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Speaker 1: What is Up? Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of the Mets Up Podcast, episode number one seventy one,

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Speaker 1: talking about spring training, talking about the World Baseball Classic

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Speaker 1: with your Coat, with your hosts Me, Mark Luiino, Draftneckmark,

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Speaker 1: James Sheiana. We're going to talk about everything that's been

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Speaker 1: did see you recently. We had a friend's birthday, but

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Speaker 1: we haven't done a formal episode on zoom in a

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Speaker 1: little bit. How you doing.

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Speaker 2: Doing well? You know, still kind of feel like we're

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Speaker 2: playing the ketchup from being down in the PSL now

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Speaker 2: almost almost two full weeks ago, and just we did that.

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Speaker 2: We did a bit of a crazy weekend. We did.

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Speaker 2: We did board Game Night on Friday, which was super fun.

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Speaker 2: And then we other friends Birthday and Saturday, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: seeing you other lot, but not.

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Speaker 1: That's very uh not Mets conversation with each other, which

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Speaker 1: is perfect for you guys because now you get to

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Speaker 1: hear about it because there is a lot to talk about,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like the first thing I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about at least is the young guys Ronnie, Mauricio,

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Speaker 1: Brett Baty, Mark Vientos. They've been playing unbelievably well in

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Speaker 1: spring training, doing a lot of things that are you know,

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Speaker 1: super encouraging, super exciting to see for their young development

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Speaker 1: and hopefully to maybe make an impact for this team

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Speaker 1: at some point this year.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, that truerly you mentioned have been just the entire

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Speaker 2: story of Mets camp and entire story, like they're one

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Speaker 2: of the biggest stories even like nationally right now going

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Speaker 2: through all spring training. The fact that these three prospects

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Speaker 2: are here together, spend a lot of time with the

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Speaker 2: miners together, more Sobaitian Viento's than Mauricio, but everyone has

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Speaker 2: spent time on certain teams together, and all three of

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Speaker 2: them are doing things that are really unique and like

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Speaker 2: special to their own growth as players. Just start with,

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Speaker 2: I feel like the guy who's been the most surprising

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Speaker 2: just because of where he came in versus where he

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Speaker 2: is now is Ronnie Mauricio with three just mammoth tanks

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Speaker 2: so far, three big bombs. It's rocking through three eighty

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Speaker 2: four to thirty eleven hundred slash line, which is obscene.

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Speaker 2: Of course, only fourteen played appearances. But he just looks

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Speaker 2: like he like just belongs on the ship.

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Speaker 1: He looks really, really confident. I mean, we saw him

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Speaker 1: play in Brooklyn when we interviewed him back before we

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Speaker 1: were with the Mets, massive human being. He looks like

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Speaker 1: he got even bigger, looks like he got even stronger.

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Speaker 1: He's playing shortstop. He's also talked about maybe playing even

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Speaker 1: move positions, which is actually something a little bit different

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Speaker 1: than when we spoke to him in Brooklyn. We're like,

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Speaker 1: what position do you play? It was like I'm a

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Speaker 1: and he's talking about he's looking to move positions if

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Speaker 1: that means he's gonna be able to play and if

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Speaker 1: he keeps swinging like this, I mean, you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: just they're not just home runs. They're not wall scrapers,

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Speaker 1: they're not Yekee Stadium home runs. He's hitting him four

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty feet and they're making a different noise

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Speaker 1: off the bat. I've been super excited about this because

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Speaker 1: ever since we saw Ronnie Mariusio take VP that one time,

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Speaker 1: I've been I've been in. I'm a huge guy like,

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Speaker 1: He's a part of that group, and I'm really glad

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Speaker 1: what twenty one years old and to be able to

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Speaker 1: Back to the talent of Ronnie Mauricio.

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Speaker 2: I think he kind of just became like a pro

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Speaker 2: that and he's clearly made actual improvements. I want to

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Speaker 2: shout out someone I'm good like friendly with. Chris Clagg

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Speaker 2: on Twitter does incredible prospect work. He has been going

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Speaker 2: through like pitch by pitch data for a lot of

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Speaker 2: the prospects at spring training, and the most important thing

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Speaker 2: for Ronnie Maricio forever. We've talked about it at length

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Speaker 2: on this podcast. Is played discipline being able to be

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Speaker 2: patient he Wall. It's either kind of the combination. When

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Speaker 2: the hit tool overrides and it wins. That's happened. I'm

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Speaker 2: me Rosario now former met who's out in Cleveland? That

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Speaker 1: Who's another guy who's just happy that hits everything like that?

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Speaker 2: fourteen played the appearance of the Spring. Ronie's got only

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Speaker 2: one walk in one strikeer. Yes, we saw that walk.

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Speaker 2: I was I freaked out for that walk. I lost

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Speaker 2: my mind. But fourteen Bladeburns won't walk one strike and

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Speaker 2: again shot Chris Clay. He's been tracking pitch by pitch

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Speaker 2: his chase rate and his wiffray have also both gone

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Speaker 2: I think they say I forget the numbers now, but

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Speaker 2: the power was there. Those facts about his play discipline

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Speaker 1: I don't know where it's going to be, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how he's going to do it, and honestly, there's

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Speaker 1: a very good chance he might not because he still

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Speaker 1: now of guys that play similar ish positions in front

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Speaker 2: And just the fact that we've been saying, was this

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Speaker 2: team need I could really use, you know, another power bat? Okay,

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Speaker 2: Well here's a guy who can actually play a premium

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Speaker 2: a unicorn for this Mets roster, and he could. It's

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Speaker 2: definitely not gonn happen for opening day, So people are talking

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Speaker 2: way more than I would have said about percent.

