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Series Preview: Royals at Cardinals, plus Jac Caglianone's debut · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, June third, and the Saint Louis Cardinals are
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  Speaker 1: about to embark on a three game series here at
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  Speaker 1: Bushetium against the Kansas City Royals. They just saw the
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  Speaker 1: Royals not too long ago, about two weeks ago across
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  Speaker 1: the state at Kaufman Stadium. But some big changes ahead
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  Speaker 1: for this Royals team starting last night. Jalen Thompson from
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Star as our guest host today he
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  Speaker 1: covers the Royals, does a fantastic job and he's here
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  Speaker 1: to tell us about a big shake up in Royals Land.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen, what's the news.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jack Kaglion is finally coming to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: He will be in the lineup on Tuesday as they
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  Speaker 4: play the Cardinals in the I seventy series.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like Christmas in June. So the Royals needed this.
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  Speaker 4: Jack Kaglion is a power hitter that has rival power
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  Speaker 4: close to Sho Hail, Tawny, Aaron, Judge, you name it,
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  Speaker 4: they got it in. He will be the first Royal
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  Speaker 4: position player to debut one year after being drafted since
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  Speaker 4: some guy named Bo Jackson in nightteen eighty six.
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  Speaker 2: All right, a lot to unpack there.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Kaglion, of course, one of the top prospects in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the Royals top prospect rated at least fifteen or higher
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  Speaker 1: in most major prospect rankings.
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  Speaker 2: The Athletic Skith Law has him at number thirteen, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Like Jalen said, debuts today after spending less than a
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  Speaker 1: year in the minor leagues. That Royals drafted him with
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  Speaker 1: the number six overall pick in the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: draft last year, right before the Cardinals took JJ Weatherhol
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  Speaker 1: at number seven.
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  Speaker 2: So it couldn't have been a cardinal if not for
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  Speaker 2: that for that pick.
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  Speaker 1: But when you look at who Jack Kaglion is a prospect,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're looking at one of the most true
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  Speaker 1: power backs, and not just his draft class, but all
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  Speaker 1: of the minor leagues. He spent what just fifteen games
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  Speaker 1: in a before being called up. Give us a scouting
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  Speaker 1: report on mister Jack.
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  Speaker 4: Jack cagleon his skill set is massive. When he hits
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  Speaker 4: a baseball, it has a different sound to it. We
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  Speaker 4: talked to a lot of guys and it's a unique
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  Speaker 4: sound that really rivals the grace of our great sport.
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  Speaker 4: But for the roles to be successful in bringing Jack
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  Speaker 4: Kagalion along sliw and efficiently. He has to work on
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  Speaker 4: his chase rate. That's been the key for him, and
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  Speaker 4: that's part of the reason why he kind of slaid
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  Speaker 4: in the draft last year. But he's been doing great.
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  Speaker 4: He's hitting over three hundred in Triple A in the
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  Speaker 4: minor leagues. And when you put up fifteen home runs
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  Speaker 4: in over fifty RBIs in a fifty game stretch between
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  Speaker 4: Double A and Triple A, I think that might cause
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  Speaker 4: a concern for you to come up to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll definitely play. But like honestly, Jaylen, let's cut
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  Speaker 1: to the chase. The Royals didn't necessarily want to expedite
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  Speaker 1: kaglios past to the big leagues, right, But part of
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  Speaker 1: their calling him up it's not just because he's been
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  Speaker 1: breaking in Triple A, but because the Royals themselves find
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  Speaker 1: themselves in a place where the offense really just has
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  Speaker 1: not been clicking. They are thirty one and twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: but fourth place in the Al Central. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that division in a second. But what I think really
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  Speaker 1: stands out about this Royals club is that they've scored
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  Speaker 1: the third fewest runs and the majors. The offense has
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  Speaker 1: been a problem. Two part question, well, how will Jack
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  Speaker 1: help this lineup? But also do you feel like the
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  Speaker 1: last thing you want to do when you're an organization
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  Speaker 1: is put a ton of pressure to perform immediately on
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  Speaker 1: your top prospect.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like that's going to be the case here?
