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The Orioles take the series over the Yankees behind Kyle Bradish · Birdland Territory

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  Speaker 1: What a difference a week or so makes for the Orioles. Man,
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  Speaker 1: they had their clock cleaned in the Bronx. They were
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  Speaker 1: outscored thirty nine to ten by the Yankees. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: lead in that series, and frankly, when it ended, it
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  Speaker 1: looked like along on the same field, and the fans
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  Speaker 1: were saying, and some of us were saying, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like the Yankees were so far ahead of the Orioles.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, a week later, the Yankees are one in
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  Speaker 1: five to start their nine game road trip, and the
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  Speaker 1: Orioles just beat them two out of three with a.
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  Speaker 2: Seven nothing shutout.
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  Speaker 1: Today, Kyle Bradish was brilliant and Birdland, I bet that
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  Speaker 1: feels a little bit better. Steve Brad and Tim here
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  Speaker 1: the latest edition of Birdland Territory. Brad, let's start with
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  Speaker 1: you a major league pitcher watching a major league pitcher
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  Speaker 1: work today, Man, Kyle Bradish, that was something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. I was really impressive.
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  Speaker 4: He was locked in from manning one like he was
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  Speaker 4: in control and command the entire game. His breaking ball
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  Speaker 4: right now is as good as anybody's in the game.
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  Speaker 4: That curveball he's throwing right now is just falling off
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  Speaker 4: the table. That first thing, and that one to Ben Rice,
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  Speaker 4: it seemed like it got to home plate and you
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  Speaker 4: could tell by his swing the ball just landing in
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  Speaker 4: front of home plate and he was swinging at it
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  Speaker 4: like it was going to be at his waist.
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  Speaker 3: So he's in full control right now.
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  Speaker 4: He looks really good for me, just seeing his four
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  Speaker 4: seam or having that little cut action on it. To me,
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  Speaker 4: that's when I think he's at his best. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's when he's behind the baseball. He gets that natural
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  Speaker 4: little cut to it and it just makes everything else
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  Speaker 4: play so much better.
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  Speaker 3: On the broadcast today, Ben was talking about he.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to be more not lateral, but more vertical, so
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  Speaker 4: he wants to go more towards home plate and he's
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  Speaker 4: doing a really good job with that.
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  Speaker 3: To me, when I see.
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  Speaker 4: A curveball, you start seeing twelve to six, you're going
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  Speaker 4: you're staying over the rubber and you're getting straight to
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  Speaker 4: home plate. The last couple of weeks, his curveball was
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  Speaker 4: kind of morphing into his sweep er Ie felt a
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  Speaker 4: little bit and he wasn't getting that straight twelve to six,
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  Speaker 4: And the last couple starts he's really made it adjustments
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  Speaker 4: in the bullpen, and you can tell with his results.
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  Speaker 5: He's looking like Kyle bradish again, guys. And now it's
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  Speaker 5: two straight outings because you can go back to the
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  Speaker 5: last Friday against the A's where he went seven innings,
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  Speaker 5: gave up three earned runs, and really his defense let
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  Speaker 5: him down. And Craig albern has owned it after that game,
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  Speaker 5: saying that the o'ds showed the wheel play a little
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  Speaker 5: too soon, ball ended up getting hit right to where
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  Speaker 5: Gunnar Henderson would have been lined up and it would
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  Speaker 5: have been a double play, and instead the A's got
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  Speaker 5: three runs that inning. But here he was really strong.
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  Speaker 5: And you mentioned the curveball, Brad, and I know Craig
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  Speaker 5: Albern as he said after the game that that has
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  Speaker 5: been the equalizer for Kyle Braddish. He got eight swings
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  Speaker 5: and misses on that pitch and you're seeing the usage
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  Speaker 5: go up. You go back to that start against the A's,
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  Speaker 5: he threw it thirty point two percent of the time.
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  Speaker 5: At that point it was a career high, and then
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  Speaker 5: today he threw thirty one percent of the time. So
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  Speaker 5: clearly he has a good feel for the curve ball
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  Speaker 5: and he's getting a lot of swing and miss.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think back to that start he had, sorry that
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  Speaker 4: start he had in Kansas City. I felt like he
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  Speaker 4: was throwing his sweeper almost at that percentage, and that
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  Speaker 4: just goes to show me he was getting more rotational,
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  Speaker 4: so he was going more east to west as opposed
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  Speaker 4: to north to south.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he's a better pitcher.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously that's what he said when he's going north
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  Speaker 4: to south, because everything just plays up when he's throwing
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  Speaker 4: that breaking ball four strike at the bottom.
