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Cardinals select Jimmy Crooks and César Prieto · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Another week of Cardinals baseball officially in the books. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to Cardinal Territory, your official Saint Louis Cardinals podcast
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: as part of the Foul Territory Network. I'm your host
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Katie Wu breaking down a quick trip to the Queen City.
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  Speaker 1: A three game road trip to Cincinnati, the Cardinals take
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  Speaker 1: two of three from the Riots at Great American Ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: They won the first two games, but are unable to
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  Speaker 1: complete the sweep and fall seven to four on Sunday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals are now sixty eight and seventy, with officially
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  Speaker 1: four weeks remaining in the season, which is crazy that
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  Speaker 1: we are about to be in September. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the season goes by fast every year, but this one
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  Speaker 1: it felt especially quick, and I'm not sure why because
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  Speaker 1: it was a particularly trying season. But it always feels
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  Speaker 1: a little bittersweet when September starts approaching and you know
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  Speaker 1: you're likely not covering a playoff team and the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season is nearing. It just, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It always gets me. But plenty of time to be
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  Speaker 1: sentimental in talk baseball. So we will start with the
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  Speaker 1: big news and the big story. This series, it was
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  Speaker 1: two roster moves, namely two top prospects promotions. Congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Crooks since he's at Prieto, which if you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: already were selected to the major league roster before the
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  Speaker 1: series began on Friday. They both made their major league
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  Speaker 1: debuts and Friday seven to five win in ten innings
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  Speaker 1: against the Reds and both got their first career starts
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon. Prieto beat out an infield single in the
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  Speaker 1: later Indians first first big league hit. Crooks, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, no big deal, Just want today a solo
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  Speaker 1: shot on the seventh before his first major league hit,
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  Speaker 1: and that is always super special, even more so when
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  Speaker 1: it comes as a big fly. And yes, for the
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  Speaker 1: inquiring minds at home, the Cardinals were able to secure
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  Speaker 1: that ballback from a fan in right field. The ball
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  Speaker 1: was sitting on manager Alli Marmal's desk when reporters came
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  Speaker 1: in after the game. So congratulations to both of those players'
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  Speaker 1: names that we've been monitoring down in Memphis for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Crooks and Preoto both top twenty prospects entering the season.
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  Speaker 1: Per the Athletics Keith Lodgeimmy Crooks was number eight in
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  Speaker 1: the organization Preoto a number fifteen. Let's talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about the corresponding moves first and how we got
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  Speaker 1: here before we go back to what we can expect
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  Speaker 1: from Crooks and Preoto to finish out the season. The
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  Speaker 1: corresponding moves were not great. Alec Burlson hit the ten
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  Speaker 1: day IL with a right wrist inflammation. Joel Poso placed
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  Speaker 1: on the IL with a concussion. He's on the seven
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  Speaker 1: day concussion injury list. Burlison is on the ten day IL.
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  Speaker 1: Neither injury should keep either player out too long, but
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  Speaker 1: certainly not ideal, especially for Burlson, who has been arguably
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  Speaker 1: the team's most consistent hitter. Now, these were two injuries
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  Speaker 1: that the Cardinals didn't really see coming. On Thursday, this
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  Speaker 1: is when it first was brought to the organization's attention
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  Speaker 1: that semi Elston's would be necessary. Burlson missed one game
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  Speaker 1: last week against the Rays dealing with some that right
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  Speaker 1: risk soreness, but was able to play through, swatted a
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  Speaker 1: walk off homer on Monday against the Pirates, and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of was day to day. But on Thursday day
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  Speaker 1: he described it his feeling the risk feeling as as
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  Speaker 1: painful as it had been, he was unable to finish
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  Speaker 1: the game was pulled for a defensive replacement in the eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Poso also played in Thursday's game. He got struck pretty
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  Speaker 1: hard by that a foul tip in the third inning.
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  Speaker 1: Remained on the ground for several minutes, ultimately finished the game,
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  Speaker 1: but was clear after that he did have a concussion,
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  Speaker 1: so the team placed him on the concussion injured list.
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  Speaker 1: Burlison got some anti inflammatory injection. POSO progressing well back
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. Olli Marma believes they should not miss
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  Speaker 1: more than the minimum amount of time on their respective stints,
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  Speaker 1: so that's good. We'll do an injury. Let's just do
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  Speaker 1: the injury un down now because we're already on the topic.