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Speaker 1: I think he's changed a lot of people's opinions, and

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Speaker 1: he seems to have an idea of what the strike

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Speaker 1: bett about Brett Bady's game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if anyone out there plays in a dynasty Fantasy

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Speaker 2: Baseball league, I would definitely do what I could to

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Speaker 2: acquire Brett Bailey right now. If anyone I know, I

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Speaker 2: know Mark Mark's and the marks in the card game,

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Speaker 1: Those are my cards, I can't buy them. I'm buying

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Speaker 1: all the Brett Baty cards. No one buy the Brett

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Speaker 1: And it's just the way that he's hitting is as

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Speaker 1: long as he gets the playing time with the major league, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna putting him the Rookie of the Year conversation

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna say I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of people realize that Brett Bathy was this big like

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Speaker 2: like the absolute key part of his developments, becoming like

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Speaker 2: B Pie, Blind Fangrass, Baseball America, all the places. And

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Speaker 2: now the fact that we're just seeing him face major

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Speaker 2: consistently in advantageous ways like he's I think he's really

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Speaker 2: we second he came up last year. As we know,

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Speaker 2: we were so happy when he came up last year.

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Speaker 2: We were so excited we had to He's just he's awesome.

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Speaker 2: He does so many things well in the baseball field.

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Speaker 2: The defense is still work in progress, for sure. I

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Speaker 2: think he had an err or two so far in

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Speaker 2: it's not really at all what I care about. He

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Speaker 1: Starting really hard to teach someone how to hit a

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Speaker 1: It was tied for fifth and Jeff was tied for third,

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Speaker 2: tile of all fastballs in the league last year, which

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Speaker 2: again that's not perfect because we will know how like

433
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Speaker 2: the angle is spinning at, so we don't know if

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Speaker 2: it actually has the hop. It didn't really look like

435
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Speaker 2: it had the hop you wanted a fastball's going to

436
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Speaker 2: miss bats. As fastball didn't miss bats, but it was

437
00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,680
Speaker 2: freezing hitters. He got six called strikes. I remember like

438
00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,560
Speaker 2: watching it seemed like call a lot of hitters off

439
00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,119
Speaker 2: guard because it really just gets on you quickly because

440
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Speaker 2: it catches really good zip.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was.

442
00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,760
Speaker 2: It was freaking really cool watching.

443
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Speaker 1: The ghost fork too. I think he threw a disgusting

444
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Speaker 1: one to Jordan Walker, which, yeah, we welcome to the

445
00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,520
Speaker 1: big league is also Jordan Walker. He's really good. But

446
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Speaker 1: I mean that ghost fork he threw was unreal. Like

447
00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,600
Speaker 1: that would to me. I was like, oh, oh, that's

448
00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,080
Speaker 1: the pitch, that's the one that everyone's talking about. It

449
00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:29,760
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense because it just it literally disappeared.

450
00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,000
Speaker 1: It was like fastball, fastball gone, you can't hit it.

451
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Speaker 1: It was not.

452
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Speaker 2: It was nuts, And we saw him kind of do

453
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,600
Speaker 2: something that renocing a lot of Mets pitchers do this spring,

454
00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,720
Speaker 2: which is this is my best off speed pitch. But

455
00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,360
Speaker 2: he only threw three of them, and that swinging mister

456
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,399
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker was the only one that actually got whifted on.

457
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Speaker 2: So it kind of feels like he was doing that

458
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Speaker 2: to kind of like get after the kid. He was like, oh,

459
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Speaker 2: we're both rookies, let me let me get you real quick.

460
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Speaker 2: But what Coda saying was doing besides throwing that ghost fork,

461
00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,159
Speaker 2: which just seemingly a pitch he's gonna lean on a

462
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Speaker 2: lot during the actual season, was introduced this sweeper, so

463
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Speaker 2: we heard when he was coming over that he had

464
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Speaker 2: a sly there and may have had a little bit

465
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Speaker 2: of a curveball. But we also know that he went

466
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Speaker 2: to drive Line over the winter this year before coming stateside,

467
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Speaker 2: and the only I think he also went with Shintaro Fujinami,

468
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Speaker 2: the new Japanese pitchers on the A's, And the only

469
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Speaker 2: other pitchers I remember who came over and immediately went

470
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Speaker 2: to drive Line was the guy you know who was

471
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Speaker 2: pitching out in the Anaheim and he was that good

472
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Speaker 2: year one. But it seems like this pitch is something

473
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Speaker 2: that's going to be a weapon, just to remind people

474
00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 2: about sweepers. It's kind of the new trendy breaking ball

475
00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,720
Speaker 2: in the league. It's a breaking ball that kind of

476
00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,760
Speaker 2: appears out of the hand like a curveball, but the

477
00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,399
Speaker 2: winds up acting more like a slyer and like the

478
00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,400
Speaker 2: funky baseball term is called gyro has gyro spin, which

479
00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,160
Speaker 2: means it's kind of like spin that makes look different.

480
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Speaker 2: But we're not going to bore you guys with all

481
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Speaker 2: that crazy stuff. And really what happens is, since it

482
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Speaker 2: kind of supposed to look like a curve ball but

483
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Speaker 2: the winds up moving like a sly the it's supposed

484
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,760
Speaker 2: to just make the hitters like not realize what's going on.

485
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:52,359
Speaker 2: And while it does get a lot of the whiffs,

486
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Speaker 2: it kind of is more of a pitch for soft contact.

487
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Speaker 2: And in this game code that got a loss of

488
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Speaker 2: contact with you five swings, four balls in play. Only

489
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Speaker 2: one of them was only ninety five miles an hour

490
00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,960
Speaker 2: and it was ninety seven. So when you get contact

491
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Speaker 2: like that, it's not really gonna hurt you. It seems

492
00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,119
Speaker 2: like that was a big deal for this pitch because

493
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:08,880
Speaker 2: he has the fastball, he has the ghost fork, which

494
00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,520
Speaker 2: getting the whiffs, he needed that third weapon that could

495
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Speaker 2: be like you can get hitters out. And this pitch

496
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Speaker 2: is not really great against opposite side hitters because as

497
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Speaker 2: you can tell, it's like similar so you're not really

498
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,399
Speaker 2: gonna throw that many sliders unless you're David Peterson have

499
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,280
Speaker 2: nasty backfoot boys. The pitch is a little bit slower,

500
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Speaker 2: is not going to be as advantageu against lefties, but

501
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,720
Speaker 2: the ghost for kids because it drops right down. So

502
00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,480
Speaker 2: this is kind of a great weapon for him against

503
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Speaker 2: righty's just to make things more difficult. And yeah, we

504
00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,160
Speaker 2: don't have to move in on it. But he got

505
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Speaker 2: five swings, got one whiff, only one hard hit ball.

