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Detroit Tigers Call On Montero · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode a Tiger's Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network, a Detroit Tiger's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Karen Steckley with.
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  Speaker 1: Me as always is a member of the old brew Crew.
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  Speaker 1: Has another to deal with Milwaukee, though he is Cody
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  Speaker 1: David Eggen.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing Hey, I'm doing good, Karen. Here at
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  Speaker 3: American Family Field. There's way cooler when it was a
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  Speaker 3: Miller Park, an American Family Field, caring a great field.
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  Speaker 3: Great like it's all the same, you know, right, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I think I mean Miller was a corporation. It was
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  Speaker 3: just like, it's better than an American Family Field. Let's be real, Okay. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: coming off probably the Tigers worst game of the year
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  Speaker 3: five the loss of the Brewers, only one hit, not
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  Speaker 3: a great night. This was coming game one in the
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  Speaker 3: series Trek scouobl was electric. But I think kind of
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  Speaker 3: the news of the day is that we got a
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  Speaker 3: new member of the starting rotation coming in for the
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  Speaker 3: season or series finale, and that's going to be cater Monterra.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So this news came out like shortly, uh basically as
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  Speaker 1: soon as you guys were allowed in to the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Start start putting on X that you know Montero's here,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, get the it trickles out a
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  Speaker 1: little bit that he's going to start. Uh, Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday's game, the series finale, right before going back to
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  Speaker 1: Detroit for four with the Royals. And this is something
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  Speaker 1: Cody like a little bit of inside baseball, just like
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  Speaker 1: you and I chatting. You know, we're watching schoolbol go
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  Speaker 1: on on Monday night and I'm texting you. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I'm ready to do a pod if if
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  Speaker 1: you know, if it gets to the.
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  Speaker 2: End, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and shortly thereafter we'll talk about school well a
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  Speaker 1: bit shortly after there's base it we don't have, we know,
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  Speaker 1: we can relax for a second and uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm like he's still in the game and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Seven to nothing, eight nothing, whatever it is at this point,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, like it's almost a
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  Speaker 1: waste of a great school outing because you don't need
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  Speaker 1: like this, you know, nine point nine to nine out
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  Speaker 1: of ten pitching today. But but I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if he's leaving him out there, because like this
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  Speaker 1: this is a you know, data game, ratio wise, is
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  Speaker 1: a gauntlet coming up. They don't have an off day
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  Speaker 1: Cody until next Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: On me, three games in twenty four days. That's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, I wonder if he's just keeping
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  Speaker 1: him in there just to try to, you know, buy
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  Speaker 1: another inning. And so I bring that up to say,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of like another part of that conversation
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  Speaker 1: we were having. Obviously we did anticipate in the Montero aspect,
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  Speaker 1: but Montero is a guy that we all expected to see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at some point, kind of next man up mentality,
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  Speaker 1: But we didn't necessarily think that it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be next man up just to give guys rest, Like
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of think pitcher injuries they happen. But
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  Speaker 1: you look at what he had done in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the spring training he had had and
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  Speaker 1: what he did at times last year. What a blessing
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  Speaker 1: it is. And I don't even want to say blessing
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  Speaker 1: because they earned because they've coached him up and he's
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  Speaker 1: a talented guy. He's been in the system for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. To have a guy that you can call
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  Speaker 1: up in this situation with the kind of talent and
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  Speaker 1: production that he has shown. He has only got two
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  Speaker 1: starts in in Triple A. His last one went five
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  Speaker 1: point two, no hits, no runs, six k's. So he's
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  Speaker 1: coming in about as hot as you can as you
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  Speaker 1: can be to have your first start of the major
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  Speaker 1: league season. And so like if there was any question
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  Speaker 1: about pecking order and things like that in Toledo that
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  Speaker 1: there probably was much.
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  Speaker 2: But here's your answer. Montero is gonna be on the.
