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Bailey Ober throws a Maddux, and Tyler Duffey is pitching in Mexico! · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Bailey Ober throws a maddox. Ryan Jeffers hits a homer.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins win their third straight game. Hello, welcome and
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  Speaker 1: bien venios Twins Cities Territory. I'm Zach Pierce of the
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  Speaker 1: Athletic with Dan Hayes, the Athletics Minnesota Twins beat Writer,
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  Speaker 1: and we're joined today as always by Tyler Duffy, longtime
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  Speaker 1: Major leaguer and former Minnesota Twin, who is up to
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  Speaker 1: something different today. He's in the back of a car. Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: tell our loyal listeners, what's going on with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in Marita, Mexico right now. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: join the Leonistate Yucatan, try my hand it some pitching
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  Speaker 2: for a minute and see if some things work out.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: We're cabinet and cabinet and you know, flying by the seat.
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  Speaker 1: Of our pants on your way to practice right now,
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  Speaker 1: is that correct? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Headed to the stadium. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I joke with everybody how fast baseball is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you get a call on a Monday and they say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you want to pitch on Thursday and kind of just go.
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  Speaker 2: So it's you know, things happen quick, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see where we end up.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, duff, how far are you built up? This is
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  Speaker 4: a spring training question. How how many pitches are you
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  Speaker 4: good for?
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  Speaker 5: Right now?
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  Speaker 2: So I've been ripping like sixty pitch bullpens, which anyone
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  Speaker 2: who's ever done that is not the funnest thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had some hitters for a while, and
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  Speaker 2: you face the same three guys for like a month
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  Speaker 2: and you can't get anybody out anymore or anything, And
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  Speaker 2: so it'll be good to get some some spikes on
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  Speaker 2: and the turf and uh you'll see some real hitters
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  Speaker 2: have some energy and you know, all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see. I'm just saying, I gotta survive the
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  Speaker 3: first inning. That'll be the hardest part.
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  Speaker 1: And you're starting tomorrow? Is that right Thursday?
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  Speaker 3: I think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the plan was tomorrow, but you know, as y'all
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  Speaker 2: well know, things can change in a heartbeat. So headed
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  Speaker 2: the stadium, get a little, get a little work in,
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  Speaker 2: and get hydrated. It's nice and toasty down here, so uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's just a little South Texas weather.
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  Speaker 3: What it really is?
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  Speaker 1: How does this work? Is it a contract situation, a
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  Speaker 1: certain timeframe or open ended.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's basically show up and play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I camped this league a lot too. Uh if you
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  Speaker 2: combined college and major league baseball together, because you can
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  Speaker 2: get traded left and right, and every game matters exponentially
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  Speaker 2: more than a major.
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  Speaker 3: League baseball game. So it's just, uh, it's do or die.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We're I think they're like three weeks in down here,
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  Speaker 2: and managers and GM's are already fired and getting rehired.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, it's the wild West. It's fun if you
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  Speaker 2: like playing baseball.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good place that is so crazy you got
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  Speaker 4: to call them Monday and starting on Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, lockodlow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, we better let you get ready for that, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for hopping on on us what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler still has to be joining the podcast obviously, has
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  Speaker 1: to get his life figured out down there, So Dan
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  Speaker 1: and I are going to take the rest of the show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll let Tyler get ready for tomorrow start, but we're
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  Speaker 1: definitely gonna be following that very closely, and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a segment every show.
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  Speaker 3: I'll try and get one and over this week.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, all right, Tyler, best look to you and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 3: Asti Fronto.
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  Speaker 1: We yes, true, we have to get we have to
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  Speaker 1: start studying up on Is it lega MX or is
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  Speaker 1: that just what they call the soccer league?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that. Yeah, I honestly don't know. But
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  Speaker 5: that's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: That's like crazy. Tyler told us this. We taped on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: and then he told us a few hours after the show.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, forgot to tell you guys, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to Mexico to pitch and uh, we were like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy. We thought for sure he was telling us
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  Speaker 1: that he was quitting the podcast, but he's determined to
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  Speaker 1: stay on. He actually was planning to do this whole
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  Speaker 1: show with us today, but the schedule got through and around.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah time change, he didn't he didn't recognize there's an
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  Speaker 4: hour time change, so he thought practice was an hour
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  Speaker 4: from now.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Eastern time down there, and Marita was just saying
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  Speaker 1: that correctly.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, So he's uh, I love he's chasing the dream.
