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Orioles SP Kyle Bradish joins FT + Young Nationals are RAKING · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish of The O's is hopping on with us
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  Speaker 1: right now to talk about the Orioles and being in
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  Speaker 1: the mix right now. Kyle, thanks for joining us. How's
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  Speaker 1: the season going?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me on. Guys, you know season's going.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a grindy one. Obviously, it would be like
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  Speaker 2: to be in a better position than where we are
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  Speaker 2: right now, but you know, there's still some games left
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  Speaker 2: to play, so hopefully we'll pick it up and make
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  Speaker 2: a whole playoff push.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Kyle, isn't every season grindy? Isn't every season grinding?
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  Speaker 3: This isn't your first season. You've been through a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of these now, isn't doesn't? I mean I love when
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  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, it's grindy, But isn't every season kind
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  Speaker 3: of grindy?
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  Speaker 4: Good, bad? I mean they're different kind of grinds. Do
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  Speaker 4: you feel that way? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's a long one sixty two. This one's felt
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  Speaker 2: a little longer at some stretches, so I think it's
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  Speaker 2: been a little more grindy than in the past.
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  Speaker 3: But you're a starting pitcher. You're a starting pitcher. You
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  Speaker 3: only gotta go out there thirty times a year. Shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: it be shouldn't it be like, oh, vacation, vacation for
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  Speaker 3: the next four days, and then oh yeah, now I
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  Speaker 3: gotta get ready to pitch. So I feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: a starting pitcher, it's a little bit easier to get
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  Speaker 3: through every day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot that goes on behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes as a starting pitcher, but you're also out there
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  Speaker 2: with your guys every day trying to win. So when
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  Speaker 2: team's not playing good or team is playing good, you're
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  Speaker 2: right there with them.
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  Speaker 6: I can. I can comment on this. Sitting there and
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  Speaker 6: not playing makes it way longer than going out there
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  Speaker 6: and playing every day, so I can comment on that.
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  Speaker 6: Wasn't a starting pitcher. I just sat on the bench
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  Speaker 6: with you guys a lot. But do you feel like
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  Speaker 6: the season's different now that you are fully off of
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  Speaker 6: your recovery from Tommy John fully back where you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: you played a little bit. Rehab is extensive for as
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  Speaker 6: long as you were out, but now you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: I'm in it for a whole season. Is this season
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  Speaker 6: feel different coming back from that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: The past two years, just having to be going through
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  Speaker 2: that rehab process, it definitely made the season feel longer
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  Speaker 2: in a different way, mostly because I wasn't able to
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  Speaker 2: be out there with my guys competing. I was just
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  Speaker 2: watching the whole season, not just every four days, but
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  Speaker 2: right now. It's just get my body right in between
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  Speaker 2: starts to go out there and compete for the thirty
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  Speaker 2: three starts that you try to make all year.
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  Speaker 6: All right, So you went through that the last two years.
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  Speaker 6: Then the team comes to you with an extension offer.
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  Speaker 6: Can you give us a little bit more of what
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  Speaker 6: goes on in that than we normally get, because it's
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  Speaker 6: like extension. Really happy to be part of the team,
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  Speaker 6: love to be here for the next few years.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be great.
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  Speaker 6: How does that process start? Is it stressful for you
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  Speaker 6: or is it something that you say, agents take care
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  Speaker 6: of it. I'm gonna throw speedballs up there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So this was not the first time they came to
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  Speaker 2: me with an offer. We didn't agree to like our
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  Speaker 2: our number. So in between not agreeing and then going
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  Speaker 2: to the hearing they made an offer, nothing really came
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  Speaker 2: out of it. So then kind of went in the
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  Speaker 2: season not really thinking anything of it. And then first
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  Speaker 2: they all start break they reached out to my agent
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  Speaker 2: with another offer, and then we spent kind of that
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  Speaker 2: four or five days just going back and forth negotiating,
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  Speaker 2: and then we got to a number where I think
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  Speaker 2: everybody was comfortable at, and it really came down to
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  Speaker 2: that this is kind of where me and my wife
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  Speaker 2: wanted to spend the next five years. We're comfortable here.
