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Braves sign Robert Suarez & Yaz, Milner to Cubs, A’s get Leiter, Rule change could kill hitter timeouts · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Things are happening, Winter meetings, sessions are done. Everybody left
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  Speaker 1: Orlando pretty much, but I guess I'm still here. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to the team. It was a great few days.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of hard work behind the scenes to put
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  Speaker 1: it all together, many guests that joined us, and actually
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  Speaker 1: I got to spend some time with our monster territory
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  Speaker 1: host that is Robbie Hyde. He does an awesome, awesome
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  Speaker 1: job postgame after every single Red Sox game all year long,
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  Speaker 1: and then fills up the content in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Father, he's a little newsbreaker now. He broke a
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  Speaker 1: little news last night and then everybody else jumped on
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Robbie Hyde said, Mark Lighter Junior signing with
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  Speaker 1: the A's, he was told he was correct. One year,
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  Speaker 1: three million bucks. The A's pick up a little relief piece.
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  Speaker 1: You got to watch Lighter a little bit too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Tom JRiver guy. That's that's that's my guy.
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  Speaker 3: We used to work out in the all seasons together,
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  Speaker 3: you know, facing live and you know, we would go
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  Speaker 3: outside and at thirty five to forty five degree weather,
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  Speaker 3: like Kratzy knows all too well before we would hit summer.
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  Speaker 3: Good for him, you know, I think this is kind
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  Speaker 3: of a new little start for him, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: kind of get this going here, maybe maybe even get
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  Speaker 3: him going for a couple more years after this. Dude,
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  Speaker 3: he's not a bad reliever at all. He throws well.
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  Speaker 3: He has a really good twelve to six breaking ball
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  Speaker 3: that he uses.
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  Speaker 2: Splitter is his favorite pitch.
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  Speaker 3: But I think kind of getting out of New York,
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  Speaker 3: getting out of you know, the realm of living right
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  Speaker 3: down the street pretty much is going to bode well
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  Speaker 3: for him. He's with the team that is pretty much
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  Speaker 3: getting a new stadium pretty soon, and you know why not.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a great signing him.
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  Speaker 3: He can go out there and be himself, not really
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  Speaker 3: worry about much and just go out and dominate and
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  Speaker 3: pitch and be b Mark, be Mark Junior. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's funny. I was talking to a couple of my
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  Speaker 3: guys in my travel ball team. Go to his dad
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  Speaker 3: who does a lot of training for pitching, and I
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  Speaker 3: talked to him every once in a while about you know,
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  Speaker 3: his son and stuff like that. But he's got a
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  Speaker 3: good head over his shoulders. His dad is really incredible guy.
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  Speaker 3: He's helping out the youth here a lot and I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy for him. I'm really happy for him. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a good fit for him, kind of to
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  Speaker 3: breathe a little bit and go out there and play baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's a guy that's kind of bounced
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  Speaker 4: around a little bit. You know. The A's A's added
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  Speaker 4: somebody I love to see. I'd love to see them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, continue to push. They have a young core
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  Speaker 4: of guys that they tried to add. You know, when
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  Speaker 4: they added seven reno last year. To me, this year,
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  Speaker 4: we'll say this offseason will say whether or not they
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  Speaker 4: added seven reno. They made the other moves. I'm blanking
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  Speaker 4: on who else they added last year because they had to,
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  Speaker 4: like show me this year. I get it. You traded
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  Speaker 4: Mason Miller. You got a nice little haul back. My
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  Speaker 4: opinion is like, don't stop like this. Make this move
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  Speaker 4: to Vegas three four years from now, b when you
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  Speaker 4: guys are hitting on all cylinders and I think a
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  Speaker 4: little move like this is great, But don't let the
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  Speaker 4: Luis Sevarino trade talks dampen the little bit of spending
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  Speaker 4: that happened last year.
