WEBVTT - 1158 | Red Sox HEATER, Prospect Report, MLB Headlines, Weekend Preview

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<v Speaker 1>Times Record, bring we will see you.

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<v Speaker 2>RM Layton Peyton gen is handling things as always. After

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<v Speaker 2>Peydon should be up for a local Emmy breaking down

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<v Speaker 2>last night's Red Sox White Sox game. That was one

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<v Speaker 2>of the best game breakdowns that I've seen from Peyden

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<v Speaker 2>in a long time. And Peyton constantly pumps out quality work.

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<v Speaker 2>But Peyton Genis, that was one of your finest works.

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<v Speaker 2>So tip of the cap to you man. We're going

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about the hottest team in baseball, the team

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<v Speaker 2>of the summer, winning the Game of the Year. Mickey

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<v Speaker 2>Moniac got paid to a certain extent. It's a two

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<v Speaker 2>year extension, but I just want to highlight what Moniac

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<v Speaker 2>has done with the Rockies, because I think he has

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<v Speaker 2>been one of the more underappreciated bats in baseball over

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<v Speaker 2>the last couple of years, especially this year, and the

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<v Speaker 2>Rockies seem to have a quasi quote unquote building block

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<v Speaker 2>for the next couple of years. In Moniac we also

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<v Speaker 2>have a minor league report, including a notable major league

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<v Speaker 2>call up for the first time, Nick Pivetta. It was

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<v Speaker 2>a bizarre sequence where he walked off the mound right

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<v Speaker 2>after throwing a pitch. Nobody knew why they paused his rehab,

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<v Speaker 2>and there's a weird contractual quirk in there that we

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<v Speaker 2>want to discuss and tie it back to a couple

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<v Speaker 2>Layton a lot to get to, but I think we

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<v Speaker 2>should absolutely be starting with the team of the summer.

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<v Speaker 2>The Boston Red Sox are twenty six and three in

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<v Speaker 2>their last twenty nine if I'm not mistaken, They're thirty

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<v Speaker 2>one and five in their last thirty six games, and

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<v Speaker 2>they win the Game of the Year last night. And

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<v Speaker 2>we have annoyed to several games of the year, but

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<v Speaker 2>Caleb Durban walking it off in the bottom of the

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<v Speaker 2>thirteenth for twelve eleven win, I think that qualifies this

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<v Speaker 2>Game of the Year.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it has to be, And I hate to admit

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<v Speaker 3>I got to rely on Peyton's recap. I was deep

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<v Speaker 3>in the top one hundred update like lab last night

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<v Speaker 3>and was not as dialed into that game as I

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<v Speaker 3>should have been, because it just really was an all

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<v Speaker 3>timer there. And it just even though like every time

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<v Speaker 3>I would check in and it would seem like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>this one might be well, of course out of the gate,

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<v Speaker 3>seem like oh they're out of this thing, and then

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<v Speaker 3>this one's definitely slipping away again or out no way

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<v Speaker 3>they can get back into it again. You still always

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<v Speaker 3>just kind of that initial thought was just usurped by.

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<v Speaker 3>Of course they're going to come back and win it.

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<v Speaker 3>Nothing can go wrong for them right now. And it

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<v Speaker 3>just feels like, no matter what the circumstance is, the

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<v Speaker 3>Red Sox are going to find a way to come

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<v Speaker 3>out on top. And this game was a perfect example

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<v Speaker 3>of that. I think it wasn't even like the White Sox,

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<v Speaker 3>like I'm sure you could pinpoint it in a game

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<v Speaker 3>that's you can pinpoint specific moments. Sure, it wasn't like

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<v Speaker 3>they gave this thing away from everything that I saw

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<v Speaker 3>and followed, and with the recap as well, like, it

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't like the White Sox just just completely fell apart

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<v Speaker 3>or had terrible moments. It's just that the Red Sox

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<v Speaker 3>will not go away right now. And if you were them,

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<v Speaker 3>how would you you feel like you can come back

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<v Speaker 3>in any circumstance.

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<v Speaker 2>Again, there are nuances to this, no doubt about it.

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<v Speaker 2>I watched the condensed game this morning, and I watched

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<v Speaker 2>Peyton's recap as well, and it just seemed like every

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<v Speaker 2>single time the White Sox through a jab, the Red

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<v Speaker 2>Sox through a jab again, and then when the White

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<v Speaker 2>Sox finally broke and Peyton called it breaking and I

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<v Speaker 2>get it in the top of the thirteenth inning, not

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<v Speaker 2>plating that placed runner. Some people call it a ghost runner.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a real human being. He's a real human I

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<v Speaker 2>never understood that.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, was the ghost runner When you're playing one

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<v Speaker 3>v one against your friend and you've got the runner

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<v Speaker 3>on second base, it's a real human.

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<v Speaker 2>I go, placed runner. That's what I call him. So

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<v Speaker 2>I like.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's debatable. I actually it's it's so obvious.

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<v Speaker 2>The other one that I don't like is automatic runner.

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<v Speaker 2>People call it the automatic runner, and I can kind

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<v Speaker 2>of get that. It's like out halfway in between. But

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<v Speaker 2>I just view the umpiring crew as placing the guy

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<v Speaker 2>at second base. So placed runner for me, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is my rent on minushe for today. But they don't

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<v Speaker 2>play the placed runner. In the top of the thirteenth

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<v Speaker 2>and the Red Sox and Caleb Durban they throw the

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<v Speaker 2>finishing punch and Caleb Durban had himself a walk off single.

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<v Speaker 2>Durbin is I think one of the poster boys of

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<v Speaker 2>this Red Sox run. There are stars that are playing

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<v Speaker 2>like stars right now, like Wilson Contrere is playing like

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<v Speaker 2>a star right They've got guys that are pitching like stars.

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<v Speaker 2>Will Yarbreu is playing like a star. Rafaela is playing

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<v Speaker 2>like a star. But I think Caleb Durban is the

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<v Speaker 2>perfect mascot for the Red Sox season to this point.

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<v Speaker 2>Not only is he five foot six, but he also

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<v Speaker 2>was one of the worst players in baseball for the

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<v Speaker 2>first two months of the year and the Red Sox

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<v Speaker 2>were one of the worst teams in baseball. And since then,

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<v Speaker 2>while the Red Sox have been the best team in baseball,

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<v Speaker 2>Durbin has been one of the best players in baseball.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a direct correlation between Durban going from really

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<v Speaker 2>bad to really good and the Boston Red Sox going

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<v Speaker 2>from really bad to really good. So very fitting that

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<v Speaker 2>the Game of the Year ends in favor of the

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<v Speaker 2>team of the summer and maybe the dude of the

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<v Speaker 2>summer here in Caleb Durban walking it off. A couple

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<v Speaker 2>of notes here, Sam Block, the Red Sox were down

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<v Speaker 2>two nothing, four nothing, four two five to two five

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<v Speaker 2>three seven, five, seven, six, nine, seven, nine, eight, ten,

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<v Speaker 2>nine eleven, ten, and they won the game and then

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<v Speaker 2>Buster only game of the year, without a doubt, one

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<v Speaker 2>of the greatest regular season games ever. Buster says the

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<v Speaker 2>Chicago White Sox held a lead within every inning from

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<v Speaker 2>the third inning through the twelfth on Thursday night. That's

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<v Speaker 2>ten straight innings of leads and they lost in the thirteenth.

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<v Speaker 2>Less an indictment on the White Sox, more a testament

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<v Speaker 2>to the Red Sox, and they can do absolutely zero

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<v Speaker 2>wrong right now.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe if they held on to Sir Anthony Dominga as

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<v Speaker 3>they closed that one out.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, you think so pretty well.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought Luis Castillo actually looked better than the line

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<v Speaker 3>suggested too, because I did, like in the front end

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<v Speaker 3>watching him throw, he looked a little bit more rejuvenated.

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<v Speaker 3>I think, I think we're gonna see a little bit

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<v Speaker 3>of a better Castillo. That's my prediction down the stretch

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<v Speaker 3>here with the White Sox. But you know, the biggest

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<v Speaker 3>thing here is just it seems like everybody is stepping up, right.

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<v Speaker 3>You mentioned it, Sidan Rafaela. And there was a couple

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<v Speaker 3>at bats I number one where I locked back in

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<v Speaker 3>and I was watching it was like terrible swing decisions,

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<v Speaker 3>like expanding in two zero in a spot where you

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<v Speaker 3>definitely should and then expanding again in three one. Interesting,

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<v Speaker 3>You're like, what are you doing, but he still ends

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<v Speaker 3>up hitting a double most of the time in these

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<v Speaker 3>at batch where you and maybe that catches up to you.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, but the last thirty games for him

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<v Speaker 3>is eight homers a one forty four WRC plus. You

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<v Speaker 3>mentioned Caleb Darbin. His last thirty games since July first,

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<v Speaker 3>he has a one thirty nine WRC plus and he

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<v Speaker 3>compared that to how bad he was before. It's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 3>He's walking as much as he's struck out wilsingon Treras

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<v Speaker 3>in that same span, one ninety four WRC plus. And

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<v Speaker 3>maybe the most surprising of them all, Andrew Monasterio is

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<v Speaker 3>now stepped in and in twenty four games for him

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<v Speaker 3>ninety seven played appearances since July first, he's in three

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<v Speaker 3>forty five with a one to seventy five WRC plus.

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<v Speaker 3>Now that is where you look at and say that's

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<v Speaker 3>probably not sustainable, but the Mastaki Yoshida has been consistently

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<v Speaker 3>solid for them. Jarendran is at least putting together better

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<v Speaker 3>at bats, and I think that is just just huge

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<v Speaker 3>to get him out of his own head and to

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<v Speaker 3>not be an automatic out. I think there's just a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of interesting wrinkles the one other thing that's fascinating

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<v Speaker 3>with this team too. From that span July first onward,

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<v Speaker 3>they're number one in the league in ELRA at two

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<v Speaker 3>point eighty five, and they are number four at WRC plus,

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<v Speaker 3>tied with the Cubs at one seventeen. It's just ridiculous

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<v Speaker 3>stuff from this Red Sox team that has just been

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<v Speaker 3>red hot in every facet of the game.

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<v Speaker 2>So I know Peyton's got some thoughts here. I just

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<v Speaker 2>want to cut Durban seat he's in a half real quick,

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<v Speaker 2>because Durbin, before this run like this, the bad Red

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<v Speaker 2>Sox were put to rest on June twenty fourth, and

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<v Speaker 2>this Red Sox was born on June twenty fifth. So

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<v Speaker 2>Durbin from opening day until June twenty fourth hit to

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<v Speaker 2>eighteen with a six thirty six ops to eighteen six

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<v Speaker 2>thirty six. From June twenty fifth onward, he's hitting three

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<v Speaker 2>to ten with an eight to ninety one OPS. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>direct correlation between bad and good. Peyton, I'm sure you

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<v Speaker 2>have a billion different nuggets on this game in this

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<v Speaker 2>team right now.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean, the first thing I kind of want

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<v Speaker 4>to say is even zooming out of this game alone.

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<v Speaker 4>Looking at this series, I think this series shows how

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<v Speaker 4>dangerous this Red Sox team actually is. I know it's

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<v Speaker 4>kind of an understatement based on how they're playing right now,

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<v Speaker 4>but think about like this Game one, boat race fourteen

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<v Speaker 4>to two, Red Sox win, Game two, shut out, four nothing,

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<v Speaker 4>Red Sox win, Game three, absolute chaos, Red Sox win.

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<v Speaker 4>They can beat you in every single way, and I

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<v Speaker 4>mean it's and I don't know if anyone deserves more

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<v Speaker 4>of an apology than Craig Breslo for building a team

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<v Speaker 4>that like just feels kind of Brewerish right now in

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<v Speaker 4>the way that they're able to just beat you in

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<v Speaker 4>all these different ways, and you know, pull out these

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<v Speaker 4>crazy wins and pull out devil magic, and I don't know,

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<v Speaker 4>it's just really crazy watching them right now.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you think they found the English to English translator

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<v Speaker 3>on July first around that time.

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<v Speaker 2>And his name is Chad freaking Tracy Mike.

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<v Speaker 3>I will say, I do, I do apologize on the

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<v Speaker 3>baseball side of things, but I do think too A

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<v Speaker 3>big part of the criticisms were largely communication and optics based,

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<v Speaker 3>so I do I did criticize some traits and look

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<v Speaker 3>is another overpay quote unquote, but now even some of

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<v Speaker 3>the early reports, John Hayman was saying Red Sox team

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<v Speaker 3>comp that they can extend there's a good shot to

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<v Speaker 3>extend Adli, which maybe was the delay. You remember when

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<v Speaker 3>the deal came was reported I think first by Jared Carrabas,

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<v Speaker 3>who obviously is very plugged into the Red Sox organization.

