healthy and then make the decision.
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Speaker 5: A lot of it is just coming down to health,
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Speaker 5: making sure you can get close to the end and
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Speaker 5: feel good about everybody's health. You're really evaluating how they
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Speaker 5: come into spring. And the reality is, man, we've seen
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Speaker 5: there's no surprises. We have a good idea of what
13:09
Speaker 5: we have and and kind of where this is uh
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Speaker 5: gonna shape up. But I would like to get a
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks further into camp before before we make
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Speaker 5: those decisions or at least announced.
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Speaker 2: What about hitters. You talked about how good the pitchers are. Yes,
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Speaker 2: now the hitters you have, you have a younger We
13:27
Speaker 2: even have a younger team on the hitting side than
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Speaker 2: you have on the pitching side.
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Speaker 5: Now we do, and I like where we're at.
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Speaker 2: There can we pencil weather holding at second base?
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Speaker 5: Man? He really is. I mean, the skill set is
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Speaker 5: what it is. We've talked enough about that, but the
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Speaker 5: mentality is what continues to stand out for me. He's
13:45
Speaker 5: been like, for example, this guy's been working on his
13:47
Speaker 5: backhand and he comes into camp and baseball does what
13:50
Speaker 5: baseball does, it'll test you, and he makes two errors
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Speaker 5: going to his backhand, and then talking to him, he's
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Speaker 5: not sped up, just the way he's able to communicate
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Speaker 5: what he was thinking, why it happened, what he's doing
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Speaker 5: to correct it is above what you would normally have
14:05
Speaker 5: for his age. So I love his mentality, his competitive nature,
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Speaker 5: the way he's going about camp, and the way he's
14:11
Speaker 5: responding to things not going his way at times, so
14:16
Speaker 5: and impressive. He's gonna help us win a lot of
14:18
Speaker 5: games for years to come, for sure.
14:19
Speaker 2: What about like Jordan Walker Yahon win back again?
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Speaker 5: See when it comes to yeah, I'll say this about
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Speaker 5: Vic and Mason. I think those two guys there's a
14:31
Speaker 5: big gap between where they're at and what the ceiling is,
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Speaker 5: and I think both of them are going to close
14:38
Speaker 5: that gap pretty quickly. Even here and Mason talked through
14:41
Speaker 5: his approach this spring compared to a year ago is
14:44
Speaker 5: night and day man like, and he had he articulated
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Speaker 5: it really well. He's like, man, I was just trying
14:49
Speaker 5: to hit homers and see how many I can hit.
14:51
Speaker 5: I need to be a guy that I can hit
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Speaker 5: three hundred every year. I could drive the baseball when
14:55
Speaker 5: I picked my spots to leave the yard, but I
14:57
Speaker 5: can spray the ball over the field and find different
14:59
Speaker 5: ways to help us win. When you hear that coming
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Speaker 5: out of his mouth, it gets you excited. So he's
15:04
Speaker 5: in the right mindset right now to be able to
15:05
Speaker 5: help us there. I think Vic is making some really
15:08
Speaker 5: good strides. And then Walker. This was the first offseason
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Speaker 5: I felt like Walker was able to communicate with the
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Speaker 5: level of maturity where it was I don't feel good
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Speaker 5: doing this. Is there a different way of getting to
15:19
Speaker 5: the same end game and truly communicating with our hitting
15:23
Speaker 5: staff in order to get on the other side of this.
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Speaker 5: There's a ton of talent there. I'm nowhere close to
15:28
Speaker 5: giving up on this kid. Is He is going to
15:31
Speaker 5: figure it out, and I'm committed to that. But we
15:35
Speaker 5: do feel good. I mean, Burley, you go down the list,
15:37
Speaker 5: we feel pretty good about where some of these guys
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Speaker 5: are at.
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Speaker 1: Hey, so do you feel as if there's going to
15:43
Speaker 1: be time for guys like that to really let it
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Speaker 1: eat this year? And what I mean is they've got
15:49
Speaker 1: the lane right if they struggle for a few weeks
15:52
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, there's a lane here to say
15:55
Speaker 1: we're trying to put a fresh brand of Cardinal baseball together.
15:57
Speaker 1: There aren't as many veterans here. I don't want to
16:00
Speaker 1: say it's like depending on what spot you are in
16:03
Speaker 1: the season, but do you know what I'm saying where
16:04
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I don't I don't see make or
16:06
Speaker 1: break either, but you need to just give some guys
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Speaker 1: full pt as much as you can, right and be like,
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Speaker 1: do we have something here?