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  Speaker 4: And I knew he was. I knew he was still
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  Speaker 4: thinking about it. And even two weeks ago I said
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  Speaker 4: something that you know, I was like, hey, I'm getting
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  Speaker 4: good feedback on your on your stuff, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: this could lead to some stuff for you, and he's like,
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  Speaker 4: I still want to play. And here we are two
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  Speaker 4: weeks later and he is playing tomorrow night, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to hear about it on Friday. I
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  Speaker 4: hope he has a big bag of ice on Friday,
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  Speaker 4: like like we get him in the trainer's.
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  Speaker 1: Room, so that would be great to see. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: hope is you pitch well in a major league team
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  Speaker 1: takes notice Dan, it's it's it's not an uncommon.
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  Speaker 4: Thing, no, And I you know, he didn't get a
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  Speaker 4: chance in spring training. I think he was hoping for one.
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  Speaker 4: But you know he's done this before. He's been in
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  Speaker 4: Mexico at least once or twice before, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you get it. And the funny part is
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  Speaker 4: is like you look at a game like last night
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  Speaker 4: and you see a guy like over succeed with less
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  Speaker 4: stuff because because Duff, he's not the guy he was
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  Speaker 4: with the Twins when he's started ninety five ninety six.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a couple of years down the road
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  Speaker 4: from that and arms get tired. But I think he
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  Speaker 4: you know, before that, he was a pitcher like he
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  Speaker 4: was a twin Man, and before the analytics here came along,
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  Speaker 4: you know, guys uh pitched and pitched the contact. So
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  Speaker 4: he knows what he's doing. He's a smart guy, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he just wants to show get a chance,
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  Speaker 4: any chance he can to show that he's got some
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  Speaker 4: viability there and and getting on a mound is the
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  Speaker 4: only chance to do that. You know, you can send
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  Speaker 4: in all the clips that you want from track Man,
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  Speaker 4: from your your bullpen sessions in a facility. But here's
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  Speaker 4: the thing, there are thousands of those guys doing that.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's when you get in the game and scouts
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  Speaker 4: can see it, and there's some game tape and see
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  Speaker 4: how hitters react that have never seen you before, that
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing. So good luck to him because because
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  Speaker 4: Duff is, it's gonna add a little element I hope,
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  Speaker 4: just to hear some storytelling. We need to get him
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  Speaker 4: in some good locations with with you know, backgrounds, like
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  Speaker 4: he was saying he wants to do one in front
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  Speaker 4: of a church, So let's see if we can get
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  Speaker 4: him to do live in front of a church for
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  Speaker 4: the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Well, plenty of content to come from that, I'm sure. Yes, Well, well,
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  Speaker 1: many colorful backgrounds and good stories from Tyler going forward.
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  Speaker 1: But you mentioned Bailey ober he is the talk of
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  Speaker 1: Twins Territory today. Bailey ober All, look at that. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little too long. It broke off the edge of
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  Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, another production glitch from yours, truly,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not terrible. We'll leave it. Bailey ober through
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  Speaker 1: a Maddox last night, and we should explain what that
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  Speaker 1: is for brooks Lee and the rest of the young
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  Speaker 1: crowd that hasn't seen the matrix because it's a term
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  Speaker 1: that comes from around the same era. It's a complete game,
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  Speaker 1: shut out, fewer than one hundred pitches, and it's called
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  Speaker 1: Maddox because of course, Greg Maddox, the Hall of Famer,
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  Speaker 1: did it more than anybody in baseball history fifteen times
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety to two thousand and one. I believe
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  Speaker 1: was his last one, So it is the last time
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  Speaker 1: Maddox did it. Is older than some players in the
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  Speaker 1: Twins roster, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: It's especially impressive given what we know about Bailey pitching
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  Speaker 4: with reduced velocity. Unlike your chiron there. He was super
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  Speaker 4: efficient last night. And by the way, kids, the chiron
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  Speaker 4: is the words at the bottom explain everything.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but you know he was extremely efficient.
