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Chuck & Buck 7-14 Hour 3: Scott Hunter, the lists continue and it's trade season! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Eight o'clock hour here on this Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. Fantastic to have you with us
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  Speaker 2: here today. We take you till ten o'clock before we
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  Speaker 2: hand things off to Greg Bell here at this radio station.
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  Speaker 2: And so Ashley Ryan, myself, Chuck Powell with you here
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  Speaker 2: in the eight o'clock hour and joining us now on
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  Speaker 2: the program. It's a bit of an annual tradition. He
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  Speaker 2: is the vice president of Amateur Scouting. He's coming off
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  Speaker 2: his big, big weekend where the MLB Draft was held.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Hunter joins us to tell us everything. He knows,
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  Speaker 2: all the dirt, all the secrets that went behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes in the war room this weekend, and we're here
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  Speaker 2: for all of it. Scott, So thank you very much
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  Speaker 2: for spreading all of the information.
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  Speaker 3: That you have.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys, thanks for having me once again.
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  Speaker 4: So are you going to commandsary?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is. Well we'll see how this. We'll see
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  Speaker 3: how this goes.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to commit to giving all the nitty
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  Speaker 2: gritty details, is that what you're telling me?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm pretty good at being an open book.
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  Speaker 4: My my coworkers think, and a lot of people around
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  Speaker 4: the office.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll give you what I can.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, looking forward to it. Well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to start with a compliment.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to butter you up to get us going,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, there are a few things in sports,
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  Speaker 2: especially like in baseball, like that when the Rays make
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  Speaker 2: a trade and nobody understands that, there's usually this reaction
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  Speaker 2: of well, raise just won the trade. They know what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing over there. And I think that same compliments
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  Speaker 2: being given to you and the Mariners organization when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to the draft, particularly when it comes to drafting
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  Speaker 2: starting pitching. Well, if the Mariners like him, he's probably
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  Speaker 2: really good. So not to embarrass you, but how good
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  Speaker 2: does it feel to have had that success and kind
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  Speaker 2: have earned that reputation at what it is you do
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  Speaker 2: and that is conduct the draft here for the Mariners.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's it's obviously a huge compliment and kind
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  Speaker 4: of humbling for me because as we all know who
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  Speaker 4: are in sports, the game and especially baseball and can
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  Speaker 4: be really humbling. So we try not to, especially myself
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  Speaker 4: and my staff I've been together almost ten years now.
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  Speaker 4: Most of us try not to get too happy with
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  Speaker 4: what we've done and just continue to afford to keeping
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  Speaker 4: our standards high and to continue to do this same
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  Speaker 4: year after year. And you know, that's a great compliment.
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  Speaker 4: I do appreciate that. It is kind of fun a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, you know, where we started ten years ago,
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  Speaker 4: to see where we are now and to have a
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  Speaker 4: reputation when we talk to players and agents and come
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  Speaker 4: out of these meetings with kids before we pick them
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  Speaker 4: and like people want to be Seattle Mariners. And that's
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  Speaker 4: a credit to our entire staff, from front office to analysts,
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  Speaker 4: to PD to all the scouts in the field. It's
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  Speaker 4: really a group effort that kind of makes me look
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  Speaker 4: smart at the end of the day that I have
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  Speaker 4: to give all the credit to the group I work with.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a person favor.
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  Speaker 2: Give me one that you are particularly proud of, a
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  Speaker 2: pick that you've had with the Mariners, that you feel
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  Speaker 2: you stole that guy from the rest of Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: They were asleep and Scott Hunters saw it coming.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if we ever see it coming.
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  Speaker 4: But you have a good feel about people some days,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know, it's hard. He would be easy
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  Speaker 4: to say one of the guys on our big league
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  Speaker 4: team right now. Like you know, cal Ralely was a
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  Speaker 4: third rounder. You know, no one really thought he'd do
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  Speaker 4: the things he has done in this game. I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I had a text message last night. I
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  Speaker 4: haven't even shared it with some of our guys in
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  Speaker 4: the in the field yet, but in the front office.
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  Speaker 4: But when the draft was forty rounds, we had to
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  Speaker 4: pick at the thirty third in the thirty third round,
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  Speaker 4: and his name was Penn Murphy and we had you
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  Speaker 4: know five you know, he was a five.
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  Speaker 3: Year college guy.
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  Speaker 4: And I get a text yesterday, you know, right after
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  Speaker 4: all this draft stuff ends from from Penn, who haven't
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  Speaker 4: talked to in a while, thanking me for the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: with the Mariners. It doesn't go lost on him where
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  Speaker 4: it all started. And the fact that he was a
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  Speaker 4: thirty third rounder when the draft is only twenty rounds
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  Speaker 4: right now is really you know, put.
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  Speaker 3: Things in perspective for him, and those are the moments that.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of live for. I mean, obviously, the guys
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  Speaker 4: are on our big league team. I love them to death,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it would be easy to say we
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  Speaker 4: knew George is going to be as good as he
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  Speaker 4: what is or logan all those they're all in my
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  Speaker 4: you know, heart as favorites. But when you get in
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  Speaker 4: moments like that with the kid like pen Murphy and
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  Speaker 4: seeing how the game has changed, those are kind of
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  Speaker 4: really rewarding because it's it's one scout in the field
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  Speaker 4: who believed in somebody that brought it to us in
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  Speaker 4: our room, and you know, we look through it and say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: why not give this kid a chance? And the next
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  Speaker 4: thing you know, he spent five six years in the
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  Speaker 4: big league. So those are special moments for all of us.
