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Speaker 1: We're excited to talk to Derek Johnson back on the show. Derek,

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Speaker 1: I think what was it maybe a year or has

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Speaker 1: it been two years now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe two two years. Good to see you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, good to see you too.

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Speaker 1: One of our favorite conversations last time, really getting deep,

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Speaker 1: deep into the weeds on the pitching side. So we

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Speaker 1: appreciate the time again. Hope you're having a nice offseason.

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Speaker 1: First off, how is everything going for you? And are

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Speaker 1: your off seasons kind of the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I live in Cincinnati. Yeah, yeah, I live

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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, and and you know, I'm at the field

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Speaker 2: quite a bit, and you know, but yeah, typically it's

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Speaker 2: about the same. You know, there's not really a whole

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Speaker 2: lot going on here. But but yeah, it's been a

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Speaker 2: productive off season for us so far on the pitching

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Speaker 2: side of things. And I know our guys aren't done

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Speaker 2: quite yet. We're still trying to figure out a couple

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Speaker 2: more players if they can.

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Speaker 4: Before we get to the team.

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Speaker 5: How many times, how many times or how many guys

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Speaker 5: are actually at in Cincinnati that you watch throw or

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Speaker 5: coming in working out, because normally we hear about dudes

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Speaker 5: that are down in Phoenix, down in goodyear working out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually just had an event Red's Fast and

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Speaker 2: actually got to see pretty much every guy on the squad,

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Speaker 2: not a bullpen, So that was good. I do spend

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Speaker 2: some time in Arizona down there when we can, in

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Speaker 2: the laboratory, if you will, and you know, see those

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Speaker 5: Do you think more should be done for pictures? We

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Speaker 5: talk about the off season. We're in the middle of

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Speaker 5: it right now. Should more be done? I'm not trying

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Speaker 5: to put more on your plate. I know you like

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Speaker 5: your job, but you also like your family. So should

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Speaker 5: more be done? Or do we let pitchers and position

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Speaker 5: players but you work with pitchers kind of just go

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Speaker 5: willy nilly, We're gonna go to tread, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 5: drive line.

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Speaker 4: Hey, talk to me in two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Should teams that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, and I think coaches,

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Speaker 2: not sure there's a clear answer there, But what I

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Speaker 2: will say is after every year, we put together a

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Speaker 2: player plan for each guy that that we know is

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Speaker 2: a lot of work, a lot of digging on how

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Speaker 2: and you know, try to simplify it down to a

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Speaker 2: point where we've got one or two things that we

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Speaker 2: want them to work on. A lot of guys now

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Speaker 2: have built the labs and their complexes and their spring

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Speaker 2: training complexes, and so you know, we have all of

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Speaker 2: the capabilities pretty much that a drive line or a

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Speaker 2: tread you know, would have. I guess the question is,

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Speaker 2: maybe just another set of eyes kind of looking at them.

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Speaker 2: And I respect that. I mean, I think the guys

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Speaker 2: you know, if if you could point to one thing,

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Speaker 2: I do. So you know, there's there's probably room for

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Speaker 2: a little bit of both. But I do think that,

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to just turn them the

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Speaker 2: now every year they all come back with one more

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Speaker 2: new pitch that you know, we've got to figure out

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Speaker 2: if they could use or not. And half the time,

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Speaker 2: you know, they scrap it about mid mid spring training anyway.

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Speaker 2: But but yeah, it's a it's a great question.

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Speaker 6: Derek, where do you stand on pitchers throwing the whole offseason?

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Speaker 6: Because you're talking about tread and drive line, and these

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Speaker 6: guys throw innings and they get they do their updowns,

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Speaker 6: then guess what, it's only November, right, and in December, January, February,

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Speaker 6: So where do you stand on guys taking a breather?

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Speaker 6: Because it seems like less and less guys take one.

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Speaker 2: I think if you know, he reached his max innings,

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Speaker 2: So I think timing is really important in that, you know,

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Speaker 2: actually still have them throw a little bit after the seasons,

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Speaker 2: usually about three times a week for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Then it kind of goes to two and then they

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Speaker 2: I still think that there needs to be at least

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Speaker 2: So I think the the later it gets, you know,

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Speaker 4: You mentioned new pitches. Does anybody have a new pitch?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got they every year they have a

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Speaker 2: of fiddle right there. Hey, I put this two seamer

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm thinking about a curve ball and that

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Speaker 2: It's fine, you know, to me, it's it's your career.

