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FairT: Steele's season over, Padres/Giants surge, Trout v. fan mayhem · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Obviously some of this will aggress to the mean in
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  Speaker 1: a positive way. These guys are going to hit. They've
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  Speaker 1: hit their whole careers. Welcome everyone into the Monday edition
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  Speaker 1: of Fair Territory. As always, we have plenty to discuss.
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  Speaker 1: A major injury, a surprising turn of events in the
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  Speaker 1: NL West, and even a fan ripping a ball out
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  Speaker 1: of a SuperStar's glove. All that and more, as well
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  Speaker 1: as inside my manager's column that is published today. But
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  Speaker 1: let's start off with the injury that I previously mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: the one to Justin Steele. He is out for the season,
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  Speaker 1: the Cub's left hander, and it's an elbow injury. It's
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  Speaker 1: an elbow operation. We don't know exactly the specifics yet.
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  Speaker 1: Will it be a Tommy John surgery, Will it be
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  Speaker 1: an internal brace procedure. It doesn't matter. He's out for
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  Speaker 1: the year. Actually it does matter long term, but in
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  Speaker 1: terms of this season, no, he is out and that
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  Speaker 1: is going to seriously effect. Of course, the Cub's chances.
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  Speaker 1: Steel is there. He is a bulldog. He is a
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  Speaker 1: guy you want out there, someone who has kind of
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  Speaker 1: come out of nowhere in recent years to become one
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  Speaker 1: of the game's better left handed pitchers. But I am
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  Speaker 1: here to suggest that this is hardly disastrous for the Cubs,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to show you why by looking at
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  Speaker 1: their rotation as it currently exists and as it might
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  Speaker 1: exist as the season goes forward. As it currently exists,
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  Speaker 1: it's still pretty good even without Justin Steele. You see
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  Speaker 1: show to im Naga, Jamison Tyone, Matthew Boyd, the emerging
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  Speaker 1: Ben Brown, and Colin Ray who can hold down a
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  Speaker 1: rotation spot until perhaps, as you see there on the
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  Speaker 1: additional options, Javier assad is ready to come back. And
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  Speaker 1: they also have Jordan Wicks at Iowa and Kate Horton.
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  Speaker 1: Those two guys maybe later in the season. The other
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  Speaker 1: thing about the Cubs, and really the most surprising thing
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  Speaker 1: about the Cubs so far in this young season, is
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  Speaker 1: their offense. Their offense leads the major leagues in runs
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  Speaker 1: per game. And yes, they put up sixteen on the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers Saturday night, and that's one reason they're in the
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  Speaker 1: top spot. But even if you take out those sixteen runs,
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  Speaker 1: they would be second in the major leagues in runs
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  Speaker 1: per games. So the Cubs, yes, this definitely is a
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  Speaker 1: major setback. You'd never want to lose your ace, but
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  Speaker 1: they still have a very good team. Kyle Tucker is
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  Speaker 1: performing at an MVP level. There's still going to be
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  Speaker 1: quite an interesting team to watch all summer long. For
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  Speaker 1: more on the Steel injury fallout, North Side Territory covers
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  Speaker 1: where the Cubs go from here The Athletics. Patrick Moody
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  Speaker 1: and Sahadev Sharma host Stay in the No with the
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  Speaker 1: latest episode out now, subscribe and rate five stars to
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  Speaker 1: the entire Foul Territory Network. Now in the NL West,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the surprising turn of events and why is
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  Speaker 1: it surprising because everyone's favorite super team, the team that
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  Speaker 1: was ruining the sport, the team that could not be beat.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, they were eight to no. They were
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  Speaker 1: never going to lose again. They're three and six. Since
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  Speaker 1: they're eight no start and I'm referring, of course, to
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is a team with a
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  Speaker 1: run differential right now of zero. Well that's because of
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  Speaker 1: Saturday sixteen. Nothing lost, but a team not without problems.