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  Speaker 3: That's great. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Hunter is with US vice President of Amateur Scouting.
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  Speaker 2: Our annual conversation is we recap their most recent draft
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  Speaker 2: held over the weekend starting on Saturday, and that's when
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  Speaker 2: you made your first round selection. Not a pitcher in
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  Speaker 2: the first round. You end up with a corner infield
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  Speaker 2: or third basement at Mississippi State. Ace re with the
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  Speaker 2: number twenty four pick. I think all the experts were
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  Speaker 2: surprised he lasted that long. Where the Mariners surprised to
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  Speaker 2: have had the opportunity to draft ace Reese.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we went into this draft and you know,
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  Speaker 4: from what everybody probably has seen or read prior to
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of a unique year in regards that
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't a lot of separation at the top of
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  Speaker 4: the draft. I think the first three picks were exactly
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  Speaker 4: the first three picks everybody in the country thought was
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  Speaker 4: going to happen. And then things, you know, started to
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  Speaker 4: getting a little i don't say monkey, but all over
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  Speaker 4: the map. So as a group that was going to
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  Speaker 4: our rooms to say, let's build out a board to
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  Speaker 4: the best of our ability, stay true to our values
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  Speaker 4: as an organization, and then we usually line up a
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  Speaker 4: good pocket of players, like ten or eleven guys. This year,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less, depending on where we pick,
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  Speaker 4: and we've lined up about ten or eleven guys that
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  Speaker 4: we said, if one of these guys are there, we
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  Speaker 4: should just take them. And with Reese was in that
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  Speaker 4: in that field of eleven or twelve that we we
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  Speaker 4: didn't really even think he was going to get to us.
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  Speaker 4: And as a draft progresses, we see all these names
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  Speaker 4: going off the board and we're preparing for our you know,
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  Speaker 4: contingency plans, and then you just saw Reese just kept slipping.
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  Speaker 3: So we made some phone calls, We've.
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  Speaker 4: Had to talk to the room, and we stayed with
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  Speaker 4: a plan that if one of those guys got to us,
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  Speaker 4: we would take him. And Ace Ace was a guy,
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  Speaker 4: So it's you know, sometimes it's better to be lucky
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  Speaker 4: than good to get the value in the draft of
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  Speaker 4: a kid that's supposed to go higher, and that that
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  Speaker 4: slipts to you. And I think hopefully it turns out
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  Speaker 4: to be the same situation as Logan Gilbert. We thought
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  Speaker 4: Logan Gilbert was going to go in the top five
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  Speaker 4: picks of that draft in twenty eighteen, and he's sitting
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  Speaker 4: there for us at fourteen. So hopefully history repeats itself
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  Speaker 4: and it turns out to be just as good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you hear Ace Reese described, power is the
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  Speaker 2: first thing that comes to the lips of anyone analyzing him.
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  Speaker 2: So give us your full breakdown of what kind of
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  Speaker 2: player that you took in Ace Reese.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, power leads it. I mean
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  Speaker 4: just obviously what he's done Atsissippi straight over the last
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  Speaker 4: two years. But I mean he's a hitter as well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, when you break it down when we were
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  Speaker 4: going through him, one of our cross checkers just you know,
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  Speaker 4: raises his hand. Jesse Capellis and Mark Loonis were the
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  Speaker 4: two of them that said, Hey, just don't say he's
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  Speaker 4: a power guy. I mean this guy was hit left
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  Speaker 4: he's in the SEC better than he hit right handers,
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  Speaker 4: and he does a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's done.
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  Speaker 4: It for three years. He was at the University of
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  Speaker 4: Houston coming out of high school as a freshman, transfers
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  Speaker 4: to Mississippi State and has just been a force in
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  Speaker 4: the SEC. And you know, for those that don't really
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  Speaker 4: you know, watch a ton of college baseball, the SEC
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  Speaker 4: right now is kind of a different animal than any
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  Speaker 4: other college league in the country because of the talent,
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  Speaker 4: Like these kids are seeing. They're midweek you know competition.
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  Speaker 4: They're still seeing kids coming out of the bullpens and
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  Speaker 4: starters during ninety six, ninety seven. There Friday, Saturday, Sunday
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  Speaker 4: guys or sometimes you know, you don't see a pitch
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  Speaker 4: under ninety five and everybody's got really wicked break in balls.
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  Speaker 4: It's really an advanced league right now. How things have
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  Speaker 4: happened in that league with the nil money and transfer portal.
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  Speaker 4: So when someone of the aces caliber, you look, you know,
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  Speaker 4: look up and you see what he's done there. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's a little more impressive than just doing it that
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, making them no disrespect to the
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  Speaker 4: mid majors, but it's just the competition level is so
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  Speaker 4: high at that level. It shows what kind of person
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  Speaker 4: and character as to be able to stay with it
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  Speaker 4: and not really go through too many ups and downs.
