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Speaker 1: Welcome on it all to the Hammer Territory Podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by Fox One. Always good to be with you again

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Speaker 1: again again. I know for us in Braves Country, we

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Speaker 1: would love to be talking Braves baseball right now, but

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that there's some excellent playoff baseball going

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Speaker 1: on right now as we speak. Me and Steven Tobert

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Speaker 1: both are multitasking right now. Keep it up with the

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Speaker 1: excellent playoff baseball that's going on, but here to talk

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Speaker 1: Braves with you as well. And this is why the

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Speaker 1: man is one of the best when it comes to

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Speaker 1: covering the Braves in baseball in general. He can just multitask.

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Speaker 1: He can do amazing things when it comes to and

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Speaker 1: join and analyzing baseball as always the world's best cast partner,

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Speaker 1: Steven Tober, good talk with you, sir.

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Speaker 2: What's up, buddy? Yeah, man, got a little playoff baseball

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Speaker 2: over to my right. I got Yankees blue Jays on.

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Speaker 2: We obviously got some topics to talk about with the Braves.

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Speaker 2: We had some arbitration projections dropped this week, which helps

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Speaker 2: a lot for the content. We appreciate the boys over

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Speaker 2: at MLB Trade Rumors. They always do a great job

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Speaker 2: dropping those projections, and we're gonna talk about them to night.

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Speaker 2: They have pretty big implications on the roster, of course,

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Speaker 2: like any arbitration projection. We had some coaching news drop,

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Speaker 2: so we're gonna talk a little coaching news. The Athletic

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Speaker 2: had some stuff this morning actually that came out that

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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about. We're gonna get little little playoff baseball.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's October. We're just kind of grooving through

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. The playoffs have been fun to watch. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: it'd be a lot more fun to watch if the

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Speaker 2: Brays are in it. But you know, say Levi, such

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Speaker 2: as life and here we are. But we're gonna get

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Speaker 2: into it tonight. We appreciate it as always.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and specifically when it comes to talking little playoff baseball.

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Speaker 1: Things that are really standing out from this postseason. None

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Speaker 1: of these are surprising or anything else, but just basically

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Speaker 1: traits that this Braves roster needs to regain to not

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Speaker 1: only make the playoffs but also once again have success

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Speaker 1: in October. But let's talk about more important things when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the early offseason, and of course that

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Speaker 1: is filling out the roster, filling out the forty man roster.

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Speaker 1: Brad Scott Steven, myself, we've all talked about various aspects

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Speaker 1: of how this forty man roster bullin Ball will evolve

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Speaker 1: it comes to you know, contracts. You know, these eligible

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Speaker 1: contracts for the next season. And of course, many of

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Speaker 1: those players, as they get into service time, go into arbitration.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that many look forward to

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Speaker 1: is the annual arbitration estimations from MLB trade rumors, and

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Speaker 1: that was released yesterday. The Braves themselves are no short

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Speaker 1: when it comes to these arbitration estimations. Nine potential players

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Speaker 1: could have been even more, but nine players who will

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Speaker 1: potentially be facing arbitration now. While it is nine players,

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Speaker 1: none are really that significant in terms of the main

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that there's some relevant names where

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Speaker 1: decisions need to be made. Steven, let's go through them

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Speaker 1: real quickly and then kind of you know, nine total names,

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Speaker 1: let's go through them in groups of three to really

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Speaker 1: give our determination of how we think their contract for

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Speaker 2: Right, So let's just get the kind of the nuts

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Speaker 2: We'll just go through the names real quick, and then

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Speaker 2: we'll break them down by by groups. So the Braves

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Speaker 2: have nine players, Like Sean said, it could have been more.

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Speaker 2: They just you know, went through They just did outright

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Speaker 2: You know, they had that group of five players they

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Speaker 2: not on this list obviously. So the nine guys. Jake

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that that order again Steven went

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Speaker 1: Agreed. And it makes sense again because you know the Braves,

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Speaker 1: Dylan Lee obviously perhaps be the most reliable part of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so these three guys, obviously, Alec Manoa, Dylan Lee

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Speaker 2: And again he's dirt cheap. So you can do much

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Speaker 1: Be back absolutely. And then we get into the more

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Britdany Girilli of the Athletic today released her

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Speaker 2: I don't really know how important it is that you

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Speaker 2: done an incredible job getting the absolute most out of

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Speaker 2: whatever his talent level is. Whatever the talent level is

