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  Speaker 1: This segment is presented by Royal Retros. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 1: about that in a moment. Josh Reddick joining us right
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  Speaker 1: now in a sweet cold forty five UNI.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Josh, good to see you man. How you been.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, boys, How are we doing? Good to
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  Speaker 3: be on? Good to see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Life is good, Life is good. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about the jersey in a moment. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the current team. So are they back in the mix?
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  Speaker 1: I mean partially means the Al it's not great, But
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  Speaker 1: how are the astros? You watch most of the games?
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  Speaker 1: What are you seeing?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, the AL stinks, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 5: You mean you mean right now they're the Houston yord
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  Speaker 5: On Alvarez is if they're without this guy. This this
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  Speaker 5: man is on a cosmic level right now at the play,
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  Speaker 5: just doing everything right.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if Jacob.
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  Speaker 5: De Gram's up there or Nolan Ryan's up there. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think you throw him a strikern now. It's probably
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  Speaker 5: gonna leave the yard.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing that I talked about with it with
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  Speaker 3: the boys this morning on our show was you gotta
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  Speaker 3: I kind of look at the pitching.
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  Speaker 5: The pitching is kind of stabilized a little bit at
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  Speaker 5: least kept them in games.
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  Speaker 3: Has it won them any ballgames?
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  Speaker 5: No, but it's kept them in ball games here lately
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  Speaker 5: to where they have a shot to where their lineup
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  Speaker 5: can keep them in ballgames because despite all these injuries,
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  Speaker 5: Christian Walker's having a great bounce back year, which I
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  Speaker 5: felt like he was going to have last year.
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  Speaker 3: Just got comfortable jord On being.
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  Speaker 6: Who he is.
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  Speaker 3: They need guys like cam Smith to turn it around
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  Speaker 3: because he's the guy they're gonna have to lean on
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  Speaker 3: for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: A'll tuve being hurt est sac praise could play a
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  Speaker 5: little bit better. Obviously, losing Korea hurt. But you know
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  Speaker 5: they're putting this team on ord On Alvarez's back and
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  Speaker 5: he's doing everything he can to keep them relevant.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, though, good.
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  Speaker 5: Thing about that is everybody in the AOS is below
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  Speaker 5: five hundred, so it's really anybody's game in that division,
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  Speaker 5: in that league for that matter, because they're only I
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  Speaker 5: think three and a half out on the wild cards.
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  Speaker 3: So are they out of it? No? Is there a hope,
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  Speaker 3: there's a little bit of sliver. Have they turned it around?
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  Speaker 5: No, but there's a little bit of positive reinforcement. Thinking
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  Speaker 5: for this fan base right now.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, can the offense carry him?
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  Speaker 7: Because this was a team forever you know Erland or
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  Speaker 7: fromber Hunter Brown pitching, pitching back into the bullpen with
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  Speaker 7: Hater and Abrau and for Brian Presley for years when
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  Speaker 7: they were winning these world series. Can this offense continue
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  Speaker 7: to carry them for long enough to get back some
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  Speaker 7: of their pitching, because for me, it's a two man show,
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  Speaker 7: like you said, and I just don't know that at
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  Speaker 7: some point teams are gonna stop pitching the yord on
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  Speaker 7: Alvarez and can the other guys figure it out? And
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  Speaker 7: I yes, Cam Smith, Jeremy Painia, Where are these guys?
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  Speaker 7: They need more for me?
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  Speaker 3: Got to learn more.
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  Speaker 5: He's got to understand, like this game is hard and
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  Speaker 5: he's young, so we all know how that is the boys.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta get young, you got to grind through it.
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  Speaker 5: But they get these guys on reinforcement in the next month,
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  Speaker 5: they can obviously take away run away.
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  Speaker 3: But anytime you have Hunter Brown.