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  Speaker 2: We really like the staff that's been brought in this
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  Speaker 2: year and the pitching guys. I've been with them for
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  Speaker 2: the past two three years, so they're great, and just
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  Speaker 2: really comfortable with those guys, Kyle.
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  Speaker 3: So it came together really quick. Then, from what you're saying,
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  Speaker 3: was there pressure? Was there any pressure from on you?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say from anyone outside of because
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  Speaker 3: nobody can understand the pressure as players we put on ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: What was their pressure when you first heard it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you said it came together in a few days,
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  Speaker 3: But when they first came back to you, were you
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  Speaker 3: just like, man, I really want to get this done.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to get this done because I love
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  Speaker 3: it here so much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think with that first offer that they came before
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  Speaker 2: spring training kind of laid some groundwork, so it kind
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  Speaker 2: of made this one a little easier to get to
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  Speaker 2: where we needed to get to. But I think the
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  Speaker 2: only pressure was it was me putting it on myself
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  Speaker 2: if I was really comfortable turning down that amount of
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  Speaker 2: money to take the chance of whatever happening over the
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  Speaker 2: next two and a half years. And then kind of
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  Speaker 2: looked at myself and talked to my wife about it
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  Speaker 2: is like, we're really happy here, so why not spend
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  Speaker 2: the next five years here?
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  Speaker 6: What about the team that you look at, the guys
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  Speaker 6: that are on the field, does that go into your
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  Speaker 6: thought process? You said right after the All Star break,
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  Speaker 6: you go, okay, I'm looking around. We got basioh we
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  Speaker 6: got Boz, we got ad Okay, no, so we got
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  Speaker 6: Westburg coming back, we got Hunt, Gunner, all those things.
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  Speaker 6: Does that go to your thought process?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's more so how I feel comfortable, Like in
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse. We have a great clubhouse, great group of guys,
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  Speaker 2: and the talent speaks for itself. Like you said, you
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  Speaker 2: got Gunner, Bassio, Wessey coming back, Shane signed on for
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  Speaker 2: the next four years. Obviously the big one is the
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  Speaker 2: polar bear kind of leading the charge right there. But
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  Speaker 2: I think having those guys and just knowing that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be around those guys for the next four
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  Speaker 2: or five years and being able to compete with them
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  Speaker 2: definitely makes this.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Well, the guy that I jokingly skipped over
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  Speaker 6: slash not is gone Adlie Rutsman. Both of you made
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  Speaker 6: your debut the same year. When you see a guy
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  Speaker 6: like that gone one, were you surprised too? What's your
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  Speaker 6: reaction or interaction with him since that trade?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was definitely surprising that it actually happened.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody saw all the rumors and everything, but for it
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  Speaker 2: to actually happen was definitely surprising. I know it hit
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  Speaker 2: this clubhouse hard. I've played with Adli or against Ali
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  Speaker 2: basically my whole life. Not a lot of people know
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  Speaker 2: you're up in Oregon, fifteen minutes from each other, playing
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  Speaker 2: literal league against each other. He caught me in the
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  Speaker 2: cape during summer ball in college and then throughout like
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  Speaker 2: our whole minor league and now major league career. He's
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  Speaker 2: kind of been that guy that's been behind the plate
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  Speaker 2: for me. So yeah, it was definitely difficult, and it's
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  Speaker 2: tough to kind of get behind the business side, but
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  Speaker 2: also I understand the personal side of like, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: our guy, and now you see him in a different uniform.
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  Speaker 4: Are you gonna throw at him, Kyle first time?
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  Speaker 3: You're just gonna buzzle on up and not hit him
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  Speaker 3: because look, I have my ildly shirt. He makes his
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  Speaker 3: debut today, So when you play the Red Sox, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not advocating hitting him, but you know, just buzz the tower,
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  Speaker 3: trim some beard up there for him a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I texted him, tell him I'm gonna miss you,
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  Speaker 2: wish you the best luck, and be on the lookout
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  Speaker 2: for that front hip syncer. So if it, if it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't sink, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: Nice. I love it. I love it. Was there anything
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  Speaker 4: that happened for you on deadline day?
