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

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Speaker 1: I'm Channeler Roam, joined by Tyler Stafford and a return guest,

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Speaker 1: Farm director Sam nid Or. Sam. Now that last time

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Speaker 1: we had you on you were in the middle of

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Speaker 1: HR hell. You were like onboarding, setting your passwords, getting

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Speaker 1: getting to know kind of the dues and don'ts of

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Speaker 1: HR things. Now that you've had like six weeks in

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Speaker 1: West Palm Beach to sit and watch baseball in person, Like,

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Speaker 1: how much better is that? How much better is your

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Speaker 1: life now that you're getting to actually sit there, evaluate players,

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Speaker 1: see what you've got and lay your eyes on them.

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Speaker 2: Much better, much more enjoyable than the moving part of

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Speaker 2: it to Houston and the HR part of the IT

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Speaker 2: parts behind me. And yeah, it's been a really good

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Speaker 2: seven weeks here in West Palm Beach and started with

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Speaker 2: our mini camp in the start of February where we

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Speaker 2: brought a small select group of players in and expanded

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Speaker 2: that the first week of March where we had full

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Speaker 2: camp and knock on wood, there's been there's been health

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Speaker 2: to this point, which is always the biggest thing in

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Speaker 2: spring training. But it's been exciting to watch these guys

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Speaker 2: run around and play some different positions and do the

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Speaker 2: things they do on the field.

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Speaker 3: So it's been a good camp this far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why we wanted to have you on again

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Speaker 1: because we just had the Spring Breakout game which kind

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Speaker 1: of went viral, the clip of the end of the

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Speaker 1: Spring Breakout game, you know, the the questionable call at

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Speaker 1: home plate. I think if you ask X who was

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Speaker 1: standing on deck, he says he was very safe. Not

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Speaker 1: sure anyone else agrees with that assessment, but good job

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Speaker 1: by sutil Votmyer Sutelle, who managed the team, to encourage

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Speaker 1: the boys rally for a walk off. But since now

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Speaker 1: you've had seven weeks to watch these guys, the last

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Speaker 1: time we had you on, we didn't really get to

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Speaker 1: ask you about certain guys. And I have a feeling

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Speaker 1: that starting next week, a lot of this podcast's attention

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Speaker 1: is going to be devoted to the major league team,

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Speaker 1: to what the twenty six man rosters doing, kind of

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Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows of the regular season. So we

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Speaker 1: wanted to give listeners maybe a last or a last

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Speaker 1: devotion to some of the baby astros, the baby strows,

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Speaker 1: the minor league guys. Let's start off with the guy

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Speaker 1: that I think I don't want to He wasn't in

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Speaker 1: big league camp, so you can't say he's the guy

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Speaker 1: that's turned the most heads. But I think when you've

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Speaker 1: got a guy that comes up and hits fifth in

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Speaker 1: a Great Fruit League game and is eighteen years old,

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Speaker 1: I think that turns a lot of heads. Kevin Alvarez,

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Speaker 1: who depending on what outside publication you subscribe to, is

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Speaker 1: you guys as number one prospect. There's some others that have,

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Speaker 1: you know, different guys up there, but certainly a guy

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Speaker 1: that you all are very excited about all of eighteen

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Speaker 1: years old, but he has not built like an eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old. Tell us a little bit about what has

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Speaker 1: impressed you the most and what's caught your eye about

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Speaker 1: Kevin Albarez.

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Speaker 2: He's had a phenomenal Cam Chandler. It's been awfully impressive

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Speaker 2: to watch this young man play. I think for for

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Speaker 2: context here, he got to the United States for the

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Speaker 2: and obviously February March, has spent with us in spring training.

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Speaker 2: But he's brand new to the United States. He just

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Speaker 2: turned eighteen in January. But the first thing that stands

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Speaker 2: out is just the approach, the mature approach at the plate,

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Speaker 2: the ability to control the strike zone, the ability to

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Speaker 2: make contact at an incredibly high clip. He really takes

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Speaker 2: what the pitcher gives him, which is which has been

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Speaker 2: the most impressive part is you know, fastballs outside, he

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Speaker 3: He's just a.

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Speaker 2: Super impressive young man with a really talented approach. And

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Speaker 2: I think for those at home, it's it's really the

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Speaker 2: things that happen off the field.

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Speaker 3: That are are honestly more impressive.

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Speaker 2: Is the routine in the weight room, the training room,

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Speaker 2: he is behind closed doors. He's a special, special talent.

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Speaker 2: But I do want to mention the person in the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, seeing two thousand and eight as his birth date

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Speaker 4: is quite jarring, but yeah, I mean he's he's been very,

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Speaker 4: very impressive so far. Obviously we've seen a lot with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've run him out in center field. He's been

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Speaker 2: He's not a burner by nature, but he makes all

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Speaker 2: prove over the course the last couple of months, he's

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Speaker 2: done some really good work with our outfield coordinator Dylan Mazo,

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Speaker 2: and he's a he's a really solid defender. I think

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Speaker 2: the calling card is obviously what he does at the plate,

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Speaker 2: but he's run out in center field and it has

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Speaker 2: made some impressive plays there as well. But we'll run

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Speaker 2: him out in center field this season wherever he might go,

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Speaker 2: and he'll get every chance to stay out there as

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Speaker 2: his career continues to progress.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, go ahead, challenge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the I think the interesting thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: the he is Cuban. He is not related to Jordan Alvarez.

