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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of The Mets

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Speaker 2: The Podcast presented by Fox One. Today, we're gonna be

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Speaker 2: talking about the new coaching hirings or developments.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They got into bench coach. They made Jeff Albert the

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Speaker 2: hitting director at the major league level, but he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be on the bench. There's a lot going on with that,

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Speaker 2: as well as a little bit of a media marvel

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Speaker 2: as well, which we'll have some fun with. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you guys about what's going on in

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Speaker 2: the Mets world because you don't want to hear about

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Speaker 2: playoff baseball too much. Honestly, you don't want to hear

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Speaker 2: about the Dodgers and the Mariners. So Kai Krrea, I

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Speaker 2: think that's the one I want to talk the most

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Speaker 2: about that I'm most interested in. I know Jeff Alberts,

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Speaker 2: you've got a lot on him, but Kai Corea, to me, is.

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Speaker 1: One of the more interesting ones.

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Speaker 2: He is now the bench coach of the Mets, coming

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Speaker 2: on over from the Cleveland Guardians organization previously the Giants.

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Speaker 2: Young guy thirty seven years old, and Jeff passions said

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Speaker 2: the best, he's gonna be the right hand to Carlos Mendoz.

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Speaker 3: And Kayle, Correa is someone that's or the despite being

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Speaker 3: very young thirty seven years old, the second he stopped

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Speaker 3: someone that's considered a manager in waiting, like a hot

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Speaker 3: the fact that he took this Mets job, because they

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Speaker 3: So I think this is kind of what we'd hinted

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Speaker 3: at recently, where whoever is Carlos Mendez's bench coach is

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Speaker 3: someone that we don't know if someone's gonna happen next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, especially with some of the reports about Carl Spendoza,

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Speaker 1: Becau Steve Cohen doesn't like that.

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Speaker 2: But one really cool thing about Correa is that when

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Speaker 1: Was originally their major league field coordinator.

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Speaker 2: And one thing that we've heard from David Stearns is

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Speaker 2: that he wants to be better defensively this year. Guardians

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Speaker 2: this past season or two seasons ago, my bad promoted

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Speaker 2: to be the director of defense, base base running and

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Speaker 2: game strategy. Two things that I think the Mets need

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Speaker 2: lock well. The fact that Korea in a Guardian's organization

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Speaker 2: that while they don't spend money, they do get some

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Speaker 2: and game strategy is something that we both acknowledged was

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Speaker 3: Cleveland dot Com referred to Korea as a defensive mastermind.

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Speaker 1: Love that.

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Speaker 2: And while there's been great strides with like Brett Baedy

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Speaker 2: like John Gibbons, all he did was answer the phones

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Speaker 2: It felt like nobody was on top of Mendoza in

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Speaker 3: Cray also was in the Guardians organization before he went

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Speaker 3: the farm system twenty eighteen twenty nineteen. As they did

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are all great defensive players. They can't hit

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Speaker 3: Love And when John Gibbons left, the last thing he

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven, it's so young.

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Speaker 2: This dude was almost born in the nineties and he's

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Speaker 3: And I think that's also cool with the fact that

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Speaker 1: He's younger than J. D. Martinez.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, right, there is something the fact of communication

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Speaker 3: I think that's an exciting thing, just to get like

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Speaker 2: Yes, which is coherence and development which I like to see.

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Speaker 3: And again coming from the then India is now Guardians

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Speaker 3: where John Gibbons, on the other hand, vibe guy, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Nobody picks up a phone like John Gibbons.

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Speaker 3: He kind of almost was like an overseer for Mendoza.

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Speaker 3: And there's also this idea where we're watching these playoff

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Speaker 2: Maybe he also helps too, because we know Mendozo has

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Speaker 1: Even for Carlos Mendoza.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's there's so much positive, yes, positivity around

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Speaker 3: Ka He's Hawaiian.

