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Deesha Thosar’s Yankees/Mets report, Steve Melewski on Orioles/Jays · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: It was very Unsoto like to swing at that slider
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Speaker 1: from Hater. I think it really just showed me that
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Speaker 1: he really wanted to have a huge, huge, huge moment.
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Speaker 2: Joining us right now. Fox Sports MLB reporter and columnists
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Speaker 2: cover both New York teams with her right now, Dsha,
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Speaker 2: Happy day after Opening Day, second day of the season
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Speaker 2: to you. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, let's start
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Speaker 2: in the Al East while we're there. What did you
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Speaker 2: think of the Yankees opening day performance and the win
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Speaker 2: over the Brewers?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, happy opening Day today that the day after after
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Speaker 1: the teams are still starting up, the Yankees looked good.
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Speaker 1: I think I liked how Aaron Boone put in. He
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Speaker 1: said they have a lot of questions, but they think
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Speaker 1: they have answers too, and we saw a glimpse of that.
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Speaker 1: I know in spring training we don't like to put
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Speaker 1: a lot of weight on what those guys are doing,
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Speaker 1: but Austin Wells and Volpi really did look good in
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Speaker 1: spring and that carried over yesterday. Right off the bat,
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Speaker 1: lead off home run for Wells. He does have some
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Speaker 1: stark quality to him. That's that intangible quality that I
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Speaker 1: think will put him over the top in this lineup.
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Speaker 1: And we can hopefully see him grow this year and
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Speaker 1: he can avoid sort of that sophomore slump. I would
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Speaker 1: love to see a huge year from Bolpi. This is
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Speaker 1: his third year in the big leagues. I wouldn't say
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Speaker 1: he's been a disappointment exactly in the Bronx, but he
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Speaker 1: has fallen short of expectations since the Yankees promoted him
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Speaker 1: to be their franchise shortstop, sort of that big big
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Speaker 1: player after Jeter left retired from the organization. So I
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Speaker 1: think this is going to be a huge year for them,
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Speaker 1: and we like what we saw yesterday from the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: They can keep that going. Then, of course Soto exiting
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Speaker 1: the Bronx is an easier pill to swallow if they
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Speaker 1: can keep that up with some of the contributions from
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Speaker 1: young guys.
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Speaker 3: You talk about it still. You wrote an article about
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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge. It still depends if the Yankees go pretty
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Speaker 3: much it's Aaron Judge goes and he had a nice
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Speaker 3: double at the end of the game. There struggle a
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Speaker 3: little bit in the beginning, but again you saw kickstarted
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Speaker 3: that in and got him going again. Talk a little
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Speaker 3: about that article and what you really mean by that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I've seen it since covering Judge. Really
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Speaker 1: it's been what can he do for this team? They're
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Speaker 1: adding around him, there's been supporting cast. Of course last
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Speaker 1: year was the best example with Sodo, But even when
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Speaker 1: Judge had that slow start last year, Sodo was still
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Speaker 1: being Sodo. He was producing. But that Yankees team, that
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Speaker 1: lineup really really looks to Judge as sort of their
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Speaker 1: big star of if he's not doing anything, how far
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Speaker 1: are we actually going to go? And no matter what
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Speaker 1: year it is, no matter who's on the roster in
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Speaker 1: the lineup, this sort of theme has carried through since
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Speaker 1: Judge has been up in the big leagues. And the
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Speaker 1: second part of this is that it's a little unfair
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Speaker 1: of us right to keep asking Judge to keep putting
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Speaker 1: up MVP seasons. But the basis of that is that
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Speaker 1: he just keeps doing it. And it reminds me of
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Speaker 1: the twenty two season of when he broke that big
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Speaker 1: home run record. He got sixty two home runs, and
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Speaker 1: really the industry at large was sort of, this is
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Speaker 1: it right, Judges had his career year, there's no way
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Speaker 1: he can top that, and then he just continues to
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Speaker 1: do so. Last year was actually an even better year
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Speaker 1: than that twenty twenty two season. So I think the
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Speaker 1: entire Yankees lineup is built right now around Judge having
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Speaker 1: not just a good year, not just an all star year,
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Speaker 1: but a big, monster MVP year to kind of offset
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Speaker 1: some of those other question marks that will arise no
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Speaker 1: matter what from the young guys. So we saw it yesterday,
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Speaker 1: like you just alluded, Todd, Judge got that big double
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Speaker 1: off a little help from the third base bag, and
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Speaker 1: you could hear the sigh of relief from the stadium,
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Speaker 1: not just the dugout, of course, his teammates were happy
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Speaker 1: for him, get the monkey off your back the first
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Speaker 1: hit of the season, but even the entire stadium the
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Speaker 1: crowd sort of exhaled. It was like, okay, good, we
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Speaker 1: can put that drop ball from Judge in the World
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Speaker 1: Series behind us and just start a new year. And
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Speaker 1: I think as long as Judge is at his prime,
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Speaker 1: this is sort of going to be the bar for him.