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Speaker 1: We we actually got to the bottom of that. We

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Speaker 1: asked jord On if he had a new relation. He

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Speaker 1: is not, but you know, talking to We've got talk

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Speaker 1: to Kevin briefly after he did appear in that Great

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Speaker 1: Fruit League game, and you know, just to hear him

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Speaker 1: say that, you know, Jordon has been such a part

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Speaker 1: of his development and when Jordan debuted in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: again that's aging all of us. But I guess, like Sam,

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Speaker 1: since you're since you're pretty new to the ORG, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if you know it's been communicated to you or

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Speaker 1: you've just kind of seen the influence that the Astros

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Speaker 1: have in Cuba with having they had Yuli Guriel for

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Speaker 1: a very long time, now they've got Jordan Alvarez, two

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Speaker 1: just pillars of that country and of their baseball lineage.

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Speaker 1: Just what have you learned in your short time just

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Speaker 1: about how the Astros resonate in Cuba.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it starts with our international

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Speaker 3: Charlie Gonzalez who's a scout force.

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Speaker 2: The International Department has a lot of roots in Cuba

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Speaker 2: that we've been able to read the benefits of. But

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Speaker 2: we have a lot of talented players in the system

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Speaker 2: that are from from Cuba, and Kevin Bean one of them,

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Speaker 2: but there's a handful more on the way at the

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Speaker 2: lower levels, very matriculated their way up up to the system.

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Speaker 4: You know, we talked about Alvarez being one of the

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Speaker 4: top prospects, you know, another one that we've talked a

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Speaker 4: lot about and as Chandler has thoughtas he's also a

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Speaker 4: part time barber is Xavier Ninan's I mean, just a

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Speaker 4: big investment, the largest draft pool that has been allocated

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Speaker 4: since Alex Bregman and twenty fifteen to him, big guy six' four,

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Speaker 4: hits left handed listed at. Shortstop let's start. There where's

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Speaker 4: he playing opening day in the minor?

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Speaker 2: Leagues, YEAH i mean right, now we've been bouncing between

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Speaker 2: short and. Third he'll get looks at both. Spots you,

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Speaker 2: know the arm is. Real the arm is going to

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Speaker 2: play from the left. Side there's plays that he makes

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Speaker 2: in the five to six hole that you're gonna see

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Speaker 2: On Sports center one. Day the athleticism for how big

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Speaker 2: the guy is is pretty. Impressive antal foot speed has

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Speaker 2: been a pleasant surprise to. Me but he's continuing to

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Speaker 2: get working at both. Spots he's going to play both

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Speaker 2: throughout the season and we'll see what the the end

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Speaker 2: call is in terms of where that playing Time divvy's amongst.

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Speaker 2: Both but he will be playing both third and short

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Speaker 2: AND i know he's ready for the challenge of both

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Speaker 4: Year, well let's talk about the the the bigger calling card,

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Speaker 4: here which is the. SWING i mean, again a six

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Speaker 4: four lefty. Swing just walk us. Through what what is

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Speaker 4: his approach like in at at the? Play what what

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Speaker 4: is he like as a.

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Speaker 2: Hitter, yeah it's a patient. Hitter he's gonna take his.

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Speaker 2: Walks he's going to do damage on on pitches in

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Speaker 2: and around the. Zone that's been the most impressive part

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Speaker 2: deequally is. Impressive his ability to use all. Fields we've

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Speaker 2: Wall he's at the batter's eye on field three a

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Speaker 2: handful of times and the ball just. JUMPS i, mean

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Speaker 2: the evs are ranging from one oh five to one oh,

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Speaker 2: nine and it's. Special you watch HIS vp and it

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Speaker 2: kind of attracts you to that, field and he's able

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Speaker 2: to apply that in our live vps and spring training

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Speaker 2: Man he works as he works as behind off and

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Speaker 2: he's a great kid as well behind the, scenes and

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Speaker 3: Field to say the.

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Speaker 1: Least alvarez is eighteen nine's just turned. NINETEEN i wonder

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Speaker 1: kind of what you look for in guys that are that,

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Speaker 1: still maturing as as. Human what are the things you

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Speaker 2: HIMSELF i really think the big thing is just the the,

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Speaker 2: aptitude the, coachability the routine oriented nature that these two both.

