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Alex Cora: Red Sox offseason plans, Bregman convos, Chapman's Yankee comments, Roman Anthony leadoff? · Foul Territory

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna get Alex Cora joining us momentarily
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: on FT. Excited to talk to the Red Sox skipper
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: about what he's doing. He's gonna join us maybe in
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: a minute or two. You gotta talk about the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: I got a phone call.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the signing.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Alex Pragman. He's gonna break the Alex Bregman
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  Speaker 3: signing on our show.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: I think that's gonna take a little more time.
• 0:24
  Speaker 4: Maybe not, maybe not.
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  Speaker 5: We'll ask him about it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get him.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's ready to go. Alex Cora joining us
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  Speaker 1: right now. Alex, great to have you on this show.
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  Speaker 2: How much? How much? How much did you guys just
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  Speaker 2: signed bren How are you guys doing? How much?
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  Speaker 4: How much?
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  Speaker 3: What you just signed Bragman for? You got a phone call?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was Bregman calling you, saying going back
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  Speaker 3: five years.
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  Speaker 4: Two million, the only person that calls me baseball wise
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: is Joey your favorite krah Where about it?
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  Speaker 3: By the way, before we even dig into this, he is,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's Jose. By the way, it's not Joey.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: If people that know him know it's Jose. Okay, So,
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  Speaker 3: but I just went last year, I text both of
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: y'all and I said, who's getting bregnant? I text you
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  Speaker 3: guys separate and you both set back? Is that meant
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  Speaker 3: for the other? Korra brother? So I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you guys have like telepathy or if you guys were
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  Speaker 3: sitting in the same room or.
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  Speaker 4: What, but it ended up being you not in the
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  Speaker 4: same room. And honestly, like free agent conversations, we killed
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  Speaker 4: that one. We don't talk about it because, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: last year, he got to the point that I thought
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  Speaker 4: he was gonna get him. Like you said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like I hate talking to my brother about free agents
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  Speaker 4: because you never know, you never know.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: That's a fun Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 3: So we had we had Joe Spota on yesterday, right,
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  Speaker 3: and he's married to Brandon Hydes.
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  Speaker 2: Their their brother in laws through marriage.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So he said that we can't go together because the
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  Speaker 3: wives talk too much about baseball and they know more
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  Speaker 3: than us. So is that like when you and because
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  Speaker 3: Joey thinks he's the smartest guy in the history of
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  Speaker 3: the game, So like, when you guys get together, do
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: you guys have a who's smarter contest? Because he went
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  Speaker 3: to Vandy and you went to Miami, no offense. Vandy's
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  Speaker 3: a little better than Miami on the smart scale.
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  Speaker 5: I just.
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  Speaker 4: Like I always tell people, I think Joey knows a
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  Speaker 4: lot about the Tigers, and he knows a lot about
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sox. You know, Like during conversations, I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: hold on, I'm the manager. I know more about our team,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But I gotta be careful. He's still the
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  Speaker 4: older brother. He's a presence. As you know, he'll stare
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  Speaker 4: you down and you know that's when you have to
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  Speaker 4: shut up. But I just let him be. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's still the older brother, So just just be you.
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  Speaker 2: Joe I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I love it too.
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  Speaker 1: So aside from talking to Joey about you can talk
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  Speaker 1: to us about it. What would you like to see
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox do this offseason?
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  Speaker 4: Just continue to be aggressive like we were last year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, after the season last year, in November, we
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  Speaker 4: talked about trying to get back to the playoffs. Actually
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  Speaker 4: we talk about winning the division and we needed to
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  Speaker 4: accomplish a few things in the off season, and we did.
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  Speaker 4: We signed Alex, we traded for Cruzchet, we got Chapman,
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  Speaker 4: we got Justin Wilson. So just stay aggressive. Playing three
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  Speaker 4: games in October is not good enough for us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we got a taste. We got back to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: but honestly, from my end, it feels like we actually
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  Speaker 4: didn't play it. It was so like short, right, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was a great accomplished getting back, but we have
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  Speaker 4: to be better. And I think listening to Craig last
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  Speaker 4: week in Vegas, he was very very straightforward with what
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  Speaker 4: we're trying to accomplish. We want to be better from
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  Speaker 4: the mount, trying to get somebody that we can pair
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  Speaker 4: up with Bayo and Crochet and offensively, we have to improve.
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  Speaker 4: We we have some holes. We showed it last year
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  Speaker 4: towards the end, and hopefully we can do that.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: How often do you and brez talk? How often do
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  Speaker 3: you and Craig Brezilo talk? Is it every day? Is
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  Speaker 3: it twice a day? Is it before night?
