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Speaker 2: Raiser Friday, Baby, let's do it. I missed some time.

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Speaker 2: I'm back. Hey, Hey, you know what I really liked

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Speaker 2: this week? Kratz the former player interviews. Let's get that

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Speaker 2: Tori had plenty of great stories while he was playing,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the contracts that could be coming up, and

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Speaker 1: He was plenty out going in the clubhouse. So that's

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Speaker 3: All day.

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Speaker 4: Why not. We need more of that stuff. We need opportunities,

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Speaker 4: We need guys to talk more about baseball how it

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Speaker 2: The thing is, when guys are playing, you got to

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Speaker 2: what we're about to talk about does include quite a

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Speaker 3: Let's charge.

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball essentially shrink the strike zone and didn't

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Speaker 2: so that in turn affects the accuracy of how they're graded,

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Speaker 2: It has led to more overall accuracy. That's great. Eighty

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Speaker 2: eighty three point six. These are good things. Main problem here, Kratz,

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Speaker 4: But you know, you get those three inches as a baseball.

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Speaker 1: Some people are going to sit there at home and

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Speaker 1: Just be upfront about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everybody agrees that they want the strike

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Speaker 2: That's how word starts describing again. But think about the

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Speaker 3: Uh, this is the Bruce Buffer Zone, the Bruce Buffer Zone.

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Speaker 3: That's good.

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Like, hey, it's a little chili Davison's.

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Speaker 2: Well, you can't get sent down, right Kratz. Here, here's

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Speaker 3: You forget that. Yeah, you're just seven. He's been doing

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna be raided that thirty day limit, most

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Speaker 2: Hey, the Brewers are lurking. They're sixteen and sixteen, They're

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Speaker 3: Knowing that they're always in the game. Yeah, opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Laire's play well and help them out. I

433
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Speaker 2: think he's homewarding back to back games. Now, I wasn't

434
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Speaker 2: against the player, but in the offseason I was just like,

435
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Speaker 2: you gotta leave that spot open, and I know the

436
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 2: case was made that they felt as if Droudy was

437
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 2: going to take a billion swings if he was just

438
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Speaker 2: the agent. And I'm like, in this case, if he's

439
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Speaker 2: dealing with the knee, I don't think he would have

440
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 2: done that. This is a smart guy. I mean, you

441
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 2: know him. I don't think they said this, this was

442
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,479
Speaker 2: on the record. They were worried he's gonna take five

443
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Speaker 2: hundreds wings if he's d ching, you know, in a day.

444
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 2: I'm like, come on, he's not twenty. He knows what

445
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Speaker 2: he's doing.

446
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 4: Now, and I think he's smarter and as he's getting older,

447
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 4: he understands his body and what he can and cannot do. Yeah,

448
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 4: I don't know his full routine, but I know it's

449
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,160
Speaker 4: not the same as when it was, you know, seven

450
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 4: eight years ago when he's just coming up. But he

451
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 4: gets it. It's more kind of let me maintain my body.

452
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 4: I got to make sure my joints, my knee, my meniscus,

453
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Speaker 4: all that stuff is right. Then he could work a

454
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Speaker 4: little bit upper body and keep staying bigger and stronger.

455
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Speaker 4: But he's still a strong young man and he's still

456
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Speaker 4: gonna go out there and produce. It's just It's one

457
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Speaker 4: of those things and people think about, why isn't he

458
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Speaker 4: the Mike trot Old, Why isn't he coming back and

459
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Speaker 4: getting after it. He's getting older, man. People understand that

460
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Speaker 4: he's getting older and he's had some injury, so he's

461
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Speaker 4: he kind of got to ease into it before you know,

462
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Speaker 4: you start pedaling away. So again, Angels fans pumped the

463
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Speaker 4: brakes a little bit. I think he's gonna be all right.

464
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Angels fans don't want to hump the breaks about

465
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Speaker 2: the team. That's the problem right now is the team

466
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Speaker 2: was off to a nice start the first few weeks

467
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Speaker 2: and then it's starting to unravel here. You know, I

468
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 2: wanted to just focus on that game for a couple

469
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Speaker 2: of minutes because they spent a good time watching it yesterday.

470
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Speaker 2: I've been pretty high on the Tigers from the offseason

471
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Speaker 2: up through now. Mys looked good. I know, you know,

472
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Speaker 2: he gave up four runs, but he gave him seven

473
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 2: innings to rest the bullpen a little bit, a solid performance.

