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Astros-Blue Jays trade, New ABS challenge system wrinkles, Nick Castellanos drama from anonymous quotes · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Get hold of.
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  Speaker 2: Birthday boy.
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  Speaker 3: Happy birthday from yesterday, Todd Father.
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  Speaker 4: That was thank you, thank you. It was good. It
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  Speaker 4: was good. Wife.
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  Speaker 5: He threw a surprise birthday party. Man, really classy, good
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  Speaker 5: call by Jack. I appreciate you, love you, Hunt. But
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  Speaker 6: Crats, I didn't get I mean forty. I didn't realize
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  Speaker 6: you were forty. Man, You're on another level.
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  Speaker 6: I thought you were still still super young. You got
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tell Jackie, Tell Jackie. I didn't get tell Jackie.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get a text. Man.
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  Speaker 4: She just texts me now.
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  Speaker 5: She said for some reason, he said, call couldn't go
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  Speaker 3: into March. It's really almost a five weeks tour. Aj
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  Speaker 3: is getting ready to fly out to Arizona. So more
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  Speaker 3: details as we go along, and we'll share this calendar
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  Speaker 3: later in the show. Now let's go over the ABS
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  Speaker 3: Challenge system information that has been shared and Jeremy running
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  Speaker 3: point behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Here you can just start to put up what we have.
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  Speaker 3: I'll read it to set the scene for our guys,
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  Speaker 3: a few little intricacies of the rules, and then we
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  Speaker 3: can react. So this from Alden Gonzalez. New Wrinkle with
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  Speaker 3: MLB implementing the ABS Challenge system for the regular season
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six. In extra innings, teams will have
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  Speaker 3: at least one ABS challenge. So if a team has
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  Speaker 3: zero after nine, boom, you get one for the tenth.
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  Speaker 3: If you lose that one in the tenth, you get
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  Speaker 3: one again for the eleventh inning. So that puts you
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  Speaker 3: in a position where, of course, if you feel like
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  Speaker 3: you got screwed on a pitch, you didn't run out,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't have to save, you got another one that
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  Speaker 3: pops up per extra inning. Let's stop there for a moment, actually,
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  Speaker 3: so we can react to it, and then we'll keep
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  Speaker 3: going with some of the other rule implementation pod fither
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  Speaker 3: sounds good to me, right, You get a little extra
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  Speaker 3: something when you're an extras where, of course every pitch
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  Speaker 3: counts throughout the game, but one pitch could decide the game,
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  Speaker 3: and you don't want to be without a challenge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I.
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  Speaker 5: Think you'll see during those innings, you're gonna see a
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  Speaker 5: challenge every inning.
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  Speaker 4: And excuse me, it's integral too.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, it's like that first pitch, all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden, am I going to use it? You know,
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  Speaker 5: stolen base attempts that have said, for example, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know it's gonna be hard, but at the same token,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's the right decision because you want to
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  Speaker 5: get it right, and I think that's the biggest part
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  Speaker 5: of baseball. You want to get it right, especially late
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  Speaker 5: in the game when a run or a pitch or
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  Speaker 5: you know, a certain kind of ordeal that happens during
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  Speaker 5: the game is right. And you see that happen in
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  Speaker 5: other sports too, where they have you know, the same
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  Speaker 5: kind of deal. You lose a time out or whatever
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  Speaker 5: it is, but the focus is on getting it right.
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  Speaker 5: And I think this is this is the first start
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  Speaker 5: of it and the exciting part of it because you're like,
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  Speaker 5: people are gonna be watching the like challenge it though,
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  Speaker 5: oh they should have challenged it back boom, and then
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  Speaker 5: next thing you know, they save it or they lose it,
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  Speaker 5: whatever it is. So yeah, I think it's the right call,
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  Speaker 5: and I think that's how it should be.
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  Speaker 1: I completely agree.
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  Speaker 6: I think at the end, I mean, I think at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the game is when you have to
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  Speaker 6: get it right. It's that's the whole point we're not
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  Speaker 6: looking for. And if you look at the numbers, like
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  Speaker 6: in the minor leagues, I think it's fifty percent challenged
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  Speaker 6: fit position players fifty percent were right, Like I think
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  Speaker 6: in the big leagues in spring training it was like
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  Speaker 6: fifty two percent. This is just taking care of the
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  Speaker 6: egregious calls. This is taking care of the agreed people
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  Speaker 6: are gonna complain because just like a tiny little tenth
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  Speaker 6: of the ball touched the box. Yeah, okay, but we're
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  Speaker 6: not gonna have egregious calls at the end of the
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  Speaker 6: game when somebody throws one ninety nine two balls off
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  Speaker 6: the plate like, no challenge, boop, take care of it.
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  Speaker 6: That's that's that's the excitement of the extra innings. That's
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  Speaker 6: the excitement of x RA innings plus the challenges.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Next up, those challenges are not to be used when
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  Speaker 3: the game gets silly position players in the game. Now,
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  Speaker 3: game's done from the league. This from Jesse Rodgers ABS
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  Speaker 3: Challenge presentation. So they did a presentation to some media.
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  Speaker 3: One interesting thing will be when an ABS challenge and
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  Speaker 3: a video challenge. Oh this is something else, just so
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  Speaker 3: you know. One interesting thing will be when an ABS
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  Speaker 3: challenge and a video challenge occur on the same play.
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  Speaker 3: This could happen on stolen base attempts for example. First,
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  Speaker 3: the ball strike call will be decided then the challenge
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  Speaker 3: on the basis so just some clarification, right Kratz. Little
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  Speaker 3: things are gonna pop up or you're gonna be like what.
