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Speaker 2: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today is Wednesday, October fifteenth,

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Speaker 2: and we got news this morning that Anthony Volpi, Yankee shortstop,

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Speaker 2: is going to have labor Actually, he has had laborum

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Speaker 2: surgery to repair a tear in the labrum of his

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Speaker 2: just give you just kind of a little bit of

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Speaker 2: and I did it in two thousand and eight in

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Speaker 2: a similar way. But it's basically, the shoulder is like

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Speaker 2: a it's like a ball in a socket, like the

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Speaker 2: way the shoulder operates. And then the laborum is tissue

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Speaker 2: that goes around that socket. And there are different ways

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Speaker 2: you can tear it. You can tear it vertically. You

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Speaker 2: can also tear it from the bone a little bit.

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Speaker 2: And it's an extremely painful injury when you have to

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Speaker 2: use it. Now most of the time in daily life,

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Speaker 2: I didn't feel it right if I'm just kind of

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Speaker 2: I was doing weightlifting, and it gets worse over time,

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Speaker 2: So like it got to the point eventually where you know,

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Speaker 2: after I did any kind of baseball activities, I couldn't

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Speaker 2: had trouble, like washing my hair with my right arm,

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Speaker 2: it becomes quite painful, quite aggravated. Now I didn't have

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Speaker 2: I figure, well, I'm not a professional baseball Eventually I'm

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Speaker 2: going to stop having to throw. And now it feels

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Speaker 2: mostly better. It still bothers me when I sleep on it,

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Speaker 2: but I want to I want to put a comment

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Speaker 2: Sal Cigar say, is good trade him? Now I just

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Speaker 2: got to say, that's terrible. We don't want our players

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Speaker 2: to get hurt. You don't want you don't want our

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Speaker 2: guys to you have to have surgery. You want him

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Speaker 2: to be better, You want Yankees to be successful. And

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Speaker 2: obviously this is down year for him. Two twelve average,

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Speaker 2: nineteen home runs, did have seventy two RBIs one point

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Speaker 2: seven war eighty three ops plus, so about seventeen percent

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Speaker 2: He had a good series against the Red Sox, went

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Speaker 2: four for eleven in the wild Card series, but then

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Speaker 2: in the Alds just one for fifteen with eleven strikeouts.

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Speaker 2: Now is somebody who has seen this before. I'm concerned

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about a couple of different players

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Speaker 2: that have had laboram issues. Now let's begin with Greg Bird. Now,

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Speaker 2: Greg Bird was a guy who had laboram surgery after

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Speaker 2: the I want to say it was the twenty eighteen season.

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and share the screen. This is a

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Speaker 2: guy who actually, no, it must have been. It must

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Speaker 2: have been after the twenty seventeen season. Anyway, his numbers

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Speaker 2: really fell off. This is a guy who was looking

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Speaker 2: like he could hit, you know, for a you know,

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Speaker 2: a ton of power for the Yankees for a long time.

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Speaker 2: But after he had his surgery, like he went from

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Speaker 2: to look at is Miguel and Duhar who had labrom surgery. Now,

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Speaker 2: you know, he hit three eighteen this year. He has

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Speaker 2: recovered a little bit offensively, but you know, he had

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Speaker 2: second game of the season back in twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 2: his power has really never been the same. You know,

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Speaker 2: He's gonna maybe perhaps be forced to become more of

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Speaker 2: Anthony Volpi's stats over his career now as a rookie

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Speaker 2: And then the following year I thought he was off

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Speaker 2: But he hit two forty three that year with twelve

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Speaker 2: about two eighty eight, right here, right around early June.

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Speaker 2: So at that point the Yankees were forty four and nineteen.

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Speaker 2: They were on fire. He was hitting two eighty eight

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Speaker 2: this is the guy that I think the Yankees need,

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Speaker 2: So let's go from the next day all the way

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Speaker 2: through the end of that season. After that point, he

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Speaker 2: Labram injury is not gonna help with that. Will McConnelly says,

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Speaker 2: do we know the recovery time? If you know, he's

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Speaker 2: not a pitcher and it's not his throwing arm, it's

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Speaker 2: just been It's a tough loss. Jay says, Matt Blake's

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Speaker 2: We'll see. Harvey says The thrower, the shower shoulder. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: So he heard it diving into second or no diving

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Speaker 2: So the other voice that says he wasn't hitting when

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Speaker 2: People will say that the surgery is the reason he

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Speaker 2: had a bad season, which is not We don't know

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Speaker 2: And Yankees fans just quite frankly look for more than that.

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Speaker 2: So we got the chat fielding up. Here'll take a

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Speaker 2: DraftKings and we'll take a few more David Paie says,

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Speaker 2: you don't wish ill upon any one hundred percent agree

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Speaker 2: we're better than that, Yankees fans, we should not be

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Speaker 2: celebrating a players injury just because he had a bad

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Speaker 2: postseason or a bad season. Saw Sigar says, we could

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Speaker 2: He doesn't hit very much either. If you look at

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Speaker 2: his numbers, I mean, he's obviously got the speed, but

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Speaker 2: a damn site better than Anthony Volpi hit this year,

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Speaker 2: and he had a higher war in less games, right,

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Speaker 2: So theoretically you would be getting better, But a lot

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Speaker 2: You know, we will probably bring back Cody Bellinger, John

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Speaker 2: Carlos Stan could be healthy first season. We'll see. But

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Speaker 2: want to go that direction. A dresser says, my buddy

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Speaker 2: You know, that would not be fun. That hurts. Dan

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Speaker 2: A says, you guys will get tired of caby Ara quickly.

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Speaker 2: Having cabal Row come in was kind of a breath

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Speaker 2: But the the lack of production I think would kind

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Speaker 2: It just is not available to us right now. The

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Speaker 2: Yankees are trying to develop one in Lombard, but that

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Speaker 2: didn't exactly go great. You know, I mean, I can

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Speaker 2: it was Richard who said that we should hire Lombard

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Speaker 2: We got a couple of voicemails coming in that I

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Speaker 2: and see what you guys have to take away from

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Speaker 2: this news that Anthony Volpi is having surgery. If that's

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Speaker 1: So, Derek, I got two quick points. One, I don't

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Speaker 2: I don't get what he did, so I disagree that

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Speaker 2: a five to ten million dollar raise minimum. Stanton's money

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Speaker 2: is less this year. I know it doesn't impact the

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't expect a superstar, but you know they're gonna

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Speaker 1: Derek, another point, what do you think about the coach

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Speaker 2: Coaching absolutely matters, one hundred percent. Anybody who watched the

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