506
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Speaker 2: He needed the third pitch, and it looks like he.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there were some good signs, like you saw some.

508
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,200
Speaker 1: It had some success too, like it was a little

509
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Speaker 1: all over the place. More so again in the first

510
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,320
Speaker 1: sitting he hung one up and in like this pitch

511
00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:45,960
Speaker 1: is gonna be a work in progress for sure. Like

512
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,360
Speaker 1: the two best pitches are definitely that ghost fork and fastball.

513
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Speaker 1: But as you've mentioned, having a third pitch is huge,

514
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Speaker 1: especially when those other two pitches look like they can

515
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Speaker 1: be very, very solid and at least with the fastball,

516
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Speaker 1: getting that velo which is so big, so super super

517
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Speaker 1: exciting things coming from Code saying this first start, can't

518
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,280
Speaker 1: wait to see his next one. Talking about some other

519
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,679
Speaker 1: pictures around the Mets, I think we should address the

520
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,440
Speaker 1: injury that has happened unfortunately with jose Kintana went down

521
00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,920
Speaker 1: with a fracture, a small ribbit fracture. I believe there's

522
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Speaker 1: no timeline just yet. I think he went back to

523
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Speaker 1: New York for imaging, is what they said he did.

524
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 2: But if you saw anything to Como's tweet, his flight

525
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,320
Speaker 2: actually today got canceled, so we were gonna have to

526
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Speaker 2: wait for him to get back and actually get testing

527
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Speaker 2: on it. And Buck was like, Buck is like, I'm

528
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,000
Speaker 2: so hoping for good news, but this is definitely gonna

529
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Speaker 2: test the Mets depths a little bit more early. And

530
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Speaker 2: we've been saying all off season, like David Peters and

531
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Speaker 2: Tyler Micgill they're gonna have big roles in this team,

532
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Speaker 2: and now it is just gonna happen a little bit

533
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Speaker 2: sooner than we would have thought. Anyway. Peterston had a

534
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,639
Speaker 2: quote today someone I think someone either Heally or I

535
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Speaker 2: don't know, one of the guys asked him about Quinton's

536
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Speaker 2: injury and he was like, those guys making thirty starts

537
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,880
Speaker 2: each is highly unlikely. At some point, something's gonna happen.

538
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,360
Speaker 2: And we saw last year, you see it every year.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to come in and do my work. And

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have an interview coming out with David Peterson

541
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Speaker 2: probably early next week, and you gonna hear this being

542
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,320
Speaker 2: echoed the kind of the exact same sentiment. He is

543
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 2: just ready to do anything he needs him to do.

544
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 2: And I mean, hopefully we do get good news on

545
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 2: Katana because he was brought in here to be a workhorse,

546
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 2: and it it would really stink if he's not able

547
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 2: to you know, to work. And it was no bleak.

548
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 2: Thank god it was an oblique. I think a stress

549
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Speaker 2: fracture might be better than oblique, because just let the

550
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 2: bone heel. That's okay, that happens, unless it was I

551
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 2: don't know anything about about the sides, but maybe an

552
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 2: oblique made the first stress fracture. Usually that's a fracture

553
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,360
Speaker 2: from stress. But I was relieved, not knowing anything medically,

554
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,399
Speaker 2: that it was not over, you know.

555
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's I don't know. Again, we're

556
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Speaker 1: not doctors, so I won't necessarily make a a call.

557
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 2: There's no timetable, so we hope he's okay.

558
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 1: Obviously we want him to be a part of this rotation.

559
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: It helps the Mets to have him be a part

560
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 1: of this rotation because the depth gets even bigger and longer,

561
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Speaker 1: and he eats innings for sure. But to talk about

562
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Speaker 1: a guy like Peterson, uh, Like you mentioned that interview.

563
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 1: A lot of good baseball talk in that one. So

564
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Speaker 1: if you guys are looking for that, I think interviews

565
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 1: are going to start pushing out on Friday. I think

566
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Speaker 1: this Friday we're gonna drop William Woods and Dan vogelback,

567
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: which would be really cool, great conversations with both of them.

568
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: But the back to Peterson, he just he's a guy

569
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Speaker 1: that I've been we've been talking about, I shouldn't say IY,

570
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: we've both been talking about just how important he could

571
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Speaker 1: be to this team and to see him kind of

572
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Speaker 1: just get thrown right into it now, I feel confident.

573
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Speaker 1: I feel so confident. He did so many good things

574
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Speaker 1: last year that I have all the confidence in the

575
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Speaker 1: world that David Peterson could be a really good starter

576
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Speaker 1: in this league. Not a guy who just needs to

577
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Speaker 1: fill in.

578
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Speaker 2: No, for sure. We've been on that train again like forever,

579
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Speaker 2: and I think that there's there's a lot of Dad pieces.

580
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 2: Had a couple of cool highlights this spring, especially that

581
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 2: like jump throw from the pitcher's mound. That's way better

582
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,880
Speaker 2: anyone who's ever played in New York ever doing anything like that.

583
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Speaker 2: And he's also been able to mix in, you know,

584
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Speaker 2: mixing the off speed stuff throw his fastball looked like

585
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Speaker 2: I had a little more lost in his first start,

586
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Speaker 2: and there was something he did in his last start

587
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: before he got hitting the comeback around his foot and

588
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 2: pep scared people. But I think he is okay. Now,

589
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 2: that really just echoes home exactly the kind of player

590
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Speaker 2: he is, exact kind of player he wants to be,

591
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 2: and a lot of what you guys will hear in

592
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 2: that interview, and he just he just came out there

593
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Speaker 2: that game on Saturday against the Marlins and just he

594
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 2: drops seven curveballs in two innings. David Pearson his entire career,

595
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 2: entire career in the Major League's only thrown more than

596
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 2: seven curve balls twice, and they both happened last summer.