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  Speaker 3: So they went over all the scenarios and there it
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  Speaker 3: is for that one sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, if you want.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I guess people haven't gone to minor league games,
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  Speaker 6: but they really kind of laid this out in the
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  Speaker 6: minor league games, and I think they've I think they've
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  Speaker 6: kind of iron things out because they've tried it, They've
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  Speaker 6: tried different iterations of it, and you know, these are
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  Speaker 6: all things that Now the biggest thing is when there's
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  Speaker 6: like a challenge, let's say a stolen base happens, you
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  Speaker 6: have to wait till that challenge is over. But the
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  Speaker 6: umpire can still judge, oh, were you getting help from
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  Speaker 6: the dugout? Did the dugout relay anything? Because there's a
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  Speaker 6: delay there. So I think it's a it's it's a
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  Speaker 6: part that we'll still have a little bit of consternation,
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  Speaker 6: a little bit of pissed off players in certain situations.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and this this is the part where it's like, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: balls are strying. Now you give a little extra time, right, right,
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  Speaker 5: Scott if I'm not mistaken, Will they get extra time
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  Speaker 5: and they have to say it right.
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  Speaker 4: Then and there whether they want to review it? Do
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  Speaker 4: we know that by chance?
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  Speaker 3: so as far as I know and I'm out the
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  Speaker 3: rules expert well crafts, you're probably better than me.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and I'll follow.
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  Speaker 1: They don't.
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  Speaker 6: They don't get any extra time, but it's seen at
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  Speaker 6: a different pace because think about just think about nobody
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  Speaker 6: on strike three. You're like strike three are like ah
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  Speaker 6: damn challenge where strike three ball thrown down? Everybody's watching.
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  Speaker 6: There's a little bit of time there to make that decision,
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  Speaker 6: you know, Todd, Like any little bit of timing is different.
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  Speaker 6: You still have to say. You can't go, oh, well,
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  Speaker 6: we're going to challenge the out or safe call at
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  Speaker 6: second base, and then as that's happening, you can't go like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I want to challenge the strike call too. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 6: that doesn't that timing doesn't change. What they're going to
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  Speaker 6: do is if the out call is what would end
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  Speaker 6: the inning and not the strike call or strike three call,
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  Speaker 6: then they challenge that. They show that they take that
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  Speaker 6: challenge first. If it's a strike three call, they don't
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  Speaker 6: challenge second base. Is how is how it works, because
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  Speaker 6: there's no story and base attempt. If strike three is correct,
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  Speaker 6: if it's wrong and it's ball three, then they can
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  Speaker 6: challenge the stolen base. Just little things that that go
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  Speaker 6: with timing, and.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna happen, and we're gonna be like sure, wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 5: who goes first?
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  Speaker 4: Let's go back and read the rules.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, hopefully it happens in spring training so we
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  Speaker 5: can go over at one time.
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  Speaker 4: I think that would that would help a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: Before you go, Scott, this is twenty fourteen is when
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  Speaker 6: they implemented replay. We are we open the season against
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  Speaker 6: the Rays. I'm with the Blue Jays Salve butere Drew
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  Speaker 6: but Terra's dad. Not anything with Blake Butterra. This is
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  Speaker 6: a different Salve. Butterra is running the replay room with
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  Speaker 6: a couple other guys with the Blue Jays. First batter
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  Speaker 6: of the year, Jose Reyes. He hits one center fielder
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  Speaker 6: I'm not even sure who center fielder in fourteen for
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  Speaker 6: the Rays was, comes in, dives, makes the play. I'm
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  Speaker 6: not sure if we should challenge. Everybody looks over Posey
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  Speaker 6: Rayis pulled his hamstring running the first base on the playoff.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's panicking literally, first play of the season couldn't have
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  Speaker 6: gone worse.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you wanted to iron out in spring training?
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  Speaker 3: Oh sway, And there are many spring training games to
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  Speaker 3: be able to hash this out with. So you'll pick
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  Speaker 3: up on any issues or any learning experiences for teams. Right,
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  Speaker 3: If anything big pops up, we'll learn about it. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Next up this I mentioned briefly. No challenging of pitches
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  Speaker 3: when position players are pitching, yes, he put thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: Trash?
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  Speaker 5: What's trash?
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  Speaker 1: Todd?
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  Speaker 6: Todd, are you gonna face the position player this year
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  Speaker 6: in the season? Probably you play every day. You're not
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  Speaker 6: going to count that at bat. Don't worry about it, it
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  Speaker 6: doesn't matter. Just do whatever they want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like that at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it at all.
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  Speaker 6: This is not This is not people say it's one
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  Speaker 6: or two at bats a season. Okay, Todd, are you
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  Speaker 6: gonna give away in that bat this year?
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  Speaker 4: Never? Never?
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't agree with that one at all either. Why why,
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  Speaker 5: just why somebody comes into a meeting and they're like, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 5: just so you know, I thought about this one too.
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  Speaker 5: Forget about when position players come in so we can
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  Speaker 5: get the game going faster.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Like that, but you guys are also now, in my mind,
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  Speaker 3: discrediting the ump, like, let's not act like it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a billion wrong calls.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but yes, dude, they they give the they give
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  Speaker 5: those guys a little bit bigger zone because they don't.
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  Speaker 4: As many strikes.
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  Speaker 5: So that's where they need to implement it more with
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  Speaker 5: the position players throwing.
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  Speaker 3: In my opinion, save all your challenges for the twelve
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  Speaker 3: two game, and you can tell Key k her Nandez
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  Speaker 3: that breaking ball is not in the zone.
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  Speaker 5: You I know what, Scott, it's funny that you do say.
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  Speaker 5: It is funny, but at the same time, there's no
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  Speaker 5: time to be like, oh, just because the position player's pitching,
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  Speaker 5: you're not allowed to do a challenge, Like come on, dude,
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  Speaker 5: I struck a guy out and it was probably you know,
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  Speaker 5: the guy came to me and said, oh, it hit
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  Speaker 5: the box. It looked like it was a ball to me,
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  Speaker 5: but he would have definitely challenged that pitch, is what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Adam Duvall, Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fine, fine, I'm with you. You get your challenges.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two things.
