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Speaker 2: The Rare mid Game Podcast. We are in the middle

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Speaker 2: of a Yankees' rain delay, but they have made a trade.

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Speaker 2: They have traded for David Bednar of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Speaker 2: Bednar has seventeen saves this year with the Pirates two

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Speaker 2: You can see that by pitching run value, he's in

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Speaker 2: He does allow the hitters to barrel it up, but

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Speaker 1: He has had.

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Speaker 2: Some success this year in terms of strikeouts fifty one

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Speaker 2: I think a necessary move. And Frankie texting me while

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Speaker 2: I'm on the air, Frankie, you should know better. We

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Speaker 2: next you know, several minutes. Typically, you know, once a

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Speaker 2: But the deal is penning a medical review, so that

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Speaker 2: is not necessarily a guaranteed done deal. Those of you

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Speaker 2: who watched the Yankees in the nineties will remember back

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety seven. I'll still remember this. It was

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Speaker 2: right around the trade deadline ninety seven. The Yankees had

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Speaker 2: Greg Vaughan, and the deal was nixed because Greg Vaughan

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Speaker 2: Greg Vaughn went on to hit fifty home runs the

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Speaker 2: next season, but the Yankees traded Kenny Rodgers that offseason

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight World Series MVP. So who knows how

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Speaker 2: Devin Williams. Now that we do have an established closer,

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Speaker 2: I don't think he would go back for a pitcher,

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Speaker 2: He has seventeen saves, thirty eight innings, fifty one strikeouts,

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Speaker 2: MLB percentile rankings, pitching run value seventy fifth percentile, so

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Speaker 2: Breaking ball run values in the seventy fourth percentile, off

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Speaker 2: I gotta say I like the moves that the Yankees

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Speaker 2: been a great fit so far, or McCann McMahon. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking Brian McCann, former Yankees catcher. But McMahon has

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Speaker 2: been a great addition defensively. You know, he's got some

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Speaker 2: I like that move. You know, we haven't seen a

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Speaker 2: but you know, hasn't had a huge impact on.

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Speaker 1: The game yet. Game is still in a rain delay.

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Speaker 2: for bed Narza.

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Speaker 2: So we're still getting word on the bed inar trade.

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Speaker 2: who posts the Yankees potential bullpen with everybody healthy Bednar

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Speaker 2: Rafael Flores pretty good prospect. I'll go ahead and pull

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Speaker 2: He is twenty four years old. He is a catcher.

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Speaker 2: Yankees loaded with catching prospects. He's playing for these Scranton

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Speaker 2: and we'll see, you know, if the Yankees are able

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Speaker 2: to complete any of these deals. But for now, thanks

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Speaker 2: for watching, and we'll see you when we see you.