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Reaction: Kevin McGonigle's Four-Hit Debut & More From Opening Day · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome into Tiger territory. We don't have a
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Speaker 1: clever intro because Kieran is in Italy, but we've got
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Speaker 1: Austin Jackson here and special guest host Roger Castillo. It
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Speaker 1: is opening day, guys, and I think there's really only
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Speaker 1: one thing to talk about. Kevin McGonagall once again wowed
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Speaker 1: everybody four for five in his MLB debut. It's the
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Speaker 1: twenty fifth player in history with four or more hits.
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Speaker 1: We have a pretty special player on our hands. Roger's
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Speaker 1: watched this guy coming up all the way through the miners.
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Speaker 1: Austin has a lot of perspective being a former player.
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Speaker 1: What do you guys make of this cat?
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Speaker 2: Roger, I'm gonna let you get a go ahead. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna follow you.
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Speaker 3: You know I did. There's a couple of things today.
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Speaker 3: I took away first and foremost, his speed. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I didn't expect him to come out that fast because
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Speaker 3: in the miners, not to say he always was. He
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Speaker 3: had good speed, he had a good first approach out
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Speaker 3: of the box, but wow, like that infield single like
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Speaker 3: thirty feet per second or something to that effect was insane.
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Speaker 3: The fact that he recognized that the Titans were drawing
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Speaker 3: the walks and he was getting that first pitch cutter
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Speaker 3: and was able to just go do what he does
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Speaker 3: was just dump it in the right I thought he
1:23
Speaker 3: did a really good job with pitch recognition, but just
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Speaker 3: not being caught up with anything. He just looked like
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Speaker 3: you veteran out there already, and that was instant, like
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Speaker 3: just really impressed me right away.
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Speaker 4: Now I agree with you one hundred percent. And that's
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Speaker 4: that's the biggest thing that I think I recognized.
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Speaker 2: Like I haven't. I haven't got to see him too much.
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Speaker 4: I've seen I saw him a couple you know, a
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Speaker 4: few abs and spring training. But for me, it just
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Speaker 4: didn't look like the moment was too big. It looked
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Speaker 4: like he understood the assignment. And hearing him saying after
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Speaker 4: the game, you know, what were you looking for? He's
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Speaker 4: like I was looking for a fast like he's looking
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Speaker 4: for a fastball to hit, Like he understood the assignment.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't going up there like, oh man, I need
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Speaker 4: to see some pit. He went up there knowing like
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Speaker 4: if I get a fastball to hit, I'm hunting it.
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Speaker 2: And to me, that's a little bit.
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Speaker 4: That's that dog that's that dog that you want, like
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Speaker 4: you want a guy to go up there. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he's coming up. He's what twenty one, right, twenty one?
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Speaker 4: That moment can be big for a twenty one year old.
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Speaker 4: And to see him step up to the plate first
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Speaker 4: pitch and it wasn't really.
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Speaker 2: Like an easy pitch to hit.
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Speaker 4: Were talking about like a cutter up and in that's
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Speaker 4: jam territory for some guys, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: And to see him step up there and not let
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Speaker 4: the moment get too big and you know, put them
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Speaker 4: boys on the board. It just really it really showed
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Speaker 4: me a lot that this guy's he's serious. I think
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Speaker 4: he's serious, and time will tell how good he really
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Speaker 4: will be. But I like to see young guys step
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Speaker 4: into big moments like that. He also mentioned that he
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Speaker 4: was you know, he dreamed about this moment. Really, what
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Speaker 4: he was saying, like, this is this the moment I've
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Speaker 4: been wanting. You know, he was nice about it, but
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Speaker 4: it was like this the moment I've been want. This
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Speaker 4: the moment I've been wanting for a long time. And
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Speaker 4: he got that moment and he executed perfectly in that moment.
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Speaker 5: Austin You're right.
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Speaker 1: He does not give off even the slightest bit of arrogance.
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Speaker 1: He's so composed, he's so humble, but he's confident. Without
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Speaker 1: saying that, you can tell he knows he's good. And
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Speaker 1: I think that has a lot to do with his success.
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Speaker 1: And like you guys have said, like we've talked about before,
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Speaker 1: like just how unfazed he is continues to impress me
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Speaker 1: every single day. This is his debut. And he said
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Speaker 1: he was nervous. He said he couldn't sleep the night before.
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Speaker 1: He got four hours of sleep. You wouldn't really know
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Speaker 1: what from looking at him, man, from watching him play chill.
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Speaker 1: He said the day before, like, all right, first pick,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be nervous. It might take one pitch and
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Speaker 1: then I'll settle in. He didn't even need that one pitch.
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Speaker 1: One pitch, boom, He's on base. And then second at bat,
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Speaker 1: he's down two against a guy with pretty nasty stuff,
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Speaker 1: battles back to even and then just rips one one
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Speaker 1: oh five off the right field wall. Look, there have
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Speaker 1: been a lot of prospects to come through here. All
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Speaker 1: I normally try to do is kind of tamp down
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Speaker 1: hype because this is such a hard game. But the
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Speaker 1: more I've watched, Look, he's not gonna get four hits
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Speaker 1: every single time out, But this dude is a little different.
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Speaker 5: Austin.
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Speaker 1: We've probably asked you this before, but what was your debut? Like, Like,
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Speaker 1: what are those nerves like? Actually, what do you think
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Speaker 1: he was feeling today?
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Speaker 4: The nerves are definitely there, but I think you know
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Speaker 4: you've You've rehearsed this moment so many times. You've rehearsed
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Speaker 4: this moment in your head. You've thought about this moment.