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  Speaker 3: One, you know what I mean, you don't. The league's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna let you. But one, like krat said, every
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  Speaker 3: ab should count. Why because most of the league now
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  Speaker 3: is judged by number systems. The number systems are going, Wait,
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  Speaker 3: there were caveat, there were three at bats against the
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  Speaker 3: position player this year. That doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Right, We're in the same boat.
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  Speaker 3: When we evaluate players. We're trying to be quick, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll throw numbers out. Here's his ops, here's ops plus,
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  Speaker 3: here's a slug. Those numbers don't differentiate for a particular
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  Speaker 3: at bat.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll give you that. That's fair, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, have we ever had a position player pitching a
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  Speaker 3: game and then, you know, for a team that's getting
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  Speaker 3: smacked and then that team ends up coming back? Are
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  Speaker 3: just counting the game as nothing most of the time, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not crazy.
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  Speaker 6: This is this is my only example. In twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 6: I spent the entire season triple A until September.
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  Speaker 1: I got trade to the Yankees, and.
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  Speaker 6: I got six at bats, five at bats against position players,
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  Speaker 6: six at bats against relief big league relievers. I went
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  Speaker 6: six for six against the big league relievers. I went
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  Speaker 6: zero for five against the position players. Now that's me
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  Speaker 6: because you know, I sucked and I was, you know,
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  Speaker 6: trying to do too much when I was playing against
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  Speaker 6: those guys. But it's those at bats counted the exact same.
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  Speaker 6: I remembered it because we tracked it. It was something
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  Speaker 6: fun and funny that we were doing. But when you're
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  Speaker 6: talking about guys' livelihoods in a twelve to two game,
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  Speaker 6: guess who's coming in. Dudes that don't play a lot.
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  Speaker 6: They're not like God, you played every single game. We're
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  Speaker 6: keeping you out there so you can face Chris Heisei
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  Speaker 6: pitching off the mound, so you can face a Uhenio
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  Speaker 6: Suarez throwing the last inning. No, they put the bench
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  Speaker 6: guys in. So that's where that's where my that's where
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  Speaker 6: my argument is.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I thought that one's going to be ten seconds
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  Speaker 3: and turn it into a few minutes, and I'm good
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 2: This is your show.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just here to point guard it and act like
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  Speaker 3: the occasional uninformed fan.
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  Speaker 2: One more for you. Let's look at the zone itself.
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  Speaker 3: So Jesse Rogers from the presentation, I've been in some
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  Speaker 3: of these before.
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  Speaker 2: The league will put like a.
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  Speaker 3: PowerPoint together, put a lot of slides together, Google slides
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is, and they'll lay it out. It's usually
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  Speaker 3: really well done. I actually really enjoyed those. Jesse said.
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  Speaker 3: The difference in the strike zone now with the challenge system,
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  Speaker 3: it's a little smaller than the umpire called zone. So
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  Speaker 3: we see the ABS zone it is a square. We
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  Speaker 3: see the umpire called zone that is a circle. Hum
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  Speaker 3: different geometry, Krats. Do you want to explain as a
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  Speaker 3: catcher how this is going to affect many lives?
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  Speaker 1: Just learning? Todd?
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  Speaker 6: Basically, it's over hundreds of thousands of pitches and just
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  Speaker 6: over history, umpires call a circular zone. Whether you know
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: there's there's so many like is it the catchers? Is
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  Speaker 6: it the fact? Is it the fact that you know
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  Speaker 6: your vision is not in a square and it's hard
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  Speaker 6: to see the points. There's so many theories behind it. Essentially,
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  Speaker 6: they came up with that over hundreds of thousands, maybe
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  Speaker 6: even millions of pitches, that that's like the standard zones.
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  Speaker 6: Some guys dev eight smaller, some guys deviate bigger, a
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  Speaker 6: little more down, a little bit more away. Whatever it is, Yes,
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  Speaker 6: it's just gonna be learning. It's gonna take my opinion,
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  Speaker 6: I think it's gonna take two seasons for hitters to
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  Speaker 6: learn this, for hitters to learn that is an actual
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  Speaker 6: square and where that is. And I think hitters will
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  Speaker 6: learn it sooner than sooner than you think. But I
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  Speaker 6: also think hitters are going to just it's gonna take
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  Speaker 6: time to figure that out. And this picture doesn't show it,
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  Speaker 6: but if you read the article it talks about it's
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  Speaker 6: fifty three percent of your height is the top of
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  Speaker 6: the zone. And that's the part that's I think people
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  Speaker 6: are gonna be very confused at and very like unaware of, oh,
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  Speaker 6: well that is a strike, and then there'd be ones
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: that aren't a strike. And the other part is the
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: depth of the strike zone, which they've changed since they
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: started doing the ABS in the minor leagues. Where is
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: that depth point? Because that depth is they had it
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: at a different point on the plate, and there was
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: pitches that were not touching the ground but almost touching
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: the ground that were hitting the ABS system and it
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: was called a strike. I think they got it figured out,
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: but even that's going to be something new, a caveat
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: a you know, a little intricacy for big leaguers and
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: big league catchers, big lely hitters and big league catchers
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: to figure out.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you see the corners were never called really,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: so that was on that on that square when the
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: circle it was more in and out, more up and down.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: But you know the four quadrants, the four corners there
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: never were rarely got called.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: So those are the ones. You know.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: If you can give me a one box real quick
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: here by myself, I can show kratzy or cratzy, you
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: understand if the right hand is up so on this
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: side no, yeah, this side boom, you're trying to get that.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: You're trying to get that top right quadrant here right,
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: and that's the pitch move over where you can up top.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: But your glove keeps going a little. You catch it
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: and try and bring it back. And now an umpire
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: sees that and he's like you were trying to steal
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: a strike when it was actually was a strike. So
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Sam is down low in the other other corners. So
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: just depending on where your position. But I wish they
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: would take away the box and just just have him
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: throw it. As a fan, you watch, oh, I think
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: that got it, you know what I mean, instead of
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Saying, oh, the box didn't get it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: So now it's not a strike because umpires have a
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: different box than what we're seeing on TV. At least
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: that's what they told me when I played.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: But I'm going to present the other side as a
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: fan who did not play anything close to Major League Baseball.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I am obsessed with the box.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: If you take the box away from me, or you
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: even faded a little bit, I'm pissed. I understand that
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: there's a little bit of variance, but I want to
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: see the box. I want it there, so it I
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: think it helps a lot.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I'm not mad that it's there, but if they did
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: get rid of it, I'd be like, Okay, cool.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: That's because you played the game. You're just eye testing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You know what stuff looks like. And maybe you like