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Speaker 2: He speaks Portuguese like, he's a very Portuguese a fat

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Speaker 2: look at Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure said that that's such

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Speaker 3: He's a fascinating, interesting dude. And he when he stopped

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Speaker 3: He has been coaching baseball for fifteen years. He's only

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Speaker 1: He's a baseball coach rat.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he is a baseball coach rat. He's like, I

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Speaker 1: Also, he looks like a nerd, and I kind of

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I do get scared of like the overwhelming positivity

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Speaker 2: But remember the last time the Mets had an overwhelmingly

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so yeah, not not a good guy. But

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Speaker 2: Jeff Albert, because James, you you love this guy. You're

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Speaker 2: obsessed with Jeff Albert. He's been in the Mets organization

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Speaker 2: for a while. He is now promoted to basically the

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Speaker 2: hitting version of Eric Jaegers, which is the hitting coordinator coordinator.

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Speaker 3: I get the exact words. It pass his tweak. That's relevant.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, the interesting part

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Speaker 2: like we might be doing a two hitting coach situation again.

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Speaker 3: All since before we fully shut the door in Kai Correa,

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Speaker 3: Shout out Pat Ragazzo, friends of the program, he had

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Speaker 3: that one. But so this is the exact wory thing

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Speaker 3: from Jeff Pass. New York Mets director of hitting development

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Speaker 3: Jeff Albert will be in charge of the major league

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Speaker 3: And Jeff Albert does that with data, biomechanics and video review.

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Speaker 3: Here from Andy Green. Albert is as bright as anybody

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Speaker 1: No, and it does scare me to hear that again.

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Speaker 2: That terrifies me to hear that they're theoretically or two

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 3: No, it's me badly whenever at that time, but Albert

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Speaker 1: A choice of paths for Jeff Albert.

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Speaker 1: Let's go Mets.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty much all the Mets news, right. I don't

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Speaker 3: We also signed our first player. We got a side armor.

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Speaker 1: Wait, who do we sign something?

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Speaker 3: Shocks?

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of Jocks?

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Speaker 1: The first name Joe Jocks.

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Speaker 1: Wow, let's go Shrewsby.

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Speaker 2: I might have played against this guy. I've played against

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Speaker 1: That one is terrifying.

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Speaker 2: friend of the podcast Always On Here, find his way

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Speaker 2: into a media marvel during the off seasons fantastic. He

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Speaker 2: wrote an article completely scorching David Stearns for not taking

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Speaker 2: a meeting with Blake's new well conveniently forgetting that Blake

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Speaker 2: Snell seemingly signed in the middle of the night with

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers random It was literally ten o'clock I think,

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Speaker 2: got a Friday night, like three days into free agency,

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Speaker 2: and it did seem like Blake Snell, who had just

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Speaker 2: spent many years on the West Coast, grew up on

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Speaker 2: the West Coast, probably wanted to stay on the West Coast, took.

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Speaker 1: A price cut to go with the Dodgers too.

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Speaker 3: Like he got a great price cut. Yeah, I got

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Speaker 3: a great.

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Speaker 2: Deal, but we know that he could have probably gotten

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Speaker 2: more if he waited a week maybe.

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Speaker 3: And I think we're also on the spot where at

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Speaker 3: the time last the off season, before we got into

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Speaker 3: that deal, actually being signed I was banging the drum

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Speaker 3: for Blake Snell.

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Speaker 1: We were with pro Blake Snell on this podcast.

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Speaker 3: And we got a lot of hate from you guys

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Speaker 3: for it. But now you look at Blake Snell. He

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Speaker 3: just after the eighth inning gem in Game one against

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Speaker 3: the Brewers. He's made fifteen playoff appearances, he has seventy

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Speaker 3: playoff innings, two point five to eight r a one

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Speaker 3: point zero three whip when the guy is on the mound,

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Speaker 3: which fair not always. He's won the five best pitches

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Speaker 3: in baseball when he's on the mount.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's really good. And that's you see how

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers built their team. You just want the best pictures.

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Speaker 2: You don't worry about how sustainable, how many innings are

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Speaker 2: going to give. You just want the best players when

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Speaker 2: it matters the most. And that rotation is out of control.

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Speaker 1: Good.