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<v Speaker 3>Then we had this like multi hour weight. I wonder

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<v Speaker 3>how much of that was maybe caring out some of

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<v Speaker 3>the medical stuff, but then also like, all right, we'll

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<v Speaker 3>give this package up, but like, can we at least

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<v Speaker 3>get like a verbal that you're gonna negotiate with us

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<v Speaker 3>and faith on an extension. Yeah, And I wonder if

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<v Speaker 3>that was part of it as well. But it's just

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<v Speaker 3>the vibes are so high right now because they're doing

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<v Speaker 3>this with there're two deadline acquisitions and like one before,

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<v Speaker 3>but they're two big acquisitions aren't even available. Curtis Meat

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<v Speaker 3>immediately gets hurt and it fits this team like a glove,

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<v Speaker 3>and Adwie Richmond is exactly what they needed and he's

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<v Speaker 3>not available yet and Wilson's been out for a week.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's like there's so much more. And that's not

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<v Speaker 3>to mention Roman Anthony coming back and you know, it

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<v Speaker 3>seems like all of the reports you talk about optics, like,

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<v Speaker 3>it just seems like anything negative around the Red Sox

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<v Speaker 3>org would get out, and the reports about Marcelo Mayer,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, maybe just not being the best vibe curator

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<v Speaker 3>in there. I think them shipping him out for a

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, a back end top thirty prospect probably

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<v Speaker 3>backs that up. So, I mean, it just seems like

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<v Speaker 3>things just continue to head and you know, in a

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<v Speaker 3>more positive direction for this Red Sox team.

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<v Speaker 2>Peyton, do you have the buster tweet about Chad Tracy

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<v Speaker 2>because I think that opens up a decent conversation here.

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<v Speaker 2>There are some I think four gone conclusions when it

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<v Speaker 2>comes to the manager carousel this offseason when we hit

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<v Speaker 2>it in Major League Baseball, Like I think New York

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<v Speaker 2>is kind of the Carlos Beltron Invitational at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>I think Philly, if they don't go with Mattingly moving forward,

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<v Speaker 2>that it's kind of the Alex Cora Invitational at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>But Peyton, if we have that buster tweet, we'd love

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<v Speaker 2>to flash that real quick. One second, all right, I

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<v Speaker 2>think that Boston was in a weird position where you know,

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<v Speaker 2>they they could have opened it up and gone to

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<v Speaker 2>a big search and got a flashy name. But Buster

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<v Speaker 2>is right. Is there any chance Chad Tracy will be

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<v Speaker 2>replaced this season? No? So what's the point of maintaining

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<v Speaker 2>the interim tech? And I saw comments on this tweet

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<v Speaker 2>like you can't mess up a good thing. You can't

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<v Speaker 2>remove the tag when when they're on this hot stretch

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<v Speaker 2>you gotta wait for like a three game shut up,

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<v Speaker 2>shut up. Chad Tracy's the manager of the Boston Red

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<v Speaker 2>Sox next year. There's no ifs ands or butts about it.

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<v Speaker 2>Chad Tracy has earned this freaking job again. If Cora

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<v Speaker 2>was on the table, I understand, but they fired Cora.

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<v Speaker 2>They're the team that fired him. The Mets are gonna

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<v Speaker 2>go with Beltron in all likelihood. It seems so like

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<v Speaker 2>we're sitting here saying, okay with the Red Sox, like

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<v Speaker 2>try to entertain a David Ross or something like that. Ud,

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<v Speaker 2>just stick with the guy that's doing this. Chad Tracy's

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<v Speaker 2>the freaking man and.

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<v Speaker 3>He speaks preslo. So just just don't don't get cute

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<v Speaker 3>with it it, just just stick with it. It works.

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<v Speaker 3>My other thing is, when is the last time I

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<v Speaker 3>think the last time we had a manager interim manager

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<v Speaker 3>win Manager of the Year is Jim Tracy in two

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<v Speaker 3>thousand and nine. And then one of my goats, Jack

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<v Speaker 3>McKeon with the two thousand and three Marlins with the

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<v Speaker 3>cigar in mouth. I'm sure the whole time. That's amazing.

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<v Speaker 3>So this would be an unbelievable feat and I feel

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<v Speaker 3>like he's got to win it, right.

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<v Speaker 2>You would think so, right, who else would win it

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<v Speaker 2>in the American League? Kevin Cash maybe, But I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's Chad Tracy And I think it's a foregone conclusion.

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<v Speaker 4>Isn't that?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that not his dad, Jim Tracy. I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>they're related.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, that's.

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<v Speaker 2>They're related. Then ninety pure.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a funny coincidence.

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<v Speaker 4>Then one more thing I want to hit on because

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<v Speaker 4>I sent this to you, Chase Mydroff had two homers

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<v Speaker 4>last night against the team that traded him, and I

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<v Speaker 4>think that would have been a really fun story if

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<v Speaker 4>the Red Sox obviously didn't. You know, the player to

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<v Speaker 4>be named later in the Durbin trade was Bruis Double

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<v Speaker 4>Magic once summer hit, but yesterday with his homer off

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<v Speaker 4>Rhodist Chapman, Chase Midrov is the only hitter to ever

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<v Speaker 4>homer off Chapman and Miserowski. How long would that last?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know, but it could last for a really

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<v Speaker 4>long time based on how good Jacob Mazerowski is.

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<v Speaker 2>Appreciate the comments.

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<v Speaker 3>It is his dad, They are definitely related.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it is. It is Chad Tracy's dad, Jim Tracy.

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<v Speaker 2>That's crazy. My confusion there is Chad Tracy was not

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<v Speaker 2>related to the other Chad Tracy, Chad Tracy that was

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<v Speaker 2>a big league player, so he was what a diamondback

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<v Speaker 2>for a second. But yeah, Jim Tracy is Chad Tracy's dad,

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<v Speaker 2>So that would be really cool, and that would be

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<v Speaker 2>perfectly baseball for that to happen. But again, the Boston

0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.120
<v Speaker 2>Red Sox are the hottest team in baseball, the best

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<v Speaker 2>team in baseball at this point right now, and it

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<v Speaker 2>is incredible. And how about this from Ercle twelve watching

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<v Speaker 2>on YouTube. Chad Tracy now nineteen games over five hundred

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<v Speaker 2>as manager of the Boston Red Sox this year. So

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<v Speaker 2>the Red Sox, Man of the vibes are absolutely aclate.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's pivot to Mickey Moniac here. Mickey Moniac got himself

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<v Speaker 2>a nice two year extension. Moniac is a Colorado Rocky

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<v Speaker 2>for the next handful of years. And Moniac was a

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<v Speaker 2>guy that was often talked about leading up to the

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<v Speaker 2>trade deadline. Does somebody need you know a lefty bat

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<v Speaker 2>that is mashing in Colorado? They up to give Moniac

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<v Speaker 2>a two year extension worth about sixteen million dollars, and

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<v Speaker 2>I just thought it was worth like spending eightish minutes

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<v Speaker 2>on Mickey Moniac here because he has totally revitalized his

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<v Speaker 2>career in Colorado. Yes, he had a good year in

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<v Speaker 2>Anaheim in twenty three, but it was only eighty five games.

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<v Speaker 2>In two years in Colorado, Mickey Moniac is sporting an

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<v Speaker 2>eight point fifty ops hitting two seventy three with forty

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<v Speaker 2>three homers and one hundred and twenty three driven in

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred and twelve games. I understand it's the most

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<v Speaker 2>hitter friendly environment in Major League Baseball, But at the

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<v Speaker 2>end of the day, Moniac has been very, very productive,

0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.480
<v Speaker 2>and they kind of fell ass backwards into Mickey Mooniac here.

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<v Speaker 2>He was damage goods to a certain extent, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just really happy for Mickey Moniac that his career has

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<v Speaker 2>resulted in a two year extension, and I'm really happy

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<v Speaker 2>for Colorado finding a guy that they can again quote

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<v Speaker 2>unquote build around. It's a two year, sixteen million dollar

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<v Speaker 2>contract extension, but at the end of the day, this

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<v Speaker 2>is an impact bat in the middle of their lineup,

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<v Speaker 2>and he's going to give other teams headaches when they

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<v Speaker 2>come to Corsfield and when they go to them.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean this is just a good move in general.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it gives you a little bit of a

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<v Speaker 3>window here to just kind of see what you could

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<v Speaker 3>piece together for next season. In the year after that,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, why can't this Rockies team, you know, start

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<v Speaker 3>to progress towards being more competitive. And it's not like

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<v Speaker 3>this contract is going to hamper you from being able

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<v Speaker 3>to move him a year or a year and a

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<v Speaker 3>half from now as well. And I think that's the

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<v Speaker 3>biggest part. It's not like he's that much more expensive,

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<v Speaker 3>you know. And I think what's exciting is there's just

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<v Speaker 3>at least some sort of a signal to Rockies fans. So, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>we cash it on some guys, but the guys that

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<v Speaker 3>are producing, like we have a young core here all

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<v Speaker 3>of a sudden, and we want to hold on to

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<v Speaker 3>some guys I thought they they'd move them. I thought

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<v Speaker 3>it could make some sense. But I think in assessing

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<v Speaker 3>what they've got, like zac Veen just said, his twentieth Holmer,

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<v Speaker 3>but I think there's still clearly some doubts that he

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<v Speaker 3>would ever be able to come up and do what

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<v Speaker 3>Moniac is doing. And you have a pretty large sample

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<v Speaker 3>of him having success here now and I think being

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<v Speaker 3>even better this year than he was the year before.

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<v Speaker 3>So I like it. I think it's it's just encouraging

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<v Speaker 3>overall for a Rockies orgue that again just just kind

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<v Speaker 3>of showing them those fans some some sort of good

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<v Speaker 3>faith and showing that things are are trending a little

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<v Speaker 3>bit differently than they have in the past. And also

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<v Speaker 3>I think the Moniac just just wrinkle for himself. Is

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<v Speaker 3>really interesting because you go from like, you know, being

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<v Speaker 3>talked about as an all time bust and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the number one pick what hangs over your head as

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<v Speaker 3>being one of those guys is just so tough, and

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<v Speaker 3>you know, now I think was he the Is he

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<v Speaker 3>what we expected and what the Phillies expected when they

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<v Speaker 3>took them number one? Overall? Maybe not, but I think

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<v Speaker 3>now you're looking and the guy that's gonna end up

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<v Speaker 3>looking back at his career and you're gonna say he

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<v Speaker 3>had a really nice, you know, overall career and put

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<v Speaker 3>up some good numbers. And I think that part is

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<v Speaker 3>really nice. And what out of the gate looked like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, it could be a really frustrating and disappointing

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<v Speaker 3>story with another number one overall pick. So happy for Maniac,

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<v Speaker 3>happy for the Rockies. And again, there's a lot of

0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:18.919
<v Speaker 3>talent all of a sudden trying to kind of make

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<v Speaker 3>its way up. We're gonna see Charlie Condon before the

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<v Speaker 3>end of the year. You know, we'll see how he

0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.880
<v Speaker 3>fits in. Obviously, Chase Dolander has been out, but that's

0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.399
<v Speaker 3>a guy that's still a big part of their future.

0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.040
<v Speaker 3>Cole Kerrigg has been fantastic. They held on to Goodman,

0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.840
<v Speaker 3>they held on to McCarthy, like, there's some decent big

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<v Speaker 3>league pieces that have proven well this year, and it's

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<v Speaker 3>I think Kyle Carros has been good. There's finally some

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<v Speaker 3>things to look.

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<v Speaker 2>Forward to in Colorado three or one more. I think

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<v Speaker 2>Rumfield's really good too.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.560
<v Speaker 2>CJ. Rumfield is a guy that you can, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>again sort of kind of build around and We're not

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<v Speaker 2>sitting here saying they're the White Sox in two years

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<v Speaker 2>where they're going from you know, one hundred and twenty

0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.040
<v Speaker 2>losses last year to possibly winning the National League West

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<v Speaker 2>next year. Like that's just not gonna happen then, But

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<v Speaker 2>why can't they be a seventy five win team in

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<v Speaker 2>a year or two? You know, why can't they be

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<v Speaker 2>a seventy win team next year? And they're not pacing

0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.439
<v Speaker 2>for seventy right now. I think they're pacing for what

0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.560
<v Speaker 2>sixty five right now? But like, the incremental improvements are

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<v Speaker 2>really important in a place like Colorado, and Moniac can

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<v Speaker 2>be you know, one of the poster boys of that.