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Speaker 6: Derek, you said something interesting and when a couple answers

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Speaker 6: ago about I give personal posts our off season plans

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Speaker 6: to guys that we are expecting your return. Well, we've

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Speaker 6: heard Hunter Green, we've heard Andrew Aba, we've heard Nick

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Speaker 6: Lodolo on the trading block. So did they get their

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Speaker 6: off season planned because you're expecting them to be back?

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Speaker 2: Good segue? Yeah, and they did. They received one. And

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Speaker 2: you know, you never know what happens on the business

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Speaker 2: maybe even opening day. But you know, those guys, they're

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the players do you know. I think it's

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Speaker 2: it's just like anything else. I mean, our guys have

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Speaker 2: they have to explore every option that they possibly can,

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Speaker 2: and that includes trading some of our players. You know,

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Speaker 2: do I hope that it happens? No, I don't. But

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Speaker 2: that's a possibility. On the other side of things, I

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Speaker 2: we don't have the same kind of depth that we

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Speaker 5: Obviously you can tell me if I'm wrong, But you

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Speaker 5: basically have four guys that are solidified for those five

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Speaker 5: guy that's up there. What do you a What have

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Speaker 5: you seen from him? What do you need to see

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Speaker 5: Wait, DJ, I was going to ask something completely different,

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Speaker 2: In a lot of ways, yes, but in so many

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Speaker 5: Is Hunter Green and ace. We talk about this several times.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of number ones. Just Hunter Green an ace.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Derek Johnson, pitching coach director pitching for

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Speaker 3: Derek, what do you think about the baseball?

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's ever going to change drastically or

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Speaker 3: It's probably not a topic you think.

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Speaker 1: About a ton, but we don't really get I mean,

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think about it a lot. I mean,

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Speaker 2: They put him in the human door, they do all

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Speaker 2: But man, the thing feels tremendous in my hand. Whereas

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Speaker 2: It's almost like the mud made it worse. So I

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Speaker 2: But I felt some of those tack balls and they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I asked.

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Speaker 1: We got to get rid of the mud situation at

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Speaker 2: We're using red weird.

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Speaker 3: That is weird.

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Speaker 5: That's such an MLB mafia type of thing to do. Like, Hey,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my cousin, it doesn't make any sense to me.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: Well, Derek, we appreciate the time, the insights always awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of the off season while you've got it,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see in spring training.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks, fellows. I appreciate being on.

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Speaker 1: At MGM Futures. How about those Blue Jays eighty eight

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Speaker 3: I think that's love.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they won how many last they won?

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Speaker 4: Ninety four? Last year?

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Speaker 6: Right, I believe so they tied the Yankees at ninety four.

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Speaker 6: So how did their number go down?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety four? Well, they got worse. They only added

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Speaker 4: That's not okay.

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Speaker 6: But they picked up Dylan Cease, they picked up.

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Speaker 3: On the Moto Rogers in the bullpen.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think they got much improved, just my opinion.

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Speaker 3: But he had a good year. He did, but it's

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Speaker 6: which maybe people are thinking that MGM's thinking, but I

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Speaker 6: don't know.

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Speaker 4: I think that I think this one's an over.

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Speaker 3: World Series hangover. I mean, I know, the winners, the

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Speaker 6: The World Series usually the next year doesn't do great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they went deep. I mean, you went

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Speaker 1: as deep as you can go into the playoffs. You

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Speaker 6: But a lot of those guys, A lot of those

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Speaker 6: guys aren't even back. Sure's are Bascett guys aren't back.

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Speaker 6: Bo's not back, but was playing on one leg. I

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Speaker 6: don't know, God, I think I.

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Speaker 4: Think they're okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm taking the over. I'm just

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Speaker 1: presenting maybe why they'd throw it out there. Krats any ideas.

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Speaker 5: If the number was ninety then I'd be like I'm

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Speaker 5: not touching it. But because eighty eight, I'm like, man,

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Speaker 5: why does this feel like it should be like it

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Speaker 5: should be an over? And that's what makes me scared.

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Speaker 5: It just seems too much like an over. But because

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Speaker 5: they have them pretty much finishing right the same amount

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Speaker 5: Red Sox, all right in that eighty seven eighty eight range,

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Speaker 5: and I think there's a clear distinction of Blue the

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Speaker 5: Blue Jays being a better team than them. But then

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Speaker 5: two years ago, we would have never said.

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Speaker 3: That things change fast in our league.

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Speaker 1: So drop a comment if you have other thoughts as

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Speaker 1: to why it's gone down to eighty eight and a half.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it was affected by maybe an

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Speaker 1: anticipation that Kyle Tucker was going to sign.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't end up signing there, So we shall see.

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