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  Speaker 3: Of the zone or below the zone.
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  Speaker 4: He could just do whatever he wants from there and
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  Speaker 4: he looks he looks awesome these last couple starts.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of north to south, Craig Aburn has told us
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  Speaker 1: this morning about a subtle delivery adjustment he's also made
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  Speaker 1: in addition with upping the curveball usage shorter to home
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  Speaker 1: plate with his leg kick slightly. Not big difference, but
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  Speaker 1: he felt like somehow that got his mechanics and his
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  Speaker 1: body aligned better and rhythm better.
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  Speaker 2: It just worked.
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  Speaker 1: So if you look at these last two starts, shorter
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  Speaker 1: stride to the plate, Brad, you might see it as
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  Speaker 1: a former major league pitcher. I can't tell watching him,
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  Speaker 1: but on video maybe if you look real close, you
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  Speaker 1: see a little bit and the curve usage. So whatever
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  Speaker 1: he found with a curveball, he's gone to it more.
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  Speaker 1: We already know its slider is elite when it's on,
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  Speaker 1: So man, that's two breaking balls he can really lock
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  Speaker 1: in with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And to me, like I always talk about fastball
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  Speaker 4: coman with me, he works off his off speed command
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  Speaker 4: and I just feel like when he's able to land
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  Speaker 4: both of those pitches, his fast office becomes elite, and
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  Speaker 4: I think it turns two elite pitches into three or
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  Speaker 4: four with you mix the sinker in there also, So
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  Speaker 4: he's just I think I don't know if I'd be
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  Speaker 4: able to see it on video because usually a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times those mechanical adjustments are so minute. But obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's working for him and Ben during a lot of
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  Speaker 4: broadcasters talking about his arm dragging, I think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times, when you're able to get your front foot
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  Speaker 4: down earlier, your arm swing becomes quicker, and he's probably
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  Speaker 4: just timed everything up just a little bit better. And
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  Speaker 4: obviously you can tell his last I really it's not
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  Speaker 4: even just the last two starts.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the last three or four he's really
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  Speaker 3: coming along here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Brad, just watching Kyle Bradish and he's always had
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  Speaker 5: success following you know, his first season in the Big
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  Speaker 5: Seaton finished top five in cy Young voting in twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty three and twenty twenty four when he's dealing with
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  Speaker 5: the elbow paint. He was really strong coming back last year.
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  Speaker 5: When you think of Kyle Bradish, you think of the
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  Speaker 5: nasty stuff, like he has that top of the rotation stuff,
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  Speaker 5: but some of what you hear, you know coming back
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  Speaker 5: from Tommy John that the last thing to come fully
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  Speaker 5: back is the command. And he did have three walks
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  Speaker 5: again today, but it just seems like with each of
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  Speaker 5: the past handful of starts he's getting back into that form.
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  Speaker 5: He's getting more command.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely get in command and strike one. He's just
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  Speaker 4: getting ahead of these guys and then from there you
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  Speaker 4: can use whatever he wants. It's when he's doing that
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  Speaker 4: four simular cuts. The reason I like it so much
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  Speaker 4: is that they can't he keeps him honest, especially lefties
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  Speaker 4: when they're on the sink. When he throws the sinker
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  Speaker 4: away to the lefty, they always have to be conscious
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  Speaker 4: of that cutter in. But it's not necessarily a cutter.
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  Speaker 4: They have to they know the movement because I think
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  Speaker 4: he thinks it's a forcing that just naturally cuts. And
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  Speaker 4: I feel like those were always the nastiest cutters because
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  Speaker 4: sometimes they move three inches, sometimes they move six inches.
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  Speaker 4: It's a it's not on purpose type of thing. But
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  Speaker 4: it's just the natural movement he has. And to me,
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  Speaker 4: that's what the equalizer is to lefties. He gets ahead
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  Speaker 4: with both of those fastballs, goes to the sweeper or
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  Speaker 4: the curveball, and then from there, these guys are way
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  Speaker 4: behind me a ball.
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  Speaker 1: So the Yankees were averaging ten runs a game against
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  Speaker 1: the Oriols in New York, and they got one hit
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  Speaker 1: and shut out today, the first shutout for the Orioles.