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Speaker 4: You know, he said he dreamed about this moment, like
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Speaker 4: he pictured hisself in this moment. Guarantee you a hundred
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Speaker 4: times before it's even happened. And so, yes, the nerves
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Speaker 4: are there, but you feel like, well, for me, I
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Speaker 4: can speak for myself. I felt like I had to
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Speaker 4: prove myself. So that whole plan kind of with that
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Speaker 4: that chip on your shoulder, that's a real thing, Like, Hey,
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Speaker 4: I gotta show these guys I'm young. I'm young, these
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Speaker 4: guys are pretty much established. I want to be here.
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Speaker 4: I want to show these guys that I can contribute
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Speaker 4: to this team defensively, offensively, And you know it showed
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Speaker 4: it showed like, hey man, I'm not scared of this moment.
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Speaker 4: I'm here to help this team win and go further
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Speaker 4: than they went last year. And that's just to me,
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Speaker 4: that's what it looked like.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 4: I keep saying, you know, like time will tell, right,
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Speaker 4: time will tell how good he is, And I like
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Speaker 4: Cody that you were saying, like I kind of tame
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Speaker 4: down the hype a little bit because that's what we know.
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Speaker 4: We know what it is. We know that it's hard.
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Speaker 4: This game is super hard. And these these scouts and
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Speaker 4: teams they got they have cam angles that you don't
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Speaker 4: even know about yet. They got camera angles coming out
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Speaker 4: of the ground.
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Speaker 6: It's like I saw that, I saw, I saw, I
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Speaker 6: see the bat angle, I see the you know that
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Speaker 6: all of this crazy stuff that they have that they're
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Speaker 6: going to be, you know, really honing in on on
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Speaker 6: his weaknesses.
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Speaker 2: So time of tel. But I just think that this
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Speaker 2: guy has.
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Speaker 4: The makeup of a big leaguer and I'm you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm excited to see, uh, you know, what his how is,
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Speaker 4: how his at bats and how it's just day to
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Speaker 4: day grind is going to go from here on out.
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Speaker 5: Raj Uh.
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Speaker 1: First off, if you guys don't follow Roge. Go check
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Speaker 1: out his stuff at Tiger's minor league report. But Roger
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Speaker 1: someone who's paid very close attention and covered his assent.
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Speaker 1: When did you start to realize he was maybe more
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Speaker 1: than just another good prospect, Like when did you realize
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Speaker 1: that he might be on a whole different level.
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Speaker 3: I think it was really during the Eastern League playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is here. Here's why I say that,
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Speaker 3: because this was only back in October and he was
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Speaker 3: a I'm sorry late September, early October where he was
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Speaker 3: going up against Connor Griffin, who is the number one prospect.
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Speaker 3: Griffin is hidden like lasers all over in Erie, just
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Speaker 3: one you know, one O five off the back kind
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Speaker 3: of thing like gonna go. Kind of struggled the bit
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Speaker 3: defensively and he series wise, the Altuna wasn't giving him
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Speaker 3: anything to hit, same with Bennington in the Championship series.
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Speaker 3: From from then till now. Defensively, it is I've never
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Speaker 3: seen it is all the years of me talking prospects
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Speaker 3: and this, I've never seen anybody that fast get better defensively.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he he's always had the arm speed. I
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Speaker 3: remember there was a play in Akron where he misfields
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Speaker 3: the ball guys running home. It was like Pete Houseley
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Speaker 3: or whatever that guy's name in the p D from
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Speaker 3: Cleveland is that we were named Yeah, Paulpin he literally
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Speaker 3: from his back foot just Dart Boom gets him at
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Speaker 3: home plate. Didn't you know he didn't get flustered. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he just played the ball. But he made that throw.
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Speaker 3: The adjustments he's made so quickly, there's no other prospect.
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Speaker 3: Like I was really high in Cold Keith. We had
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Speaker 3: him number one early on before anybody else did. But
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Speaker 3: he's better than Cold Keith when in eerie and in
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Speaker 3: double A. And also you know, it's when you start
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Speaker 3: throwing those advanced pitches and you start seeing those things
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Speaker 3: for the first time. It's it's a hard adjustment, and
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Speaker 3: he was able to. I mean he hit a bomb
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Speaker 3: almost almost five hundred feet in eerie on against Susannah,
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Speaker 3: against a guy who was throwing like one hundred and
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Speaker 3: two after he was able to adjust to that. Those adjustments,
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Speaker 3: those quick adjustments in game adjustments, that's what makes them special.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right, and that's another reason I've become
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Speaker 1: so optimistic. Another reason I'm now struggling to be the
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Speaker 1: one who tamps down the hype. I'll share this. Scott
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Speaker 1: Boris was at the game today watching his most important client,
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Speaker 1: Trek Skoogle. Scott Boris does not represent Kevin McGonagall. I
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Speaker 1: talked to Scott a little bit and he said he
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Speaker 1: first met McGonagall and he was sixteen years old, and
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Speaker 1: he said, I could tell right away this kid reminded
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Speaker 1: me of Alex Bregman. The short levers and the feel,
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Speaker 1: the acumen for the game. Now, McGonagall has a few
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Speaker 1: things going for him that even Bregman doesn't. He hits
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Speaker 1: left handed. Bregman played some short stop coming up, but
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Speaker 1: McGonagall might have a chance to play even more shortstop
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Speaker 1: in the big leagues. But there are certainly some similarities
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Speaker 1: when we're trying to figure out what is this kid
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Speaker 1: look like long term? Look, that's hard to say. I
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Speaker 1: mean I just wrote about, you know, the similarities in
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Speaker 1: a swing to Tony Gwinn, which is a guy he
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Speaker 1: idolized growing up. He has more power than Tony gwyn.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll get thirty one hundred hits.
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Speaker 1: That's an incredible bar for anybody. But Alex Bregman might
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Speaker 1: be like a floor here, and Alex Bregman obviously is
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Speaker 1: a really good player.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, oh, I was just gonna say, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I'm I'm you know, I'm really It's really hard for
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Speaker 4: me with like comparisons because you know, especially comparing you
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Speaker 4: know to guys that are established and have like you know,
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Speaker 4: have proven over time. That's why I'm just really big
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Speaker 4: on I'm you know, I'm excited, but I really want
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Speaker 4: to see and I'm not saying this in a bad way.