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  Speaker 5: On the mound every fifth day, you're feeling pretty sexy
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  Speaker 5: about yourself and winning that ball game. Getting guys like
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  Speaker 5: Hayter back, getting Brian Abrady back to where he is
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  Speaker 5: because they've got some established roles right now. Brian King's
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  Speaker 5: been fantastic for him, say it to coming up making
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  Speaker 5: his debut, that guy is absolutely electric.
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  Speaker 3: He could solidify himself in a bullpen roll.
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  Speaker 5: But right now, that lineup, even when they're doing good
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  Speaker 5: as a whole lineup, it's mostly one through five and
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  Speaker 5: then that six through nine is kind of a coin flip.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully we get some guys on to help turn that over,
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  Speaker 5: so if they can figure out getting the more complete
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  Speaker 5: lineup to score runs. And I've covered this team for
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  Speaker 5: a couple of years now. Their biggest issue is runners
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  Speaker 5: and scoring position. They get guys on, but it's like
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  Speaker 5: they go blind at the plate when they get runners
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  Speaker 5: in scoring position. Just doing better with guys on base,
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  Speaker 5: driving in runs with two outs, and just not striking
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  Speaker 5: out when you can hit that little easy sack fly,
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  Speaker 5: sneak in that one little run the second that may
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  Speaker 5: help you out when the end of the game rolls around.
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  Speaker 5: Just doing the little things. And I think that's personally,
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  Speaker 5: I think that's one thing all of baseball's missing is
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  Speaker 5: little things. And this is a team that can really
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  Speaker 5: benefit from that. Because at times they are very stagnant
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  Speaker 5: with they're hitting, and then as we've seen in very
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  Speaker 5: horrible on both sides of the baseball with pitching as well.
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  Speaker 5: So just fighting a way to stabilize themselves. But they
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  Speaker 5: just got to do something to switch up that long
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  Speaker 5: ball strikeout stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't going to work for you every night.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Well let's go to the pitching.
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  Speaker 7: Then, in my math, if you have five starters and
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  Speaker 7: only two of them give you a good, good chance
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  Speaker 7: to win in who I think will be Spencer Raghetty,
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  Speaker 7: And when Hunter Brown comes back, you're still losing three games, Like,
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  Speaker 7: how where is this going to? Who is going to
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  Speaker 7: step up? Is Peter Lambert? Can he take a little
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  Speaker 7: bit extra step? I know he's doing well, but you're
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  Speaker 7: talking about a guy to solidify, solidify that and flip
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  Speaker 7: it to three good starting pitchers and then the lineup
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  Speaker 7: battles out the other two starts.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it personally starts with guys like em
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  Speaker 5: am I not being able to figure out what's going
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  Speaker 5: on right now. Yes, the no hit outing was fantastic
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  Speaker 5: to see for this fan base, but this is a
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  Speaker 5: guy who's got to get it and get it fast
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  Speaker 5: because we're paying you all this money.
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  Speaker 3: You're the highest paid player on the team.
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  Speaker 5: They need a guy like you to step You came
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  Speaker 5: over here like, hey, I don't want.
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  Speaker 3: To go to the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 5: I want to beat the dog. And right now I'm
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  Speaker 5: not even sure if this guy would even see the
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  Speaker 5: Dodgers lineup so him. I like the way Burrows is pitching.
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  Speaker 5: He could be a little bit more effective. I know
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  Speaker 5: he ran into some bad luck early on in the month,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, we're almost starting June. That ship is
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  Speaker 5: sailed beyond the good luck bad luck stuff again. His
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  Speaker 5: starting against his out against the Rangers.
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  Speaker 3: Was promising, So it's there.
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  Speaker 5: It's just where they pieces together, and from there on,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know who is going to step up.