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  Speaker 1: Last MLB team to pitch one. And oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the last one hitter against the Yankees by the Orioles
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  Speaker 1: was September twenty eighth, two thousand and six. It had
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  Speaker 1: been a minute, and the Orioles got one today. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you one more bratish stat and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: come back and touch you on. Taylor Ward, Ben Rice
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron Judge combined went oh for five against him
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  Speaker 1: today with three a double play ball and a pop up.
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  Speaker 2: They even hit the ball hard.
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  Speaker 1: They went hitless against them, three strikeouts, a pop up
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  Speaker 1: in a double play. Kyle Bradish was dominant against the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees Birdlands. You might have your ace back. So that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty exciting to see what he has done here. We
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  Speaker 1: look forward to the next one. So Taylor Ward talk
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  Speaker 1: So the Orioles take two of three against the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: The record now twenty and twenty four, and they had
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  Speaker 1: lost four straight series to the Yankees, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: since their last win before this one April of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, So it have been over a calendar year
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  Speaker 1: for the Oriols to win a series in the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened in the Bronx? This was much better
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  Speaker 1: by a fan duel and as we look ahead to
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  Speaker 1: this game, next series for the Oriols. The next game
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  Speaker 1: Friday night at NAT's Park. I'm going to nominate Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Award for this. Not only is he due to hit
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  Speaker 1: a home or we know, just one all year, and
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  Speaker 1: he hit thirty some last year. But he has some
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  Speaker 1: good numbers both against the Nationals career ops over one
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  Speaker 1: thousand and in NAT's Park. Small sample, but six for fourteen. So, guys,
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  Speaker 1: what about Taylor Wards season? This has just been interesting.
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  Speaker 1: He had a stretch here that just ended, I think
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  Speaker 1: the last day or two where he had twelve games
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  Speaker 1: where his batting average was sixty three and is on
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  Speaker 1: base was four to twenty. I've never seen that. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He walked like nineteen times, and as of today pregame,
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  Speaker 1: he has been on base eighty one times. That leads
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  Speaker 1: the major leagues, though, by the way, got on base
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  Speaker 1: a few more times today. The power is not there
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  Speaker 1: right now. Homer power doubles. Power was there earlier. But man,
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  Speaker 1: the eye and the walks and the things he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts watching Taylor Word, both long form
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  Speaker 1: season and some of these recent games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's getting on base.
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  Speaker 4: He's doing what you're supposed to do, and no matter
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  Speaker 4: how you can get on base, you get on base.
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  Speaker 4: To me, he seems at a little almost too selective.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm watching him pit, if I'm watching him hit,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like there's some counts where I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I want to see him swing out of his shoes.
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  Speaker 4: That would be the only thing I would say as
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  Speaker 4: an opposing picture. Right now, I feel like you can
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  Speaker 4: attack him in the zone. He's just as long as
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  Speaker 4: you're on the edges he's gonna take. It's almost like
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  Speaker 4: he's not he just doesn't want to swing. But his
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  Speaker 4: eye has been so unbelievable. He has not been chasing.
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  Speaker 4: He's making these pitchers keep the ball in the zone.
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  Speaker 4: But the last couple of games, he's starting to swing earlier,
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  Speaker 4: and he's starting to use the right side of the field,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that is what's going to lead to
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  Speaker 4: pitchers starting to come more in the zone and come
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  Speaker 4: inside a little bit more. He said he noticed that
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  Speaker 4: pictures had really been attacking him away this season and
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  Speaker 4: he really had to change his approach at the play.
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  Speaker 4: To me, when I see him start taking hits the
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  Speaker 4: other way, that means pisiers are gonna start coming inside.
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  Speaker 4: And he's got tons of juice, as we know, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he's gonna start turning on some balls here soon.
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  Speaker 5: Brad. I think you hit on the head, that's exactly
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  Speaker 5: what I was gonna say. There's been points where he's
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  Speaker 5: just a little too selective, where you know he's too
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  Speaker 5: willing to take. But maybe some of this has to
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  Speaker 5: do with an injury. And we'll give a hat tip
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  Speaker 5: to Matt Wirich, who covers the o's for the Baltimore Sun.