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<v Speaker 2>And last thing on Moniac real quick, you mentioned he's

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<v Speaker 2>a different player than who the Phillies drafted number one

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<v Speaker 2>over on sixteen. Like the profile has changed entirely. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>if I remember correctly, he was supposed to be that

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<v Speaker 2>really good defenders, speed back to ball guy when he

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<v Speaker 2>was drafted, And now he's like, let's hit the ball

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<v Speaker 2>to the ballpark and let's slug a little bit and

0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.440
<v Speaker 2>let's play not great defense at a corner rock field spot.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, when it's like a hit first guy that the

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<v Speaker 3>hit tool doesn't end up being what you believe it

0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:46.880
<v Speaker 3>was it was going to be. Usually those guys don't

0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.520
<v Speaker 3>have the power to kind of offset that. So I

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<v Speaker 3>think it's really hard to say, all right, let me

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<v Speaker 3>be a better hitter now. It just didn't quite come

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<v Speaker 3>together that way. So it's like, all right, well, if

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<v Speaker 3>I'm going to be more of a fringy bat to

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<v Speaker 3>ball guy or even below average, I better slug. And

0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.480
<v Speaker 3>he added strength and he found a way to slug more,

0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.960
<v Speaker 3>and that's allowed him to again being above average. Bigley

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<v Speaker 3>here now, yep, I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>All right. Let's keep on pushing here. Before we get

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<v Speaker 2>to a minor league report, which is fun and includes

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<v Speaker 2>a major league debut coming up in a matter of moments,

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<v Speaker 2>we will take a quick break. Again, no peanuts for now,

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<v Speaker 2>but we do have whoosh back in the fold. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>talk about Kaylan Culpepper, who gets up. He is going

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<v Speaker 2>to make his major league debut for the Minnesota Twins.

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<v Speaker 2>Culpepper he officially got the call first round pick from

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of years ago out of Kansas State. Culpeper

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<v Speaker 2>with an eight to fifty ops, fourteen homers, seventeen bags

0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.960
<v Speaker 2>and seventy four games for Triple A Saint Paul First

0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.720
<v Speaker 2>broken by J. D. Cameron. Excited to see Colepeper get

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<v Speaker 2>involved in a team that is in the wild card

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<v Speaker 2>mix right now and in the division mix in the

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<v Speaker 2>American League Central. What can Twins fans and baseball fans

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<v Speaker 2>expect from a four first round pick in Kaitlyn Culpepper.

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<v Speaker 3>A really well rounded, good ball player. And I think

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<v Speaker 3>that's the exciting thing with Colepepper and and in some

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<v Speaker 3>of the questions that I think were there when he

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<v Speaker 3>was drafted twenty first overall, I think he's just continued

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<v Speaker 3>to answer, like, you knew this was a guy that

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<v Speaker 3>was going to be able to hit, and you knew

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<v Speaker 3>he'd be a solid defender on the left side of

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<v Speaker 3>the enfield. But some people thought maybe he'll move off

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<v Speaker 3>off off of shortstop, maybe he'll even be a project

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<v Speaker 3>vested second. I always thought he'd be at least an

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<v Speaker 3>average shortstop, but now we're looking at a guy that

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<v Speaker 3>looks like he could be an above average shortstop. He's

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<v Speaker 3>so sound fundamentally is his footwork has gotten better, so

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<v Speaker 3>now you've got some pretty good range here. The other

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<v Speaker 3>question was how much power is this guy going to

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<v Speaker 3>hit for? Because you know, Colepepper is not a huge dude.

0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.359
<v Speaker 3>It's it's been more hit over power, but he's added

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<v Speaker 3>impact in that regard to average ex velocity and north

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<v Speaker 3>of ninety miles per hour and still has the good

0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.440
<v Speaker 3>feel to hit that he's always had. The other aspect

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<v Speaker 3>has been the hammers fastballs. How can he hit you know,

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<v Speaker 3>against secondaries? And it's still something to be a work progress,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's a lot better. He's just below a seven

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<v Speaker 3>hundred ohops against non fastballs, which is fine when you're

0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.760
<v Speaker 3>ops nearly a thousand against fastballs, and that's a lot

0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.160
<v Speaker 3>better than he was the year before that. So there's

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<v Speaker 3>so many things I think to be really encouraged by

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<v Speaker 3>with Colepepper. And he's the classic player where the sum

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<v Speaker 3>of his parts is just such a solid baseball player

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<v Speaker 3>with good hit, you know, at least average power, now

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<v Speaker 3>above average speed, and you know at least average defense

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<v Speaker 3>at shortstop. Then that looks like it can be above

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<v Speaker 3>average as well. Those are the type of players that

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<v Speaker 3>when you're sputtering a little bit for a team that's

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<v Speaker 3>clearly trying to win, now they've made some additions to

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<v Speaker 3>Twins did at the deadline to try to bolster this team.

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<v Speaker 3>They haven't won sense unfortunately. Colepepper is the type of

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<v Speaker 3>guy that can come up there and give you quality

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<v Speaker 3>at bats, you know, pretty quickly, and hopefully try to

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<v Speaker 3>jolt this offense a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you're asking where's he going to play? The

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<v Speaker 2>answer shortstop. I know Byron Buxton's hurt right now, but

0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.720
<v Speaker 2>brooks Lee's playing third for them, Royce Lewis has played

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<v Speaker 2>a heck of a lot of first base for them

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<v Speaker 2>as of late, and Ryan Kreidler has been there near

0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.160
<v Speaker 2>everyday shortstop. So he's just going to spell Ryan Kreidler here.

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<v Speaker 2>Kreidler probably better served as a bench bat and Kaylen

0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.800
<v Speaker 2>Kulpepper are going to play shortstop nearly every day for

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<v Speaker 2>the Minnesota Twins. He is up. Let's keep on talking

0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:13.280
<v Speaker 2>about the best performers in Minor league baseball to this point.

0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:17.480
<v Speaker 2>We went post All Star break, so starting about July,

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<v Speaker 2>what was that the eighteenth ish, the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,

0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:25.200
<v Speaker 2>I think right around that area, and we've got five

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<v Speaker 2>bats for you, and we got four arms for you.

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<v Speaker 2>The first bat that we want to highlight here is

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<v Speaker 2>Blake Burke with the Biloxi Shuckers. He is a brewer prospect.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a gargantuane human being that almost has thirty bags

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<v Speaker 2>this year. But if you want to see a guy

0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.320
<v Speaker 2>that hits tanks, this is your dude. He's lirting with

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<v Speaker 2>thirty homers. Blake Burke in eighteen games since the All

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<v Speaker 2>Star break three sixty eight with sixteen extra base hits,

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<v Speaker 2>including ten homers, twenty three driven in, eight for nine

0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:59.320
<v Speaker 2>in the stolen based department, and a thirteen hundred ops

0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:01.280
<v Speaker 2>for Blake burn I.

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<v Speaker 3>Love watching this guy hit, and there's some hit tool question,

0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:06.840
<v Speaker 3>and I think he's continued to just shore that up

0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:09.800
<v Speaker 3>and we've seen them just get better and better. But

0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:13.320
<v Speaker 3>when when he is impacting the baseball, it is with

0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.000
<v Speaker 3>so much violence and it's to all fields. He's got

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<v Speaker 3>the pole side pop. But as he saw in the

0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:20.120
<v Speaker 3>videos here for those watching on YouTube, he can get

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<v Speaker 3>you the ball deep and just flick it the other

0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.040
<v Speaker 3>way and it'll sail over you know, the left field wall.

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<v Speaker 3>If you hang one, you could see a one fourteen

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<v Speaker 3>one fifteen mile per hoor ev poll side and you

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<v Speaker 3>know the Brewers were really encouraged by I think how

0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:36.000
<v Speaker 3>Burke showed up to camp this year too, where he

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<v Speaker 3>was his athletic, you know, and it was best shape

0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:40.760
<v Speaker 3>of his life season. But like actually real with Burke,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think you're seeing that translate into the athleticism too.

0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.359
<v Speaker 3>Where is he a burner, No, he's always going to

0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:47.720
<v Speaker 3>be more of an opportunistic based dealer, but now that

0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:51.520
<v Speaker 3>opportunity is more abundant when you can move more quickly.

0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.359
<v Speaker 3>Because he's gotten into better shape, he didn't that that

0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:57.720
<v Speaker 3>didn't compromise any of the pop. He's an averagegxavosity of

0:25:57.800 --> 0:26:01.240
<v Speaker 3>ninety three miles per hour. I watching this guy hit

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<v Speaker 3>because it's violent, but it's controlled and it's in the

0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:07.919
<v Speaker 3>air consistently, and he just fits the bill of what

0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:10.919
<v Speaker 3>the Brewers have done a great job of identifying and developing,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think this is going to be a fun

0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:14.720
<v Speaker 3>power back for them for a long time. Max ev

0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:17.280
<v Speaker 3>this year, by the way, Homer one hundred and sixteen

0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:21.960
<v Speaker 3>miles per hour at twenty degrees. That's an absolute rocket jas.

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<v Speaker 2>Meanwhile, the Brewers did trade one of the hottest performers

0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:28.480
<v Speaker 2>post All Star Break to the Saint Louis Cardinals and

0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:32.000
<v Speaker 2>that Dustin May Jojo Romero deal. Josiah Ragsdale has been

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely awesome. In seventeen games since the break. He's hitting

0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:39.520
<v Speaker 2>three fifteen with eleven homers, fifteen driven in, He's five

0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.719
<v Speaker 2>for six in the stolen based department, and he's got

0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:46.399
<v Speaker 2>an OPS over twelve hundred. Josiah Ragsdale also homered in

0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:49.200
<v Speaker 2>his first game as a Cardinal farm hand with Double

0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:52.480
<v Speaker 2>A Springfield in San Antonio, And we were just running

0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:55.000
<v Speaker 2>through this on the call of the guys with twenty

0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:59.880
<v Speaker 2>homers and thirty bags this year, Josiah Ragsdale, Theo Gill

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<v Speaker 2>one of the Rays, who is a top ten prospect

0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.680
<v Speaker 2>in baseball, and Eric Hartman of the Atlanta Braves, who

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<v Speaker 2>is probably at this point the Minor League player of

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<v Speaker 2>the year. Yeah, for the Atlanta Braves and in minor

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<v Speaker 2>league baseball.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's great company. And that's what happens when you

0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:18.800
<v Speaker 3>take a speedy, flashy, defensive, slash and dash kind of

0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:21.520
<v Speaker 3>guy and you find a way to get him to

0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:26.360
<v Speaker 3>tap into impact. And that's just been this story with Ragsdale.

0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:29.240
<v Speaker 3>Super deep contact point. When you're looking at his brief

0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:32.080
<v Speaker 3>pro debut last year, and that comes with the territory

0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:34.120
<v Speaker 3>of the more slash and dashy type of guys. Now

0:27:34.200 --> 0:27:36.320
<v Speaker 3>using the ground so much better and catching the ball

0:27:36.359 --> 0:27:39.959
<v Speaker 3>further out front is allowed him to elevate much more consistently,

0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:42.000
<v Speaker 3>and in that it was a small sample, but it

0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:43.680
<v Speaker 3>was north of a fifty percent groundball rate as a

0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:46.040
<v Speaker 3>pro last year and this year he's cut that down

0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:48.919
<v Speaker 3>by twenty percent. The bat speed was always there, but

0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:50.919
<v Speaker 3>now he's really allowing it to eat by catching the

0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:53.040
<v Speaker 3>ball in the right spot and at the right angles.

0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:57.679
<v Speaker 3>And now you have this this exciting power speed defense combination.

0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:01.000
<v Speaker 3>And with Ragsdale like this, this is just a scouting

0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:04.760
<v Speaker 3>and development success for the Brewers and part of the

0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:07.720
<v Speaker 3>reason why they were probably willing to trade him. But

0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:09.919
<v Speaker 3>at the same time, this is a fun player to

0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:12.119
<v Speaker 3>add to the system for the Cardinals, and I know

0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:13.600
<v Speaker 3>we talked about them in the call when we broke

0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.480
<v Speaker 3>down the deal, but it's just such a unique skill

0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:18.360
<v Speaker 3>set where Okay, if the hit tool stalls out because

0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:20.040
<v Speaker 3>there is some swing and miss when you look get

0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:22.120
<v Speaker 3>like his first year at Iona he struck out twenty

0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:24.000
<v Speaker 3>eight percent of the time, was much better the second

0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:26.160
<v Speaker 3>year there struck out eighteen percent of the time. Makes

0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:28.320
<v Speaker 3>the transfer over to Boston College struck out about twenty

0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:30.320
<v Speaker 3>one percent of the time, which is fairly high for

0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:33.840
<v Speaker 3>a college bat. Right, he had a total of fourteen

0:28:33.920 --> 0:28:39.479
<v Speaker 3>homers Ragsdale did in one hundred and forty six collegiate games,

0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:44.040
<v Speaker 3>and he has twenty homers this year already, So just

0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:46.440
<v Speaker 3>shows you how much more impact this kid's getting into

0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:49.160
<v Speaker 3>really patient approach. That's part of why he's striking out more.

0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.280
<v Speaker 3>So he's got to find the balance of patient and passivity.