597
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 2: One game in May, one game in June. And then

598
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 2: you kind of connect some like connect some dots, some

599
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 2: context clues. You've heard Tyler McGill talk about working with

600
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: Max Schers or trying to do curveball stuff. You've heard

601
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 2: Max and Justin be like, yeah, we want to Really

602
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 2: it's still our wisdom to all these guys, and those

603
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 2: guys have their curveballs as kind of like show me pitches,

604
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 2: and they use them effectively in that way. You kind

605
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 2: of pick up those tricks when you're one of the

606
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 2: best pitchers of a generation, you pitching the lead for

607
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 2: twenty years, where I can drop his curveball on you

608
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,880
Speaker 2: for a strike and you won't even know it's coming.

609
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,120
Speaker 2: And Peterson very clearly is doing a lot of work

610
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Speaker 2: to make this pitch usable for him. And there was

611
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Speaker 2: like an amazing sequence that oh yeah, just happened in the

612
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Speaker 2: fifth inning of this Randoms from training game that is

613
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Speaker 2: probably lost on something. This one thing.

614
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh my, this is why you come

615
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: to the message for this right here.

616
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So two outs, nobody on. Nick Forty is at

617
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Speaker 2: the plate, so met Killers, you gotta be careful. You

618
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Speaker 2: gotta be careful with Nick Fdts starting the a bad

619
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Speaker 2: two out, nobody on respect Nick Fortes, David Peuston tries

620
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Speaker 2: to drop a curve ball on him. Pitch completely sailed

621
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Speaker 2: through the other's batters box. It was an absolute it

622
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Speaker 2: was it was nothing. It looked I don't even know.

623
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Speaker 2: It was like Mitchell Robinson shooting at three from Knicks

624
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 2: fans out there. It wasn't even close. It was gonna

625
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 2: be nowhere. It's like Ja Berry shooting at three and

626
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 2: he has no legs. And at one, oh now, David

627
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 2: Peterson comes back to his set and he drops the

628
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Speaker 2: same exact kurb ball and Nick Fortes and drops a

629
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Speaker 2: dime right at his knees on the inner half, and

630
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 2: it was like that right there is like Okay, I'm

631
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 2: working on something. It didn't work, and I'm gonna try

632
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 2: it again. And it did work and he had to

633
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 2: actually end up getting squeezed on the call. He definitely called.

634
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 2: He definitely caught knees on it, but the un called

635
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 2: to the ball, probably because the first pitch was so bad.

636
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 2: But that persistence and that like commitment to like doing

637
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: something I want to do, that's what spring training is

638
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 2: all about. And that's kind of what David Pearson's all

639
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 2: about too. And seeing that, understanding that, watching that, it

640
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 2: makes me.

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Speaker 1: Really super excited to see what he can do this year.

642
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: He was he had some big, big starts for us

643
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Speaker 1: last year. He was really important to the team's success.

644
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 1: Like he kind of forget because you have big names

645
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: on that roster, but David Peterson could be Like I mean,

646
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Speaker 1: I think we did this video right before we joined

647
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Speaker 1: the Mets last year about how we thought tylermcgill was

648
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: gonna be like an X factor for the team. David

649
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: Peterson I think is joined that too, Like he could

650
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: be a huge, huge part of this team and he

651
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: should be. He should be. He's really good.

652
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 2: And we should kind of give some flowers to McGill

653
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 2: because he has made some appearances in the spring. He

654
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,239
Speaker 2: looks healthy, the fastballs pop, and like he was at

655
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 2: X factor last year until he got injured. Ni Ka

656
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 2: Pierson the opportunity and if like he was pitching great

657
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 2: until he went down. One of his last starts was

658
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: like his his shares a combined no hither where he

659
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 2: threw five and two thirds against incredible Phillies lineup and

660
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 2: gave up no hits. So really good. Tyler McGill still

661
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 2: has an opportunity shut down Nationals Opening Day last year

662
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: from the grace that guy just came out of nowhere.

663
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: So the fact that we have both these guys and

664
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: they're both actually trying to get better, you're gonna hear

665
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 2: from Tyler McGill too, probably next week, maybe the week after.

666
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 2: Maybe we put those interviews together, who knows, just put

667
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 2: the two Mets young bucks together. We got a lot

668
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 2: of good things going on right now when everyone's been

669
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 2: talking about the fact the Mets haven't really been able

670
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 2: to develop a pitcher in a little while now, since

671
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 2: you know, since that faceful group from five to seven

672
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 2: years ago, which feels crazy. These are two guys who

673
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 2: are going to be useful, gonna be important, and again healthwithstanding,

674
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 2: could be incredibly incredibly valuable hundred percent.

675
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: And I mean even like on the bullpen side, there's

676
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: been we've had some really good arms come through. We

677
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 1: have Drew Smith interview coming for you guys as well.

678
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: At some point we talked to so many players. You're

679
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: gonna hear us talking, you know, pumping up these interviews

680
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: for a while, because that's what we did at spring training.

681
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: We interviewed players. One guy we did an interview though

682
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: that I wish we did. Actually now I thought about it.

683
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: Bmd Oh, Bryce Monk de Oka, dude's unreal me and

684
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: you I remember specifically. I think it was was this

685
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: before we went to Port Saint Lucie or after we

686
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: went to Port Saint Lucy. This was the Knicks game

687
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: that we went to. Right, We're sitting at Jack Dempsey's, yeah,

688
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: and we're having a drink at the bar and we

689
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: just get we went into like a ten minute conversation

690
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: about how good Bryce montas Deeoka is and how important

691
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: he could be to this team and how the met's

692
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: kind of just relatively pulled him out of thin air

693
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: and he just throws a hundred. He's got nasty stuff.

694
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: He's he's an electric factor. He's a sick arm to

695
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: have is like not your main guy. He can just

696
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: come in and pitching games when it's like eight nothing

697
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: and be disgusting.

698
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 2: It's when you again the pitching ninja treatment like in March,

699
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 2: like you're really doing something right. And Bryce Montesteoka throws

700
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour, can get up to one

701
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 2: hundred and two and it got twenty inches of break.