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  Speaker 1: Bump Wednesday and comes out of time that it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be greatly needed to save not just starters but
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  Speaker 1: relievers too. He's going to be expected to eat up
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  Speaker 1: some many's the old Matt Ranny Matt Manning role last
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  Speaker 1: year minus the Minster double header aspect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Keen, I'm mostly interested in the roster construction aspect
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  Speaker 3: of this because it's kind of fascinating. Maybe it will
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  Speaker 3: torn on my feelings. On one hand, this is kind
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  Speaker 3: of really smart. The Tigers are basically creating a six
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  Speaker 3: man rotation without committing to a six man rotation. There's
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  Speaker 3: some teams in the league right now going with a
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  Speaker 3: six man rotation, I think, given starting pitcher injuries, given
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  Speaker 3: all these concerns, given the brutality of some schedules. We're
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  Speaker 3: seeing this happen a little bit more. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: Aj Hinch, though, has ever loved the idea of rolling
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  Speaker 3: with a seven man bullpen. You can only have thirteen
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  Speaker 3: pitchers on your active ruster, so you know, in a way,
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  Speaker 3: that takes me by surprise. But what this does, it
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  Speaker 3: gives your guys a rest. Given the off days that
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  Speaker 3: we've had so far in the season, Tiger's pitchers are
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  Speaker 3: on a little bit more of a six day schedule
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  Speaker 3: than they are a five day schedule to begin with,
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  Speaker 3: So this keeps those guys in that rhythm. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have a guy in Jackson job who you
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  Speaker 3: have to be cognizant of his innings. You know. In
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  Speaker 3: a way, this released to something AJ said Monday and Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 3: talking about Hiley Green getting a day off. He said
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  Speaker 3: something to the effect of, like, we're trying to plan
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  Speaker 3: for one hundred and eighty games. They're more than one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and eighty games regular season here, and so in
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  Speaker 3: a way, this is kind of clever. This is the
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  Speaker 3: Tiger's thinking really long term. This is the Tiger's thinking,
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  Speaker 3: we want our arms at their best in October, which
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  Speaker 3: is quite the change from just the messaging in past years.
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  Speaker 3: But the converse of that is, in a way this
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  Speaker 3: does run a little bit counter to the whole win
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  Speaker 3: today's game thing. Now, cater Montero was worthy in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of respects of being on the opening day roster.
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  Speaker 3: I think you can feel pretty good about him giving
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  Speaker 3: you a shot to win. But even Tuesday in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 3: Brendan Hannifee was kind of hung out there to dry
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  Speaker 3: because the Tigers are trying to keep other arms fresh.
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  Speaker 3: They knew someone was going to get optioned hand if
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  Speaker 3: he ended up being that guy, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: he knew going into that outing it was going to
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  Speaker 3: be him or not, because if it did, he must
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  Speaker 3: have crossed that thirty pitch mark in the bullpen and
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  Speaker 3: saw no one loose and just like, really, nan, I
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  Speaker 3: got to get out of this inning and then I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to Toledo like one empty feeling that must have been.
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  Speaker 3: And it was still a fairly close game at that point.
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  Speaker 3: It was three to zero entering that inning, then four
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  Speaker 3: to Ohero and then five to Zho and away hanging hand,
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  Speaker 3: I fee out there to dry erased any chance of
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  Speaker 3: the Tigers mounting a comeback. I don't want to harp
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  Speaker 3: on that much to that too much because the Tigers
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  Speaker 3: had one hit, so it's like, I get it, it
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  Speaker 3: ultimately did not matter. But in doing this, you are
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna roll with a seven man bullpen, at least
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  Speaker 3: for a little bit. Remember Hannifee getting options. Per league rules,
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  Speaker 3: he can't come back for fifteen days. So if the
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  Speaker 3: Tigers won in Montero to make one start and then
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  Speaker 3: swap him for a reliever, I don't know who that
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  Speaker 3: reliever would be. Jason Foley has not pitched in a
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  Speaker 3: few days in Toledo, and I believe a trainer visited
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  Speaker 3: him in the last outing, so I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be Jason Foley. Stay tuned on that one,
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  Speaker 3: and it can't be Brendan Hannafy until fifteen days. The
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  Speaker 3: Tigers could keep Montero up for a second start. I
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  Speaker 3: think they have some interest in doing that, but you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna need your other guys to be able to provide
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  Speaker 3: innings otherwise you're bulping. Could get text in a hurry,
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  Speaker 3: so things are flexible here. It's I think it's just
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  Speaker 3: interesting more than anything, and it's definitely creative. So in
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  Speaker 3: a way, it's kind of cool. But I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: what the back end of this is going to look like,
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  Speaker 3: if any of that makes any sense at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, chew on that for a second, Cody, But first
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not be I'm just glad they are.