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Speaker 4: I like to see when God struggled. I like to
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Speaker 4: see when God struggle because I really like to see
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Speaker 4: how they respond. That is really for me, for me,
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Speaker 4: like the telltale sign of when a God is good,
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Speaker 4: because when you see a guy struggle and the way
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Speaker 4: they're able to come out of it, that's when I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: this this is legit. This is legit because we all
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Speaker 4: know at some point it's gonna happen. Now you know this.
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Speaker 4: He might be the exception. I don't know, he might
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Speaker 4: be like he might be that dude like that for real,
10:51
Speaker 4: but we still know, we know. There's just so there's
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Speaker 4: so much that goes into this game on a day
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Speaker 4: to day and you know, they they have so much information.
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Speaker 4: They probably don't have that much information on him now,
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Speaker 4: but at some point they will and they'll start to
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Speaker 4: try to expose those things. But I think that when
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Speaker 4: I see a young a young player struggle and how
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Speaker 4: they respond to it, that's when I'm like, Okay, this
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Speaker 4: guy's legit.
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Speaker 2: He has what it takes to be able to play
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Speaker 2: in the big leagues.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you on that, because if you
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Speaker 3: look at any time, it's always sometimes we have about
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Speaker 3: tempering expectations. Is when it's after six like the is
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Speaker 3: there a certain game around or is it sixty games?
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Speaker 3: It's a eighty games, and as the season goes on,
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Speaker 3: when they approach those hot days and after the All
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Speaker 3: Star break. But that's a real adjustment to me. Is
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Speaker 3: like I always when a rookie, if he can survive
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Speaker 3: to the All Star Break and then continue that trend
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Speaker 3: of like you know, he doesn't go in a prolonged slump,
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Speaker 3: then that gives you that rookie of the Rookie of
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Speaker 3: the Year conversation gets stronger and stronger. But yeah, I
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Speaker 3: just sometimes with fans too, is just they forget that
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Speaker 3: the amount of you mentioned the data too but also
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Speaker 3: pictures are they can throw. It's such a difference between
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Speaker 3: Double A and the big leagues. Like people just tend
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Speaker 3: to like yeah, yeah, like exactly like you know, So
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Speaker 3: I want fans to understand that this is gonna This
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Speaker 3: is a process. It's an entire process. It takes before
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Speaker 3: we before we can crown him one of the best.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he is the best prospect I've ever seen.
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Speaker 3: But that there's the transition to being in the big
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Speaker 3: leagues is where if he if you also just said
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Speaker 3: if he can cross those threat and threshoals. We have
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Speaker 3: a special player here.
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Speaker 2: Real quick.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little more McGonagall or more
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Speaker 1: about how he fits on this roster, because after he
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Speaker 1: played so much shortstop in spring training, interesting to see
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Speaker 1: him transition a little more towards third at the end
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Speaker 1: of camp and then start opening day at third base
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Speaker 1: with Hobby Bayas playing shortstop. It sounds like we're gonna
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Speaker 1: see McGonagall play short at least once in this opening series,
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Speaker 1: probably the third game. I view this right now as
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Speaker 1: a way to get the best defense on the field
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Speaker 1: for aj Hinch, to have Hobby bay As being that
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Speaker 1: lynchpin at shortstop and McGonagall, although he looked competent at
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Speaker 1: short probably, if I had to guess, is going to
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Speaker 1: grade out a little better or at third. But I
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Speaker 1: think there are a lot of factors at play here.
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Speaker 1: The big one. If hove Bias doesn't hit, his playing
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Speaker 1: time is not guaranteed, and we might see McGonagall take
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Speaker 1: over play close to every day at shortstop. But especially
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Speaker 1: with the ground ball pitcher and from Ravaldez, it seems
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Speaker 1: like the Tigers want to really go in on the
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Speaker 1: defense and have Hobby on the field.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of interesting.
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Speaker 1: So there was a time last September where I was like,
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Speaker 1: why are they not playing Hovey bias. I know he's
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Speaker 1: not the world's best hitter and he can be ice
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Speaker 1: cold at times, but the intrinsic things he brings to
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Speaker 1: the game can be pretty transformative. There were times last
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Speaker 1: year where it seemed like they weren't all in on that,
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Speaker 1: But now, even with McGonagall on the team, they've kind
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Speaker 1: of shuffled things to get Hovey on the field at
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Speaker 1: least to start the season, and that might take away
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Speaker 1: from my bats for Cole Keith and Zach McKinstry, so
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Speaker 1: raj or even Ajax. I don't know if you guys
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Speaker 1: have any thoughts on that, but I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to be interesting. So there are kind of a lot
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Speaker 1: of moving parts here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think you I just think you
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Speaker 4: have to, Like you mentioned, you know, who's swinging a
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Speaker 4: hot bat, who's able to make the plays, and who's
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Speaker 4: injured and who's not. Like that's a big thing that
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Speaker 4: I think that doesn't get looked at like injuries happen.
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Speaker 4: So guys are gonna get more playing time, more opportunity
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Speaker 4: because of that, but also like you mentioned Cody, who's
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Speaker 4: swinging a hot bat. I want the guy in there
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Speaker 4: that is able to make the routine plays but also
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Speaker 4: is able to contribute with the bat, so they have options.
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Speaker 4: That's a good thing they have, like a good problem
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Speaker 4: of guys that are very capable.
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Speaker 2: Of filling in in those infield positions.
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Speaker 4: And I think it's just gonna be who's who's swinging
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Speaker 4: the hottest bat. And you know, obviously it's the first game,
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Speaker 4: so there's there's a lot more baseball to be played.