702
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's it's ridiculous, like he looks like he's like

703
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 2: if Dustin may put on fifty pounds and he's out

704
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 2: there just throwing bullet. Yeah, it's incredible. I think Dustin

705
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,719
Speaker 2: is pretty tall, hes sneak, he's a string, but he's

706
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 2: he's got some sneaky height. But Montoka, man, he's it's

707
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 2: we we this is this is incredible. What was that

708
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 2: gus I told you? He's really why do you think

709
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 2: it throws one hundred free Montioca though six Montadoka six

710
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: seventy two seventy though. So there's no there's no two

711
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 2: ways about to here. But Mantastelloka comes from Missouri, which

712
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 2: has been lauded as one of the best pitching laboratories

713
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: in all college baseball all the sec Yeah. Max Sure, Yeah,

714
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 2: Max Sure is all my mother. He and he's got

715
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 2: this freaking color and this sinker and they just they're

716
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 2: like they're they're they're witchcraft, voodoo, and you just kind

717
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 2: of want a piece of that. He's gonna have options.

718
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 2: He's gonna be up and down. He's gonna to be

719
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 2: able to get ground balls because those are two primary

720
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: pitches too. It's like, we're gonna probably see some crazy

721
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 2: stuff this year from Bryce montes Steoka. He's going to

722
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 2: be again makes it into this bullpen, and I'm really excited.

723
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,959
Speaker 2: And another sidebar, some people in the mess organization think

724
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: he looks like a producer, ve though I don't necessarily

725
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 2: see it. It's like it's like large guys with long hair,

726
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 2: so I kind of get it.

727
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: I mean.

728
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 2: His headshot actually in person, I didn't think he looked

729
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 2: like him with all, but I'm looking at his headshot

730
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 2: right now and I think he actually.

731
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: Baseball references actually, uh, leading me to believe that you

732
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: guys could be like cousins. You know, maybe not brothers

733
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: but cousins.

734
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 3: Vida Montesteoka, Yeah, I think it's it's really just the eyebrows.

735
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: I think the eyebrows and the the prominent brow situation

736
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 3: is what made Yeah, the specific coworker who this is

737
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 3: our second straight time getting acknowledged on this show for

738
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 3: things having to do with me. But yes, she says,

739
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 3: out of nowhere today just said you look like Bryce Monto.

740
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: You know, maybe i'm the cents. You're the editor of

741
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: this you can put a picture of him right next

742
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: to your face, and the viewers at home and decide

743
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: whether or not you look like Bryce Montesteoka. What do

744
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: you think about that?

745
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 3: Okay, so you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna look,

746
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 3: I'm gonna smile, and then there'll be a little dang

747
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 3: right there.

748
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: You'll bang in a freeze with that exactly. Frice spout

749
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: to Steoka, talk, that's what you get on the mets

750
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: of the podcast. We love talking about relievers. I gotta

751
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: give James thirty seconds talk about Jeff Brigham.

752
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: Go all right, Jeff Brigham. We're seeing some things this

753
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,719
Speaker 2: spring that I think are useful. He's throwing that slider

754
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 2: and it's moving a lot. The fastball it has crept up,

755
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: and his three ad he's pitched so far, he did

756
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: get it to ninety five the last start. If that

757
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 2: thing is ninety seven in June, we have a weapon.

758
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 2: Mets fans, just please hang on tight with me and

759
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 2: Jeff Briga because we're going to the Promised Lands together.

760
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: But we have to go home for a name. It's

761
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: gonna be like a Brigham segment that were just like

762
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: once every episode for like thirty seconds. You just you

763
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: just get to talk about Jeff Brigham. Even if he

764
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: didn't even pitch. You could be in the miners. You

765
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: can just talk about him for a little bit.

766
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 2: He came in the like what the fourth inning. He

767
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: was like the third pitcher off the off the bench

768
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 2: in the spring training opening day, and we just we

769
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: just got in a voodoo buckets and we're tired from

770
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: a long, draining day. And I was like, oh guys, guys,

771
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 2: hold on, let me watch.

772
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: We literally stopped.

773
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 2: I was watching them through the fence in the outfields.

774
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: So we can't go anywhere. I know we want to

775
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: eat what we can't eat right now. I have to

776
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: watch Jeff Brigham and we were checking out every single

777
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 2: day that've loss. He's taken up he had he had

778
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: the byset problem last year. If we get to where

779
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: we want to get to, Bryce Mondessteo Oka, Jeff Brigham,

780
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 2: Zach Greens looked pretty good. His fastball is very deceptive.

781
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 2: All the reports are true. It doesn't come in hard,

782
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 2: but you just feel like he h just can't see it.

783
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: He hid it incredibly well. And he's also got the

784
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: good slider rockets. So a lot of what we've seen

785
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: I've seen our boy William Woods got strike out tonight,

786
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 2: face two bathers we got. We got some stuff going

787
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: on here with this ball.

788
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: But we're cooking a little bit. It's gonna be interesting

789
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: too because now with the World Baseball Classic starting, there's

790
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: a lot of players that have left the Mets for

791
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: spring training right now. I think they I don't know

792
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: if they have the most or they're like at least

793
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: top five most players leaving the organization during spring training

794
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: to go play in the World Baseball Class.

795
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 2: I think it's it's eleven. I heard on the radio

796
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 2: the other day listening to the Sunday game with Howie

797
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 2: and Keith rad Yes new friend and McCarthy was on

798
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: the call as well. So two new friends that the

799
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: Cardinals I believe have seventeen players in the organization in

800
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: wbs A.

801
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: That's dating this team Germany made it. Brendan Donovan probably

802
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: would have been playing too. They could, you could added

803
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: another one.

804
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 2: And then the Mets have eleven, which is a lot,

805
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: but that's seventeen is ridiculous.

806
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: That's like, oually, I'm trying to count all the players.

807
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, my goodness, yeah, that's I mean, that is

808
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: a ton of the roster. Contrera's goldschmid or Ana though

809
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: Edmund Tyler O'Neill is your pet newt on Team Canada's Canadian.

810
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,239
Speaker 2: Oh, I forgot that.

811
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if he's playing. I don't think

812
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: he is. You have Wayne Wright, you have Miles Michaelis,

813
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: Giovanni Gegos and now we're talking. We're turning into a

814
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: Cardinals podcast here, but we're just trying to see if

815
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: we can name all the players.