0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:54.920
<v Speaker 3>But the contact rate is seventy four percents. Fine. If

0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:57.200
<v Speaker 3>he's a fringy bat to ball guy with plus play

0:28:57.240 --> 0:29:00.160
<v Speaker 3>discipline or even above average with now above average power,

0:29:00.360 --> 0:29:03.000
<v Speaker 3>speed and defense, he's going to have a long career

0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:04.440
<v Speaker 3>in the big league. So I think there's a fun

0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:05.960
<v Speaker 3>get and a guy that I don't think is going

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<v Speaker 3>off anytime soon.

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<v Speaker 2>Mentioned Josiah Ragsdale, now of the Cardinals, one of three

0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:13.160
<v Speaker 2>guys in minor league baseball this year with twenty or

0:29:13.160 --> 0:29:16.280
<v Speaker 2>more home runs and thirty or more stolen bases. Eric

0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:18.840
<v Speaker 2>Hartman of the Braves is another one, and Theo Gillan

0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:20.960
<v Speaker 2>of the Rays is another one. And Theo Gillen, a

0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.760
<v Speaker 2>top ten prospect in baseball, also makes the heat sheet

0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:27.800
<v Speaker 2>because post All Star Break, Gillan has been absolutely ridiculous.

0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:31.720
<v Speaker 2>Theo Gillen in sixteen games after the break, hitting over

0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:34.640
<v Speaker 2>four hundred and four h three. He's twenty five for

0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:38.480
<v Speaker 2>sixty two with four doubles, a triple, eight homers. That's

0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:42.800
<v Speaker 2>thirteen extra base hits, nineteen driven in. He's walked fourteen

0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:46.000
<v Speaker 2>times to nine punchouts. He's five to seven in the

0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:49.400
<v Speaker 2>stolen base department. He's slugging nearly nine hundred, getting on

0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:51.360
<v Speaker 2>base at a five to twenty clip, and it's a

0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:54.080
<v Speaker 2>fourteen hundred ohps since the break.

0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:58.360
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this is a top ten prospect in baseball, you know,

0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:03.040
<v Speaker 3>without a doubt, and you kid, just the excitement around

0:30:03.040 --> 0:30:05.960
<v Speaker 3>the skill set still room for more pop, which is

0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:09.160
<v Speaker 3>the scary part. It's such an advanced approach for his

0:30:09.240 --> 0:30:12.240
<v Speaker 3>age and what he's done at Double A for Gillin

0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:15.480
<v Speaker 3>to just immediately be as good as he has been

0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:17.680
<v Speaker 3>at Double A making that leap. It's the guy that

0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.560
<v Speaker 3>missed out on some reps last year, right, it was

0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:22.480
<v Speaker 3>only about seventy three games at low A. He's dealt

0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:24.560
<v Speaker 3>with a little bit of a calf thing and starts

0:30:24.600 --> 0:30:27.240
<v Speaker 3>the season at high A decimates that gets up to

0:30:27.280 --> 0:30:29.960
<v Speaker 3>double A and really hasn't slowed a bit. He's lowered

0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:32.880
<v Speaker 3>his strikeout right marginalie, increased the walk rate, and he's

0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:35.920
<v Speaker 3>eight homers in thirty one contest there. It's remarkable. And

0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:39.680
<v Speaker 3>even last night last night, the Marlins Double A affiliate

0:30:39.680 --> 0:30:41.480
<v Speaker 3>had a no hitter with two outs in the ninth

0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:44.480
<v Speaker 3>and Fio Gillen broke it up with a backside solo shot.

0:30:45.760 --> 0:30:48.760
<v Speaker 3>He's just different right now. And when you look at

0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:52.959
<v Speaker 3>the ability to hammer fastballs, it's in velocity in general

0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:55.800
<v Speaker 3>three fifty seven bating average for his fastballs eleven thirty five.

0:30:55.840 --> 0:30:57.640
<v Speaker 3>Oh psright, oh well, then what's the catch? What's he

0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:01.160
<v Speaker 3>doing against spin? THREEA batting average nights three ops. Now,

0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:03.120
<v Speaker 3>he could get a little bit rigid at times, so

0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:04.960
<v Speaker 3>like I want to see a little bit more adjustability

0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:08.120
<v Speaker 3>on the spin. What a nitpick on a twenty year

0:31:08.120 --> 0:31:12.480
<v Speaker 3>old that's just absolutely destroying Baseball's with well above average

0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:16.760
<v Speaker 3>really plus evs, solid contact traits, plus play, discipline, good speed,

0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:19.120
<v Speaker 3>and the defense has come along in center. Remember this

0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:21.760
<v Speaker 3>is a guy that was on the dirt as a prepster,

0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.120
<v Speaker 3>has learned the outfield and continues to come along as

0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:24.840
<v Speaker 3>a centerfielder.

0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:27.800
<v Speaker 2>Uh, it's fun to nitpick a twenty year old. That

0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:30.160
<v Speaker 2>means the twenty year old is pretty damn good. We've

0:31:30.160 --> 0:31:31.800
<v Speaker 2>got a couple other hitters that we want to go

0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:35.920
<v Speaker 2>over before four pitchers, and one of them was actually

0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:39.600
<v Speaker 2>in that deal sending Adley Rutchman from Baltimore to Boston

0:31:39.720 --> 0:31:44.280
<v Speaker 2>alongside Anthony Iinson. Iinsen was obviously the big ticket guy

0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:47.360
<v Speaker 2>in that trade, and this guy might have been piece

0:31:47.400 --> 0:31:51.560
<v Speaker 2>three or four. But India Zocar has been absolutely insane

0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:54.280
<v Speaker 2>and a Zocar is one of the newest members of

0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:58.520
<v Speaker 2>the Orioles Farm system. India z Ocar in fifteen games

0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:01.720
<v Speaker 2>since the All Star Break, hitting four to twenty three

0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:05.000
<v Speaker 2>with nine doubles, two triples, five homers. He's driven in

0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:07.840
<v Speaker 2>twenty one in fifteen games since the break, and he's

0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:10.320
<v Speaker 2>got a twelve sixty four ops.

0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.080
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this is the guy that I think could make

0:32:13.120 --> 0:32:14.880
<v Speaker 3>the trade really hurt. Like you knew you were going

0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:17.600
<v Speaker 3>to have to part with an e incin and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>like a headliner and pitching prospect for adli Andan. You

0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:22.240
<v Speaker 3>knew you'd probably have to have a decent secondary piece

0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:23.960
<v Speaker 3>in there too, And I think Witherspoon's going to iron

0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:26.680
<v Speaker 3>some things out and be a solid, solid arm. But

0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.719
<v Speaker 3>I think he's limited to a degree even ionsin I

0:32:29.720 --> 0:32:32.400
<v Speaker 3>think I'm a little bit lower on relative to what

0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:34.400
<v Speaker 3>you know some people have on him in terms of

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<v Speaker 3>the ceiling. I think he's a high probability a number

0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.440
<v Speaker 3>four starter maybe you know, can execute his way to

0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:40.720
<v Speaker 3>being a middle rotation guy. A zo Car is the

0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:42.800
<v Speaker 3>wild card where it's like, this guy could be anything

0:32:42.840 --> 0:32:45.240
<v Speaker 3>from yeah, obviously could stall out and struggle with swing

0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:47.160
<v Speaker 3>and miss and the upper levels, or he could be

0:32:47.160 --> 0:32:49.800
<v Speaker 3>an all star. And you know, I think that's where

0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:53.080
<v Speaker 3>as a I think he's a second piece in this deal,

0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:56.280
<v Speaker 3>but as one of three pieces in the main pieces,

0:32:56.280 --> 0:32:58.760
<v Speaker 3>in the prospect pieces in the deal, it's really exciting.

0:32:59.000 --> 0:33:02.640
<v Speaker 3>A Zo Cars young, nineteen years old, Jerry's still out

0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:04.120
<v Speaker 3>on center field. If he can stick there, then I

0:33:04.160 --> 0:33:06.200
<v Speaker 3>mean that only elevates the profile. He's a good athlete,

0:33:06.240 --> 0:33:09.320
<v Speaker 3>so he's gonna have every opportunity to and he's been challenged.

0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:12.160
<v Speaker 3>You mentioned like he's doing this. He's going crazy in

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:15.360
<v Speaker 3>getting to hi a at such a young age, and

0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:17.600
<v Speaker 3>when you're seeing some of the exit velocities that he's

0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:20.480
<v Speaker 3>putting up when it's not this like out of control

0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:23.600
<v Speaker 3>crazy swing, he's already exceeded one hundred and thirteen miles

0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:25.840
<v Speaker 3>per hour EVS. I think this is a guy that

0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:29.640
<v Speaker 3>you can have a really fun power speed, just just

0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:35.160
<v Speaker 3>huge ceiling kind of projection for him, as long as

0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:36.840
<v Speaker 3>the swing and myss doesn't creep into much as the

0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:38.920
<v Speaker 3>seventy percent contact right, not bad with how much he's

0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:41.880
<v Speaker 3>been pushed, but just something to monitor. Crazy bat speed,

0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:44.000
<v Speaker 3>Really fun guy to watch, and I already love the

0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:46.320
<v Speaker 3>field to hit in terms in terms of pulling the

0:33:46.320 --> 0:33:48.680
<v Speaker 3>ball in the air and getting into that power.

0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:51.320
<v Speaker 2>Last hitter we want to talk about here real quick

0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:55.320
<v Speaker 2>is a Dodger. Sorry, Charles Daviland of the La Dodgers

0:33:55.360 --> 0:34:00.360
<v Speaker 2>in Daveland. I mean, this guy is it's he seems like,

0:34:00.400 --> 0:34:02.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to say the next Sirota, but he

0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:06.000
<v Speaker 2>is breaking out in an absolutely humongous way. Charles Davalan

0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:09.080
<v Speaker 2>in fifteen games since the break for Hi a great Lakes,

0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:13.440
<v Speaker 2>hitting four point fifty with eight doubles, a triple, six homers,

0:34:13.480 --> 0:34:17.160
<v Speaker 2>sixteen driven in he's walked seven times, he's caid seven times,

0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:20.000
<v Speaker 2>and he's got a fourteen fifty two OPS in his

0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:24.120
<v Speaker 2>last fifteen games. Charles Davlan has played ninety nine minor

0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:27.800
<v Speaker 2>league baseball games. He played eight with low A Rancho

0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:31.239
<v Speaker 2>Cucamonga last year. In eight games, he was seventeen for

0:34:31.360 --> 0:34:34.440
<v Speaker 2>thirty four. That's a five hundred batting average, and in

0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:36.880
<v Speaker 2>ninety one games so far this year, in his first

0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:40.040
<v Speaker 2>full pro season with hi A Great Lakes, he's hitting

0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:44.959
<v Speaker 2>two ninety eight with twenty six doubles eighteen bombs. He's

0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:48.760
<v Speaker 2>sixteen for eighteen in the stolen based department. He's walked

0:34:48.800 --> 0:34:51.040
<v Speaker 2>more than he's punched out. He's got a nine to

0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:54.239
<v Speaker 2>fifty two OPS and in ninety nine minor league games

0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:58.680
<v Speaker 2>ninety nine hitting three point fifteen with a nine eighty

0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:01.960
<v Speaker 2>OPS at a four to twe OBP. He's got twenty

0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:06.480
<v Speaker 2>nine doubles, nineteen homers, nineteen bags, fifty seven walks and

0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:10.279
<v Speaker 2>fifty one strikeouts. This is a top blank prospect in

0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:11.400
<v Speaker 2>baseball at the update.

0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:13.600
<v Speaker 3>I think he's got to be top fifty. I just

0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:15.800
<v Speaker 3>want to see him in Double A, like please, I

0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.520
<v Speaker 3>want to see him challenging double, but I don't have

0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:20.799
<v Speaker 3>any reason to believe that it's not going to be

0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:23.440
<v Speaker 3>more of the same for this guy. It is, and

0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:26.759
<v Speaker 3>I think the most underrated part of Dablon is that

0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:30.239
<v Speaker 3>he gives you more power than you'd expect for a

0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:32.560
<v Speaker 3>player of his archetype. Right, this is a plus back

0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:36.120
<v Speaker 3>to ball, smaller guy at like five to nine, but

0:35:36.719 --> 0:35:38.799
<v Speaker 3>he's got an average exabastev eighty nine miles an hour.