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  Speaker 5: He tweeted this out this morning, where Taylor Ward was
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  Speaker 5: hit on the hand on April fourteenth, and at that
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  Speaker 5: point he started wearing a thick padded handguard and he
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  Speaker 5: traded it in for a thinner pad yesterday. You look
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  Speaker 5: at Taylor Ward's numbers. Before April fourteenth, he had a
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  Speaker 5: four to ninety two slugging percentage sixteen point eight percent
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  Speaker 5: chase rate, so he was chasing much more. Ten of
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  Speaker 5: his twenty two hits were doubles. He was Taylor two
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  Speaker 5: bags and then April fourteenth, ninety four slug eleven point
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  Speaker 5: two percent chase rate, four doubles, one home run in
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  Speaker 5: seventeen hits heading into today, So I think some of
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  Speaker 5: it maybe even just survival at this point, I guess
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  Speaker 5: with the injury, I can only imagine getting hit on
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  Speaker 5: a hand that has to not be fun at all.
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  Speaker 5: But Taylor Ward's coming off the season in which he
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  Speaker 5: hit thirty six home runs drove in over one hundred runs.
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  Speaker 5: I'm with you, Brad At you know, at some point
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  Speaker 5: you just take what you can get in terms off
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  Speaker 5: you're getting on base at the clip that he is,
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  Speaker 5: you absolutely will take it. But you know that this
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  Speaker 5: guy does have power and he does have the ability
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  Speaker 5: to really affect the game with his bat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, I think when you sent that tweet
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  Speaker 4: this morning and I saw it, Obviously it's just speculation
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  Speaker 4: at this point, but if he's if his HNT is
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  Speaker 4: bothering him, what's going to bother him is trying to
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  Speaker 4: turn on the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like.
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  Speaker 4: When you take those big swings inside, that's really where
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  Speaker 4: you feel your hand if you're gonna be taking those swings.
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  Speaker 3: So it could definitely be part of it.
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  Speaker 4: But I think going to the thinner pad and starting
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  Speaker 4: to attack a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 3: I think him being.
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  Speaker 4: So selective is only going to help him here, even
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  Speaker 4: if it's only for a couple weeks and then pitchers
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  Speaker 4: make adjustments, then they go back to doing what they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: But I think if he goes out there attacking he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna get some good pitches to hit, and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like the power numbers are not too far around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: So today I looked at some basic power numbers, not
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  Speaker 1: home runs, but I looked at exit velocity. How hard
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  Speaker 1: is he hitting the ball? Is he hitting it hard?
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  Speaker 1: Eighty eight point four is his average? Last year was
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  Speaker 1: ninety point one. That doesn't sound like a big difference,
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  Speaker 1: but it's his lowest exit velocity by average since twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. Hard hit percentage last year forty two to
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  Speaker 1: seven this year thirty six. That's down lowest since twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. So some of these numbers are really down
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  Speaker 1: for him. And he also went sixteen straight games without
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  Speaker 1: extra base hit until he got a double Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see how this plays
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  Speaker 1: out for this guy who's prolific getting on base and
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  Speaker 1: might have the best eye in the game right now,
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  Speaker 1: but is not driving the ball the way we're used
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  Speaker 1: to sing him. Is it about the hand? Are there
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  Speaker 1: other things at work?
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  Speaker 5: To me?
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  Speaker 1: Some of those things are fascinating to watch unfold over
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  Speaker 1: a long season, which will tell the tale.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: Brad and Tim, if you're playing every day. It's easy
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  Speaker 1: for me to sit on the couch and say this,
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  Speaker 1: he's well enough to play, and they're putting him in
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  Speaker 1: the lineup. The medical people are saying he's he can play.
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  Speaker 1: But if it's impacting an aspect of his game, that's
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  Speaker 1: interesting too. It's a lot going on here and a
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  Speaker 1: lot to be considered, I think, And overall, I still
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  Speaker 1: give this guy pretty good grades for what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: for the Orioles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like I said, it's at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, it's about getting on bass. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we want to see him hit more doubles, see him
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  Speaker 4: hit more homers, But at this point there's guys in
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  Speaker 4: the lineup that you can expect to do that even
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  Speaker 4: more or so, and it to me, it's just getting
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  Speaker 4: guys on base and getting them in and that's a
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  Speaker 4: At this point, it's kind of win as many games
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  Speaker 4: as you can.
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  Speaker 3: However you can do it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you had good double the other day
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  Speaker 4: and he's just he's starting to take better swing. So
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  Speaker 4: that's that's the encouraging part of it all. And you
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  Speaker 4: had on base on top of that, there's some slugging
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  Speaker 4: in there, and then you never know what kind of
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  Speaker 4: player you're looking at here, come to June, Steve.