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  Speaker 1: I know one other move they made a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: Jose La Clerk that did not work out injury. I
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  Speaker 1: think he only ended up with else ten appearances because
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  Speaker 1: the little clerk actually got some decent coin. He was
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  Speaker 1: what coming off the Yeah, right, you know little jose
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  Speaker 1: La clerk, and I mean the year before he won
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  Speaker 1: a World Series or was that the year before that?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty three twenty three he won a World Series, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then he signed for ten million bucks. He had
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  Speaker 1: shoulder surgery, so that didn't work out also due to injury.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm with you. Yeah, if you're the A's,
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  Speaker 1: I know they've kind of leaked out what their spending
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  Speaker 1: trajectory is going to look like heading into Vegas. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be nearly what they said. Shocker. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to make as much in Sacramento. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: been selling like they thought they would. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to struggle with attendance unless they are really freaking good.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if there's more activity from them the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the off season. But let's get some breaking news.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves building up their bullpen. Now it's Robert Suarez
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  Speaker 1: three years of forty five million bucks. Jeff Passon breaks
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  Speaker 1: it and then Ken Rosenthal adds that he heard Iglesias
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  Speaker 1: will remain the Braves closer and Robert Suarez will be
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  Speaker 1: the setup guy. That could change depending on how things
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  Speaker 1: look during the season either way. Kratz, that's a nice
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  Speaker 1: little one to two punch eight nine. I know Iglesias
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  Speaker 1: had his struggles early on in the season, but then
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  Speaker 1: he was gangbusters for them down the stretch. They bring
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  Speaker 1: him on. I really like Robert Suarez, he too.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, not many people knew about him until he
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  Speaker 4: burst on the scene and twenty three No. Twenty two
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  Speaker 4: and he ended up giving up that home run to
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Harper, but he has he really has a unique
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  Speaker 4: set of you know how how he faces guys. Can
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  Speaker 4: he do that? Can he continue to do that with
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  Speaker 4: predominantly fastballs, predominantly that late life fastball in the seventh
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  Speaker 4: eighth inning. I'll tell you the bats in the seventh
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  Speaker 4: and eighth are not necessarily the same at bats as
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  Speaker 4: in the ninth. And Iglesias, I think, at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year plus with this contract, earned to be
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  Speaker 4: the closer. But there's gonna be there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 4: nice competition here, and really I get it. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 4: three outs are three outs, but I'll be interested to
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  Speaker 4: see how they really deploy Robert Suarez. Well they deploy
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  Speaker 4: him in the seventh if you're facing the Phillies, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Schober Harper Turner in the seventh or is he gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a strict eighth inning guy. I'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 4: see what Walt Weist does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you're totally excuse me, totally right
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you can say that now you know, spring
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  Speaker 3: training will dictate that a little bit. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 3: you know something happens where it's like, all right, we
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  Speaker 3: might use him in this situation or not. You wish
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  Speaker 3: kind of more guys were a little more receptive to
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  Speaker 3: that kind of thing anyway to win. And I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a monster pickup for the Braves. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a really good pick up Suarez. His strikeouts
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  Speaker 3: were up, his control was down, or was better to
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  Speaker 3: last year. I mean, he's a guy. He's a towering figure.
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  Speaker 3: To me, at least, it looks like every time he
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  Speaker 3: gets on there he's stoic. He doesn't really change his
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  Speaker 3: mindset too much, and he just goes out there and pitches.
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  Speaker 3: Whether he does good or not. He points to the
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  Speaker 3: Lord and he just keeps on going. So for him,
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  Speaker 3: good for him. Three years forty five. I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was an awesome pickup. He'll go the braves again.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: They are not afraid of going out there and spending
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  Speaker 3: in getting some guys, and it's and it seems like
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  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, man, you know, they're not the Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: spending millions of more like double or triple that amount
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  Speaker 3: now forty five thirty here and there. They're defining ways
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  Speaker 3: to get these these guys to come over.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this is a really good pickup.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys like better, Devin Williams or Robert Suarez?
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  Speaker 1: They signed for very close money.
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  Speaker 2: For me right now, I.
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  Speaker 3: Would say Robert Suarez just knowing on the fact of
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  Speaker 3: what last year's performance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh last year's performance. It's a good call. It's
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  Speaker 1: not even close. I mean, yeah, we have er plus right,
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  Speaker 1: and teams look at a lot of things. They're looking
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  Speaker 1: at that pitch shape and stuff plus and expected numbers, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there have been plenty of guys this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: for example, with four plus, the era's getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. Devin Williams is one of them. Robert Tuarez
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  Speaker 1: has gotten it done with the traditional numbers too, Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the ERA has been south of three back
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  Speaker 1: to back years, and the ERA plus Parking League adjusted
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  Speaker 1: one forty four this past season one forty nine the
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  Speaker 1: year before.
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  Speaker 4: I disagree Devin Williams. Why Devin Williams. I get it,
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  Speaker 4: the peripherals are there, But what are you looking for
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  Speaker 4: in a ninth inning? Are you looking for strikeouts? Clear advantage?
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  Speaker 4: What are you looking for in a long term contract?
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  Speaker 4: When I consider three years a long term contract, Devin
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  Speaker 4: Williams will be Robert Suarez's age when his contract is over.
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  Speaker 4: How is Robert Suarez going to age? What kind of
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  Speaker 4: miles did he put on his body banging around the
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  Speaker 4: minor leagues, banging around over in Japan till he was
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  Speaker 4: thirty when he made it to the big leagues. To me,
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  Speaker 4: I'll take because the money's similar. I know he had
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  Speaker 4: a better year. I know Robert swaz had a better year.
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  Speaker 4: But in my opinion, watching Devin Williams, I felt like
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  Speaker 4: he was not used correctly. The pitch selection was not
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  Speaker 4: used correctly. If the Mets can now they have a
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  Speaker 4: new pitching coach. But if the Mets can figure that out.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is a I think this will be
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  Speaker 4: the better contract.