0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:40.799
<v Speaker 3>It's a hard hit rate north of forty percent, and

0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:43.960
<v Speaker 3>he's been hammering all pitch types. So what's the hole

0:35:44.040 --> 0:35:47.960
<v Speaker 3>to poke if he's slugging? The other would just be defense,

0:35:48.360 --> 0:35:51.279
<v Speaker 3>and I think he's actually looked fine. He probably ends

0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:52.680
<v Speaker 3>up in a corner, but I think he's gonna be

0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:54.839
<v Speaker 3>a solid defender in a corner, and they're giving him

0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:56.480
<v Speaker 3>still some run and center, and who knows, maybe he

0:35:56.520 --> 0:35:59.440
<v Speaker 3>can progress into being serviceable out there. But he is

0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:03.480
<v Speaker 3>so pure at the plate. Ninety one percent is on contact, right,

0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:05.239
<v Speaker 3>He's not going to chase, and he hits the ball

0:36:05.280 --> 0:36:08.920
<v Speaker 3>harder than you'd expect. This is such a safe offensive profile.

0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:10.759
<v Speaker 3>It's going to be a big leaguer and probably a

0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:11.719
<v Speaker 3>pretty down good one.

0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:16.839
<v Speaker 2>Dude, he is absolutely insane offensively. Those are our five hitters. Now,

0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:18.800
<v Speaker 2>let's pivot to the four pitchers that we want to

0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:21.719
<v Speaker 2>go over here, and one of them was acquired by

0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:24.600
<v Speaker 2>the Washington Nationals via trade a couple of days ago.

0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:26.279
<v Speaker 2>He was one of four players that came back for

0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:30.720
<v Speaker 2>Foster Griffin and Josh Hartle has been outstanding since the break.

0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:35.000
<v Speaker 2>In four starts, Hardle twenty two innings of work, eight

0:36:35.080 --> 0:36:38.920
<v Speaker 2>hits in twenty two innings, two runs, twenty six punch

0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:43.080
<v Speaker 2>outs to five walks. Hitters were hitting one sixteen against

0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:44.640
<v Speaker 2>him over his last four turns.

0:36:45.080 --> 0:36:47.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we talked about on the call up. I just

0:36:47.200 --> 0:36:51.200
<v Speaker 3>think this is a pitch ability lefty who's really starting

0:36:51.200 --> 0:36:54.279
<v Speaker 3>to settle into, you know, what works for him. It

0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:56.319
<v Speaker 3>also helps that he's throwing the ball harder, and I

0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.319
<v Speaker 3>think that's not a coincidence either. He was a guy

0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:01.960
<v Speaker 3>that is always been low nineties and he still is.

0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:06.120
<v Speaker 3>But when you're averaging ninety one versus averaging ninety two

0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:09.200
<v Speaker 3>as he has over the last thirty days, I think

0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:11.160
<v Speaker 3>being able to just get up and out touching a

0:37:11.200 --> 0:37:13.319
<v Speaker 3>four or five here and there when he needs to,

0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:16.000
<v Speaker 3>I think that makes a big difference. It's a really

0:37:16.239 --> 0:37:19.239
<v Speaker 3>unique fastball where I would I don't have spin efficiency

0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:21.680
<v Speaker 3>readily available. I'd venture to guess that the spin efficiency

0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:24.520
<v Speaker 3>is really low, and so it creates this unique look

0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:27.080
<v Speaker 3>where it's like only nine inches of vert negative eight

0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:31.080
<v Speaker 3>horizontal but twenty five hundred RPMs. It's this really weird fastball.

0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:34.279
<v Speaker 3>I think the harder he throws it, the more deceptive

0:37:34.320 --> 0:37:36.279
<v Speaker 3>and strange it can be. But I think he's just

0:37:36.360 --> 0:37:40.520
<v Speaker 3>wondering how to execute because it's it's a very weird

0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:43.480
<v Speaker 3>kind of I would say spin orientation on even some

0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:45.600
<v Speaker 3>of his pitches, and I think he's leveraging that more

0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:48.000
<v Speaker 3>and more, which pitches or hitters not reacting to as well,

0:37:48.480 --> 0:37:51.880
<v Speaker 3>you know, which work better against lefties versus rieties. And

0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:53.240
<v Speaker 3>this is the guy that I think, as he fully

0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:54.880
<v Speaker 3>figures out everything that's going to work for him as

0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:57.520
<v Speaker 3>a six to six southpaw that can fill up the zone,

0:37:58.040 --> 0:38:00.359
<v Speaker 3>seems like a high probability back into the rotation starter

0:38:00.440 --> 0:38:01.919
<v Speaker 3>and I think he's really showing that now this isn't

0:38:01.960 --> 0:38:04.160
<v Speaker 3>clicking for him as a college arm in Hia, this

0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.600
<v Speaker 3>clicking for him as a college arm at Double A.

0:38:07.520 --> 0:38:10.839
<v Speaker 2>Did Mike Elias Cook in the sixth round last year

0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:15.759
<v Speaker 2>with Caden Hunter. Caden Hunter has been unbelievable post All

0:38:15.800 --> 0:38:20.279
<v Speaker 2>Star break Caden Hunter in the Oriole system Hunters. So

0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:23.719
<v Speaker 2>far in four appearances, three of which starts, twenty and

0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:27.120
<v Speaker 2>two thirds innings, two earned runs, he's cade thirty two

0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:30.399
<v Speaker 2>and walk four. Opponents are hitting a buck thirty against him.

0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:32.840
<v Speaker 2>But the big thing that jumps out, Yeah, he's on

0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:35.400
<v Speaker 2>a hot stretch right now. It's kind of par for

0:38:35.440 --> 0:38:38.440
<v Speaker 2>the course this year. This guy through twenty three innings

0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:41.200
<v Speaker 2>in low A, forty five innings in high A, now

0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:44.560
<v Speaker 2>thirteen in double A, and in eighty one innings of work,

0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:47.560
<v Speaker 2>he's got a one to four ERA. He's kate one

0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:52.000
<v Speaker 2>hundred and twenty two guys in eighty one innings. Sixth

0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:54.640
<v Speaker 2>round pick out a usc last year by Baltimore.

0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:58.839
<v Speaker 3>They we talked about this too, like you could say

0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 3>what you want about Olaia in some of the shortcomings

0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:05.160
<v Speaker 3>in recent years. But this front office man middle to

0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:08.080
<v Speaker 3>late round arms, they snipe them. And here's another one.

0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:12.200
<v Speaker 3>This is a plus heater, easy plus heater lefty that's

0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:15.239
<v Speaker 3>throwing the ball at ninety five miles an hour with

0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:18.600
<v Speaker 3>nineteen inches avert from a standard release height that's going

0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:21.880
<v Speaker 3>to play slightly above average extension, and he's just overwhelming

0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:26.040
<v Speaker 3>hitters with that fastball. It's so much fun. It's just

0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:29.000
<v Speaker 3>kind of slight crossfire too that I think only helps

0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:31.160
<v Speaker 3>it play up, and then it's a pretty well rounded

0:39:31.160 --> 0:39:34.480
<v Speaker 3>mix off of that. The changeup has great vertical separation

0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:39.040
<v Speaker 3>and really stays similar on the horizontal side, so I

0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:41.680
<v Speaker 3>think really is tough for hitters to separate from, and

0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:44.040
<v Speaker 3>it started to generate a lot of whiff. As he's

0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:46.120
<v Speaker 3>found a more consistent feel for it, he's going to

0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:47.239
<v Speaker 3>need to just be in the zone with it a

0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:50.120
<v Speaker 3>little bit more. He's got the gyro slider and the curveball.

0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:51.840
<v Speaker 3>But really I think the big reason why Hunter is

0:39:51.880 --> 0:39:54.920
<v Speaker 3>dominating is you have a lefty with an overwhelming fastball,

0:39:55.000 --> 0:39:56.960
<v Speaker 3>so the secondaries are going to need to come along

0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.440
<v Speaker 3>a little bit more. But when you can overwhelm with

0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.960
<v Speaker 3>the heater like that, it gives you such a strong foundation,

0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:04.319
<v Speaker 3>especially from the left side, and with the way that

0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:07.160
<v Speaker 3>he can kind of get lower in terms of this

0:40:07.320 --> 0:40:11.640
<v Speaker 3>crossfire slightly horizontal release, this guy's gonna be I think

0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:14.319
<v Speaker 3>a monster at least against lefties and Hunter's a top

0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:16.719
<v Speaker 3>one hundred candidate as well, because anytime you have that

0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:19.880
<v Speaker 3>fastball foundation, I'm excited to see how the secondaries continue

0:40:19.880 --> 0:40:21.959
<v Speaker 3>to come along. But the shapes are already kind of there.

0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:25.240
<v Speaker 2>A couple of guys breaking out in the Brave Farm

0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:28.759
<v Speaker 2>system this year, and that could make the deadline or

0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:33.040
<v Speaker 2>lack there of equality deadline even more frustrating for Braves fans.

0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:36.239
<v Speaker 2>But Ethan Bagwell is one of those breakout arms this year.

0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:40.280
<v Speaker 2>Ethan Bagwell is twenty years old. He was a sixth

0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:43.120
<v Speaker 2>round pick in twenty four out of high school in Illinois.

0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:46.959
<v Speaker 2>No relation to Jeff Bagwell, but Ethan Bagwell. In four

0:40:47.040 --> 0:40:49.480
<v Speaker 2>starts since the All Star Break twenty four and a

0:40:49.520 --> 0:40:52.400
<v Speaker 2>third innings of four run baseball, He's punched out twenty

0:40:52.440 --> 0:40:55.560
<v Speaker 2>four and walked three. Opponents are hitting a buck seventy

0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:59.200
<v Speaker 2>against him. And Bagwell, as a twenty year old in

0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Loway and High, has already thrown over one hundred innings,

0:41:02.640 --> 0:41:05.240
<v Speaker 2>punched down one hundred and two to twenty eight walks

0:41:05.320 --> 0:41:08.360
<v Speaker 2>this year. Bagwell just another good arm in that Brave system.

0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:13.280
<v Speaker 3>Really difficult Matt like East West, It's a tough look.

0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:17.439
<v Speaker 3>He's basically low low three quarters. It's a four point

0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:20.440
<v Speaker 3>eight foot release height. Remind you that's a foot more

0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:23.200
<v Speaker 3>than a foot lower than the average MLB release hight.

0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:25.960
<v Speaker 3>And from that, I mean you figure the lower you get,

0:41:26.200 --> 0:41:28.919
<v Speaker 3>the more horizontal your stuff's typically going to go, because

0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:30.479
<v Speaker 3>you're going on the side of the ball than behind

0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:33.520
<v Speaker 3>the ball. Right, but he's still able to kind of

0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:36.800
<v Speaker 3>flash enough of a little bit of a four seemer

0:41:37.040 --> 0:41:39.680
<v Speaker 3>at the top, which I think really gets hitter's uncomfortable

0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:43.120
<v Speaker 3>because everything horizontally is crazy. He throws a sweeper, and

0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:44.759
<v Speaker 3>there's like variations of it. I think it's like a

0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.400
<v Speaker 3>sweeping curveball and then kind of a sweeper with more ride,

0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:50.000
<v Speaker 3>and that is two different looks. I think the sweeping

0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:52.600
<v Speaker 3>curveball can back leg left, he's more The sweeper with

0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:55.160
<v Speaker 3>more ride is just a nightmare. I think right on

0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:58.240
<v Speaker 3>right he's got the cutter to bridge. It's a really

0:41:58.440 --> 0:42:01.400
<v Speaker 3>fun mix from a week you're at angle that I

0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:03.360
<v Speaker 3>think is going to be very fascinating. It's not like

0:42:03.360 --> 0:42:05.200
<v Speaker 3>he's throwing it at eighty nine miles an hour, which

0:42:05.239 --> 0:42:06.920
<v Speaker 3>a lot of guys end up doing with that well,

0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:09.440
<v Speaker 3>he's averaging ninety three and he succeeded ninety five. So

0:42:10.120 --> 0:42:12.719
<v Speaker 3>this is an interesting arm to watch and at six

0:42:12.840 --> 0:42:15.680
<v Speaker 3>four to two thirty sturdy Bill two, this could be

0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:19.680
<v Speaker 3>another emergent arm in the Brave system. And to your point,

0:42:19.880 --> 0:42:23.200
<v Speaker 3>bigeras dy've emergent bats, they've emergent arms, and they kept

0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:27.160
<v Speaker 3>all of them. Then we'll see what happens later on.

0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:29.440
<v Speaker 3>But just seems like a bit of a surprise with

0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:30.680
<v Speaker 3>how many emergent players they have.