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: a little bit of surprise in your life where you're like,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know where that clipped. You just had a
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: birthday party, surprise. I'm not a surprise party guy.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: By the way, I had a facial too this morning.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: My wife got me a facial man, first time Jersey
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Shore facialist.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Thank you girl.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: That's it's not your first time you.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: No, no, not my first time. But it was a surprise.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I didn't know I was getting it this morning, So we.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Have so many surprises. Ken was in surprise and was
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: in surprise strike zone. The strike zone is not going
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: to be a surprise anymore. So yeah, no, I like it,
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: but no, I would love to have the overhead camp.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: I would love to have not the side angle because
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: watching on TV, I need that box. I need the box.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I love the box. I love when they don't have
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: the box up. But then it just shows where the
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: ball was in the strike zone, like it just you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: gives like the circle the curf filled in for a
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: strike circle, you know, an open circle.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Ball Like I love that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Because we're talking about pitches that are fifty to fifty
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: the abs, you're just not going to Umpires are going
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: to get half them wrong. Players are going to get
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: half of them wrong. So those aren't going to change.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: It's the egregious ones. That's the only reason we have this,
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: and that's why I love it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: One more layer Cratzy. We're a catcher for a long time.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Some pitchers have impeccable control. For some it's like a
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: video game.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: They know the assignment.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Now, not for every pitch, because you can't challenge every
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: pitch but they know the assignment.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: And if you're a pitcher, aren't you.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Looking at that picture that Jesse Rodgers posted where the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: circle turns into a square and you know the spots,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: You're like, Okay, I mean, of course it varies based
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: on which hitter you're facing, strengths, weaknesses, et cetera. But
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: you've got a little bit more of a game plan
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: target wise in your head where you're like, I know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: to a t where that zone should be right with
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: the square versus the circle, and a little bit more
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: variants with the gray area.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Of the zone.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: What did we call it? What did we'd been calling
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: it the buffer zone? Right, we don't have that anymore so.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Trash top buffer zone. It's a striker. It's not a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: strike like that buffer zone is trash. Here it is.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Here is the strategicy, the part that is it going
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: to change the game. No, dudes are still going to
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: get jobs because they throw ninety nine miles an hour.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: But there is a value for the dudes who can
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: tickle the top and they can get the bottom corner
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: and the guy who can figure out, you know, my cutter,
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: I'm able to throw that up and in where it
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: does touch the top of the zone inside, but it's
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: got to end up a little more on the plate.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: My cutter never is able to stay in the zone
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: long enough to be able touch upper upper quadrant or
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: the down and away quadrant. So there's going to be
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: strategy for a handful of guys. And those handful of
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: guys they might be able to find value in this.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: They might be able to find you know who, who
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: is that guy? Is it a guy that used to
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: throw ninety eight? Now he's throwing more like ninety one
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: ninety three. But he's able to take He's able to
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: take some of the advantages of that zone and use
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: it for his advantage.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: In conclusion, after what I thought was a very informative segment,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: just now we finished with a tie. Each of you
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: used one fake word. For Crats the word was strategicy,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: and for todd father the word was intricately. So you
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: guys tied. Good jobs doat one one one more introcral? Oh,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: intricral still not a word, so integral strategical, I don't
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: think so. I have a lot of AI in my
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: world these days.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Definitely fine.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Spell it for me, Todd and I'll I t.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Integral o r T O I M T E D
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: G r A.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: L oh integral. You said intrical integral, Yes, essentially, R
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I C A l introcral. Yes, that's not a word integral. Yes,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: but we just rolled back the tape and we heard intricole.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I had recently used the word intricate, so it could
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: just be a little bit of word.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Sometimes my t e rs go tru instead of ur.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: That's the Jersey part of me. Okay, integral, I said
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: integral instead of integral.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Judges rule Olympic Judges.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Said that word again. He is about it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: We need somebody to use figure out the words we use,
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: like at the end of the show, what we got wrong.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You know, try to do more of it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: As you know, I've been working with you guys for
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: years and I just say whatever. So I'm just like,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to chime in as stat boy nerd boy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I like I like the word monolithic.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I've always liked the word monolithic, and I try to
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: use it in as many sentences as possible.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: What does it mean monolithic?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, one singular, like one singular object, like a like
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: a large rock.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Monolithic.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Wow, that was actually beautifully when when I put it
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: in my eye, the first thing that popped up was
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: a single solid piece of stone.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Beautiful. Yeah, I swear A plus A plus. All right,
• 24:59
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• 26:02
  Speaker 3: one zero FM. I think the Astros are the movers
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: and shakers of spring training because they still have more
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: moves up their sleeves. They have this surplus with their infield.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: They also are still trying to clear some money, perhaps
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: to make some more moves.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: They bring back.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Joey Lo Pervido Low Perfido from the Blue Jays. Remember
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: he was involved in the USA Kukuchi deal a couple
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: of years back. Jesus Sanchez going to Toronto Chandler Rome
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: of the Athletic and crush Shitty Territory telling us that
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: it's a money saving move. Sanchez is owed six point
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: eight million dollars. Joey Lo Pervito is making less than
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: one million dollars. She's making the league minimum, which is
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: seven hundred something thousand dollars. Low Perveto's pumped because he's
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: already in that organization. It's like you got to go
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: for the ride with the Blue Jays into experiencing a World.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Series in Canada.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: But now he goes back to Houston, where I think
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: he might get himself more playing time.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Sanchez definitely a platoon guy.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Also helps Phil avoid maybe left by Santander out there
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: and the Blue Jays can mix and match a little bit,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and they can certainly afford the contract, not that the
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Astros can't. Kratz on the other side. Here, you have
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a surplus for the Astros, so you still wonder if
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: something's cooking. We're getting a lot of rumblings. I think
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Chandler puts something out there along the lines of expect more.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: So.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: They are very active right now, and you keep thinking