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  Speaker 3: Let me let me ask you this though, But he's
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  Speaker 3: he should be in control of his own pitch count. No,
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  Speaker 3: if that's what you're saying, I'm not trying to call
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  Speaker 3: you out, but him and the catcher should be on
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  Speaker 3: the same page.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where it's like I hear you.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, it's like, you're in control
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  Speaker 3: of these outcomes here, dude. If you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: throw your change of four or five times in a row,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to. I felt like for him and Craty,
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you get your point. I felt like his
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  Speaker 3: fastball wasn't there last year in my opinion, and it
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  Speaker 3: made that change up look a little bit weaker. Because now,
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  Speaker 3: all right, if you're not throwing strikes with the fastball,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna sit on that change up he threw.
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  Speaker 4: He threw ten percent more change ups. You have to
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  Speaker 4: establish your fastball no matter what. Like I get it,
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  Speaker 4: his change up is bugs Bunny has the highest spin
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  Speaker 4: of any change up. Like guys don't see it. But
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  Speaker 4: it's like we always talk about with Tommy Kinley, you
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  Speaker 4: can't just keep throwing it. Oh wait, you can, but
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  Speaker 4: it is it's something that when you pop that ninety five,
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  Speaker 4: when you when you're able to touch that ninety seven,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's I think there's part of it new,
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  Speaker 4: a new area, and you are one hundred percent right.
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  Speaker 4: I am not saying that. He said, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the pitch calling was was incorrect. But when you go
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  Speaker 4: to an organization like the Yankees, when you go to
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  Speaker 4: an organization like the Rays, the I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 4: of other pitching pitching prowess teams, like you want to
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  Speaker 4: believe Hey, you know what, they're gonna unlock some stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You want to believe that. Okay, I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: My pitch, my changeup. That's my pitch. It's the goat.
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  Speaker 4: It's gotten me to where I am I can use
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  Speaker 4: it more. Okay, I will, I will. I'll trust you.
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  Speaker 4: I'll trust you. At some point, you have you make
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  Speaker 4: the choice. And every time he grips that ball, he's
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  Speaker 4: making the choice. Whether he's just like yeah, sure i'll
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  Speaker 4: throw a change up. Yeah sure I'll throw a change up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's making that choice. I'm just saying I think there
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  Speaker 4: is not everybody is built the exact same way that
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  Speaker 4: their pitch is. What is going to like ultimately, go
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  Speaker 4: to it, go to it, go to it, go to it.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't think that's always the case.
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  Speaker 1: And one has a better fastball, one has a better
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  Speaker 1: change up, Todd Father, I mean, that's clear cut, right.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Williams is known for his change up, Squarrez is
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  Speaker 1: known for his fastball. You're trying to just get to
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  Speaker 1: it and use it as much as possible. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: take the heater, yeah, because you have to.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not establishing your fastball, then as a professional,
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  Speaker 3: if you can't find it, like I said before, if
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  Speaker 3: you can't find it for a strike or you're not
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  Speaker 3: thrown as often, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know I'm getting two.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting at least two change ups, still.
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  Speaker 2: Hard to hit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying Devin Williams is a bad pitcher. I
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  Speaker 3: hope people understand. I think he's really, really good pitcher.
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  Speaker 3: I just think the fastball wasn't ultimately there last year.
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  Speaker 3: And when you take away a pitch from professional pitchers
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  Speaker 3: and then the next one is usually their best pitch.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna take my chances all day and know that
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get at least two of those change
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  Speaker 3: ups if I work the count.
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  Speaker 1: Right fan question, Buddy said, love it. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: we need one more bullpen arm or get a starter
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  Speaker 1: and put Holmes or Reynolds in the bullpen. I think
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  Speaker 1: they might sign a bullpen arm, but it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be anything close to high leverage. They've got the
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  Speaker 1: high leverage taken care of, and now you can mix
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  Speaker 1: and match and see if you can find value for
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  Speaker 1: a middle relief slash setup guy. That would be my
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  Speaker 1: answer for now, Kratz. We'll see what happens with Lopez
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  Speaker 1: and how he looks heading into spring training. I could
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  Speaker 1: see a world where he ends up shifting back to
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen. I think Holmes is a starter, and apparently
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  Speaker 1: Holmes is in a really good spot already this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they're going to keep turning him to
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  Speaker 1: be a starter. That's just my take. We can get
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  Speaker 1: some Braves expert analysis on hammer territory and for our
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  Speaker 1: hammer guys, but I think it's safe to say they're
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  Speaker 1: not also going to sign Pete Fairbanks. Do I think
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  Speaker 1: they should? Yes, I'm the biggest believer in super bullpens
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  Speaker 1: for what it does during the season and then of
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  Speaker 1: course in the postseason, and it gives you in in
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  Speaker 1: case one of these guys has a bad year. That
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  Speaker 1: stuff happens all the time too.