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Speaker 1: The expectation is to just put up how many MVP
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Speaker 1: seasons can he really collect before hanging those cleats up.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, the whole lineup is a round Judge, and everything
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Speaker 4: with Judge is dictated based on who is hitting in
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Speaker 4: front of him, and who's hitting behind him. Can Austin Wells,
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Speaker 4: who will not play one hundred and sixty two games,
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Speaker 4: He's gonna, you know, most likely play one hundred and
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Speaker 4: twenty to one hundred and thirty five games as the
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Speaker 4: leadoff hitter. Can that be sustainable? Not in a sense
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Speaker 4: that Austin Wells can't handle it, but in those forty
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Speaker 4: games where he doesn't start, how are they gonna be
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Speaker 4: able to just you'll just fill in for somebody that
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Speaker 4: hits the front of judge.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's where the Yankees have always had
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Speaker 1: good options at leadoff. I think generally reporters were sort
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Speaker 1: of surprised when they named Wells a leadoff because that
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Speaker 1: was not one of the candidates. A typical guy you'd
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Speaker 1: think would be Jazz Chisholm could really be a good
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Speaker 1: table setter for that lineup. Even VOLTI year ago, two
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Speaker 1: years ago, he looked like he could be that kind
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Speaker 1: of guy. So I think a lot of the Yankees'
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Speaker 1: lineup construction ever since the past few years, since Boone
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Speaker 1: has really been the manager, has just relied on balance.
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Speaker 1: He loves the right lefty balance. But more than that,
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Speaker 1: he leaves really a lot of open spots for guys
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Speaker 1: to just compete and take what they can. I think
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Speaker 1: when Wells isn't going to be the starting catcher, there's
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Speaker 1: opportunity for guys to play the hot hand and go
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Speaker 1: from there. I think really throughout the regular season, the
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Speaker 1: Yankees do have the luxury of flipping around their lineup.
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Speaker 1: They're not a team that has to rely on guys
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Speaker 1: playing the same exact role every day. Their goal is
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Speaker 1: really just get to the playoffs, right, and then from
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Speaker 1: there they can set more of some consistency. I think
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Speaker 1: the first few months, maybe even until the All Star break,
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Speaker 1: it's just going to be finding out who is going
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Speaker 1: to settle in their roles and who's going to flourish there.
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Speaker 1: And right now we saw Wells take it, but that
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Speaker 1: won't necessarily mean that he'll be that guy for the
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Speaker 6: Hi dsha, Now I get to be on ahead and
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Speaker 6: take my turn. Sorry for that little hiccup. Can we
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Speaker 6: talk about Devin Williams a little bit. He's obviously a
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Speaker 6: great piece to this bullpen. Yesterday there was a little
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Speaker 6: bit of struggle and there were speculation that possibly tipping pitches.
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Speaker 6: Have you heard anything of that nature, and how good
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Speaker 6: is he going to be in the long run for
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Speaker 6: this team?
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Speaker 1: No, I know that we there was a video I
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Speaker 1: think in the playoffs of Devin Williams sort of tipping
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Speaker 1: his pitching pitches to us from that camera looking at
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Speaker 1: it from second base. I think I really enjoyed the
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Speaker 1: Mets perspective on this. Of course, Pete Alonzo that huge
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Speaker 1: home running had off Devin Williams is that from their
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Speaker 1: angle they did not see at all any tipping pitches.