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  Speaker 4: He just does damage consistently.
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  Speaker 2: Is he a third basement? Is that what you drafted
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  Speaker 2: him to be or is that an evolving positional decision
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  Speaker 2: that the organization will make over the years.
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  Speaker 4: Now, we drafted him as a third basement, and it's
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  Speaker 4: probably an evolving position more so for him. And he
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  Speaker 4: got a little chip on his shoulder because people, you know,
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  Speaker 4: question his defense. And when I talked to him the
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  Speaker 4: other day, he just said, I'm a third base and
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to work at it like he's got the
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  Speaker 4: hands in the arm to do it. He did, you know,
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  Speaker 4: have some injuries prior to the season that set them back.
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  Speaker 4: He had like a lower leg injury, believe it was
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  Speaker 4: a foot, so he didn't really get off to a
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  Speaker 4: great start defensively. But he's played first base, he's run
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  Speaker 4: around left field and right field, but he wants to
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  Speaker 4: be a third base and we want him to be
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  Speaker 4: a third baseman, and we do believe he can be because.
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  Speaker 3: He's motivated to do that.
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  Speaker 4: And as we sit in that draft, we always talk
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  Speaker 4: a lot about character and kids and who they are
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  Speaker 4: as people and what the game means to them. And
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  Speaker 4: he's one of those kids that's driven to get better.
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  Speaker 4: And I am a true believer that defense is one
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  Speaker 4: of the things if you have the work ethic to
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  Speaker 4: do it, you can get better at it. And his
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  Speaker 4: bats and obviously Karen r carry him, but playing on
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  Speaker 4: the dirt at third would be an added bonus.
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  Speaker 1: How far away do you think that he is?
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  Speaker 2: And I know you're going to give me a conservative estimate,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that listeners, that's one question they always
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  Speaker 2: have with first round draft picks. I mean, how far
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  Speaker 2: away are we looking before Ace Reese will be major
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  Speaker 2: league ready?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody's timeline is obviously a little different, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's passed a little different. But if history repeats itself,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, some of these kids that have performed as
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  Speaker 4: well if he have has over the last couple of
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  Speaker 4: years in the SEC, they usually move pretty quick. Because
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  Speaker 4: they're a little more ready for the pro lifestyle and
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  Speaker 4: the you know, the stuff that they're going to be seeing.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, I would like to you know, three years,
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  Speaker 4: but I wouldn't shock me if it was sooner. And
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  Speaker 4: I mean depends on you know, I'll get his development,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, those are usually the timetables for you know,
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  Speaker 4: all of our college kids that have gotten to the
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  Speaker 4: big leagues fairly quick, it's usually in that two to
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  Speaker 4: three year raigne. So I would hope that we could
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  Speaker 4: fit that with a ACE as well.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Hunter is with US vice president of Amateur Scouting
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  Speaker 2: for the Mariners, the man of the draft that they've
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  Speaker 2: been so successful here in the last few years drafting, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners. And I'm not going to go through
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  Speaker 2: all the picks, obviously, but I think we should go
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  Speaker 2: through at least one more. Jake Brown your second rounder.
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  Speaker 2: What drew you to Jake Brown?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Jake is an interesting one. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: you guys heard. He was roommates with Chase or Kate
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  Speaker 4: Anderson at the LSU. So it didn't hurt that that
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  Speaker 4: we knew him a little bit, and that Cad Anderson,
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  Speaker 4: you know, kind of vouched for him, but that's not
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  Speaker 4: that's not the reason we took him.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously.
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  Speaker 4: It was just obviously a fun story. But Jake was
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  Speaker 4: a two way guy going in LSU kind of kind
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  Speaker 4: of like we found out according to Jake, Cad was
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  Speaker 4: a really maybe atter hitter than a pitcher. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if if that's accurate, but short sounds is
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  Speaker 4: like a good, pretty good legend that he was like
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  Speaker 4: Roy Hobbs coming out of high school. Wow, So Jake
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  Speaker 4: told us about that. Yeah, Jake told us that. And
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  Speaker 4: Jake's got a kind of a similar story. Went to campus,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as a pitcher to start, and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a two way guy and obviously gravitated towards
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  Speaker 4: playing the outfield. And he's really come on, he's a
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  Speaker 4: guy that we believe is extremely athletic. He's played right
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  Speaker 4: field for LSU, but do believe he could play center
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  Speaker 4: because unfortunately for Jake, they had a center fielder at
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  Speaker 4: the LSU that went you know, I think sixth over
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  Speaker 4: all in the country, so he didn't get any time
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  Speaker 4: in center.
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  Speaker 3: But he's a.
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  Speaker 4: Left handed hitter with you know, eighty eighty speed, which
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  Speaker 4: was kind of shocked us because our scouting reports started
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  Speaker 4: in season had him as a plus runner and then
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  Speaker 4: he goes to the combine and runs one of the
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  Speaker 4: fastest combine times of all time. So we're getting a
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  Speaker 4: toolsy kids who's you know, obviously from a major program,
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  Speaker 4: but has a little more projection left in and than
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  Speaker 4: most kids coming out of college. And to say he
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  Speaker 4: is a character first guy. Our meeting with him at
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  Speaker 4: the combine really through, you know, took us for you know,
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  Speaker 4: a loop there because he's such a leader. You know
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  Speaker 4: that the conversation, the back and forth, what his values
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  Speaker 4: were all lined up and with how we believe you know,
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  Speaker 4: Mariner draft should should be. And that's probably the most
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  Speaker 4: exciting part about Jake is just the human being we're
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  Speaker 4: getting as well.