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  Speaker 4: Or you just are dominant. Like I'm not saying I
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: was at the genesis of super bullpens, but the twenty
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  Speaker 4: fourteen bullpen where we went and for the Royals and
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  Speaker 4: we went and lost Game seven of the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good problem to have. You know what happened
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  Speaker 4: the next year, dudes get hurt. Other guys have to
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  Speaker 4: step in. So yeah, of course you want to see
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  Speaker 4: the Braves go and get somebody else if you're a
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  Speaker 4: Braves fan. But one thing I think organizations need to
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  Speaker 4: continue to know what their superpower is. I'm talking back.
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  Speaker 4: Since I started watching baseball, the Braves have produced pitching.
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  Speaker 4: The Braves have produced starting pitching. Now they're still producing
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  Speaker 4: starting pitching. Look a look at Holmes, look at Waldrop,
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  Speaker 4: look at Smith Schalver, look at Ian Anderson, and they're
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  Speaker 4: in their run back in uh when they won the
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  Speaker 4: World Series in twenty twenty one. They produce star pitching.
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  Speaker 4: And nowadays, when you're producing starting pitching, you're not producing dudes.
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  Speaker 4: That they are just throwing like little cutter, sinker. All
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  Speaker 4: this stuff I forgot Schwellenbach. You're producing dudes that throw hard.
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  Speaker 4: They can transition those guys to the locations in the
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  Speaker 4: bullpen that to me, I think they need from now on.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why the Braves are really set up because
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  Speaker 4: they always produced some type of young pitching to come up.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Suarez, because he was such a late bloomer,
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  Speaker 1: is still evolving more so than most relievers at his age.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you've got to maintain the fastball velo at
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  Speaker 1: a high level when you're so fastball reliant, but he
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  Speaker 1: almost doubled his change up usage last year. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a great pitch for him. It's all about the four
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  Speaker 1: seam and the two seam. But to offer a different
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  Speaker 1: look I think was important. That was kind of the scattering,
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  Speaker 1: important on how he can get a little better in
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, and he was able to maintain the results. Also,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: keep in mind a lot of the blip came when
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  Speaker 1: there was a tip situation, right the famous picture slash
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  Speaker 1: video last year with the red Sox and the tablet tablet,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was Cora and the dugout showing
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  Speaker 1: the difference in the pre pitch setup with the fastball
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  Speaker 1: and the change up, and it sounded like teams were
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  Speaker 1: on that. And the report came out, pagers are like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we already know about this. Sounds like they fixed it,
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  Speaker 1: So just throw that out there. Remember that.
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  Speaker 4: I want somebody. I want somebody to come out one
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  Speaker 4: time and be like, no, we had no idea. Thank
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: you ESPN, Apple TV for getting that shot. Whoever it
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: was that got the shot, Like, no, I had no idea,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Like don't don't ever let me be a big league manager.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I will play some games like that and be like,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: are you guys kidding?
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  Speaker 1: I would love that. I would I would die for
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: those postgame interviews Todd Father where Krats is like, oh
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: my goodness, I can't believe they picked that up for us, guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to be quick on this press conference
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  Speaker 1: today because I have to go talk to our team
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  Speaker 1: about how to fix this tip that we already have
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  Speaker 1: known about for three weeks and our team's been working
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  Speaker 1: with him on every bullpen session, but just throng it
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: out there for numbers purposes. Point is, I'm I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of Robert Suarez. I do want to get
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  Speaker 1: quickly to Mike Yuztremski. The name is well known, but
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  Speaker 1: also the player's been really solid and consistent for years now,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and he signs up with the Braves. That one was
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: last night. So while we're on the topic, you get
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: mikeyusz Stremsky added to the mix, and it gives them
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of flexibility. And here's someone who had a
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: really nice season. It's two years, twenty three million bucks,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: so that takes it through twenty twenty seven. There's a
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: club option for twenty twenty eight that's either seven million
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: dollars or a four million dollar buyout, which essentially means,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: if he's still cranking pretty good, you're going to take
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: that because it's only a three million dollar difference, so
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: it almost to me looks like a three year deal
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: for thirty million dollars for him. So I give them
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of credit for adding someone that I think
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: will give them flexibility. And we don't know what Sean
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Murphy's going to look like when he first comes back,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: So assuming Drake Baldman is the catcher you've got, hopefully
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: for Brave purposes, du Bond and Nystremski. That can give
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: them flexibility even as bats off the bench to right.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: One hits lefties really well, one hits righty's really well
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and opens up some DH time for guys like Olsen
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and Riley. I think they want to start to mix
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: those guys in with a little more DH time if possible,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: so that they can get in their mind better offensive
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: production and not be rolling out the one sixty games
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: for everybody in the field.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Olson's not coming out. Olsen wants to play every single day.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: That dude's gi me a DH once a month. I
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: think it's your boy. I think it's your boy who's
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: in right field. I think it's a Kunya. I think
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: you understand that he probably wants to be out there
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: every day too, But that DH spot you don't want
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: to put. You don't want to put a Kunya DH
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: and then run out what they've run out the last
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: few years. They've tried. Obviously they had to, they had
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: to bounce, you know, they had to really figure it
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: out with kelnick Eli White was kind of was filling
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: in like different different spots, and then they got profar
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: last year. Look what happened with that, Like you you
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: understand that your superstars in the outfield position need have
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: some you know, maybe maybe some days where he gets
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: off his feet and dhs. Maybe Acuna doesn't like it,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: and maybe I'm completely wrong, but the issue with Yaz
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: is if you're not playing him every day, which I
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: get it they won't. He's thirty five, So what does
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: that look like for him? What does that look like?
