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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: My name is Chandler Room, along with Tyler Stafford and

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Speaker 1: Josh Reddick, fresh off of the Space City Home Network set.

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Speaker 1: Being very attractive to all your eyes probably the best

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Speaker 1: thing you saw during this series against the Saint Louis Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: where the Houston Astros lost two of three. Their bats

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Speaker 1: continue to just be completely quiet. They got good enough

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Speaker 1: pitching in two of the three games frommer Beldez, did

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Speaker 1: not pitch well in the series opener, but they pitched

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Speaker 1: well enough really in all three and two of these

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Speaker 1: three games to win it. Instead, they continue it is

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Speaker 1: a perplexing trend. They have not won consecutive games all season.

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Speaker 1: They are eight and ten heading back to Dyke and Park.

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Speaker 1: While they were where they will play the Padres, who

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Speaker 1: are quite good. You know, it was a it was

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Speaker 1: a tough seaees for the offense, as we discussed. But

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Speaker 1: you know, as we've as we've done these series recaps,

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Speaker 1: we've kind of put them into two. We're gonna do

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Speaker 1: kind of two segments here. What impressed us and what

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Speaker 1: concerned us. So we'll start with the positives. We'll start

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Speaker 1: with the positivesuse. I know everyone maybe tunes out of

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Speaker 1: these things midway through, so we'll give you the positives

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Speaker 1: to start. Josh, you were, you watched all three games

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Speaker 1: pretty intently. You were on the doing pre and post

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Speaker 1: Kevin Weshenfelder on the Space City Home Network. What was

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that impressed you about what the Ashers

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Speaker 1: did against the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have to focus on the pitching. There

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Speaker 2: was hardly any run scored by this offense, which is

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Speaker 2: what we've been accustomed to so far this year. But

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Speaker 2: the pitching, I mean, Hunter Brown just being Hunter Brown

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Speaker 2: and doing Hunter Brown things is which we saw, which

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Speaker 2: wasn't his best night, struck out with three guys, went

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Speaker 2: through I think the first dinning he needed twenty seven

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Speaker 2: pitches to you know, navigate through the editing. So but

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Speaker 2: still got six strong out of him and ended up

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Speaker 2: coming off the mound with a really good performance. Renel

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Speaker 2: Blanco outside of a Ramon de Jesus miss call, we

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Speaker 2: don't know.

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Speaker 3: If it would have changed the outcome. Maybe maybe not.

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Speaker 2: And then gosh forbid, we see another blue pit from

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Speaker 2: a Saint Louis Cardinal and then a big three round

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Speaker 2: blast on the you know, the hanging curveball that Newt

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Speaker 2: Bar had, So that was probably the best swing of

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Speaker 2: that inning. Obviously things didn't govern those way, but for

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Speaker 2: the first fournings and solid shut out what you wanted

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Speaker 2: to see, and you know, didn't we work out for

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Speaker 2: some in the fifth inning, But you take five and

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Speaker 2: dive in a three year you're taking that all day,

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Speaker 2: especially when you know you have an offensive goes score

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned Hunter Brown didn't like he wasn't even

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Speaker 4: good and he pitched six shutout innings, Like that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: He Like, if you just watched it and didn't see

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Speaker 4: the outcome, you'd be like, oh, it's kind of a

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Speaker 4: bad start from from Hunter, and then you look up and.

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Speaker 1: You're like, dang, how did he do that?

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Speaker 4: Which is the definition of an ace, like somebody who

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Speaker 4: just doesn't have their best stuff and still finds a

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean I didn't think that I could have higher

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Speaker 4: expectations for under Brown after last year coming into this year,

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Speaker 4: and you know, I was just kind of thinking, like, man,

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Speaker 4: if he can get anywhere close to what he did

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Speaker 4: in the back half of last season, he's gonna be

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Speaker 4: really good, and he's as good or better, and it

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Speaker 4: just keeps going. And like I said, it's one thing

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Speaker 4: when you have all your stuff working and you're just

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Speaker 4: wiping people out. Those are those are fun to watch,

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Speaker 4: but you also know they're kind of anomalies when you

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Speaker 4: can shut down and an offense that has been as

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Speaker 4: hot as the Cardinals and not have your best stuff.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're a you're a superstar. And Hunter Brown

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Speaker 4: is just he's so good man.