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  Speaker 3: Poet Tigers guys stream Now, all right, Kude, while I
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  Speaker 3: was rolling another thought, I want to get out there
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  Speaker 3: while we're still on the topic. Tigers are rolling with
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  Speaker 3: a seven man bullpen. It's kind of a six man bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: One of those guys is kin to my Aida. And
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  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people think kin to my
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  Speaker 3: Aida figuring to send someone out, Why is it not
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  Speaker 3: kin to my Ada. We know why. It's because they're
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  Speaker 3: paying them ten million dollars and they just don't pay
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  Speaker 3: people to not work. We like, we're not gonna spend
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  Speaker 3: too much time on next That's just the reality of
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  Speaker 3: the situation. But in a way, your bullpen is even
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  Speaker 3: more shorthanded when one of them is a guy who's
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  Speaker 3: pretty much been in mop up duty and the guy
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  Speaker 3: you're kind of staying away from. It's I think it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a little bit of a delicate balance if
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  Speaker 3: the Tigers want to keep Montero in the rotation for
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  Speaker 3: like a second turn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so like, yeah, the Maida aspect of it.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking because this came up people who are
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  Speaker 1: watching the game on FanDuel Sports network code Baseball thirty
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  Speaker 1: for an excented fore trial, like you were watching the
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  Speaker 1: game on fandel Sports, not where he saw it.
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  Speaker 2: Started out the game in the dugout.
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  Speaker 1: And then the you know, the game manifested itself a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and you're like, oh, well, you know, s
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  Speaker 1: kind of feels like a man Tero or is in
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  Speaker 1: Maeta game. All the m names that are running together
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  Speaker 1: real quick for me late night here on a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, And that obviously plays so about.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: If you're gonna play this stretch this many games and
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  Speaker 1: you're handicapping your bullpen a little bit, well, Miata is
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to do something. And and the weird thing,
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  Speaker 1: the weird thing about the Mata piece of this is
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  Speaker 1: that the feelings that we had, like acceptance and some
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  Speaker 1: relatively positive feelings that we had not too long ago,
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  Speaker 1: cody about like like there was a we spent a
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  Speaker 1: long time this spring like accepting the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: could be the fifth starter and it be okay, Like
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  Speaker 1: it be okay, you know, and then Casey Miest.
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  Speaker 3: Is saying, well, good things might that didn't spring went
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  Speaker 3: away very quickly. His voloss. He's back down to ninety.
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  Speaker 3: The splitter hasn't been that good. The location has been.
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  Speaker 2: Poor and and so like.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Like, there's gonna be a time
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  Speaker 1: where aj is gonna have to just be like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really have a choice here. I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: got to roll the dice with Kent to like like,
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  Speaker 1: that's just that's going to happen. So I'm gonna brace everybody.
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  Speaker 1: There's just not on the farms and too many games
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  Speaker 1: something like that is going to happen. You just kind
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  Speaker 1: of hope that it, you know, it works out for
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  Speaker 1: you because in theory, he can't be.
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  Speaker 2: He can't be this inefficient for the whole season.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just like like there were too many glimpses
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  Speaker 1: and too many glowing, glowing comments and stories about what
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  Speaker 1: he had done in the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: He had did this, he started throwing earlier. Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Blah, blah like for all that to be at best,
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  Speaker 1: to wash at worse a waste. So the Maata piece
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  Speaker 1: is definitely worth knowing. I will say that, you know, Montero,
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  Speaker 1: did you realize Cody last year he made sixteen starts?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have guessed there was that Minyo.
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  Speaker 1: I guess like twelve sixteen starts. He was nineteen appearance
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  Speaker 1: at the sixteen starts. Just to recap people's numbers, for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: four point seven sixty ra. I always remember that what
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  Speaker 1: was that like an hour and forty five minute complete
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  Speaker 1: game shutout?