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  Speaker 5: If I got hit by a ninety plus mile per
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  Speaker 5: hour pitch, just take me out back like.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Just and me I'm done.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Like this guy is still playing every single day, He's
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: still producing. Yeah, he's producing in a different way than
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: we expected heading into the year. But I give Taylor
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: Ward a ton of credit for toughing it out.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Guys, some in baseball, something that's a big deal a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: week later is forgotten. Remember Pete Alonzo, Oh, his bat
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: speeds down. No one ever brings up his bat speed anymore.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: The Orioles, they'll they get crushed by the Yankees all year.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Well they didn't get crushed in Baltimore. Things changed fast,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: and Taylor war might pop five homers in the next
• 16:01
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  Speaker 1: I think we can should get a hat tip for
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Blaize Alexander today. Three hits, drop that bunch single, help
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: start that rally. He's played mostly steady defense this year,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: with a few exceptions here and there. And he to me,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: he just is a great guy in the clubhouse. He's
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: a he's a great guy to talk where. He has
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: so much energy. He likes that place up and so
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: in the role he's in guys utility and he's playing
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a lot now because of injuries.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be vital for the Orioles.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, you know, he's one of those guys
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: that we kind of talk about where they be without him.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I mean he's been able to play. I mean I
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: feel like he's.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Played everywhere except for catcher, first maybe rightfield and leftfield.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: The guy's been everywhere he's been playing every position, and
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: that's what you kind of look for from a utility player.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: You know, you're not looking for big home run numbers,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: big slugging, all this stuff. It's playsolets the defense and
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: get on base and run the bases when you're out there,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: and that's that's exactly what he does. That's what I
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: see when I watch him play. He plays with a
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: ton of energy. He plays with a ton of enthusiasm,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: and it's really cool to see. You can tell guys
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: like playing with him. And I kind of liked the
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: other night when he had the tag down of the game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I kind of like that cockiness. It's the game's over.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I know I tagged him. Let's start wrapping up, but
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: we won. I don't know what they're looking at here.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I like guys like that. They always seem to fire
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: up the club and they're just confident. But you know
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: they look in the mirror and they see six foot
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: seven and they're a home run hitter. And you know
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: he's I don't know how tall he is, but I
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: know he's not six seven, and I know he's not
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a home run hitters.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: But when he looks at himself in the mirror.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: That's what he sees, and it's cool to see that
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: kind of enthusiasm and just having fun out there playing
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the game.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Every team needs that type of player, right, Like he's
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: kind of that stereotypical glue guy. Like you're not asking
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: this guy to be an All Star, You're not asking
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: him to carry the team, but I think you could
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: even ask. You know, Michael Ias would even say that
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: he's been counted on a heck of a lot more
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: than he anticipated. You know, when they brought him in,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: it was right before Jackson Holidays sustained the ham apone
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: injury and then Jordan Westberg went down with an injury.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: So it's really necessitated Blaze to be in pretty much
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: in everyday type role and he's absolutely holding his own.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: And now the bat's starting to come back around again.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: The bat was hot to start the season, then it
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: kind of fell off for a while. But within the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: past week to ten days that the bat's been coming
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: back for him and he's been producing.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: An entirely different topic, injuries one we cannot avoid in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Birdland this year. Just in this series, you had the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: SiO scratched and then he's okay to play beaver scratched.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And then he goes on the il oblique.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Jordan Westberg gets the follow up opinion, and now we
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: were told today he's gathering with his agents and his
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: supporters and all his family, his folks, to decide what's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: his next steps, which doesn't sound great and sounds like
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: he might be headed for surgery.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: That's my speculation. Not announced, We don't know anything yet.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: We probably will very soon, but if that happens, I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: think all of Birdland will feel bad for Jordan Westburg.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: We know how important this guy is to the lineup.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: We've seen it, the stats tell it. They just cannot
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: avoid the injury bug. You hope that when we are
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: talking in October, we're not saying they didn't make it
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: because at some point they just couldn't overcome all the injuries.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: And it's like I've kind of mentioned before, I think
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: baseball is kind of evolutionized to where there's just injuries
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: seem to happen more for whatever reason. Nobody really knows why,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: but it just seems to happen more. It's just I
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: feel like the Orioles have reached their macs of what
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: they could possibly handle and continue to stay in the hunt.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: It's not just you know, role players, it's not just
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: a couple of stars. I feel like it's been four
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: or five of the starters. It's been three or four
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: of the starters on offense. It just seems to be
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: piling on here, and you just wonder how long they
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: can hold the damn up before it just kind of