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Speaker 3: And he's done it for two starts, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a start he had what another three or

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Speaker 2: four strikeouts I think, so I'm gonna call him very boring.

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Speaker 3: Stars. He's also on a stretch of seventeen innings pitch

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Speaker 2: It's just not very characteristic of to have less than

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Speaker 1: At this point, Josh, you call this whole team pretty

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Speaker 1: boring the way they're playing three eighteen games. But I

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Speaker 1: do have a question, as the resident left handed hitter

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Speaker 1: on this podcast, what the heck? Oh you're left? You left?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm equally as good as Josh answer this question.

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Speaker 1: Field it to both of us. I'll see what I

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Speaker 1: can to help.

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Speaker 3: You've never actually seen Tyler play.

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Speaker 1: So that's not true.

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Speaker 4: I sent you a video of me hitting with my

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Speaker 4: daughter's pink bat and my backyard. So that's all the

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Speaker 4: scouting report Baseball.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking in a competitive atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to see that, all right. So for

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Speaker 1: the two left handed hitters on this podcast, the one

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Speaker 1: thing Hunter did that was a little different in the start,

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Speaker 1: he started throwing that sinker to left handed hitters. He

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Speaker 1: all season. He threw eighteen sinkers to left handed hitters

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Speaker 1: to throw against left handed hitters. Josh, What does that

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Speaker 1: make that a weapon against them, Well, it adds another

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Speaker 2: So if I'm in that lineup, I'm completely eliminating that

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Speaker 2: You know, when he got the four consecutive last night,

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Speaker 2: something that I wasn't aware of. I didn't know he

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Speaker 2: it's just something that now moving forward, you can be

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Speaker 4: I assume from a I mean a pitching standpoint, the

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Speaker 4: much is because if you miss at all, you're just

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Speaker 4: one that gets tattooed, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Most of the time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it still helps that he can throw mid nineties,

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Speaker 3: To his ninety eight to ninety nine or seamer.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean when when you're thinking about that,

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Speaker 3: So he's definitely not leaving anything over the middle of

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Speaker 1: Not much impressed anyone with this offense these three games.

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Speaker 1: But one thing I will say, and this has been

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Speaker 1: Jeremy paygneas at bats are getting better. And it's not

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Speaker 1: even the at bats, it's the quality of the contact.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing less ground balls. He hit a three run

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Speaker 1: He's hitting the ball on a line a lot more.

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Speaker 1: His ground ball rate is down in the thirties now.

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Speaker 1: It was fifty percent last year. His line drive rates

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Speaker 1: up till about the twenty twenty five percent range. Josh,

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Speaker 1: you've seen this kid since he was a rookie, and

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Speaker 1: analyze him offensively since that twenty twenty two playoff run

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Speaker 1: has been really difficult because he's gotten better in just

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Speaker 3: One, it's his pitch selection.

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Speaker 2: You don't see him chasing and waving to those sliders

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Speaker 3: But the biggest thing for him is the pitch selection.

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Speaker 2: He's laying off those sliders is going to open up

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Speaker 2: lot better pitches for him to hit me because they're showing, hey,

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Speaker 2: he's not swinging at that anymore like he was last year.

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Speaker 3: We got to figure something.

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Speaker 1: Else out and and we'll get to we'll get to

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Speaker 1: everyone else in the lineup and a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: what could if he keeps this up, if he can

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Speaker 1: get we're not I don't think they're asking to slug

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Speaker 1: four fifty. But if he can keep hitting the ball

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Speaker 3: He is and right now he is pretty much the

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Speaker 2: When you look at that led this last series, he

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Speaker 3: I mean he was hitting everything hard for the most.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean wherever you're putting, you know, you're

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Speaker 6: No doubt. I was there today, I've been there before.

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Speaker 1: All Right, this will be the most rhetorical question anyone gets.

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Speaker 1: What concerned you about what the Astros did against the

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Speaker 4: He looks bad right now. Like again, Christian Walker's results

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Speaker 2: on a stretch like that, in any stretch, whether it's

438
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Speaker 2: to start the season, in the season, mid season, to

439
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Speaker 2: face two starting lefties, and they have fifty if you want,

440
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Speaker 2: After today, they probably had about seventy five bats off

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Speaker 2: of a lefty, which is obviously still the fewest in

442
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Speaker 2: the league.