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  Speaker 3: You obviously signed the extension, so you weren't worried, But
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  Speaker 3: were you checking your phone every couple of minutes because
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  Speaker 3: you guys are still in the wild cards, So were
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  Speaker 3: you sitting there going all right, if we can make
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  Speaker 3: this move, we can make this move, then we can
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  Speaker 3: really get into this race.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think everybody likes to play GM, especially
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  Speaker 2: around that time, I was I was more looking at
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  Speaker 2: what we were going to do kind of with like
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  Speaker 2: Rogers or those other guys that were kind of on
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  Speaker 2: the end of the contracts.
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  Speaker 5: Especially with the Adlee news.
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  Speaker 2: You never knew what was going to happen, but just
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  Speaker 2: knowing we are still kind of in the hunt for
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  Speaker 2: that wildcard spot. You're hoping some things are going to happen,
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  Speaker 2: but you understand some things that don't happen. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, like a lot Dean Kramer,
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  Speaker 2: one of my best friends, Welsey one of my better
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  Speaker 2: friends on the team too. Wardy and Adley are gone now,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it wasn't like a full tear down.
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  Speaker 2: You still have Rogers, who's kind of been one of
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  Speaker 2: the leaders in this rotation for the past two years.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we're we're still in a good spot.
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  Speaker 2: Just one games.
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  Speaker 6: It's three games insurmountable though, Like we look at it
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  Speaker 6: and we go there's a lot of teams right in
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  Speaker 6: that spot. For you guys on the field right now,
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  Speaker 6: when you look up at the scoreboard and you're lying
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  Speaker 6: if you don't look at the scoreboard, because you got
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  Speaker 6: a lot that you're not doing while you're not pitching.
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  Speaker 6: But what is it? Does a feel Does three games
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  Speaker 6: feel insurmountable?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think we've been in the worst position earlier
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  Speaker 2: on in the year than where we are right now.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it all just takes.
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  Speaker 2: Is you get on a run three five games here
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  Speaker 2: and you're right back in it, or you're in the
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  Speaker 2: playoff spot.
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  Speaker 5: Three games is not that bigger deal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've been playing these guys, We're playing the
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  Speaker 2: Twins right now, just got done with the Rangers. We
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of other good games coming up, So no,
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  Speaker 2: three games is not crazy to think about.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Kyle, you mentioned Kramer and we talked about Adlete.
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  Speaker 3: He pitched against you guys last night in a Twins uniform.
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  Speaker 3: He got he got a win. Sorry, but the facts.
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  Speaker 3: Was there any extra trash talking from your bench, like
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  Speaker 3: to him when he goes out there and takes around.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see any extra emotion from from from Dean
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  Speaker 3: and what you would normally see because you watch him
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  Speaker 3: pitch a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been watching him pitch for the past five years.
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  Speaker 2: He's pretty even keel out there. He doesn't show too
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  Speaker 2: much emotion. I know that he was definitely We talked
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  Speaker 2: about it before the start, and then we went and
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  Speaker 2: got coffee this morning and kind of recapped it. But
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  Speaker 2: there was definitely some emotion going into it, just knowing
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  Speaker 2: these are his friends, he's been playing with him for
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  Speaker 2: the past five years, but also wanting to go get
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  Speaker 2: that win for his new team is ahead of us
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  Speaker 2: in the standings. But I know there was some trash
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  Speaker 2: talk early on from myself as well, But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he pitched a great game, so it's kind of kind
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  Speaker 2: of tough to keep talking trash when he's doing what
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  Speaker 2: he did.
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  Speaker 6: I wait, trash talk, like what are you like, I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna watch you better than you're gonna watch me from
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  Speaker 6: the bench, Like how do pictures? Trash talk back and
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  Speaker 6: forth to each other.
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  Speaker 2: We got our own little inside jokes that we've had
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  Speaker 2: over the years, so kind of take his mind off
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  Speaker 2: of the game plan out there and focus on what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: All right, So, who has the advantage? We talked about
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  Speaker 6: Adlie talked about, you know, the front hip, Who has
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  Speaker 6: the advantage when a dude caught you for what you
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  Speaker 6: said essentially your entire life. Who has the advantage? Do
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  Speaker 6: you know him better than he knows you. Does he
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  Speaker 6: know you better than you know him?