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Speaker 1: It was really just them looking at this window in
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Speaker 1: front of Devin Williams, focusing on that slot and just
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Speaker 1: trying to swing when they know that that balls coming
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Speaker 1: in their window. Regardless of what happened last year, I
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Speaker 1: think going into this season, what we saw yesterday from
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Speaker 1: Devin Williams is his former team having a really, really
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Speaker 1: good read on him. Right, So I think yesterday was
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Speaker 1: really good to kind of get that behind him, get
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Speaker 1: settled in. But closers are finicky, and I don't expect
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Speaker 1: him to just have a really smooth ride for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the season in a new division, adjusting to
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Speaker 1: a new team, and I like how the Yankees handled
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Speaker 1: his escape artists yesterday. They actually ended up giving him
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Speaker 1: The Yankees are a few teams do this, but they
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Speaker 1: gave a belt to the winning player of the game,
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Speaker 1: and they actually gave it to Devin Williams. And I
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Speaker 1: asked around of why, and they were really impressed that
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Speaker 1: he was just able to get out of that ninth
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Speaker 1: inning after loading the bases with nobody out against his
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Speaker 1: former team. He really had to bear down there to
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Speaker 1: get out of it, and that showed a lot of
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Speaker 1: great So I think the more of those appearances pile up,
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Speaker 1: we'll see more of the Devin Williams that will settle
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Speaker 1: into that closer role. And guess what if he doesn't,
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Speaker 1: they have a Luke Weaver waiting right behind him who's
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Speaker 1: more than ready to kind of do again what he
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Speaker 1: did last year. So no, I've not heard about tipping
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Speaker 1: pitches a thing from us. From that camera angle, it
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Speaker 1: is easy to think that, but from what I've heard
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Speaker 1: from batters, they don't see that from him.
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Speaker 4: It has never gotten that bad that Luke Weaver will
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Speaker 4: need to take Devin Williams job until Devin Williams leaves.
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Speaker 4: So Yankees fans can relax. That's one stable part of
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Speaker 4: part of But let's go to the other side of
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Speaker 4: the city. What storyline should should we hit on first
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Speaker 4: with the Mets? The fact that one Soto did all
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Speaker 4: one Sodo could do, Peine Alozo. You know, he's one
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Speaker 4: for two, so he did everything. And Clay Holme like,
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Speaker 4: what should be the most what should we on Mets?
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Speaker 7: Up?
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Speaker 4: Should we most be pissed off about as Mets fans?
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Speaker 4: Or the greatest highlight of a three to one loss?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think really it's hard to be more pissed
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Speaker 1: off about the Mets anything other than their big question
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Speaker 1: mark leading into the season, which is starting pitching. And
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Speaker 1: they really did nothing yesterday to convince me that they
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be concerned about that, and it's going to be
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Speaker 1: kind of a mess for them, I think, to just
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Speaker 1: get to June, because they're relying on reinforcements from Sean
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Speaker 1: and Ia Frankie Montas that are not going to happen
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Speaker 1: for at least maybe a month, a few more weeks.
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Speaker 1: But even when those guys return, how successful are they
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Speaker 1: going to be right off the bat of injury? So
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Speaker 1: I think throwing Tyler or McGill out there, David Peterson,
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Speaker 1: Griffin canning the code, I Senga, who we really have
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Speaker 1: no idea. The Carlos Windows of the manager seems to
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Speaker 1: have no idea what to expect from Senga. So that
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Speaker 1: is just a little too many question marks in that
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Speaker 1: rotation for this great team that they've built. They have
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Speaker 1: a great offense. This is their best opening day lineup
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Speaker 1: yesterday that they've ever had in franchise history. So I
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Speaker 1: think they really really still should have done more to
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Speaker 1: supplement that starting pitching. Until then, they just have to
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Speaker 1: hope that the offense can overpower any shortcomings from that rotation.
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Speaker 1: And in that regard, there really wasn't a lot to
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Speaker 1: be pissed off about the lineup. I mean, Soto did
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Speaker 1: almost everything right, and I think in that last at
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Speaker 1: bad against Hater, he showed that he was human and
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Speaker 1: it was very un Sooto like to swing at that
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Speaker 1: slider from Hater. I think it really just showed me
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Speaker 1: that he really wanted to have a huge, huge, huge
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Speaker 1: moment in his first game as a met his big
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Speaker 1: career fifteen more years in Queens. I think that got
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Speaker 1: to him a little more than the good discipline and
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Speaker 1: the plate approach we saw from Sodo the entire game.
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Speaker 1: Frankly so, I think fans still continue to be pissed
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Speaker 1: off about the starting pitching. I think more noise about
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Speaker 1: that issue is not going to hurt.