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  Speaker 4: I think for the Worlds they want Jack to just
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  Speaker 4: be himself. You know, Rold's manager Matt Putreal always says,
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  Speaker 4: you got to knock down the door and you have
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  Speaker 4: to force your way to the big league. Well, Jack
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  Speaker 4: Cagalon forced the World's hands. They did not really want
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  Speaker 4: to bring him up at this present moment. They wanted
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  Speaker 4: him to get more seasoning in Triple A, face pitchers
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  Speaker 4: multiple times, you know, adjust to different pitch types that
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna see. But the World's offense they need him
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  Speaker 4: right now. The last two games of their recent series
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  Speaker 4: at home, they only scored one run in the eighteen innings.
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  Speaker 3: That can happen.
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  Speaker 4: You have a lineup with Bobby Wood, Junior, if Anie
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  Speaker 4: pas Puenttino Salvador Perez, and All Star candidate mikel.
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  Speaker 3: Garcia is having a breakout season.
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  Speaker 4: Something has to click and for those guys, you need
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  Speaker 4: a spark, you need some thumb.
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  Speaker 3: In the middle of that lineup.
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  Speaker 4: You have a lot of guys that can hit singles,
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  Speaker 4: and they weren't driving runners in when they were in
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  Speaker 4: a scorting position. That's why Jack Cagione is here in
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  Speaker 4: Saint Louis today.
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  Speaker 1: And we saw that a little bit and series in
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  Speaker 1: early May or mid May, when the Cardinals took on
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  Speaker 1: the Royals. And to me, you know, I think with
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  Speaker 1: the Royals, you're always going to get a well pitched series.
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  Speaker 1: They have it, they can. It's similar to the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: just coming back from the Rangers. And I know I
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  Speaker 1: spent an entire episode Cardinal Territory talking about how the
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  Speaker 1: Rangers never scored runs and then they thump the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, whatever, I'm going to try not to curse them
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  Speaker 2: this time.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're looking at where the Royals are and
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  Speaker 1: just how heavy this Ale Central Division is, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I've ever said that sentence before. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: have the Tigers, the Guardians are right in it. How
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  Speaker 1: do the Royals feel any pressure? I know it's June third,
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  Speaker 1: but we're a third of the way through the season.
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  Speaker 1: To kind of stay afloat with those guys in front
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 4: I think, and this is my honest opinion, I really
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  Speaker 4: feel like the Roylds saw what the Tigers did to
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  Speaker 4: them this past weekend and they realized the gap that
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  Speaker 4: they have to cover in the Al Central where right
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  Speaker 4: now the Tigers are running away with it.
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  Speaker 3: In the Worlds.
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  Speaker 4: Who were considered to be top contenders this season coming in,
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  Speaker 4: they are in fourth place. And that can't happen if
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  Speaker 4: you want to have aspirations of getting back to the
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  Speaker 4: division and winning it and also making the playoffs. That
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  Speaker 4: was the whole thing this all all season. We got
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  Speaker 4: to make it to the playoffs. You gotta win a
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  Speaker 4: the division. We got to go further than we were
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  Speaker 4: last year. Well is not going the way they wanted
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  Speaker 4: to go right now. Granted they are over five hundred,
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  Speaker 4: granted they are still in the thick of things, but
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  Speaker 4: they want to be at a different spot, a different environment,
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  Speaker 4: a different level, I should say, and the only way
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  Speaker 4: they can get there is by making a change. They
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  Speaker 4: tried everyone that they possibly could think of in the
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  Speaker 4: minor leagues.
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  Speaker 3: They made changes. MJ.
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  Speaker 4: Melndez is in Triple A, Hunter Renfro is no longer
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  Speaker 4: on the team. They still haven't found that bat in
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  Speaker 4: the lineup, so that is where they have to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: hit the red button and call up Jack kag Young
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  Speaker 4: and let's see what can happen.
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  Speaker 2: And here he is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Worlds have at leased their lineup
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  Speaker 1: as we record this from two thirty pm before Tuesday's game.