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  Speaker 5: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think I've really ever thrown to
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  Speaker 2: a against the guy that's caught me as much as
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  Speaker 2: Ali has, so he might think he has advantage on pitch,
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  Speaker 2: secret sing and stuff. But I feel like when I'm
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  Speaker 2: out there on my game, I have I have the
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  Speaker 2: advantage with the ball in my hand.
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  Speaker 4: That's fair, that's fair, that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, as a catcher, you always think, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I knew exactly what he's gonna throw right. I faced
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  Speaker 3: him in I faced him in BP and spring training
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  Speaker 3: and he broke my bat once, but only because I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't ready. So as a catcher, you always think you
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  Speaker 3: have the advantage, and then the pitcher is always like,
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  Speaker 3: oh no, here's a new pitch that I just learned,
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  Speaker 3: a trick pitch you didn't you didn't know I had,
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  Speaker 3: And then they get you out and then they laugh
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, whatever it.
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  Speaker 5: Is, might have might have to get a new one
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  Speaker 5: when I face him.
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  Speaker 6: We'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, why not try it? Then?
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  Speaker 3: Just don't give up a hit, because then you know
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  Speaker 3: something bad might be said back to you, So you
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  Speaker 3: know it's it's.
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  Speaker 4: All fair though, it's all fair, it's all part of
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  Speaker 4: the fun.
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  Speaker 3: People just don't understand how much there is a lot
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  Speaker 3: of trash talking amongst friends that people don't really get
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  Speaker 3: to see. It's more there's not a lot of words,
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  Speaker 3: there's some verbal there's some hand signals that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people don't see.
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  Speaker 4: So I live for it. I live for it, Kyle,
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  Speaker 4: and listen.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you'll have an awesome time when you do
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  Speaker 3: get to face them for the first time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm definitely, I'm definitely looking forward.
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  Speaker 6: To all right, Kyle, I got a one nerdy looking
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  Speaker 6: at the stats. At the beginning of the year, you're
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  Speaker 6: walking way too many dudes, way more than and recently,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if it's the last six or eight games,
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  Speaker 6: whatever it is, it is dropped. I think you had
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  Speaker 6: a five walk game and then since then you have
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  Speaker 6: been nails, not perfect, but nails. Was there a concerted
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  Speaker 6: effort to do something different so that obviously no picture
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  Speaker 6: wants to walk dudes, But was there a concerted effort
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  Speaker 6: from that line that day that you had five walks
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  Speaker 6: till now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've been kind of talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Me they're starting pitchers and are like pitching coaches. Just
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  Speaker 2: as a whole, we've walked way too many guys, especially
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  Speaker 2: early on in the year, and I think the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing that we've kind of gotten back to is strike
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  Speaker 2: one percentage, winning kind of the one to one counts
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  Speaker 2: and then putting guys away when you have two strikes
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  Speaker 2: on them. And that's kind of been the mentality of
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  Speaker 2: this whole staff the past month or two. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like for me personally, I've just more times than not,
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  Speaker 2: i haven't felt comfortable out there and kind of my
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  Speaker 2: setup and delivering stuff so been battling that the majority
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  Speaker 2: of the year. The past, like you said, the past
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  Speaker 2: four or five feel like they're getting back to normal.