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: How does he stay ready? Because to me, I think
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: there's there's not every day at bats for him and
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: until certain things shake out this offseason. I'm I like
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: the signing because he's a very productive bat. He's a
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: good piece, and I think they got the I think
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: they got a good number for him, But I'm just
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: wondering where at thirty five he's going to get his
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: every day at bats. And maybe they think, hey, we're
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: good with paying fourteen million for for a you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: for three hundred and fifty at bats.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Well, it's ten million a year essentially if you're looking
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: at a three year deal, right, and even if it's two,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: it's it's what eleven and change something like that. If
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you're taking that number and you know they need depth
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: out with a lot of injuries. Profar also can do
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: a little DH time. I mean, your Stremski's going to
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: hit against right handed pitching and he's going to for
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the most part, sit against left handed pitching these days, right,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: So that's your flexibility. I'm off the bench, reliever comes in, boom,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: big at bat for Yas. I think these are depth moves.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: The Braves are like, we have money, we can spend
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: on a guy who's like a three and a half outfielder. Right,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: He's not going to start every day, du Bond, He's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: not going to start every day, hopefully if they land
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: their shortstop, which I still think could be someone like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Kim So. Anyway, I really like it from a depth
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: perspective for Atlanta. These are two really good moves. In
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: my mind, Atlanta is going to be a force again
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: next year. They're going to be a pain in the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: ass in the NL East. In my mind, I don't
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: know how you guys feel, but you get a Kuna
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: full season, the whole deal. So good start the off
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: season for the Atlanta Braves. Let's get to a quickie
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: signing that will throw out there before our next guest.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Hoby Milner one year, three point seventy five million, Chicago Cubs.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Kras did you run across him? Because then I guess
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it was Milwaukee after you were there. But anyway, very
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: unique picture. But he had a great year and the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Cubs are rebuilding their bullpen back up, so I'll take it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I'm all for different looks. I like the variety out
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of the pen.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I faced him in the minor leagues when
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: he was coming up Phillies kind of a kind of
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: just a funky, a funky look, a different look from
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: the left side, and he's created himself a nice career.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize he was a free agent already, but
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I think his his value will be in how he's used,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: in the sense of you can't overuse him. And it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: not just a lefty lefty situation. He's able to He's
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: able to get outs against certain types of hitters because
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: of the action and the look on his ball. A
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: lefty coming from this way doesn't have high V low
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: but has done it for a long time, and you
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: know he's one of those lefty lefty has a pulse
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: and will travel. A surprise is I know war is
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: and everything, especially for relief pitchers, but I'm surprised to
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: see that his strikeouts were as high as they were,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, fifty eight strikeouts, I'm sorry, as low as
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: they were. Fifty eight strikeouts and seventy innings. But he
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: goes out there in posts and he's going to be
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: a piece to that bullpen for him.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he keeps the walks down and he gets weak contact.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: He gave seventy innings of work last year and ends
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: up getting himself a nice little paycheck. Cubs bullpen, they
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: lost a lot of guys, and they traded away Kittridge
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: again but got Polentcia. They signed Mayton. I think porter
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Hodge has a high ceiling. Got Milliner in there and Brown.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: If he's sticking in the bullpen, there's enough going on.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully if your Cubs fan aside is more
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of a bullpen guy and a swingman to fill in
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: for start, so he's there, Luke Little it's starting to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: come together where it's looking pretty good and everyone knows
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: what the Cubs should be doing next, and that's also
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: focusing on starting pitching. Du Leo Vet MGM futures. We've
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: been racking them up, Todd Father, n Elsai Young Winner.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: We're looking for value and actually there's plenty of value
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in my mind in all three here you're getting decent odds.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Paul Skin's at plus three hundo, so it's three to one.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: You got four and a half to one on Yamamoto,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and Christopher Sanchez at ten to one odds. What are
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: we thinking here, Todd Father, I mean we're just showing
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the top three. Of course you can go deeper down.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: But you like any of these?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like Paul Skins, man, I just don't.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the top pick. The guy has just
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: been incredible. I think you go with him at the
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: top and then yeah, I mean plus one thousand. I
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: don't think you can go bad with that. For Sanchoz.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I mean it's it's an easy yeah, it put whatever
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: you want on it, but you gotta take a guy
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: that's down below there.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I do like Sanchos too as well.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I think he nailed it for me Kratz because he