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  Speaker 3: That thematics is amazing on the I.
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  Speaker 1: Think there was a presidential debate that night or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, or you know, something something that night that
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  Speaker 1: like you know, it's like all right.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody go home and and watch the political event.
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  Speaker 1: Like when the stuff is good, this stuff is really good,
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  Speaker 1: but there is some I just have to feel like
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  Speaker 1: the forty chess element of this Cody with Harris and
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  Speaker 1: Hinch and company is that this is not a one
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  Speaker 1: off like move. Like I you said, like they would
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  Speaker 1: like to have him start twice. I almost feel like
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  Speaker 1: they've brought him up to start twice. You see what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying as opposed to like would like to, but again,
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  Speaker 1: they're never They're not gonna put themselves in a situation
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  Speaker 1: where they have to physically commit to that. So uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very fascinating. Like I was on the edge of my
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  Speaker 1: seat waiting for what moves, you know what the correspond
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  Speaker 1: move was. I didn't know if we were gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to talk about it tonight because I thought maybe
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  Speaker 1: they might, you know, take it up to the deadline
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow or whatever. So I'm glad, you know, thank you
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  Speaker 1: Tigers for giving us a little content here on a Tuesday. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the good pitching element, Cody, And that
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  Speaker 1: was Trek Schoogle mentioned it. He had the perfect game
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  Speaker 1: going into the fifth there. It's probably a good thing
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  Speaker 1: that that wasn't tonight and that was last night, because
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  Speaker 1: my feelings would have been like just so prisoner of
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  Speaker 1: the moment, like was this like the greatest pitching before?
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  Speaker 1: That was probably the best I felt about Schooble, like,
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  Speaker 1: and I've watched every single one of the stars, like
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  Speaker 1: that felt one of the most dialed in I've ever
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  Speaker 1: seen Trek Schoogle and he like lived out every cliche
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  Speaker 1: that like a competitor like him would say, where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't pay attention to the score, and like all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff was falling into his glove. They're up eight nothing,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And he had and he cruised.
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  Speaker 1: He cruised like the pitch the pitch count was like
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  Speaker 1: almost astronomically low as he went deeper into the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously, you know, had to kind of work
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  Speaker 1: around some things there at the end. But seven innings,
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  Speaker 1: four hads, zero runs, nine k zero walks. It was
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  Speaker 1: as like I said, it was as dialed in as
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  Speaker 1: I think I've seen him. I don't know, maybe ever not,
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  Speaker 1: I'm about the best, but it seemed like the most
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  Speaker 1: dialed in I had seen Terrek.
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think it was probably the top
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  Speaker 3: three schoogle start. Ever, I think of you know, start
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  Speaker 3: in New York last year that was electric. I think
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  Speaker 3: maybe it was Cincinnati something like that. I would put
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  Speaker 3: this up there with those. Especially the first five innings.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was like, oh my god, he might
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  Speaker 3: serk Scubel might throw no hitter tonight. And then the
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  Speaker 3: stuff dipped a little bit. In the sixth he lost
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  Speaker 3: the feel for the change up and escape that jam,
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  Speaker 3: throwing a ninety nine point six mile pro hour just
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  Speaker 3: beam right by Reheys Hoskins to get out of the jam,
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  Speaker 3: and then came back for the seventh and was really
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  Speaker 3: good as well. Yeah, I keep saying that, like we're
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  Speaker 3: at this point with Schooble where it's hard to talk
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  Speaker 3: about because how many other ways are there to say, Like,
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  Speaker 3: this guy is really effing good. But that's the takeaway.
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  Speaker 3: There was never any reason to worry about serk Scuble.
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  Speaker 3: Even though his first two outings weren't necessarily quite as sharp,
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  Speaker 3: he was doing some good things. He's missing a lot
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  Speaker 3: of bats. I think the command has been dialed back
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  Speaker 3: in the fastball. He's really getting it into right handed hitters.