474
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 2: Kikuchi was pretty good on the other side. Tommy Kinley,

475
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Speaker 2: by the way, brilliant pickup has been dominant Filthy Sub

476
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Speaker 2: one era so far. Angels fans were losing their mind.

477
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Speaker 3: Though.

478
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 2: In the eighth inning, they're up four to two and

479
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 2: the offense had been not great lately. There's a lot

480
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Speaker 2: of swing and miss in that lineup. Redebtmers comes in

481
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Speaker 2: for a second consecutive game after giving up I think

482
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Speaker 2: it was four runs the night before, gives up another

483
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Speaker 2: four spot, including a Dylan Dingler three run home run.

484
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 2: Re Detmers was a starter his whole life, and now

485
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: he's working on the bullpen side of things, and you're

486
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Speaker 2: after a clunker, You're giving him a back to back

487
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 2: high level I'm like, Man, I need to know more

488
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 2: about why that was the decision there, and I think

489
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 2: everyone was looking for that. Ron Washington was asked about it,

490
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 2: didn't give much, just thought it was the right spot

491
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 2: with some lefties that he didn't get out, and then

492
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 2: it all fell apart from there. But Man and Joey

493
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 2: Odell had some issues in center field during that inning.

494
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Speaker 2: It just all fell apart and it was one of

495
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 2: those games where Angels fans were losing their mind. I

496
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 2: do want to keep everyone focused also on the fact

497
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Speaker 2: that the Tigers might be the best team in the

498
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Speaker 2: American League, so they're going to capitalize on mistakes right

499
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 2: now too. Hobby Bias hit another homer he robbed, so

500
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Speaker 2: La looks pretty good in center field. I know we

501
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 2: talked about this team of good amount at the top

502
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Speaker 2: of yesterday's show, but it's just bad timing. It's probably

503
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Speaker 2: it's not their worst. It's it's one of their worst

504
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 2: losses of the season. And then right after the game,

505
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Speaker 2: you got it was casual. They're like hous trout and

506
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Speaker 2: he's like.

507
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I l yeah, I got it. I gotta go.

508
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Speaker 3: But il yeah, yeah.

509
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Speaker 2: You know how it is that the managers are like, yeah,

510
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Speaker 2: I don't want to spend a lot of time on

511
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Speaker 2: this ill.

512
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Speaker 3: It stinks.

513
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Speaker 4: And as a manager, you want to go with your

514
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Speaker 4: gut and you know, make certain decisions and see how

515
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 4: a professional pitcher is gonna do and back to back

516
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 4: games and see, you know, if it's pressure, how he's feeling.

517
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Speaker 4: I know it's a new guy. He knows that a

518
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 4: pitch you're you're a major league pitcher, so you should

519
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 4: be able to figure it out. I'm not saying you're

520
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 4: gonna do well, but you should be able to find

521
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 4: the zone and throw strikes and not get not give

522
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 4: up that many runs. But it's easier said than done.

523
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Speaker 4: But again, as a manager, you stick to it what

524
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Speaker 4: you feel and you talk to your coach and staff

525
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 4: and can this guy go again? Yeah sure, let's call

526
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Speaker 4: him Boom and they put him in. It just didn't

527
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Speaker 4: work out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't like it, Kratz, And I mean, you

529
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Speaker 2: got to keep evaluating what you're doing from a pitching

530
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Speaker 2: perspective when you know someone like Griffin Canning's there for

531
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Speaker 2: a while and now he looks like a freaking stud,

532
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 2: looks like a number two starter on the Mets right now.

533
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you clearly clearly blew that one. There's a

534
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Speaker 1: few that they've blown. But let's go back to the

535
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Speaker 1: Angels travel day that the organization decided to have. They're

536
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Speaker 1: they're two and eight in their last ten. They've lost

537
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Speaker 1: six straight. The Angels have, like you, you kind of

538
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: put your team in this situation. It didn't say it

539
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: they caused the bone bruise of the in his knee

540
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: that Trout has, but Zach Kozar came out and said

541
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Speaker 1: it that causes injuries that cause it makes it difficult,

542
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: that is tough to come back from. Like, dudes, just

543
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: don't they just don't rebound. Oh yeah, we had a

544
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Speaker 1: tough day. We had a tough two days. Like I'm fine.

545
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Speaker 1: Like the it kind of compounds, and you just you

546
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: have to you have to have all your ducks in

547
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Speaker 1: a row as a team so that the players can

548
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Speaker 1: be in the best position to win. And I don't

549
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: think that set them up very well. And obviously they're

550
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Speaker 1: two and eight in their last ten.