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that it involves the sock paratus because of the infield surplus.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Even Carlos Correa was asked about the situation, he said,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: we have a lot of people that could potentially be
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: used in trades later on. I'm not a GM, but
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I know that only four infielders can play at a time.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: You have to make some move put some people in
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the outfield have depth. So Cray had said, with the
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: owner that we have, we're not going to make our
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: team worse. Everybody knows that when the Astros make a move,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: it's to make players better and make the hem better
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: and that might be the case. I will say, I'm
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: trying to get all this stuff on the fly. Jesus Sanchez,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: when he joined the Astros, they were pumped to get
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: him for the misbalance that they had left you righty
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: in their lineup.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: That was a big story over the years. But he
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: did not perform well with Houston.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: So if your owner, Jim Crane, Kratz, and you're a
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: baseball super fan and you invested in Sanchez last year
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: and didn't work out.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Or like bait it, I like, I'm just gonna go
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: by what Carlos Correa said. Carlos Correa was one hundred
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: percent brought back here now that Dana Brown didn't like him.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: Jim Crane loves him. I have heard Jim Crane say
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: it when he and I were talking back and forth
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: years ago, and how much he loves Carlos Correa and
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: everything that he embodies and how he you know, just
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: how he handles himself. So yes, Carlos Correa said, I'm
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: not a GM. Carlos Correy is talking to the guy
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: who ultimately makes the choice of how much money is spent.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: And this is a money move, and this is also
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: a move that it was one of those things where
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Low Perfido when they traded him. I remember reading an
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: article from the Astros and I wish I'd kept better
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: notes like Scott does. They really didn't want to get
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: rid of them. It was more of the like, okay,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: like it's fine, like we're adding, we're adding what we
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: wanted in Kokuchi, but we really like Low Perfido and
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: you don't usually hear that from organizations. So for him
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: to go back, I've heard he is just one of
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: the nicest dudes. He's gonna get more playing time than
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: he did with the J's and he had a great
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: year with the Jays. So the J's were like, hey,
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: I know, we didn't use him a lot and we
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: have a surplus, so I guess, I guess we'll get
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: rid of them. But it's also a case where hey,
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: sus Sanchez just didn't He wasn't drinking the secret sauce
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: in Houston. It just didn't work out.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Some trades.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Some guys go places and the isn't always there, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: that's okay, so good for them moving on. But I
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: think there's another move. What if they went and got
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Gallon too, What if the parades thing I don't know.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: I just I feel like there's something more than just ah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: we gotta get rid of Paradis and you know, continue
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: to add to our to our outfield, you know, mix
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: what if they do something out of the ordinary. I
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: know they don't like the whole qualifying offer connected to him.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: It just feels like Houston's lingering for something.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I have one other idea before Todd jumps in.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Everyone can add to their bullpen Josh Hater dealing with
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the bicep thing, just keeping an eye on it. I
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: think Michael Kopeks still out there, and there are a
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: few other names too. Did they add a reliever?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: No, yeah, they could.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: They could, but that's not like they're not making moves
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: to add Michael Kopeck. They could add Michael Kopak yesterday.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Why you think he's gonna demand at this point?
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You think? I don't know it?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And a large amount.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: What's large?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I mean is he going to command one year seven
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: million bucks, which is around what Jyzus Sanchez was making.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: So this is my one thing that I do think
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: the Astros look at is the luxury tax number. They're
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: usually dancing right below or above it, and they like
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: to stay in that range. Jim Crane essentially treats it
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: like a salary cap, not a hard cap, but it
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: is a soft cap. They keep themselves around that range.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: So I could see that happening.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: This broke right before the show, so I haven't done
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: my nerdy homework, but just throwing that out there, you
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: could see an arm like that. Added, there's still guys
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: out there that are going to command multimillion dollar contracts.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just to jump in, Like when someone
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: says they're not done yet, maybe it has something brewing.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: There's talks going on where it could lead to something.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I mean usually when somebody says they're not done yet,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: there's something in the background going on. But there's plenty
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: of guys out there that are itching to get a job.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: So this is the time as.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Presidents, as gms that go out there and bey, hey,
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: take it or leave it. This is what we're gonna
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: give your guy if he wants a place. IF's not
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: you know, I hate to say bargains, but people need
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: to People have livelihoods and they got it. They want
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: to play, so got to feed the family. So these
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: could be some shorter not as much money for some guys,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: not as many years for a couple of guys and
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: spot fillers that they're gonna be like, you know, it's
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: a major league deal. I didn't want to I didn't
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: get the money I wanted. I've been a part of that,
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: and it's it stinks, but you got to find a job.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: The one thing that just keeps bothering me is that
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I feel as if the Ashlers are trying to get
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Escoc Paratus in Houston for years and then he's the
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: name that's being floated around in trade rumors, and they
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: have some guys who are getting up there in years.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: It just seems like such a classic case of I'll
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: just throw this out there. Let's say Krag gets hurt right,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh man, this team is maybe
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: gonna make the playoffs by a game or two. They
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: really need something. Oh wait, they need Escoc Paradus that
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: can just pull dingers in that ballpark and beat up
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the Crawford boxes. Still would love to see another full
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: season of him out there. I get the logjam, and
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Krey is going to be the guy that's going to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: play every day until something happens at third. Jeremy Payne
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: had short I'll two ve at second, I think some
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Bryce Matthew's over there too.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: And then first is for Christian Walker. It's tough. You
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: can't have Paradis on the bench.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You can't keep him. You can't.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Sorry, it's not that's not how that's not how it works.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: Maybe you can have seven or eight really good starters,
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: you know, starting pitchers, but when you have a guy
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: who should play every day, there's other ramifications to it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Do you know do you know Correy is not going
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: to play every day? Do you know he's gonna get hurt? No,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you don't know that. Do you know that Christian Walker
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: is not going to get hurt? No, you don't know that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: But you can't have your organization. Can't one pay a
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: guy that much to see on the bench who is
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: an All Star last year? And two what does that
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: look like for other guys who go and sign places?