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  Speaker 2: But do you fully expect him to be in the
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  Speaker 2: lineup today?
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  Speaker 3: I fully expect him to be in the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: I just I don't see a world where he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: be in the lineup when he gets called up.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the top prospect that got to play them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, well.
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  Speaker 1: For you, I know, as reporters were objective, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have a circumstance like this, a top
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  Speaker 1: prosect in baseball, first round pick, do you sit back
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  Speaker 1: in this really when you're done with work, of course,
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  Speaker 1: just really appreciate what you're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: I love debuts.
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  Speaker 3: I just think there's so much him I do.
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  Speaker 4: And you gotta realize talking to Jack Caglong, his father,
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  Speaker 4: his high school coaches, everyone that's connected to him, they
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  Speaker 4: all know that this was possible.
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  Speaker 3: They all felt this was possible.
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  Speaker 4: They realized that he just need to be in the
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  Speaker 4: right situation, in the right environment, and you're seeing what
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  Speaker 4: you can see when a guy his nine home runs
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  Speaker 4: in nine consecutive games in college at the University of Florida.
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  Speaker 4: I think the power is gonna translate just fine. It's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be the other things. Can you handle the ups
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  Speaker 4: and downs? Facing pictures that aren't gonna throw him meatballs
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  Speaker 4: or pitches that he can just hit over the fence.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of movement, maybe it's a sweep or a
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  Speaker 4: slider or a cutter, a changeup. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 4: whole bunch of dynamics that go into this. And he's
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  Speaker 4: learning a new position. He's going to be in the outfield.
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  Speaker 4: Girls have Annie pass Portino at first base, so he
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  Speaker 4: has some all that is going to come into play
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  Speaker 4: for a twenty two year old. But this guy was
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  Speaker 4: throwing ninety eight miles per hour as a high schooler
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  Speaker 4: off the mound. It's hind home runs five hundred feet,
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  Speaker 4: I promise you. I think he's going to be just
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  Speaker 4: fine when he gets his feet ready before the rows.
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  Speaker 1: All right, one last tagal on question because you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the position change came up as a first baseman, but
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  Speaker 1: has spent a lot of time with longtime Roles coach
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  Speaker 1: Rusty Kunts.
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  Speaker 2: That is an actual name.
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal Territory fans behave yourself, and he's done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work in making sure I mean Coffin Stadium, that's
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  Speaker 1: a big place to play in the outfield. What have
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  Speaker 1: you seen and heard defensively about what's been going on there?
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  Speaker 4: For Jack, it's all about making sure that he has
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  Speaker 4: the right mentality to be in the outfield. He's played
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  Speaker 4: the position before. I talked to his dad. He said
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  Speaker 4: when he was younger, day would workout every day and
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  Speaker 4: he would hit multiple buckets of balls film in the outfield.
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  Speaker 4: So he's not fearing out there. He knows how to
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  Speaker 4: position himself be in the right area at the right time.
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  Speaker 4: But the question is going to be can't you do
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  Speaker 4: it at the bag league level? And that is where
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  Speaker 4: the Royals have continued to put in different outfield coaches
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  Speaker 4: and things like that, just to get him up the
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  Speaker 4: speed and get him ready. He was playing the outfield
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  Speaker 4: three to four times a week in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's going to be out here asked to play
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  Speaker 4: it every day for the roles, and it's gonna take
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  Speaker 4: some growing pains. Like I said, you know, they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: probably have to use a defensive replacement for him, lay
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  Speaker 4: in games until he gets his confidence, and they are
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  Speaker 4: they're sure that he can handle it down the stretch.
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  Speaker 4: But the bat is what the Royals said. They always
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  Speaker 4: liked about him from the moment they drafted him. They said,
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  Speaker 4: the bat will play, and the bat will give him
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues, and it got him here in
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  Speaker 4: eleven months.
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  Speaker 3: So it looks like they were writing that regard.
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  Speaker 2: That'll definitely playing.