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Speaker 2: I understand David Stern saying that he doesn't want to
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Speaker 2: commit massive long term dollars to starters. Understand it. I
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily agree to it, but I understand it. And
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Speaker 2: I was proven wrong last year when that rotation was
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Speaker 2: awesome and many of those guys either at breakout or
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Speaker 2: bounce back performances. But when you look at last year's
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Speaker 2: rotation Dsha, and you look at this year's rotation, there
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Speaker 2: are a lot of similarities and that you look on
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Speaker 2: paper and you go I could see one of those
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Speaker 2: guys breaking out. Just last year felt a little bit
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Speaker 2: outlier to me. And I don't want to go too
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Speaker 2: far because it's only one game, But do you feel
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Speaker 2: like they're banking too much on breakouts and the pitching
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Speaker 2: machine that they have as in the pitching lab and
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Speaker 2: Jeremy Hefner and some of the other people behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes that are able to help some guys now resurrec
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Speaker 2: careers plus a little bit more of a pitcher's park
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Speaker 2: than some others. Do you feel like they're adding all
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Speaker 2: of that up? Plus Stern's taking a page out of
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Speaker 2: what he did in Milwaukee with usually a rotation that
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Speaker 2: found guys at the back end that would come out
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Speaker 2: of the blue. Do you feel like all of that
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Speaker 2: is adding up and could lead to a disaster for
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Speaker 2: them if you do have the situation we have when
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Speaker 2: we started out here with Manaia down montas down Holmes
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Speaker 2: obviously transitioning for the first time to a starter and
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Speaker 2: probably going to have issues in the second half of
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Speaker 2: the season. That's usually what happens when guys suddenly transitioned
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Speaker 2: to a role like this. Rinaldo Lopez was really good
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Speaker 2: for almost the entire year, but he did start to
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Speaker 2: tire late.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you kind of touched on all of
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Speaker 1: the thoughts I think that have to surround this starting
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Speaker 1: pitching is at it's twofold, right. The formula worked for
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Speaker 1: them last year. So David Stewartson kind of listened to
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Speaker 1: us and laugh and just point to the track record
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Speaker 1: that he's had with the Brewers end up to last
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Speaker 1: year and say that it'll work out. And on the
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Speaker 1: other end of it, I do think that starting pitching
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Speaker 1: is it has to be has to be strong for
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Speaker 1: that this team that they've built. If this was just
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Speaker 1: a reset lead year like it was last year for
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Speaker 1: the Mets, as it was advertised, where they got off
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Speaker 1: to that really really horrendous start up until May and
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Speaker 1: into June almost then you can kind of take the
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Speaker 1: starting pitching for what it was, hope for the best.
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Speaker 1: That's not what this year is. There's just too much
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Speaker 1: writing on it. Even so, too aside, this is a
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Speaker 1: season of pet Alonzo that they are for sure getting
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Speaker 1: and paying thirty million dollars for. So I think just
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Speaker 1: with all and of course Francisco Lindor and his pri
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Speaker 1: and Brandon Nimmo, these are windows that are currently open
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Speaker 1: that the Mets have to have to capitalize on. So
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Speaker 1: in that sense, I think the larger picture, they had
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Speaker 1: to have a better starting rotation. At the same time,
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Speaker 1: that being said, right, we can see in these next
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Speaker 1: month at least for the first month, to see how
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Speaker 1: it goes, See what they have in the inventory, see
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Speaker 1: how well David Peterson in particular is pitching. He pitched
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Speaker 1: really well in spring, so he could potentially carry that
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Speaker 1: rotation for now, and then of course right look at
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Speaker 1: the trade deadline and see what moves they can make
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Speaker 1: their assess the situation. So this is David Stern's m O.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, I really didn't expect him to draw
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Speaker 1: a huge departure from the way he's always operated things,
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Speaker 1: and I think I think David Stearns feels more confident
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Speaker 1: in the way that he has gone about it, knowing
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Speaker 1: that he has Steve Cohen and his big wallet in
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Speaker 1: case anything happens and they need to do anything a
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Speaker 1: bigger signing next offseason. Of course, at this point it's
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Speaker 1: too late for that, so I think they have a
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Speaker 1: few balls in the air that proved that they worked
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Speaker 1: last year. Personally, I'm with you, Scott and that I
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Speaker 1: think last year was lightning in a bottle. I view
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Speaker 1: it the same way as Jose Glacias his year. I'm
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Speaker 1: with the Mets that they that they did not re
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Speaker 1: sign mister oh my God back into Queen's I think
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Speaker 1: that was just perfect the way that it happened last year,
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Speaker 1: and some things have to kind of stay that way.