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  Speaker 4: It's not every day, It's not every day, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I get a text from him. Obviously he has people
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  Speaker 4: that worked with him and they connect with me. But
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  Speaker 4: I'd let him be. Man, it's a tough job. I'm
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: getting to the point now in my job that if
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: I get too many updates and every every day I
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  Speaker 4: get anxious, you know, I get a little bit desperate,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, I don't want to do that. So whenever
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  Speaker 4: we have something moving, cooking, you know, we meeting with
• 4:47
  Speaker 4: when we meeting with players, we have some meetings. Whenever
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  Speaker 4: that comes up, he lets me know. But I got
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  Speaker 4: a job to do. My job is to get ready
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  Speaker 4: for spring training, map out the things that we want
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  Speaker 4: to do. Me and Ramon Vaskis who see here in
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  Speaker 4: Puerto Rico, and uh, while we add during the off season,
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  Speaker 4: we make adjustments.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So here more of you just called John Henry
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  Speaker 3: type of guy you just you skip over, bros.
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  Speaker 2: I know how see, we know the we know how
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  Speaker 2: you are. You just skip them. You just John, listen, John, No,
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  Speaker 2: we need this John.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna go back to the beach though,
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  Speaker 3: love you.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. I mean he did an amazing
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  Speaker 4: job last year. I know a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 4: give you credit, but if you look at the offseason
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  Speaker 4: we had last year, Chapman, Justin Wilson, Alex Bregman, Garrett Cruche,
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  Speaker 4: three All stars. Wilson was great. So uh let him
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  Speaker 4: be let let let him do the job. Obviously, he
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  Speaker 4: will ask me about how I see it. But at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, you know, we we make
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  Speaker 4: decision based on what we have to improve on our
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  Speaker 4: forty men roster and our twenty six men roster, and
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we can do that.
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  Speaker 5: How did you how did you feel your defense was
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  Speaker 5: as a team as a whole for the season, because
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  Speaker 5: you talked about things you need to improve And my
• 6:01
  Speaker 5: second question will kind of depend on what you how
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  Speaker 5: you answer.
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  Speaker 4: That, Well, we have the best defensive outfield in the
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  Speaker 4: big leagues if you go by the metrics. And this
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  Speaker 4: this is a trick question because, uh, two years ago
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  Speaker 4: or three years ago, although we have led the league
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  Speaker 4: in errors for for three or four years. You know,
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  Speaker 4: people talk about the metrics, right, Uh, defensive run saves
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  Speaker 4: when we when they talk about the catchers, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: framing numbers and all that. Last year, Carlos was really good.
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  Speaker 4: Hard field defense was good. I think as far as
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  Speaker 4: like defensive run staves. We were fifth in the league.
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  Speaker 4: The tree of the outfielders, we have two Gold Glovers.
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  Speaker 4: One should have been a Platinum uh winner rough Eyelight.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how that works, you know, but he
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  Speaker 4: should be. So we were okay, erratic early in the season.
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  Speaker 4: I think our pitching staff can do better holding runners
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, doing the pfps we weren't good.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know. Going back to the question C plus,
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  Speaker 4: so we have to improve.
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  Speaker 3: Rafaela is he possibly moving back to the infield, because
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  Speaker 4: He he has a lot of value, but he's the
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  Speaker 4: thing we're going to challenge him again. He's offensively this guy,
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• 8:38
  Speaker 4: in chasing too many pitches, doing some damage, pulling ball
• 8:42
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• 8:44
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• 8:46
  Speaker 4: second time, you know, his career, you know, obviously two
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: full seasons that you know, September is tough for him.
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  Speaker 4: Waits one sixty man and to play one sixty two games.
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  Speaker 4: He's hard, So challenge him, challenge him, you know, physically
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• 9:30
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• 9:35
  Speaker 5: tough thing to do. It's like somebody that doesn't very hard.
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  Speaker 4: Is very hard because you're running into the Okay, we
• 9:45
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• 9:47
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• 9:52
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• 9:57
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• 10:03
  Speaker 4: we have to make sure you know, we do damage
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: early incounts. And how you accomplish that, then obviously swing
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: at the right ones, and he can do it. He
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: can do it. He did it in the minor leagues
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: early incounts. He's shown some flashes at the big league
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  Speaker 4: level to do that. This is something that in eighteen
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  Speaker 4: when I got to the Red Sox, I challenged some
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: of the guys you know there were it was the opposite, right,
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: They were very patient and I want them. I wanted
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: them to swing early, but swing and do damage. You know.
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: And if you look at Saddan, there's a few things
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: that he struggles with. There's a few things that he
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: can he can accomplish that and that's something we're going
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: to keep preaching to him and hopefully with time, you know,
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: and this is you know, experience at the big league level,
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  Speaker 4: he can get to the to the hitter that we envision.
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to go back to this because you
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: didn't give me the answer I wanted. So how often
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: do you talk to Alex Bregman?
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: Do you call him.