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals fans obviously very familiar with taking a top prospect
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  Speaker 1: and turning him into an outfielder.
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  Speaker 2: Does the name Jordan Walker ring a bell?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think when if your Royals fans
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  Speaker 1: and you're have some rightfully high expectations for Kathleen Owan,
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  Speaker 1: just remember it's a big it's a big adjustment from
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  Speaker 1: Triple A to the major leagues and when you're learning
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  Speaker 1: a brand new position. I mean, Cardinals fans sought with
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  Speaker 1: two years of Jordan Walker, there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: some ups and downs defensively and of course offensively too.
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  Speaker 1: But today, locked in a bush tadium for one of
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  Speaker 1: the most exciting debuts in baseball this year.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you who would like to learn
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  Speaker 1: more about Jack Haglion, you can read all of You
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  Speaker 1: can read all about it at the Kansas City Star.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen has covered it extensively, and they'll be much more
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  Speaker 1: to go after tonight's game. But let's talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about this Cardinals Royals series. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time, not the first time we've seen them.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's been again about two weeks. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm curious to know what your opinion was about
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals when you saw them in May.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they were in the middle of the heater
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  Speaker 2: during that. What was your impression.
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  Speaker 4: Don't hit to no one? Are not at all at
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  Speaker 4: third base. He's a vacuum over there. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how you guys just have a third basement of that
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  Speaker 4: quality and debt talent.
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  Speaker 2: Well they almost didn't straight them away.
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  Speaker 3: But at the Cardinals play great defense.
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  Speaker 4: They play sound baseball, and I think that is the
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  Speaker 4: key or being able to make a deep run in
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  Speaker 4: the postseason, should the Cardinals get there. For the Roles,
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be about just leaning on your principles. You
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  Speaker 4: pitch and you play good defense as well. You have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of nice guys that are going in this
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  Speaker 4: series that potentially can turn the tide. To be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you, this is a big series for the Roles.
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  Speaker 4: They have to have a good start to their road trip.
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  Speaker 4: They have three in Saint Louis, they have three in
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  Speaker 4: Chicago against the White Sox. Then you go home and
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  Speaker 4: you got the New York Yankees coming in, the Bronx Bombers,
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  Speaker 4: and then a sneaky good Athletics team that is I
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: call them Sacramento Athletics because they playing Sacramento but there. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: the Athletics are sneaky good and they're gonna be a
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  Speaker 4: tough challenge at the K. So gotta win. This one
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  Speaker 4: starts on Tuesday. The Rules are going to be trying
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  Speaker 4: to fight their way forward.
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  Speaker 2: And the Cardinals certainly feel that way as well. This
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  Speaker 2: is the first We.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about this in our last episode of Cardinal Territory.
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  Speaker 1: This marks twenty eight games in twenty nine days. Support
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  Speaker 1: went out for me personally, but this is a pretty
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  Speaker 1: grueling June and the Cardinals had a nineteen to eight
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  Speaker 1: record in May, the best record in baseball for that month,
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  Speaker 1: and they've wire rewarded with one of the worst schedules
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  Speaker 1: in June. They have just two op days, one of
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  Speaker 1: which was yesterday, one more on June sixteenth, so they
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  Speaker 1: want to get off to a good start. This is
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  Speaker 1: their longest homestand of the season so far, three against KC,
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  Speaker 1: three against Joheo Tani and the Dodgers this weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: three against an up and coming Toronto Blue Jays club.
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  Speaker 1: So it will be a big test for this team
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  Speaker 1: that in my opinion, I think the Cardinals have been
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  Speaker 1: one of the most surprising teams in baseball. Nobody really
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of high expectations for them, myself included,
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  Speaker 1: as we know.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it was a hater level. I was
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  Speaker 2: just realistic.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when you have a month like the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals do and you've surged back into contention. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's only June, but this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: big month for the Cardinals because what they do in
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  Speaker 1: June is going to dictate what John Mozelak does in
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  Speaker 1: July around the trade deadline, and they have been so
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  Speaker 1: good at balancing both runway and results. I think manager
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  Speaker 1: Ali Marmal's done a heck of a job in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a matter of keeping it going, So Jalen,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at what the Cardinals did at the
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  Speaker 1: k a couple of weeks ago, to me, I started
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  Speaker 1: being a Cardinal believer on that Saturday game Saint Louis
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  Speaker 1: Pe Kansas City won to nothing. They just played a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a defensive ballgame. And I get back in
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse and the vibes in that clubhouse were unlike
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  Speaker 1: anything I'd seen since twenty twenty two when Albert Pooles
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  Speaker 1: was in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed to me that they.
