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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 2: This is Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Philly.

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Speaker 1: Shown. Hi everybody, Ruben Amorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky.

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Speaker 3: We're coming to you live from Clearwater, Florida.

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Speaker 1: We're on the half field, right in front of the

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Speaker 1: half field at bake Care Ballpark, Beautiful Clearwater, Florida, Beautiful

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Speaker 1: bake Care Ballpark. It is Sunday, February twenty third. We're

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Speaker 1: posting this though in the next morning, Monday morning. Rubens,

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Speaker 1: So good to see you.

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Speaker 4: Great to be down here, man, I was I was serious,

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Speaker 4: fomo going on.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is a serious I think this is

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Speaker 1: like the first time we've all been together since we

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Speaker 1: had Bryce and Chase.

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Speaker 3: On and you know, done a live episode.

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Speaker 5: So you're gonna do this more often. Yeah, you guys.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, we're so close.

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Speaker 4: Look at this.

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Speaker 3: Oh my, that'd be great. That'd be a great screen

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Speaker 3: grab for somebody. Us hugging it out.

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Speaker 5: Usually Todd's yelling at us.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm good, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Philly's played today. He played the Orioles. We want to

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Speaker 1: talk about some game action. Gabrinconis Gabriel Rinconas Junior hit

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Speaker 1: a big bomb.

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Speaker 5: He leaned on that ninety six er.

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Speaker 3: He did.

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Speaker 5: That guy hit it off Coleman Good Good been a

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Speaker 5: big league time, but you know, I'm sure he saw

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Speaker 5: a minor league invite and said, I'm gonna throw this

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Speaker 5: guy first pitch fastball, and uh, young Gabriel Rinconas hit

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Speaker 5: it into the alligator pond Rubin. He crushed it.

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Speaker 1: He did.

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Speaker 6: Racona's a big body guy, strong bodied guy, and you know,

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Speaker 6: he missed a lot of time last year with some injuries,

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Speaker 6: didn't play a lot, ended up going I think through

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Speaker 6: the Arizona fall leg and I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, this guy looks like a mature, bodied, strong, left

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Speaker 4: handed hitter, and.

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Speaker 7: Uh, he's got the ability to play the corner outfield positions.

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Speaker 7: And it's He's an interesting dude anytime you have that

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Speaker 7: kind of bat speed. He dropped head on that on

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Speaker 7: that fastball down and then in a night Trozona lefties.

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Speaker 3: And he smoked it. Yeah, power out of bake air.

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Speaker 5: That power is very intriguing to this organization.

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Speaker 1: Justin Crawford had an opposite field single in the right

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Speaker 1: right before that at bat, so he scored on that

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Speaker 1: home run.

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Speaker 3: He had a line drive yesterday in Lakeland.

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Speaker 1: It was an out, but a line drive to left

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Speaker 1: center field one hundred and eight point four miles an

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Speaker 1: hour off the bat.

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Speaker 3: It was the hardest hit ball the day.

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Speaker 1: And talked to him a little bit earlier today I

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Speaker 1: did for a story at MLB dot com, and I said,

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Speaker 1: what do you think you would have done to that pitch?

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Speaker 1: Was about a ninety three mile an hour fastball up

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Speaker 1: in the zone, And said, what would you have done

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Speaker 1: to that pitch? Two years ago when he got drafted,

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Speaker 1: he was about one hundred and sixty pounds about one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five now, he said, And he said,

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Speaker 1: I probably would have hit that ball on the ground

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Speaker 1: to the shortstop and it would have been an easy out.

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Speaker 3: So he was getting a little bit strength. He's getting the.

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Speaker 1: Ball in the air a little bit more than he

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Speaker 1: did the first couple of years of his minor league career.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Phillies think that that will continue

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Speaker 1: to come for him, and obviously he's intriguing. He's the

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Speaker 1: number sixty three, sixty seven prospect in all of Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball.