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  Speaker 3: I man through the first five innings. I think it
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  Speaker 3: was the bestest changeup has ever looks. He's throwing ninety
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  Speaker 3: mile an hour changeups with twenty inches of horizontal break,
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  Speaker 3: like just an unhittable type pitch. And when this guy
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  Speaker 3: is on, when he is ahead in the count, when
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  Speaker 3: he has thrown strikes, and those are all things he
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  Speaker 3: tends to do at a very elite level. He is
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  Speaker 3: really really good. That's why I'm still pretty confident he
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  Speaker 3: is going to be one of the best pitchers in
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  Speaker 3: baseball for a while because they're just there are just
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  Speaker 3: too many signs. If he stays healthy, he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be successful. He's just become the total package.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think like Scooball is a.
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  Speaker 1: Like he is a baseball junkie, Like I think that's
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  Speaker 1: fair to say, and definitely a pitching junkie. Need I
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  Speaker 1: remind you that on Sunday Garret Crochet had himself a
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  Speaker 1: pretty nice outing and Garrett Crochet along with Cole Reagan's Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to insult anybody, but those are kind
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  Speaker 1: of your top three like Cy Young contenders. Crochet has
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  Speaker 1: himself an outing that he has a no hitter going
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  Speaker 1: into like what the seventh, eighth and and and school
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  Speaker 1: comes out?
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  Speaker 2: Is that a coincidence?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure thought of that. I might run that by Terk.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure Terrek is aware of these things. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: he is aware, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Like I'm just I'm just saying there's a non
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  Speaker 1: zero percent chance that, uh and not even like a
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  Speaker 1: like a specific to the sy Young Award type deal,
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  Speaker 1: but just like you know, sort of like the top
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  Speaker 1: dog mentality aspect of it. I I'm just saying if
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  Speaker 1: he did that, if the start was tomorrow instead of Monday,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the result wouldn't necessarily be the same. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: that's just a hypothesis. You can't prove me wrong, you
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  Speaker 1: can't prove me right. It's just it's just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a of a hypothesis. Uh, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: to some hitting woes that have continued here in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about being fresh, and you know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games coming up, and you know, you know roster limitations. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to like, you know, pitching roster limitations, there's
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  Speaker 1: you know, the same thing applies to position players can't
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  Speaker 1: just have. But you know, they all they tend to
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  Speaker 1: be connected there, Cody. I don't know if you know
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  Speaker 1: this math major or anything, but Riley Green is a
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  Speaker 1: guy who probably could use a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: mental reset. There's really any opportunities. The weird thing about
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  Speaker 1: Monday was it was a left handed pitcher on the
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  Speaker 1: mound and carry Carpenter was in the lineup and Riley
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Green had the off day and like and and and
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  Speaker 1: up is down and left is right. Like I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what to make to make it that. If you would
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  Speaker 1: have told me that at the beginning season, that'd be
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  Speaker 1: a situation. But Riley Green got the start today Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: over four three k's. I don't have anything riveting to
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  Speaker 1: say other than it's just it's just not good right now.