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Speaker 3: And I don't remember if it was a puma or

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Speaker 3: just other people on the internet who were also saying

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Speaker 3: the same thing about David Senter's not meeting with Max

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Speaker 3: Fried last year. And I think Max Freed' is still

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Speaker 3: a great picture and we know that, but we also

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Speaker 3: just saw Max Fried get torched rated kind of get

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Speaker 3: the Yankees elimonade in the game where they kind of

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Speaker 3: had to win the second game down on one in

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Speaker 3: a best of five. So there's again, there's not a

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Speaker 3: perfect way to build a rotation. The one perfect move

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Speaker 3: the Mets could have made to build this rotation they

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Speaker 3: tried to make very hard is where I'll take us

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Speaker 3: to the next media marvel we have here, and that's

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Speaker 3: from Oddly Josh Reddick never expected this to happen, but

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Speaker 3: a tweet came across my timeline that Josh Reddick tweeted

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Speaker 3: on December twenty second, twenty twenty three to ten thirty

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Speaker 3: six am, which you guys remember, I think was right

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Speaker 3: when they Almo the deal happened, and he didn't even

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Speaker 3: mention Yamo's name. We all knew he was talking about

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Speaker 3: it because he said, how do you give a guy

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Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty five million dollars about ever throwing

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Speaker 3: a pitch at MLB? And then someone replied baseball is ruined,

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Speaker 3: and then Josh Redda replied to that, I agree, Yeah, that's.

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Speaker 2: Like gotta go down as where the worst takes ever.

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Speaker 2: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Holy shit, he's so good. We were watching

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Speaker 2: the game in a bar, shout out. Now, I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna shout at the bar, but we went to a

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Speaker 2: bar last night and we were watching the game, and

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Speaker 2: on pitch, like one away, Yoshinoba Yamamoto goes seventy mile

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Speaker 2: an hour curveball dotted outside corner to a right handed batter,

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Speaker 2: comes back with two splitters that are bearing in on

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Speaker 2: the right handed batter, not even close, and then he

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Speaker 2: just paints again on the corner like he is.

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Speaker 1: He's a top five pitcher in the game.

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Speaker 2: He's so good. He is worth all the money. He's

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Speaker 2: the highest paid pitcher ever, right. I think that still

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Speaker 2: stands as the high highest paid pitcher ever in baseball history.

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Speaker 3: By total contract, by contract.

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Speaker 1: I believe so.

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Speaker 2: And he lives up to every single dollar. He's so

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Speaker 2: incredibly good.

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Speaker 3: We're also in the spot with Yoshinoba yamo though, where

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Speaker 3: he might have two seasons in Major League Baseball and

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Speaker 3: two World Series rinks. Yeah, in a week, in two,

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Speaker 3: in three weeks like this. He is such a good

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Speaker 3: he's such a difference maker for his Dodgers. Right, and

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Speaker 3: like we rightfully identified that, I'm I don't know, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he is. He's the highest paid one more million dollar

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Speaker 3: than gart Cale got three twenty five or three twenty four,

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Speaker 3: better than Gary Cole. Well, now mcgiry, Cole's all he'll

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Speaker 3: show me almost twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Years old right now.

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Speaker 3: Like it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Such a sick contract.

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Speaker 2: God dang it, that was that. That back to Andrew Vaughan,

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Speaker 2: who we were both like, what the fuck? We smell

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Speaker 2: every shingle pitch Like Jesus Christ, how are you doing that?

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Speaker 1: Pitch?

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Speaker 3: One? Ten? And again it's cool. The Dodgers kept these

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Speaker 3: guys pretty fresh all year, like we people. This conversation

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Speaker 3: comes up to the Mets a lot because we've called

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Speaker 3: Asanga for now, and the question is, oh, you can't

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Speaker 3: you do six men rotation? You're gonna baby, this guy's

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Speaker 3: gonna hold all rotation ransom. No, it's not that that's

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Speaker 3: good for everybody if you have the six pitchers to

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Speaker 3: do it. The Dodgers scratching claws to get to the

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Speaker 3: regular season. They're pitching staff patch it together with fucking

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Speaker 3: paper mache. But Miamla was the guy that was there

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Speaker 3: the whole time, and he was the anchor, and all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden you get to the playoffs. Everyone's healthy,

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Speaker 3: everyone's fresh. These guys are throwing more than they've ever

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Speaker 3: thrown in the game all season. They're throwing as hard

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Speaker 3: as they were throwing in June July, and you like, wow,

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Speaker 3: maybe this system does work.