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Speaker 5: It's funny walk in here right over down this little

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Speaker 5: walkway every morning and he's out there working on his

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Speaker 5: bunting against the pitching machine because he's got that type

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Speaker 5: of speed. And I know there's concerns he hits the

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Speaker 5: ball on the ground a lot. But when you have

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Speaker 5: that type of speed, if the shortstop has to move,

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Speaker 5: you know, a few feet to his left or right,

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Speaker 5: you got a chance to beat it out. But you

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Speaker 5: know he is making strives to get in the ball

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Speaker 5: in the air a little bit more. But you know,

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Speaker 5: you look at him and Aiden Miller are both in

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Speaker 5: that game late today and in that game yesterday or

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Speaker 5: Saturday in Lakeland, and you feel like you're watching a

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Speaker 7: And they start thinking about people making it a negative

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Speaker 7: that you hit the ball on the ground. Well, you know,

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Speaker 7: I mean think about that first. If Jeff Stone would

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Speaker 7: hit the ball in the air all the time, you

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Speaker 7: think he would have a chance to be a major

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Speaker 7: league player. I think you know, at some point he's

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Speaker 7: going to get stronger and stronger. Naturally you start to

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Speaker 7: hit the ball out front, and I don't want them

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Speaker 7: to take away that, which is a good thing with

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Speaker 7: the Phillies. I don't think they necessarily are taking that

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Speaker 7: piece away. Today was a perfect example. I say today

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Speaker 7: on Sunday he fakes a bunch, the third baseman comes in,

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Speaker 7: he literally slaps one or stay inside down the ball

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Speaker 7: down the left field. That wasn't hit hard, but the

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Speaker 7: reason why he got on base is because the third

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Speaker 7: basement is in. He gets a base hit, he ends

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Speaker 7: up scoring on the home run. I mean, those are

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Speaker 7: the things that he can do now as he gets

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Speaker 7: older and he gets stronger and his body starts to mature.

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Speaker 7: I've talked to Charlie Manuel about this. He's going to,

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Speaker 7: like naturally, start to get out front a little bit more,

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Speaker 7: hit the bottom half of the ball a little bit more,

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Speaker 7: and drive the ball. But right now, just use the

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Speaker 7: whole field, utilize the skills that you have. And I mean,

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Speaker 7: why wouldn't you want to utilize someone with this kind

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Speaker 7: of like eighty speed. I think it's a really important

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Speaker 7: part of it and let him progress and become a

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Speaker 7: more powerful hitter later on.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's exactly what's gonna happen with it.

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Speaker 5: And that's kind of what they do with Alec Bohm.

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Speaker 5: They let him be himself with his swing, and you know,

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Speaker 5: to ninety seven, you're RBIs in a row. So I

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Speaker 5: think there's a lot of merits what you say, Let

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Speaker 5: the guy swing and let him develop and become the

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Speaker 5: hitter he's gonna be. And you know when he starts

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Speaker 5: catching the ball out in front, that ball will get

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Speaker 5: more left.

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Speaker 1: It was funny though, Like Preston Manning when we had

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Speaker 1: him on in late October, he said, we think it's

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Speaker 1: going to develop, but we also we kind of want

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Speaker 1: him to hit the ball on the ground.

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Speaker 3: So like they're they're they're okay with it.

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Speaker 1: They think it's going to be a little bit better

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Speaker 1: over time, which would be great, which would be a

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Speaker 5: If you don't feel it clean, if you don't feeld

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Speaker 5: it cleanly on that guy he's on base, you know

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Speaker 5: what I you want.

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Speaker 4: I do love about the organization.

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Speaker 7: Preston manningly understands this that now you can't cookie cutter

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Speaker 7: every single You can't put everybody in the same in

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Speaker 7: the in the same silo as a hitter. Different guys

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Speaker 7: have different abilities, and you want to maximize those abilities.