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  Speaker 1: Nolan Arnado will be in Saint Louis on Wednesday. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that's the third to get evaluated by the Cardinal's
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  Speaker 1: medical staff, and then the team will decide if he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go on a rehab assignment or not. The
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  Speaker 1: team does expect Ronado to play again this season, targeting
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  Speaker 1: potentially a mid September return, so that will be good news.
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan continues to progress at home Cardinals again think
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  Speaker 1: he'll be back before the end of the season, but
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  Speaker 1: no real update as term in terms of a rehab assignment.
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  Speaker 1: Victor Scott the Second began a rehab assignment of his
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  Speaker 1: own with Springfield on Friday, played again today. Cardinals are
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  Speaker 1: awaiting further word to see if he'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: be activated before Monday's game early game against the A's
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  Speaker 1: for Labor Day. That is a rare Monday Day game.
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  Speaker 1: If that is the case, it would be pretty obvious
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  Speaker 1: that he would be the September first expansion roster move.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to those moves what they could be later
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  Speaker 1: in the show. So that's a Cardinals injury update. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm missing a couple. Yes, Riley O'Brien is a
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  Speaker 1: candidate to go on the fifteen day IL. He is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with some fatigue, some pinched nerves, something in his
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  Speaker 1: right lap, so he has not been able to recover
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. He was unavailable the last two games
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, so the Cardinals are discussing whether or not
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  Speaker 1: they'll need to place O'Brien on the IL and what
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  Speaker 1: that will mean for more roster expansion candidates possibilities. We
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  Speaker 1: will get to again later in the show. But first
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: it's time for our DraftKings player spotlight, except we're going
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  Speaker 1: to switch it up a little bit. Instead of spotlighting
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  Speaker 1: one player, we're going to spotlight two. Let's get to
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  Speaker 1: know a little bit more about Jimmy Crooks and Cesar Preeto,
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  Speaker 1: shall we? All right? So if you don't know, now
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  Speaker 1: you do. The Cardinals will plan on using both Crooks
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  Speaker 1: and Preato in a consistent amount of time throughout the season.
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  Speaker 1: They won't necessarily be everyday starters. Manager Ali Marmal will
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  Speaker 1: not commit to a clear cut playing time in Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Crooks's case. With Pedro Pahz, who is still expected to
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  Speaker 1: see a considerable amount of reps, He's had a good August,
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  Speaker 1: by far his most impressive offensive month of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that the Cardinals don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see more of Jimmy Crooks. We talked to Olie Marmal
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  Speaker 1: on Friday the visiting reporters in Cincinnati and said, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing for Jimmy, who could be a big piece
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  Speaker 1: for this club's future, is the organization just wants to
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  Speaker 1: see where he's at. They want to see in Crooks's case,
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  Speaker 1: how does he game plan a game, how does he
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  Speaker 1: deviate from it, how does he commit to it? When
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  Speaker 1: does he make a call to change things up and
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  Speaker 1: adapt in the game. How does he recover things like that?
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  Speaker 1: Things that you can't really evaluate from a player In
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  Speaker 1: triple A, Preato is more of a depth in field there.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals something if you've heard this before, they have
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  Speaker 1: a ton of lefties, So adding two more in Preoto
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  Speaker 1: and Crooks complicates a little bit of things from the
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  Speaker 1: lineup perspective. But Gorman so JC Mason Win should see
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  Speaker 1: the bulk of the refs in the infield that Prieto
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  Speaker 1: can play all three positions third base, second base, and shortstop,
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  Speaker 1: so he'll be able to kind of slot in and
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  Speaker 1: give breathers two players when necessary. That will be especially
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  Speaker 1: important in Mason Win's case, as we know he's been
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  Speaker 1: a little banged up. Cardinals do not believe that they
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  Speaker 1: are putting him at any risk with that sore knee
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  Speaker 1: for next season. It's just something they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to manage, a monitor, manage workload, and keep into consideration.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe a couple more rest days for Win the necessary,
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  Speaker 1: But that does allow Preato to play and kind of
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  Speaker 1: helps all around. So one days that Mason win liked
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  Speaker 1: not in the starting lineup, you'll see s JC at shortstop,
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  Speaker 1: most likely in Preeto at second. Gorman will stay at third.
