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Mailbag: Konnor Griffin soon? Triolo's bat? What about Oneil Cruz? · Bucco Territory: A Pittsburgh Pirates Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Bucco Territory, presented to
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Speaker 2: you by the Foul Territory Network on Noah Hiles and
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Speaker 2: joining me today is just not just it's a treat
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Speaker 2: always when I have Platinum Key aka Mark and it's
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Speaker 2: just me and him. Josh is on vacation with the family,
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Speaker 2: so we will be handling this week's mail bag Wednesday
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Speaker 2: and Mark.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people had a lot of questions.
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Speaker 3: Quite a few.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Normally when I send out the call for a mail bag,
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Speaker 2: I get, like, you know, fifteen fifteen twenty. I think
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Speaker 2: there was like seventy five to the original response.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah, perfect timing, posting it right after a pirate's loss.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And then a couple more on a comment
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Speaker 1: I made on the yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, do you want to just start
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Speaker 2: with the main one, the main one, the main one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not.
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Speaker 2: Burying the lead as they as they say in my business,
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Speaker 2: How soon before we see Griffin?
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Speaker 1: Surely he isn't worse than what we have now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I mean, if the PPI thing
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Speaker 2: really matters to the pirates and just looking around the league.
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Speaker 2: It clearly matters to other teams. Look at the extension
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Speaker 2: sign the Brewers just landed. Although, is that guy in
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Speaker 2: the major leagues?
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Speaker 1: They extended?
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Speaker 2: Okay, so he loses PPI eligibility because of that.
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Speaker 1: The Mariners kid? Is he in the major leagues?
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Speaker 3: Colt Emerson?
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, honestly, Okay.
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Speaker 2: So maybe pp I had nothing to do with that. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: there is I mean, the Tigers with McGonagall, that's a
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Speaker 2: clear example.
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Speaker 1: Weatherhold with the Cardinals another example.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Cardinals had all the incentive in the
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Speaker 2: world to manipulate weather hold service times the Guardian.
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Speaker 1: Yes, so there are other examples.
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Speaker 2: But on the other note, the extension stuff, I think
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Speaker 2: there's also as we can see insteadive with the lockout looming.
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Speaker 2: I think you want to get the PPI, you want
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Speaker 2: to get the extension, and we're seeing that all around baseball.
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Speaker 1: So where does that fall with Connor Griffin.
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Speaker 2: Well, in order for him to be PPI eligible, he
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Speaker 2: needs to be a Big leaguer before April ninth, so
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Speaker 2: that is next Thursday. This drops on April first, so
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Speaker 2: a week from today will be April eighth. He needs
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Speaker 2: to be here by a week from today, and you
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Speaker 2: look at this calendar, I mean, Cincinnati's not far from Indianapolis.
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Speaker 2: So maybe he just joins the team back for the
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Speaker 2: home opener. Or I mean, no one plays baseball in
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Speaker 2: the minor leagues on Mondays, that's the universal off day.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they fly him into town Monday and he debuts
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Speaker 2: Tuesday the seventh. I would have a hard time imagining
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Speaker 2: if they do bring him up prior to the PPI
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Speaker 2: eligibility deadline, Like they're gonna want them to debut at home.
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Speaker 1: And I believe the.
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Speaker 2: Pirates final home game, uh in this homestand is on
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Speaker 2: the eighth, So.
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Speaker 1: That's we're looking at.
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Speaker 2: We're looking at a week or so is when if
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Speaker 2: the PPI thing actually matters to the Pirates, that's the
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Speaker 2: date to keep in mind. So we're quickly approaching on that.
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Speaker 2: The other part of it is like this teem's better
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Speaker 2: with Connor Griffin. It just is, when you have half
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Speaker 2: of your lineup playing out of position. Defensively, it's gonna
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Speaker 2: hurt your defense, it's gonna hurt your pitching, and in
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Speaker 2: some cases it can hurt your offense too. So I mean,
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Speaker 2: I I think it's rather clear that they built this
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Speaker 2: team with Connor and mine to be the starting shortstop.