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  Speaker 2: Are you telling me that Kate Anderson can pitch, hit
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  Speaker 2: and scout? Is that what you're telling me? That's like
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  Speaker 2: that's like one more.
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  Speaker 4: Than It's kind of like the legend is growing. So
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to put too much you know, PARTI
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  Speaker 4: and Kave, but the stories these guys were were talking about,
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  Speaker 4: how is you know he was a better hitter and pitcher.
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of calm bs on but I keep
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  Speaker 4: hearing it and it is funny. I did, you know,
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  Speaker 4: text Kate and said, man, is this guy for real? Like,
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  Speaker 4: tell me if this guy you know, he had a
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  Speaker 4: good interview with us, And all Kate said was if
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  Speaker 4: you want a good player, that's one thing, but you
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  Speaker 4: want an even better person, you should do the smart thing.
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  Speaker 4: And when we drafted on the text and he said, man,
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  Speaker 4: you guys are really smart up there.
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  Speaker 3: So we're feeling pretty good about that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Hunter with us here on chucking back all right.
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  Speaker 2: So again, not gonna go pick by pick through all
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  Speaker 2: of this, but I do find it interesting. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: two hitters, two offensive players to get your draft started,
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  Speaker 2: and and it really was an offensive leaning draft, or
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  Speaker 2: at least positional player I should say leaning draft for you,
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  Speaker 2: which kind of belies your reputation of you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: nailing pitchers and they and the draft. So was it
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  Speaker 2: an intentional to try to stack up positional players or
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  Speaker 2: is it just the way that the board fell this year?
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  Speaker 4: I think it wasn't really intentional, just really what the
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  Speaker 4: draft gave us. I mean, you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of hitters up top that we did like that went
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  Speaker 4: off the board. We tried to make some moves, even
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  Speaker 4: with a couple of high school kids that didn't work out.
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  Speaker 4: And with our bonus pool this year, we didn't have
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  Speaker 4: as much as we did last year, and we had
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  Speaker 4: to you know, just a very we didn't have any
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  Speaker 4: extra pick, so once it got to a point the draft,
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  Speaker 4: we just played it straight. And then when you look
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  Speaker 4: up at the board, I think, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: Nathan Taylor from Cincinnati. We took his, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: he was one of the few starting pitchers we felt
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  Speaker 4: were real true starting pitchers that were.
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  Speaker 3: Still left on the board.
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  Speaker 4: And then it kind of just worked out the way
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  Speaker 4: that Okay, it turned out to be a college heavy
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  Speaker 4: draft with mostly hitters, and I don't think that's a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing for us right now because we've done such
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  Speaker 4: a good job with pitching and over the years we've
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  Speaker 4: gotten our high school hitters going, you know, and with
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  Speaker 4: you know, Colet and Cale like having some some some
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: college baths in our system right now and in all
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: levels of our organization is going to continue to build
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: our group to be foundationally strong, if that makes sense.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: A big question, big picture question for you as somebody
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: that uh, you know, scouts. College, high school has your
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: scouting team that you've done a draft a certain way
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: for a long time, and now all of a sudden,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball is threatening that high school players aren't
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: going to be eligible right out of high school to
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: to enter the draft. What would be Scott Hunter's thoughts
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: on that possibility.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a high school draft myself, so I
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: you know that that sticks sticks a little bit. I
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: don't know if you know if it would be good
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: or bad for the game. I do know that whatever
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: does happen, we obviously always adjust. I mean, it's it
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: would be interesting to see if that did. But if
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: they went to a role where you know, you have
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: you know, one and done in college, how would that
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: change scouting? If kids were eligible every year in four
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: year colleges. So I don't know if I you know,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: I'm an expert on anything in regards to how that
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: should be, But I do know as a group, as
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: a scouting group, we we will adjust and find the
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: best way to get the best players.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: And I think the.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Hardest part of this has been adjusting how college baseball
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: is right now with the you know, the d the
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: nil money, the portal, the you know, kids are three
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: schools in three years. Like, those are the things that
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: we've adapted to, and I think we've done a really
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: good job of it. So if there's another change with
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: the draft, I think we'll be just as prepared.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I could just speak from being in high school, and
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: whenever you would get a scout at your game, you
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: would be just like, oh man, what it did to
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: elevate you. Now, even if it was just like a
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Division two college scout that came here, I would hate
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: for high school players to not have the experience of
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: all the whispers, Hey, somebody from the Mariners is here
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: to watch you. That was a great experience for me
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: when I was at that age.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Oh for me, for me as well, and I think
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: it's for every kid that plays the games that gives you.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Even my own sons, you know, you know, one's playing
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Pro Bowl now, the other ones in college. That's a
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: that's their dream, that's their goal. So whenever you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: anybody comes to a game, let alone a pro scout
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: like these college guys too, it's come so intense for
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: kids these days. I don't know how they handle it,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: but it's definitely a lot different than when I when
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: I went through it for sure.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, man, Well, thank you very much. I'm
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: sure great job as always, and we always look forward