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Speaker 1: And that's how I view even a guy like Sean Mania,
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Speaker 1: who they're kind of depending on to be an ace.
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Speaker 1: If Sega doesn't come through, his projections are all four
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Speaker 1: plus ERA this year. Of course, you can always beat
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Speaker 1: projections and prove those wrong. But I think really what
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Speaker 1: we saw from the rotation was a one hit wonder
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Speaker 1: in that sense. And if they want to prove me wrong,
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Speaker 1: prove you wrong, I'm all for it, and we can
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Speaker 1: laugh again and our own analysis and really even double
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Speaker 1: down on David Stearns and his formula. But right now
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Speaker 1: it looks like they definitely need more reinforcements in that rotation.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you, all right. So let's our guys were
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Speaker 2: freaking out trying to figure out who is behind you
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Speaker 2: on the wall?
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Speaker 8: Is it you?
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Speaker 3: I said, Bryce Harper?
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Speaker 2: But then I thought you said Raphael, and I did.
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Speaker 3: It looked like Bryce in the top right there, But
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Speaker 3: then I'm.
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Speaker 1: You had it. It's Rafa. He's my all time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but doesn't it look like Harper with the headband
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Speaker 3: on in the back.
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Speaker 8: It's it's got a similar vibe.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, it's got a similar.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 8: Love it?
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for joining us, Enjoy the first weekend
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Speaker 2: up game, and we'll catch you again soon.
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Speaker 1: Okay, of course, thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 8: Guys.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. Steve Maleski is back with us covering
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Speaker 2: the Orioles, so all your long you can check out
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Speaker 2: his substack Steve on baseball dot substack dot com. Steve,
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Speaker 2: Happy second day of the season to you. And I'm
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Speaker 2: sure Orioles fans were lit with excitement as they pounded
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Speaker 2: Blue Jays pitching. So good to see you. And what'd
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Speaker 2: you think of day one for Baltimore in twenty twenty five?
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Speaker 7: I could not have gone much better for the Orioles,
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Speaker 7: that's for sure. And I think what it showed is
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Speaker 7: and Brandon had said this after the game, I mean,
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Speaker 7: this is what our lineup could be. And he doesn't
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Speaker 7: mean they're gonna score ten runs or hit six home
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Speaker 7: runs every night, but it's a deep lineup. And I
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Speaker 7: mean yesterday, even in scoring twelve runs and hitting six
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Speaker 7: home runs, the number eight nine hitters in the lineup
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Speaker 7: got combined one hit and Gunner Henderson wasn't on the roster.
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Speaker 7: So I mean it was an exciting start for the Orioles.
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Speaker 7: Last year when they had the second best homer hitting
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Speaker 7: team in baseball, they never six in a game they
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Speaker 7: had five once and.
18:02
Speaker 8: Four eight times. So what a great start, just showing
18:05
Speaker 8: the power they have.
18:06
Speaker 7: Adlee's improvement in March obviously came through Cedric Mubbins hit
18:12
Speaker 7: one thirty in March, showing us for a veteran, the
18:14
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18:16
Speaker 8: He comes out and hits two homers. So a great
18:18
Speaker 8: start for Baltimore.
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Speaker 3: I want to go to one guy, Adalie Rushman. He
18:23
Speaker 3: looked like a man on a mission yesterday. Incredible outing.
18:28
Speaker 3: He looked like that swing his back. He looks like listen.
18:31
Speaker 3: You know he didn't have the best of yours last year,
18:33
Speaker 3: but this is going to be his year. It was
18:35
Speaker 3: exciting to see him talk a little bit about, you know,
18:37
Speaker 3: their fearless leader on the team.
18:41
Speaker 8: I mean, incredible start for Rutchman.
18:43
Speaker 7: And the thing that he's been doing so well all
18:45
Speaker 7: spring training, you guys, is using the whole field and
18:48
Speaker 7: he showed that yesterday. He took a single to left,
18:51
Speaker 7: he turned on a pitch to right. I think one
18:53
Speaker 7: thing I want to see him do more of this year,
18:57
Speaker 7: and I don't know whether he will or not, is
18:58
Speaker 7: attack the first pitch. Because he takes the first pitch
19:03
Speaker 7: as much as any player in baseball. And I think
19:06
Speaker 7: there are some pitchers in the game who look at
19:08
Speaker 7: that chance to go oh one on this guy, and
19:11
Speaker 7: he's gonna start ambushing some of those.