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Speaker 3: Right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they they could use a spark and they
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Speaker 2: could use some good pr So, uh, there's there's all
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Speaker 2: the incentive in the world to bring this kid up. Now,
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Speaker 2: will it happen before the ninth Who knows? Because if
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Speaker 2: it doesn't, then they don't get the PPI, but they
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Speaker 2: can focus on his development. I personally still think there's
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Speaker 2: just too much going in favor to call him up
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Speaker 2: within the next week or so that it makes sense.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm not reporting that it's gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I wouldn't be shocked.
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Speaker 1: If it does.
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Speaker 3: The defense alone, to me, completely justifies it because right now,
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Speaker 3: the defensive production we're getting from Jerry Triollo, who's on
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Speaker 3: this team for his defense, he has negative one outs
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Speaker 3: above average right now at shortstop and we're four games in.
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Speaker 3: That's and he doesn't looked comfortables. His range has looked
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Speaker 3: a little bit limited. It's kind of prevented him from
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Speaker 3: getting just to that ball that's just outside of his glove,
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Speaker 3: Whereas I could see Connor being quick enough in athletic
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Speaker 3: enough to make those plays. So and then that also
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Speaker 3: allows you to shift Triolo back over to third and
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Speaker 3: where he's a lot more comfortable, where he's a lot
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Speaker 3: better suited, and your entire left the infields defense all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden doesn't feel like as much of a problem,
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Speaker 3: or even a problem at all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, I mean who knows. I mean, if it's
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Speaker 1: if it's not by.
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Speaker 2: You know, the April ninth date, then who knows, It'll
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Speaker 2: probably be like closer to Memorial Day then I don't, right, that's.
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Speaker 1: Ven the fans saying, so you know it's not.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, if it's not April ninth, they're probably
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Speaker 3: gonna wait and try and delay until after like that
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Speaker 3: super too, like the deadline where the they could get
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Speaker 3: the extra year out of them. But my sister I
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Speaker 3: got her tickets to the April ninth game in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 3: It's spark in the Park night, so that's why. But
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Speaker 3: I told her, I was like, you better not be
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Speaker 3: watching kind of Griffin because I would really like to
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Speaker 3: be watching him instead.
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Speaker 1: So yes, all right, next question mark, what do we
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Speaker 1: got all right for?
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Speaker 3: Our next question comes from JK, who says it's only
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Speaker 3: been four games, but we're allowed to be seriously concerned
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Speaker 3: about this the right See.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if serious is the right way, but.
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Speaker 3: I think there's concerns.
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Speaker 2: Well, and tell correct me if I'm wrong, Mark, but
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Speaker 2: I think the four games start here has been a
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Speaker 2: reminder of the twenty twenty five seasons.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where the frustration comes. It's not getting guys in, it's.
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Speaker 3: It's the worst possible time, it's wasted good starts.
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Speaker 2: It's Brian Reynolds looking helpless up there at the plate,
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Speaker 2: it's O'Neil Cruz messing up in center field.
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's everything that.
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Speaker 2: Ruined this team season last year is happening four games
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Speaker 2: into this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So that's where I think a lot of the frustration
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Speaker 2: and concern comes from.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, I've said this elsewhere.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we're recording this before Tuesday night's game, So
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Speaker 2: you know, if they win that game ten to nothing
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Speaker 2: and then Paul throws a one hit shutout, yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: On Wednesday afternoon and then the team's three and three.
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Speaker 2: They're riding a two game win streak. They've won three
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Speaker 2: of their last four and all as well in the world.
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Speaker 2: But I do think you know this is across baseball.
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Speaker 2: Everyone overreacts to the first week of the season. It
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Speaker 2: can't be something that continues for much longer, right if
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Speaker 2: you're playing like this ten fifteen games into your season,
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Speaker 2: now we're looking at a problem. But overall they just
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Speaker 2: need to win a couple of games and everything we'll
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Speaker 2: call out exactly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't be hitting the pank button quite yet.
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Speaker 3: We're four games in. They play one hundred and sixty two.
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Speaker 3: For a reason, we've seen some bright spots with O'Hearn
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Speaker 3: and law. Shout out to Christian On Twitter's Christian Wolf
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Speaker 3: posted that where it was the two comparisons of what
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Speaker 3: Brendon Low and Ryan Hearn have done at the plate
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Speaker 3: compared to the rest of the team, which was very
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Speaker 3: good and not good at all. So things will balance out.