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  Speaker 6: I got a question about your manager when he got
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: hit in the face and then he came out and
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: he had whatever orbital whatever he had. People were like, WHOA,
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: this team needs to get behind that. Does a manager
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: hit in the face and then coming back out like
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: pump the dudes up? Or you guys like from your
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: pitcher's bench, are you like get out of the way, Craig.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: No, I mean that was I was actually inside for that.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I saw it on TV and then I saw him
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: walk in, So that was that was scary. But thankfully
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I was not doug out to see that, but yeah,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's one of those things where
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: you want to kind of rally behind your manager for
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: doing that and then come back out and finish in
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: the game. Just kind of shows you that toughness of
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: what this team needs to be about. And I think
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: we came back and won that game. But no, I'll
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: be great guy. I'm very very happy and very fortunate
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: to have him as their manager.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: An Kyle, I know you're a starting pitcher, and sometimes
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: it's hard for starting pitchers to talk to position players
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: because you know, we have to grind every day. We're
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: not special teams players. We can only play half the ball, right,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: we have to play on both sides. But do you
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: say anything to Gunner or Jackson, Holiday or Cowser or
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: any of the position players on a daily basis, like, Hey,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: come on, like I need you today, We need you
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to have energy today.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I need to win out of you.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I need a home er out of you today, Gunner,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Or do you just kind of walk by and give
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: them the old picture like.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Some days.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, we all kind of joke around in the clubhouse,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and I don't think it's a secret in the clubhouse,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: that offense has been struggling as of late, just like
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: early in the air pitching was struggling.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: And I think we have.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: That good of a clubhouse to where guys feel comfortable
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to go talk to them. But with those guys you mentioned,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I mean I have my handshakes with Gunner and Kowser,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and we talk kind of on a daily basis, whether
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: it's playing games or actually talking baseball. So I think
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we have a pretty good relationship to where, yeah, if
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I went up to them and said, hey, need a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: homer are you today?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: They completely get it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Has somebody stepped into Adlie's role you talk about the
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: handshakes and everything, that leadership role or is that something
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: that's not even We don't even need somebody to be Adlie.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Everyone just needs to be themselves.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Adley's such a kind of special personality,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Especially in that clubhouse. He was friends with everybody, So
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think you really build that that.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Role that he was to this clubhouse.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Everybody kind of goes about their business and Adley was
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: more of a kind of lead by example guy anyways,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: but he definitely was one of those guys to keep
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a clubhouse light and kind of he was our DJ
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: on the bus, so finding those spots to Phil, just
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: having fun and not making them the game too serious.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, Pete's definitely one of those guys. Bassett starting pitchers,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: kind of one of our jobs is be a vibe
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: guy when you're not pitching. So I like to think
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that myself, uh fills that role a little bit in
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse. But Narvey coming over to the Red Sox
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: just says the catcher he's been great, very knowledgeable, knows
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: his staff already and he's caught five or six games
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: in a row.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: But he's been great.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Back there, Kyle, we appreciate the time.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you ever need to get hot, ask ask Bassett.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I'll pick the jersey. I think last time I picked
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: the jersey, you guys went on a run. So if
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you need to get hot, gole just let me know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I'll let you guys know.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Kyle, thanks for stopping by. Great to talk to you.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: All right, Thanks guys, and I show you how deep
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: the rabbit hole go.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Data Dish Inside Edge, pointing out today how the Nationals
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: are still leading baseball and slugging percentage. Aja had a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: four forty clip. The league average is four to one,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and it's not like that ballpark is a bandbox. A
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: lot of guys that really improved. Some have left now
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: via trade, like a Luis Garcia junior. Can we show them?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Mike Petriello tweet two. He wrote a story about how
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six mass were trending towards being the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: first team in history to not give a single plate
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: appearance to a hit or older than twenty eight. Unfortunately
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: that was snapped by Miles Michael has been jitting, but
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he still said youngest group ever.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the Miles Michael's He went up there to bunt,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: which I thought was funny because most analytic people don't
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: believe in bunning, so he had to bunt, and they
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: sent Miles Michael's up there because apparently none of their
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: position players can bump, which I also find funny. But
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: they rake, Listen, that's why the over in the Nationals
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: game has been such a hit.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: They raked.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: They give up a lot of runs. Also, they score
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: a lot and they give up a lot. Okay, so well, yeah,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: James Wood cj Abram, this team, Kevira Ruiz, we see
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you before he got treated. These dudes could rake and
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: they figured something out. So good for them. I'm figuring
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: it out. But they got to figure out how to
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: pitch at some point, so Data Dish had to pitch.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Please Nationals.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: The inside that Data Dish is going to tell you
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: this is something to watch for next year. They did it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: They did it this year. They had good players last year,
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: but to make the turnaround that they've done with such
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: young players and have the amount of success they've had
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: on the hitting side, like who who? Like the Blue
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Jays last year got tons of credit for that and
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: they made it to the World Series, Like they kind
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: of fell off of it again. What's gonna happen next
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: year for the Nats. I'm super intrigued.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And they're not the only one. The Marlins and the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Cardinals also are some of the fewest played appearances ever
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: from twenty nine plus players ages nine or older. So
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: seeing the youth movement. We've been talking about that for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: years already on this show.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: So you're seeing some of the older teams considerable cheaper players.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And position players, I think more so than pitchers really
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: being judged once they hit thirty. I think that's the thing,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: right now too,