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Speaker 5: I think that's exactly what this is all about. And
16:18
Speaker 5: even if you think to last year, there were still
16:21
Speaker 5: some roadblocks there and you weren't able to fully do it.
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Speaker 5: I think this year there is the ability and opportunity
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Speaker 5: for these guys to take it and run with it,
16:31
Speaker 5: but also work through some struggles in real time and
16:34
Speaker 5: hopefully get on the other side of it. But when
16:37
Speaker 5: you look at our roster, there's definitely opportunity for everything
16:41
Speaker 5: that you just kind of describe.
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Speaker 4: Are there enough veterans in a room? I mean, because
16:47
Speaker 4: it's a lot for coaches. You have a lot of
16:48
Speaker 4: coaches who have a lot of But are there enough
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Speaker 4: veterans in the room in your opinion your experience through
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Speaker 4: your cardinal's.
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Speaker 5: Time, Yes, I think there are. And here's why. I
17:02
Speaker 5: think if you would ask me a year ago if
17:04
Speaker 5: you would have removed the veterans last year and had
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Speaker 5: this group, I would have said no, I don't think
17:10
Speaker 5: some of these guys were ready to take that next
17:12
Speaker 5: step and be able to hold a clubhouse and hold
17:14
Speaker 5: people accountable and do it in a way that's actually impactful.
17:18
Speaker 5: I do feel much better about where that group's at.
17:21
Speaker 5: And I think by not having that big name, big
17:24
Speaker 5: voice that everyone looks to for everything in the clubhouse,
17:27
Speaker 5: it allows each and every one of them to kind
17:28
Speaker 5: of step into that role, some more than others. But
17:33
Speaker 5: I like the mix right now. A year ago, absolutely not,
17:37
Speaker 5: but I feel really good. I think even bringing in
17:40
Speaker 5: someone like Stanic Man, he does a really nice job
17:43
Speaker 5: of bringing that clubhouse together. And sometimes it's hard for
17:46
Speaker 5: a picture to do it for the position position players,
17:49
Speaker 5: but he does a really nice job of including everybody.
17:51
Speaker 5: So the mix is where I would want it to
17:54
Speaker 5: be right now. It really is.
17:56
Speaker 2: Here's the leader in the room.
17:57
Speaker 5: It's a combination of guys man like Mason as the
18:00
Speaker 5: ability where people just gravitate towards him right and him
18:03
Speaker 5: being able to take that next step. And he's done
18:06
Speaker 5: a really nice job of being more vocal but when
18:08
Speaker 5: he speaks saying things that matter, like that are actually
18:11
Speaker 5: impactful and that hold the room to a higher standard.
18:14
Speaker 5: Stanic has done that as well. Libby is Stefin into
18:17
Speaker 5: that some girlson does it in his own way where
18:20
Speaker 5: he can have more one on one conversations. His personality
18:23
Speaker 5: lends himself well to that. So it's gonna be a
18:27
Speaker 5: collective of them kind of coming together and being able
18:29
Speaker 5: to do that. But because of where we're at and
18:31
Speaker 5: we're so like, I don't mind that. I don't mind
18:34
Speaker 5: a core of being able to kind of bring that
18:37
Speaker 5: whole room up rather than just one big veteran name.
18:39
Speaker 5: I'm okay with it.
18:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Ali, this is two part And since
18:44
Speaker 4: you body shamed AJ at the beginning of this, Cardinals
18:48
Speaker 4: now have a unlimited unlimited concession. The unlimited concessions with
18:53
Speaker 4: your ticket. One, what do you go to that you
18:57
Speaker 4: would just eat endlessly? That's in the ball park? And
19:00
Speaker 4: two who on the team do you think could punish
19:03
Speaker 4: the most food if they got unlimited concessions for a game?
19:10
Speaker 5: One thing I can crush that's at the ballpark. I
19:15
Speaker 5: can crush the overnight oats.
19:17
Speaker 2: No, No, we're talking concession, dude, We're not ptsion. Big League
19:22
Speaker 2: Cartinals are doing like twenty six dollars all you can
19:25
Speaker 2: eat hot dog, nachos, cokes, all that's in it.
19:28
Speaker 5: I don't believe I've never seen that.