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: to this conversation with you, and I'm sure there's more
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: to discuss, but we'll save it for another time.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Awesome. I appreciate you guys, Thanks for having me as always.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: All right, Scott Onner joining us right here on Chuck
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and Buck in the morning, Vice president of amateur scouting
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: for the Mariners. The MLB Draft held this past week
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: in and once again Mariners getting pretty good grades. A
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: lot of people believe that Ace Reese was a steal
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: for them at number twenty four in the draft out
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: of Mississippi State. I think Jim Kallis during the coverage
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: when as far as saying he is the best power
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: hitting prospect in the entire draft. And so to walk
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: away from a draft and have somebody with that kind
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of power, sixty power grade out of eighty, not bad
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: to slip to you at number twenty four, and it
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: sounds like, and I'm reading into it a little bit,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: it was one of those run to the podium kind
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: of moments. Yeah, like this is too good to be true.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: We didn't spend any time in our war room wavering
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: over one player or the other. When we saw Ace
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Reese was still on the board, we ran the ticket
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: up to the podium to make sure that we grabbed
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the Mississippi State corner infielder.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: I'm excited for him, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you never know.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a big leap to go from amateur
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: to a professional major leaguer. That big a leap to
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: go from amateur to professional, but amateur to major leaguer,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: that is a big leap. And they always don't work
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: out and they got to learn how to hit with
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: a wooden bat, which don't underestimate that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I was there personally.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I worked for the Oneana Yankees one summer and it
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: was that that league, the New York Penn League. It
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: was the draft picks, the most recent draft picks, the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: college guys. That's where they played. It was a short season.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It was right after their college seasons had come to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: a close, and so there was a third round pick
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: by the name of Mark Hubbard. And they're like, wait
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: till you see this guy play. You know, all the
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: coaches like, wait, do you see this guy take.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Around a batting practice? So I made sure that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I was out there on the field to watch Mark
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Hubbard take batting practice, lefty six' three, Lean i'm, like,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: well he's pretty. Skinny it doesn't mean it doesn't have some.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Pop let's see how this. Goes and he just hit
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: one fly ball after another to the, track because one
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: after the, other like like five feet short of the warning.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Track And i'm, LIKE i was expecting, more YECAUSE i
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: was a smart ass even. THEN i was expecting to see.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: More and you know that never did come, around like
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: he without that aluminum, boost that aluminum bat boost did
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: not have the power to play in the major leagues
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and never did develop, it and so he was sort
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of a flash in the, pan third round selection for
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The yankees back in the. Day all, right, well we
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: appreciate our conversation the time With Scott.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Hunter always enjoy.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It coming up, next, though we are less than two
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: weeks away from training camp getting started for everyone in
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: The National Football, league including The world, champs and yet
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: it's rank, season its list, season and there's one guy
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: that's going to be really happy about how he's been
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: ranked on this particular, List and then we're left, wondering
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: why is this guy not ranked. Higher we'll talk about that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Next Sports radio ninety three point three k a r F. M,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: hey what on, people It's chuck And ashley with you
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: here on This tuesday, morning chalking back in the. Morning
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Sports radio ninety three point three kJ R. Fm, yeah
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: great to have you with us here on this. Day
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you know that' not that far away from training camp,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: starting which seems impossible it really.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Does we haven't even had like a really a warm weather.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Day we have that one like ninety degree, day, yeah
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And i'm wondering if it's waiting for us for training.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: CAMP i mean sometimes training camp starts with, like you,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: know you're a little, overheated and the early morning is
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: when you want to be, there that's. Right and then
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: by the end of training. Camp Dick thane used to
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: wear like a big giant like tundra. Outfit, yeah, yeah
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and he could barely see out of this. Circle you,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: know a big furry hooded mammoth.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Coat, yeah you know.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Kind of thing that he would. Wear bucky AND i
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: usually have to put on a light. Jacket oh it's.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Harsh it's a little, different but, yeah that's the that's the.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Extreme but we haven't even had the warm, weather and
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: maybe it's going to arrive right in time for training.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: CAMP i don't, know, maybe but we did have that cooler,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: weather and all of a, SUDDEN i found myself, thinking,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: well that's like a fall.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Day and THEN i was, like, ooh falls right around the.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Corner and this was Like june twenty, fifth four days
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: after summer officially.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: STARTED i was, like all, Right i'm ready for. Fall that's, Fine,
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: yeah we can do.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: This i'm ready for.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Fall we can just go straight from spring to, fall
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the best. Season we can go from seventy four and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the flowers are blooming to seventy.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Four and the flowers are.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Dying, yeah it's. Fine it sounds like heaven and changing
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: beautiful colors along the.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Way.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Yep all, right well let's, uh let's talk a little
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: bit about THE nfl because we are just two weeks