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  Speaker 1: How this complicates when Slash, if Donovan Arnatto come back,
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  Speaker 1: we will get there. Right now, off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head, the Cardinals have Donovan Burlason, now Bar Gorman, Crooks, Preeto,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Church, all left handed hitters in the mix. I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably missing one. Maybe that will be the case. These
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  Speaker 1: things will eventually sort themselves out in terms of which
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  Speaker 1: left you stay up in which don't. But for right now,
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  Speaker 1: I expect to see Preeto kind of used as that
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  Speaker 1: depth option for Alli Marble throughout the infield. Not sure
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  Speaker 1: how the playing time for this upcoming series against the
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  Speaker 1: A's will look again. It's a three game set Monday
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  Speaker 1: day game to a night game Tuesday, night game Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and off down Thursday, so ample time for rest after
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  Speaker 1: this quick turnaround tomorrow. I would expect to see Crooks
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  Speaker 1: in there at least a couple times this week, though,
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  Speaker 1: because evaluation as the Cardinals pivot too twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: and beyond will become the f point of the season.
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  Speaker 1: It honestly already has been for the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Crooks is absolutely going to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yvon Herrera. It's funny because I feel like we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this on almost every episode, how the Cardinals have
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  Speaker 1: a redundancy problem. They certainly have that at catcher. The
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals are not moving Yvon Herrera off of catcher permanently
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  Speaker 1: just for the season, as we talked about earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the year. But when you look at how the catching
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  Speaker 1: is shaping up for twenty twenty six, Herrera, Pa Haz
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  Speaker 1: Crooks seem to be the front runners there. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure what this means for Poso, who is kind of
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  Speaker 1: could be just a depth option in Triple A if
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  Speaker 1: his contract sas allows for that. But it is important
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  Speaker 1: for this team to figure out what they have in
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Crooks so that they can accurately start planning for
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and beyond. That includes what they will
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  Speaker 1: do with Pedro pa Has and where they'll play Yvon
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  Speaker 1: Herrera on the field next year, because as impressive as
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  Speaker 1: he's been at the plate, the Cardinals cannot afford to
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  Speaker 1: back to the show, who are the September roster expansion candidates?
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  Speaker 1: We will know that by roughly ten thirty am Central
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  Speaker 1: Time tomorrow, the Cardinals will across Baseball, not just the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: we'll major league active rosters will expand from twenty six
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  Speaker 1: players to twenty eight. Gone are the days where the
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  Speaker 1: floodgates opened and you had forty players up on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: That was super fun. Now roster ex expansion days are
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  Speaker 1: a little less cool, but still certainly something to monitor
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  Speaker 1: when you look at what the Cardinals are looking to do.
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  Speaker 1: The kind of like lame part of this is that
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  Speaker 1: the big names that we were excited to see on
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  Speaker 1: this day are actually already here. Because Crooks and Prieto
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  Speaker 1: were going to be under consideration Cooks especially for that
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  Speaker 1: roster expansion spot, and maybe we'd see Prieto later depending
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  Speaker 1: on need. The Cardinals. All teams in baseball get one
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  Speaker 1: extra position player and one extra pitcher for this roster expansion.
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  Speaker 1: I was under the assumption or under the belief that
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Crooks was going to be here regardless of an
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  Speaker 1: injury on Monday. So, like we talked about, Victor Scott
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  Speaker 1: the second started his rehab assignment with Springfield. It would
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  Speaker 1: be very surprising if the Cardinals do not activate him
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  Speaker 1: for Monday off the injured list. He was dealing with
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  Speaker 1: that left ankle sprain two weeks ago against the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: but recovered fairly quickly, got into a couple of reheab
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  Speaker 1: games in Springfield over the weekend. The Cardinals were waiting
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  Speaker 1: to hear back from how Vic played because Springfield's game
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  Speaker 1: had not ended before the Cardinals game in Cincinnati did today,
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  Speaker 1: So waiting for an injury. We're waiting for a progress
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  Speaker 1: report on Victor Scott's injury before making that move official.