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Speaker 7: Maybe you know, have them improve in other ones. But

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Speaker 7: but to me, just let those guys do what they

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Speaker 7: do best. Let them do that the best. And and

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Speaker 7: and I think that's what Preston maddenly was trying to

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Speaker 7: stress in the minor leagues, and I think it's something

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Speaker 7: that will continue at the major league level. I mean,

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Speaker 7: they're always developing. Like you saw Shorbur make the adjustment

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Speaker 7: last year and all of a sudden he hit fifty

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Speaker 7: points higher. And you're always trying to make adjustments to

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Speaker 7: be a better player. But listen, if you do something

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Speaker 7: really really well, why take that away? You don't necessarily

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Speaker 7: Not everybody's going to be a home run hitter. Not

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Speaker 7: everybody's Ryan Howard, and not everybody's Dave Kingman, and not

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Speaker 7: everybody's Mike Schmidt.

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Speaker 4: You have to be able to, you know, be a

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Speaker 1: Not it's pretty quiet camp, But there is some news,

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Speaker 1: All right, we are back, and so yesterday, oh, actually

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Speaker 1: it was Friday. Rob Thompson told us we saw Paul

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Speaker 1: blugit that Philly's trained to go on the field and

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Speaker 1: talk to Rob Thompson.

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Speaker 3: We're like, oh, oh, kind of gets our reporting radar up.

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Speaker 1: We asked Rob after the workout on Friday, something going on,

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Speaker 1: he said. Wes Wilson pulled an oblique get the update

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Speaker 1: yesterday Saturday that he's gonna miss six weeks, and then

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Speaker 1: we talked to Wes Wilson today. Obviously super super disappointed,

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Speaker 1: felt bad for him. He came into camp. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he had a great shot to make his first opening

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Speaker 1: day roster. Guy who spent a lot of time in

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Speaker 1: the minor leagues says he has a Grade two strings

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Speaker 1: gonna be out for at least six weeks, don't you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You know how those things go. It can be touch

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Speaker 3: and go, it could last a lot longer.

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Speaker 1: That maybe comes back quicker, but regardless, he's out of

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Speaker 1: the running now for that final bench spot, and that

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Speaker 1: kind of opens things up and looks like Cody Clemens

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Speaker 1: Buddy Kennedy's odds definitely improve. Cal Stevenson still on the

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Speaker 1: forty men roster. He plays outfiel, he hits left handed.

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Speaker 1: He's probably behind those two guys. I would think, what

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Speaker 1: do you guys see about now the bench situation, because that's.

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Speaker 3: Really one of the only spots on this team that's

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Speaker 3: up for grabs.

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Speaker 1: It was the last bench spot, the backup catcher, and

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Speaker 1: of course the last man in the bullpen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like you mentioned, tough break for West and Wilson.

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Speaker 5: He you know, he's a right handed stick, and I

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Speaker 5: think that's something they prefer in that last bench spot

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Speaker 5: because if he looks to pinchhit for Marsh or if

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Speaker 5: he looks to pinchhit for a Max Keplerer, both left.

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Speaker 5: He so a right handed bat attractive. But you know,

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Speaker 5: you don't want to mess around with these obliques because

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Speaker 5: they have a tendency to linger. You gotta really knock

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Speaker 5: impression and oblique basically is a month. That's what I've

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Speaker 5: always heard. And to hear it six weeks, well, he

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Speaker 5: more serious. And he's gonna need time to ramp up.

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Speaker 5: And like you mentioned, you know, Buddy Kennedy rises to

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Speaker 4: Sut ball doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: So let's take a quick look ahead Tomorrow Tuesday for

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry Monday. I'm sorry today Monday. For our purposes,

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Speaker 1: the Phillies are supposed to play the Pirates. Now, rain

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Speaker 1: is in the schedule, but here's.

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Speaker 3: Here's why, Here's why Monday is interesting.

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Speaker 1: Paul Skeens is supposed to pitch for the Pirates on

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Speaker 1: Monday against Christopher Sanchez. So that could be a fun

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Speaker 1: I mean, a great matchups for a spring training purposes,

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Speaker 1: you know, a great matchup if it doesn't rain, if

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Speaker 1: there's a hint of Right now, I think Paul Skeens

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Speaker 1: Sunshine skywait Bridge.