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Speaker 8: But right now, right I mean, who am I to
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Speaker 8: tell him what to do?
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Speaker 7: The guy's been raking since the first day showed up
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Speaker 7: in Sarasota, So right now he looks like the eight
19:22
Speaker 7: hundred ops Adlee, not the low seven hundred version that
19:26
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Speaker 6: Speaking of raking, what is up with Tyler O'Neill on
20:33
Speaker 6: opening Day? Six straight opening days with homers outrageous?
20:40
Speaker 7: You know, when he did it last year, he set
20:43
Speaker 7: a major league record. No one had ever done it
20:45
Speaker 7: five straight opening gays, so we already was the major
20:48
Speaker 7: league record holder and you just extended it.
20:51
Speaker 8: But there's a look at the power he has.
20:53
Speaker 7: I mean, when you can hit it out to the
20:55
Speaker 7: opo field, that's true power.
20:58
Speaker 8: He's got that me.
21:00
Speaker 7: Last year his numbers against left handed pitchers were incredible,
21:03
Speaker 7: thousand ops was among the best in baseball.
21:06
Speaker 8: And here he is off a right hander.
21:08
Speaker 7: I mean, they want to get Heston cursed at four
21:10
Speaker 7: hundred at batchs this year if they can. And he
21:13
Speaker 7: couldn't get in a lineup yesterday because you got o'hearne
21:16
Speaker 7: and Malnie first base DH. You've got O'Neill and right
21:19
Speaker 7: Cowser and left Cedric Mullens and center. Where do you
21:22
Speaker 7: get Heston in there? Even against a righty? At least
21:25
Speaker 7: for one day, he wasn't in the lineup. He got
21:28
Speaker 7: in the game very late.
21:30
Speaker 4: That's all I was gonna ask you. How's this DH
21:32
Speaker 4: gonna shake out? Because Tyler O'Neil has shown to stay healthy,
21:37
Speaker 4: he's got to get those big muscles off his little.
21:39
Speaker 8: Feet, and he may spend some time there.
21:44
Speaker 7: But I mean, for me, I see it as right now,
21:48
Speaker 7: they got three left the three bats they like O'Nell
21:53
Speaker 7: and two lefties and O'Hearn and Heston and Malnie first base,
21:58
Speaker 7: right field DH, And in a given night, it's hard
22:01
Speaker 7: to get all three in the lineup, you know, because
22:03
Speaker 7: of the only got nine spots and O'Neill in there somewhere,
22:07
Speaker 7: so they'll probably spot O'Neill.
22:09
Speaker 8: You know, they're probably going to hope to get.
22:11
Speaker 7: The one ten, one twenty that the Red Sox got
22:14
Speaker 7: last year, and I mean he still hit thirty some
22:17
Speaker 7: home runs with that, so they want to keep him
22:19
Speaker 7: on the field.
22:20
Speaker 8: Obviously, He's got a pretty good glove too.
22:22
Speaker 7: And I think they got depth in the outfield because
22:24
Speaker 7: Loreano they're going to spot in some against some lefties
22:27
Speaker 7: as they go, and Heston is obviously going to get
22:30
Speaker 7: in there against some righties.
22:33
Speaker 3: So here we go, Orioles coming in hot. They look
22:35
Speaker 3: really good. What are the expectations? Where do you see
22:39
Speaker 3: this team going in the al Least. I'm not talking
22:41
Speaker 3: about playoffs right now. I want to talk about the
22:43
Speaker 3: ale Least because it's going to be a stocked team.
22:46
Speaker 3: There's a lot of stock teams in there.
22:49
Speaker 8: And they believe they're as good as any of them.
22:52
Speaker 7: I was at one of their minor league affiliates yesterday
22:55
Speaker 7: and Bouie, Maryland. The Chesapeake Bay Socks are doing some
22:59
Speaker 7: expansion of their state, so I was there for that event.
23:01
Speaker 7: Mike Elias attended, cal Ripken attended, and Elias told us
23:06
Speaker 7: that he is very confident in his team.
23:08
Speaker 8: He knows how good the division is, but right now.