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: Every day and see where he is? Are you flying
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: to his hometown to hit him ground balls? Are you
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: flipping to him? Are you trying to bring him back?
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: It's very hard to get me out of the island.
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think my next Yeah, I ain't going to
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Arizona to see Alex, but we stay in touch. Uh,
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: there's a guy that I have a lot of respect.
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: I really enjoy manage him last year. We have a
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: good relationship, so we stay in touch, talking about he's
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: off season and him asking me questions about my kids
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: and all that. So we talk a lot to be
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: honest with you.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's better.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: By the way, is there something that happened at sant
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: Are you a santaurse crabber?
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Are you were you?
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: No?
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: No, no, we're We're Kyle's creolios. Kyle was creatos.
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: Because I saw Johnny Damon down there like throwing out
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: the first pitch, And was there some something that happened
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: recently in Centers?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, No, opening day, Opening day?
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: Oh it was opening day. Okay, Yes, that's okay, Okay,
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. You got Johnny to the island.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: We can get you off the island.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be up the island and I'll go visit you
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: in Orlando in a few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm gonna see you there. I'm gonna be
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: like Alex, come on right here, we're gonna Scott and
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: are gonna be there. You can come say hi and
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: you can buy me a drink for once.
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: All right, I'll talk about a guy that's still on
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: your roster that you guys extended Eraldus Chapman. A lot
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: was made about when he made on competo. He went
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: on a podcast and he said he'll never play for
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: the Yankees again. Do you feel like some of his
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: resurgence was kind of like spiteful to the yank like
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go sign with the one team the Yankees
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  Speaker 5: hate and it's the Red Sox. And that fueled him
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: to have, at age thirty seven, the season that he had.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, it was. I mean, I played thirteen
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  Speaker 4: years in the big leagues, have managed what six or
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: seven was a bench coach for one, and I have
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: seen guys that their work ethic has been outstanding. Others
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: they performed at the Big League devil because they were talented.
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: And this guy is a combination of both. Just the
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: way he goes about his business is second to none.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: Get him on in the morning, go to the gym
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  Speaker 4: at nine, take his nap, comes back to goes to
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: the ballpark, his cardio plays catch. It was on point,
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: you know. And I seen great seasons by relievers starting
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: with Eric Ganya you know two whatever that was that
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: was impressive. But to do it at his age and
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: with all the quote unquote red flax right, you know
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: he's older. He doesn't throw strikes, his hostpeed pitches in
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: his own he cannot do that. It was fun to watch,
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: you know. And the other thing for him to be
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: willing to sign an extension when he did it, he
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: really likes Boston, he really likes the program and he
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: was having fun. Man, And I saw the quotes, and
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: that's you know, fuel to the to the rivalry if
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: you want to say it. But I think it's just
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: a combination of a lot of things. But the credit
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: goes all to him. You know. He he was amazing
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: and I'm happy that he's going to be back to us.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, by the way, you played thirteen years, jeez, slap
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  Speaker 3: it in a little flee like you played thirty man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a Cup fan, but your dad won against us.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: It was like ten or twelve pitches and we just
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: kept throwing you heaters and.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: You kept so it was uh it was matt Cleman
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: slider cutter, right, cut her yeah, and uh people keep
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: giving him a credit man, and he threw sixteen pitches
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: right down the middle.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: You know at one point you gotta hit one, right,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know what was harder me getting
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: the homer on the eighteenth pitch of Mattie Clement throwing
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: all the strikes in a row.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: But no, okay, anyways, I know there was one, but
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I mean, I'm wrong, but there was one.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Felipe Louse screamed to me for throwing you this many
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: pitches and you gotta.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: You you actually it was you know four right, were
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: you there two thousand and four? Yeah, Franklin the lefty, Yeah,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: come out of the bullpen. That was the Finley homer.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Remember the walking.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You know I was. I was out of the game.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: They defensively replaced me that that game because we were
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: winning three to nothing, and so.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Let's say war against against Franklin the lefty. It was
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: a Franklin I don't even know Wayne started.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, thanks for bringing that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Thanks for bringing that memory up, because we took me
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: and the shortstop out and we ended up losing day.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: They took out putting ransom. Yes, but I barely remember
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: that game. Anyways.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: You're a manager now, you've been managing since what twenty eighteen,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I think was your first year. What is the one
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: thing that Alex Korra wishes he knew in twenty eighteen
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: That Alex score in twenty twenty five notes.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: The media side of it is very challenging. I still
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: remember Kevin Gregg in eighteen. He's with the Phillies now.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: He was our media relationship, the prison of media relationship.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: And he tells me in four myers from tomorrow on.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: You got to talk before the workout and after the game,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: like what I gotta do this twice And that's something
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: that it's not easy because the game is the game
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: and the game has evolved. But you have information and
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: you talk to people and you're going to keep growing