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  Speaker 1: But the organization would be very surprised if Victor Scott
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  Speaker 1: was not activated tomorrow, and so would I. So that
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  Speaker 1: takes care, takes care. I'm having a hard time speaking
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  Speaker 1: at the moment. I don't know why that takes care
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  Speaker 1: of the position side. Now, the Cardinals could have a
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  Speaker 1: chance for two spots on the pitching side because they're
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  Speaker 1: like we mentioned, there is a chance that Riley O'Brien
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  Speaker 1: hits the IL, so the Cardinals would need to backfill
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  Speaker 1: his spot, of course, and then add one more arm
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  Speaker 1: for the pitcher expansion spot. For names under consideration for
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  Speaker 1: at least one, maybe two openings, they are Chris Roycroft,
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  Speaker 1: Roderie Munoz, Anthony Veniziano, and Curtis Taylor. We have seen
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  Speaker 1: three out of four. Curtis Taylor is having a very
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  Speaker 1: nice season for Triple A Memphis as one of their
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  Speaker 1: depth starters. The Cardinals could use him either way, both
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  Speaker 1: as length in the bullpen should they select him, or
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  Speaker 1: as a spot starter in the rotation. I do not
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  Speaker 1: believe there are any going to be any openings in
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  Speaker 1: the rotation today. On a Polante through five innings, tag
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  Speaker 1: for five runs, but only two were earned a misfortunate
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  Speaker 1: an unfortunate error by Caesar Preto led to three runs
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  Speaker 1: early in the game that were not charged to Polante.
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  Speaker 1: Four walks but six strikeouts and all you know, the
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  Speaker 1: box scorer isn't dazzling, but those things point to progress
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  Speaker 1: and that's what the Cardinals are hoping to see with Polante,
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  Speaker 1: so a better outing from him in terms of what
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  Speaker 1: he's looking to work on still some ways to go,
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  Speaker 1: but I do believe that he will continue staying in
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  Speaker 1: the rotation, which means if the Cardinals do select Curtis Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where he would fit, they will
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  Speaker 1: definitely have to add one arm, maybe two again, depending
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  Speaker 1: on Riley O'Brien's status. You can make an argument for
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  Speaker 1: really any of those guys, but I feel Veniziano because
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  Speaker 1: he would be a lefty. And the Cardinals again are
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  Speaker 1: back to having only one left handed reliever and Jojo Romero.
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  Speaker 1: John King hit the IL earlier in the week for
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  Speaker 1: the second time this month, so Cardin's playing short handed
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  Speaker 1: and that actually really came into play today with their
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  Speaker 1: bullpen many guys down. Jojo unavailable, Kylee he had available,
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  Speaker 1: O'Brien obviously unavailable, Matt Swhonson unavailable. Ali Marble said before
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  Speaker 1: the game he had three relievers that could go, all
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  Speaker 1: with different workloads. For Hey al Kala not available, so
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  Speaker 1: it was really down to Gorn and Grissevo and they
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  Speaker 1: used him Max he had nothing left after he was
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  Speaker 1: taken out the game, and Andre Grinio was an option
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  Speaker 1: there as well, And I do not believe Brian Fernandez
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  Speaker 1: was live. I think they were trying to stay away
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  Speaker 1: from him also, so a patchwork bullpen game. Hopefully Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis can replenish their relievers again. Expect one, I would
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  Speaker 1: expect two. I would be surprised if O'Brien did not
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  Speaker 1: end up on the injured list, just based on how
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  Speaker 1: unavailable he was this weekend and the lack of recovery.
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  Speaker 1: So things that monitor there. You'll notice the name I
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  Speaker 1: did not say, sorry, you're gonna hate this part of
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  Speaker 1: the show. I did not mention JJ Weatherholt's top prospect
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  Speaker 1: carrying it up in Memphis this season. He has not
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  Speaker 1: been under a consideration for a call up at any
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  Speaker 1: point so far this season. I know you hate it.
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  Speaker 1: This is terrible. I get it. I like you would
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  Speaker 1: love to see JJ weatherhol up here. But it's much
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  Speaker 1: more complex than just his service time and starting his clock.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many ulterior things here, the biggest one
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  Speaker 1: being that John Mozelok still sets the major league roster.