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  Speaker 1: Had really fought in to what they could do on
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  Speaker 1: that season based on that win over Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the vibe like for the Royals right now?
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  Speaker 3: Right now?
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  Speaker 4: The worlds, they always have a one day at a
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  Speaker 4: proach mentality. They're not going to get too high, they're
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  Speaker 4: not going to get too low. But I'm sure when
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  Speaker 4: we walk into that clubhouse, and you've seen it with
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  Speaker 4: some of the photos, there was Bobby Wood Junior and
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  Speaker 4: Jack Cavalion riding on the on the one runway before
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  Speaker 4: they got on the plane to come to Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 4: They are excited, They're ready to bring this kid in.
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  Speaker 4: They know that what he can provide can spark this offense.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be I'm expecting even more of
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: a heightened sense of just relief, enjoyment, knowing that everyone's
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: called for this kid to be up here and they're
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: gonna do everything they can, from Bobby Wood Junior to
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Salvadoperes the team captain, to Annie Patsportino to shelter him
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: and bring him in and allow him just be himself.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Because when that bat, and I promise you, if you
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: come to Bush Stadium this weekend you hear the sound
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: of the ball coming off of this young Phoenom's bat,
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: it is different and it is something that, like I said,
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: rivals Aaron Judge and sho Hey, it's on you.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's my personally, am just so excited and
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: it's heating up at Bush Stadium. I know we've had
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: like crazy weather at home for the last two months,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: but we did get a windy but sunny day, so
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: you know what in June, the ball start flying here finally,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: so it should be a fun series. Now, the Cardinals
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: and the Royals have I think two of the most
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: exciting shortstops in the game, Bobby Wit Junior Mason win.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: When you're looking at the two, where where is Bobby
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Wit rank and shortstops right now in baseball?
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: I think he arguably, and this is a totally honest
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: opinion here, I really think he might be the best
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: shortstop in the league right now. And I say that
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: because they are numbers that he put up last year
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: that no shortstop has ever touched. He was the second
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: in MVP voting, and he would have won the MVP
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: if Aaron Judge didn't go off and hit sixty home
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: runs and just be the all purposing RBI machine that
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: he is in New York. But for Bobby, he is
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: a true definition of a five to a player. This
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: is someone that he turns a regular single for a
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: mere mortal into a double just by his speed out
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: the box. I mean, if you see him hit the
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: ball in the gap, you instantly think it's three. And
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Bobby he said it himself immediately. That's his mentality. When
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: I hit in the gaps, I'm thinking three, and he's
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: not gonna slow down.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I've seen him do so many incredible things.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: And just the thing, when he first came up in
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: the big leagues, they put him at third base because
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: they didn't believe that he had the ability to, you know,
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: maybe hand a shortstop right away.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: What did he do?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: He went, he worked on his game, he worked on
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: his craft, he cut down the errors, and he stayed
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: at shortstop.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: And the rest is pretty much what right now. A
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: five to oh generational type athlete. Hit for power, game
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: for speed. I mean, he had led the league in
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: batting gaverage last year, almost won the home run Derby
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: is the only player with at least twenty home runs
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: in his first three professional seasons in MLB history. Never
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: been done.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: He is someone that is just unique in all aspects
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: of the game. And also, I think one more thing
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: about Bobby Hi Junior. He's the most humble guy that
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: you know, you can think of. He's always gonna be thinking, wondering,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: helping his teammates every which way.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Well, there at any time I've seen opposing team, there's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: usually unless it's like the Rockies or something, someone that
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I stop what I'm doing and I just watch one
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: at bat. For example, when the Dodgers come, I will
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: be locked in on Atani duh. But when the Royals
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: come to town or when the Cardinals go to Kansas City,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I am locked in and I try to just watch