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  Speaker 1: He is clearly fighting it in a major way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean against Jerry Koenig, where he sat there
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  Speaker 3: and watched three sinkers did not swing once. I was like, bro,
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  Speaker 3: are you all right? Like is your vision okay? I
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: don't know he is. I believe one for his past
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven with sixteen strikeouts, that's kind of beyond a
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: slump like that is quite alarming. But I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what the answer is. He got one day off. I
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: don't know that more mental resets, more days off is
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: going to be the solution here. I think it's like
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: if Steph Curry's oh for nine he wanted to keep shooting.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I'm voting yes, because eventually some shots are going to
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: start falling. I think Riley Green is just going to
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: have to grind his way through this until something clicks.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Seems like he's just not seeing the ball. I've talked
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: about like taking his head off and going in the
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: first place dugout. Well he didn't do that Tuesday. He
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: just didn't even swing the bat. So by that, I
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't have a grand answer. Last I
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: talked to Riley about it was in Minnesota, but he
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: didn't really seem to have any grand explanation. This is
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Riley Green. I think he's going to be okay. But
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: one for twenty seven, sixteen strikeouts. It's it's about time
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: for this slump to end.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And again you have, you know, a chance to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: clinch a series, and then you have a divisional opponent
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: coming up, like and here we are, it's mid April.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: It's not like nothing, nothing is actually dire, but it's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: just not that encouraging to see and you hope that
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: things don't, you know, kind of progress in a way
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that there's no coming back from. There's nothing that there's
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: no reason to actually think that would be the case.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, we can't necessarily like roll
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that out when you go through a stretch like this,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and you know, thank God for you know, carry Carpenter
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: having you know, you know, the season that he's had
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: so far, and you know, getting himself another another home
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: run the other day. You know, torkl Sink continues to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: do his thing. Bias still overall kind of providing a spark.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And we got to see Torres a little bit and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: his and his key running style, uh and his weird
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: head first slides that some that somehow ended up with
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: him getting hit in the face. Uh, glad to see Torres. Okay,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we could. We we can laugh about that.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That was at one point like sort of the only
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: interesting offensive aspect that that we had seen today. But
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and we don't have to spend like a whole lot
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: of time on this cody, But I did think like
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: one of the I did want to repeat something that
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: was in your hoavi Er Bias story in regards to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: like some of the other stuff that Labor Torres brings
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  Speaker 1: to the brings to the table.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. He is.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: It's cliche to say, but he's like a pros pro
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and he has like a deep understanding of like what
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it takes to be successful having you know, and ride
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: out some like. So maybe he should talk to Riley
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit right out, you know, some of those
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: valleys a little bit because he's been through everything in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the biggest market there is with the Yankees, and he's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: all also a guy with an offensive spark, and we'll
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: keep things interesting on the base pass and in the infield,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I'll just phrase it like that. But labor tours, it
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: is nice to see him out there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I'll say that Kieran I really impressed with claver touras
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: so far. I mean, he we know his history on
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: the basis and in the field, but he's had some
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: really nice base running moments so far. He's not a
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: great defensive second basement, but he had a terrific play son,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: you know, diving to the glove side saved a run.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I wonder if there really is a little bit of
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: a different level of focus for Glaber No.
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  Speaker 5: One.
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  Speaker 3: He's playing for a big payday and then yeah, his
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: intangible impact. Like just talking to him about Hobby, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: was just kind of like, man, like, this guy, this
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: guy is smart, this guy really has some feel. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: know a couple of quotes from that story made the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: rounds a little bit. It's not revolutionary that Glaber told
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Hobby like hey man, don't swing up balls. But there
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: might be something about having another native Spanish speaker who
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: is around Hobby's age, who has been through some very
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: similar peaks and valleys in Hobby's career. This seems like
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: someone Hobby Bias messages with. This seems like someone who
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: could be who could provide some valuable perspective for other
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: players on this team, like a Riley Green. I'm quickly
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: beginning to really appreciate the intangible impact of Glabor Tour
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: as I think it's starting to shine through.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, could could come up big in several situations, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of times it's the messenger, not the message.
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  Speaker 2: An you know, anybody who's been been.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Around kids, been around athletes, been been in the office
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: like that, that stuff is is quite relevant.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: The messenger, not the message.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens on Wednesday.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all very fair. I think the only other thing
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I'd know with monter Haro. I'm excited to watch him.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Even in his sixteen starts last year, he was a
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: little bit more pitchability of a sinker slider. His stuff
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: ticked up to another level in spring training and it
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: looked like he held that in Toledo. There's some more
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• 25:37
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• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And again if it was maybe they make a
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  Speaker 1: different decision Cody, if they think it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: feel confident that's the case for him. And you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it'd be nice to be able to get this win
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: because on Wednesday, because you haven't had to do the
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  Speaker 1: split and then when they get out game here and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like what you know, a week plus or whatever, so
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like they the third game of the series actually has
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: something on the line for the first time in a
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: while for this teams and especially coming off a a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: highly disappointing night game going into day game, like you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: gotta shake that off real quick. So it'll be very
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: interesting to see how they how they respond anything else
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Cody before we jet out of here.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: No, I think that covers it, but we will will
• 26:31
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