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: didn't say Yamamoto. I love Yamamoto, But the Dodge take
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: care of their pitchers during the season. They've got twenty starters,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and I know that starts to dwindle, but they're well
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: aware that Yamamoto pitched a lot in October. So that's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: one where I'm shying away.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't get on the fact that Yamamoto's gone
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: blue past his starts, that he's the amount of starts
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: he's ever had. And I get it he pitches once
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: every six days, but he you know, I just don't
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: see he could have the same production. But I don't
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: see the same amount of innings because they're playing for
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: another ring, which I don't blame him. Paul skeens, this
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: is huge. This is a huge you know, that's a
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: big number for me for the Favorite plus three hundred.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I really like that number. And when I go down
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: the list, I would love to drop a little bit
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: on Logan Web and maybe because if it were was
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: maybe more like sixteen to one. Right now it's twelve
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: to one. Hunter Green, I think has taken that next step.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I think Hunter Green's figured out how to stay healthy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: He's taking the next step of how to be a
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: guy who doesn't have to you know, at just emptiest
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: clip in the first three innings, he's now pitching and
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: still getting those numbers at twelve to one. I really
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: like Hunter Green to win the sy Young. I feel like,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: you know, we could have somebody that could step up
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: like Christopher Sanchez stepped up this year and take it
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: if it's not Skeens, because Schemes has shown he's not
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: letting anybody else win this award.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: M hmm, I like that one. Hey, bet MGM's not
• 24:29
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• 24:31
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• 24:34
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• 24:41
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• 24:44
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• 24:53
  Speaker 1: any hit. Todd Father right off the jump here for
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: his thoughts and then krats can take over. Minor league
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: rule change experiment could eliminate hit her timeouts. Todd Father.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: They're trying to take the game time down because it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: actually creeping back up again. We're at two hours and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes. The league would like it to be
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: two and a half. They're trying to game plan. We
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: do see a timeout per at bat essentially for hitters,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: so they're going to experiment your thoughts on this.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't mind it. I don't mind it at all.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: You know, I've always had problems trying to read what
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: MLB is trying to do. You know, you get one
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: time out for plate appearance. I don't mind that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I'm probably sure everybody's gonna use that, you know, just
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: because pitchers trying to speed you up. Yeah, I don't
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: mind doing stuff in the minor leagues trying to check
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: it out to see if it'll work in the big leagues.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I don't mind that.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: But if it's if it's very far fetched, then you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: it's a bigger issue. But I thought everything was working well.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Besides, you know, all of a sudden, you know, now
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: we can you can tap your head if you want another,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: you know, if they want them to check the pitch.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I think that's really good. But ultimately, yeah, I don't,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't see the big problem in this.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I think this will be just fine.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're saying that. I think Kratz is gonna disagree.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: But Kratz, they're doing this also because of the ABS
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: challenge system, and they think it could creep up the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: minutes and they just don't want to get back to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: three hours again. The pace is good, and hey, for me,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just giving you fan perspective. Krats, krats. It's not
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: just the time, it's the pace. Like hit her time
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: out and I gotta wait thirty seconds for him to,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you know, fit fix the jockstrap and do all the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: bs and think about what he wants to do the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: rest of the ab screw it. I want to watch
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the game keep going.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: We're telling, we're telling Tied to get out of here,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: so I just want to push his screen and just
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: like get it at like, see see how that happened.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I control this I control this show. For that comment, No,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: that just shows that Todd didn't need the minor leagues.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Todd didn't need the minor leagues. Just dudes that are
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: grinding in the minor leagues. There's guys that need to like,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: oh man, everything's going so fast. I gotta I got
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: to create a routine. Hitting is not just oh whack it. No,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: it's like you're figuring out the time and you're figuring out, Okay,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: what did he just do? How did that change the
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: situation that we were just in? How is this, Oh crap,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I got a bug in my eye. Like, I get it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of eye wash timeouts, you know, Jose
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: cabiiro is probably the best at it. But it's also
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: part of the gamesmanship. It's also part of the fact
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: that you can, like you can change how the pace
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: of an at bad is going. And it's hard to
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: explain without you actually being in the moment and saying, hey,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: why did you use the time out there? I wanted
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: to slow him down. I felt like he was landing
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: all of his pitches. I wanted to figure out, hey,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: would he double up on this pitch or whatever it is?