19:29
Speaker 2: What is it? Hot dogs? Yeah? Right? There? Limited concessions popcorn?
19:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, it's pizza on there, that's let's go with that.
19:45
Speaker 5: I can crush some of that overnight oats. B that's
19:48
Speaker 5: what I like eating. You ask me what I eat
19:49
Speaker 5: in the morning. I gave you my answer. Yeah, but
19:51
Speaker 5: like you don't sell overnight oats and I did share
19:53
Speaker 5: the concession part. Okay, yeah, who in the uh be careful?
20:00
Speaker 5: I mean, what are we doing here? I would?
20:05
Speaker 4: I mean, you know your players.
20:07
Speaker 5: I do, I do. I've got man, I love him,
20:11
Speaker 5: but I got I got, I got Poso crushing some stuff.
20:15
Speaker 5: That's my dude. You just said poke like you said no. No,
20:18
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with yes, yes.
20:22
Speaker 4: On on that, on that Ali, on that Poso. Poso
20:25
Speaker 4: lost thirty three pounds this year coming into camp.
20:28
Speaker 5: What he looks?
20:29
Speaker 2: What do you like?
20:32
Speaker 4: How do you how do you equate that as far
20:34
Speaker 4: as like when guys are like, oh, best shape of
20:36
Speaker 4: my career. He clearly made an a effort to come
20:40
Speaker 4: into camp to eliminate something that may have been a negative.
20:44
Speaker 4: But then you still have to go out and play.
20:46
Speaker 4: It's not just it's not a body contest. It's not
20:48
Speaker 4: you know, O'Neill's not on the team anymore to take
20:50
Speaker 4: his shirt off. But how do you how do you
20:52
Speaker 4: evaluate that based on the fact that you know he
20:55
Speaker 4: worked hard, but he still has to perform on the field.
20:58
Speaker 5: More of a movement thing than anything. Like for Poso.
21:04
Speaker 5: He works so hard and if you sit him down
21:06
Speaker 5: and have a conversation with him and say, hey, here's
21:08
Speaker 5: where we're at, here's where we need to be, Like,
21:10
Speaker 5: this is a guy that's going to do everything possible
21:12
Speaker 5: to get there and from a movement standpoint, being able
21:16
Speaker 5: to do a combination of things of catch DH potentially
21:19
Speaker 5: play a little bit of first. We wanted to make
21:21
Speaker 5: sure that yes, the bats there, but that you could
21:24
Speaker 5: have a little bit more agility and be able to move.
21:26
Speaker 5: And he came in in really, really good shape. Man,
21:29
Speaker 5: He put in a ton of work. We love having
21:32
Speaker 5: him in that clubhouse for a lot of reasons, but
21:34
Speaker 5: this was a big part of his off season and
21:36
Speaker 5: he delivered.
21:38
Speaker 1: A congrat agat on the extension. Good luck this season.
21:41
Speaker 1: We'll be talking, of course, two shirts coming your way
21:44
Speaker 1: or the man, thank.
21:45
Speaker 5: You appreciate you guys.
21:46
Speaker 2: Thank you coach.
21:55
Speaker 1: It's hop Corner time and it is engineered by Fastnall.
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22:01
Speaker 1: a signing, a major league signing. AJ The Kansas City
22:04
Speaker 1: Royals signed up Starling Marte to a deal and it
22:09
Speaker 1: just happened this past weekend, last day of February, and
22:12
Speaker 1: Joel Sherman said he was a player they inquired a
22:14
Speaker 1: lot about last year when he was a Met Mets
22:17
Speaker 1: didn't end up trading him. But now he does land
22:19
Speaker 1: with the KC team that will maybe give him some
22:22
Speaker 1: playing time. I will say this, I mean I think
22:24
Speaker 1: he had three ind or something played appearances last year.
22:26
Speaker 1: He put together some decent at bats. I mean he
22:28
Speaker 1: was still an above average bat by ops plus you
22:31
Speaker 1: can get on base for give you a little pop.
22:33
Speaker 1: I know he's getting up there in age, but still
22:35
Speaker 1: can contribute here.
22:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. The worry with Marte has always been injuries, right
22:39
Speaker 2: the last few years has been injuries. Can he stay
22:41
Speaker 2: on the field. But if you look at their team,
22:43
Speaker 2: he's a nice He's a nice addition to the outfield
22:46
Speaker 2: that they need. You have Caglion probably in center and
22:49
Speaker 2: then the rest is kind of know where we at.