23:11
Speaker 7: He feels the Orioles stack up as well as anyone.
23:14
Speaker 7: He actually was very high on the pitching, even though
23:17
Speaker 7: they've got the grace and injury right now and they
23:20
Speaker 7: didn't sign of course, resigned Corbyn Burns. I mean, he
23:23
Speaker 7: really likes how it's come together to this point and
23:27
Speaker 7: he feels like their experienced bullpen with the return of
23:30
Speaker 7: Felix Bautista, is going to be pretty strong.
23:32
Speaker 8: So he is. You know, you would expect.
23:35
Speaker 7: The general manager of a contending team to be high
23:37
Speaker 7: on his team on opening day, and he is.
23:42
Speaker 6: I want to talk about Charlie Morton for a second,
23:44
Speaker 6: if you could, Steve, what has he meant to this
23:46
Speaker 6: young pitching staff and what do you expect from him
23:49
Speaker 6: as far as workload this season?
23:53
Speaker 7: Going to be fun to see, of course he goes
23:55
Speaker 7: tonight Game two. And to me, when we entered Morton
24:00
Speaker 7: when he just signed with the Orioles, he talked about
24:03
Speaker 7: the resurgence of his career in the second half of
24:05
Speaker 7: his career.
24:06
Speaker 8: Really about six or eight years ago.
24:07
Speaker 7: He's in Houston and Elias was on that staff and
24:11
Speaker 7: they asked him to go for strikeouts and try to
24:14
Speaker 7: get more swing and miss in his pitching, and he
24:16
Speaker 7: made that adjustment.
24:17
Speaker 8: He was a pitch to contact guy who.
24:19
Speaker 7: Never thought about strikeouts much and he started to get
24:22
Speaker 7: more and if you look at how he's ranked since then,
24:25
Speaker 7: it's truly impressive, and so is its terribility at forty one,
24:29
Speaker 7: it's crazy. I mean, he had better numbers the last
24:33
Speaker 7: two years than Grayson and Dean Kramer if you just
24:38
Speaker 7: go by Er and some other stats notes. So I
24:42
Speaker 7: think the expectations are pretty high for him, even though
24:45
Speaker 7: he's forty one. Does he have another season in the sun.
24:48
Speaker 7: Does he have another one hundred and seventy innings in him?
24:50
Speaker 7: If he does, it will be big for the Orioles.
24:52
Speaker 8: And that for him. All starts tonight, Steven.
24:56
Speaker 4: Before I ask my question, I want to confirm you said.
24:58
Speaker 4: Mike Elias, the gym for the Oriols, said he's happy
25:02
Speaker 4: with their pitching staff.
25:05
Speaker 8: He called it the strength of the team. He really
25:08
Speaker 8: likes how it is right now.
25:10
Speaker 7: I think he noted that they're dealing with some injuries
25:13
Speaker 7: and he said, we think they will be on the
25:15
Speaker 7: short term.
25:16
Speaker 8: We're looking forward to getting some guys back.
25:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, he feels like they've got pitching that will be
25:23
Speaker 7: good enough to win this division right now.
25:26
Speaker 4: Steve, don't let michaelas say that Michael Elias was the
25:29
Speaker 4: one who did not go out and push anybody. Michael
25:31
Speaker 4: Elias is the four facing front of the ownership who
25:35
Speaker 4: did not go out and make the push for the
25:37
Speaker 4: guys that were out there. One of them even went
25:40
Speaker 4: to the division. I know Corbyn Burns left, but this
25:46
Speaker 4: pitching staff is not their strength. They scored twelve runs yesterday.
25:49
Speaker 4: Because this team's lineup is so deep it extends in
25:53
Speaker 4: a line down to Norfolk. Their pitching staff is their
25:58
Speaker 4: achilles heel. Right now, I'm not saying they don't have
26:00
Speaker 4: a good I think they have a really good bullpen.
26:03
Speaker 4: But with Grayson down already, it's they're already testing their depth,
26:08
Speaker 4: which they didn't have coming into this. So is there
26:11
Speaker 4: any Did he give any explanation of why he thinks that,
26:14
Speaker 4: because I don't see any of the guys on there
26:17
Speaker 4: on their top ten Norfolk you know taxi ride that
26:21
Speaker 4: they have coming from starting pitching.
26:25
Speaker 7: Well here's what And again he didn't go into a
26:28
Speaker 7: detailed explanation of each guy in expectations.