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  Speaker 4: He ran into a hungry, aggressive Marlins team that can hit.
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  Speaker 4: They've you know, that top part of that order is
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  Speaker 4: very good, and you know he had all his pitches working.
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  Speaker 4: I wrote a really long story today about how he's
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  Speaker 4: doing this, and it all kind of came to fruition.
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  Speaker 1: Last night.
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  Speaker 4: We saw him. The change up was amazing. The change
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  Speaker 4: up was you know, nine swings and misses. He spotted
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  Speaker 4: it I think six times for called strikes.
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  Speaker 5: He was doing a.
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  Speaker 4: Really good job of using that, pairing it with his fastball,
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  Speaker 4: and the slider was a big pitch for him. Last night,
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  Speaker 4: of his pitches, he had fourteen called strikes, he had
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  Speaker 4: fourteen swings and misses, and you know, there were still
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  Speaker 4: a lot of balls put in play, but we saw
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  Speaker 4: kind of classic Bailey over where it's a ton.
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  Speaker 5: Of pop ups or weak contact.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, his hard hit rate against is only thirty
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  Speaker 4: one point three percent this season. That's eighty fourth percentile
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  Speaker 4: in the majors. So when Bailey over is putting, you
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  Speaker 4: know when he's at his best. He's never been a
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  Speaker 4: huge strikeout guy, although two seasons ago he had nine
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  Speaker 4: point six strikeouts per nine, which was a really impressive season,
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  Speaker 4: but he's down to six point eight right now per nine.
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  Speaker 4: He's never been a guy that's lived and died with velocity.
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  Speaker 4: He's been a guy that mixes in matches, and right
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  Speaker 4: now what he is doing is exactly that. And you
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  Speaker 4: see it with pop ups, with weak grounders to first
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  Speaker 4: or to short or to third. You know, just guys
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  Speaker 4: looking fooled because it's coming from you know, he's six
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  Speaker 4: foot nine inches tall, and it's coming from.
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  Speaker 5: This eye level way up that you're just unaccustomed to seeing.
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, what's think about it, and he
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  Speaker 4: basically is a throwback with the way he is pitching
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  Speaker 4: and manipulating the ball and trusting spin and just getting
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  Speaker 4: guys out in this era of velocity, which is really
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  Speaker 4: impressive because last year he couldn't do it. Last year
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  Speaker 4: was more injury related, and we could talk about this
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more, but last year he had hip
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  Speaker 4: injury and he had knee injury, and it all led
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  Speaker 4: to bad command. And the difference between you know, good
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  Speaker 4: Bailey and bad Bailey is when he knows where the
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  Speaker 4: ball is. He's capable of a two hit shutout with
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  Speaker 4: seven strikeouts on eighty nine pitches, which is just so incredible.
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  Speaker 4: And when he's not gave up thirty runs in thirty
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  Speaker 4: innings last June, including fourteen homers, which was the third
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  Speaker 4: most in any calendar month by.
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  Speaker 5: A pitcher in Major League history. He's clearly found some
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  Speaker 5: things out, but also he's clearly healthy and commanding.
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  Speaker 4: It's truly impressive what he's done. It's not without its flaws.
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  Speaker 4: We saw it his last time out in Washington, he
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  Speaker 4: got hit. He is susceptible to getting hit when things
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  Speaker 4: aren't going great because the ball gets put in play
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  Speaker 4: so much. But when he's on, he can be really on,
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  Speaker 4: and that's great for the Twins.
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  Speaker 1: Just the second Maddox in baseball this season, the other
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  Speaker 1: by Sandy Alcantara of the Marlins, who the Twins are
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  Speaker 1: playing right now. But they will not face him in
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  Speaker 1: this series.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, they get away with not facing him, and they
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  Speaker 4: get away with not facing Miserowski from Milwaukee. That's like,
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  Speaker 4: that is some serious luck. Go to Vegas kind of
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  Speaker 4: luck right there when you dodge those.