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Speaker 2: You know, it had been really nice for this Mets

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Speaker 2: team this past year. I sang and pitching every six days.

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Speaker 2: Sean and I are pitching every six days, Clay Holmes.

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Speaker 2: David Peterson, who threw mornings than he ever had and

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Speaker 2: fell off the startup as soon as he did, would

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Speaker 2: have been great if he probably had an extra day

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Speaker 2: every single time he went out on the mound.

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Speaker 3: Which is why sometimes you do get kind of dragged

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Speaker 3: back to this idea of volume shooting, this rotation just

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Speaker 3: because sometimes I might actually work at the.

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Speaker 1: End of the day. Yeah, man, six man rotation would

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Speaker 1: have been great for the Mets this year. Probably probably

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs if they did that.

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Speaker 3: And again, Josh Reddick, how do you give a guy

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Speaker 3: through in twenty five million dollars without the ring a

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Speaker 3: pitch an MLB? Josh Reddick, how do you hit three fifteen?

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Speaker 3: You've never hit the above two sixty in your life?

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Speaker 3: Good question. How'd that happen. Yeah, good question, And he

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Speaker 3: happened twenty seventeen with the Astros. I'm forgetting.

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Speaker 1: I also think it's super funny too.

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Speaker 2: Get goes back to that Robert Stock tweet where it's

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Speaker 2: like we can just we can identify what a pitch

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Speaker 2: looks like and go, you're gonna be good. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: yo schnobuyam mooto had all of it.

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Speaker 3: And that was a big thing we talked about during

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Speaker 3: that whole kind of situation that was going on, Like,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's never thrown a pitch, but know how

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Speaker 3: he's going to response, Like we have the way they move.

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Speaker 3: The way they move is going to determine how much

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Speaker 3: others can hit them. We have philosophy, we have when

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Speaker 3: they move or how he uses them. You got you

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Speaker 3: got it all right now, Like that's how a guy

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Speaker 3: like Trey Savage can just be in the major leagues. Yep,

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Speaker 3: a year after being drafted. Jonah Tong can pitch not

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Speaker 3: until in the upper minders. Yeah, Noel mclan. Once these pitches changed,

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Speaker 3: all right, ready to go, Yep, he's good to get

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Speaker 3: him to the majors, pack him up right now. It's

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Speaker 3: just there's it's almost like we know too much now.

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Speaker 3: Pandora's assays been opened, and like you can you can

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Speaker 3: make three pitches in the laboratory, you can send the

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Speaker 3: guy to the major leagues and you're ready to go.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty cool, though from an outside perspective, just being like, wow,

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Speaker 2: baseball numbers.

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Speaker 1: That's all it is. It's it's only ever been numbers.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's the human element is definitely still

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Speaker 3: involved and you can't say that's not. But at the

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Speaker 3: same time, a guy like y'amoo who people were still like,

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know how I feel similar to

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Speaker 3: what Reddick said, where it's like, can you bring a

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Speaker 3: guy I was ready to the major in him if

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Speaker 3: he sucked, for sure, definitely, Oh yeah, for sure. But

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Speaker 3: we knew he wouldn't because you're like, oh, here's ninety six,

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Speaker 3: there's the curve, there's a split.

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Speaker 2: I don't see an issue now, and uh, there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a big reason why the Dodgers would another world series.

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Speaker 2: That's it for this episode, though, guys, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for listening and watching.

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Speaker 2: But the see We'll catch you guys all next week

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Speaker 2: unless some big news happens, but if not, we'll see

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Speaker 2: you on Monday for the next episode.

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Speaker 3: Peace Out, peace Out, guys. It's COMEBTS.

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