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  Speaker 1: Migul Rojas pitched two innings in that game on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: That's just one of those freak things that occurs during
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  Speaker 1: the course of the season. But here we are, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Two weeks into the season. The Dodgers already
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  Speaker 1: are scrambling for starters, with Blake Snell joining Clayton Kershaw
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  Speaker 1: on the injured list as well as Tony Gonsolin and
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  Speaker 1: with Shoheyo Tani not yet ready to start this season.
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  Speaker 1: They also have some issues at the bottom of the order.
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  Speaker 1: So what is going on here in the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the division, That is what is really interesting. Let's look
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  Speaker 1: at the National League West standings right now, because they're
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  Speaker 1: quite surprising. San Diego Padres top of the division thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and three, San Francisco Giants second place eleven and four.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have the Dodgers at eleven and six, the
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  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks at nine and seven, and the Rockies at three
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  Speaker 1: and twelve. Now, Padres certainly qualify as a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a surprise simply based on their off season and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they lost the lone and didn't really gain
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  Speaker 1: a lot. This is a team that we talked about
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  Speaker 1: all off season as one that might trade potential free
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  Speaker 1: agents such as Dylan Ceces and Michael King and Luisa Rise.
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  Speaker 1: They did nothing of the sort, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: their additions were for the most part relatively modest. I
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  Speaker 1: want to show you what they lost and what they gained.
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  Speaker 1: What they lost was significant Profar and Kim Higashioka, who
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of home runs for them last year.
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  Speaker 1: Two really good bench players Solano and Peralta. What they
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  Speaker 1: gained Nick Pavetta, that was their biggest addition. Then they
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  Speaker 1: got Jason Hayward and Connor Joe on one million dollar
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  Speaker 1: one year deals, Elias Diaz a catcher okay, and then
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  Speaker 1: four minor league contracts Gavin Sheets, who has been a
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  Speaker 1: major surprise for them, Martin Maldonado, Juli Uriel, and Jose Iglesias.
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  Speaker 1: What this team has done so far is pitch really well.
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  Speaker 1: And I know they played the Rockies this weekend and
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  Speaker 1: they had those shutouts, but my goodness, they've been outstanding
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  Speaker 1: even without you, Darvish. Michael King looks like a legitimate ace,
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  Speaker 1: Randy Vasquez has been really good, and their bullpen, especially
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  Speaker 1: the back end, has been lights out. So the Padres
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say they're a better team than we thought,
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  Speaker 1: necessarily because they were really good at the end of
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  Speaker 1: last year. But with the Dodgers doing so much this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: with the Giants doing at least some significant things. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't really see the Padres necessarily in the same light
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  Speaker 1: as before, and yet here they are with Tatis playing
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  Speaker 1: at an MVP level and early in the season a
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  Speaker 1: team just emerging as a real force. The Giants are
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  Speaker 1: the biggest surprise. Now, the Giants didn't really do much
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  Speaker 1: in the offseason, did they. Yes, they added really Adamis.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't done much in the early going. Justin Verlander,
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  Speaker 1: He's been just okay so far as well. Yet this
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  Speaker 1: team has gone from far anxiety as the head of
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  Speaker 1: their base barber to buster Posey. Jung Houley is healthy,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing like an MVP candidate too, and they just
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  Speaker 1: have a different way about them. They've pitched well, They're
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  Speaker 1: back into the bullpen, has settled in nicely. They are
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  Speaker 1: a team that is obviously better than we all thought,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to be really interesting to track them
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  Speaker 1: this year and to see if this holds up, because
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  Speaker 1: what has happened here is, yes, a different culture that
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  Speaker 1: has emerged, less of a laboratory experiment, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to call it that, more of a baseball pure kind
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  Speaker 1: of environment. Now I'm not ripping far anxiety. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying this is a different approach. They have been very
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  Speaker 1: adamant under Posy about being much more stable in their lineup,
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  Speaker 1: much more stable with their roster. This is a team,
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  Speaker 1: this will surprise you, that has not made a single
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  Speaker 1: roster move so far this season. Not one. Now, that's
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  Speaker 1: partly due to luck, of course with injuries. But it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting too that they are settling in in this fashion.