0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:33.000
<v Speaker 2>They got seventy wins, though they've won nine in a

0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:34.840
<v Speaker 2>row or eight in a row. I mean, at the

0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:36.520
<v Speaker 2>end of the day, they could just be a battering

0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:38.279
<v Speaker 2>ram with a really good system and they're trying to

0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:41.040
<v Speaker 2>do their Dodger impression. Last arm that we want to

0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:43.160
<v Speaker 2>talk about here is a guy that I had never

0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:46.400
<v Speaker 2>heard of before, Bryce Mayor, who is an astro prospect

0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:49.880
<v Speaker 2>sixteenth round in twenty twenty four out of the University

0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:53.879
<v Speaker 2>of Missouri. He's twenty four years old. Mayor last year

0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:56.640
<v Speaker 2>was in low a HIA and double A and he

0:42:56.680 --> 0:42:59.120
<v Speaker 2>threw to an ERA over four. But Mayor was a

0:42:59.160 --> 0:43:02.279
<v Speaker 2>strikeout artist last year and this year in sixty nine

0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:04.680
<v Speaker 2>innings he's got a two six ERA and double A

0:43:04.920 --> 0:43:07.359
<v Speaker 2>and in sixty nine innings of work, He's punched out

0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:11.040
<v Speaker 2>one hundred and in three starts. Since the All Star break,

0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:15.040
<v Speaker 2>Bryce Mayor has worked seventeen scoreless innings with twenty six

0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:18.040
<v Speaker 2>k's and four walks. What's this guy's deal.

0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:20.680
<v Speaker 3>It's amazing seeing him lock in the command because I

0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:22.480
<v Speaker 3>would have said that's the one area where he really

0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:25.759
<v Speaker 3>just needed to shore it up a little bit. It's

0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:28.719
<v Speaker 3>just been a theme between the two episodes of what

0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:31.280
<v Speaker 3>we've talked about today. A lot of low release guys

0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:34.520
<v Speaker 3>haven't success, and it's just such a unique look. When

0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:38.120
<v Speaker 3>you can combine the low release with plus extension, that's

0:43:38.160 --> 0:43:41.319
<v Speaker 3>where it's like, oh man, good luck. Obviously Miz does

0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:43.520
<v Speaker 3>that the best with the highest velocity, but when you're

0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:47.160
<v Speaker 3>getting low and you can get out there, it's unique

0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:50.319
<v Speaker 3>and rushing hitters. And that's what you get from Meyer.

0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:54.800
<v Speaker 3>It's seven feet of extension, and then you're also getting

0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:57.680
<v Speaker 3>a five point two foot release height and from that

0:43:57.760 --> 0:44:00.440
<v Speaker 3>release hight tons of run and rye. Remember the lower

0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.520
<v Speaker 3>that your release sit, the harder it is to induce

0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:05.480
<v Speaker 3>vertical break, and he's getting seventeen inches of induced vertical

0:44:05.480 --> 0:44:07.440
<v Speaker 3>break from a five two release site. I would guess

0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:10.560
<v Speaker 3>that the standard you know, average IVB is probably two

0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:14.279
<v Speaker 3>inches to three inches less than that, and of course

0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:16.279
<v Speaker 3>the average extension is going to be half a foot

0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:20.000
<v Speaker 3>less than that or more so. Already unique on the fastball,

0:44:20.080 --> 0:44:23.680
<v Speaker 3>and then he's got that riding sweeper as well, a

0:44:24.239 --> 0:44:27.680
<v Speaker 3>nasty two plane curveball, and then the cutter and change up,

0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:29.560
<v Speaker 3>so you have the fastball set in the tone and

0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:31.719
<v Speaker 3>then all these pitches that he can mix in afterwards.

0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:33.920
<v Speaker 3>And it just seems like of late he's found a

0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:36.399
<v Speaker 3>much more consistent feel for it, especially just leaning into

0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:39.360
<v Speaker 3>the fastball slider combo more and has resulted in less walks.

0:44:40.160 --> 0:44:42.840
<v Speaker 3>We'll see, like if the Astros are are desperate for

0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:46.799
<v Speaker 3>some help pitching wise, no reason. Maybe I've admired, you

0:44:46.840 --> 0:44:49.880
<v Speaker 3>know in the PCL if he keeps throwing strikes at

0:44:49.880 --> 0:44:51.120
<v Speaker 3>the clip that he's throwing right now.

0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:54.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was your minor league report on five hitters

0:44:54.400 --> 0:44:57.480
<v Speaker 2>and four pitchers Pavena in preview. When we come back,

0:44:57.560 --> 0:45:08.040
<v Speaker 2>But one more quick woosh. One of the more bizarre

0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:12.080
<v Speaker 2>happenings in baseball came with the Lake elsinor Storm? Are

0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:14.279
<v Speaker 2>they still called the Lake elsinor Storm? There's a lot

0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:18.280
<v Speaker 2>of changes. Yeah, they should still be like the Rancho

0:45:18.320 --> 0:45:21.919
<v Speaker 2>Cucamonga Quakes are now the Ontario Tower buzzers, like, there's

0:45:22.000 --> 0:45:24.080
<v Speaker 2>just a lot changing in Inland California.

0:45:24.160 --> 0:45:26.600
<v Speaker 3>I just don't Is that what private equity's doing to us?

0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:29.640
<v Speaker 2>I guess yeah, Big minor league baseball right, never thought

0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:32.480
<v Speaker 2>big minor league baseball would be a thing. But Nick

0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:36.000
<v Speaker 2>Pavetta on rehab the other day had one of the

0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:39.120
<v Speaker 2>more bizarre happenings. This is from Marty Caswell on Twitter.

0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:41.840
<v Speaker 2>Paveta throws a pitch and he's walking off like he

0:45:41.920 --> 0:45:44.680
<v Speaker 2>just struck out the side, but no, it was I

0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:47.160
<v Speaker 2>think a two to two that missed low and Nick

0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:50.799
<v Speaker 2>Pavetta immediately started walking towards the first base dugout after

0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.280
<v Speaker 2>throwing a pitch on a rehab assignment for San Diego,

0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:56.160
<v Speaker 2>and he walked all the way down the dugout steps,

0:45:56.280 --> 0:45:59.120
<v Speaker 2>into the tunnel and into the clubhouse. Here Pavetta took

0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:01.720
<v Speaker 2>himself out of the game. He clearly felt something snag

0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:05.400
<v Speaker 2>on his rehab. Apparently nothing structural came of that, but

0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:08.480
<v Speaker 2>they are pausing his rehab here and this could have

0:46:08.520 --> 0:46:12.799
<v Speaker 2>some serious financial implications on Nick Pavetta, do you have

0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:15.680
<v Speaker 2>the language in front of you here, because yeah, his

0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:17.640
<v Speaker 2>contract it's pretty funky.

0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:18.319
<v Speaker 1>Well.

0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:20.080
<v Speaker 3>And also the interesting thing is he threw a bullpen

0:46:20.160 --> 0:46:22.840
<v Speaker 3>the next day, threw a twenty to thirty pitch bullpen

0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:25.879
<v Speaker 3>the next day, And I mean, I don't I don't

0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:29.239
<v Speaker 3>want to guess too too much, but I do wonder

0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:31.600
<v Speaker 3>if that's part of him trying to kind of push

0:46:31.680 --> 0:46:34.600
<v Speaker 3>through it and get back because you know of the

0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:36.920
<v Speaker 3>implications on the contract, so I want to make sure

0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:40.279
<v Speaker 3>I have this right. And it's unfortunate. Paveta has just

0:46:40.280 --> 0:46:43.160
<v Speaker 3>been you know, riddled with injury, and it sucks because

0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:44.600
<v Speaker 3>when he's been on the mound, he's been really, really

0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:47.040
<v Speaker 3>darn good. But if you remember, it was that fifty

0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:50.319
<v Speaker 3>five million dollar deal over forty years and kind of

0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:53.640
<v Speaker 3>in a classic AJ Preller fashion, multiple player options and

0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:56.919
<v Speaker 3>you're just like leveraging yourself so hard, but Preller doesn't care.

0:46:57.400 --> 0:46:59.920
<v Speaker 3>But there was some unique conditions to this because of

0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:03.920
<v Speaker 3>the injury history with Paveta that if he is on

0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:08.320
<v Speaker 3>the IL for one hundred and thirty days, that player

0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:13.560
<v Speaker 3>option converts into a club option. And this is where

0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:18.319
<v Speaker 3>it gets tight because if Paveta is not off the

0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:21.319
<v Speaker 3>il by the twenty second that would be the one

0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.520
<v Speaker 3>hundred and thirty day mark. So this by you know,

0:47:24.640 --> 0:47:27.440
<v Speaker 3>MLB Trade Rumors, is a fantastic job of laying all

0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:30.440
<v Speaker 3>of this out. And this was Anthony Franco, who I've

0:47:30.480 --> 0:47:33.160
<v Speaker 3>been reading this stuff there for long before we've been

0:47:33.640 --> 0:47:37.920
<v Speaker 3>doing anything on the media side publicly. So this is

0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:41.160
<v Speaker 3>this is fascinating to me because it's a unique contract structure.

0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:44.200
<v Speaker 3>It puts Paveta on a spot there. It's just like,

0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:46.000
<v Speaker 3>you know, I just want to see the guy healthy.

0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:48.359
<v Speaker 3>He's so good when he's on the mountain. You don't

0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:50.440
<v Speaker 3>want to see him push through something and create another issue,

0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:52.680
<v Speaker 3>right Like, sometimes you have an elbow issue and then

0:47:52.680 --> 0:47:55.000
<v Speaker 3>the shoulder compensates. You could you could give yourself a

0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:57.880
<v Speaker 3>shoulder issue, so like, and I don't know if it

0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:00.480
<v Speaker 3>felt just more they said it was more tightness. But

0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:02.840
<v Speaker 3>the padres are shutting it down right now. I know

0:48:02.920 --> 0:48:04.759
<v Speaker 3>some people and I know there's been some instances in

0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:07.600
<v Speaker 3>the past where people have questioned, you know, Proer's motives

0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:09.560
<v Speaker 3>on some of these types of things. I think it

0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:11.279
<v Speaker 3>makes a lot of sense to shut a guy down

0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:12.799
<v Speaker 3>who walked off the mound in a way that you

0:48:12.840 --> 0:48:17.040
<v Speaker 3>thought maybe it was like very, very bad. But I'm

0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:21.040
<v Speaker 3>just operating under the assumption that you know, he's out

0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:24.280
<v Speaker 3>till the twenty second and it flips into a club option.

0:48:24.800 --> 0:48:26.640
<v Speaker 3>It becomes really fastic because I still think you pick

0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:30.080
<v Speaker 3>it up at fourteen and see what happens. But it

0:48:30.160 --> 0:48:33.799
<v Speaker 3>does make things a lot different for Nick Povetics Souse.

0:48:33.800 --> 0:48:35.000
<v Speaker 3>I also think if he's not feeling good and he

0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:37.400
<v Speaker 3>thinks he might get surgery in the offseason, he of

0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:38.640
<v Speaker 3>course would be opting into.

0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:42.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it certainly does make things really really weird and

0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:46.080
<v Speaker 2>curious to see which way they go. Obviously, you walk

0:48:46.120 --> 0:48:48.399
<v Speaker 2>the tightrope of trying to do right by the guy,

0:48:48.520 --> 0:48:52.319
<v Speaker 2>but also, you know, trying to financially optimize your team,

0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:55.200
<v Speaker 2>especially when they're going to try to resign Morohane and

0:48:55.280 --> 0:48:57.200
<v Speaker 2>they've got guys that you know are getting deeper into

0:48:57.320 --> 0:48:59.440
<v Speaker 2>arbitration and deeper into control and all that stuff. So

0:49:00.200 --> 0:49:02.040
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, it's bizarre, but this kind of sent

0:49:02.640 --> 0:49:06.360
<v Speaker 2>us down the rabbit hole of other weird contract structures

0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:10.400
<v Speaker 2>that I think are kind of unknown or underreported, Like

0:49:10.840 --> 0:49:12.400
<v Speaker 2>the one that comes up all the time is the

0:49:12.480 --> 0:49:16.560
<v Speaker 2>Julio Rodriguez one, and that's more award based. But Luis Castillo,

0:49:16.719 --> 0:49:18.719
<v Speaker 2>who obviously just got traded from the Mariners to the

0:49:18.760 --> 0:49:22.400
<v Speaker 2>White Sox, that's another really interesting contract, and that was

0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:28.120
<v Speaker 2>injury based, So Paveta, it was injury laden based on

0:49:28.280 --> 0:49:33.200
<v Speaker 2>incentives and not really incentives. Just dropped the mic overall

0:49:33.320 --> 0:49:37.600
<v Speaker 2>control here. But Luis Castillo, this is the weird part

0:49:37.680 --> 0:49:41.480
<v Speaker 2>of this. There's a twenty twenty eight vesting option at

0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:44.479
<v Speaker 2>twenty five million dollars for Luis Castillo. He makes twenty

0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:46.560
<v Speaker 2>four million dollars next year, and the White Sox are

0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:49.399
<v Speaker 2>on the hook for that. If Castillo misses one hundred

0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:52.399
<v Speaker 2>and thirty days from twenty twenty five to twenty twenty

0:49:52.440 --> 0:49:56.560
<v Speaker 2>seven due to ucl injury, the twenty five million dollar

0:49:56.640 --> 0:50:00.040
<v Speaker 2>player option becomes a five million dollar club options. So

0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:03.239
<v Speaker 2>this thing for Paveta is not entirely unique. It's just

0:50:03.360 --> 0:50:06.880
<v Speaker 2>like there are some drastic examples of this weird contract

0:50:06.920 --> 0:50:08.640
<v Speaker 2>structure existing in Major League Baseball.