816
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Ryan, we just got ten.

817
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: Like even Herrera is there, that's eleven.

818
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 2: Oh.

819
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can go much longer than this.

820
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: Love's a good spot. Love's a good Spy League. But yeah,

821
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: I mean it's impressive and butt and one. If you

822
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 2: guys have been part of the Mess Up podcast for

823
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: a while, the World Baseball Classics a little bit of

824
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: a meme here, a little bit because I live for

825
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic right now. We're recording on Tuesday

826
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 2: nights eight o'clock. In three hours, we're going to see

827
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: first pitch between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Cuba,

828
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 2: which is something that I think, like maybe eight year

829
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: old Mark would have never imagined to say, is I'm

830
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: going to watch the Netherlands and Cuba play baseball against

831
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 2: each other. But the World Baseball Classic is starting. When

832
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 2: you guys listen to this, I think Chinese Hype and

833
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 2: Panama might be playing if you're catching it early enough

834
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: in the morning. I'm unbelievably excited for the World Baseball Classic.

835
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 2: I love this event. I'm gonna be in Miami for

836
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 2: the entirety of it as soon as that cool starts.

837
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 2: So if any guys are down there and you see me,

838
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: come say what's up. I'd love to say Hi. James

839
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 2: didn't want to join. He's a busy man. He's a

840
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 2: busy man capitalist James. Now you know, I'm just tired.

841
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 2: I'm just so tired. I don't need to go back

842
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: to flo place in a month. I can't do that.

843
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: You're going spending like almost a month in Florida for you,

844
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: like feels very not James Chiana.

845
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: It's very not James. It's not it's not friendly to

846
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: the gluten free. He's not friendly some other habits that

847
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: I have, And it's just not. It's not.

848
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: It's not a great but it's not a gret place. No,

849
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be really exciting. I'm I'm super pumped.

850
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know. Should we want to do like

851
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: a World Baseball Class prediction. I'll tell you I want

852
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: to go through pools and we'll say who we think

853
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: is gonna make it through. You pick the top two teams. Yeah,

854
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a quick prediction. So Pool A you

855
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: have Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Italy, Netherlands and Panama. If you

856
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: want any fun facts about these teams, you want to

857
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: know something, James, just let me know. I got it

858
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: for you.

859
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 2: Give me. Give me the best player in the team.

860
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: Best player on Chinese Taipei is probably U Chang, but

861
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: I want to shout out lead Lin. He's a guy

862
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: who plays in the NPB and I think he played

863
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: in the KBO a little bit, mostly in the Chinese

864
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: Baseball League. He's a really good player. But U Chang

865
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: is a major league you know. I'm Zuelyn former met

866
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: as well, but I would say that's their best player.

867
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: Okay, now cute. I mean, you give me one player

868
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 2: for the team. You don't have to expand that. Give

869
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: you one player.

870
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: And you've seen Cuba, Luis Robert, guys that you don't

871
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: know that you should keep an eye out though. For

872
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: is gonna be on the pitching side. There are two

873
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: really really good relievers. Rydyel Martinez is one of them.

874
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: He throws like one hundred, absolutely discussing. They have Lefty

875
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: I forgot his name, I didn't write it down, but

876
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: they have two relievers. To keep an eye out for

877
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: Italy Vinnie Pascentino. You guys have heard about it in

878
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: place for the Royals. I think this's gonna be a

879
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: little bit of the Vinnie Pascuatino coming out party for

880
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: maybe the more general baseball world, because he's stuck in

881
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City where they stink. But that dude is a hitter.

882
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: He's kind of like it's like a really lazy comp

883
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: I think, but he's a little bit of like a

884
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: young Freddie Freeman in the way that he hits, just

885
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: kind of can hit the ball to all field. It

886
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: doesn't strike out, gets on.

887
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: Base, and doesn't have the crazy power they love other first.

888
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: Time Yes, in terms of Netherlands, the best player on

889
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: that team is gonna be Xander Bogarts. They just they

890
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: have major League Baseball players. It's it's Aruba, Kirosao and

891
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: people from the Netherlands. It'll be interesting. Kenley Jansen joins

892
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: if they make it to the next round, Panama little weak,

893
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: but they do have Jose Ramos, who is a Dodgers prospect.

894
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: I think you guys should keep any out for him.

895
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: He's a, at least to me, the most exciting player

896
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: on that roster, and pitching wise, they do have a

897
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: met Umberto Mahia. He's in the minors for the Mets.

898
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: Can I ask a question about the World Baseball Classic.

899
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: I'm seeing there's four groups of five teams each who

900
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 2: moves on to the next round.

901
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like the top two teams make it.

902
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: So who are your top two from this with with

903
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: that knowledge, I just.

904
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: Gave you Okay, Cuba and another one.

905
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: Listen, I think those I think those are the two favorites.

906
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 2: I'm going.

907
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm going Netherlands to Italy just to be a good Italian.

908
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: Gotta see the boys and the Azuri go through. But

909
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna pick Italy to be the second

910
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 1: place team. I feel like Assuri's really uh right for sure.

911
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: For sure, soccer fans are probably cringing out there. If

912
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: there are any that listens to this, it's probably not

913
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: a big crossover. Ven diagram really doesn't mix there pool be.

914
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: We have Australia, China, Czech Republic, Japan and Korea. This

915
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: one's pretty straightforward. I think this is probably the most

916
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: straightforward group of them all. It's gonna be in Japan

917
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: and Korea. I'm not gonna let you pick anybody else.

918
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: I don't think you would either. Both those teams are

919
00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: really good. Look.

920
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 2: I like that Australia like is here because they have

921
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 2: their own baseball league that's probably one of the more

922
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: successful on planet the Earth relatively to like all theah as.

923
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: Much baseball's played and they're just those guys are like, yeah,

924
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 2: they had a funny TikTok one around the other day

925
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 2: is like I think, actually is the Czech team. It

926
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 2: was like what any job? It was like teacher account

927
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 2: and it was like, yeah, now we're playing baseball for

928
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: It's really.