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: falls apart. With the kind of injuries they've been having.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I feel like Dylan Beavers was really putting together some
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: really good at bats in the last week or two,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: and it kind of hurts. Now you get that, you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: right fielder, we can be out there almost every single
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: day and can provide you some outfield defense. But his
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: bat was really starting to come around, and for rookie,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: a young guy playing, that's what you want to see
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: is try to get them regular bats and get him
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: accustomed to be in the major leagues. And it's just
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: another one that hurts because now it sets it back
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: at least ten more days, and he kind of losed
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: that flow he was starting to get into.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Baseball is a very superstitious sport. I don't know what
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: the clubhouse needs to do. I don't know if they
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: need to bring in an etsty Witch or whatever. Something
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: needs to happen because heading into this year we're talking
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: about there has to be positive regression, right in terms
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: of the injuries, where last year the Orioles they had
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: seventy different players, over seventy play a game for them.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Last year it was crazy. We're doing Beaver's he became
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: the nineteenth player to be placed on the IL and
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: it's May thirteenth, we're not even a Memorial Day yet.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: And with Beavers, anytime you hear an old bleak for
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: a hitter, it's it's a tricky situation. We saw it
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: last year with Rochman where he hurt one side and
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: then he came back and he hurt the other. So
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: those situations are definitely really, really tough. And Jordan Westburg,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Steve you said it, and we talked about him on
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: a prior episode. It's night and day this offense and
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: what they're able to do with him in the lineup
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: and without You can go back to his first game
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: where he debuted for the Orioles and since today, you know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: they averaged close to half a run more per game
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: with Jordan Westburg in the lineup compared to without him.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: And unfortunately, I'm with you, Steve, it looks like they're
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: going to be without him the rest of the year.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So one good news on the Beavers front. Post game today,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: auburnaz did say it's a low grade oblique strain and
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: he was feeling better as soon as today.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: They put him on the eye out.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's ten days, so hopefully at the end of that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: period they'll be getting close to getting him back because,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: as you said, Brad, he's starting to swing it. He's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: starting to finally settle into this season. And Westburg again,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this is my speculation. This has come from the team
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: we're talking about in the press box today. If Capitol,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: if a player has a procedure that's a position player
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that's eight to ten months, it can be so he
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: could be full go opening day twenty twenty seven. Again,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: if and so others have. Bryce Harper was record speed
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: with this, and he's first baseman, not third, of course,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: so we'll see out all plays out. But if there's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: any hint of good news here whatsoever, it could be
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that this, hopefully for Jordan Westburg, does not impact two seasons.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, I think that's probably what he's discussing with
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: his team. Do we want to try the rehab and
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: maybe not come back the right way and then miss
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: part of next season, or do we just get it
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: done now and so we're ready to go for opening
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: day next year. And it stinks anytime a guy gets
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: an injury like that and you know the season's done,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: it's got to be so just and you just know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: you you put all the work in the off season
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: and it just happened so early and now you've had
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: a lost season, and it's just I hope he's able
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: to go and you know, figure out what he wants
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: to do and just have the best way that gets
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: him to be the best player he can moving forward.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: D Yeah, Jordan Westburg, he's still such a young player. Guys,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: where you got to think long term. If you're him
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: and I'm sure his agent and Scott this is his agent,
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: you're you're He's a heck of player. He's a heck
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: of a talent him, and and it's just really unfortunate
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: the setback after setback over the past year and a half.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and as he has said, Mississippi State, no problems.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Good to go every day now that he got into
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: pro ball, all of a sudden, all these issues have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: cropped up. Great teammate, great leader in the clubhouse, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: we can't wait to see him back in there. We
• 24:55
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  Speaker 1: So, guys, what does it mean that the Orioles did
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: win this series and maybe knock on wood this time
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: they'll take some momentum and ride it out.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I say that in the context of this statistic.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: We gave on this show about a week ago. At
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: one point, the Orioles against current winning teams were one
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to twelve. Since Sunday they are three and one against
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: current winning teams, beating the A's and beating the Yankees
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: two out of three. That's better and you have to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: show you can do it. And now I guess the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: message is they just have to do it more often?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Can they?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I think so?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I think that this series, I know, I feel like
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: you was more crushing when they got swept in New
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: York than it would have been if they got swept
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: by let's just say the Guardians or the A's or
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: something like that. But for some reason, the Yankees series