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Oh what's gonna happen to me? If I sign here
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: and I had a good year and they're not willing
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: to get rid of me? Like there's there's a little
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: bit of a not saving face, but a you know
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: the look, what does it look like to the rest
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: of the league If they keep a guy like Parades
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: on the bench.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It looks like you have an embarrassment of briches.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: I know, I know.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: It just sucks.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I wish that they that this team didn't have a
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: logjam just because one of the most extreme pool hitters
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: in baseball with the Crawford boxes is.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Just fun, easy math to root for when you're a fan.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Of where Bill, when we need them?
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: What come on, man, why you gotta do that? We're
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: gonna have this clip later.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: But yes to Boston.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna happ and now because I
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: guess they consider durban and everyday guy.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: But I think that will walk through nice. Oh gosh,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's another guy who's up for grabs, Nick Castianos.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: So we talked about him on yesterday's show, and then
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: by the end of yesterday's show he had been released.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: We learned about the beer incident. Some fans went after
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: us on social media. I'm sorry, I'm going to stand
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: by this one. I know that some teammates were pissed.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I still don't think it's that big of a deal.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: So John Hayman said, there's a lot of interest in
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Castianos now that he's about to be free teams apparently
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: we're waiting for the expected release, and Isaacazout from fish
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: On First said, the Marlins do not have interest in
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Nick Castianos, per sources, Well, there are many other teams
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: good good thing. Just want to make sure that Marlins
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: fans are Awarecrats that your team is again not going
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: after a player.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. They don't like free agency. That still remains
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the same.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It's not a free agent. It's not a free agent.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: What can can we put that tweetback up? Can we
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: put that tweetback up?
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Because if I had like a good like a the
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: Marlins do not have interest in winning, per sources, is
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: what they meant, not Nick costs.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: No, they just don't believe. You don't need, you don't
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: need free agents to win, Cracks. You can build everything homegrown.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: You don't.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: You don't need they have good players, like everyone's gonna
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: get after us because oh they got so much pitching,
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: death and depth and they have so much to offer, Like, okay,
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: then build around it. If you have this incredible build up,
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: not even build around it. Build something something I think
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: I read this morning seventy eight million dollars is their
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: current payroll what it would be opening day if nothing changes,
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: and Nick Costianus would be seven hundred and eighty thousand.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: I think the minimum is seven eighty or maybe seven
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: to twenty. I'm not one hundred percent sure. So the
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Phillies are on the hook. And I said it before,
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: I'll say it again in Philly everybody in Philly. I
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: even got put on a radio My clip from our
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: show here got put on one of the local radio
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: stations and they spent a whole segment about it about
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: how wow, how could he say something like that? How
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: could he say Nick Costianos is a valuable piece. We
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: don't know exactly what went on, the whole beer and
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: the dugout thing, and then somebody saying what he did
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: was disgusting, like all the things that are are being
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: bantered around right now, like just pump the brakes. Wait
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: to ask somebody who was actually there, like Nick Costianos
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: and not just like some of the rumor stuff. But
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: he can be a valuable piece to a team. Is
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: he going to be a superstar?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Twenty twenty three was the last time he got MVP votes,
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: but that was as a Philly His tenure in Philly
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: probably isn't as bad as the way it ended up
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: here is his defense declined? Yes, but can he help
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: a team one hundred percent?
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Like, I'm just confused because I really I love the guy.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: I think he's a great dude, but he's he's also
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: a really good player. He's I feel like he's getting
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: the bed end of the stick over here in Philly,
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: and I think a change of scenery might kickstart him
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: back to being the player that he is. Man, Listen,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: everybody's strong minded. The strongest people in the word have
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: the world are the best minds. They can trick their
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: mind of being comfortable with being excited, being positive. But
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: if more stuff goes, it builds once you get home
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: you think about it. Everybody's human, So I think the
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: human side of him he needed to go just to
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: get away from all the craziness going on and all
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: that stuff. But I feel like he would help any
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: ball club he would get on the right path, and
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: I think people would love him because you know, I've
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: heard nothing but really good things about him and the
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: way he plays the game. I love his attitude, I
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: love his energy, a spark and that little arrogance in
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: the best way possible.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: I love that too.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: I Mean there's also articles out about Otto Kemp when
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: he got called up, how much he helped him, Like
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: if a player makes more of a positive impact on
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: your team than a negative impact. I think at the
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: league minimum, I think there's a lot of value to
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: a lot of different teams. It'd be very interesting to
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: see not only who picks him up, but the fact
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: that he gets to choose. Now, who picks him up,
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: he gets to choose because it's just a matter of hey,
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: what team, So, yes, is his most value as a
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: DH for some team? Probably does he still feel like
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: he can play right field? So maybe a team that
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: says we'll let you play eighty games in right field,
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: We'll let you play one hundred games in the outfield,
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: you're not just gonna DH. Maybe that's where he goes
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: and it might not be the place that everybody thinks.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and last thing, like you think of I Henningo
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Suarez talked about him, and remember when we had forget
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: voting on I said, hey, the Reds would love to
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: have him a good pick up. He kind of, like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: you know, shushed it off a little bit, not being
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: rude about it, but reds end up picking him up.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Nobody really saw that coming. So like, there might be
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: a team out there, like, dude, this guy can have
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: a resurgence and all of a sudden we give him,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: you know, a little bit of money and next thing,
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: you know, kick start back his career.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: I agree totally.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Well, the league looks at players mostly the same way,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: and his defensive metrics are not good. You can argue
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: it however you want, they're not good. Most of the
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: league is going to want him to primarily be a DH.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: He actually said earlier this offseason he would explore first base.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's a spot that he starts messing around with
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: in spring training. I think he's at a prove it
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: point where a team's gonna say, I don't know, you
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: probably are going to DH. We can mess around with
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: first You might not play a lick of outfield, or
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: if there's injuries, you might play a little bit of outfield.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: But I know you have a chip on your shoulder.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: You've provided mostly above average offense over the last five years.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: You are a timely hitter. If you watch him on
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: an everyday basis.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Nobody's saying this is a superstar, but this is a
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: guy like these guys are saying that he can contribute
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: to a team that needs some more offense.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: So krats for me.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I think if I'm Nick, I'm like, dude, I don't
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: care what you do with me. I just want to
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: go Rake and playing the All Star Game in Philly
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: this year?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Such a your side? What is that called?