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  Speaker 3: Guys like you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, I like aj Blueball, but he just doesn't know
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  Speaker 5: what his role is because there's so many moving parts
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  Speaker 5: right now. He's so good at coming in and giving
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  Speaker 5: three to four when you need him, and then you
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  Speaker 5: throw him in the starter role and it's like it's
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  Speaker 5: a complete different person out there. So I think it
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  Speaker 5: starts with Emi. I think it continues on with guys
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  Speaker 5: like Burris or Burrows and those guys just have to
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  Speaker 5: figure it out, because, like you said, when you're piecing
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  Speaker 5: together three bad starts, not only is it bad for
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  Speaker 5: your starters, you're stretching guys in your bullpen every series,
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  Speaker 5: and that amounts.
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  Speaker 3: in August.
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  Speaker 7: Do you see it from Tatsuyom? You keep bringing up
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  Speaker 7: that he's the guy that maybe needs to be the guy.
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  Speaker 7: He either doesn't walk anybody and it's loud contact, or
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  Speaker 7: he is walking everybody and then the loud contact comes.
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  Speaker 7: So which what do you need to see from him?
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  Speaker 7: And does he even have that in there to say, okay,
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  Speaker 7: he could be a guy that could give us five
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  Speaker 7: innings of three run baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's definitely in there.
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  Speaker 5: And the one thing with him, it's not been like
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  Speaker 5: stuff effectiveness. It's either the nasty backs or I don't
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  Speaker 5: even want to I don't even know what he calls
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  Speaker 5: his slider, the one that drops straight down and backwards.
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  Speaker 3: It's nasty. But it seems like like you say, cratsy
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  Speaker 3: it's either.
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  Speaker 5: Center cut cookie cutter, give me that thing hited out
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  Speaker 5: of the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: Or it's not even competitive.
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  Speaker 5: So if he can learn to just fill up that
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  Speaker 5: corner part of the strike zone and just move the
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  Speaker 5: ball around, he's just got to stay out of that
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  Speaker 5: middle or nowhere spot. So once he figures that out,
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  Speaker 5: he's fine because the stuff's there, his effectiveness is there,
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  Speaker 5: the pitches have movement, and from one thing we've learned
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  Speaker 5: covering him is he's just got to get comfortable. He
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  Speaker 5: had adjusted to the lifestyle of baseball over here, and yeah, great,
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  Speaker 5: a huge culture change for somebody like that. But they've
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  Speaker 5: given this kid every opportunity to make him feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: So he's just got to take that next step forward
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  Speaker 5: and say, Okay, here's my positive start against a pretty
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  Speaker 5: good team and a pretty good lineup. I have to
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  Speaker 5: find out what it did for me moving forward to
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  Speaker 5: get to where I need to be. And I just
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  Speaker 5: think it's throwing more competitive strikes, getting out of the
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  Speaker 5: middle of the zone, and just kind of painting some
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  Speaker 5: corners to let his stuff play. Because once you look
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  Speaker 5: out of plane, that fastball comes out of the same
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  Speaker 5: armsd as that cider does.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a matter of where can I put it?
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  Speaker 3: Where can this pitch go?
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  Speaker 5: Because like you said, we can walk all day and
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  Speaker 5: then just wait for that one to do all the damage.
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  Speaker 3: So he just got to get rid of.
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  Speaker 6: That guy, Josh.
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  Speaker 7: You mentioned all the injuries. Tynter Brown supposed to be
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  Speaker 7: coming back soon, Hater's coming back soon. But Altuve no
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  Speaker 7: rehab games. They're talking about just sending him to Palm
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  Speaker 7: Beach and lining up some inner squad at bats. I
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  Speaker 7: guess what's your thoughts on this, because as much as
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  Speaker 7: a couple of time I had to go on, actually
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  Speaker 7: I only want to rehab twice, two days each time.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it sucks, but it also was kind of
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  Speaker 7: fun to get down there and hang out with the
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  Speaker 7: young kids again.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've spent several stints down there for rehabs, and
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  Speaker 5: I was a firm believer. Take your rehab stint like
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  Speaker 5: and it's early. It's not like you're pushing for a
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  Speaker 5: September playoff spot. We need you to come back early.