22:51
Speaker 2: But I think for the most part it's a nice
22:54
Speaker 2: edition of veteran presidents that'll give you solid right handed
22:56
Speaker 2: at bats.
23:00
Speaker 4: I mean, I've seen this guy played winter Ball with
23:03
Speaker 4: him back in two thousand and nine, so I can't
23:05
Speaker 4: believe he's thirty seven years old already. But if the
23:08
Speaker 4: Royal see value in an outfielder, then they see how
23:12
Speaker 4: he can get some at bats. Is that at bat
23:14
Speaker 4: look like two hundred and fifty played appearances? That would
23:17
Speaker 4: be to me, that would be awesome. You know, we
23:19
Speaker 4: don't know how what the numbers are here for money wise,
23:22
Speaker 4: but it gives a little bit of a veteran presence
23:25
Speaker 4: and he can pop you a few dingers every once
23:27
Speaker 4: in a while.
23:29
Speaker 1: It's probably low and maybe I missed it, but I
23:31
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet, but my guess is what maybe
23:35
Speaker 1: two three million bucks something?
23:38
Speaker 5: Probably three.
23:39
Speaker 2: They're left hand heavy though in the outfield. Let's not
23:41
Speaker 2: forget that the Royals are left hand heavy. Man in
23:43
Speaker 2: the outfield with cagli On is Bell's left handed right
23:47
Speaker 2: and then if you go Isaac Collins as a switch,
23:50
Speaker 2: so they're they're left hand heavy. So they need a
23:52
Speaker 2: right handed bat somewhere to fill in and play wherever. Dh'
23:57
Speaker 2: mixing a DH every once in a while, and they's
23:59
Speaker 2: all be's catching and playing first or whatever, Vinny, you know.
24:02
Speaker 2: So they're they're left hand heavy. Him and Lane Thomas
24:04
Speaker 2: are going to be their probably right handed options off
24:06
Speaker 2: the bench.
24:07
Speaker 1: It was a theme this offseason. You heard many front
24:10
Speaker 1: office leaders say that it was tough to find right
24:13
Speaker 1: handed hitting in general, tough to find ready pop, tough
24:16
Speaker 1: to find right handed hitting outfielders, a whole deal. So
24:20
Speaker 1: Casey tries to fill a void here, we'll see if
24:22
Speaker 1: he can keep himself on the field. So next conversation
24:26
Speaker 1: I want to bring up is JJ Weatherhold. He actually
24:28
Speaker 1: joined us before the show. He had a few moments
24:31
Speaker 1: with him. So we're going to pick out a good
24:32
Speaker 1: piece of it to bring up as a topic.
24:34
Speaker 2: Right now, you're trying to learn, you're learning a new position,
24:37
Speaker 2: second base. Are you learning it? Have you played there before?
24:40
Speaker 3: That is like, honestly kind of my primary position, but
24:43
Speaker 3: I haven't played it in a while, just because my
24:46
Speaker 3: last year at college was transitioning to shortstop, and then
24:49
Speaker 3: early years here is shortstop and shortstop and then third base.
24:52
Speaker 3: So I've played a ton of second base in my past,
24:54
Speaker 3: but getting back to it might take a little bit
24:57
Speaker 3: of time, just from the game scenarios, just remembering how
24:59
Speaker 3: the ball looks over there.
25:00
Speaker 2: Is it footwork? Is it? What's the biggest difference, because
25:03
Speaker 2: you have the arm, Yeah, for sure.
25:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just maybe some angles, And honestly, it's
25:08
Speaker 3: just game reps, like being on that side of the ball,
25:10
Speaker 3: positioning on only one to get far into the four
25:12
Speaker 3: hole for certain lefties and things like that, and uh,
25:15
Speaker 3: dealing with the plays up the middle and just kind
25:18
Speaker 3: of those that got to work on consistently. And I
25:22
Speaker 3: need to do a better job of getting my work
25:24
Speaker 3: in there and structuring it that way as opposed to
25:28
Speaker 3: how it was with shorts up.
25:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. So for JJ, he has an opportunity to make
25:34
Speaker 1: the team. I mean, he's really one of the big
25:36
Speaker 1: storylines in camp there right now, a j And we'll
25:39
Speaker 1: talk to Kim Bloom later more about JJ weatherhole. But
25:42
Speaker 1: this is their first round pick, who's supposed to be
25:46
Speaker 1: a big deal for them, Remember, and the draft ended
25:48
Speaker 1: up dropping from one to seven, but the Cardinals felt
25:52
Speaker 1: like they got an absolute steal at that.