26:32
Speaker 8: But and again maybe he's looking at it optimistically.
26:36
Speaker 7: Uh and but Oriel Fans, I think agree with what
26:38
Speaker 7: you said there that they'll go as far as the
26:40
Speaker 7: pitching will take him.
26:42
Speaker 8: And it could be that the offense, which could be
26:44
Speaker 8: top five in baseball may have to carry that pitching,
26:48
Speaker 8: maybe early in the year, maybe all year. We're going
26:50
Speaker 8: to sing.
26:51
Speaker 7: But they were incredibly impressed by Sigano his march. Kovich
26:56
Speaker 7: had a strong March following up a big September.
26:59
Speaker 8: He looks like a young guy ready to pop.
27:02
Speaker 7: And by that I mean I don't mean, you know,
27:05
Speaker 7: pitch like Grayson Say has pitched the last thirty some starts,
27:08
Speaker 7: but I think he's a young guy.
27:10
Speaker 8: On the come. So they do feel encouraged by that.
27:13
Speaker 7: They look at their bullpen, they see a lot of experience,
27:16
Speaker 7: they see the fact that several of these guys have saves,
27:19
Speaker 7: and they feel that Felix is just about all the
27:21
Speaker 7: way back and they'll be cautious with him.
27:23
Speaker 8: So again, is it an optimistic way to look at it?
27:26
Speaker 7: It probably is, But I would contend I would bet
27:29
Speaker 7: most general managers whose teams look good right now on
27:34
Speaker 7: day one of the season are feeling pretty optimistic about
27:38
Speaker 7: their team. And so there still is the trade deadline
27:42
Speaker 7: where if the Orioles need to make that move, they
27:46
Speaker 7: could try to do it in July.
27:48
Speaker 2: Well, said Steve, I know you cover the Orioles, but
27:51
Speaker 2: can you give us a breakdown of what you saw
27:54
Speaker 2: in nine innings from the Blue Jays. I mean, this
27:56
Speaker 2: team was not good last year. Their front off is
28:00
Speaker 2: on a sizzling hot seat. This is a very good division,
28:04
Speaker 2: right Almost everyone's looking at this division saying there's not
28:07
Speaker 2: a bad team in this division. What did you think
28:09
Speaker 2: of the first day of the Blue Jays.
28:12
Speaker 7: I mean, if you're a Toronto fan, you had to
28:14
Speaker 7: be incredibly disappointed your team gets pummeled on opening Day.
28:18
Speaker 7: I mean Burrios was ten to one with the two
28:22
Speaker 7: nine to five Queer against the Orioles and they finally
28:24
Speaker 7: hit them. They had not hit that guy much over
28:27
Speaker 7: his entire career. So when I Scott watched the Blue
28:31
Speaker 7: Jays the last four years from AFAR, Obviously I don't
28:34
Speaker 7: cover that team every day, so I don't speak as
28:36
Speaker 7: any expert on the Blue Jays, but I just I
28:40
Speaker 7: see them seldom equaling to some of their parts. I've
28:45
Speaker 7: looked at their lineup over the years and said, wow,
28:48
Speaker 7: look at what Toronto's got, and then the season ends
28:51
Speaker 7: in there they don't win as many games. I mean
28:53
Speaker 7: they're coming off a losing record. The Blue Jays, you
28:55
Speaker 7: just feel like should be more formidable than this, and
28:58
Speaker 7: maybe they're going to be. It was a dud for
29:00
Speaker 7: one day, and it'll get a lot better soon, sooner
29:03
Speaker 7: than later. But over the last few years, I've just
29:06
Speaker 7: been surprised that they don't seem to play as well
29:11
Speaker 7: as what their roster looks like they might.
29:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well said, that's what I've seen as well.
29:19
Speaker 2: And you know you're hoping for a bounce back from
29:21
Speaker 2: someone like Bobahd. It's one game, but he was oh
29:24
Speaker 2: for four really odious. Menace is the only one who
29:26
Speaker 2: did anything and he was in the cleanup spot. Surprisingly. Anyway,
29:30
Speaker 2: great start for Baltimore. You really can't draw it up
29:33
Speaker 2: much better like than that on opening day, Steve, thank
29:35
Speaker 2: you for the time. Good to see you. We'll get
29:37
Speaker 2: you back on tooon.
29:38
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, guys, enjoyed it. Thanks