432
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Speaker 2: on the team, he gets at least that much in production,

433
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Speaker 2: if not more, and usually more. And that's that's just

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Speaker 2: the mark of a good coach. That's really all you

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Speaker 2: can ask of the coach. The coach has no control

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Speaker 2: over what the talent level is, no control over real injuries,

437
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Speaker 2: anything like that is just whatever I give you, are

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Speaker 2: you getting the most out of it? And I think

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Speaker 2: with the Cranits he has, so getting him back would

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Speaker 2: be huge. But again we have no idea. You know,

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Speaker 2: he could be interviewing for jobs right now because he

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Speaker 2: wanted to work for Sticker. And you know, whoever you

443
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Speaker 2: hire as manager might want his own pitching coach, might

444
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Speaker 2: won his own bench coach, might won his own hitting coach.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much the manager controls that stuff,

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Speaker 2: how much the front office controls that stuff. We're gonna

447
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Speaker 2: find out here pretty soon. But yeah, you know, Chipper's

448
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Speaker 2: level of interest in the hitting coach job and keeping

449
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Speaker 2: Rick Kranitz are far and away the two most interesting

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Speaker 2: parts of this. And you know we're gonna get news

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Speaker 2: as it comes out of the next week or so

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Speaker 2: about which guys are interviewing, where other teams will leak it.

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Speaker 2: It's not just it doesn't just have to come from

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Speaker 2: the Braves, so we might get more information. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be interesting to track.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, not necessarily saying that a resolution

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Speaker 1: is going to come soon, because you know, if the

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Speaker 1: Braves have any interest and coaches currently, you know in

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Speaker 1: the postseason that you know plays a part timeline wise.

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Speaker 1: But the big thing to know is is that once

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Speaker 1: it comes down the pipe, who the Braves are going

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Speaker 1: to hire as manager don't be surprised if we get,

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Speaker 1: you know, several updates when it comes to the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: and we could see a significantly different setup when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the coaching staff going into twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: and beyond them. But speaking of twenty twenty six and beyond,

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Speaker 1: when we're talking about changes, when we're talking about what

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Speaker 1: needs to change for this brave squad to not only

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Speaker 1: get to the playoffs but have success, there's three takeaways

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Speaker 1: so far from this postseason that I really think need

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Speaker 1: to become areas of strengths. Once the areas of strength

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Speaker 1: once begin for the Atlanta Braves. We'll discuss that more

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Speaker 1: So steven that it's now been four years since the

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Speaker 1: Braves won the World Series, well almost four years, but

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Speaker 1: we've talked about it quite a bit. What was so successful?

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Speaker 1: What were the reasons why the Braves, I think, in

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Speaker 1: the minds of many unexpectedly won the World Series in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and it's simple. It comes down to

504
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: two things. Bombs and the bullpen. That's exactly what it was.

505
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Speaker 1: Dingers and delivering strikeouts. That's what it was. It was

506
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Speaker 1: the ability to hit home runs at a better pace

507
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Speaker 1: than your opponents while also getting strikeouts late in game scenarios.

508
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Speaker 1: That's what led to so much success for this Braves team.

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Speaker 1: And we are once again seeing that. I know it's

510
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Speaker 1: been four years since the Braves won the World Series,

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Speaker 1: but that stands out to me once again as being

512
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Speaker 1: two critical areas of improvement that this Braves team needs

513
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Speaker 1: to get dependability at once again. The ability to hit

514
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Speaker 1: home runs. It's been shared time and time again. When

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Speaker 1: a team homer's more than their opponent, they win more

516
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Speaker 1: than eighty percent of the time in the playoffs. And

517
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Speaker 1: if you have a bullpen that can get strikeouts and

518
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Speaker 1: critical situations, that's the best way to limit those home runs,

519
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Speaker 1: which become even more valuable in low scoring games. Hitting

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Speaker 1: home runs and having a reliable bullpen, that's got to

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Speaker 1: be two traits that need to come back to the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we talked about it all all offseason

524
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Speaker 2: or I mean all regular season, Like I want them

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Speaker 2: to go back to hitting homers at an elite rate.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the key to sustaining an offense when

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Speaker 2: you have streaky hitters, and I think the Braves have

528
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Speaker 2: maybe the streakiest collection of hitters I've ever seen. I mean,

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Speaker 2: guys that can go cold for like months at a time.

