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Speaker 2: How's it going? Everybody? Welcome back. Final day of February,

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Speaker 2: and the Yankees finished strong in the month of February

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Speaker 2: with a five to one win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: As we approach the World Baseball Classic and the rosters

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Speaker 2: thinning out, the Yankees off to a pretty good start

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Speaker 2: this spring, and they've looked really, really solid as a team.

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Speaker 2: We had a bunch of the regulars in there today.

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Speaker 2: We had Trent Grisham in the lineup. He drew a

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Speaker 2: couple of walks. Judge was in the lineup. He went

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Speaker 2: oh for three. He is now hitting two seventy three

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Speaker 2: this spring. But the ops over twelve hundred. Jazz Chisholm,

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Speaker 2: who is apparently talking all sorts of smack for his

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Speaker 2: team Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic. He was

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Speaker 2: in there today. He went oh for three. Paul Goldschmidt

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Speaker 2: was in there. He picked up a knock. Austin Wells

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Speaker 2: Cab I Arrow ripped a double. He has been, you know,

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Speaker 2: gonna be the opening day shortstop when the Yankees open

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Speaker 2: up in San Francisco. Let's go ahead and get to

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Speaker 2: the recap here. We don't have a ton to go

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Speaker 2: over today. I mean, this was a pretty ho hum

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Speaker 2: spring training game. Good game, Yankees obviously victorious. Both teams

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Speaker 2: were extremely quiet early. The starting pitching was outstanding, you know,

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Speaker 2: both Paul Blackburn and Jose Burrios through four scoreless innings.

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Speaker 2: Brios I thought looked really really good, no hits allowed,

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Speaker 2: couple of home runs today. We had Austin Wells, he

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Speaker 2: Corona for the second time going deep. That's the second

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Speaker 2: game that I've watched him this spring, and he's gone

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Speaker 2: deep both times. By the way, exit Velo on Austin

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Speaker 2: Wells one oh seven our one hundred point seven and

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Speaker 2: win probability. This is our updated win probability graph. It

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Speaker 2: kind of shows a little stars for every time that

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Speaker 2: there was a score, and we got head shots for

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Speaker 2: the home runs, and this one was really not in

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Speaker 2: doubt after about the fifth inning. Yankees put two runs

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Speaker 2: then got two more in the sixth inning. You could

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Speaker 2: see that the Cabi arrow double added fifteen point four

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Speaker 2: percent to the win probability. The Austin Wells solo jack

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Speaker 2: added ten point one percent, But the overall leader on

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Speaker 2: for the Yankees with twelve. But overall, the Yankees have

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Speaker 2: looked really, really solid this spring. We had good pitching

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Speaker 2: performances from the bullpen, Tim Hill, Jake Bird, Harrison Cohen

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Speaker 2: He's looked really good this spring. We had David Bednar

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Speaker 2: in this game. Fernando Cruz continues to throw the ball well,

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Speaker 2: and you can really hear those grunts from Fernando Cruz

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Speaker 2: in these spring training games. But the Yankees kind of

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Speaker 2: the Yanks, and it gives us a reason to hand

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Speaker 2: out the belt. And we don't have to give it

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Speaker 2: actual contributor. And today we're going with Austin Wells. Austin

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Speaker 2: Wells first Belt of the season, and he will be

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Speaker 2: playing four team Puerto Rico in the World Baseball No,

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Speaker 2: or is it Dominican Republic. He's Dominican Republic in the

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. But he pulls into a six way tie.

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Speaker 2: And we are going to include spring training this year

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Speaker 2: And the only reason I didn't give him the belt

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Speaker 2: not just the Vets, but the prospects. LaGrone has looked great,

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Speaker 2: up on my iPads some pictures of him right after

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Speaker 2: he got drafted, you know, his final season in Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 2: at Steinbrenner Field. You can break out during spring training,

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Speaker 2: and we say, don't believe anything you see in spring,

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Speaker 2: don't believe anything you see in September. But it's hard

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Speaker 2: if he is healthy. And he is hitting one hundred

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Speaker 2: Grisham at some point if Grisham gets hurt. If Grisham struggles,

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Speaker 2: Dominguez hitting four to seventeen this spring with a home run,

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Speaker 2: I think you have to get him regular at bats

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Speaker 2: Triple A. And it kills me to say that because

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Speaker 2: good player. And if Spencer Jones ends up leap frogging

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Speaker 2: him on the depth chart, honestly, that could mean that

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Speaker 2: Dominguez becomes a trade piece. So the best path for

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Speaker 2: Domingez right now to get back to the major leagues

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Speaker 2: But either way, it does not look like we're going

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Speaker 2: to see Spencer Jones or Jason Dominguez on the opening

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hi, mister Derek, this is Eddie. Yeah. Listen, they

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Speaker 3: lineup of you know, Spencer Jones and the Martian. These

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Speaker 3: guys can play. I mean Italian Stanton and he's not

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Speaker 2: So so, John Carlos Stanton will be debuting on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: I think it's unfair to just say that he's not

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Speaker 2: If nobody gets hurt. I think that's also a great

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Speaker 2: And don't forget Stanton smashes lefties too. Here's the call

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Speaker 2: another Eddie.

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Speaker 1: Pay derekus Eddie just want to make two quick points

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Speaker 1: walk in today's game. Uh, the Yankees blew through their

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Speaker 1: Spencer Jones. Spencer Jones is really making a lot of noise. Man,

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Speaker 2: You know it's gonna happen. They're gonna open up in

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Speaker 2: I think you got to consider him part of the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: I know he's a starter. You can't waste one hundred

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Speaker 2: And yeah, he's got four pitches, but you can be

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to quickly touch base here. Final day

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