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Speaker 4: But I think the layout that they have right now
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Speaker 4: is a very good layout, is a very good problem
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Speaker 4: to have.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I you know, I think you and I
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Speaker 3: think Cody. You were saying that Berlin's gonna play quite
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Speaker 3: a bit this year, and Berlin is a guy you
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Speaker 3: can throw over at third two and so.
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Speaker 5: He's not going to play much third though he.
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Speaker 3: Hasn't worked in a long time, but in a pinch,
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Speaker 3: if he wants to, yeah, you can, so like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's a guy and is Austin mentioned if he's a
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Speaker 3: bat that's swinging the bat over McKinstry, for example, then
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Speaker 3: again that gives you that position flexibility. But it's as
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Speaker 3: far as like you know, admittedly I thought at some
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Speaker 3: point we would see McGonagall take over at second base,
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Speaker 3: you know, next year towards, depending on what happens. But
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Speaker 3: he looks more and more comfortable at third base ever
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Speaker 3: since Arizona Fall League, where that was the first time
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Speaker 3: to play. Guys, keep in mind, that was the first
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Speaker 3: time he's playing third base on a regular basis since
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Speaker 3: the fall, and he looks that normal out there. So
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Speaker 3: that's that's to me, that's mind boggling. And but it
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Speaker 3: does bode well for the Tigers as far as, like
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Speaker 3: you know, you can put Keith over at second if
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Speaker 3: you need to, whatever you need to do. There's so
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Speaker 3: many interchangeable pieces here that Hitch has. I think that's
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Speaker 3: he has a very very good luxury to have.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, we're going McGonagall at third or even short.
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Speaker 1: I think the arm is going to be an interesting component.
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Speaker 1: I've heard some people say it's a forty five arm,
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Speaker 1: so totally average.
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Speaker 5: Do you think that's very rash?
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Speaker 3: You know, I was, I was in that camp for Admittedly,
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Speaker 3: I was in that camp for a while because I
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Speaker 3: didn't know if he had the range. But I think
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Speaker 3: the arms more like fifty. I really think he has
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Speaker 3: a better above average arm because if you if you
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Speaker 3: look at his throws a third, he doesn't have you know,
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Speaker 3: where you look at somebody like for example, Hoyui sometimes
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Speaker 3: over either overthrows or in the case of crow Hop
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Speaker 3: from Jason the crow hop yeah, the crow hop yeah,
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Speaker 3: or Max Anderson, he doesn't have the same like Max
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Speaker 3: Anderson kind of struggles a little bit with throw the
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Speaker 3: third over into the first. But young, but sorry. McGonagall
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Speaker 3: is just it's perfect every almost perfect every time, and
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Speaker 3: you need a little bit above a forty five arm
18:05
Speaker 3: to do that from third base.
18:08
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on a little Trek Scooble talk.
18:11
Speaker 1: We are deep into this podcast. We've only talked about McGonagall.
18:14
Speaker 1: That's how good his debut was. But Terrek Scougle pretty
18:16
Speaker 1: good player too. After a rough end to spring training,
18:20
Speaker 1: he came out on an opening day, made it look
18:22
Speaker 1: pretty easy. Two runners on in the first inning, and
18:25
Speaker 1: then he retired fourteenth straight. At one point he went six, gave.
18:28
Speaker 5: Up one run. It was unearned.
18:31
Speaker 1: Pretty good day's work for Terrek Scoogle. Eleven swings want
18:35
Speaker 1: his change up, Nine of them are whiffs. After the game,
18:37
Speaker 1: he said he thought his change up was just all right.
18:40
Speaker 1: So that's where we're at with schoogle going for his
18:43
Speaker 1: third straight. Say, young Austin, You've been around a lot
18:45
Speaker 1: of star players, and Schooble's ascended to this status.
18:47
Speaker 5: Where he is.
18:48
Speaker 1: He's about as famous as it can get. He's faced
18:51
Speaker 1: a lot of scrutiny for a lot of different things, but.
18:55
Speaker 5: This dude just goes about his business.
18:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's not you know, it's really not
19:01
Speaker 4: a lot of for me to talk about with him
19:04
Speaker 4: because this is just he looks like this cy young
19:09
Speaker 4: that that I've seen the past couple of years, and
19:11
Speaker 4: that that's the thing is for me is like, you know,
19:14
Speaker 4: there was a lot of talk. We talked a lot
19:16
Speaker 4: in the off season about, you know, the contract that
19:18
Speaker 4: we were going back and forth and like, oh man,
19:21
Speaker 4: are they gonna sign, is he gonna walk, They're gonna
19:23
Speaker 4: trade him, what's gonna happen? And then he just comes
19:25
Speaker 4: out and he's like, I'm just I'm just gonna come
19:28
Speaker 4: out here and do me. I'm not gonna worry all
19:31
Speaker 4: of all of that stuff that went on in the
19:33
Speaker 4: off season, the back and forth, and you know, we're
19:36
Speaker 4: not gonna budge, and we're not gonna budge. And then
19:38
Speaker 4: I just come out here and I'm gonna show you
19:42
Speaker 4: why I'm.
19:42
Speaker 2: Worth what what where? Why I put where?
19:46
Speaker 4: You know, my my mark here is because that's who
19:49
Speaker 4: I am, That's what I'm capable of.
19:51
Speaker 2: And he just has that.
19:53
Speaker 4: He just has that that aura about him that when
19:55
Speaker 4: he's on the mound, it's like, and this is.
19:58
Speaker 2: A good this is a good San Diego team.
20:01
Speaker 4: Now this isn't like, you know, a scrub team that
20:03
Speaker 4: he just made look kind of like some scrubs. I
20:06
Speaker 4: ain't gonna lie like he was man, My man was
20:10
Speaker 4: just he was just on it. And it's just this confidence,
20:13
Speaker 4: this aura about him that he kind of he brings
20:16
Speaker 4: to the mound and then it's just the team follows that.
