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Speaker 1: All right, let's get right to it. Developing situations in goodyear.

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Speaker 1: Mark Sheldon, welcome, Are you there for the moment?

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Speaker 2: At least? I'm here? Lance? How you doing?

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Speaker 1: I am well, man, I really appreciate it. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get you caught in the middle of list.

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Speaker 1: So when you need to run, just run and we

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Speaker 1: will fully understand. Let's get to the latest in Terry

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Speaker 1: Francona's announcement of three starting pitchers who all three now

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Speaker 1: will make the team.

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Speaker 2: Explain, yeah, no one's going to go home disappointed.

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Speaker 3: Rhet Louder, Chase Burns, and Brandon Williams can have all

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Speaker 3: been told they made the team. All three will be

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Speaker 3: used as starters in some fashion that he called. Terry

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Speaker 3: Francona called that he's six for five. It will not

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Speaker 3: be a six man rotation. So on one given day

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Speaker 3: of either the fourth or fifth spot, two of those

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Speaker 3: guys will start, and then one of them might be

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Speaker 3: used out of the bullpen. So like you could see

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Speaker 3: Burns start a game and then Williamson kind of comes

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Speaker 3: in and pitches long relief after him and kind of

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Speaker 3: a tandem sort of a situation, or Louder can follow

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Speaker 3: the Williamson or Burns can follow one of the other

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Speaker 3: two guys. So it's it's only being done to open

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Speaker 2: For a little while.

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Speaker 3: This is not a long term solution, but a short

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Speaker 3: term one until more pitchers are stretched out and you

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Speaker 3: get further into the season, and at some point they'll

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Speaker 3: have to make a decision and figure out what.

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Speaker 2: To do with one of those pictures.

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Speaker 1: And Mark, I guess my immediate reaction to that the

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Speaker 1: domino is then that means they'll care it. There'll be

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Speaker 1: one man down in the bullpen each day with only

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Speaker 1: seven bullpen arms.

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Speaker 2: Correct, that is correct.

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Speaker 3: Connor Phillips is I've been told he made the bullpen,

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Speaker 3: so that essentially leaves one spot left now among several

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Phillips is in.

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Speaker 3: Also Will Benson's in the on the bench seven.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Williamson's really been one of the cool stories. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's been two years and he's been through so much

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Speaker 1: and it's hard not to root for. I mean, and

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Speaker 1: he's come out on a very positive side this spring.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's looked great. I think all his outings have

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Speaker 3: been scoreless, and he's his last two starts, especially seven

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Speaker 2: He's looked really good.

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Speaker 3: And you know, this is a guy that he didn't

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Speaker 3: pitch for fifteen months after and really much of twenty

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Speaker 3: four because he was coming back from shoulder problems and

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Speaker 3: missed all of last season, and he's looked very good.

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Speaker 2: So you know, kudos to.

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Speaker 3: Him for coming all the way back at teams.

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Speaker 2: And putting a good foot forward.

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Speaker 1: So market seems like going back to over the weekend

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Speaker 1: and on Friday night and Chase Burns only throwing two

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Speaker 1: now all getting used to, that doesn't seem like like

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Speaker 1: bad earning troubling. It seems like something they can manage.

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Speaker 1: A massage by this decision today, I take it it

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Speaker 3: I mean, certainly they're gonna watch him that They're not

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Speaker 3: gonna be willy nilly with any of these guys, but Burns,

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Speaker 3: especially with his kind of arm and the way he throws,

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Speaker 3: and they wanted to do more flexibility training and things

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Speaker 2: But they also know they have to be very careful

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Speaker 3: Don't want to injure any of these guys by being,

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Speaker 3: you know, putting out too much on him too soon.

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Speaker 3: Francona noted that Burns only had thirteen minor league starts

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Speaker 3: last season. It's also had the eight the eight big

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Speaker 1: You mentioned one bullpen spot remaining, and they've got a

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Speaker 1: guy who's been in until after last night. He's been

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Speaker 1: in World Baseball Classic Limbo with Kyle Nichols. Kind of

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Speaker 1: an odd situation, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunate in a way for him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, certainly he probably loved going to the final

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Speaker 3: the pitch. He only had one game enter yesterday and

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Speaker 3: then yesterday he got to pitch again. Uh, So I

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Speaker 3: don't know how that's gonna help his chances. It's going

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Speaker 3: to be tough because he hasn't pitched enough in spring training,

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Speaker 3: probably to get enough reps to be ready for the season.

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Speaker 3: But uh, but certainly there's other guys here, whether it's

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Speaker 3: Sam Mall or Hagen Danner, Luis may Zach Maxwell, they're

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Speaker 3: all still here competing, So it'll be interesting how they

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Speaker 3: end up going down that road. I mean, Mall is

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Speaker 3: by far head the best camp. Uh, and he's left handed,

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Speaker 3: Not that that's necessarily the overriding factor, but it's.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting to see who they could.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Will Benson has been told he makes the team,

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Speaker 1: and that still leaves u a really juicy couple of

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Speaker 1: decisions on the bench between Bledat and Myers and Low

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Speaker 1: and Hines. What's that that's four for two spots if

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Speaker 1: my math is correct.

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Speaker 2: That is exactly right. Uh. They're gonna have to figure

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Speaker 3: Low as the different situation because he's a non roster guy.

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Speaker 3: He's also not an outfielder, and uh, there's a there's

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Speaker 2: Have to figure out how they could play him to

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Speaker 3: Because there's obviously South Stewart already there and eventually Suarez

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Speaker 3: and Steer can play first base. So they're a little

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Speaker 3: also very light on the left handed side in terms

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Speaker 3: Francona didn't really tip either way what they were going

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Speaker 2: You'll have a right.

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Speaker 3: Handed hitter in Trevino, you have a left handed hitter

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Speaker 3: in Benson, and then you have two lefties and two righty's.

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Speaker 3: I believe that remain in the four guys you mentioned.

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Speaker 1: I've gotten a ton of great stuff from you, and

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