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  Speaker 5: This is an oblique injury. This is something you use
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  Speaker 5: every part of your body on that field, swinging, hitting,
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  Speaker 5: go into the bathroom as a pain and that you
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  Speaker 5: know what, just when you pull in other bleak so
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  Speaker 5: at first the thing that pops out is a miraculous
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  Speaker 5: healing factory.
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  Speaker 3: And they said this is a grade two.
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  Speaker 5: I've had both of them grade twos and it was
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  Speaker 5: four to six minimum, So I see no need to
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  Speaker 5: rush go down there, get your at bats if you
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  Speaker 5: need three, grade if he needs six, get as many
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  Speaker 5: as you need.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's not about just going out and.
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  Speaker 5: Getting your timing, taking care of the kids down there,
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  Speaker 5: going there, buying the spread, hanging out, having them come
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  Speaker 5: out to you and ask their questions, give them advice,
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  Speaker 5: just going back and saying, hey, this feels good to
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  Speaker 5: be back with these younger guys. Could you You never
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  Speaker 5: know who's going to be the next big thing, so
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  Speaker 5: to speak. So I'm all for rehab games. Take as
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  Speaker 5: long as you want, especially since we're about to roll
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  Speaker 5: over the calendar month into June. There is absolutely no
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  Speaker 5: need to rush back. Your team is still relatively in
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  Speaker 5: the hunt. Take as much time as you can because
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  Speaker 5: we know injuries in this team in the last two
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  Speaker 5: years has been a huge question mark for recovery time.
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  Speaker 3: There's no need for you to.
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  Speaker 5: Even question this get one hundred percent, take a little
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  Speaker 5: extra if you need to, and come back ready to
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  Speaker 5: go to the end of this season.
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  Speaker 7: Right when guys dominate in big league series, big league seasons, whatever,
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  Speaker 7: it's like, Oh well, Jordan alvarezz he's rehabbing against the
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  Speaker 7: Rangers right now. He makes it look like they're a
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  Speaker 7: minor league team. And to me, I think he's a
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  Speaker 7: top five hitter in the game. We discussed it earlier.
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  Speaker 7: Can he win an MVP being ultimately just a DH.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's absolutely possible. I mean, we've seen pitchers
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  Speaker 5: win it. Why not a designated hit hit or hitter
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  Speaker 5: hit your hitter. So yeah, if he continues at this
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  Speaker 5: pace he's on right now, I think it's a pretty
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  Speaker 5: unanimous vote. I don't think anything anybody comes close to me.
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  Speaker 5: You can put defensive war in there against guys like
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  Speaker 5: you know, the judges, the Bobby wid juniors, all these
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  Speaker 5: guys coming up, but this guy is on a historic pace.
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  Speaker 5: The thing about jord On is, yeah, you can look
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  Speaker 5: at all his slugging numbers, of his power noise, but
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  Speaker 5: people tend to forget how much of a pure hitter
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  Speaker 5: Jordon Alvarez truly is and you don't see it unless
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  Speaker 5: you watch him on a daily basis. This guy will
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  Speaker 5: take your way, pitches the other way for that single,
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  Speaker 5: for the two RBI one run single, if he needs to.
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  Speaker 3: It, he'll be completely fine with it.
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  Speaker 5: He's not gonna chase, he's not gonna get overly big
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  Speaker 5: in his swing. So he controls the zone very well.
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  Speaker 5: He takes his walks, he takes his NOx the other way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna hit the one hundred and twenty mile hour
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  Speaker 5: homers for you all the time. But when he's locked
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  Speaker 5: in like this, no, there's no way I'm throwing him
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  Speaker 5: a strike. I mean, we looked at him at a
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  Speaker 5: three zero slider on the outer third to dead center
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  Speaker 5: and a line yesterday. It makes you wonder, why aren't
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  Speaker 5: these guys just putting up the four fingers and sending
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  Speaker 5: you right on down to the baseline. At this point,
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  Speaker 5: he's got to get the Barry Bond Street and you
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  Speaker 5: have to respect that. When he's such a great power hitter,
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  Speaker 5: but he's also a very good contact and pure hitters.