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Speaker 4: You know, the Navy has developed some technology to help

444
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Speaker 4: against sinkers, and it's torpedoes. I don't know if you

445
00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:16,120
Speaker 4: guys have heard about that, but maybe a few more

446
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Speaker 4: of those bats need to work their way down there.

447
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Speaker 2: I've said that for over a week all year. It

448
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Speaker 2: get it to get you going and go pick up

449
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Speaker 2: your bag and get back at it.

450
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Speaker 4: So we've talked about Yainer just does not look good.

451
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Speaker 4: Christian Walker is the other one, and Josh as you

452
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Speaker 4: watch him, look, I watch a lot of baseball, but

453
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Speaker 4: I am dumb as to why things on a baseball

454
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Speaker 4: field happen. Why is Christian Walker not able to hit

455
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Speaker 4: a baseball right now? What is happening?

456
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Speaker 2: I think from what I'm seeing, he is letting the

457
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Speaker 2: ball get way too deep into his own and therefore

458
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Speaker 2: not being able to generate bat speed to get to

459
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Speaker 2: the baseball. And Chayla, I'm going to share a little

460
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Speaker 2: text message earlier from you know, asking what it was about,

461
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Speaker 2: and it seems like that's what he's trying to do,

462
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Speaker 2: is try to see the ball better and shoot it

463
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Speaker 2: the other way. But he's so good at going the

464
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Speaker 2: other way without trying. He's always been so good at

465
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Speaker 2: thumping the ball that way and getting out in front.

466
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Speaker 3: Of the baseball.

467
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Speaker 2: I just look, he's going through it as well. He's

468
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Speaker 2: getting some as we saw today, some very questionable.

469
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Speaker 3: Strike calls against him, But.

470
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Speaker 2: That doesn't oversee everything else that's going on here because

471
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Speaker 2: there's just no power, there's no drive behind the ball,

472
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Speaker 2: there's no backspin. Everything he hits is either on the

473
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Speaker 2: ground or straight up. And there's this whether he needs

474
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Speaker 2: to move forward two inches backwards, two inches up to

475
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Speaker 2: the played away from the place. He's got to try

476
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Speaker 2: something different to change his perspective. To feel uncomfortable would

477
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Speaker 2: be a good way to put If you're going to

478
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Speaker 2: go in there already with your doubts and you know

479
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Speaker 2: you're struggling, go in there the dost something to make

480
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Speaker 2: you feel uncomfortable, to switch things up to, you know,

481
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Speaker 2: twist your brain around. Not think about that, but think about,

482
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Speaker 2: oh gosh, i'm too, which is closer to the box?

483
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Speaker 2: Now I'm too is closer to the plate? Now I

484
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Speaker 2: got to do this, and this so kind of changes

485
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Speaker 2: everything up.

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Speaker 1: You know, the text that Josh was referencing there and

487
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Speaker 1: it's now up on the athletic I talked to Christian

488
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Speaker 1: Walker before the game today and he said he chased

489
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Speaker 1: so much to start the season that in an attempt

490
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Speaker 1: to stop chasing, he's letting the ball get a little

491
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Speaker 1: bit too deep on him. And that's what Josh is

492
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Speaker 1: referring to here, that the ball is getting a little

493
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Speaker 1: too deep on Christian Walker. The contact point isn't where

494
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Speaker 1: he needs it to be, and the result is what

495
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Speaker 1: you've seen, and it's tough to look. We've only seen

496
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Speaker 1: Christian Walker now for eighteen games, like, we don't know

497
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Speaker 1: a lot about him, but watching him on the field,

498
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Speaker 1: this is a guy that wears it. Like every unproductive

499
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Speaker 1: at bat like there is, you can just tell it's

500
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Speaker 1: grading on him and you can tell that he's really

501
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Speaker 1: really going through it at the moment. And I don't

502
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Speaker 1: know what the solution here is because I asked Joe

503
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Speaker 1: a spot after the game today whether it was time

504
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Speaker 1: to consider shaking up the batting order in some way.