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Speaker 3: And we haven't even begun to see like this. We
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Speaker 3: haven't seen a zooing to do anything. Hopefully he'll provide
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Speaker 3: some production. We know O'Neil Cruz is capable, we know
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Speaker 3: Brian Wrengolds is capable. Hopefully, so this offense is going
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Speaker 3: to improve. It's not gonna be like this all year.
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Speaker 1: All right, what's all right?
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Speaker 3: Our next question here.
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Speaker 1: Josh Tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: This would have been a lot better of a question
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Speaker 2: to put on the show when Josh let's sting.
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Speaker 1: With us, But I'll just keep it simple and say no,
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Speaker 1: he can't.
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Speaker 2: He's got daughters who play volleyball and dance and he's
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Speaker 2: a busy guy.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, he's gonna be a way better dad than
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Speaker 3: anyone at third base. I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know he can get. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: a very great dad. But like, I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: my dad's the best dad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm saying at third base, I can play
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Speaker 3: third base. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
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Speaker 2: No, yes, Like my dad is like an eighty grade dad,
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Speaker 2: like a ten grade third baseman. Josh is a two
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Speaker 2: time All Star, really good dad, So he might have
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Speaker 2: my dad.
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Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, yeah maybe in that calculation. Yeah, But our
10:02
Speaker 3: next question here, uh so we all know the potential
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Speaker 3: crew Cruise has. With that being said, let's say he
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Speaker 3: can't figure things out offensively and struggles in the field.
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Speaker 3: Do you see a reality where Cruz is either benched
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Speaker 3: or sent down to Indy to work things out.
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Speaker 2: I don't see him sent down to Indy. I think
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Speaker 2: there are a couple of factors that play here. One,
10:23
Speaker 2: I think him getting bench depends on a couple of
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Speaker 2: other players too, yep, like if Mangum keeps playing well, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: or yeah or Garcia. And the other thing is if
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Speaker 2: Ozuna doesn't hit the ball well, then I think you
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Speaker 2: have an easy answer of Cruise isn't playing well on
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Speaker 2: the field, it's you platune him in Ozuna at d
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Speaker 2: H and then you make Mangum. I still don't think
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Speaker 2: you can give up on Cruise entirely in the field
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Speaker 2: unless he like absolutely forces you to do that.
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Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't see that happening until June. Mark.
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Speaker 2: I mean, think of the guys that they've given runway
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Speaker 2: to right, rowdy klez Michael A. Taylor also sidebar real quick.
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Speaker 2: For as big of a deal as we're making about
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Speaker 2: everyone being a horrible hitter four games end of the season,
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Speaker 2: go look.
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Speaker 1: At Michael A. Taylor's first four.
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Speaker 2: Games as a Pirate in twenty twenty four. He was
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Speaker 2: like he was hitting like five hundred.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember tweeting him like what a great pickup
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Speaker 1: for the.
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Speaker 3: Right Yeah yeah, how'd that work out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? So uh yeah, it's four games. Anything can change.
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Speaker 2: But if this does continue, I mean, they're gonna give
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Speaker 2: him a long leach because.
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Speaker 1: They don't have another choice. They don't.
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Speaker 2: They need his bat and they need to get his
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Speaker 2: bat going, Like his bat is more important than Marcelo Zuna's.
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Speaker 2: He just is he's a more important player in the organization.
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Speaker 2: So if in your mind, what to ask yourself, how
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Speaker 2: long would you be willing to give Marcelo Zuna until
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Speaker 2: until you give up on him as the everyday DH
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Speaker 2: and now whatever that answer is, if you say to
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Speaker 2: the end of April, if you say to the end
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Speaker 2: of May early June, like we saw with Rowdy Tiles
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, or Michael ay Taylor or
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Speaker 2: Tommy fam it's gonna be longer because O'Neal Cruz, despite
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Speaker 2: everything that's taking place, his ceiling's too high for them
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Speaker 2: to give up on unless they're trading him. And I
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Speaker 2: don't think that's a realistic expectation right now.