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  Speaker 1: So the Giants and the Padres emerging as at least
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  Speaker 1: in the early season, legitimate threats to the Dodger. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the sport is collapsing just yet because
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are spending all of that money. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: And finally, this weekend, a play that occurred in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: A play that bore resemblance to Mooky Betts catch in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series last year at Yankee Stadium when he
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  Speaker 1: was basically nearly assaulted by two Yankee fans. This one
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  Speaker 1: was much more mild in the way it was executed,
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  Speaker 1: but Mike Trout, playing right field, went into the stands
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  Speaker 1: to catch a ball, a foul ball, and a fan
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  Speaker 1: basically took the ball out of his glove. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: difference here to me from other plays of this nature
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  Speaker 1: is that Trout caught the ball. Now, I know the
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  Speaker 1: rule is once you go into the stands, it's fair game.
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  Speaker 1: Fan can do whatever they want, and if you catch
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  Speaker 1: the ball, you catch it. If you don't, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: But Trout caught the ball and the fan clearly took
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  Speaker 1: it out of his glove. In this particular situation, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, common sense should have applied. That battle was out,
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  Speaker 1: should have been out, and obviously at that point you
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  Speaker 1: have a different scenario. Now, the inning proceeded the same way,
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  Speaker 1: nothing changed. The batter made out was a third out
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  Speaker 1: of the inning. All good. And what was really interesting
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  Speaker 1: was the fan's reaction to Trout. That fan immediately knew
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  Speaker 1: he had done something that was not great. He immediately
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  Speaker 1: started apologizing. He almost similarly wanted to give the ball back.
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  Speaker 1: And then after the game, Trout and the fan had
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  Speaker 1: this encounter. So here's Mike Trout talking to the fan,
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  Speaker 1: shaking his hand, meeting his son, and what Trout said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the audio here, but what he said
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  Speaker 1: was Hey, what you guys did or Dad did in
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  Speaker 1: reacting and apologizing, that was what it was all about.
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  Speaker 1: That was really cool to Mike Trout, and for that reason,
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  Speaker 1: Trout had no problem with anything the fan said to Trout. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad the game wasn't affected in any way. It
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  Speaker 1: just spoke really well, in my opinion, of Mike Trout
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  Speaker 1: to react as classically as he did to the whole scenario.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen players react in different ways to these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of plays over the years. Now in this case, the
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  Speaker 1: fan did not physically endanger Trout in any way, did
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  Speaker 1: not pull on his arm or hit him or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, so that was a little bit different, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but the fans reaction Trout's reaction, that all was good.
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  Speaker 1: We need to figure out a way though to call
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  Speaker 1: that play an out.
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  Speaker 4: Well well, well.
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  Speaker 1: Time now for the inside Dish, the part of the
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  Speaker 1: show where I talk about maybe something I've written, a
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  Speaker 1: trend going on in the game, something else entirely, And
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  Speaker 1: today I want to take readers back on a little
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  Speaker 1: journey to memory Lane. And I've written before about the
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  Speaker 1: Curse of Samuel Joseph. Samuel Joseph is my son. He
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  Speaker 1: was born on May twenty first, nineteen ninety one, and
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  Speaker 1: faithful readers will know I've written about this before that
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  Speaker 1: on the first three days of Sam's life, May twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty second, and twenty third, a big league manager was fired.