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: away from training camp getting, underway and so for the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: next two, weeks all these lists are gonna start coming
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: out and people are gonna start ranking, things and we're
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: gonna start you, know we're gonna things like buy, Magazines
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: College football.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Magazine that's when it gets real. Exciting, yeah, yeah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Exactly and we're gonna start doing things that remind us
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: of football and start getting us jacked for. Football and
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: so they do this on. PURPOSE a lot of these
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: list makers and rankers they really cannot stand not being
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: paid attention.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: To so.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: This is really an interesting one because this one you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: really can't put some stock.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: In you just.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: CAN'T i don't think you can put stock in THE
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: nfl Dot COM's player, rankings the ones done by the,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: PLAYERS i don't think you can do.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: That but, also.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You, know but but and then there's THE Nfl executives
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: list that they've come out with the. Quarterbacks but this,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: one obviously we probably shouldn't put any merit.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Into and yet the players Do madden.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Rankings, yeah they really do.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: All they live and die by it. All they do
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: not like getting insulted by The madden, rankings there's no
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: question about. It but one guy that has no risk
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: of being insulted By madden rankings on our team this
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: year Is Jackson smith And. Jigba he got one of
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: six ninety nine's the highest grade that you can, get
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a ninety Nine madden.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Rating it looks like for this upcoming year for our
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: GUY jsn and well.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: DESERVED i think actually you said there's.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Six, yeah IF i had to come up with six
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: people to, give he'd be absolutely one of.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Them IF i had to give, two he'd be one of.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: THEM i actually Quizzed ashley on this yesterday and she
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: got five without even.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Blinking she just rattle them all five for. Five. Yeah Miles, Garrett,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah Miles.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Garrett Matt, Stafford Josh allen was a ninety. Nine Lamar
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: chase was a ninety. Nine she didn't get the last,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: one AND i don't blame. Her gray McBride got a ninety.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Nine gray McBride of The Arizona, cardinal he's really, good
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: BUT i didn't know he was ninety.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: NINE i didn't, either although he's really been great on
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: my fantasy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Team he really. Has, yeah he is a monster to go.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Against never like facing that, Guy so maybe he is
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: worthy of a ninety. Nine so those were the that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the good news from The madden. Rankings, however WHAT i
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: saw was a little cheat sheet and it had the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: top one hundred players ranked in The madden, rankings and
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: One Sam darnold did not make the top one, hundred
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: so ninety nine to eighty. Nine So Sam donald is
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: not considered a top one hundred player by The madden.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Rankings so THEN i went over TO nfl dot com
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And i'm, like, well what do the players think of?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Him because they've they're slowly revealing, theirs like a half
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: a player a. Day uh to Really, yeah they're like
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: really trying to get the juice out of this.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: THING i think they revealed what, sixty sixty.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Eight and sixty seven, Yesterday, okay and so they're one
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: hundred through sixty seven and No Sam darnold.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yet now maybe he's.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Higher, YEAH i was gonna, say maybe he's.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Higher maybe he's higher than sixty.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Seven being the quarterback of A Super bowl champion tends
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: to get you some. Attention and those, players, man they'll
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: think high of the of you one, day but you
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: have one off season they'll drop. You Like Lamar jackson
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: went from two to sixty seven or something like.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: That people are angry.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: In one, year one year of him not, Performing Lamar
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: jackson like he dropped like sixty seven spots in the.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Rankings so maybe they've Jumped sam way up into the.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Rankings BUT i guess this is my long way of,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: saying we're gonna nothing's gonna change apparently About Sam donald
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: as The seahawks, quarterback and maybe that's a good. Thing
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: it sounds like the same old. DOUBTERS i, mean he's
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: gonna move up on all of these, lists it's gonna move.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Up but THE nfl quarterback, list he's not a top ten.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: QUARTERBACK nfl players list doesn't look like he's gonna make
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the top one. Hundred maybe we'll be surprised The madden,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: rankings not considered a top one hundred. Player i'm perfectly
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: okay with. This i'm perfectly okay with him continuing to
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: fly under the radar and people sleeping On Sam. Donald
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: not THAT i think teams will be sleeping On Sam,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: donald but it's very clear despite all the doubters and
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: an entire year of, well, yeah he's got to do. This,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: okay well he did, that but now he's got to do,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: this and now he's gotta do, this and now he's
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: done everything that you. Want you didn't think he could
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: do a year, ago all the, doubters and yet they still. Remain,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: well now he's got to do it for two years
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: before we're convinced that he's a top ten quarterback in
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the National Football. League LIKE i, said, personally, fine sleep on,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: him go, Ahead BUT i think last year he certainly
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: proved all of his doubters. Wrong AND i still Think
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: ashley he's got a lot of. Ceiling as we talked
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: about With Hugh millan in the one, SERIES i think
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: he's still got a long way to. IMPROVE i mean
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: that arm, strength that, composure that aggressiveness without being. CARELESS
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: i Think Sam donald still got a lot more ceiling
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that he can hit before his development's done.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: Well and plus just building on his relationship with his receivers.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: TOO i, MEAN i it IS i DON'T i don't