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Speaker 2: And when you have that, the idea that you're gonna

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Speaker 2: constantly have three, four, five, six guys hitting at the

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Speaker 2: same time and being able to move the line as

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Speaker 2: Snit used to say, and like stack together a bunch

534
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Speaker 2: of hits doesn't work when you have that many streaky hitters.

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Speaker 2: What does work is if you're hitting homers, you don't

536
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 2: need six or seven guys hitting. You need like two

537
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: guys hitting. You need like three guys hitting because they

538
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 2: can bop homers. And not only does that help you

539
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Speaker 2: sustain streakiness during the regular season, but it's also how

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Speaker 2: you win in the postseason. And you just gave that

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Speaker 2: stat about out homering your opponents in the postseason. So

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Speaker 2: the pitching is so good in October, it's so good

543
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 2: you have got Garrett Crochet, and you got Tarik's Skubel,

544
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Speaker 2: and you got Christopher Sanchez, and you got on and

545
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 2: on and on and Max Freed and Chris Sale. If

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Speaker 2: the Braves ever get back there, Like the pitching is

547
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: so damn good in October, the idea you gotta stream

548
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: together six hits in a row in an inning is

549
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Speaker 2: just you know, you're living in fantasy world. Like you

550
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 2: gotta get you gotta get runs in quick bunches, a

551
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 2: walk in, a homer, boom, two runs, another walk, another homer,

552
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Speaker 2: a single and a whole Like that's how you score

553
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Speaker 2: in the postseason. You're not gonna stack a bunch of

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Speaker 2: hits together. So yes, go back to hitting homers the

555
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 2: way this lineup was built to I think that's why

556
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: they did it originally, to be honest with you, is

557
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 2: to have postseason success. And it's a big part of

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00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 2: their twenty twenty one success. I mean, Jock Peterson, you

559
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: know the in the NLDS that year, Eddie Rizzari on

560
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,479
Speaker 2: the NLCS, Jorge Soilira in the World Series, Like they

561
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: were bopping homers. And not only were they bopping homers,

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Speaker 2: they were then using the bullpen to close out these games.

563
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Speaker 2: And that's how you win in October, Bombs and bullpen.

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Speaker 2: If we're gonna make a logo for twenty twenty six,

565
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna wear a shirt that says bombs and bullpen,

566
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Speaker 2: because I think that's how you win. You gotta have

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00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 2: a starting pitching. You gotta have a starting pitching, of

568
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 2: course in the regular season and in the postseason, but

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00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 2: in the postseason, your starters are going like five innings

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00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 2: and then you're you're bringing out a weapon of a bullpen.

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Speaker 2: And that's what I want the Brads to get back to,

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00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 2: a weapon of a bullpen. I don't think it was

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Speaker 2: a weapon this year. I think they had to kind

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Speaker 2: of protect it a little bit, and when they had

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Speaker 2: to use it a lot, it got exposed. And I

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00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: want to go back to having it be a strength

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Speaker 2: of the team. One of the best bullpens in baseball

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00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: and one of the best home run hitting lineups in baseball.

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Speaker 2: Those are the two things I'll want for twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: and those are the things I'm going to be looking

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Speaker 2: for this off season. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Again, here as we are discussing postseason takeaways of this

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Speaker 1: edition of The Hammer, Territory podcast presented by Fox One.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that I'll say is this is that

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Speaker 1: those are two known things, right, Like, it's no secret

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Speaker 1: that if you've got an effective bullpen that can get

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Speaker 1: strikeouts and you've got a lineup that can stack home

588
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Speaker 1: runs in big moments, you're going to go far in

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Speaker 1: the postseason. That describes what probably is the biggest current

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Speaker 1: series in the minds of many right now, the Dodgers

591
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Speaker 1: in the Phillies. The Phillies have had such good starting pitching,

592
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Speaker 1: not now but throughout their postseason run here recently, but

593
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Speaker 1: their bullpen's not been able to get leads and they're

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Speaker 1: not hitting home runs like the Dodgers are. That's why

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Speaker 1: they're down two oh. So yes, it's critical to hit bombs.