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: And you're taking that away from the minor league guys.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I hate I hate it because these guys have no
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: these guys have no recourse. There's nobody standing up for him,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: and Major League Baseball just says, you're our guinea pig.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: We're probably gonna actually take away low a in a
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: little bit because we're a bunch of cheap punks who
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: don't want to pay for kids' dreams to develop into
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: big leaguers. Because dudes do come out of those leagues.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Dudes do. It's not all just it's not all just
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: first rounders. It's not all just second rounders or big
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: bonus guys. And I lean towards that. And to me,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: when you take this away from a hitter when they're
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: facing dudes that throw a billion, and especially in low A,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I mean it is, dudes are throwing rocks up there,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: they're throwing balls. You know, they'll paying a slider down
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: in a way and then you'll get a hundred running
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: up and in at your chin. You need a second,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: You need to take a breath. And I hate that
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: they would take this away from these guys for what
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: for what? Scott, three extra minutes? Stop like that? To me,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues, you think you think the timeouts
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: are saving or save three extra minutes in the game.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: More than that, I do. I think it would be
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: closer to ten. You got to think about it. Let's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: say we have a long inning. Right there's been ten
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: dudes at the plate, they all call time out. That
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: right there could add up to a few minutes in
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: an inning alone, and even in a short inning, right
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: three AB's batter time out. I don't know what the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: average timeout is, but it's not five seconds. Probably at
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: least ten to twenty.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: I'd be up for I'd be up for a time out,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: like a ten second timeout if you're a quarter timeout,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: if you're cutting, if you're splitting hairs, I'd be up
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: for that. You can say, okay, you know timeout and
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: then they you know, they give this and they reset
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: the clock to ten seconds, and at ten seconds then
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: they reset the clock like there's there's timing there. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: feel I feel bad for the pictures. I think the
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: pictures in the big leagues need a timeout. They need
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: to be able to step off with nobody on. They
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: need to step off, and they're not.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Giving wait krats, hold up. Two things. Number one, you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: can step off. It just counts as a step off, right,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And if you do that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Nobody with nobody on, you can't step off.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The clock is running, okay. You also can call time
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: out and have a little chit chat with your catcher.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: That's allowed.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: That's a mountain visit.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I know that's part of a mount visit. But that's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a thing. The other thing that I think is important
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: is discretion. The reason that we have human beings on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the field that get paid quite well to police the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: game is for a moment when there's serious chin music
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and a guy needs a moment, right ball hits a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: catcher in the nuts, let's fake like we got to
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: clean the plate. I think that's the way that you
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: help to bridge the gap. The problem is most abskrats
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: don't need it. I know that you feel as if
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a player needs it, but it's the same conversation that
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I had with pitchers when they were anti pitchclock, and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the pitch clock has been one of the best things
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for the sport. And the only reason we didn't have
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: it five to seven years ago is because the league
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and the player's side do not get along. We should
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: have had that long long ago. But anyway, we have
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it now, and to me, the game is crisper and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: it is a much better viewing experience. I know I'm
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: going to get plenty of pushback from the old school
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: fans that never want to see a single thing change.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I am actually old school because I grew up watching
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the game in the eighties and the nineties, and for me,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that's when the game was at a much better pace
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and we've gotten back to that. They're just trying to
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: figure out ways to make sure that it doesn't creep
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: back to three hours because the ABS Challenge system could
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: add minutes to it and could add a little bit
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of a slower pace. I don't think it's going to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: make a big difference. I don't think the ABS is
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: going to suddenly add ten minutes. But they're just concerned
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that teams and players are really smart and they figure
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: out ways to take advantage of every single rule in
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: every single system, and that is their job. Their job
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: is to win and their job is to thrive. So
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the league is pushing back and making sure that we
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: stay more in that two and a half range and
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  Speaker 1: we don't get back to two forty five fifty three
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  Speaker 1: hour plus games. If you think this isn't the right thing,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: then offer other solutions, because they're not going to let
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  Speaker 1: the sport slow down again.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I need to see I need to see the number.
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  Speaker 4: I need to see the number of how slow it's
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  Speaker 4: actually gonna get to with ABS and with the timeouts,
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  Speaker 4: Like there needs to be a cap with like what
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  Speaker 4: we're taking away because of the fact that I know
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  Speaker 4: what my mind is doing in the box. We talk
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  Speaker 4: about it all the time with Max Munsey on here.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about all the time. With winning teams, you
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: have team at bats boom, first pitch out, guy comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Second pitch of his at bat, ground ball. Now we're
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: at three pitches, two outs. Okay, you come up, you're
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: taking two pitches. Pitchers in a groove boomy, lands a curveball,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: lands a heater. Now you're down oh two. Your mind
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: isn't like, oh, it's okay, I'll just see a baseball
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  Speaker 4: coming at me here. No, your mind is like, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: darn it, that's the worst time that could happen. Timeout. Timeout.
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  Speaker 4: I need to slow this down. I need to re group.
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  Speaker 4: I need to know I have one pitch left and
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  Speaker 4: I haven't even really had a competitive at bat yet,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm O two. Because there's times when you have
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: six hundred at bats in a season, your mind is
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: just like, oh my gosh, did I come up to
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: the plate, oh two, Like they're like now batting Eric Kratz,
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  Speaker 4: oh in two, and you're like, what the what the heck?