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Speaker 3: But are you guys looking forward to seeing anything this

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Speaker 3: next week?

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Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to seeing Christopher Sanchez because he's I mean,

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Speaker 5: looks like he spent some serious time in the weight room.

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Speaker 5: He looks you know, this guy was break through talent

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Speaker 5: last year, and just looking at the condition he is

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Speaker 5: in coming off the off season, it does not look

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Speaker 5: like he was resting on his laurels. Does not look

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Speaker 5: like he was all of a sudden comfortable with that

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Speaker 5: new contract. Look like he got to work and wants

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Speaker 5: to be better. And he's already alluded to working on

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Speaker 5: a new little pitch or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he said he was going to work on

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Speaker 3: a new pitch.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll see that on Monday, because I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of curious he didn't. He wanted to keep it a

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Speaker 1: little bit under wraps, keep it top secret. I guess

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Speaker 1: to unleash it on the Pirates on Monday. But I

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Speaker 1: am looking forward to seeing what Santus can do.

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Speaker 5: Ruben, when you were the GM and you had a

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Speaker 5: wet field and spring training, would would that make you

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Speaker 5: really anxious about, you know, putting your starters out there,

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Speaker 5: or even putting a putting a quality or a top

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Speaker 5: picture on the mound in the on a wet track,

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Speaker 5: when it was sunny and bright.

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Speaker 7: I was nervous because I mean, I know Rob Thompson

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Speaker 7: talks about it a lot, but the reality of it is,

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Speaker 7: you want to come out of spring training with your

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Speaker 7: healthy twenty six and it's that's really the most important part.

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Speaker 7: I mean, obviously you want them to gap their sea

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Speaker 7: legs underneath them and they're and they're ready to go,

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Speaker 7: timing wise and all the other stuff, but you have

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Speaker 7: to have I mean, your best ability is your availability,

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Speaker 7: and I think that's what's so important about getting through

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Speaker 7: spring training. That's also one of the reasons why I

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Speaker 7: think they've shortened it up so much. They I mean,

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Speaker 7: the spring trainings have become very very different from what

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Speaker 7: they used to be and they're much shorter, and I

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Speaker 7: think that there is a reason why I think guys

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Speaker 7: want to stay on the field and figure out ways

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Speaker 7: to get their players ready to go on you know,

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Speaker 7: April first or March twenty seventh or whatever it is.

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Speaker 5: Both guys are coming in and pretty much tip top shape.

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Speaker 5: That's right. Yeah, it's not like you know, like we

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Speaker 5: talked about recently.

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Speaker 3: Charlie selling beer in the off season working for the

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Speaker 3: Hams Brewing.

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Speaker 5: Company and Mickey Mantle coming in with a you know,

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Speaker 5: wearing a garbage bag, sweating off that eleven pounds again

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Speaker 5: in the summer, it's big. They're in, They're in, They're

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Speaker 5: ready to go. I mean, you know, you got to

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Speaker 5: see pitches and get your eyes ready, get your hands ready,

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Speaker 5: to get your timing ready. Pitchers need to build workload

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Speaker 5: in arm strength, but in terms of physical condition, they

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Speaker 5: all come in really good shape.

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Speaker 7: No doubt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot more common. Philly Show will be

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Speaker 1: so check that out. Go to Phillyshow dot com. When

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Speaker 1: those are in, we will absolutely let you know. And

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Speaker 1: uh check out the Zach Wheeler episode.

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Speaker 5: If you have, check out the Zach Wheeler episode, and

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Speaker 5: also go back and check out the Caleb Coffin episode.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was one of the most informative ones

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Speaker 5: we have done, especially as spring training gets cooking here

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Speaker 5: and you put your eyeballs on the pictures. Check out

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Speaker 5: the Caleb Coffin pitching Coach episode right.

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Speaker 1: And and uh yeah, that's that's a great one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's a great one. Preston Manity on the Prospects. That

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Speaker 1: was last October, Luke Martin farm director. If you want

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Speaker 1: to learn more about some of those guys we just

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Speaker 1: talked about, check that out.

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