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: just seemed to hold more weight. I know as a player,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: you don't really think about it a ton, but it
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: had to feel good. The win two had a three.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: This series, after what happened in New York, had to
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: feel really good. And I'm with then McDonald. He made
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: comments at the end of the game today just talking
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: about how grabbing the momentum and carrying it into the
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: next series, and I feel like that's been the hardest
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: part with this team so far to this point, was
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: grabbing some momentum and being able to carry it into
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: whether it was the next game after a big win
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: or the next series after a big series win. We
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: haven't been able to see that, and I would love
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to see that this weekend in DC. I used to
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: love playing in this series. I feel like it had
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: a lot of juice when we played. When I was there,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: there were some really good teams. We both had really
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: good teams that maybe played into a little bit more.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: But there's just an energy in the ballpark that's different
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: than playing somebody else that's not near the area. And
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: it's just a fun series to be a part of.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I hope that these guys can stay up for these
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: three games like they were against the Yankees and just
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: kind of grab this momentum and really run with it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's tough, right, guys like you sort
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: of saw that where the first game you're being no
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: hit through the first six innings and then Kobe Mayo
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: comes up with the big three run shot. They end
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: up winning that ball game and really stealing it, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: you think, okay, all right, and then the next game, boom,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: you blink your eye. You're down six to nothing after
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: the first three innings. But hey, they dominated the game
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: today and won at seven and nothing. But it's about
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: stacking it right now. And there's a lot of positives
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: to take from this series. The bullpen guys. They went
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: eight and two third shutout innings against the Yankees, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: that even includes last night being kind of a one
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: sided game. Kyle Bradish was fantastic. Really, the pitching staff,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: as crazy as it is to think, the Yankees only
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: scored in three up the twenty seven innings, so the
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Orioles definitely have to feel very good about themselves winning
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: that series. And if you would have told us or
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: any Oriole fan that they were gonna win the series,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: you take that every single day of the week. But
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: you're right now, it's about building on it and this
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Nats team that they're under five hundred, but it's the
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: scrappy ball club and that offense has been very potent,
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: and I think that it's going to be a big
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: challenge for the Orioles starting staff and the bullpen.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: It'll mean more for the Orioles the Yankee Series win
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: if they go win this weekend.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: They don't have to roll three wins.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It's hard to sweep anybody at any time, but keep
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: momentum going because guess what the raiser after that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: It's never an easy road.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And we've already noted how big an Al East a
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: schedule they've got coming up. So hopefully this is the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: time to start to make some move for the Orioles.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And it's going to be fascinating to see guys because
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: they are beat up. It's just you know, the off
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: for Thursday comes at a great time. Fifteen days in
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen games, fourteen days.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I think that's crazy.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: This team does need an off day and then a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: short trip to DC, so maybe they get freshened up
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: here over the next few days.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I would love to see Shane bas come
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: out Friday and just really just attack and go after
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: guys and just kind of give that really good start
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: that we've been hoping to see and kind of just
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: build up the momentum. Bradish started today and they had
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: a good start on Monday with Brandon Young, and I
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: just would love to see one time through the rotation,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: every guy go out there and just really put up
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: a good start and give this offense a chance to
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: get the lead to get into the bullpen. And another
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: point too is I would love to I'm curious to
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: see if they go with the bullpen guy to start
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Bassett's game again because it works so well. They haven't
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: announced anything, and I would just be curious if they
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: have an opener just because it went so well the
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: last start. I'm curious if they tried it again and
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: see what happens there.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: You would love to see just this starting rotation kind
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: of just pass the baton. We've seen a a couple
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: goods starts in a row, maybe three at most, But
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: you're right, Brad, we haven't seen all the way through
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: one through five, and you know, heading into today, I
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: think it's shocking to think when you think of the
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: potential of this group. I think there were twenty ninth
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: in starting rotation era heading into today's game. Trevor Rodgers,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: even after the game yesterday and it was a rough
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: goal of it for him, he still talked very highly
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: about this starting staff and really believes in himself, believes
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: in the potential of this starting rotation.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: So the O's beat the Yankee seven and nothing and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: they win this series. Quick reminder those fans that we
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  Speaker 2: That'll put a rap on it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes in Washington this weekend, and
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