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  Speaker 1: Two guys in exactly. We will get into more from
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday's game, talk about the rest of the series coming
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  Speaker 1: up right after this.
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  Speaker 1: All right. The Twins have now won three straight in
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  Speaker 1: for the first time since mid April when they were
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  Speaker 1: on that hot streak of eight wins in nine games,
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  Speaker 1: and they're coming off He's winning Cleveland for the first
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  Speaker 1: time since it's the same time frame. So a great start,
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  Speaker 1: and it was largely thanks to Bailey Over, who found
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  Speaker 1: a creative way to get around the team's bullpen issues
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  Speaker 1: for a night by just pitching the whole dang game.
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  Speaker 1: We already talked about his complete game shutout, but I
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  Speaker 1: think the larger picture story of Bailey over Dan has
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  Speaker 1: been how he's been able to be so successful obviously
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  Speaker 1: not his first great start of the year, despite a
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  Speaker 1: dip in velocity, which these days is usually considered to
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  Speaker 1: be a huge problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this is a sport obsessed with velocity.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Rowski got an All Star Game start based off
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  Speaker 4: of five out ends last year where he was lights
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  Speaker 4: out and just lighting up the radar. So that gives
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  Speaker 4: you an idea of how much we want it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we're talking about the Paul Schemes and Tarik Schools of.
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  Speaker 5: The world rightfully.
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  Speaker 4: So those guys are amazing at what they do. There
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  Speaker 4: is some room in this sport, I think for the
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  Speaker 4: Bailey overs and especially you know last year it was
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to say that because last year it was
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  Speaker 4: such a struggle. I mean there were times where and
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  Speaker 4: I've references before, but he said he threw his hands up,
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  Speaker 4: is like I didn't know where they were going sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: like he had no idea of his command. He's command dependent,
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  Speaker 4: but he's always been that way. This is a guy
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  Speaker 4: who at his peak, his best basketball velosty in the
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  Speaker 4: season was ninety two point three miles an hour. That
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  Speaker 4: was twenty twenty one when he was a rookie. Right now,
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  Speaker 4: it's currently eighty eight point six, and there are reasons
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  Speaker 4: why that brings up red flag because there's no question
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  Speaker 4: like that is a scary number. It's down from ninety
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  Speaker 4: point three last year, so clearly he's not going the
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  Speaker 4: direction that you want to. But what he's done is
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  Speaker 4: makeup for it with pitchability, and he talked about it.
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  Speaker 4: He went to Sarasota in the offseason in October, took
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  Speaker 4: his family down there and went there in October, went
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  Speaker 4: there again in January, and the sole purpose was working
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  Speaker 4: on his hip, getting it more mobile again, getting that
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  Speaker 4: back to being healthy, which then allowed him to kind
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  Speaker 4: of work on his basically everything else, like his refined
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  Speaker 4: his command, which meant not worrying about his land leg anymore,
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  Speaker 4: which was a constant issue last year, which meant getting
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  Speaker 4: his hand in the right position to use all of
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  Speaker 4: his pitches and all of that stuff. When it aligns,
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  Speaker 4: it can be really good. When you're six foot nine
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  Speaker 4: and it's not aligned, it can get really out of whack.
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  Speaker 4: And we saw that last year with increased walks with
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  Speaker 4: just mistakes over the middle, which is something we've never
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  Speaker 4: seen from Bailey over before. And he's talked about it, like,
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  Speaker 4: I think he learned a lot last year, even more
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  Speaker 4: so pitching with diminished stuff about pitching. He'd always been
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  Speaker 4: a pitcher, but I think you learned tricks, and now
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  Speaker 4: he's got good command. He's got the hand in the
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  Speaker 4: right place and it allows him to do the things
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  Speaker 4: that he was not able to do last year at
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  Speaker 4: a more successful rate, and we've seen it pay off.
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  Speaker 4: And his quote about it was great. Talked to him
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  Speaker 4: about it, and I wrote today in The Athletic the story.