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: It's not trolling, but you're trolling. You're you're you're living
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: for that moment. You want to see every every two
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: for three game that Nick has this year. Scott's going
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: to be like, let's get.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: The voting going, Let's get the voting going.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: No, I yeah, that would be that would be nice,
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: That'll be would be sweet revenge, I guess you would say.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: But I think he's got a lot. I think he's
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: got a lot to prove, and I think some of
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: the things that just have circled out there. How many
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: times has Nick really gone through struggles? How many times
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: in his career as a baseball player, not his life
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: his career as a baseball player. He was a massively
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: hot super prospect coming out of high school, made it
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: to the big league super early, and has had success
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: a lot along the way how to kind of re
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: re up his value part way through like rate at
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: free agency, and then he cashed in. So it's like,
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: you know, how do you handle those how do you
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: handle those setbacks? Is it time for a comeback? We'll
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: see in twenty twenty six.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I'm going to read an excerpt from an article that
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: mac elb from The Athletic wrote. This was the article
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: that drove I think Castiano's writing about the beer into in.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Miami last year.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: The article, by the way, if you want to check
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: it out, how the Phillies one hundred million dollar marriage
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: with Nick Castianos ended in divorce. I want to get
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: player perspective here because I'm getting a little bit of
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: shades of Adam Laroche. Young fans, you can look up
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: that story, google him. Here's from the article about four
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: hours right, So Todd, you got your first up here.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Let me cue you. Ready.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: About four hours before game two of last year's NLDS
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Castianos's final home game, a Phillies coach through batting practice
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: to Nick son Liam while some Dodgers players were on
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: the field doing pregame preparations. Real Muto waited to take
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: early batting practice. The same pregame hitting sessions carried over
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: to Dodger Stadium, where Liam joined his father on the
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: field before more playoff games. The Phillies had entered the
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: series not expecting Castianos to be a factor, and injury
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: to Harrison Vader forced him into action. Castianos had two
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: hits and fifteen avs. He drove in the team's lone
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: run in that heartbreaking eleven inning defeat in Game four
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: that sent the Phillies home. Afterward, he sipped on a
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: beer inside the losing clubhouses. Everyone reflected on what was
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: and what was not. By then, there was no love lost.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: The Phillies knew their marriage with Castianus was ending playoffs.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Kid on the field, BP, is that okay?
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine?
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: I think it's fine. Maybe he could have picked a
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: different time to go. Maybe that.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: That's the only problem I have with that. Make sure
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: you know when you're on there, nobody else is supposed
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: to hit. If a guy is supposed to come in,
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: Hey guy, Hey Liam, we got to get off the field.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: That kind of deal I will never not side with
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: with a family member trying to have his boy on
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: a field in a major league field working out having
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: a good time. But also I will always side with
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: the professional that needs to get his work done as well.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: But but they said real Muto was waiting to take
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: early VP. Again, like this is you know a ton point.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Nick will come on the show. We can talk to
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: him about this, because this could be like one disgruntled
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: person or person in the organization. That's probably where Krats
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: is going to come in being like, oh, let me
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: get him, let me go after him.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: So I'm just presenting what is out here right now.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: He's gonna talk. I'm sure he'll come on here and talk.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: If this was the true story and how everything unfolded. Hopefully,
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: while I talk, I sound like I understand. M two
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: comes up, Hey, big guy, we got to get off.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: He's taken early BP. Let's go to the cage like
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: something like that probably should have happened. Yes, of course
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: the baseball player should get precedents of that. He's trying
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: to win as the playoffs. The beer thing, when you lose,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: grab a beer, talk to the boys. What the hell
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: is that crap about? I mean, come on, man, like
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: that right there, putting in a beer after you lost, Well,
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: that's what. That's what guys do who like to drink
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: beer after a game, poor themselves. Whatever they're drinking, sip
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: on it and talk about what.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: Could have been. There could have been, so should have
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: that part. That's bogus.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: They shouldn't have put they put that in there for
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: people just be like, oh, and did you hear about
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: him drinking a beer too?
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: That's well, I will say this pot let me.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: I don't agree with that one at all.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I agree we're on the same page with that beer
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse. That was kind of relating to the
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: beer in the dugout incident.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: So just to I heard that, we're taking it. Yeah,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: you saw that he.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Brought not the only one, not the only one to
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: ever do that. That's just what he got picked up
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: because it's it's here.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: People are trying to find more crap and make it
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: seem like he's worse of a person for doing that.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, every Joe Schmoe fan is acting like, you know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: he broke the holy rule of bringing.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: A beer into that's where That's where I goug out when.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: He was taken out of a game and we talked
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: about it live reacting to it yesterday and and I
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: got the uh the Straight Edge Brigade online being like,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: how dare he? You guys are defending him because he's
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: come on the show before. I was like, I don't
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: give a shit. It has nothing to do with that.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: I just know that there's probably hundreds of players who
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: have brought a little sip of alcohol into the dugout
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: after they're not in the game, or even some pictures
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: when they're not pitching in that game, like a starter.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: So I know enough.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: You guys know enough, right, But Krats the floor is yours.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: Hey.