25:54
Speaker 2: Slot, absolutely, and they should just if you've watched this
25:57
Speaker 2: guy play at all. If he fills in a second
26:00
Speaker 2: with his hit hit skills and he's developing power, this
26:03
Speaker 2: guy could be a star. This is the kind of
26:05
Speaker 2: player that Cardinal fans can get behind as kind of
26:08
Speaker 2: him and Mason went up the middle, right, it's kind
26:11
Speaker 2: of the core of what the rebuild is supposed to be.
26:13
Speaker 2: And this is a start. Find a shortstop, second basement,
26:16
Speaker 2: then you find your catcher, your center fielder. Boom you're
26:19
Speaker 2: cooking with. You're cooking with fire there, boys, and then
26:21
Speaker 2: you can get started on the pitching staff. So I mean,
26:24
Speaker 2: I like this move, and I love the fact that
26:26
Speaker 2: he's ready in embracing the change, not just saying because
26:29
Speaker 2: he's not gonna play shortop anytime too. With Mason win
26:31
Speaker 2: standing over.
26:31
Speaker 1: There exactly, Yeah, Mason went as a freaking cannon. He's
26:36
Speaker 1: excellent over at shortstop. Okay.
26:38
Speaker 2: Lastly, one, by the way, made one he made one
26:41
Speaker 2: error last year is a shortstop one error?
26:43
Speaker 1: That was it?
26:44
Speaker 2: One air, Mason went. I believe that's right. He made
26:47
Speaker 2: one air at shortstop last year.
26:49
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll look that up when we have a moment
26:52
Speaker 1: last thing here on the Cardinals while we're talking hot corner,
26:55
Speaker 1: so you mentioned it, AJ to Ali Marmel. They are
26:59
Speaker 1: running some special with certain ticket packages and they start
27:06
Speaker 1: as low as twenty nine bucks. I heard other games
27:08
Speaker 1: they could jump a little bit higher. But if you
27:11
Speaker 1: do serious damage at a ballpark, this could be a
27:14
Speaker 1: really good opportunity for you. Bottomless soda, hot dogs, chicken tenders, broughtwurst, nachos, fries, popcorn, peanuts, chips,
27:23
Speaker 1: and ice cream. AJ. If someone wants to like get
27:27
Speaker 1: a real good workout in and then go to that
27:29
Speaker 1: game absolutely starving, they can more than get their money's worth.
27:34
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, sign me up. Sign krats over this. We'll
27:36
Speaker 2: have an eating contest between krats and brawn and I'll
27:39
Speaker 2: watch while eat my overnight oats. So alli, So you guys,
27:43
Speaker 2: you guys sign up. You guys can go chicken tendies,
27:45
Speaker 2: you guys can go all those great things, and I'll
27:48
Speaker 2: have my overnight oats with Olie.
27:49
Speaker 1: I want the oats.
27:50
Speaker 4: Crats, Nope, you can have the oats. I'm going nachos,
27:55
Speaker 4: to peanuts to ice cream, Like I mean, it's just
27:59
Speaker 4: gonna be. I know, Scotty's not to do the ice cream.
28:01
Speaker 4: That's fine, but I'm just gonna keep I'm just gonna
28:04
Speaker 4: keep cycling it. I don't even need the soda, Just
28:06
Speaker 4: keep cycling those things in.
28:07
Speaker 2: For me.
28:08
Speaker 4: The nachos bring a whole helmet, just like AJ was
28:13
Speaker 4: crushing the other day at Forget where it was Cubs camp.
28:17
Speaker 2: Cubs Camp, by the way, Mason went had three hours
28:20
Speaker 2: last year. I was confused. And it's funny when you
28:24
Speaker 2: look up how many had. One of them was a hit,
28:26
Speaker 2: they changed to an error, one of them was a
28:28
Speaker 2: bad hop, they gave an air, and one was a
28:30
Speaker 2: throw that was quite all three were very questionable. So sorry,
28:35
Speaker 2: Mason went in one hundred and hold on, how many
28:37
Speaker 2: game hundred and in one hundred and twenty nine games
28:40
Speaker 2: at Shortstoff, you made three hours three that's unbelievable number.