505
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Speaker 1: Christian Walker has taken the most at bats on this

506
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Speaker 1: team with a runner on base. He's taken thirty five

507
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Speaker 1: of them. He's five for thirty five with five singles

508
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Speaker 1: and fifteen strikeouts. If you want to know why this

509
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Speaker 1: team isn't scoring runs, that's a foremost reason as to

510
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Speaker 1: why the problem, Josh, is that they came into this

511
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Speaker 1: season knowing that Yainer Diaz and Christian Walker were going

512
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Speaker 1: to hit somewhere in the top five of their order,

513
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Speaker 1: Like there's no one else in this order that is

514
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Speaker 1: begging to hit cleanup and you can say Jeremy Panya

515
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Speaker 1: and sure that would that would help a little bit,

516
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Speaker 1: Like somebody's got to hit behind him. Like if you

517
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Speaker 1: hit Christian Walker right now, behind Jeremy Panya, what what

518
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Speaker 1: kind of pitches is pain you're going to see. It's

519
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 1: a tough situation right now for Joe Aspota because again,

520
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Speaker 1: you're still in that small sample size window right now.

521
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Speaker 1: Christian Walker doesn't even have one hundred plate appearances yet,

522
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Speaker 1: There's still time to get this turned around, and you

523
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Speaker 1: do want to show some faith in a veteran too.

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Speaker 1: I mean this is I mean, Christian Walker's been quote

525
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Speaker 1: unquote on this team for two and a half weeks.

526
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Speaker 1: I know they had spring training, but he's been in

527
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Speaker 1: the regular season for two and a half weeks. Moving

528
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Speaker 1: him out of the cleanup spot after two and a

529
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Speaker 1: half weeks it's probably not the best way to show

530
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Speaker 1: some faith. But at this point, like I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much longer they can keep they can keep it going.

532
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Speaker 1: Of those two guys, hitting back to back. They've hit

533
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Speaker 1: back to back eight times in eighteen games this season.

534
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Speaker 1: That's just not going to get it done.

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Speaker 2: No, it's almost been automatic two outs when you look

536
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Speaker 2: at it that way.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

538
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Speaker 2: I love that you asked it, But he immediately shot

539
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Speaker 2: you down about switching it up as well. So I

540
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Speaker 2: was kind of baffled at that. It's something that I

541
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Speaker 2: think needs to happen, you know, whether it's you don't

542
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Speaker 2: have to take him out and you're not moving him

543
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Speaker 2: out of the cleanup spot for a month or permanently,

544
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Speaker 2: you're taking him out for you know, five six games

545
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Speaker 2: at the most, getting different feel. Put him in a

546
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Speaker 2: three hole.

547
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Speaker 3: Shoot.

548
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Speaker 2: If you worried about taking Hi out of the middle

549
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Speaker 2: the line, I've just put him there and changes change

550
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Speaker 2: his perspective, change just thought process, having me, oh, I'm

551
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Speaker 2: gonna hit in the first inning. Okay, boom, I'm already ready.

552
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't have to worry about what if if

553
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Speaker 2: I'm in the poor hoole. But I think a well

554
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Speaker 2: timed off day, you know, not just an off dayway

555
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 2: from the podcast, I'm like in the ballpark off day,

556
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Speaker 2: boys hang out in the cage, watch some video, just

557
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 2: absolutely shut down for seven innings, worry about baseball. Just

558
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Speaker 2: you know, take that rest, because the off days at

559
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,239
Speaker 2: home are completely different. When you get an off date

560
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: at the ballpark, you're still thinking baseball, you're still running

561
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Speaker 2: stuff through your mind. You're talking, but you're really you're

562
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Speaker 2: talking to everybody. You're talking to all your hitting coaches,

563
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 2: you're talking to your manager, talking to your teammates. Things

564
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Speaker 2: that you can do during the game that you're not

565
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Speaker 2: regularly going to be able to do when you're in

566
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Speaker 2: the lineup. So maybe that's what it is. Maybe give

567
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Speaker 2: them a little off day depending on what the matchup,

568
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Speaker 2: pitching matchup comes up here soon, give them that off day.

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Speaker 3: It's you know and like and tell.

570
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Speaker 2: It's going to be. It can't hurt you anymore than

571
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Speaker 2: what's going on right now.

572
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Speaker 1: The pitching's not gonna get easier because they get Dylan

573
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Speaker 1: Ces and Michael King in this upcoming pod A series,

574
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Hart, who's been really good as well. I

575
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Speaker 1: was frankly stunned that Christian Walker played today because it

576
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Speaker 1: it lined up for today to be the day to

577
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Speaker 1: give him off. It was a twelve to fifteen first

578
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Speaker 1: pitch in Saint Louis after a night game yesterday, with

579
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Speaker 1: an off day tomorrow. They could have, you know, maybe

580
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Speaker 1: done it to They would have given him two off

581
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Speaker 1: days in a row. Could have given him off today

582
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Speaker 1: at the ballpark and then had a normal home off

583
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Speaker 1: day tomorrow and then have him back for Friday. Instead,

584
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Speaker 1: that off day went to Jordan Alvarez for some reason,

585
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Speaker 1: after he had a.