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Like there's times that that's going on, and I think
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  Speaker 4: the timeout allows you to slow that down, and you
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: have to learn that at the minor leagues because when
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: you get to the big leagues, who baby stuff starts
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: going fast?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, do you want one time out per inning for hitters.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: One timeout per hitter is an issue. Two timeouts per
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: inning for hitters, Okay, see we can negotiate. Now we
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: can start to work off of that. And it does
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  Speaker 1: give you one other thing you have to pay attention to.
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  Speaker 1: But these are smart hitters, and if you put it
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  Speaker 1: in a place where they can see it and they're
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  Speaker 1: well aware of it, I think that's your spot. And again,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: if something anti Larry happens like chin music, guys freaking
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: helmet flies off, there's discretion here. But just for your
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: average inning, if we have an inning where there's six
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  Speaker 1: dudes at the plate, that would take us from six
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  Speaker 1: timeouts to two. And the one problem in my mind
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: with baseball ten years ago was unlimited timeouts. Then we
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: started limiting the mound visits. That part alone is still underrated.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: You know. I bring that up all the time because
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that was my prime days of being at games, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the amount of times that certain catchers in baseball would
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: call timeout almost every ab and go have a chit
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: chat with their picture was insane. And half the times
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you talk to the picture and they'd be like, Yeah,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: that's just their thing. They're doing it every ab Now,
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  Speaker 1: that was terrible that was done, and that was where
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you were taking advantage of rules because we didn't used
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  Speaker 1: to have that right. The rule never existed that we
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: had to limit the timeouts, but it was caused by
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: gamesmanship on the field. So are we negotiating right now
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: where we get two timeouts in an inning? And should
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you text one of your buddies at the league office?
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Is Rolla Banya's or some like that still working there.
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  Speaker 1: I can text Michael Hill, maybe one of those guys
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the league office and throw that their way.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I would love it, But I just want I just
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: want somebody to look out for the minor leaguers and
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: not to use them as freaking guinea pigs. Don't raise
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: the mound, don't extend the mound. This isn't like indie ball.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I get it, you know, I feel bad for the
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: indie ball guys, but you know, maybe that's the place
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: to try it. Not a guy who's getting his feet
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: wet and it's the first time he's ever been away
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: from his home. Facing dudes are throwing one hundred and
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, yeah, I'm just trying to survive here.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Holy crap, I saw I saw in a Jason Stark's
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: article Low A where they would start this. In the
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: three Low A leagues, Low A hitters average is at
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: two thirty one. They hit two thirty one on average
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: because of how tough the pitching is. Right now, you're
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: gonna make it this is will make it tougher for hitters.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: I completely agree. It will make it tougher.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: For I agree with you that part. I don't dispute.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: And they have to experiment somewhere. They're not going to
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: bring things straight to the bigs. They have to do
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: it somewhere. There's only so many places where you can experiment.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. It sucks. It's not ideal. It could
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: cost a player in a b that costs him a
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: spot on a team. But I don't always have the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: best solution. I'm just saying the problem is they get
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: worried about pacing game time. It's a good debate. We
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: can bring it on with AJ and more Todd Father
• 36:25
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• 37:03
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• 37:05
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• 37:08
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• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I see Ken in the lobby the whole time. I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: did a lot of like little shoulder tap, like I'm
• 37:15
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• 37:17
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• 37:19
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• 37:22
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• 37:25
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• 37:27
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• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers have done so far this offseason, which is
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: actually more than most teams. They signed Edwin Diaz. We'll
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: see what's next. One thing we didn't get to that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I hope they get to on Dodgers' territory today is
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: continuous rumors about taoscar Hernandez being floated in trade talks.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Their jam Brandon Gomes kind of shut it down. But
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: if you keep seeing it float out there by people
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: that you trust, oh no, no, We'll see what Alana and
• 38:01
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• 38:04
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• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I love seeing all the all the uh, all the
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: rumors too about Trek Scubel to the Dodgers. Love love
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: seeing all these rumors. Some people that are saying they
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: have insight on it. Crazy to me. But anyway, we'll see,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: We'll see what happens, and then all these people who
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: are just throwing stuff out will be like, oh yeah,
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I told you, Oh yeah, right, Okay. If I say
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: everyone's gonna hit a homer, somebody will hit a homer. Marlins.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna have a bigger part of this
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: off season than what people think. So I wore my
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Marlins hat today.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: That's a good prediction. And yes, some people do predict
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a homer on every ab and then you're right once
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: out of you.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Know, clip that clip that Scott said Peter Lonzo was
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: gonna hit a homer. Tyler O'Neal is gonna hit a
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: homer on opening Day. Tyler O'Neil, I'm saying it right now.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Clip this December. If he's healthy, he's going to hit
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: a home run one opening day.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: That is his thing. We'll see you tomorrow more Toddfather Kratz,
• 39:10
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