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: mind that people underestimate him or don't think that he's up,
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: there but it is annoying when they keep.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Questioning that's the PART i don't.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Like if you're going to just underestimate him and not
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: talk about him and not think that he's deserving of certain.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: RANKINGS i don't Think Sam donald's losing any sleep about.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It, No but which is the best, part.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: That's the best.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Part, yeah but it annoys me when they continue will
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: continuously question him like last year it was but can
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: he win the big?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Game? Well he? Can he did what a couple of.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Them but nobody came back and was, Like, okay yeah
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: he did win the big, game good for.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Him it was like they're just silent about.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It, WELL i think a lot of people defend their own,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: opinions and so we IF i move off of, THAT
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: i got to give this another couple of years because
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: maybe he'll prove THAT i was right. Right if he
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: stumbles next, year Then i'll never have to admit THAT
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: i was. Wrong as a matter of, FACT i can
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: double down ON i was always, right yeah About Sam.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Darnold SO i think a lot of it comes from that.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Place but what you said About sam, PERSONALLY i think
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: it bothers a lot of. PLAYERS i, MEAN i Guess
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: i'll tell the tale out of. School Cliff april used
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: to mock THE nfl rankings when he was on our,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: staff THE nfl Dot com rankings because that the players
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: did and it was like, twofold like number. ONE i
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: don't even participate in. It But i'm also angry THAT
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: i was never on. It but, well if you would fully,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: participate then maybe we would get a better idea of
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: what player who the players think of the top one hundred.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Players so you can't not participate and then think that
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you've been, offended.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Right because there's a lot of people Like cliff.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: That are doing the same thing, exactly and they are
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: easily offended what they do now to seek out a
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: chip on their. SHOULDER i mean it is mind blowing to,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: me especially a group of people that have been pampered
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and told how wonderful they are pretty much their entire,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: lives how they still need to find disrespect in the
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: corners of the couch cushions in order to motivate them
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: for the next. SEASON i don't Think Sam donald's motivated
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: by that stuff at.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: ALL i don't think.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: IT i don't think that HE i don't think that
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: when he gets complimented it goes to his. HEAD i
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: don't think when he gets criticized that it bothers him
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: in the. SLIGHTEST i Think Sam donald is one of
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the most in my. LANE i can control WHAT i
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: can control kind of athletes That i've ever come.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Across SO i don't think the.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: New dose of disrespect if that's what we're in store,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: for a second wave of disrespect For Sam donald is
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: The seahawks, quarterback even if it's, coming even if it's
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: getting ready to crash on the. SHORES i don't think
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: he's gonna get wet from. IT i think he's going
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: to come out, dry AND i Think sam's going to Be.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: SAM i loved What hugh said about him in our
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: one series where he's, like do you realize how rare
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the combination is of a player with no ego who
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: plays with the utmost confidence in his?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Abilities do you realize how rare that?
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  Speaker 2: Is that he's not some prima, donna and yet he
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  Speaker 2: does not play scared. Whatsoever he is excellent at flushing
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  Speaker 2: the last mistake and does not change agressive he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be on the next. Throw the defense might dictate
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  Speaker 2: how aggressive he's going to, be but nothing in his
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  Speaker 2: head is going to dictate. IT i think he has
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  Speaker 2: just a. Man there's a short list of professional athletes
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  Speaker 2: that have the ability That Sam darnold. Has from the
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  Speaker 2: standpoint Of i'm not going to get too hyped about
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  Speaker 2: the praise And i'm not going to get bothered at
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  Speaker 2: all by the. Criticism i'm going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Me, Yeah i'm going to come out here and let
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  Speaker 1: it rip and then let the chips fall where they.
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  Speaker 1: May and that's why his teammates absolutely adore.
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  Speaker 6: Him and that's WHY i, MEAN i think that's why
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  Speaker 6: a lot of fans have, quickly, yeah quickly started to like.
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  Speaker 2: Him, well at least here In, Seattle, yeah. Exactly words
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  Speaker 2: still hasn't gotten. Out you know That Super bowl usually
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  Speaker 2: played under the, radar it.
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  Speaker 5: Is, yeah well THIS i don't know if a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people watch. IT i don't know if you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, This, chuck but there was not a lot of
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  Speaker 6: star power in The Super. Bowl there was nothing really.
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  Speaker 2: Exciting you could see why a football fan would not
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  Speaker 2: have wanted to watch that, game, right, yeah and why
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  Speaker 2: they might not have grasped anything from. It it's just
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  Speaker 2: one of those under the radar sporting events that sometimes gets.
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  Speaker 2: Missed all, right coming up, next it is trade. Season
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  Speaker 7: Fm, hey good, morning it Is chuck And ashley with.
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  Speaker 1: You Ryan healey coming your way at nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Today a lot of, things a lot Of mariner things
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  Speaker 2: to discuss with the Former. Mariner he now joins us
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  Speaker 2: Every tuesday at nine o'clock and then Anders hurst at
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  Speaker 2: nine thirty, today as we get you ready for the
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  Speaker 2: will Be spain Versus. France will Get andrew's thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: that coming up at nine to. Thirty, also do want
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  Speaker 2: to get a little trade talk in here? Today it
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  Speaker 2: is trade season after, all AND i can't help.
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  Speaker 1: Myself so there's.
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  Speaker 5: That do you love trade?
