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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the exter Learning postgame show with Bill Asking.

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Speaker 1: I'm minded to bring a guest on, had him on

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Speaker 1: a few times last year. He's the assistant hitting coach

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Speaker 1: for the San Francisco Giants. That's welcome in, Oscar, Bernard Oscar,

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Speaker 1: how are you today?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me on on

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Speaker 2: your show.

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Speaker 1: You it's always a pleasure talking hitting with you. And

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Speaker 1: spring training we're halfway through it only got about maybe

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Speaker 1: ten more games left. How do you feel the hitting

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Speaker 1: has gone and is it improving as spring's going through.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we've been more good than bad. But the big

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Speaker 3: boys are getting the by getting ready for the season.

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Speaker 2: The Angies to started regular season and make it super

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Speaker 2: interesting on the strage, I think the boys are almost

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Speaker 2: closed to getting ready for it.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're definitely looking forward to you like all the

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Speaker 1: fans and all of us are. That's the beginning of

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Speaker 1: a new season. And this year you're his assistant hitting coach. Coach,

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Speaker 1: and how is that going for you? And I know

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Speaker 1: last year you had a great connection with the Latin players.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the loven year that you're back.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it has been a blast being bad another opportunity

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Speaker 2: to help the team to win and help those players

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Speaker 2: to feel comfortable and comfany and help us once again

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Speaker 2: to win Bowl games. So it's been a great opportunity

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Speaker 2: once again within new mindy, the new heading coaches. I

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Speaker 2: think the chemistry between the coaching estav.

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Speaker 3: Is right right there. So it's been good. It's been good.

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Speaker 1: That's great. And let me you know, let me ask

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Speaker 1: you a few things. You've been around big League camp.

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Speaker 1: You talk about the main line hitters, the Rafaeld devers, there,

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Speaker 1: Willia Domis's, Matt Chapman. They have kind of a set

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Speaker 1: schedule on how they hit through spring. I mean they're

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Speaker 1: going at it, but they're also learning and getting their

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Speaker 1: body and mindset. Am I right here?

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Speaker 3: Well, you're right, I think is where you're hearing. The

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Speaker 3: lino is nobody important.

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Speaker 2: To me, And I mean their new mind is proving

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Speaker 2: it like they want those guys go out there and

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Speaker 2: take the reps and do the best they can and

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Speaker 2: see pages and work on their stuff, and that's it.

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Speaker 2: I think the lino doesn't mean anything right now.

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Speaker 1: What about preparing for the season. As they're getting closer,

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Speaker 1: what do you think they'll get another ten or twenty

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Speaker 1: at bats before the season starts.

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Speaker 3: Well hopefully yes, but you know, some guy need more

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Speaker 3: about than the other.

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Speaker 2: Maybe less, but yes, they talk about twelve fifteen a

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Speaker 2: bout and those guys are going.

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Speaker 3: To be ready to go.

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Speaker 1: You guys, uh Oscar Bernard joining me on the ex

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Speaker 1: runing postgame show. Oscar, when you come up north, is

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Speaker 1: there a difference when you're playing in Arizona for so

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Speaker 1: long in spring training, now all of a sudden you're

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Speaker 1: playing in Sacramento for an exhibition game. Those two games

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Speaker 1: at Oracle Park are going to kind of evening games.

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Speaker 1: Is that going to be good for the hitters to

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Speaker 1: get in and get used to it?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, every time you troubled north and coming from

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Speaker 2: so in this case Arizona, I think the weather's different

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Speaker 2: and the atmosphere is a little bit. I was a

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Speaker 2: completely different when you get to as f As Decline.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the weather is different. But they need those

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Speaker 2: two games to start getting used to the different weather

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Speaker 2: and a little bit comfortable with it. So, yes, we

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Speaker 2: need those two to do that, Oscar.

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Speaker 1: You have a new hitting coach on the side of you.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Men's four years of the Toronto Blue Jays, and

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Speaker 1: I know in the past years the Giants have been

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Speaker 1: striking out a lot hitting wise, different things about the

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Speaker 1: strikeout in certain situations. I was seeing where hunter Men's

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Speaker 1: and Toronto Blue Jays they were the third best in

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Speaker 1: not striking out. Is he bringing a different approach to

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Speaker 1: the hitters.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, Yes, definitely, he's bringing his knowledge, his passion, and

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Speaker 2: I think that the boys early on then embraced his message.

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Speaker 2: And uh, I think that the difference is already not

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Speaker 2: as noticeable early and explaining that the boys been hitting

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Speaker 2: about high, taking quality of back and making emphasy and

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Speaker 2: put them on play. I think he's bringing his knowledge

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Speaker 2: and the boys are taking it.

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Speaker 3: And then goodwill Well.

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Speaker 1: I know in last year, Oscar we talked about it.

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Speaker 1: It was proven fact runners in scoring position, man, the

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Speaker 1: Giants just couldn't get anybody in last year. It was

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Speaker 1: troublesome because you guys were in so many close games

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Speaker 1: and just that key hit just didn't happen. Are you

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Speaker 1: working on things with hitters as us being a hitting coach,

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Speaker 1: or is there a method for all the hitters to

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Speaker 1: understand a little bit more concentration with runners on base?

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Speaker 2: I think it is medic a little bit more concentration.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't mean we weren't concentrating in those situations. It's just

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Speaker 2: baseball and one season bring different types and the other one.

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Speaker 2: But hopefully this year we passed that and we start

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Speaker 2: doing what we're supposed to do with people on baseball. Definitely,

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Speaker 2: every situation is different, every season is different. Hopefully this

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Speaker 2: one bring the best of those boys.