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  Speaker 1: First it was John Watthat in Kansas City. Then it
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  Speaker 1: was Don Zimmer in Chicago, and then it was Frank
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  Speaker 1: Robinson in Baltimore. At a time when I was covering
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  Speaker 1: the Orioles, now Jerome Holtzman of the Chicago Tribune, the
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  Speaker 1: late great Jerome Holtzman, wrote a column about this whole scenario,
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  Speaker 1: and he called it the Curse of Samuel Joseph, and
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  Speaker 1: he led the column by saying, every day of his life,
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  Speaker 1: a big league manager has been fired. Sam at that
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  Speaker 1: point was then immortalized in Baltimore Magazine as this kid
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  Speaker 1: with these unusual mystical powers. And then over the years
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties and the two thousands, even the twenty tens,
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  Speaker 1: around May twentieth, about a quarterway into the season, you'd
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  Speaker 1: start to see managers getting fired. That was just the
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  Speaker 1: kind of timing that would go on. Enough games have
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  Speaker 1: been played, in the opinions of most teams to make
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  Speaker 1: a change if they thought a change was warranted. Sam's
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  Speaker 1: going to be thirty four next month. And times have
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  Speaker 1: changed in baseball today. We live in sort of an
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  Speaker 1: age of collaboration where the front offices and statistical analysts
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of say in the shaping of rosters,
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  Speaker 1: in in game decisions, not in the moment necessarily, but
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  Speaker 1: just in the way lineups are structured. It's a collaborative
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  Speaker 1: process in many cases. So what has changed is that
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  Speaker 1: you don't often see firings early in the season. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: teams are deliberate and trying to remove motion from their
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  Speaker 1: decision making. They don't want to be reactionary. They want
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  Speaker 1: to be deliberate. As I said, they want to be
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  Speaker 1: thorough in their processes. We hear this all the time,
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  Speaker 1: so teams generally don't make a move until after the
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  Speaker 1: All Star break, if they make a move at all
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  Speaker 1: during the season. It's been the trend in the game
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  Speaker 1: in recent years. And I wrote about this whole scenario
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  Speaker 1: today in my column and The Athletic and I listed
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  Speaker 1: nine managers who by the end of the season could
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  Speaker 1: be in jeopardy. Derek Shelton is one of them. You
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  Speaker 1: see him there there is a whole list I've got
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  Speaker 1: in there. Rock Oball Delhi is on that list, Ali
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  Speaker 1: Marmel and I can go through the whole thing, but
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  Speaker 1: better you read the column than me. Just go through
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  Speaker 1: it here. Now, this is not a story that I
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  Speaker 1: particularly relish writing. I know all of these managers, I
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  Speaker 1: know all the gms. Of course, it's my job to
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  Speaker 1: know these people, and I have relationships with all of them.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality of the game is that managers get fired,
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  Speaker 1: gms get fired, and in our work at the Athletic,
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  Speaker 1: in my work, in all of our work, we try
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  Speaker 1: to give context to things that are going on, and
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  Speaker 1: we try to give insight into stories that could develop
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  Speaker 1: in many cases before they happen. We want people not
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  Speaker 1: to be surprised, our readers, We don't want them to
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  Speaker 1: be surprised by something that might take place now that
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  Speaker 1: is impossible to achieve. At all times. The game on
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  Speaker 1: the field is particularly full of wonder and twist and
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  Speaker 1: turns that are unexpected. Off the field, it's often that
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  Speaker 1: way as well. But the context in this day and age,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you don't have a lot of context out there,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, that's really important. It's important to give
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  Speaker 1: before something might occur, and it's important to give really
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  Speaker 1: important to give after something might occur. So that is
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  Speaker 1: why I write this story from time to time. Usually
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  Speaker 1: I write it maybe at the beginning of the season,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll write one toward the end as well. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I'll do gms, sometimes I'll do managers. Much more often managers, though,
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  Speaker 1: because gms do not get fired as frequently, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a column that obviously will get a lot of commentary,
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  Speaker 1: and people obviously are going to have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: opinions about the managers of their favorite teams. But I
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  Speaker 1: often find that fans don't necessarily judge a manager for
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  Speaker 1: the right reasons. What fans dwell on often and what
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  Speaker 1: we do too in the media are in game decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Did this decision work out? Did it not? Classic example,
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  Speaker 1: Nestra Cortez Junior coming in in the World Series last
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  Speaker 1: year in Game one, that was a decision that actually
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  Speaker 1: could be second guests at the time, first guest at
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  Speaker 1: the time and did not work out. Had it worked out,
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about it today. But for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, in game decisions are not how you judge
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  Speaker 1: a manager. They can go either way, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they're not a great basis for looking at someone and
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  Speaker 1: evaluating them. What I look at, and when I think
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  Speaker 1: people in the game look at for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: are the way the team is performing. Is the team
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  Speaker 1: playing hard for its manager? Is it playing fundamentally sound.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, one of the biggest criticisms of Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: was that the Yankees were not playing fundamentally sound, and
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  Speaker 1: in some ways that is partly a reflection of the manager.