20:19
Speaker 4: And so like when he's on the mound and he
20:21
Speaker 4: just has this this this dominance about him, it just
20:25
Speaker 4: seems like the team plays to that level. And I
20:29
Speaker 4: don't like, again, it's just hard to you know, kind
20:33
Speaker 4: of put it in the words of his his his greatness.
20:35
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, the dude is he's great.
20:37
Speaker 4: And I like, I, you know, I got a chance
20:39
Speaker 4: to speak to him one time, and and he's humble.
20:43
Speaker 4: He is humble. He's a humble dude. Man Like, he
20:46
Speaker 4: was not like this. He wasn't what I thought, you know,
20:49
Speaker 4: like because when you see guys on the mound, you
20:51
Speaker 4: you're like, ah, man, I don't know, he might when
20:54
Speaker 4: you meet him, he might be kind of you know,
20:56
Speaker 4: he might not. He might not. He might be kind
20:58
Speaker 4: of mean a little bit. But he was super humble.
21:01
Speaker 4: But you could just tell by his intenseness that this
21:05
Speaker 4: dude is a dog on the mound.
21:07
Speaker 2: He's a bulldog on the mount. And it's just he
21:09
Speaker 2: goes after.
21:10
Speaker 4: He shows it night after night when he pitches, and
21:12
Speaker 4: I mean, it's awesome to watch. And like I said,
21:14
Speaker 4: when he's on like that, the team just follows.
21:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're getting a change up at eighty two
21:22
Speaker 3: percent with eighty two percent, I mean that that's ridiculous.
21:26
Speaker 3: That's oh, but it was it was only it was
21:28
Speaker 3: only average. Like okay, I mean, like.
21:32
Speaker 1: He was talking about the ones a few that he
21:34
Speaker 1: threw for balls that they took.
21:36
Speaker 5: Yeah they were a little too much. Yeah, the ones
21:38
Speaker 5: they swung out they had no chance.
21:43
Speaker 3: But that was I mean the fact that he also
21:46
Speaker 3: didn't really with his fastball. It was just mainly change
21:49
Speaker 3: up in uh, that was really about it. His change
21:52
Speaker 3: up was the best pitch he had today, and that,
21:56
Speaker 3: as Austin mentioned, against a very good offense. I mean,
21:59
Speaker 3: the Padre are one of those teams that can score
22:02
Speaker 3: runs in bunches really quick. They you know, even when
22:04
Speaker 3: they were when they scored that second run and you
22:07
Speaker 3: can tell the crowds getting back into a little bit.
22:10
Speaker 3: They can explode anytime. But look, I think that schoolbol
22:14
Speaker 3: went out there today with you know, he has Scott
22:17
Speaker 3: his his agent there and all his team USA nonsense
22:20
Speaker 3: and all this stuff that just goes back and all
22:22
Speaker 3: the back and forth went out there. It was just
22:24
Speaker 3: like he's just you know what on the table, like
22:27
Speaker 3: this is what I'm gonna do. I was gonna do
22:29
Speaker 3: all season, you know, swing and miss cool because I'm
22:34
Speaker 3: just gonna be keep dealing. And if as long as
22:36
Speaker 3: he keeps dealing, Teller's fine.
22:38
Speaker 4: I also like how he's able to like he's able
22:42
Speaker 4: to spot that fastball, like he's like he's a he's
22:45
Speaker 4: a very like dominant pitcher, like he's he can touch
22:49
Speaker 4: one hundred, but he's able to use his offbeat stuff
22:52
Speaker 4: so well in certain counts to get you off of
22:55
Speaker 4: that fastball, and then for me was really cool. I
22:58
Speaker 4: think it was that bad against against Meryll where he
23:01
Speaker 4: was able to paint. I think it was like ninety
23:03
Speaker 4: eight on the outside corner and then Meryll just stood
23:06
Speaker 4: there like yo, I wasn't like you got me off
23:10
Speaker 4: of that, like for some reason I got off of
23:13
Speaker 4: the fastball. And that's kind of like the you know,
23:15
Speaker 4: the mind games of you know, pitchers and hitters and
23:18
Speaker 4: the way they're able to do it, but not everybody's
23:21
Speaker 4: able to do that and still throw ninety eight and
23:23
Speaker 4: spot it like that. You know, they're just throwing ninety
23:26
Speaker 4: eight up there and they're missing. The thing with him
23:29
Speaker 4: is he's able to miss because it's so electric. He
23:32
Speaker 4: hides that fastball and the next thing you know, it's
23:35
Speaker 4: on you, and then guys are gearing up for that
23:37
Speaker 4: ninety eight and then the change up. It's just so deceptive, right,
23:41
Speaker 4: like it looks like the fastball because he's coming at
23:44
Speaker 4: you and you know, with that same motion in that
23:47
Speaker 4: same tunnel and it just falls off the table. And
23:50
Speaker 4: I don't care how good of a hitter you are.
23:53
Speaker 4: It is super hard to take that pitch. It is
23:56
Speaker 4: hard not to at least offer at it like I'm
23:59
Speaker 4: looking and I'm like, yeah, I get it, brother. I'm
24:03
Speaker 4: I got my shoulder around you walking back to the dugout.
24:05
Speaker 2: With you because I get it, bro, like it is.
24:08
Speaker 2: It's hard to see that, bro like I get it.
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Speaker 1: All right, we are back with a little bit more Austin.
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Speaker 1: I got a little hungry watching the Hello Fresh.
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Speaker 2: It's about steak.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh God, alright, guys, we've touched on
25:39
Speaker 1: the stars the day.
25:41
Speaker 5: Curious what else stood out to you.
25:43
Speaker 1: It was an eighty two game, pretty smooth, no drama,
25:45
Speaker 1: but there are probably some little things under the surface
25:48
Speaker 1: that might be worth interesting.