551
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this team has to win at the margins. They

552
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 2: did some nice things in the offseason. I really like

553
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: the Kenley Jansen pick up. But you're right. I mean

554
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 2: we harped on this. Sometimes we do too much on

555
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 2: a certain story. I don't think we did on this one.

556
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Speaker 3: You're right.

557
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: They haven't won a game since it's been a week. Hey,

558
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 2: Andrew Chaffin in agreement with the Nationals on a major

559
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: league contract. So Nationals need some bullpen help. I've watched

560
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 2: some Nats games where that bullpen just falls apart. Yeah,

561
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 2: twelve season coming into Wow, Chaffin's hilarious too.

562
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 3: Just nice. Who's shooting left to hear he has to

563
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 3: go get it.

564
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, late career guy, thirty almost thirty five years old now,

565
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: but this would keep it rolling for him. As he's

566
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: going to find a home here Kratz. The Nationals obviously

567
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 2: aren't serious about this year. You know, they didn't really

568
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 2: do anything in the offseason. They've got some nice pieces,

569
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 2: but it does get demoralizing when the bullpen gets beat up.

570
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Speaker 1: And the Nats pick up Andrew Chaffin and Kyle Finnigan, Like,

571
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Speaker 1: two guys, why didn't they have jobs? Like? What what

572
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: am I missing? What am I missing that you don't like?

573
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: I guess at some point you know he's gonna come

574
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: on here. But we got to ask, like, were you

575
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: asking too much? Caw Finigan obviously wasn't asking too much.

576
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: So the Nats needed this. The Gnats need to lengthen

577
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: their pen. I know Finnegan lost it the other night

578
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: against the Phillies, but I think you can't just have

579
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: this two headed monster at the at the end of

580
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Speaker 1: your game. And I think he's a nice piece. He's

581
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: not a he's not a driving the Nats to first

582
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: place team type of piece. But I'm just confused why

583
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: he didn't have a job before this.

584
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Speaker 2: He did, it was just in the minor leagues, right,

585
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 2: so he was in Triple A with the Tigers. He

586
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 2: had signed a minor league contract with them. Got a

587
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Speaker 2: two to one three R and thirteen appearances twelve and

588
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 2: two thirds innings for Toledo, So it's like, Okay, I'm

589
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 2: for a major league deal and had a three and

590
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 2: a half last year, So I agree with you. I mean,

591
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: sometimes you look at certain players and you're like, man,

592
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 2: this guy's pitching pretty well in the playoffs for a team,

593
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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, you can't find a

594
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: job the next year. I don't know you know everything

595
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 2: about the valuation process, but we'll see how he does. Hey,

596
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 2: phil Aton looks pretty damn good for the Cardinals. Took

597
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: him a minute.

598
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Speaker 1: I mean I mentioned too, phil Aton's on there. There's

599
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Speaker 1: no way Kirby Yates should have waited as long as

600
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Speaker 1: he did. Like all the Dodgers, they get everybody, they're

601
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Speaker 1: all available.

602
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just a standoff that occurs. It seems to

603
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 2: be a thing lately with relievers, and then every team

604
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: needs relievers at the deadline, second half, playoffs, et cetera.

605
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 2: So whatever, the smart teams know what they're doing. You

606
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Speaker 2: load up so that you don't have to unload all

607
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Speaker 2: the prospects at the trade deadline.

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Speaker 2: the show started. Jazz Chisholm hits the injured list for

622
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Speaker 2: the Yanks three days after the UH swing that left

623
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Speaker 2: them with what is now being called a write obleaque strain.

624
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Speaker 2: So that'll land you on the injured list for a

625
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Speaker 2: little bit of time.

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Speaker 4: That's tough. I don't care what it's not going to

627
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Speaker 4: be ten days. I've had too many of those. Even

628
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Speaker 4: if it's a Grade one, even if it's a strain,

629
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Speaker 4: it takes weeks to figure that out. They don't want

630
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Speaker 4: you doing much. You're not sure anything. You need to

631
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Speaker 4: just rest and let that thing he all on its own.

632
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Speaker 4: We don't I don't know the severity of what he's

633
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Speaker 4: going through, but any part of that O blak, you

634
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Speaker 4: cannot do anything on it. And I'm hoping it's a

635
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Speaker 4: grade one takes, you know, hopefully a month, if not

636
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Speaker 4: a little more than obliques are just a pain in

637
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Speaker 4: the rear end.