586
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Speaker 2: Home had it was planned, It had planned.

587
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Speaker 1: It was planned. Yeah, and I know fans struggle with that,

588
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: but that they plan these things so far in advance,

589
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Speaker 1: guys that like short of I think if Jordan would

590
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Speaker 1: have hit like three homers on Tuesday, he would have

591
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Speaker 1: probably been in the lineup on Wednesday. But yeah, these

592
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Speaker 1: things are playing so far in advance, it's hard to

593
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Speaker 1: pull the plug so quickly.

594
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Speaker 2: He also played left field in Game one and.

595
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Speaker 1: Had to run a mile because Fromber got lit up

596
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Speaker 1: and there were fly balls and left field every other

597
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Speaker 1: every other inning, but he ran a lot. And yes,

598
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Speaker 1: and they've got to keep they've got to keep him healthy.

599
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Speaker 1: I know he's been struggling a little bit relatively to

600
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Speaker 1: start the year, but they've got to keep him healthy.

601
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I like I like the the Michael king

602
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Speaker 2: off there that makes the most sense. Let him battle,

603
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 2: see cease to struggling. Kyle Hart is two and no,

604
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 2: but he's got a five and a half. Give him

605
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 2: that Lefty, give him king off and then let him

606
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Speaker 2: come back out. Gave him a little mid day series off.

607
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Speaker 1: But it's yeah, and I mean it's it's hard to

608
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Speaker 1: you know, they and Dusty Baker did the same thing,

609
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to. It's gonna be tough Rashers

610
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Speaker 1: fans to square these two gentlemen separately. But this is

611
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Speaker 1: kind of what Dusty Baker did with jose O bray

612
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Speaker 1: You in his first year. When we saw Joseo bray

613
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Speaker 1: You come out of the gates in twenty twenty three

614
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Speaker 1: and he was really struggling, Dusty stuck with him in

615
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Speaker 1: the cleanup spot for I think longer than a lot

616
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Speaker 1: of people would have. And part of it was this

617
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Speaker 1: was a veteran. This was they knew the track record

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Speaker 1: and it could get back. So I would not be

619
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Speaker 1: surprised to see that maybe repeat itself here because Mike Tyler,

620
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Speaker 1: the bat speed numbers are good. Like I know, Josh,

621
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Speaker 1: You're watching him and he looks late and the bat

622
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: speed's not, but the bat speed numbers on Baseball Savant

623
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Speaker 1: are in the seventy fifth percentile of big leaguers. Like

624
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Speaker 1: this does not look like a guy that's in decline.

625
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Speaker 1: This looks like a guy that is just fighting it

626
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: right now. And I'm sure there's a lot of mental

627
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: stuff going on. He just signed a huge contract by

628
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: astro standards, he's the centerpiece of their offseason. Like he

629
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Speaker 1: wants to prove himself and he wants to announce him

630
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Speaker 1: his introduction to be better than this, and I know

631
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Speaker 1: that's got to be grating on him. It's probably as

632
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Speaker 1: much now, it's probably as much mental as it is physical.

633
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh. I mean, what was not worried about coming

634
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 2: into the season is definitely something being on his putting

635
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 2: in his mind right now with I'm the new guy,

636
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 2: I'm the main guy. I've got to do this, YadA, YadA, YadA.

637
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Speaker 2: But as we all know, that's something that you can't do.

638
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just easier said than done, obviously, But

639
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 2: there's just got to be a way where he can

640
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 2: keep that thought out of his mind and just go

641
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 2: out there and play like he has been playing for

642
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 2: years and years and years, so we all know it's there.

643
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 2: He knows it's there.

644
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: You know, we've all been.

645
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 2: There as players to where you feel like it's never

646
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: going to end, and then one day it finally ends,

647
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you're going to go on,

648
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 2: you know, a week streak of just absolute raking, and

649
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 2: all the hard is is just it's just waiting. The

650
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: hardest part is just waiting for that stuff to come out,

651
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 2: because with social media being the way it is, if

652
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: you're on it, you can read nine million things a

653
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 2: day about how good you are, about how bad you are,

654
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Speaker 2: about how much somebody hates you one day, and then

655
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 2: next Tuesday they're tweeting how much they love you. So

656
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 2: it's it's a whirlwind of emotions. But he seems to

657
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: have a good head on the shores.