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Speaker 1: Well, Raphael Dever is coming off of last year being

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Speaker 1: traded over to Boston. Now he's coming over to San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: being a full year with the Orange and Black. I

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Speaker 1: know you work alongside of him. Tell me a little

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Speaker 1: bit about what's going on with him, because I can't

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Speaker 1: wait for his year.

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Speaker 3: Well, this year has been a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: Easy in some capacity for him being in new facility.

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Speaker 3: He used to be and floated that for a such

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Speaker 3: a long time now, and I saw that at the.

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Speaker 2: Beginning was a little bit of grinded a different weather,

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Speaker 2: different ground. But right now, little by little, he's been

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Speaker 2: being good with his preparation. And I wouldn't say good

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Speaker 2: solid consistent with his preparation, but the main thing for

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Speaker 2: him is just stay healthy and take reps and just

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Speaker 2: prove what he can do on the field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had that slight hamstring issue. Took a couple

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Speaker 1: of days off. I think that's the smartest thing for him,

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Speaker 1: get off his feet. But you know, the guy always

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Speaker 1: wants to hit. You know, he's in the cages with

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Speaker 1: you all the time. How did you slow him down?

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Speaker 2: There's no way slow him down a hitter like him,

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Speaker 2: There's no way. When they say we're going to work.

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Speaker 3: On something, we stay there for half an hour and

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Speaker 3: until he figured it out and then we move on.

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Speaker 3: But it's no way you're slowing down superstar and good

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Speaker 3: hitter like him.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure all the hitting coaches to go through

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Speaker 2: the same situation with their superstar too.

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Speaker 1: Oscar Bernard and join me for a few more minutes

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Speaker 1: on the Externy postgame show. I got to talk about

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Speaker 1: two guys that are really fighting to make this team,

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Speaker 1: Luis Matos and Gerar and Carnassion. Two guys are having

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Speaker 1: a pretty damn good spring. They're just running out of

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Speaker 1: places in a roster to put them. How are these

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Speaker 1: guys going at it every day knowing that I think

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Speaker 1: they they go.

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Speaker 2: About preparation wise, they go about normal like last year,

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Speaker 2: everybody's going to get in the red and the k.

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Speaker 3: Is BP and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: And now when the games came, they tried to take

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Speaker 2: advantage of each buy and prove they belong to the

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Speaker 2: big league and tried to make that team. But nothing different,

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Speaker 2: just another day and they go about their business, Oscar.

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Speaker 1: A lot of young players have been coming up and down.

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Speaker 1: I mean you start thinking about some of the young

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Speaker 1: talent that's been bouncing up and down. Who has caught

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Speaker 1: your eyes so far?

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Speaker 2: Well, Davidson is one of the main guy we had

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Speaker 2: and coming from finally.

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Speaker 3: And bad is is good. I think it's electric. The

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Speaker 3: power is there. And the other guy we put guys on.

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Speaker 2: Is Gonzalez, the new guy we just signed the years ago,

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Speaker 2: and he's been good too.

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Speaker 3: He's been here. A couple couple are bad and played.

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Speaker 2: Good different for us, but both Davis and definitely this

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Speaker 2: the guy cut my attention.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks really good with the swing. Of course,

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Speaker 1: being athletic, those are always key. And then you had

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Speaker 1: years old and the other one is nineteen or eighteen. Gonzales.

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Speaker 1: There's some young talented young players. Tell me about some

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Speaker 1: of those guys.

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Speaker 3: Well, I saw Gonzalez playing a little bit and he

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Speaker 3: was electric. That guy's fun to watch. Got phiel Ford again.

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Speaker 3: Skill skill, guys kill it for guys. So and what's good?

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Speaker 3: What I saw was like, oh my god, cut my

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Speaker 2: Seventeen moved that way, played that way smart and going.

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Speaker 3: First in thirty just pop out the bag and the

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Speaker 3: empire kind of school and a little bit. But was

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Speaker 3: the interest was good.

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Speaker 2: I think those guys are ready to impact in the

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Speaker 2: system and see what we can get from those guys

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Speaker 2: in the long run.

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Speaker 1: Oscar is pretty cool seeing young players like that come

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Speaker 1: up another lights and and still shine. And so they're

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Speaker 1: so youthful there. They still don't know about the game.

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Speaker 1: Yet you have to be excited about both of them.

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Speaker 2: Those guys bring a lot, a lot of stuff to

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Speaker 2: the table and they are super talented and they're gonna

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Speaker 2: play and they're gonna learn and now finally, hopefully they

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Speaker 2: go through a system quick and we can have it

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Speaker 2: in the big league quick.

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Speaker 1: As possible as we finish up with Oscar Bernard, a

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Speaker 1: hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants. Looking forward now,

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Speaker 1: here in the last week or so, health is the

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Speaker 1: biggest issue, Oscar.

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Speaker 3: What do you want to do?

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Speaker 1: What do you want to see out of these hitters?

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Speaker 3: I mean, uh, approach why we've been in point.

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Speaker 2: I think the guys understand what Man's is delivering, the

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Speaker 2: messages being cleared. We're trying to put put the ball

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Speaker 2: in play, We're trying to.

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Speaker 3: Take our swing in our page and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: I think the boys I understand, and they being executing,

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Speaker 2: which is the most important thing. The other things like

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Speaker 2: we're trying to break how fully healthy we owe our

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Speaker 2: guys and the line the way to play well.

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Speaker 1: Same to you and all the coaching staff. Stay healthy

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Speaker 1: and prepare yourself for that big opening day against the

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Speaker 1: New York Yankees. Looking forward to seeing you as you

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Speaker 1: break spring training. But again, Oscar, thank you for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you you bial thank you for having me on

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Speaker 3: and appreciate your opportunity.

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Speaker 1: That was Oscar Bernard on the X Learning postgame show.

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Speaker 1: More coming up right here on K and br D

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