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  Speaker 4: But we had planned about right in this week, and
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  Speaker 4: then he went to d C and had a terrible start,
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  Speaker 4: which lets you know, hey, he is susceptible. But his
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  Speaker 4: quote is, it's just pitching, the lost art of pitching.
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  Speaker 4: People are trying to throw as hard as they can
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  Speaker 4: all the time. Right now, I don't have my best
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  Speaker 4: bilow being able to mix off speed and get it
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  Speaker 4: to my locations that I want to throw it to,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: getting the change up down and when needed, throw some
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: fastballs up and in and try to get guys out balanced.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: That's the name of the game, especially if you look
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: over the last twenty years. Look, he's not doing anything different.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: He's just manipulating the ball. He's changing eye sights for hitters.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: He's starting high in the zone and moving down. He's
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: more east to west than he used to be. He
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: used to be far more north south pitching. But he's
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: a guy that knows how to do this. And what's
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: more is he's confident and believes in it. And that
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: wasn't necessarily there.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Last year.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I saw a very frustrated guy who was stand up
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: about what he was going through and tried to pitch
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: through stuff. And you know, when we asked him in
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: early June about the hip, he said, it's nothing I
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: haven't pitched through before. By the end of June, he
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: was exasperated. He went on the il. You could tell
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: he was just beyond frustrated and searching for answers and
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: he never quite got him back. Well, he seems to
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: be in a much better place that way now. And again,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: anytime you put the ball in play, as much as
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: he is definitely have you can run in like a
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: team can just find grass, right, a team can bleed
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: you to death, or they can hit you hard if
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: your pitches are fat. So he is susceptible to bad games.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Not gonna pretend like this is a guy that's going
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: to be as dominant as he was Tuesday night all
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: the time. But this is six good starts in seven.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: I think the Twins will take that. I think Bailey
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: over will take that. It's a really it's an intriguing
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: storyline for this team that you know needs intriguing storylines.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: So it's fun to watch and definitely you know that
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: how much.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Effort goes into it. It's cool because this is a
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: really good dude who's.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Been a great teammate for the Twins for a long time,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: finding success again, and it's it's nice to see.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: He is incredibly tall. You're right after the game last night,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: he was walking on the field with Twins pr boss
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Dustin Morris, and I'm not gonna show the screenshot I
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: took because I don't want to do that to Dustin,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: but man, he's tall. I don't know what else to say.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, he would make me look short and I'm
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: six to two, but.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: He Yeah, wait, those photos they look like when al
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: two Bay is standing next to Aaron Judge, just.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: When you have this.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Dustin is not a short for Dustin is not
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: a short guy either. Dustin is Dustin's of medium height.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: But anybody standing next to Bailey overt looks short. And
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: that was pretty funny.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: If ober had had to come out of the game, Dan,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it looked like Andrew Morris was going to be in
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: line to step in for him, which was an encouraging
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: sign after a busy weekend for him in the bullpen.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we saw him on Saturday night throwing ninety eight
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: over that eleven or twelve pitch out in he came
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: in and just face three batters. He came back Sunday
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: got the open pitched you know.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Was throwing ninety six, face three batters.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: All contact that inning, but all found gloves and you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: you never know how guys can respond. Very good timing. Probably,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I'm guessing the Twins plan this where they knew Monday
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: was off so they would just not even talk to
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Andrew Morris. They probably were like, walk in, find a couch,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: lay down, don't do anything today. That kind of like
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: you when a guy goes back to back days for
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: the first time. It's a big deal, especially when you're
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: talking about a guy throwing ninety eight and ninety six,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: so you have to be careful with that and you'd
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: never know how he's gonna respond. And clearly on Tuesday
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: he felt well enough where he got up in the
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: ninth and he and Taylor Rogers were getting ready in