658
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: You don't see him.

659
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,959
Speaker 2: I don't see him on the TV, you know, blowing up,

660
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,239
Speaker 2: throwing helmets, breaking bats. As a fellow person who's done

661
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 2: many of that in my career, I would guarantee you

662
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 2: I've breaking out of broken seal brats already in this year,

663
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: and even on the close calls, got in these in

664
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: these ruts, could you know, blow up on close pitches.

665
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 2: He just recalled me, went up to Ramona, Dave said, no,

666
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: that ball's off, can't call that, and walk back on

667
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: the dugout.

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Speaker 1: Before we go.

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Speaker 4: To the ad here, Josh, do you know what the

670
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 4: best record in the last five years the Astras have

671
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 4: had after eighteen games?

672
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I saw the stat up the other day

673
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 2: and it wasn't seventeen, it wasn't nineteen, it wasn't twenty.

674
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 4: So from twenty twenty on, what do you think the

675
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: best the Astras have been after eighteen games?

676
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: I know it's under five hundred.

677
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 4: It's nine and nine. That's the best they've done. They're

678
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 4: basically eight and ten every year with the exception of

679
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 4: last year and then nine and nine. But yeah, they just,

680
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, tough coming out of the gate. I

681
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 4: don't know if it's you know, they're playing in October

682
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 4: every year and so there's just not any juice at

683
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 4: the beginning of the year or what. But this team

684
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 4: just starts slow. And so I say that to say

685
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 4: it's not fun watching an eight and ten team, but

686
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 4: it's also not indicative of what the whole season is

687
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 4: going to look like. Really, you just got to not

688
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 4: dig yourself as big of a hole as you did

689
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 4: last year, because the Angels are not going to be

690
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 4: holding on to the division for too much longer. I

691
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 4: would imagine that's probably not who you're gonna have to

692
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,719
Speaker 4: worry about. But you can't get eight games back of

693
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 4: the Mariners of the Rangers this year. The talent gap

694
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 4: is just it's not wide enough to be able to

695
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 4: make up that. So my suggestion is try winning two

696
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 4: games in a row and then kind of see where

697
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 4: it goes from.

698
00:30:55,560 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: There was fifteen fifteen game, fourteen game stretch of win loss, win, loss,

699
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: win loss.

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00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: Yep, it's been it's been pretty incredible, and who knows.

701
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Speaker 1: As a famed manager once said, you win one today,

702
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,320
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703
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Speaker 7: Chandler.

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Speaker 4: We talked a little bit with with Katie in our

732
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 4: preview of the series and kind of the Nolan Aernado

733
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 4: saga that happened over the off season. Did you get

734
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 4: a chance to chat with him at all while you

735
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Speaker 4: were in Saint Louis.

736
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: I did. Nolan Aernado. I had never met him before,

737
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: but he was gracious enough to give me some time

738
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: and in Saint Louis. Very personable guy. I very much

739
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: enjoyed my conversation with Nolan Aernado, who gave a little

740
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: bit of indication as to why he told the Astros

741
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: no when they had an agreed upon trade for him.

742
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: And I have this, I have part of the story

743
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: pulled up. Now, I'll read a couple of his quotes

744
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: directly and then we'll talk about him. Basically, the gist

745
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: of it is is Nolan Arnotto got a little weirded

746
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: out by the Kyle Tucker trade, and he said, Tucker

747
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: is one of the best players in the game. When

748
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: you see a team trade him, ninety nine out of

749
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: one hundred players would probably be wondering what does that mean.

750
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: That's the question I asked myself. And obviously if I

751
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: went there, Bregman wouldn't have been going there either. That's

752
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: another payer. And then he went on to say, I

753
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: respect the Astros because they can't just wait for me

754
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: to make my decision. They have to move on and

755
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: they have to make their team better, which they did.