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  Speaker 7: Josh, I have a question for you. We need can
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  Speaker 7: we can we show that graphic again? Can you see
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  Speaker 7: the graphic.
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  Speaker 6: On the screen, the one we just hey, bring it back.
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  Speaker 6: It was the yord On one. Can we can?
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  Speaker 4: We?
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  Speaker 7: I was hoping we could show that again, hold on, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we can get it up there. Yeah, no, I know
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  Speaker 7: I want to. I want to show you how good
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  Speaker 7: yord On Alvarez is. H what's he hitting? Average?
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  Speaker 2: Wise?
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  Speaker 3: Three twelve?
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  Speaker 6: What's his babbit one?
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  Speaker 7: Damn, he's really good. He's hitting higher with an average
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  Speaker 7: and balls he's putting him play. That's how you know
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  Speaker 7: you're a damn good Josh right there.
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  Speaker 3: When you're hitting better than the balls you put in play.
• 13:49
  Speaker 7: That that's that's you're getting hits on the strikeouts, and
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: you're getting hits on strikeouts and walks.
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: That's how good you are.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: That's a hall of famer in my book.
• 13:57
  Speaker 7: Boys, right, thank you, thank you for that.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: That's beautiful.
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: Oh man. I was like, wait a second. People say
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: I don't pay attention.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Wait wait yeah, but do you guys know I mean
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: there's some people, including me, who has to do a
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: double take for a minute.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: You know why that's the case.
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: I didn't think that was possible.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: There's a ball that's not put in play that is
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: still a hit.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: It's called a homer, the one that hit the base runner.
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: Homers don't count on babbit.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Hold on did in.
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: Play for a second?
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Batting average on balls in play?
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: It takes away strike.
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: Okay, I had a I had an unofficial worst stat
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: in baseball.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: That one just took over.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: If that's the case, that that officially wins is the
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: worst stat in baseball.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: If that's the case, and it's the bibot, what what did?
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: What did she call it?
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: The bit?
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: By the way.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: A player who hits a lot of homers can have
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: a higher average than it's a bit.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: It's relevant that the real thing, it's a real thing.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: But that's not just that's that analytics. I get. That's
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: that to me just went up because when you hit
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: a home run.
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: Your average, I mean it doesn't when.
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: I look on that jumbo tron at every stadium and
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: it shows all my stats and I hit a homer,
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: one plus gets added to that age column every time.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But batting average on balls and plays is a
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: different stat. Like you're not trying to drive up.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: It's talking about.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's trying to help them, you know.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: That just officially took over as the dumbest stat I've
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: ever heard of. All right, all right, well, look we'll
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: get back on pace here. The second best hitter on
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: the Astros is a guy that was, in my opinion,
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: this close to getting traded at the beginning of the season. Obviously, everybody,
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: it's a great problem to have having extra you have paradus.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: How are they gonna find that bats? It's the same
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: spring training narrative, like we don't know now all of
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: a sudden, it's like crap, we got to find somebody
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: else to fill in different spots. But Christian Walker's trade
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: value is it there in the sense that if the
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: Astros do not come back, if all the things we
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: talked about, it's not you know, it's just not happening.
