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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number seveny Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a program we have for you today. Former Major league

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Speaker 2: slugger Dmitri Young will stop by talk about him managing

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Speaker 2: in the MLB Draft League and some of the hot

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Speaker 2: young players who are playing for former teams that he

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Speaker 2: once played for. We'll do that, that and much more.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep

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Speaker 1: them on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Number one, the.

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Speaker 2: New York Yankees a whole that Aaron Judge will return

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Speaker 2: this weekend after being sidelined for so long with that

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Speaker 2: and the Yankees have been treading water. It's unbelievable that

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Speaker 2: they're even still over five hundred. They're in last place

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Speaker 2: in the Al West, and ken Aaron Judge show up

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Speaker 2: the MVP from just a year ago and get this

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Speaker 2: he can. He has that much impact to the lineup.

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Speaker 2: We talk about it all the time. When he's out

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Speaker 2: and his bat and the things that he can do.

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Speaker 2: Last year they won ninety nine games. They can get

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Speaker 2: The division is lost, but they can still make the wildcard.

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Speaker 3: Still plenty of games to play.

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Speaker 2: We're in mid August, the season doesn't end until the

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Speaker 2: first week of October. There's still plenty of baseball. They

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Speaker 3: And we're less.

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Speaker 2: Than a week away from the Major League Baseball trade deadline,

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Speaker 2: which is Tuesday, August first. And let me tell you,

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Speaker 2: I'm expecting fireworks. I'm just expecting fireworks. I expect teams,

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Speaker 2: and but there are still a lot of teams that

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Speaker 2: the Yankees are in play, the Cardinals, the Padres, the Mets.

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Speaker 2: I just think that there's so many teams Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: If you're Minnesota and you're fighting in the Central, do

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Speaker 2: I just think there's so many people that that will

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Speaker 2: The owner doesn't want to be tagged with that that

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Speaker 2: And if the Angels are ever going to turn things around,

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Speaker 2: But I expect big names to be traded, big time

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Speaker 2: Things went stale in Boston. You know, they always say,

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Speaker 2: He has scuffled in Boston for a while, but will

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Speaker 3: It could work. So the Dodgers are going to give

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome in a friend of ours here at

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Speaker 2: the podcast, a guy covered in Detroit and had a

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Speaker 3: What's up, Dmitri? How you doing?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Man, Rob, I am doing fine, trying to scrape some wins. Man,

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Speaker 2: This is why I wanted to talk to you too

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Speaker 2: about your entry. I know you were managing to take

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Speaker 2: MLB in the MLB Draft League. And what has this

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's a complete different route than coaching

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Speaker 5: high school where I'm dealing with baseball players. The first

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Speaker 2: I think it doesn't It weed out a lot of

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Speaker 5: Oh, it definitely does, especially when you have a mindset

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Speaker 4: When you're trying to move up that ladder.

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Speaker 5: You may throw a ninety six mile hour fastball and

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Speaker 5: we're trying to tell these guys what to do. I

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Speaker 5: then Brian Nelson is my hitting coach, and he works

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Speaker 4: And I work with the mentality of all the players because.

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Speaker 5: waking up getting ready to get Like right now, we

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Speaker 4: What we're going to do to improve.

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Speaker 3: And it sounds like a lot real quick on this.

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Speaker 2: And then I want to get your take on a

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Speaker 2: it's one thing coach in high school, but now you're

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Speaker 5: You know, I aspire to get back to the big leagues.

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Speaker 5: If I just so happened to become a manager, that

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Speaker 5: But I really love the challenge of being a manager

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Speaker 2: Our guest is Dmitri Young, who, of course broke in

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Speaker 3: To meet you.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple players real quick in the

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Speaker 5: You know what, when you see the evolution of a

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Speaker 4: That the evolution of the game. When you have six foot.

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Speaker 3: Here's another guy, another former team of yours, a Say

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Speaker 2: They have a kid, Jordan Walker, who opened up his

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Speaker 3: This is the thing.

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Speaker 5: Once again, we talked about the evolution of the game

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Speaker 5: And right now, the Cardinals aren't, you know, that team

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Speaker 5: Deplete somebody's minor league system and possibly get a big

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Speaker 3: Me and you are in lockstep. Man, they need pitching.

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Speaker 2: I would go how about going to the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 3: Would you would you make that that kind of move?

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Speaker 5: You think that Tampa will give away some of that

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Speaker 4: That's all I got to say about that is wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be something, all right, Dimitri As always, man,

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Speaker 2: we appreciate you so much continued success managing in the

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Speaker 2: MLB Draft League, and we always appreciate your insight on

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Speaker 2: the game of baseball. Dimitri Young, of course former Major

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers.

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Speaker 1: You need to know, Well, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is his game.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for me?

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Speaker 6: Anthony If you're a fan of baseball, there's no doubt

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Speaker 6: you've heard of the new game sweeping the nation. The

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Speaker 6: the lower your rarity score the better. With over twenty

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Speaker 6: possible can leave you combing Baseball Reference for hours on end,

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Speaker 6: Octavio d'tel has the most franchises among relief pitchers with thirteen,

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the big leagues. Who's

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Speaker 1: a five believe? Is it foul or is it fair?

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Speaker 1: And now from mlbeanbro dot com, here's JR gamball.

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Speaker 2: Coming into Wednesday, the Houston Astros and Dusty Baker had

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Speaker 3: JR.

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Speaker 2: Is it foul or fair to say that Houston and

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Speaker 2: Fair?

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Speaker 7: It's a fair ball, even with the Rangers going six

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Speaker 7: they have lost two in a row to the Astros,

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Speaker 7: While the Rangers just arguably lost their best player and

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Speaker 1: Turn money into more money. Now it's time for betting

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Speaker 1: on the basis with Dave Gascoon.

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Speaker 4: Love that money, Love that money.

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Speaker 8: Rob.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 8: A brand new week in a base on Happy report

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Speaker 8: last weekend a perfect three and L look forward to

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Speaker 8: Friday's games, Tampa Bay's in Houston and the Astros Shane

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Speaker 1: The pitching matchup.

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Speaker 1: Bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better than

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Speaker 2: Reason number nine hundred and fifty five why Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL. It

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Speaker 3: I mean, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: You gotta stick it out in baseball, no matter being

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Speaker 2: a great game. In the words of New York TV

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Speaker 2: legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time

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Speaker 2: this time.

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Speaker 3: Until next time, Rob Parker out d can't Davin. This

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Speaker 8: See you next week, same bat time, from same Batt's station.