756
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: They got Walker and they did some other things. I

757
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: can see how it was taken as no, but they

758
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: know I didn't say no. It was more of I

759
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: need to see how this all plays out first. Well,

760
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: he did say no, like let's let's let's not around

761
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: the bush here. He did say no. It was interesting

762
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: to hear how he reacted to the Tucker trade, because

763
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: I think that's how a lot of people that maybe

764
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: aren't in the Astros vacuum bubble fan base reacted. It's like,

765
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: why would you trade like the best player on your

766
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: team when you still have your championship window or you

767
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: claim that your championship window is wide open, and you

768
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: know Nolan Arnado wasn't going to go somewhere where it

769
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: was questionable whether they were going to contend. This is

770
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: a guy that his birthdays today actually happy birthday of

771
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: Nolan Arnado. Is he turns I believe thirty five.

772
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 2: Or thirty thirty four today.

773
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: His career is nearing its twilight. He's looking for a

774
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: last run of sorts to get to the playoffs and

775
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: to play championship and contend for a championship that he

776
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: hasn't had yet. He was He's not, he wasn't going

777
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: somewhere where that was in doubt. And I think probably

778
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, he looked at that and wondered, are the

779
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: Astro serious contender? Are they going to seriously contend for

780
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: the sort of championship that he wanted to contend with.

781
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: And Josh, I wonder what you thought of those comments.

782
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: I wonder what you thought of his overall view of

783
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: the Tucker trade and why he told the Astros, No.

784
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 2: That's pretty much what I'm hearing. It makes you seem like, well,

785
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 2: if you're gonna trade Kyle Tucker, then you're pretty much

786
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: not focused on winning. And that's how he came out

787
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 2: to say it, Like if you're you know, if your

788
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 2: team's trading your best player, then obviously there's something going

789
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: on there where you're kind of taking a step or

790
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 2: two back. And I can see where where he's coming

791
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: from on that front. And you know, with the bragman comments,

792
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: kind of a different option because it's not like they

793
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 2: let him walk away. He you know, obviously chose to

794
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 2: go away with his free agency. But yeah, I mean

795
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 2: it makes sense because like we said, I for me personally,

796
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 2: I didn't think the Tucker trade made sense looking back

797
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 2: because he had still had that control over him. And

798
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 2: then you know, if you didn't contend, then you you know,

799
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: Tucker's gonna put up his numbers anyway, and then you

800
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 2: could probably get a bigger haul for him. But that's

801
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 2: neither here or there to talk about now. But I

802
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 2: with with Nolan's comments. Yeah, I completely agree. If you're

803
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 2: not if you feel like you don't have the best

804
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: chance to win, then if it's not right for you,

805
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: then it's not right for you. And unfortunately this fan

806
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 2: base has to be the fan base to wear it.

807
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: In his comments, also, it's not like he gave up

808
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,919
Speaker 2: complete hope that it can't happen, So he definitely left

809
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: the door open. It's not shut on an Astros trade yet,

810
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 2: it's it's it's open, but not by much.

811
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he also is well aware that, you know,

812
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 4: the Cardinals are not planning on being in contention this year.

813
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 4: They want to trade him, so as the trade deadline approaches,

814
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 4: he's probably gonna have, you know, multiple options of where

815
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: he can go, and a team that has already put

816
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 4: in half a season of baseball and can kind of tell, okay,

817
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 4: they're they're going to the player he wants to play

818
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, which as a as a longtime veteran,

819
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 4: as you know, as we've talked about one of the

820
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 4: best defensive third basemen of all time, he has the

821
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 4: right to do that. And so if I were in

822
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 4: his shoes, I think I'd probably do the same thing

823
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,760
Speaker 4: if well, look, the ash was just traded their best player,

824
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 4: Bragman's not going to come back if I signed. Here

825
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 4: is my situation drastically better to go now or do

826
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 4: I wait until July and maybe have a chance of

827
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: You know, you're never thinking this, but look, a playoff

828
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 4: contending team can have a third baseman get hurt or

829
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 4: struggle and need somebody and all he has to do

830
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 4: is step in, hit sixth and play good defense and

831
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 4: you know, maybe take a ride of the World Series.

832
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,959
Speaker 4: And so makes a ton of sense for him.