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Speaker 3: Now with team control left.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, that's that's probably the only thing
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Speaker 2: he's got going for him as far as value.
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Speaker 1: But like I, unless they trade him, they pull off like.
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Speaker 2: A Raphael Devers type trade, which again I believe that
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Speaker 2: was on Father's Day, So would.
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Speaker 1: That have been late May, yeah, June.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't too late, but yeah, yeah, So man, I
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Speaker 2: just he's he's in the lineups. He's just in the
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Speaker 2: lineup unless he is making one or two errors a
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Speaker 2: series and is hitting below two hundred and doesn't have
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Speaker 2: any home runs, Like it would have to get catastrophically
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Speaker 2: bad for them to pull the plug. There would have
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Speaker 2: to be so much many other plugs pulled ahead of him.
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Speaker 2: I think for it to get to that.
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Speaker 3: Point, That's exactly where I was going is I don't
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Speaker 3: think O'Neil Cruz is at the bottom of this like
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Speaker 3: starting lineup right now as the first guy that would
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Speaker 3: get benched. I think at Ozuna would be first above
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Speaker 3: him if I mean, it obviously depends on how they're playing,
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Speaker 3: but as far as length of leash goes, like you
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Speaker 3: were saying, O'Neil Cruz is going to get a longer
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Speaker 3: leash just because there's so much potential and if if
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Speaker 3: he does succeed, you can really really unlock something with
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Speaker 3: this team for the next few years. So yeah, And
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Speaker 3: we did see his defense, like towards the end of
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, the second half, it looked a little
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Speaker 3: bit better towards the second play.
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Speaker 2: Defensively on Sunday, He's had one really bad defensive game
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Speaker 2: and he had I don't know, did he do anything
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Speaker 2: wrong on Tuesday or Monday night. I don't recall that
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Speaker 2: he was probably a plus defender on Sundays. So I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you're counting at good games, it's two bad games.
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Speaker 1: It's one.
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Speaker 2: God knows what's gonna happen Tuesday after we record fish
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Speaker 2: recording this.
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Speaker 3: But hopefully they answer some of these questions themselves. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we'll see, all right, final question here, So, Noah, at
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Speaker 3: what point does Jared Triollo's bet hurt the team more
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Speaker 3: than his glove helps the team?
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Speaker 2: Again, I don't want to sound redundant, but whatever that
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Speaker 2: point is, it's much longer than four games into the season.
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Speaker 2: I mean you gotta look, man, I mean, think of
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Speaker 2: how many opportunities they've given Jared Triolo. And on one hand,
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Speaker 2: you could say, okay, well that's incentive for them to
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Speaker 2: pull the plug on this, But in reality, I mean
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Speaker 2: they've kept him around for a reason. He was their
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Speaker 2: highest war position player last year. He was their most
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Speaker 2: valuable position players. But what he was offensively, which was
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Speaker 2: at one point so bad they optioned him to triple A.
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Speaker 2: He was their most valuable position player. So I don't
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Speaker 2: think they're looking at Triolo to give you anything offensively. Now,
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Speaker 2: why are you batting him lead off? Or sixth or
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Speaker 2: fifth at times. That's a whole different conversation and not
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Speaker 2: one I can really answer because I'm not the manager.
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Speaker 1: I don't make a lineup hard. But yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: think Triolo.
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Speaker 2: I think Triolo at worst is going to have a
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Speaker 2: role similar to what Jake Mangam has this year. And
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Speaker 2: I don't see him even regressing that because whenever Griffin
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Speaker 2: comes up, Triolo is your third baseman. It's not even
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Speaker 2: a discussion because in Les Gonzalez can hit like three
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Speaker 2: hundred or Nick York. Yeah, Triolo's defense at third will
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Speaker 2: be enough value and you just got to have someone
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Speaker 2: who can actually play a position, yea at that position.
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Speaker 3: And I'd say the baseline for Triolo is basically he
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Speaker 3: has to hit just slightly better than Key Brian Hayes
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Speaker 3: did for this team, right, And I think that's going.
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Speaker 1: To be like a seventy weighted runs created.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's it's a very low bar. He just
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Speaker 3: needs to be not even average, just slightly needs to be.