28:44
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable for that position, very impressive and for me. Yeah,
28:48
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28:52
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28:58
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Speaker 4: I mean, this is easy for me. This is easy
29:41
Speaker 4: for me. I'll take it. I'll take Aaron Judge.
29:45
Speaker 1: Aj you gotta do ear muff so he can't hear
29:47
Speaker 1: this part.
29:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, cover her. He can't hear you. He doesn't have
29:49
Speaker 2: his he'd have ears and so.
29:50
Speaker 1: He can't doesn't even have years.
29:52
Speaker 2: Okay, well no he doesn't have on a single. No,
29:55
Speaker 2: we're no, No, he's coming on just for one reason.
29:57
Speaker 2: He knows the reason. So we're coming on. What was
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Speaker 2: a show? Aaron Judge. Yeah, I'm gonna Aaron Judge.
30:04
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge eesy. Sorry, Showy's home runs are gonna be
30:07
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30:10
Speaker 4: say way down, he might still hit forty. I mean, Judge,
30:14
Speaker 4: you might. You might be able to pencil in fifty
30:17
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30:20
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30:22
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31:06
Speaker 1: Let's lap. Great day at Cardinals Camp. Many great guests.
31:10
Speaker 1: Shout out to all of them, not going to name
31:12
Speaker 1: them all, but we had what about five guests today
31:15
Speaker 1: over at cards Camp and we're going to continue running.
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Speaker 1: Yeah maybe six?
31:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Ollie McGreevy liberator and John j that's six right,
31:28
Speaker 2: that is six. Although John Jay wasn't scheduled.
31:30
Speaker 1: I just forced him to sit down, which we love,
31:34
Speaker 1: we love.
31:34
Speaker 2: How was that hockey game? How was that hockey game?
31:37
Speaker 2: By the way, Sorry.
31:43
Speaker 1: What they say, hey, j if you're going to do
31:45
Speaker 1: the shout out, you at least have to like bring
31:47
Speaker 1: us in, bring us into the combo.
31:49
Speaker 2: Sorry, Pogi is the He was a bullpen catcher while
31:51
Speaker 2: I was here, and he's still here. He's a Canadian,
31:53
Speaker 2: so that's why I asked him how the hockey game
31:55
Speaker 2: treated him.
31:55
Speaker 1: Wo, that was very nice of you. Yeah, hey, we
31:58
Speaker 1: got enjoy.
31:59
Speaker 2: He's the most jacked a bullpen catcher you overseen your life.
32:05
Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen some other pretty big bullpen catchers. No,
32:08
Speaker 1: this is the one.
32:10
Speaker 2: He's big.
32:11
Speaker 4: Yes, Marcus Handle's the biggest dude I've ever seen in
32:14
Speaker 4: my life. He was the bullpen catcher for the Brewers.
32:17
Speaker 1: Not jacked, just massive bowling ball.
32:22
Speaker 4: Oh no, like six six?
32:24
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. All right, Well we'll look for more jacked
32:31
Speaker 1: bullpen catchers throughout Florida on our spring training tour. Engineered
32:37
Speaker 1: my fast and all. Thank you to the Cardinals. Again.
32:41
Speaker 1: We're staying in Jupiter. It's a real long trip. Ag
32:44
Speaker 1: is gonna take like ten steps and then tomorrow Tuesday,
32:47
Speaker 1: we'll talk to the Marlins who share that spring training
32:50
Speaker 1: facility with Saint Louis, the Mets on Wednesday, the Nationals
32:54
Speaker 1: on Thursday, and the Astros who are right next to
32:57
Speaker 1: the Nationals camp wise there in West Beach. So we'll
33:00
Speaker 1: get those two to round out the week. Then next
33:03
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33:21
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33:24
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33:28
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Speaker 1: Kratz hats what do you have for us?
33:40
Speaker 2: I mean, we got the Cardinals?
33:42
Speaker 4: Why not? Nothing like the bird on the back?
33:47
Speaker 1: Nice simple, classic Cardinals. All right, AJ, get some rest.
33:53
Speaker 1: Long trip from Jupiter to Jupiter to talk to the
33:56
Speaker 1: Marlins on Tuesday.
33:57
Speaker 2: Okay, get my steps in near to there.
34:01
Speaker 1: The big big steps. The Wi Fi better work the same
34:03
Speaker 1: over there. Otherwise I'm making phone calls. Thanks everyone, We'll
34:08
Speaker 1: see you Tuesday