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  Speaker 1: But of course when we look at these guys now,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many things to take into consideration as well.
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  Speaker 1: How much influence does the front office have. That's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big question, and we don't ever seem to know
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  Speaker 1: the answers because there's a lot going on behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: and also the different circumstances that managers face at each
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  Speaker 1: particular moment of their careers. For instance, Roco Baldelli in
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  Speaker 1: the Twins situation, Roca Baldelli's team collapsed at the end
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  Speaker 1: of last year, finished twelve and twenty seven. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they were down the stretch, twelve and twenty seven. So
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  Speaker 1: coming off that year when they were probably the most
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  Speaker 1: talented team in the Al Central and when they missed
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. You would have wanted them to start strongly.
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  Speaker 1: They have not done that. That malaise from the end
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  Speaker 1: of last season has sort of extended into this season,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why Roco Baldelli right now is under some scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of other things going on with the Twins,
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  Speaker 1: the usual injury questions, but Baldelli is going to come
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  Speaker 1: into focus. Ali Marmel and Saint louis entirely different situation.
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  Speaker 1: He is under scrutiny not just because of the team's
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  Speaker 1: performance last year, necessarily, but really because they are undergoing
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  Speaker 1: a transition, a transition from John Mozelock as the head
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  Speaker 1: of baseball operations to HEINM. Bloom. And generally speaking, when
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  Speaker 1: a new man takes over as Bloom will at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season, that new man wants his own manager.
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  Speaker 1: That's just an dydynamic that always takes place, frankly, in
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  Speaker 1: all walks of life and all businesses. New boss comes
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  Speaker 1: in wants his or her own people. So those are
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  Speaker 1: two different dynamics. And I also get into Shelton, then
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  Speaker 1: I get into some others, and again you never know
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  Speaker 1: exactly how these things are going to turn out. We're
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  Speaker 1: early in the season. Maybe the Twins turn it around.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Ali Marmel shows Heim Bloom. You know what, I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: should be the guy here, even with Albert Poohols and
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yadi air Ballina and Skip Schumacher all looming as potential replacements.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: The season will progress, storylines will develop, managers will either
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: succeed or fail according to the results of their team.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: But again, this was that I wanted to look at.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: It's something that is always interesting to talk about, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: it's something that cannot be discussed. I'll repeat this cannot
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: be discussed without trying to understand the fuller contexts. In
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: each case. There are different contexts and in each case
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  Speaker 1: different circumstances, and we'll see again how it all plays
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: out as the season progresses. Time now for grilling Ken.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Let's get to your questions. First question comes from Ian,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: who asks what kind of contract is Kyle Schwarber looking at?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Given his power and age. Ian, this is one that
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: is going to be a talking point all season and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: into the off season. Kyle Schwarber is one of the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: elite home run hitters in the game. Yet Kyle Schwarber
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: next season is thirty three, so a three year deal
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: would cover his ages thirty three, thirty four, and thirty
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: five seasons. You go to four years that covers his
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: age thirty six season. I tried to find comps looking
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: back a few years last night and considering this, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the one I came up with is Tayo Hernandez. Now,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Tayo Hernandez, unlike Schwarber, is not a DH. He's an outfielder.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: He's not I would say an above average outfielder, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: he does give you some defensive value. Tasker Hernandez over
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the offseason was a free agent and received a three
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: year deal for sixty six million. He's a year younger
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: than Schorber would be entering free agency, so he was
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: entering his age thirty two year as a free agent
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Schoorber entering his age thirty three. Tasker Hernandez over the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: past three seasons had a higher war than Shworber did,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: mostly because he offered some defensive value and also was
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: really good as an offensive performer. So that to me