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Speaker 1: Like bridge fifteen percent below league average. I think he was.
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Speaker 1: I think his ops plus was eighty six last.
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Speaker 2: Year, beautiful, so that was fourteen percent below league average.
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Speaker 1: If you can get to ninety. He's he's solid. Now
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Speaker 1: can't he get there? Who knows?
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Speaker 2: But even if he doesn't, it's it's not like like
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Speaker 2: I see the confusion for some fans. It's like, is
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Speaker 2: Nick Gonzalez a better hitter than Jared Triolo? Yeah? Yes,
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Speaker 2: But if Nick gonzalez Is hitting is here and Jared
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Speaker 2: Triola's hitting is here, But then Jared Triolo's fielding is
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Speaker 2: here and Nick Gonzalez's fielding is there.
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Speaker 1: At third base, who's the better player.
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Speaker 2: That's the conundrum. And that's the same thing that goes
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Speaker 2: for Nick York. That's really the hit. That's that's all
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Speaker 2: they have to They're based right now. I mean Manny Valdez,
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Speaker 2: Tyler Callahan, whoever else.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they they don't. He is their only major
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Speaker 1: league base.
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Speaker 2: Unless you're platooning, and you could bat Gonzalez against left handers,
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Speaker 2: and I think that that's a fine spot for him
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Speaker 2: to be in. But yeah, Treolo is just gonna move
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Speaker 2: to third. So yeah, I understand fans for straight frustration.
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Speaker 2: He had a horrible ninth inning at bad on Monday.
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Speaker 2: He has never really hit well at the start of
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Speaker 2: a major league baseball season. I get all of these things.
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Speaker 2: He's still their best option. Don't be mad at Jared Triolo.
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Speaker 2: Be mad to people who made Jared Triolo the best option.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Jared Triollo is getting a little
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Speaker 3: bit too much misplaced hate. Those swings were really bad
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Speaker 3: at that ninth and that bat that was bad. But
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Speaker 3: at the same time, he's one of this team's better
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Speaker 3: position players, and I think he'll show you as the
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Speaker 3: season goes on more than just a four game sample size.
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Speaker 1: So it's four games, and I get it. I get it.
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Speaker 2: No one saw the incompetence of the twenty twenty five
17:58
Speaker 2: Pirates up close personal more than I did, all right.
18:02
Speaker 2: I was in Miami and Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 1: For all of it.
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Speaker 2: I broke most of the stories. I was in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 2: I talked to the players, the coaches, yeah, everybody. I
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Speaker 2: know more than I'm allowed to even say. Ye.
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Speaker 1: All right, I get that. The first four.
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Speaker 2: Games of the season, we're a reminder, and hell, Tuesday's
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Speaker 2: game could very easily end up being a reminder of
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Speaker 2: it too. It's still a small sample size. It's very frustrating,
18:28
Speaker 2: it's triggering. There's still a lot of baseball to be played.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing else to talk about until it's played. So
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Speaker 2: I get it, and that's why we're discussing it. But
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Speaker 2: no one's getting benched one week into the season.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Any final thoughts, Mark.
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Speaker 3: I saw on Twitter just before we hopped on to
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Speaker 3: record tonight that the Pirates added a cone to the dugout.
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Speaker 3: I'm very very excited to see how that gets hoisted
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Speaker 3: and under what circumstances, and hopefully soon. So what about you.
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Speaker 2: I'm really glad that this whole cone thing happened when
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Speaker 2: I was in college, because as someone who you know,
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Speaker 2: might have happened to find one laying around back from
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Speaker 2: the bar when I was, you know, a younger lad
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Speaker 2: and took it back to the fraternity house. This is
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Speaker 2: incentivizing that type of behavior, and I don't think that
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Speaker 2: was the intense. But I think there are going to
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Speaker 2: be a lot of students at Pitt Point Park, Robert Moore, so.
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Speaker 1: Find cool for the summer. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The Cones are mayor Mayor O'Connor people ready because they might.
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Speaker 3: Want to double the cone budget. Yeah, are about to
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Speaker 3: get hot.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get because the Cones they're coming for Yep.
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