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00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: It's critical to have a big bullpen. But there's one

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00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: other key area that this Braves team must improve on,

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Speaker 1: and thankfully they did in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: They've got to be able to consistently produce in situational opportunities,

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Speaker 1: specifically creating and converting run scoring opportunities when those home

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Speaker 1: runs are not happening. As you face good pitching in

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Speaker 1: the postseason, and especially as you face it, game after

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Speaker 1: game after game, it's going to be hard to hit

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Speaker 1: those home runs, so you've got to have multiple ways

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Speaker 1: to win. Here is one of the biggest points as

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Speaker 1: to why hitting when prunters a good scoring position is

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Speaker 1: so critical. I feel like that I have absolutely harped

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Speaker 1: on it over the past year plus. Of the eight

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Speaker 1: teams right now, all eight teams that are still currently

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Speaker 1: alive in the Baseball playoffs, each of them were in

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Speaker 1: the top ten of WRC plus in run scoring opportunities.

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Speaker 1: This year, they had eight of the top ten WRC

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Speaker 1: pluses when it came to being at the play in

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Speaker 1: run scoring opportunities, they were among the best in baseball

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Speaker 1: and not only hitting home runs but being able to

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Speaker 1: create and convert run scoring opportunities. This Braves team improved

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Speaker 1: in that aspect in the second half the season. It's

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Speaker 1: got to carry over because through twenty nineteen to twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three we were eleventh or best in the majors.

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Speaker 1: Last year twenty first, this year's thirteenth. We've got to

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Speaker 1: be back in that top ten and that gives you

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Speaker 1: multiple ways of being able to win in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: And listen, a lot of the Braves being thirteenth was

624
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Speaker 2: what they did in the second half. Right Like the

625
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: first half they were miserable, and the second half. One

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Speaker 2: thing I will say is they got on base a

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Speaker 2: lot more when they added Profar, When they added Kim,

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Speaker 2: you know, they got rid of some of the black

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Speaker 2: holes at the bottom of the lineup that have really

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Speaker 2: hurt this team. The Braves have to be really careful about.

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Speaker 2: You know. Alex has had this thing where he says, well,

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Speaker 2: if the other guys are doing their job, it's okay

633
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Speaker 2: to have one or two black holes at the bottom

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Speaker 2: of the lineup. I don't agree with that. I think

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Speaker 2: if you if you don't have when you have a

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Speaker 2: group of hitters, this streaky, the idea that seven of

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Speaker 2: them are going to be doing their job all at

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Speaker 2: one time, at any one time, it's just it's it's

639
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: not gonna happen. So I think you gotta be careful

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Speaker 2: about having too many black holes at the bottom of

641
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Speaker 2: the lineup. Obviously, adding Kim helped a lot at shortstop,

642
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Speaker 2: Pro four helped a lot in left field. We'll see

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Speaker 2: what they do in the offseason, but yeah, they just

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00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 2: gave themselves more opportunities. They came through more. They also

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Speaker 2: like they the second half really did look like and

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Speaker 2: especially August and September, it really did look like like

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Speaker 2: what we're used to seeing. Offensively. It wasn't always that way,

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Speaker 2: but it was much closer than whatever the hell the

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Speaker 2: first half, I thought I was watching a different franchise.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was watching every night, but

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Speaker 2: I was watching them lose two to one off great

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Speaker 2: starting pitching and and couldn't win a game because it

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Speaker 2: couldn't score. So yes, going back getting on base a

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Speaker 2: little bit more. I love walk rate. Walk right is

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Speaker 2: up in the second half, but they hit more homers.

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Speaker 2: Hit more homers. Homers are how you get through any

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Speaker 2: sort of cold streak of your lineup. I'm a big

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Speaker 2: believer that, you know, I know, fans, whatever that you know.

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Speaker 2: Braves two dependent on the home run. They got a

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Speaker 2: diverse one no hit homers, hit home and that's how

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Speaker 2: you get through cold streaks until you get to a postseason.

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Speaker 2: You hit homers. That's what I want to see in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, along with a bullpen that's gone, that

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Speaker 2: goes from being questionable to being a weapon. I think

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Speaker 2: I think those are honestly, along with starting pitching health,

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Speaker 2: I think those are the big keys going into twenty

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Speaker 1: And the biggest thing of all is that the reason

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Speaker 1: why we're talking about that bullpen being a weapon, that

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Speaker 1: bullpen being dependable once again, is because it's not just

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Speaker 1: about guys that can log you innings in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: It's about guys that you can confidently use in matchups.

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Speaker 1: That's how the Phillies were able to beat the Braves

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty, you know, convincingly in twenty two and

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Speaker 1: twenty three. They use their bullpens so effectively against our lineup.

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Speaker 1: The Braves need to get back to feeling confident and

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Speaker 1: then the right matchups they could use their bullpen guys

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Speaker 1: over and over again in a playoff series. Can't thank

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