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: is kind of the range that Schorber should be looking at.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: He's got a twenty million dollar average annual value in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: his current deal, which was four years, seventy nine million.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That to me would seem to be reasonable going forward.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: He certainly doesn't deserve a pay cut. He's had really
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: good years for the Phillies. So I'm guessing three years,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: sixty five seventy million somewhere along those lines. I could
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: be wrong, could be less than that. Maybe the Phillies
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: don't want to go even to three years, but that
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: to me would seem to be the range. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: Next question, and this one comes from Matteo, who asks
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  Speaker 1: why can't the Rangers hit at all? Matteo, the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: themselves are asking that question. They're asking that question because
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: during the off season they brought in two guys that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they thought would help transform their offense, Jock Peterson and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Jake Berger. They also had Josh Young coming back. Evan
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Carter to some degree was going to be expected to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: do some things as well. They had Corey Seeger and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Marcus Simeon, and they also signed Kyle Lagashioka to help
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: their offense. Hasn't happened. Right now, This team is twenty
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: eighth in the Major leagues in runs, behind even the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox. That's right, the White Sox are averaging
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: more runs per game than the Texas Rangers, and I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: want to show you just why this is happening, because
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: some of those I just mentioned are not performing well
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: at all. We can start with Jack Peterson, the Big
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Free Asian edition, batting zero seven, zero seventy with a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: two seventy seven OPS that would be more like what
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: he would want is batting average to be. Simeon not
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: doing much at all, hitting one twenty three, Tavaris two
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: five batting average for eighty two OPS, Jake Berger one
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: fifty one batting average for eighty four OPS, Higashioka, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: even Corey Seger also performing well below their usual career norms. Obviously,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: some of this will regress to the mean in a
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: positive way. These guys are going to hit. They've hit
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: their whole careers. But when you ask why can't they hit,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure the answer there. But I can tell
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you what is happening so far, and it's simply that
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: most of the players on this team are not performing
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to their usual levels. And finally, the last question comes
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: from Bob Vanaman, who asked, I hope I pronounced that right, Bob,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of all the celebrities you've met, who was the most
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: baseball savvy now, Bob. In truth, I haven't met that
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: many celebrities, but from time to time I will run
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: into one or two. I'll give you two from rock
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and roll and one from Hollywood. The two from rock
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and Roll are Jack White and Eddie Vedder. Jack White
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: is the part owner of a back company. He is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a huge baseball fan. He's from Detroit. He is someone
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: who follows the game pretty seriously. And Eddie Vedder, you
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: guys know, when the Cubs were really good in the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: mid twenty tens, he'd often be hanging out in Joe
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Madden's office, sitting on the floor. He's a huge Cubs fan.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: He has been that way for a long time, very
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: passionate about baseball. And the actor I'll give you is
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Rob Low. Rob Low last year during the World Series,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: was seated kind of near where I was positioned for Fox,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and he would come over and yeah, he knows a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: lot about the game and was quite excited and passionate
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: about what he was seeing from the Dodgers. So those
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: are three that I've met. I haven't met, like I said,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a whole lot more, But there are a lot of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: people who are not even celebrities, as well as celebrities
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: who are quite passionate about baseball in this country. That's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: why it's the national pastime, well, even if it's not
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: quite as popular as it used to be. I want
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to thank you everyone for their questions, thank you for watching,
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• 24:21
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• 24:24
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• 24:29
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