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: I won't comment more on the we hit the beer
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: thing plenty yesterday. I love the fact it was a
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: presidente and if you get an actual presidente from the
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: Dominican oh, I mean, it's almost like yeah anyway. But
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: the whole hitting on the field thing, I'm in agreeance
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: with Todd that, yes, families should be able to do
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: things you should be able to But there is zero
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: chance that JT.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Real Muto was standing there like how Matt painted it
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: in that in that article.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: J T.
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: Romutto wasn't standing there like, Oh, I guess, I guess
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to go watching these guys interact, watching
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: how different guys interact with the with each other on
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: the Phillies team. It really is like a family and
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: they've been there together. Was Nick taking you know? Was
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: he saying, hey, you know what, this might be my
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: last time that he gets to hit with me on
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: the field as a Philly. Maybe maybe he knew, you know,
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: his time was coming to an end. But I need
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: to see the fact that JT real Muto was being
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: put out because because of Liam hitting, like Liam hitting
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: before early work, like early work is happening, like when
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: pictures and catchers are out there stretching, when pictures are
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: getting their long toss in before before visiting, before home
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: team batting practice. So I don't think this was as
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: big of a deal. It was just more of a
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: It was another story that until JT comes on and says, dude,
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: I was I was put out because of that. That
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: banged up my entire rest of my routine, or Nick
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: comes on and goes like, yeah, Liam was hitting, like
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: it was totally finn Like I wasn't taking up any time.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: Like that happens a lot, and I think that should
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: always happen.
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: Agreed, and to button it up. If JT was really waiting.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: Even if JT and Nick had a problem with each other,
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: you have to let the guy go with it like
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: that's I just can't see that happen in that way.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: And if it did, then that's news to me and
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: everybody in the baseball world that that happened.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: We're gonna hear more about this. At some point, Dave
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Dombraski was asked about this. I watched the back and
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: forth with media because Philly media was doing a really
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: nice job trying to get answers, and Dave was just
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: basically saying, listen, it was seven months ago, and I'm
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: gonna let Nick handle the rest. So I'm like, okay,
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: I hope Nick comes out and talks about it at
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: some point, you know, when he's comfortable to go over it,
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: he'll sign and then we'll figure it out.
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: Sorry, one last thing, I got a call after I
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: talked about the whole Knick situation from somebody with the Phillies,
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: And yes, the situation what I had said was a
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: dress to me, but it was also then added on
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: to that the fact that you know, there's certain things
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  Speaker 6: that certain guys handle in certain ways, and it was like, okay,
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: was it just the beer in the dugout situation. No,
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: was it just the Liam hitting and j t Romuto
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  Speaker 6: standing there. No, this was something that was brewing. And
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: like I think, whoever talked to Matt Gelb, or maybe
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: Matt Gelb saw it and saw it a certain way
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  Speaker 6: because things have been brewing.
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  Speaker 1: Things have been brewing.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: And to me go back and look at what he
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: did throughout his four years, his three years of his contract,
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: three of the four years, I don't think it was
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: an awful contract. There's much worse contracts out there. Right now,
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: It was four years because it was a five to
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: one hundred, right.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Years, Okay. I thought it was four years.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Last year because he had one year left.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: I think offensive. Look what he did, m h.
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  Speaker 3: He did some things, okay, And I think the league
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: evaluates a player like him differently.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Now is that right or wrong? I don't know, but
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: totally right.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: You get you get destroyed on a war number for
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: defense these days, and if you're out.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: There, he doesn't.
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: He doesn't control his zone very well. He doesn't control
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: his zone very well. He strikes out like nobody's denying
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: his deficiencies. The reason they came up with the acronym
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: war wins above replacement. The replacement player is the guy
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: coming up from Triple A. Literally my career, I am
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: the replacement player. My career numbers are rate at zero.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: It's negative point one is my replacement number. So I
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: am the replacement. Is Nick Costianos on every day of
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: the week and twice on Sundays better than me. Yes,
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: So that's why, in my opinion, he should be on
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: a big league team giving you one hundred and sixty
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: two games.
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  Speaker 2: Not a replacement in our heart.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, next up, I mean that was great. I really
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: enjoyed that segment and hope everyone else did. To let
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: us know, if you're watching this afterward, drop a comment,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: yell at us, do whatever you want. That calendar is
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: sizzling bout Territory Spring Training Tour.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: We have one more show.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: We do have a show on Monday, okay, and then
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: the spring training tour begins. AJ will be here doing
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Monday show. I actually don't think I'll be on Monday show,
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: but AJ will be there. Krats will be there. Oh
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry that I take ten days off the show
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: the whole year. So Royals camp on Tuesday Royals camp
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: on Tuesday, Guardians Wednesday, A's Thursday, Dodgers Friday, Mariners Saturday, Sunday,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Rangers camp and then there are a ton of other
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: teams were hitting. I think about twenty five teams on
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: a five week tour. So if you want to see
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: the rest, then have fun.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Tricia Whittaker hosting on Monday, and I heard it could
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: be a very special episode Buck Show, Walter joining and
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: we might have like a semi live audience. No promises,
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: but Tricia Whittaker hosting on Monday. I had one other thing. Oh,
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Roman Anthony added to the WBC. He's going to play
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: for Team USA in place of Corbyn Carrol if he
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: passes the spring training physical.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Twenty pounds of muscle.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: Twenty pounds of muscle twenty pounds. I'm not saying he
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: got heavy, but twenty pounds of pure muscle. Maybe that's
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: a technicality and I'm being a nerd about it. So
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: enjoy the weekend everyone, Todd Father's birthday weekend continues.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: What other surprises will he have?
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I got a big dinner tomorrow. Valentine's dead Man,
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: my money, my buddy came through Mark, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Crawts Hats on the way out.
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  Speaker 1: No very Orange.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: They got a shout out today for Miles Michaelis, who said,
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: if you back up enough as a bass.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Coach, you might as well. That was the line of
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: the show. Happy Friday people, Happy Monday.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Happy Birthday. Have a good day.
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  Speaker 2: H