929
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: Cool, especially as the Czech Republic and their qualifiers got

930
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: smacked by Spain. I think they lost like nineteen to

931
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: one and then beat them in the finals, which is

932
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: really cool. That's a that's an interesting one for you there.

933
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: But I'll give you some names here. Japan Shoheo Tani duh.

934
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: But Moua Taka Murakami. That's the guy you gotta keep

935
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: an out for. Broke the record for MPB home runs

936
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: last year as the Japanese Professional Baseball League. He's he's

937
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: a stud.

938
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 2: He's sick, yeah, and he's he's a guy who's gonna

939
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 2: come Stateside in a few years and looks like he's

940
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: gonna go crazy. If you guys want to just look

941
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 2: him up on Twitter. Today he hit a wicked home

942
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: run off of you Darvish and live VP put it

943
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 2: to the moon. He has he's like one of those

944
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: like short compact power hitters, like he kind of looks

945
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 2: like Nolan go if Nolan Gorman was good, just to

946
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: keep on the cardinal stuff. And he just and he

947
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 2: just you know, he's like six to one, just completely

948
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: yoked out, like no one looks like him in the

949
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: whole country of Japan. O don't know where he came from.

950
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: But Roki Sasaki on the pitching side, he is the

951
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: young pitching phenom that will be coming over. There's one

952
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: hundred and has like a devastating splitter. He's he's a freak.

953
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: Everyone will know these names. When the tournament's done. Japan

954
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: might win the entire thing. They're really good for Korea.

955
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmonds the big name that you will know. But

956
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: you got to keep an out for Lee Jung who

957
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: who won the KBO MVP. He's just straight up one

958
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: of the best all around hitters in this entire tournament.

959
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: He's really really good.

960
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 2: And I think it came out last week that he

961
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 2: sets a post. Yes he is, so keeping out for him.

962
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 2: He's gonna be coming state side eventually. Kwang Young Kim

963
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 2: on the pitching side, a former Major league that you

964
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: guys know. For Australia, not a lot. Their only guy

965
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: who's played in the Majors. Is Aaron Whitefield, And just

966
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: like me and James, you probably don't know who that

967
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: guy is.

968
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: Sorry, Australia, you're gonna get smoked probably every game. China

969
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: does not really have anybody. Chinese baseball is developing, they're learning.

970
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: But I want to give a shout to Alan Jang Carter.

971
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: He is a college player who went undrafted that the

972
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 1: Angels just signed this winter. So it's gonna be a big,

973
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: big moment for Alan Jang Carter. He's in the Angels organization.

974
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: Came out of like a small D two D three

975
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: school in college, which is really cool. Czech Republic. I

976
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: actually do have names for you, which is really funny.

977
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: Have Merrick Chlup, Merrik Chlup, that's c h l Up.

978
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: Keep an eye out for me. He plays at North

979
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: Greenville University. This dude is a ballplayer. He hits absolute nukes.

980
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see him because it could really

981
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: help his draft stock. On the pitching side, two really

982
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: young guys, Michael Kovala and Boris Vasirca. They both throw

983
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: in the mid nineties. Versirca Boris he can touch one

984
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: hundred and he's on a major league or not a

985
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: major league's on a minor league roster. I don't know

986
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: what team, but keeping out for them, we know what

987
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: that one's gonna look like. Now for the fun pools,

988
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: for the ones that you guys are probably more excited for.

989
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,760
Speaker 1: Pool See got the US, Mexico, Columbia, Canada, Great Britain.

990
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: Who got coming out of this one? I think it's

991
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: a little closer.

992
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 2: I mean, definitely the US. I really sneaky like Mexico's

993
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 2: roster I was looking at the other day. They have

994
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: a good blend of people. I think they're gonna be

995
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: the team that kind of like puts that kind of

996
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 2: takes a step forward this year and kind of lets

997
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 2: them know a lot more Mexican player has been getting

998
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 2: to the major league last few years, led Jose Katy Julius.

999
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: I think that hit there. I can't remember right now.

1000
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 2: Is Yepez no?

1001
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: Yepez is not? No? They're the I mean Randy Rose

1002
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 1: Rain is playing for Team Mexico because he's not playing

1003
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: for tem Q, but he's playing for Team Mexico. I

1004
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: think either his mother or father or Mexican there. They

1005
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,959
Speaker 1: have a lot verdugos there. Alec Thomas you have Jared

1006
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: Durant as well. Around the infield, you have some really

1007
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: good players.

1008
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: Taiwan's on the team.

1009
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: One of the better pitching staffs, honestly in the entire thing.

1010
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: Not not a lot of great pitching in this tournament.

1011
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 2: It's actually I'm looking at right now they have a

1012
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: pretty deep, like a shocking keep pitching staff. Sandoval Urias

1013
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: or Kidi Taiwan like that's as a star as sort

1014
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 2: of starters. Go with Javier Asad's kind of a swingman.

1015
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 2: Seesa diegos Ye if.

1016
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: They make it to the next round, I think he

1017
00:39:58,640 --> 00:39:59,720
Speaker 1: has the ability to play.

1018
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 2: Oh this is good rawthy Big Raley till that's is

1019
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: good Rawthy Jonathan Randa race prospect, Joey manes Is Joey Baseball,

1020
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: Isaac Perees, Luisy Riez, eve Al and Trey Hokus swinging

1021
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 2: a little bit. This seems seems got a decent Alec

1022
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: Thomas Jars, Jarons Deranny.

1023
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 1: So I mean, for me, I got us in Mexico.

1024
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: Moving on Canada, is I feel like a little over

1025
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: hyped right now? They have Freddie Freeman and caw Quantrell

1026
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: and Tyler O'Neal. But there's there's kind of not like that,

1027
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: that big star power. But keep an eye out for

1028
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: Edward Julian, the Twins prospect who is torching spring training

1029
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna play second base every day for them.

1030
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: He's a good ballplayer.

1031
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: Matt Brash to he is, I didn't know that.

1032
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 2: Forget Matt Brash probably the craziest slide.