833
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: I don't know why he'd ever do this, but but

834
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: it should be noted too that it was out there

835
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: and I can say that this is this is a

836
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: fact that Nolan would play first base if the if

837
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: the right opportunity presented itself. Now He's the he is

838
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: the greatest third basement of his generation. I'm not sure

839
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 1: why any t that acquires him would put him anywhere

840
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: but third base. But I'm just saying that that is,

841
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: that is something that is an option here and and

842
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: it and also like, I don't think fa, I don't

843
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: think Astros fans like had a bad opinion of Nolan

844
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: Arnatto because he said no, I don't think it was

845
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: one of these things where they vilified him. But it

846
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: also should be know that he did put the Astros

847
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: on his list of teams, his preferred list of teams,

848
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: where he's told John Mozelac like, I will waive my

849
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: new trade clause if you traded the teams. However, he

850
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: submitted that list of teams before they traded Kyle Tucker.

851
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: So it stands to reason, like I mean, I'm not

852
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm just speculating here. This is just me reading between

853
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: the lines and making an informed guess that if he'd

854
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: have known that the Astros were gonna trade Kyle Tucker, no,

855
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: I can imagine not. And you know, I look, there

856
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: was some reporting that they they re engaged, you know,

857
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: late in spring training, and there were a couple of

858
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: phone calls back and forth, but it was never it

859
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: was never a serious thing. You know, I think Alex

860
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: where Alex Bregman ended up was really going to be

861
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: the ultimate kind of deciding thing here. If Bregman would

862
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: have gone in Detroit, I can say with almost certainty

863
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: that Nolan Arnatto would probably be in Boston right now.

864
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: It still kind of befuddles me that the Yankees didn't

865
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: aggressively pursue Nolan Arnatto, given that that position for them,

866
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: and given kind of the state of their infield, and

867
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: he the Yankees were a team on his list as well.

868
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: But I thought it was interesting to hear from from

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Speaker 1: Nolan about kind of what went into his decision making,

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Speaker 1: and you know why why you know, look, he can

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Speaker 1: say all I wanted. He didn't say no to the astress.

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Speaker 1: He did, he said no, But the way he views

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Speaker 1: it as he just said, I need more time. I

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Speaker 1: want to see how the off season evolves. I want

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, what you guys end up doing

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Speaker 1: before I say yes. And then two days later they

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Speaker 1: signed Christian Walker and it was like, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: I guess they're out, so.

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Speaker 2: I mean everybody he has to move on at some point,

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Speaker 2: and you know, like you said, they can't. You can't

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Speaker 2: expect the Astras to sit around his way for him.

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Speaker 2: So they obviously had Walker on their on their radar

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Speaker 2: in case this didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they. I'm sure they really were envious when

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Speaker 1: he went three for four with two doubles in a

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Speaker 1: home run in the in the series opener, because when's

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Speaker 1: the last time that they've had three extra base hits

888
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Speaker 1: in a game? Probably, uh, probably not recently, but Nolan

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Speaker 1: ar and not have got them all. Yeah, remember not

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Speaker 1: at home because they can't hit at home either. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been a it's been a struggle for the offense.

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Speaker 1: And who knows, maybe they'll maybe. I don't think the

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Speaker 1: Padres are the team that you want to run up

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Speaker 1: against as a struggling offense or as a struggling team

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Speaker 1: in general. That's gonna be a tough matchup. And then

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Speaker 1: you get the Blue Jays right after that, like this

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Speaker 1: doesn't let up, like they go Padres, Blue Jays, And

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Speaker 1: then I believe the Tigers come to town and if

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Speaker 1: Trek Scoogles lined up to face you, then that's a

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Speaker 1: that's no fun. Neither is that bullpen neither is AJ

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Speaker 1: and the way he's gonna manage those games, because we

902
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Speaker 1: know AJ likes to manage against the Astros. He turns

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Speaker 1: up the intensity when he's managing against the Astros. But

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Speaker 1: what happened, I don't know. Something something happened, But as

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Speaker 1: Tyler said, it's early. They're eight and ten. As I

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Speaker 1: wrote in the story about Christian Walker, like one good

907
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: weekend from him can make his numbers respectable. And we're

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Speaker 1: not talking about this anymore, but this is the sample

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Speaker 1: size we have to judge. These are the eighteen games

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Speaker 1: that that we have to analyze, and the Astros quite frankly,

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00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: have not played very well. But they're eight and ten.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, they win a series against the Padres

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Speaker 1: this weekend and they're back at five hundred, and you know,

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Speaker 1: then you kind of go from there. But we'll see

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Speaker 1: if they can capitalize on that and get some momentum going.

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Speaker 1: Maybe getting back home will help them. We'll see if

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Speaker 1: they can do that, and if they do, we'll keep

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