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: up as a manager and as a baseball person. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: the media part of it is a challenge. You know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: like right now we're talking, it's gonna come out and
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: somebody's gonna make something out of this, you know, because
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: he talked about mccleman, or he's talking to Alex Bregman
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: every single day, or he doesn't talk to Trep Breslo
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: every single day. And that's a challenge, man is you know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: you guys call it what soap oper us right like
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Days of Our Lives right at one o'clock. I remember
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: watching that in college. You know, probably Joey didn't do
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: that in Vanderville, but I did in Miami. But it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: an novela like we call it in Latin America. It's
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: NonStop and you gotta be on top of it. You
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: got to know their narrative. You have to control the
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: narrative and if I wouldn't known that in eighteen and
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: eighteen was quote unquote simple in that aspect because that
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: team was amazing, But I didn't know how challenging it
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: is and I'm still learning that that part of the game.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: One last quick one that we probably could have spent
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: fifteen minutes on Roman Anthony, Roman Anthony getting third in
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: American League Rookie of the Year voting. What do you
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: see not his ceiling, but what do you see him
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: doing next year? Because the future is very bright, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: what do you see him doing for this team in
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: a new role that he's going to need to take
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: for you guys to make it to the series.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, the one thing that we still have to quote
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: unquote solve is him against lefties. And that's something that
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: as hitters, you know, left handed hitters is always a challenge.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: And it's funny because throughout the years, if you look
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: at our roster, we have this problem. We had this
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: problem quote unquote throughout the years Castes against lefties, Jaron
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Durant against le lefties, William braw against lefties. And there's
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: a I call it a process, right like the evolution
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: of the of the hitter. They come up to the
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: big leagus and we platoon them and it happened with
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Roman for a week, you know, and he's gonna be okay.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I see him hitting the top of the lineup. He's
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: gonna be a debate if we're gonna lead him off
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: or hitting second or hit him forth. We'll see what
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: the roster looks when we get to Cincinnati next year
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: for the home for Opening Day. But he's a guy
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: that he's gonna keep getting on base. He's gonna hit
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: for power. I think he was getting to the point
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: that he was hitting the ball in the air. And
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the thing that people don't realize is that this guy
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: is a great base runner and a good defender. I
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: think he ended up plus four as far as defense.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: He runs, saves, and uh, he's just really good. One
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: thing that we have to be very careful, and this
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: happens in every big market, is like people put these
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: players in a pedestal and they expect them to carry
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: the offense, carry the franchise to the next level. And
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: that's not the case. We have to protect him from that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: But as far as the keep him healthy, let him
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: be who he is, and uh, you know, we are
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: far away from the best version of Roman Anthony, but
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: the one we have right now and the one we're
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: gonna have next year, he's really really good.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: So before, since you like Novella's, is Tristan Cassis your
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: first baseman next year or are you gonna sign pet Alonzo?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: We gotta we gotta get him healthy, man.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I think Christian is a big part of what we're
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: trying to accomplish, but we gotta get him healthy. You know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: last year we were talking about Tristan hitting thirty home runs,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: driving in one hundred, and that happened right early in
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: the season. So we're not giving up of him, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: we know that we he hasn't been healthy throughout his career,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: so that's very important.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: This guy looks so good.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Look Peter a Lonzo like this hitting dingers at the Monster,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the Gators, the Gators. Oh cn clip that clip down.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Never went to college.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: He never went to college.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: He doesn't know. Don't worry.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Flip flip that, by the way, clipped the Hurricanes.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: The Hurricanes, they teach you to be friendly to.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Your Yeah, okay, go to Miami and give back.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: By the way, I've said this to thom mkainley, Miami
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: beat Notre Dame, but they're ranked behind them. Anyways, I
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and I'm not a Miami fan, but that's some crap.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: You know what. This is the point of the season
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: in college football the last four or five years, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: and I hate to say it, you know, early in
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: the season everywhere they're back, they're back, they're back, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: now we're what sixteenth in the nation.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Like, man, man, that's a you guy right there, that's
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a you guy.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wait, I wait, because it happens. Unfortunately, it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: really kind of been twenty years like that where you
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: get teased every once in a while and it just
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't do it. It's not a complete season. So it
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: is what it is. I don't want to talk about it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Alex.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Enjoyed the offseason, actually enjoy your Well see you in
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks exactly. We'll see in Orlando in
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: our backyard.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, and thank you for everything you guys do.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I think it's refreshing. It is a great platform. And
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: there's a reason we talk to you guys because I
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: think for for the audience that we have now in
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: the game, and we saw that in the World Series. Man,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: you know, game seven broke older ratings, right, and it's
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: international and all that, and you guys are part of this.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you well said, yeah, that's why we do it. So,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you know, thank you, Alex, appreciate it. We'll see in
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks you will