0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:13.359
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it's funny because the Castillo one, it's it's

0:50:13.400 --> 0:50:15.759
<v Speaker 3>awesome to see him, you know. Ultimately now end up

0:50:16.280 --> 0:50:20.480
<v Speaker 3>just becoming one of the more durable and consistent arms

0:50:20.960 --> 0:50:23.680
<v Speaker 3>that we've seen in baseball over the last handful of years,

0:50:23.680 --> 0:50:26.240
<v Speaker 3>because it seemed to be there was some concern about

0:50:26.320 --> 0:50:29.399
<v Speaker 3>availability for that to be baked into the contract there.

0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:33.120
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, that's one where I'm interested to see too,

0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:38.919
<v Speaker 3>because if Luis Castillo throws pretty well, let's say pretty well,

0:50:40.040 --> 0:50:42.960
<v Speaker 3>and you go into next year where he's going pretty well,

0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:47.880
<v Speaker 3>one if we lose games, how does that work with

0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:51.279
<v Speaker 3>the vesting option? Does that become like pro rated? You

0:50:51.360 --> 0:50:54.080
<v Speaker 3>know like that do you is it like proportioned?

0:50:55.160 --> 0:50:56.040
<v Speaker 2>And you wonder?

0:50:56.440 --> 0:50:59.799
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, right, And then the other question is operating under

0:50:59.800 --> 0:51:01.880
<v Speaker 3>the sumption that we have a full season, Let's say

0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:06.040
<v Speaker 3>he is incredibly mid do you start to taper the

0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:08.560
<v Speaker 3>innings down so you don't have a vesting at twenty five?

0:51:09.160 --> 0:51:12.080
<v Speaker 2>Like? But the thing five era, the weird thing is

0:51:12.120 --> 0:51:16.400
<v Speaker 2>the contract stipulation that that nests like it requires it

0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:19.560
<v Speaker 2>being a UCL injury. He's got to miss days with

0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:23.680
<v Speaker 2>a UCL injury. It's not like any other innings thing. Like,

0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:28.440
<v Speaker 2>it's not an innings criteria, it's a UCL injury criteria.

0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:31.080
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, if this guy is just like sitting because

0:51:31.080 --> 0:51:33.480
<v Speaker 2>he's not very good, he still has a twenty five

0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:34.640
<v Speaker 2>million dollar player option.

0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:37.680
<v Speaker 3>So that okay, So it's twenty twenty eight vesting option

0:51:37.880 --> 0:51:40.160
<v Speaker 3>vests with one hundred and eighty innings in twenty twenty seven.

0:51:40.680 --> 0:51:43.120
<v Speaker 3>Then if Castillo misses one hundred and thirty plus days

0:51:43.160 --> 0:51:45.640
<v Speaker 3>and twenty twenty five to or between twenty twenty five

0:51:45.680 --> 0:51:48.440
<v Speaker 3>and twenty twenty seven due to UCL injury, this becomes

0:51:48.480 --> 0:51:51.200
<v Speaker 3>a five million dollar team option. So one of those

0:51:51.239 --> 0:51:53.160
<v Speaker 3>things who things are separate or to get tether together.

0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:55.640
<v Speaker 3>But the other crazy part about that is, and guy,

0:51:55.680 --> 0:51:58.640
<v Speaker 3>I feel horrible talking about this, but like he could

0:51:59.080 --> 0:52:02.080
<v Speaker 3>tear his ac, yeah, or he could have a shoulder

0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:06.319
<v Speaker 3>injury and it wouldn't matter in the contract. He would

0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:09.760
<v Speaker 3>still be fine. It's only if it's a UCL injury,

0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:11.839
<v Speaker 3>which is very specific. I don't know if we've ever

0:52:11.880 --> 0:52:16.280
<v Speaker 3>seen that, Like Pavetta's was just IL, Luis Castillo's specifically UCL,

0:52:16.400 --> 0:52:17.200
<v Speaker 3>which is nuts.

0:52:17.800 --> 0:52:20.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. It makes no sense to me why

0:52:20.280 --> 0:52:22.080
<v Speaker 2>they would do that, Like, wouldn't you just make it

0:52:22.280 --> 0:52:25.600
<v Speaker 2>IL as a whole? But oh, well, Man and the Mariners,

0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:28.440
<v Speaker 2>like it's not unique to Seattle, who obviously handed that out.

0:52:28.480 --> 0:52:32.560
<v Speaker 2>But Julio Rodriguez, like his contract gets really really weird

0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:34.600
<v Speaker 2>over the course of the next handful of years, Like

0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:37.760
<v Speaker 2>he's got a club option at eighteen million and twenty thirty.

0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:41.320
<v Speaker 2>It was a seven year, one hundred and nineteen million

0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:43.600
<v Speaker 2>dollar deal that he signed like base, and there was

0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:46.600
<v Speaker 2>two hundred and nine million dollars in terms of base guarantee,

0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:49.680
<v Speaker 2>but the total max out for Julio Rodriguez could have

0:52:49.680 --> 0:52:52.520
<v Speaker 2>been four hundred and seventy million dollars if you want

0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:54.520
<v Speaker 2>to look at spot track like a spot Track obviously

0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:58.080
<v Speaker 2>does an amazing job of working through this. There's a

0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:01.160
<v Speaker 2>twenty thirty club option that must be decided on after

0:53:01.320 --> 0:53:03.960
<v Speaker 2>twenty eight and it's based on MVP votes. So if

0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:06.719
<v Speaker 2>he got four top ten MVP votes, like at top

0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:10.120
<v Speaker 2>ten MVP votes across four years, it's an eight year,

0:53:10.200 --> 0:53:13.239
<v Speaker 2>two hundred and sixty million dollar contract that it would

0:53:13.520 --> 0:53:16.759
<v Speaker 2>morph into. And then you've got like these weird team

0:53:16.840 --> 0:53:19.759
<v Speaker 2>options here, and then there are player options off of

0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:22.359
<v Speaker 2>the club option. Have you been able to properly wrap

0:53:22.440 --> 0:53:24.560
<v Speaker 2>your brain around Julio Rodriguez a contractor. No.

0:53:25.239 --> 0:53:28.640
<v Speaker 3>I try to digest it like piece by piece, because

0:53:28.719 --> 0:53:30.920
<v Speaker 3>it is the most I don't even know how how

0:53:31.080 --> 0:53:34.000
<v Speaker 3>long do you think it took them to hash this

0:53:34.200 --> 0:53:34.640
<v Speaker 3>all out.

0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:37.160
<v Speaker 2>I think at at some point someone just said, you

0:53:37.200 --> 0:53:38.320
<v Speaker 2>know what, screw it, let's do it.

0:53:38.680 --> 0:53:41.920
<v Speaker 3>Let's just do it. The sliding scale of how many

0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:44.800
<v Speaker 3>top ten votes and how much that will change the option,

0:53:45.680 --> 0:53:48.080
<v Speaker 3>you know, to whether it's like zero top ten votes

0:53:48.120 --> 0:53:50.239
<v Speaker 3>is eight years two hundred million, two top ten votes,

0:53:50.239 --> 0:53:52.640
<v Speaker 3>it's eight years two hundred forty million, four top ten votes,

0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:55.000
<v Speaker 3>it's eight years two hundred and sixty million. One win

0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:58.240
<v Speaker 3>plus one top five vote or three top five votes

0:53:58.480 --> 0:54:01.400
<v Speaker 3>is eight years two hundred eighty million. Two wins or

0:54:01.600 --> 0:54:03.800
<v Speaker 3>four top five votes is ten years, three hundred and

0:54:03.800 --> 0:54:06.279
<v Speaker 3>fifty million, Like, holy crap. But I honestly think that

0:54:06.440 --> 0:54:11.279
<v Speaker 3>structure is actually fantastic because it either way the team

0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:14.000
<v Speaker 3>has protection, where like the if it is a disaster, right,

0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:17.120
<v Speaker 3>Julio's a disappointment, you're not paying as much as you

0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:20.160
<v Speaker 3>would have thought. But also Julio has the safety net

0:54:20.200 --> 0:54:24.160
<v Speaker 3>of he's guaranteed, you know, still a nine figure salary

0:54:25.040 --> 0:54:27.560
<v Speaker 3>if catastrophe happens. But then you also have the other

0:54:27.600 --> 0:54:29.960
<v Speaker 3>side where it's like, oh, you know, the Mariner's got

0:54:30.080 --> 0:54:33.000
<v Speaker 3>a steal, he's won an MVP, he won two well,

0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:35.320
<v Speaker 3>they're gonna have to fork up still enough for that,

0:54:35.400 --> 0:54:38.160
<v Speaker 3>which they'd be happy to if Julio's winning MVPs or

0:54:38.320 --> 0:54:40.120
<v Speaker 3>is like placing in the top five on a handful

0:54:40.160 --> 0:54:42.560
<v Speaker 3>of vacation. So I think teams mostly just don't go

0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:45.440
<v Speaker 3>down this this Rabba hole. Like I think it's a

0:54:45.520 --> 0:54:48.600
<v Speaker 3>good structure that is the most fair if they would

0:54:48.640 --> 0:54:49.320
<v Speaker 3>be willing to do it.

0:54:49.880 --> 0:54:52.160
<v Speaker 2>So since he signed this deal, he's got a top

0:54:52.239 --> 0:54:55.120
<v Speaker 2>five MVP finish and a top ten MVP finished. He

0:54:55.200 --> 0:54:57.640
<v Speaker 2>finished fourth in AL MVP voting in twenty three and

0:54:57.880 --> 0:55:02.319
<v Speaker 2>sixth in all and ALM voting last year. We'll see

0:55:02.360 --> 0:55:05.399
<v Speaker 2>if Julio gets any down ballot MVP votes this year.

0:55:05.480 --> 0:55:07.680
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't look like he's trending that way with his

0:55:07.760 --> 0:55:10.560
<v Speaker 2>seven forty oh ps, but if he flirts with thirty

0:55:10.640 --> 0:55:12.719
<v Speaker 2>thirty and really turns it on in the final two months,

0:55:13.080 --> 0:55:15.600
<v Speaker 2>then we shall see. But yeah, fascinating with Paveto, with

0:55:15.719 --> 0:55:18.960
<v Speaker 2>Castillo and with Julio. We're gonna wrap with the weekend preview.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, it is presented by our friends at Picket Sports.

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<v Speaker 2>Excited to walk through these handful of games as we

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<v Speaker 2>look forward to the weekend. Here, let's start tonight here

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<v Speaker 2>at six forty pm Eastern Time, It'll be Blue Jays

0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:40.400
<v Speaker 2>and Phillies in Philly, and that starting pitching matchup tonight

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<v Speaker 2>in Philadelphia, it's gonna be Jose Soriano making his Blue

0:55:44.200 --> 0:55:48.200
<v Speaker 2>Jay debut against ten and two Zach Wheeler at the Bank.

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<v Speaker 3>What say you, yeah, I'm gonna always go at the

0:55:51.600 --> 0:55:53.800
<v Speaker 3>side of Zach Wheeler at the Bank. I'm excited for

0:55:54.280 --> 0:55:58.000
<v Speaker 3>like Soriano and in a Blue Jay's uniform. I think

0:55:58.040 --> 0:56:00.520
<v Speaker 3>they're going to adjust some usage then and maybe there

0:56:00.520 --> 0:56:02.920
<v Speaker 3>could be a bit of an adjustment period for him

0:56:03.000 --> 0:56:05.279
<v Speaker 3>in doing that, or Hole just immediately shove with it.

0:56:05.360 --> 0:56:08.080
<v Speaker 3>But wheel Are at the Bank. You gotta always roll

0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:11.239
<v Speaker 3>with that, especially against this Jay's offense right now, you.

0:56:11.280 --> 0:56:13.399
<v Speaker 2>Would think so, no doubt about that. The other one

0:56:13.440 --> 0:56:16.000
<v Speaker 2>that we want to go over here is raise Mariners

0:56:16.120 --> 0:56:19.040
<v Speaker 2>in Seattle. Drew Rasmus, who's been throwing like an Alcy

0:56:19.160 --> 0:56:21.680
<v Speaker 2>Young contender against Logan Gilbert, who has been hot and

0:56:21.760 --> 0:56:23.560
<v Speaker 2>cold at points for the Mariners this year.