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: case Bailey ober ran into trouble. Bailey ober made that moot,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: but definitely a good sign that Andrew Morris, you know,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: that would have been three games in four days, and
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: that he felt confident enough to go out there and
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: they felt good enough with what they heard from him
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: after he played catching pregame. So that's that's something we're
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: going to keep an eye on all season because Andrew
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Morris definitely is one of those guys that potentially could
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: have some helium when it comes to late innings roles
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: and this team desperately needs them. So yeah, it was
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that was a good sign to see.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And with that, it's time for Daily Diners. We are
• 20:53
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• 20:59
  Speaker 1: It's easy make a free pick on who's hitting a
• 21:01
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  Speaker 1: a good time Dan to talk about Ryan Jeffers, who's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: been on a bit of a tear and hit the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: big home run last night. Two run shots I believe, Yeah,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: make the final margin three nothing, But he has been
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: one of the Twins bright spots for sure on offense
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I think part of this, and I've said it before,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I think part of this is just unlocked by the abs.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: He's so good and confident at that. I think him
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: like having that this year has been an extra thing
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: to just give him confidence, and it's carrying over at
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: the plate. He's not overthinking anything. He looks great at
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: the plate and he had a good year last year,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: but there wasn't very much power with it. And we've
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: seen Ryan Jeffers have power before, but ended up with
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: nine home runs last year. I think he learned a
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: lot about himself as a hitter. It is showing out
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: right now, like Ryan Jeffers April tenth, three twenty nine.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Let's get I don't have my glasses on three twenty nine,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: four to twenty nine, six forty five slug in percentage,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: six homers, twenty something RBIs and that spanned twenty two
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: RBIs Since April tenth, he's been a guy that finds
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: the big.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Moment, and that was you know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Uri Perez looked really good for five innings last night Twins.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I think they got the first hit in the fifth inning,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: and one of the few guys that got him was
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Trevor Larnick. He got a single last night and walked twice,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: but otherwise the Twins were having trouble. Perez left a
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: slider over the middle. Jeffers hit it in the second deck.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Three nothing for this team is a significantly different than
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: one nothing. If it's one nothing, we'd probably see Bailey
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: get pulled after steven innings and they try to match
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: it up the rest of the way, and instead with
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: a three run cushion, you know, they they were able
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: to let Dailey over go back out there and complete
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: their first game the Twins. That's the first complete game
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: for the Twins since Pablo Lopez in twenty twenty three.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I think it was July of twenty twenty three. So
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: that's a rare thing.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: For the Twins. Complete game and a shutout, you know
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: it was.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: It was so impressive, and Jeffers has been even more
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: so at the plate. So I'm not gonna make him
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: my pick for the Daily Dinger because who who do
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: we have pitching for the Marlin tonight?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: It's a name that Twins fans, Minnesota fans should know
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: very well, Max Meyer, Woodbury product, Gopher product, and he's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: been having a heck of a year so far, two
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and oh and eight starts with a two seven nine
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: ERA and just two home runs allowed, none since early April. Yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: so who you got.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna let's see lefty hitter. I'll go Walner. I'm
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: just gonna say, Matt Walner. He you know, have a
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: little minnesot on Minnesota battle there, you know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: And and Walner.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Oh I like that. That's a good twist.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll just go with that. How about you?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: The first thing I'll say is you might be better
• 24:13
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• 24:14
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• 24:18
  Speaker 1: or off Max Meyer. However, for the third straight time,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I will pick Byron Buxton, because why not, I will say,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: we have this is the third time we've done this.
• 24:27
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• 24:30
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• 24:35
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• 24:43
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• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Picked Buxton the first one.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Well then I got didn't I pick Jeffers? Yeah?
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Oh, so so we're we've we've nailed it
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: in the two times we've done it, saying.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So you know, if this street can continues s Wallner Buxton,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: tonight's their night for sure, I can.