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  Speaker 1: JJ Weatherholt is heim Bloom's decision on when to start
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  Speaker 1: his service time, when to start his clock, when to
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  Speaker 1: use him, what's best for his development. So this is
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: kind of the weird awkwardness and a transitioneer. Moe is
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: making the decisions for the major league club, but JJ
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  Speaker 1: weatherhol is very much a part of Heim's core of players,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not sure if it's really Moe's. Well, on paper,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: of course, it's Moe's decision to make. He is in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the active roster. I think there is some
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: back and forth on what's best for JJ and what
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Heim would like JJ's service time to look like in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of his career to look like, and that's
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: ultimately going to be Heim's decision. So it's complicated. I
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: know it's the Cardinals. What you thought was gonna be
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: simple anyway, I'm just here to tell you to spoil
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: your party. Don't count on a Jj Weatherholt promotion anytime soon.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: It has not been discussed. Preeto was going to be
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the infielder they called up if they needed to, and
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: we saw that they did so. Kind of a boring
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: roster expansion explanation because we're not going to see, most
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: likely any new names that we haven't already. The only
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: thing that could change the position playing side in this
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: is Wilson Contreras's suspension. As we talked about in our
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: last episode with Bernie. He is in the middle of
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: appealing a six game suspension by Major League Baseball for
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that sketch little altercation with Hope plae umpire Derek Thomas
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: last week against the Pirates. Still have not heard back
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: from MLB on if that appeal was approved, if the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: suspension will be reduced. When that comes into place, the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Cardinals will have to obviously not have contrarasts and they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: cannot backfill his absence. They will play a man short.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: So I do not believe Major League Baseball will make
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: that decision on Labor Day, a holiday. Maybe we have
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: some better clarity and what that looks like starting today.
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  Speaker 1: So I would expect that this roster doesn't stay this way,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: by the way, just based on the amount of players
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that we talked about earlier in the earlier in the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: show coming off the injured list. When Alec Gurlson's ready
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to go, they're going to bring him. When Brendan Donvan's
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: ready to go, they're going to bring him. When Nolan
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Arnatto is ready to go, they're going to bring him.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: So some of these guys, and this is just speculation,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: but some guys like Preato likes. The JC might not
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: be here to finish the season. That's why it's important
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: for them to seize the time that they have right now.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I think Thomas A. Jac has done a really nice
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: job in particular of doing so. All right, let's hear
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: from my friends that are going to club and we'll
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: wrap this show up.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back, Okay, KP. This is your first
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• 18:40
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  Speaker 3: twenty five dollars slab packs and we get to see
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: what is in the pack.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: There. It is the.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Grail, which is the best card in the pack and
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: worth the most. There are some other cards that we're chasing,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: and you can see the entire lineup so that you
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: know what you're in the running for. There's the Yamamoto
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  Speaker 3: signed card. Now to open up our pack and.
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  Speaker 1: See how we do.
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  Speaker 3: We have ourselves a really cool graphic and then a show.
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  Speaker 1: You should give it to me, I'll keep.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Good answer fine, I will give it to you. Since
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• 19:38
  Speaker 1: All right, wrapping up this quick Sunday episode for you guys.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Cardinals as on deck. I will always want to call
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: them the Oakland Athletics, that is the Bay Area in me,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: but sadly that no longer exists, so it's the no
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: city as that they play in Sacramento. They have no
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: affiliation for a what a city for the next three
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: years until they go to Vegas allegedly in twenty twenty eight.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Still don't think they're going to Vegas
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: because that's just me being here off day on Thursday,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and then the Giants come to town. So a californ
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Northern California week here at bushadm mess something near and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: dear to my heart. Of course, we'll see Sunny Gray
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Miles Michaelis and Matthew Libertor against the a's so act. Accordingly,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Bernie and I will be back early next week. We'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: get some three episodes out here. I have some really
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: fun guests planned. I know that August we were a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: little light on player and staff interview, so I'm going
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to make it up to you guys as we finish
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: out the final four weeks of the regular season. Just
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: two home stands left and four road cities. That was
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: crazy and it will absolutely fly by, especially as we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: get closer to the end of the season. I expect
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: to have much more clarity about what the heim Bloom
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: transition will actually look like. For those of you looking
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: for a preview, you can do so at the athletic
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: dot Com slash Cardinals. There is a mail bag up
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: there focusing on a little bit of what heim Bloom
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and rob'storfolio have been doing behind the scenes in the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Cardinals minor league and player development system. Check it out.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: As always, here for your feedback, comments, questions, concerns, all
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the above. Bernie, night back with you very soon. Have
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a great week. Thanks for watching.