0:56:24.760 --> 0:56:29.680
<v Speaker 3>Rasmussen has just been unbelievable. Unbelievable. Another one where it's

0:56:29.719 --> 0:56:33.799
<v Speaker 3>like you got Rasmussen against this lineup, hit or miss

0:56:34.400 --> 0:56:36.080
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to take a really good arm against an

0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:40.360
<v Speaker 3>offense I don't trust. And Rasmussen right now is thirteen

0:56:40.480 --> 0:56:44.800
<v Speaker 3>consecutive scoreless between his last two starts, nineteen strikeouts, two walks,

0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:47.160
<v Speaker 3>and now those against Cleveland and Chicago.

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<v Speaker 2>If Seattle doesn't start winning this weekend, when are they

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<v Speaker 2>going to.

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<v Speaker 3>That's that's the big question. Man. The wonderful thing for

0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:59.440
<v Speaker 3>them is that they still have time. But I mean

0:56:59.680 --> 0:57:02.759
<v Speaker 3>it's but all of a sudden, it's three games, turns

0:57:02.800 --> 0:57:05.200
<v Speaker 3>it once once you get outside of three games, once

0:57:05.239 --> 0:57:08.200
<v Speaker 3>it starts to get to four and then five. Yeah,

0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:10.719
<v Speaker 3>that's where it's like it's like slipped away. Three is

0:57:10.760 --> 0:57:14.759
<v Speaker 3>still in that like reach. Once it gets outside of three,

0:57:14.800 --> 0:57:16.160
<v Speaker 3>I start to get a little uncomfortable.

0:57:16.680 --> 0:57:18.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no doubt about that. And you've got to get

0:57:18.440 --> 0:57:21.520
<v Speaker 2>really hot very quickly. And we're under fifty games to

0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:24.080
<v Speaker 2>go at this point of the MLB season. Let's push

0:57:24.160 --> 0:57:26.800
<v Speaker 2>to Saturday. Here. What an ace off we've got in

0:57:26.880 --> 0:57:29.960
<v Speaker 2>the Bronx. That'll be Chris Sale who was pushed back

0:57:30.000 --> 0:57:33.520
<v Speaker 2>a handful of days to take on Garrett Cole and Braves. Yankees.

0:57:33.560 --> 0:57:35.480
<v Speaker 2>Braves are the hottest team in baseball right now. Not

0:57:35.600 --> 0:57:36.720
<v Speaker 2>named the bust In Red Sox.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and Cole has been throwing the ball well of late,

0:57:41.000 --> 0:57:43.880
<v Speaker 3>and it just seems like the more he's getting further

0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:48.840
<v Speaker 3>away from that Tommy John surgery, as typically is for anybody,

0:57:49.400 --> 0:57:51.800
<v Speaker 3>that the more he's starting to feel like himself. Last

0:57:51.840 --> 0:57:53.840
<v Speaker 3>two starts, he's only allowed one earned run and eleven

0:57:53.880 --> 0:57:56.880
<v Speaker 3>and two thirds innings. But I still think the Yankees

0:57:56.880 --> 0:57:59.400
<v Speaker 3>are gonna have some issues against leftist last Garcia. Your

0:57:59.440 --> 0:58:01.840
<v Speaker 3>new edition can help you on this one. I think

0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:04.680
<v Speaker 3>Chris Hale shoves and pushed back and things can feel

0:58:04.680 --> 0:58:06.600
<v Speaker 3>a little b arrested. I think he's going to absolutely

0:58:06.600 --> 0:58:07.240
<v Speaker 3>shove in this one.

0:58:07.440 --> 0:58:10.600
<v Speaker 2>I'll go Braves three h five first pitch in the

0:58:10.640 --> 0:58:13.040
<v Speaker 2>Bronx four to ten, first pitch in Miami. I'm not

0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:14.520
<v Speaker 2>going to ask you for a winner. I'm going to

0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:18.400
<v Speaker 2>ask you for average fastball velocity between the two. Walbert

0:58:18.560 --> 0:58:21.160
<v Speaker 2>Urania gets the ball for the Angels against Sandy al Contra,

0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:23.880
<v Speaker 2>who hunts a franchise record two and a third innings,

0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:26.720
<v Speaker 2>and he passes Ricky in Alasko for the most innings

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<v Speaker 2>in the history of the Marlins franchise.

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<v Speaker 3>It's crazy. I knew I knew the Alasko was there

0:58:31.720 --> 0:58:34.040
<v Speaker 3>for a while. Like, I trust me, I watched plenty

0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:36.280
<v Speaker 3>of Ricky in Alaska growing up. But it's just it's

0:58:36.360 --> 0:58:39.560
<v Speaker 3>crazy that he I forget how long he was there.

0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:42.160
<v Speaker 2>He's got all these records, man, Like Sandy just broke

0:58:42.240 --> 0:58:44.560
<v Speaker 2>his punch out record. He broke his quality start record.

0:58:44.640 --> 0:58:46.960
<v Speaker 2>I think in Alasko had eight years in like four

0:58:47.040 --> 0:58:48.480
<v Speaker 2>years in a Marlin's uniform, in.

0:58:48.560 --> 0:58:50.400
<v Speaker 3>A couple that were really good, and then a couple

0:58:50.520 --> 0:58:52.320
<v Speaker 3>that were not as good, but then a couple and

0:58:52.360 --> 0:58:55.760
<v Speaker 3>then most in between that were really just solid uh Urania.

0:58:55.800 --> 0:58:57.880
<v Speaker 3>It's funny because like that you look at the way

0:58:57.920 --> 0:59:00.800
<v Speaker 3>he throws and everything, and it's like he eat it's

0:59:01.160 --> 0:59:03.800
<v Speaker 3>such high octane velo. And I think you also think

0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:07.160
<v Speaker 3>that the sinker and he's more sinker change up too,

0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:09.320
<v Speaker 3>Like he doesn't mix in the slider as much as

0:59:09.680 --> 0:59:12.280
<v Speaker 3>I think Sandy has now gotten comfortable doing. But like,

0:59:12.840 --> 0:59:14.800
<v Speaker 3>if I'm labert Urania, I'm looking at Sandy out contra

0:59:14.840 --> 0:59:16.280
<v Speaker 3>and it's like I'm looking up to that guy, and

0:59:16.440 --> 0:59:18.480
<v Speaker 3>like that's what I want to continue to grow and be.

0:59:18.680 --> 0:59:20.320
<v Speaker 3>So I wonder if there's gonna be a little bit

0:59:20.320 --> 0:59:22.240
<v Speaker 3>of that there. I wouldn't be surprised at all if

0:59:22.840 --> 0:59:26.000
<v Speaker 3>Urania has like a looking up to Sandy type of

0:59:26.040 --> 0:59:27.280
<v Speaker 3>thing going for me. And I think they go toe

0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:29.840
<v Speaker 3>to toe really well here. I think average Vlow's ninety

0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:33.720
<v Speaker 3>seven point eight, and I think both have really nice starts.

0:59:34.320 --> 0:59:37.800
<v Speaker 2>I dig that all right. Seventy ten Eastern Time in

0:59:38.000 --> 0:59:41.040
<v Speaker 2>Texas seven to fifteen. Pardon Kyle Bradish and the Baltimore

0:59:41.080 --> 0:59:43.200
<v Speaker 2>Orioles against Jake de Gram and the Rangers.

0:59:45.680 --> 0:59:48.720
<v Speaker 3>The de Gram trade stuff is wild. I wonder how

0:59:49.160 --> 0:59:50.800
<v Speaker 3>I want to see how he just bounces back off

0:59:50.840 --> 0:59:55.720
<v Speaker 3>that having to invoke the veto. But Bradish has started

0:59:55.760 --> 0:59:58.280
<v Speaker 3>to settle in as well. These two teams, man, I

0:59:58.440 --> 1:00:01.320
<v Speaker 3>don't know who's going to show up ever. Ever, every

1:00:01.360 --> 1:00:03.360
<v Speaker 3>single time that I go to watch, I don't know

1:00:03.440 --> 1:00:07.280
<v Speaker 3>what team I'm gonna see. Bradish was fantastic for about

1:00:07.280 --> 1:00:10.120
<v Speaker 3>a month and then last two starts have been duds.

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<v Speaker 3>But the Rangers can't get out of their own way either. Really, overall,

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<v Speaker 3>they've been a little bit better over the last couple

1:00:15.440 --> 1:00:19.800
<v Speaker 3>of days. I'll go to grom at home, I'll go Rangers.

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<v Speaker 2>All three you one more that we don't have a

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<v Speaker 2>screenshot for Brandon fought at home against Yoshinoba Yamamoto and

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<v Speaker 2>the Dodgers.

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<v Speaker 3>So on the surface, it's just like, okay, you go

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<v Speaker 3>with Yamamoto and.

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<v Speaker 2>The Dodgers, But thought's been gross.

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<v Speaker 3>Fought has been fantastic since coming back up, and the

1:00:40.520 --> 1:00:44.720
<v Speaker 3>d bex just they rise to the occasion with the Dodgers.

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<v Speaker 3>They don't really blink with them, especially at home. It's

1:00:47.480 --> 1:00:49.360
<v Speaker 3>going to be a big crowd. Yes, good amount of

1:00:49.400 --> 1:00:50.720
<v Speaker 3>Dodger fans, but big crowd.

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<v Speaker 2>And Peyton just mentioned. Peyton just messaged big game. Brandon fought,

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<v Speaker 2>no doubt, Yeah, big.

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<v Speaker 3>Game, Brando and fought. I'm gonna there's gonna be a

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<v Speaker 3>couple games where I think they make it close and

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<v Speaker 3>really fight. I think this is the one where the

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<v Speaker 3>the d back surprise you. I think they pull one

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<v Speaker 3>out here.

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<v Speaker 2>Two more for you on Sunday two ten on the

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<v Speaker 2>South side of Chicago, Guardians in White Sox Joey Cantillo

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<v Speaker 2>against Davis Martin.

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<v Speaker 3>Hmmm, this is a fun one. This is this is

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<v Speaker 3>a good matchup too. This is a big series. It's

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<v Speaker 3>a really big series. I can't tell a little bit

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<v Speaker 3>shaky last time out. If I remember correctly, I'll go

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<v Speaker 3>I'll go Davis Martin and the White Sox, assuming the

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<v Speaker 3>bullpen's recovered by then.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, And then at four o five pm Eastern time,

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<v Speaker 2>Tigers Giants in San Francisco. It doesn't seem interesting from

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<v Speaker 2>the jump, but Troy Melton's been unbelievable and Mean Webb

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<v Speaker 2>throws it home.

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<v Speaker 3>The Tigers are quietly playing. I think overall, when you

1:01:53.720 --> 1:01:56.280
<v Speaker 3>look at the the over the last month and at

1:01:56.520 --> 1:02:00.400
<v Speaker 3>in change, their offense has been pretty good and pitching

1:02:00.480 --> 1:02:04.480
<v Speaker 3>pretty well, and Melton's been a big reason why. I mean,

1:02:04.520 --> 1:02:07.760
<v Speaker 3>he has been fantastic. I think that some of the

1:02:07.840 --> 1:02:09.840
<v Speaker 3>names that there's some of the guys that, like you

1:02:10.760 --> 1:02:12.880
<v Speaker 3>remember from your minor league broadcasting days. It's like, oh,

1:02:12.880 --> 1:02:14.280
<v Speaker 3>I haven't heard that name in a while. Yeah, they're

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<v Speaker 3>in there for the Giants right now. I just I

1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:19.200
<v Speaker 3>don't I don't have tough matchup for some of those guys.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna go Tigers in that one.

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<v Speaker 2>Cool. Also another fun matchup on Sunday and Dodgers Diamondbacks.

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<v Speaker 2>Erod gets the ball against Justin Robleski, so that's really fun.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna ask you to pick that one.

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<v Speaker 3>But just in a battle to regress his first Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's like I neither kind of good neither. I

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<v Speaker 3>think Robleski is going to pitch better though.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So that's what we got. Anything else from you?

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<v Speaker 2>Hell of a show.

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<v Speaker 3>That was awesome. It was a lot of fun. Felt

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<v Speaker 3>like we got on a lot of topics. That's it.

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<v Speaker 3>We got some fun stuff going next week and uh yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>well I'll let you guys know. I'm trying to figure

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<v Speaker 3>out if I'm gonna be able to get to the future,

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<v Speaker 3>the Futures game, jeez, the the Field of Dreams game,

1:02:58.400 --> 1:02:59.800
<v Speaker 3>minor league game and then a big league game. But

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<v Speaker 3>now they just took Culpepper away from one of the

1:03:01.600 --> 1:03:04.320
<v Speaker 3>minor league teams that'd be playing there, So now it

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<v Speaker 3>would be really fun to get out there. We'll see.

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<v Speaker 3>But regardless, fun week ahead on the JV Show.

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<v Speaker 2>Huge thanking to Peyton Genus, big thank you to arm Leyton,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm Jack McMullen saying so long, have a good weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll talk to you on Sunday night with The Just

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<v Speaker 2>Baseball Show.