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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone in to the Monday edition of Fair Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ken Rosenthal here with you for the next half

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Speaker 1: hour or so. I know Red Sox fans want me

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Speaker 1: to get to the Red Sox. I know Orioles fans

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Speaker 1: want me to get to the Orioles, and we will

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Speaker 1: do that. But first we're going to start with the

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Speaker 1: biggest news of the weekend, and that was the news

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Speaker 1: that Shohey Otani will not pitch for quote some time unquote,

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Speaker 1: according to his manager Dave Roberts. Now this is big

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Speaker 1: news in any number of ways. Otani obviously is going

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Speaker 1: to continue to hit. We now know that when he

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Speaker 1: skipped the All Star Game, it wasn't just I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take a couple of days off. No, he has a

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Speaker 1: legitimate issue with that knee and it is causing him

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Speaker 1: to not be able to pitch or at least be

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Speaker 1: comfortable with his mechanics the way he normally would be.

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Speaker 1: So he is out of the rotation for now. What

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Speaker 1: this does to the Dodgers is interesting because you could

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Speaker 1: argue that they're already set with their rotation. I want

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Speaker 1: to show you where they are with that rotation. But

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Speaker 1: you can also argue that maybe they would need a starter,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about necessarily Trek Skruble. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about just a depth starter. But i want to show

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Speaker 1: you just where they are right now. Okay, So here

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Speaker 1: are the healthy starters. Yamamoto, Robleski, both of those guys

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Speaker 1: all stars. Sasaki brilliant start against the Yankees on Friday night,

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Speaker 1: Emma Sheen who has had good moments, and Eric Lawer

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Speaker 1: who has been really good since coming over from the

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays. Joey Otani, he's injured in the pitching sense, obviously,

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Speaker 1: he is still continuing to hit. Then you've got Snell,

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Speaker 1: who has started a rehabilitation assignment. He is close. And

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Speaker 1: then you've got Glass now, who is probably a few

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Speaker 1: weeks behind Snell. Now, the Dodgers have been going with

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Speaker 1: a six man rotation. They're going to continue to do that,

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Speaker 1: and what they'll do is fill in bullpen games when

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Speaker 1: they need to for that sixth spot until Snell is ready.

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Speaker 1: We saw it last night against the Yankees. They ran

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Speaker 1: a bullpen game, actually rather successfully, even though they lost

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Speaker 1: the game two to one. So that is the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: element of all this, just what it means to their team,

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Speaker 1: and with an eleven and a half game lead, they

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Speaker 1: certainly don't have to push anyone. That's the lead that

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Speaker 1: they have in the National League West. What is also

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Speaker 1: interesting about this physical setback for Otani. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: call it an injury, although I guess it is. That

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Speaker 1: is the implications for both the CY Young and MVP races. Now,

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Speaker 1: you remember we talked a lot about this season Otani

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Speaker 1: wanting to win his first CY Young. It seemed to

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Speaker 1: be a clear goal. Dave Roberts acknowledged that it was

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Speaker 1: a clear goal. Well, now it's not going to happen,

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Speaker 1: simple as that he simply doesn't have the innings. And frankly,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't necessarily going to have the innings even if

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Speaker 1: he had stayed healthy, pitching in a six man rotation,

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Speaker 1: getting extra to rest when necessary. I want to say

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Speaker 1: the National League Innings Board leader board, just to explain

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Speaker 1: what I mean here, because he is way behind even now,

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Speaker 1: all right, there's al Contra leading the league with one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty six and two thirds innings, Christopher Sanchez

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Speaker 1: not far behind one hundred and twenty seven and a third,

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Speaker 1: and then Yamamoto at one hundred and nineteen and two thirds.

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Speaker 1: The Mez, who is a legit cy Young candidate, is

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Speaker 1: twenty third in innings right now, actually tied for twenty

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Speaker 1: third with one hundred and eleven Otani at eighty five

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Speaker 1: and two thirds, And frankly, we don't know how much

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Speaker 1: he is going to pitch the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: You see down below there the fewest innings pitched by

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Speaker 1: a cy Young winning starting pitcher in a full season.

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Speaker 1: That's Corbyn Burns with one hundred and sixty seven in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I had a problem with that one.

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Speaker 1: I like volume in my cy Young votes. As you've

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Speaker 1: often heard me say to me, the more innings you pitch,

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Speaker 1: the more chances you have to fail, Simply the way

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Speaker 1: it is. And yeah, your er might be higher, your

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Speaker 1: other stats might not be as good. Regardless, it's going

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Speaker 1: to affect the cy Young race. Now, the MVP race

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Speaker 1: also gets rather interesting. Now, assuming Otani doesn't pitch much

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty innings, in which case he still

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Speaker 1: have a really strong MVP case. But without him pitching,

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Speaker 1: he's not the same kind of candidate. He becomes actually

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Speaker 1: a human, mortal candidate. Pete crow Armstrong is having a

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Speaker 1: brilliant season. Now, you wouldn't have said he was even

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Speaker 1: the full season. Even crow Armstrong acknowledged that. Last week.

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Speaker 1: PCA said something to the effect of, as long as

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Speaker 1: that guy is pitching, I've got no chance. Well, now

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Speaker 1: maybe the plot thickens if you look at WAR and

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Speaker 1: player's all around value. You look at WAR and we'll

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Speaker 1: show you here what I'm talking about. F UR and

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Speaker 1: pitching and hitting. He's at six point one to crow

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Speaker 1: point eight to five point seven. Does PCA have a chance?

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Speaker 1: I would say now, yes, he has a chance, and

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Speaker 1: I would not have said that before. So again, it

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Speaker 1: all depends upon when Otani pitches again. If he and

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Speaker 1: PCA continue to perform at high levels in PCA's case,

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Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. So there you have it, the

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Speaker 1: Otani multi layered discussion that is quite fascinating and of

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Speaker 1: course is something that the Dodgers will be monitoring with

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Speaker 1: him as far as his workload and his health all

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Speaker 1: To the American League and to the two hottest teams

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Speaker 1: in baseball right now, the Boston Red Sox. First winning

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Speaker 1: game winning streak by the Red Sox since nineteen forty eight.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited for them, I can barely get my

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Speaker 1: words out. First thirteen game winning streak by a Boston

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Speaker 1: the Orioles, a seven game winning streak, and they two

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Speaker 1: What they have that most teams do not, and they've

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Now they have the Orioles and the

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Speaker 1: You see it right there. They are in the third

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Speaker 1: The Oriols are still two games below five hundred. They

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Speaker 1: Will the Mets trade Francisco Lindor? I laid this out,

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Speaker 1: Maybe Brady Singer, he is a rental he could appeal

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Speaker 1: that would make them more aggressive, because not only do

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Speaker 1: Cowboys Inquirer seven two five nine, who asks how deep

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Speaker 1: The Yankees with Judge, let me give you some numbers here,

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Speaker 1: averaging four runs per game. That's more than a run

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Speaker 1: have enough offense now. If you think Judge is coming

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Speaker 1: But you've got to have some confidence that Judge is

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Speaker 1: ready to resume baseball activities. It's going to be some

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: With that, I want to thank you for watching for listening.

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory coming up at one pm Eastern. It's Todd Frasier,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Latz and USA Today's Bob Nightingale. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: Thursday at twelve thirty Eastern. Have a great week everyone.

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