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: one about objectively from Bobby wit Junior and South or Perez,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: which growing up a Giants fan, I remember Salvi Perez
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen, and I remember thinking like, well, one,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I just remember thinking in twenty fourteen, I'm so glad
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: that he didn't ruin my life. But I just remember
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: thinking like, what an exciting career this person is going
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: to have. And now here he is in twenty twenty five,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: a decade later, and he's still such an instrumental piece in.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: This world's ball club.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: For Salve to kind of do the entire cycle from
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: World Series champion to daunting rebuild and now calwing your
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: way back into playoff contention after a very surprising twenty
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: twenty four season, what kind of growth have you seen
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: from him over the last.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Couple of years.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Salvey continues to just be the ultimate leader, the ultimate patriarch,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: as you can say of this Royal's team. Just from
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: what he's meant to the organization. Last year during the
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: playoff run, every player, no matter who we spoke to,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: they said, we want to do this for Salvey because,
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: like you mentioned, he went through a rebuild. There was
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: times when they had the worst record in their franchise
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: history in twenty twenty three, when they only won fifty
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: six games. He stayed around. He stuck around. He is
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Kansas City to the core. Everyone knows Salvi, everyone loves Salvie,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: and I think the biggest growth for him is just
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: continuing to be that light for the younger generation that's
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: coming up behind him.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: That means that he has to just be himself.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Doesn't matter if he's having a slump or he's red hot,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: because he knows people who are watching. And look what
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: he's meant to Freddy, for me, mikel Garcia, young Venezuelan
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: players that have come up after him. He is the
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: star wars for the roles and like I said, Salvi
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: is just Salvie and there's no debate about that one.
• 18:31
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jalen, if you're looking at the Royals right now,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: obviously we want to see some good things out of
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Jack kackling one. But what do you know or what
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: do you think the Royals need to do to take
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: this series again? We're going to see some really well
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: pitched games under Polante Michael Lorenzen game one and then
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I believe Noah Cameron takes them Mount game too and.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: TBA for game three.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: YEAHDVA Michael Wilson game for the second game and Matt
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: deliberator for the third game for the Cardinals.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Worlds. They have to lean on their pitty staff.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: That's what they have to do all season. You mentioned
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Michael Lorenz and it starts with him. He has to
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: have a better performance than he had his last time out,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: and I think big crowd, big I seventy series, he
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: could definitely step up and rise to the occasion. I'm
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: really excited about the Wednesday matchup with Noah Cameron. Noah
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Cameron is a stud. People rave about him. I remember
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: just seeing his growth. He wants the moment, he loves
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the moment, so I think that's gonna be fun to
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: see him pitch, and it's gonna be I think it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: gonna be a pitture series between both sides.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And that TBA could be Cole Reagans.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: This depends on how well he's feeling and if they
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: decide to activate him from the injury list.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing Cole Reagan's pitch, but that would
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: again make for a tough test for this Cardinal's position
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: playing squad, which up in the Athletic you can read
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: about how Oli marmal is switching up the playing time.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: You're gonna see a little bit more of Nolan Gorman
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: after he kind of rode the bench for the last
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Jordan Walker still on the IL, projected
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to be back very soon, within the next week or so.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: So yeah, you'll see a lot of rotating guys.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Nolan Gorman is in the lineup today playing second base,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Brendon Donovan in left field. We'll see how this goes
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: for the Cardinals. That's certainly a big test for both
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals and the Royals. And that's my cue to
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: get out of here. You can follow Jalen. Thank you
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: so much for doing this right away. He is available,
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• 21:00
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• 21:01
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• 21:03
  Speaker 2: For Jalen, I'm Katie Woo. Thanks for watching Cardio Territory.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: We'll give out earlier or later in the week.