25:50
Speaker 2: I like, this is what I like.
25:52
Speaker 4: I like the at bats that were put together in
25:55
Speaker 4: that that that first inning, Like we've seen this four
26:00
Speaker 4: from this team, which is from the Tigers, which is
26:03
Speaker 4: which is impressive. The ability for guys to go up
26:07
Speaker 4: there and almost kind of have the same repetitive at bat,
26:11
Speaker 4: like the same good at bat. Like there's a lot
26:15
Speaker 4: of times where it hits a certain part in the
26:17
Speaker 4: lineup and it's like, okay, you know, we're counting on
26:21
Speaker 4: our two, three, four or five guys to you know,
26:24
Speaker 4: kind of win this game.
26:25
Speaker 2: I mean, for me, it.
26:27
Speaker 4: Just looks like I know it's the first game, but
26:29
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like I've seen this before with this team
26:32
Speaker 4: with the Tigers that they just put together. They string
26:35
Speaker 4: together really good at bats from the top of the
26:38
Speaker 4: lineup to the bottom of the lineup, and we know
26:41
Speaker 4: that like that can be really tough for pitchers when
26:45
Speaker 4: when you are when you get through the top of
26:47
Speaker 4: the lineup and then the bottom of the lineup is
26:50
Speaker 4: still stringing together those tough at bats really getting that
26:53
Speaker 4: pitch count up like they did today, it becomes a
26:56
Speaker 4: problem for pitchers. And this team can again they can
27:00
Speaker 4: put runs up on the board really fast.
27:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you on that because I thought
27:06
Speaker 3: that Riley Green, even on that first at bat there
27:09
Speaker 3: where like they were trying to get him and go
27:11
Speaker 3: on top of the zone and with a smaller zone,
27:13
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna be taking advantage of that all
27:16
Speaker 3: day long. And even with the strikeouts. Look, I'm not
27:18
Speaker 3: concerned about that. The fact that like he walked cool,
27:21
Speaker 3: Like that's that's progress. It's a small step for him,
27:25
Speaker 3: because I mean, I made this bold declaration. I think
27:27
Speaker 3: he's gonna be a top three MVP candidate based off
27:30
Speaker 3: the fact that the strike zone is shrinking from because
27:34
Speaker 3: most of the time they get him on the top
27:35
Speaker 3: of the zone and strikeouts. So if he has that
27:37
Speaker 3: top of the zone back in the smaller zone, it
27:40
Speaker 3: will allow him extend and really get out there. But
27:44
Speaker 3: an impression or excuse me, A performance that really stood
27:48
Speaker 3: out to me was Dylan Dingler going two for four
27:50
Speaker 3: with the home run. I think Dingler is gonna have
27:52
Speaker 3: twenty to twenty five home.
27:53
Speaker 2: Rounds this year.
27:54
Speaker 3: I really believe that, because this is a guy. It
27:57
Speaker 3: took him some time to find his swing in Eerie
27:59
Speaker 3: and Toledo. But we all know that catchers, or maybe
28:03
Speaker 3: maybe people don't know that catchers takes some time to develop.
28:06
Speaker 3: And he's still developing that power, and I think that
28:10
Speaker 3: teams are going to pitch him a different way, but
28:13
Speaker 3: Dingler's always adjusted his game. I saw this happen in
28:16
Speaker 3: the minor leagues, and I think it's gonna happen here.
28:18
Speaker 3: He's a guy the capable of hitting that kind of power.
28:22
Speaker 3: When Dan Dickerson talked about this with Lance Parrish, and
28:26
Speaker 3: he was saying that basically Dinglers ahead of himself as
28:31
Speaker 3: Parish he was in his development. I mean, Parish has
28:34
Speaker 3: had a really good career. So that's some intriguing stuff.
28:38
Speaker 3: And Dingler is such a we all know his defensive value,
28:41
Speaker 3: but I think he's a guy that's gonna do a
28:43
Speaker 3: little more at the plate this year.
28:45
Speaker 2: Roger, let me ask you something real quick. Let me
28:48
Speaker 2: ask you the real quick.
28:49
Speaker 4: So, Cody, I'm sorry, do you think he's the type
28:52
Speaker 4: of hitter Like he's more of a of a line
28:55
Speaker 4: drive hitter that will eventually start to develop the power
29:01
Speaker 4: that I think the Tigers want him to have. But like,
29:04
Speaker 4: I don't want him to lose that that ability to
29:07
Speaker 4: hit just to hit for more power because I see
29:10
Speaker 4: it in his swing. He has a very short swing,
29:12
Speaker 4: like the it was like the line drive base hit.
29:14
Speaker 4: I think he hit on a curve ball today. I
29:16
Speaker 4: think it was his first his first hit today. That
29:20
Speaker 4: to me kind of set him up to be able
29:23
Speaker 4: to hit for power because he kept his swing short.
29:25
Speaker 4: So do you think that he'll be able to like
29:27
Speaker 4: continue being a good hitter first and not fall into
29:32
Speaker 4: that trap of trying to hit for more power.
29:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that. I think that's he's totally capable
29:37
Speaker 3: of that because he's not where is Riley Green has
29:40
Speaker 3: that all the swing for the you know, all the
29:42
Speaker 3: swing for the fences. I think, Digle, what's gonna happen
29:45
Speaker 3: is he's gonna punish mistakes more and that's gonna lead
29:48
Speaker 3: the more home runs. Yeah, so that's what I think
29:50
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen there because he's getting better. I've seen
29:53
Speaker 3: this happen when he's been getting better at pitch recognition
29:57
Speaker 3: and able to punish those mistakes more. So I think
30:00
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen more often? You were talking about that
30:03
Speaker 3: curveball that that was a really good pitch for him
30:05
Speaker 3: to hit, and so but I think it's just gonna
30:09
Speaker 3: run into him more if that makes sense.
30:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it does absolutely.
30:14
Speaker 1: I definitely think there's more power in the tank. He
30:16
Speaker 1: had what thirteen homers last season? This is a big,
30:18
Speaker 1: strong dude. I think he can near twenty homers. I
30:22
Speaker 1: think you make an interest in point us and like,
30:25
Speaker 1: you know, where is the actual hit tool? You what
30:28
Speaker 1: two seventy three last year? Coming up through the miners,
30:31
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have ever expected him to hit two seventy
30:33
Speaker 1: three in the majors.
30:36
Speaker 5: I if I had.
30:36
Speaker 1: To make a prediction, I think he's going to hit
30:38
Speaker 1: for more power. But I think that average is going
30:40
Speaker 1: to go down, not necessarily because of anything he's changing,
30:43
Speaker 1: just because that's how the game works. That's probably how
30:46
Speaker 1: he's always profiled as a hitter. Okay, I think maybe
30:51
Speaker 1: the one negative today Drew Anderson had a dominant spring,
30:56
Speaker 1: looked really good, came out today first taste the regular season,
31:00
Speaker 1: and didn't have much of a feel for the strike
31:03
Speaker 1: zone change up, even got hit around for a little bit.
31:05
Speaker 1: One got taken out of the park after he went
31:07
Speaker 1: to it a third time in a row. Look, it's
31:10
Speaker 1: one game, so I don't know if we want to overreact,
31:12
Speaker 1: but the strike zone is really important for Anderson. That
31:16
Speaker 1: was one thing the Tigers liked and bringing him back
31:18
Speaker 1: over from Korea, as they thought he was filling up
31:21
Speaker 1: the strike zone. Now, can you do that in the
31:23
Speaker 1: major leagues? We'll see, and also like our major league
31:26
Speaker 1: hider is gonna jump on his stuff if it's in
31:28
Speaker 1: the zone more than they did in Korea. That's one
31:31
Speaker 1: of the big questions for him and that's one like
31:33
Speaker 1: he's surprised the spring with just how good he was,
31:37
Speaker 1: so a little disappointing to see him not look so good.
31:40
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just nerves playing on opening day for the
31:44
Speaker 1: first time in his career. But probably the one downside
31:48
Speaker 1: for me today was Drew Anderson.
31:54
Speaker 3: I think Drew Anderson is just a little bit sorry.
31:56
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure, honestin I didn't want to offer, but no,
32:01
Speaker 3: I thought it was a little bit of nerves. I mean,
32:03
Speaker 3: this is the guy who's been playing in Korea and
32:05
Speaker 3: don't get around the crowds in Korea. Probably just as crazy.
32:09
Speaker 3: But he even said this to Dan Or he was
32:13
Speaker 3: I think he was talking to Damn Petree about this
32:15
Speaker 3: that they swing and everything in in Korea, so that is,
32:20
Speaker 3: you know, major legue hit. He is gonna be a
32:22
Speaker 3: little more selective. So I think it's just gonna take
32:25
Speaker 3: some time. We all know too, there's a difference in
32:27
Speaker 3: how the ball in Korea is used versus the grip
32:31
Speaker 3: versus grip here, so I think it's just gonna be
32:34
Speaker 3: a matter of adjustment. But I think the arm is
32:36
Speaker 3: still there. It's just a it was just a first game.
32:38
Speaker 3: I'm not really worried about it. I mean, it was
32:40
Speaker 3: on the the flip side, it was cool to continue
32:43
Speaker 3: to see Tyler Holten pitch good in spring that it's
32:46
Speaker 3: carried over into today. So yeah, I'm not really worried
32:50
Speaker 3: about Drew Anderson at all.
32:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you took the word out of my mouth.
32:56
Speaker 1: I got him out of a jam, saved him from
32:58
Speaker 1: having to go to another pitcher in the pins. It'll
33:00
Speaker 1: ended up being good work from home.
33:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean, you take the words right
33:04
Speaker 2: out of my mouth, though, RJ. Like I think that.
33:07
Speaker 4: You know, you're facing big league hitters and if they're
33:10
Speaker 4: swinging at everything like that, you know, big league hitters
33:12
Speaker 4: are really good at making adjustments, and you know, if
33:15
Speaker 4: you're not throwing it in the zone, those those guys
33:17
Speaker 4: are gonna lay off. Unless you have something that's super
33:20
Speaker 4: deceptive and it's in the zone for a long time
33:22
Speaker 4: and it's it's in the zone, out of the zone,
33:25
Speaker 4: guys are going to pick up on that. So if
33:27
Speaker 4: they were swinging at that a lot in Korea, and
33:30
Speaker 4: you know that was something that you were able to
33:32
Speaker 4: use and establish over there, you know, big league hitters
33:36
Speaker 4: they're a lot different they're a lot more patient. They
33:39
Speaker 4: you know, they pick up on tendencies a lot quicker.
33:41
Speaker 4: I feel like, so again, I think it's nothing to
33:45
Speaker 4: worry about. I think that he'll make that adjustment as well,
33:48
Speaker 4: or he's going to have to make that adjustment and
33:50
Speaker 4: start to maybe pitch a little bit more to those
33:52
Speaker 4: strike balls as I call them their strikes, but then
33:55
Speaker 4: they end up hitting balls, you know, and like and
33:58
Speaker 4: like you said, Cody, will his stuff start to get
34:01
Speaker 4: hit if it's in the zone more. I think time
34:03
Speaker 4: will tell, But I think he'll make that adjustment. I
34:05
Speaker 4: think they'll they'll go back in the lab, they'll work
34:07
Speaker 4: on that and they'll see what the you know, exactly
34:09
Speaker 4: what he needs to work on, and I think he'll
34:12
Speaker 4: be fine.
34:13
Speaker 5: Yeah.