638
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got seven homers, so he's off to a

639
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: nice power start. Defense has looked pretty good. I know

640
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Speaker 2: he had the one you know, or he didn't go

641
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 2: to second the other day. Okay, mental gap, but he's

642
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: he's handling second, I think pretty well. Eye test metrics.

643
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Speaker 2: He's not getting on base batting average three oh four,

644
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Speaker 2: on base percentage. It's it's never been his thing to

645
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Speaker 2: be fair like. He's actually that's right around the career normal.

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Speaker 2: I think some fans just expected him to elevate, you know,

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Speaker 2: in that lineup, and I think, I mean, this guy's

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Speaker 2: been in the league for six years.

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Speaker 3: He is what he is.

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Speaker 2: He's a low on base's got pop, he's got speed,

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Speaker 2: he's got defensive he's in the right position, Kratz. That's

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Speaker 2: the player.

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Speaker 1: The question is did he make an adjustment to get

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Speaker 1: on base more in relative to his batting average. He

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Speaker 1: switched to a torpedo bat. It started out awesome all year.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of gone back to the norm. The thing

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Speaker 1: is his walk rate has gone up exponentially. I mean

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Speaker 1: it is, his own base percentage is quite the same,

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Speaker 1: and he's like fifty points below his career average. His

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Speaker 1: batting average will go up. I'm just afraid he needs

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Speaker 1: to swing more to be able to get on base more.

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Speaker 1: So it's that dichotomy. And I saw the swing where

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Speaker 1: he did his oblique and he did that like Todd,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you're like scratching your rib, like maybe

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Speaker 1: I can work this out. Next pitch, double down the line.

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Speaker 1: And I hadn't heard anything from him until here this

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Speaker 1: morning when we or this afternoon, right before the show started,

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Speaker 1: that he was going on the aisle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not fun.

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Speaker 4: He's been swinging out a lot of pitches this year,

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Speaker 4: and from what I've been seeing a lot of balls,

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Speaker 4: I should say like he's attacking, and you know sometimes

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Speaker 4: he doesn't get that front foot down early enough and

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Speaker 4: see it. But when he when he does hit, he

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Speaker 4: finds his way to get on, but it's just few

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Speaker 4: and far between right now.

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Speaker 2: And then we also found out John Carlo Stan moved

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Speaker 2: to the six day il I mean more procedural. I

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Speaker 2: don't think anyone expected him back yet. We just don't

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Speaker 2: really have a timetable. That's the big thing still for

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Speaker 2: his return, and I mean he is I say this

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Speaker 2: a lot, becoming a potential Robert Or of our sport.

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Speaker 2: Just get in the playoffs, get this guy on the

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Speaker 2: field maybe a few weeks before, to get the swing

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Speaker 2: in line, and then let him absolutely torch top end pitching.

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Speaker 3: In October, let him go. He was he was stupid good.

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Speaker 2: Last year in October he was.

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Speaker 3: He was really good.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so funy twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, he was ridiculous. Also went to Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: was hitting two irons out to right center. Went to

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Speaker 1: San Diego. He's hitting balls off the scoreboard and left

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Speaker 1: center like this. He is. It's okay to be a

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Speaker 1: playoff guy. It's also I think I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: more optimistic that he will be back sooner than later

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Speaker 1: this year. This is more procedural thing, because you know,

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Speaker 1: We're halfway through a sixty sixty day il STD so

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Speaker 1: far in this season, So another month isn't that big

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Speaker 1: a deal?

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Speaker 2: Agreed? And Hey, great way to finish the show on

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Speaker 2: a Friday. Sarah Langs is one of the best parts

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Speaker 2: of our game. Baseball is the best. Her phrase it

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Speaker 2: is her birthday. Nice little tweet there for Mike Petrillo.

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Sarah. And Kratz hats on the way out.

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Speaker 2: You can do it in like fifteen seconds.

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Speaker 3: That was definitely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for Hunter Brown, how.

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Speaker 2: Could we not downtown, Hunter Brown, come on down.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know he was one of my brother and

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Speaker 1: I didn't know he was a backup catcher in college.

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Speaker 3: Brother, and I like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kratz and you probably through eighty something you could

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Speaker 2: have just figured it out.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: He's a great story. Hunter Brown is awesome to watch.

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Speaker 2: Thanks him for joining us, and great way to finish

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