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  Speaker 2: Time all, right let's talk about the trade. Season it
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: is here and, man This castillo stuff continues to go
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  Speaker 2: and swirl. AROUND i have zero doubt that The mariners
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  Speaker 2: would like of their six starters to Trade Luis. Castillo,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: okay that's the one that they're, Like, okay if you
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: could get something really, special which one of your six
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: would you like to? Trade will trade the one struggling the,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: most with the highest ra who's the oldest and makes
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the most. Money, yes that's who they would want to
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: trade in this. Scenario and yet it's, also as you
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: can follow along with the logic here the picture that
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: if you traded him you would get the least amount in.
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  Speaker 2: Return i'm not sure you'd get really anything in, return
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: except for possibly if you wanted to trade him to
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: another contender that is starting, pitching starved and could use
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: a veteran who's still, okay still, good not great, anymore
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: but still you know he's, serviceable then you. Can you
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: can do, THAT i, Suppose but you're gonna get some
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  Speaker 2: a prospect class a prospect in return that's not gonna
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: help us win this. Year SO i get people are
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  Speaker 2: HAVING i get that it sort of makes sense who
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: you would want to. Trade BUT i saw A yahoo
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: article suggesting they would like to Trade castillo and get
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: a right handed hitter and a back end.
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  Speaker 1: Reliever really would?
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  Speaker 6: You, now, Well i'd also like to win The mega.
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  Speaker 6: Millions it's up to six hundred the jillion.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars first of, all nobody's going to Take Luis. Castillo
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  Speaker 2: that isn't a contender unless you're willing to take on
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: a far worse contract Like Matt. Chapman's you want to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: pull off something like that The San Francisco Fort as
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: a right handed, hitter you could probably get a.
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  Speaker 1: RELIEVER i don't think The giants have any back end.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Relievers they usually quit after the seventh because we just
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: don't have anybody that, good and SO i JUST i
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: don't see. IT i did introduce this thought yesterday that
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  Speaker 2: maybe they do trade one of their five younger guys
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: in the rotation to clear up the log. Jam Kate
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: anderson is then the sixth starter in case somebody gets,
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  Speaker 2: hurt And Ryan sloan's the seventh starter if somebody gets.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Hurt they do believe those two guys are going to
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: contribute both of them this. Season, okay so maybe you
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: would trade one of the young, five but for a
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: back end.
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  Speaker 1: Reliever is that what you're going?
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: For if that's the, case THEN i would need the
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: best guy in the world who is also under club.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Control WOULD i trade An Emerson hancock For Mason? Miller
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: MAYBE i would kick the tires on, That but anything
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: short of, That, No i'm not moving any of those
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: five young starters for a relief. Pitcher that's just to,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: me not a. Scenario but a couple of other things
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: did pop up. Yesterday finally is being reported that The
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati reds are shopping a guy That i've talked, About Spencer.
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  Speaker 2: Steer that, is somebody that hits left handed hitters very.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Actively he's in his, twenties so it's not like he's thirty,
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  Speaker 2: seven and even though he's been hitting left handers for,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: years has an entire offseason to suddenly become a, failure
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  Speaker 2: which is what we've done with our. Past he dominates
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: left handed pitching, acquisitions and then for whatever, reason they
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: start a season with The mariners and they can no
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: longer hit lefties. Anymore if that happens With Spencer, steer
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  Speaker 2: who has over one thousand ops against lefties at age twenty,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: eight nowhere near hitting his career. Wall if he shows
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  Speaker 2: up here and can't hit lefties at, all then we
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: know it's something.
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  Speaker 5: In the, air, Right, No, yeah that would be.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Weird that can't.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Happen so and again you're just it's. Baseball you're playing the.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Percentages what's the guy with the best percentage chance to
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: get here that could help us in this? AREA i
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: said this a month. Ago, well Actually Adam jude said it.
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  Speaker 2: First he mentioned him in a. List BUT i put
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: together a Trade Spencer steer and Tj, antone AND i
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  Speaker 2: Think i'd be willing to give not one of our top,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: prospects well not A Montes sanderson or A. Sloan MAYBE
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  Speaker 2: i would be interested in giving up A Michael arroyo
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  Speaker 2: for that package in order to get two things that
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: this roster seems to need right.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Now and then just add a new.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Wrinkle what About Michaiale, garcia the third baseman for The
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: royals who is currently hurt right, now still, young under
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: a good long term contract to The royals signed him,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to that plays very good third base defense and puts.
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  Speaker 1: The ball in.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Play he's not a big power, Hitter he's probably not
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  Speaker 2: going to be a big ops, guy but he is
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  Speaker 2: a guy that puts the ball in play and can
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: catch the ball and he can throw it, accurately and
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: that might be something that this team could. Use and
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: The royals seem to be one of the seven teams
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  Speaker 2: that actually are out of the playoff race right now
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: and might be willing to make a move like. That
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  Speaker 2: even though he was supposed to be a big part
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: of their, future he's had a little bit of a
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: down year and The royals obviously have to do some
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: soul searching and are probably moving in a new. Direction
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: so just some thoughts here today on This tuesday in
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: regards To mariners trade. Season Ryan healey's going to join
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  Speaker 2: us Next Sports radio ninety three point THREE, kjrfm