• 25:04
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• 25:07
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• 25:51
  Speaker 1: The Twins will try to make it four wins in
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a row tonight at Target Field, in the second of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: three games against the Marlins. Max Meyers said on the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: mound for Miami, still, I still want to call him
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Florida every time. I'm old school like that. For the Twins,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it'll be sime In Woods Richardson Dan who continues to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: need a win in the worst way.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah he does.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: And last time out we talked start in Washington and
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I said talking about, hey, it's this.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Is this tough?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: You've been so consistent and he said, yeah, it's tough.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: But he's like, if we want to hear the same
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: sob story every time, you can do that, but let's
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: let's you know, he wants to turn it around.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: He wants to get refocused.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Not that he's not focused, but he wants to you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: he could just desperately use a win so that he
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: can kind of get going the other direction. He's had
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: one good start. I think the team's won one of
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: his starts so far, he has not gotten a win
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: as of yet. I think he's got six ninety two
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: ERA right now. It's been tough and we haven't seen
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: the splitter be as good as it was at the
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: end of last year. At the end of last year,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: he developed that splitter into a very good weapon. And
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: you know, this is a guy that changed his armslot
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: a couple of years ago to get more athletic with
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: his fastball and adds some velocity. And you know, in
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: doing that, his change up was not what it was previously,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: and the changeup was always an elite pitch.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: So he developed the splitter. While the splitter just hasn't
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: quite done what he wants to do. He struggled and
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: he definitely could use a good one.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: He's owned five this season. You mentioned the Era also
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: has given up an al worst thirty earned runs so far,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and yes, the Twins just one in seven in his
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: eight starts. And then Thursday night it was supposed to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: be Connor Prelip due up, but that is now TBD.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, on Sunday they mentioned that they're going to push
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Connor Prelip is not This is not mc mickabele, this
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: is not Todd Bradley injury woes.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Look, Connor Prelip has.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Less than one hundred and fifty professional innings in a
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: career that started in twenty twenty two. He last year
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: pitched for the first time through a complete season for
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: the first time in his life. He went every six
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: games basically because they.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Had him pitching once a week.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: The minor leagues is always off on Mondays, and he's
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: adapting to this five day cycle and it's it's challenging,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: and they don't want to burn him out and they
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: want to limit his workload. I would bet ideally they
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: have one and ten one hundred and twenty innings earmarked
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: for him for the season, because you know, you went
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: eighty two last year, so what's the bump up there?
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: You can you can handle an extra thirty forty. So
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: they're slowing him down and I think we'll see him
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: during the Milwaukee Series, which is cool because he grew
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: up in Toma and he's a Wisconsin native, so he'll
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: get to face the Brewers over the weekend. But they're
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: going TBD or TVA, whatever you want to call it,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: it could be a bullpen game. We saw one interesting
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: development last night. Hendry Rojas walked in from the handshake
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: for Bailey over with the bullpen. He wasn't in the
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: dugout like a starter might be, so probably a long
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: relief role still out there for him. So it wouldn't
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: shock me with him and Travis Adams to be in
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: a bullpen game. Tomorrow we'll see, you know, possible to
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: go to Zebbie Matthews who is online. I think start
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: tomorrow also at TRIPAA. But again it would not shock
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: me at off. The Twins tried to do our bullpen
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: game and get through that before to close out the
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: series A.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Six forty start Wednesday night. Tonight afternoon game twelve forty
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: start on Thursday before Milwaukee comes to town. We will
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: be back Friday to preview that with you. Twins got
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: out of last place last night thanks to losses from
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the Tigers and Royals as well. There it's actually a
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: three way tie at nineteen shot three for third place,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: but the Twins on the better end of the tide
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: breaker overall. I believe at least that's how they're ordered
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: here on the on the screen, but uh, three wins
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in a row, they'll go for four tonight. Before we go,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: we have an important update for you that we must share.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I know, we we were saying Tyler Duffy would update
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: us on Friday, right this, this is this is good content.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Tyler has arrived at the Leonis de Yucatan clubhouse and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: has sent us a visual from its side. And uh,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: there's lots of unpack about this picture of apologies to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: those listening and not watching on YouTube, but it's Tyler
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: with very wide eyes taking a selfie with the lockers
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: in the background. And above the lockers is some fantastic artwork.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the artwork is special, Like, yeah, whatever, we got
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: a bunch of Neon colors and red Leonis and red.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: There's a lightning bolt in there. There's a very intimidating
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: looking lion.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, is that a liger? Is that
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: a like?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Oh it could be a like on top there? That
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: could be a liger. I don't no, But that's Tyler
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Duffy for those for those looking in Mexico ready to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: get after it again. He's scheduled, we understand, as we
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: understand it, to make his first start down there tomorrow,
• 31:14
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• 31:16
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