34:14
Speaker 1: Catching up on one other item of business, I'm surprised
34:17
Speaker 1: the Tigers dfa Dylan Smith. This is a guy they
34:21
Speaker 1: liked a lot. Once they moved him to the pen
34:23
Speaker 1: last year, he started throwing hard. They kind of talked
34:26
Speaker 1: him up and then they dfa'd him. They had a
34:28
Speaker 1: clear forty men spot for McGonagall, but ultimately they were
34:31
Speaker 1: trying to get Connor.
34:32
Speaker 5: Sebald on this roster. Roger the dun't Smith things priced you.
34:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, really surprised me because Smith worked his tail off
34:41
Speaker 3: last year become a reliever after you know, I know
34:45
Speaker 3: there were some issues with him with going up to
34:47
Speaker 3: Toledo where he was pitching back to back for the
34:50
Speaker 3: first time, so there was some development issues there. But
34:54
Speaker 3: Smith is to me a guy that has some really
34:57
Speaker 3: good secondaries. Bailey Horn still hangs on. I mean, the
35:02
Speaker 3: tiger's right Nelson have three lefties, but you keep Horn that.
35:06
Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't really like that.
35:09
Speaker 1: I guess Horns on the als so he can't be outrighted.
35:12
Speaker 1: And I guess they didn't feel like they could push
35:14
Speaker 1: it to the sixty day. So that does bring up
35:16
Speaker 1: the question like, Okay, if not Horn, what else are
35:19
Speaker 1: you gonna do? But you could have just not brought
35:22
Speaker 1: in Connor Sebolt, I think is the question. I get
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Speaker 1: wanting another interesting arm in your system, but you know,
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Speaker 1: at what cost if you think Dylan Smith is an
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Speaker 1: interesting arm, and then you're optioning hand if he I
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Speaker 1: kind of laughed when I wrote it, Look hand if
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Speaker 1: he has his weaknesses, but he has a sub three
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Speaker 1: e r A in ninety four innings as a Tiger
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Speaker 1: and Connor Seabolt has a career seven e R and
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Speaker 1: like one hundred and.
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Speaker 5: Sixteen big lack innings. Yeah right about this guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just saying a walk rate, you're like
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Speaker 3: eight or something like. He says some ridiculous and so
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Speaker 3: you're gonna go by the fact that he was the
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Speaker 3: he had a high swing or swing rate, the second
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Speaker 3: highest of spring training. I thought spring creating numbers don't matter,
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Speaker 3: so you know, like I don't. That's that's where I
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Speaker 3: get confused about. But like Smith Smith, I think Smith
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Speaker 3: will get picked up either or what they'll do is
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Speaker 3: maybe they'll trade him for I feel like this is
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Speaker 3: what's gonna happen. They're gonn trade him for a catcher
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Speaker 3: that they need, an eerie or double A. That's what's
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Speaker 3: gonna happen. It's gonna be some sort of weird transaction
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Speaker 3: and we're just gonna sit there and when they need
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Speaker 3: to write. I don't know. I feel like a team's
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Speaker 3: gonna pick him up and make them better. I really
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Speaker 3: think that Smith is a guy that he's a second
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Speaker 3: round pick. If you're talking him up so much, why
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Speaker 3: let him.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's it's definitely a weird one.
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Speaker 1: We still get some weird ones every now and then.
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Speaker 1: Austin Tigers are good, but every now and then we
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Speaker 1: still get some weird things. All right, boys, I think
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Speaker 1: we've covered the big stuff, Ajax. Anything else on your mind.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man, I just I enjoyed watching some good baseball,
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Speaker 4: some good opening day.
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Speaker 2: Baseball, man, Just as I don't care how.
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Speaker 4: Many that you played in or how many years you have, man,
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Speaker 4: Opening Day or how many opening days you watch, man.
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Speaker 4: Open the day is so special, man, and because it's
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Speaker 4: it's just something always special happens, and it's just a
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Speaker 4: it's a great time, man, for everybody to tune in
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Speaker 4: and watch watch baseball. I just feel like we're all
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Speaker 4: together this day and then we kind of disperse and
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Speaker 4: then we don't see each other to the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: You know, we all come together for Opening Day and
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Speaker 2: then it's like, all right, I see you in October
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Speaker 2: for all right. You know what I'm saying. So you're right,
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Speaker 2: You're right.
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Speaker 1: You're paying a little more attention around the league. You
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Speaker 1: want to know, you know, who all went deep on
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Speaker 1: Opening Day. You're looking at all the scores and yeah,
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Speaker 1: not everyone does that. As soon as tomorrow. So yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: my big takeaway man, San Diego. Who this is the
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Speaker 1: place to be pet Coo Park Man. I'd been here before,
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Speaker 1: but not actually covered a game before. If anyone out
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Speaker 1: there is making pilgrimage pilgrimages to different stadiums, bump Petco
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Speaker 1: Park to the top of your list.
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Speaker 5: This plays awesome.
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Speaker 3: You were telling me before we were eating with all
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Speaker 3: the seafood Mexican seafood.
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Speaker 5: And seafood, and.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly inane jealousy, Austin shake his head because
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Speaker 3: he knows full well.
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Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, yeah, I'm hungry.
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Speaker 3: He was teasing me, but like he's like, oh, it
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Speaker 3: sounds so good. I was like, that's that's San Diego
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Speaker 3: right there, and one day I will trek out there
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Speaker 3: and check it out. But yeah, that's a Peco Park
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Speaker 3: is such a cool environment. Every time it's on TV
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Speaker 3: you hear the crowd. It's very San Diego fans are
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Speaker 3: among the best.
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Speaker 5: Yeah alright, well, thanks everyone for listening.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do a big outro because I think
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Speaker 1: everyone just turns it off or skips through that anyway,
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Speaker 1: but thank you guys. You can follow us here all
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Speaker 1: season long,