1033
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: Also, keep an eye out for Harry Ford on Team

1034
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: Great Britain, young catching prospect. He is by far their

1035
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: best hitter. Uh, he's pretty sick. And Vance Warley is

1036
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: playing on Team Great Britain.

1037
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: Oh, I just even look still in Canada Bow Naylor

1038
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 2: exciting Guardians prospect.

1039
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Canada is like a little unproven I think.

1040
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: I think Mexico is a little bit more of a

1041
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: safer pick, but should be a good, good pool out

1042
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: in Arizona for the final pool, the one I'll be

1043
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: at Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Israel and Nicaragua. And

1044
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry, Israel and Nicaragua, You're not making

1045
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: it through because you're talking about three of the best

1046
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: playing baseball countries in the entire world in one bracket

1047
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: or in one pool. It's the group of death. Essentially

1048
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: one of them is not making it through the next round,

1049
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: which is crazy. All these teams are loaded. Who do

1050
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: you who do you like out of this one?

1051
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I really like the captain of Team Puerto

1052
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 2: Rico for Cicole in door, but it seems like just

1053
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: looking at their rosters, it's gonna be between Puerto Rico

1054
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: and Venezuela, and I think Venezuela's rosters is a little

1055
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 2: bit better, but Puerto Rico's vibes are a little bit better.

1056
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: Elite es Puerto Ricominican Republic just yeah, unbelievable vibes in

1057
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: that team. It's it's gonna it's good. Dominican Republic is gonna,

1058
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 2: I think, do some print. They have probably the best

1059
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 2: lineup that's ever gonna be assembled in the baseball game, that

1060
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 2: we're ever gonna see in our lives. Otherwise thing's gonna be

1061
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:55,959
Speaker 2: a dog lineup is pretty insane. Dominican Republic lineup is

1062
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 2: is I think, Well, they lost Flat Junior. That does

1063
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 2: hurt a little bit.

1064
00:41:58,800 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: It did lose.

1065
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: Actually losing losing Glad Junior does hurt because they also

1066
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: don't really have an obvious guy to play first base.

1067
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: Now I'm assuming he's gonna be Devers that plays there,

1068
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 2: and then and then you stick Machildo of it third. Yeah,

1069
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 2: but I think it's gonna happen. But to make a republic,

1070
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: you just can tell a sick the art because everyone's

1071
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 2: just a short step whole team.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Page won't make the starting lineup. Think about that

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Speaker 1: Orwandas it's nuts, they're they're absolutely loaded. For me, I

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Speaker 1: was going Dominican in Venezuela two as much as I

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Speaker 1: would love to really rep the Mets because there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of them on Puerto Rico. It's tough.

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Speaker 2: It's tough.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a group of death. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see these games. Uh, it should be really fun.

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic, like we said, starts, well, it's already

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Speaker 1: started when you guys are listening to this. It's happening

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Speaker 1: the night that we're recording this. Can't wait to watch

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Speaker 1: Netherlands verse Cuba at eleven o'clock out in Taiwan.

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Speaker 2: Before we close out. Who's your prediction who over Who?

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Speaker 2: In the final?

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Speaker 1: I went with it's gonna be a video that goes

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Speaker 1: upon my YouTube channel. But I went USA versus Dominican

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Speaker 1: Republic in the finals and I had Team USA. It's

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Speaker 1: it's boring, it's chalk, I get it. But like there

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Speaker 1: there seems to be a clear tier of the three

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Speaker 1: best teams. It's USA, Dominican and Japan. There were three

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Speaker 1: of the four teams in my semifinals. And go team USA.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a homer. Let's go America.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to USA over Japia. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: Japan always just neat just just gets their way to

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Speaker 2: the finals of this.

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Speaker 1: And you take this tournament, ser buddy. The World Baseball

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Speaker 1: Classes is super important. It's like a huge pride thing.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys like play to get to

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Speaker 1: the Japanese national team, where tam USA is just starting

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Speaker 1: to kind of get those big names like Trout Mookie

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Speaker 1: Bets on the team.

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Speaker 2: And as on the hitting side too. The pitching side

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Speaker 2: of Japan, ro Ki Sasaki and Shootani might actually be

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Speaker 2: two of the four best pitchers. And the thing so

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Speaker 2: I think that the U Darvish is pretty good too,

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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, because I think that's ridiculous. The Dominican

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Speaker 2: Republic does have great pitching too, because They're gonna have

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Speaker 2: Sandia al Contra and Luis Garcia and Christian Javier running

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Speaker 2: the top three there, but now many other stars behind them.

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Speaker 2: Their bullpen is going to be They gonna be so amazing.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking Camillo Daval and Neel de Santos, Hector Neris

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Speaker 2: guys are the crazy stuff. And Brian Abrayu, Diego Gestillo,

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Speaker 2: Genesis Cabrera left you throws ninety six.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know, they got some heat, and honestly, that's

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Speaker 1: when the heat a lot. He gets turned uphen the

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Speaker 1: relievers get in. I'll never forget Edwin Diaz and the

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic in La Team Puerto Rico versus the

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Speaker 1: Netherlands vs. Vladimir Balantine, who I can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: swing the bat tonight because he only tries to hit nukes.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't care about anything else. When Edwin Diaz and

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Speaker 1: him went head to head, Diaz throwing up and in,

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Speaker 1: Balentine said come get me, and then DS threw three

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Speaker 1: fastballs right by him. It's an electric moment. If you

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Speaker 1: haven't checked it out, go look it up on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I think that's enough of the World Baseball Classic talk, though,

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Speaker 1: I think that's also, enough of this episode. We're forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes in. We got to talk about baseball games,

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Speaker 1: we got to talk about stats, we got to talk

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Speaker 1: about Jeff Brigham and relievers. I'm so excited baseball is back.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: I still snuck it in, James, I snuck it in

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Speaker 1: at the end of the episode. Uh. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: so much for listening and watching. Whatever you do and

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Speaker 1: we do appreciate it. Make sure you're following us on

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Speaker 1: on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: At James Underscore Sheiano.

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Speaker 1: And follow me at traffick mark with the C. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for enjoying the podcast, and we'll catch you

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Speaker 1: on the next episode The Mets Up. Peace,