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: It doesn't come together for the Astros this year. It's
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: his trade value for the Astros as high as it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: ever been. And do you think they'll get what they
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: want or do you think they would be able to
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: run it back with him again next year as a
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: corner piece, probably all star first baseman.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: I think his trade value right now is the highest
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: they'll ever get out of him, unless he continues to
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: do this for the rest of the Year or something
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: But I I they tried.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: They tried earlyer this offseason, they tried through spring training,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: and nobody wanted this guy and know it right now,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: he's short of like, hey, I'm not a forgotten person
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: in baseball, and he showed that. We've seen what this
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Christian Walker can do playing for the Diamondbacks for so long,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: and it's great to see this guy cod. But I
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: think if you're looking at the overall picture and if
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: they were out of it by ten plus games right now,
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: they'd probably already having phone.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Conversations with teams about this guy.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: But since I think they're so close, I think, knowing
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Jim Crane the way he functions, he's not going to
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: let anything run out until they're completely out of it
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: because he wants to win.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: They're still still technically in.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: That hunt, and who knows, once you get your studs back,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: this team could take off and run away with this division.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Because I promise you the guys that are up there
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: right now aren't going to run away with it. Nobody
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: in this division is going to run away with it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: So we might be looking at teams making moves that
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: we weren't really anticipating at this time, and luckily for
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: them they didn't get rid of him because of what's
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: happening with Korea and getting you know, Jeremy Painia just
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: now getting back. So it's good to see him have
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: a bounce back year. But I think his trade value
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: is through the ceiling right now, and whether he's out
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: of it out the door or not is yet to
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: be told. I think the next month will play a
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: lot in that role. But I mean, who knows. Who
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: knows the way things are going, in the way this
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: division in this league is running around, We're looking at
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: a coin flip situation every day.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's not even just the division.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Even if the Mariner's just going to tear and win,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: you know, eighteen to twenty and start to take over
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the division, you can still make a wildcard spot. I mean,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: there are not teams running with that anytime soon. I
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: don't think you're going to see that. There'll be at
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: least one spot where you're going to look late in
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the year and be like, does anyone want this.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Finishing stat here? To end our conversation?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: The formula for babbit just because we got into it,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: so I'll actually get you guys. The formula ready hits
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: minus home runs divided by at bats minus strikeouts minus
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: home runs plus sacrifices.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Comes up with these algorithms of stats.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: That was I thought I got out of school in
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: math class.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Here's my thing.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Shouldn't babbit ball batting average on balls in play? So
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: every time you hit a ball and it goes in
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: fair territory, including a home run, because that is in
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: fair territory, shouldn't that count towards your bat again?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Learned today, I agree in because even even a lot
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: of homers can be caught rounds.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: It's it's definitely just a luck stat. That's the only don't.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Don't put it up on a pedestal like whoa his
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: batpeb was so high he should be the m v P.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: It's a luckstack. It's a luckstack because people who don't
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: know the game can't watch.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: But if you had homers to it, it ain't yeah runs
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: say lucky love homers.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But but you're but again, you're not trying to be
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: like the best babbit p in baseball. That the stat
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: was created to measure what happens after the defense has
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a chance to turn a battit ball into an out.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Okay, homers, they can rob homers. Though, if you hit
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: a home run and the guy jumps over the fence
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: and catches it, that hurts your babbitt.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Even though would have been all.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: And also let me asking this question. This is also
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: another question. Listen, I wanted a high babbit because that
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: means I was getting a lot of hits.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: I was.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't care, you know whatever, but true. Anyways, Anyways,
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: the people are going to say we hate analytics, which
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: is not true. But that's just fascinating the way they
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: can manipulate the.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Way they want to make them.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Can I say it, You could say I hate analytics.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Brandon marsha is getting hated on. Brandon marsh is almost
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: leading the league and hitting, and he's getting hated on
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: because he has the highest the BIP in like baseball
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: history right now, and I'm like, he's leading the league.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: He could get a trophy for leading the league and hitting.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: And hitting in the big leagues is so hard to do.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Anymore, super easy. It's so easy from behind a keyboard.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Too easy.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: It's I have a keyboard right here, and it's not easy.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: It wasn't easy when I had a bat in my
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: hand either, Sure was.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It only thing easy in this combo?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Is like I promised at the top, can you just
• 21:10
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  Speaker 2: Josh, it was a pleasure. We learned a lot, truly
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: learned a lot today.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We did we we learned beyond just what Houston is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: doing We learned about math. Yeah, appreciate you make great
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: catching up love listen to you.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Talk soon, dude.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Take care, guys,