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Speaker 2: in their mid. Twenties as they continue to get, older

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Speaker 2: obviously the risk of injury. RISES i think with these,

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Speaker 2: two we feel really confident in how well they've taken

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Speaker 2: to continue to add physicality to that. Frame that's not

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Speaker 2: to come as they naturally, mature as they continue to

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Speaker 2: get older and. STRONGER i think the thing we kind

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Speaker 2: of forget sometimes we're talking about this as a staff

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Speaker 2: earlier is neither has played a professional Game stateside, yet

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Speaker 2: which is crazy to. Say both are uber, talented but

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Speaker 2: reminding ourselves and myself included on patients with these players

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Speaker 2: is going to be of the utmost importance that they're

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Speaker 2: still eighteen and nineteen and have a long way to,

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Speaker 2: go both on the field development but off the field as.

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Speaker 1: Well the reporter in me has to, ask have you

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Speaker 1: guys determined where either of those guys will start their

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Speaker 1: minor league? Seasons we have.

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Speaker 2: Not we're having active conversations around that with our staff right,

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Speaker 2: now but nothing has been said in terms of affiliate

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Speaker 1: Point all, right now that we've gotten past the, kids

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some that are closer to. Adulthood maybe

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Speaker 1: let's go with a guy that was In big league

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Speaker 1: camp this, Year Turned. HEADS i don't think anyone thought

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Speaker 1: People the defense has always been, sound BUT i think the,

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Speaker 2: On i'm not sure there's a player that turned more

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Speaker 2: that Than. WALKER i think obviously the defense you spoke,

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Speaker 2: as it relates to hit her. Weakness it's just an

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Speaker 2: advanced approach from a mental standpoint and physical standpoint behind the.

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Speaker 2: the offense was really. Impressive his ability to take the

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Speaker 3: Pitch he showed to do that all.

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Speaker 2: Camp SO i Know joe And omar and that group

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Speaker 4: Long, Yeah so you, know, like like you, said we've

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Speaker 4: to fifteen, years has been built around pitch. Framing how

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Speaker 4: do you adjust catcher development and emphasizing pitch framing now

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Speaker 4: that there is, Abs, like how does that change catcher?

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Speaker 1: Development it really.

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Speaker 2: and receiving is still the number one. Area they catch

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Speaker 2: our field, Cordator Michael, thomas who's also our catching, cordator

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Speaker 2: does a tremendous job of making that emphasis throughout all

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Speaker 2: Tim cousins is doing at the major league level is no.

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Speaker 2: Different But walker's got that box, check there's no doubt about.

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Speaker 2: It but just to piggyback again off, that But walker

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Speaker 2: does it's unique to the catching. Position is the ability

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Speaker 2: that they want to throw to Than Walker. Yannick so

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Speaker 2: it's those things that you maybe can't quantify that at that,

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Speaker 1: EXEMPLIFIES i think the thing that doesn't get talked about

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Speaker 1: let's continue with another older, prospect a guy that you

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Speaker 1: guys took in THE i keep saying he's a second

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Speaker 1: round pick every TIME i refer to, him but he's

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Speaker 1: actually a third round. Pick Ethan. Frye as someone that

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Speaker 1: watched a fair amount OF lsu baseball When Ethan frye played,

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Speaker 1: THERE i would not have guessed that you guys would

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Speaker 1: Itself but what have you guys seen from him defensively

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Speaker 2: FIELD i think that's been a pleasant, surprise to say the.

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Speaker 2: The, routes the reaction, time the arm, strength we have

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Speaker 2: a ton of confidence that's going to play out. There

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Speaker 2: he's gonna get every single chance to play center field

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Speaker 2: when we do assign him this. Year what we've seen

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Speaker 2: from him this spring gives is every indication that he

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Speaker 2: can roll out there for the foreseeable. Future in terms

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Speaker 2: of his, Development he's gonna get touches in left field

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Speaker 2: and right field. Predominantly we'll be in center, though you

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Speaker 2: know as we. Go but, again LIKE i, think you

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Speaker 2: Guy but how he, moves the reaction, times the arm,

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Speaker 4: Uh there's you know another guy that has been in

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Speaker 4: what can you tell us About Joseph? Sullivan what what

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Speaker 4: has he done so?

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Speaker 3: Far he's a tough.

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Speaker 2: Uh he he's a gritty. Player there's there's power in.

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Speaker 2: There it's a left. Left he can also play center.

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Speaker 2: Field he'll play the corners as. Well but he impacts

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Speaker 2: base running With joseph almost up up close to fifty

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Speaker 2: bags last, year that's the goal we've set for him this.

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Speaker 2: YEAR i think he'll get there. Quick he's a menace

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Speaker 2: on the. Bases the first Of. Thursday, second the, homes

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Speaker 2: the ability to understand pitcher, timing catch her arm, Strength

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Speaker 2: he prepares like at a really high, level which has

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Speaker 2: been really exciting on the. Basis but, again like had

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Speaker 2: Down by every indication he's going to continue that momentum

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Speaker 2: here in minor league spring training and off into the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty sixth. Season But i'm really excited about where

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Speaker 2: he's at right now and continue to harness on the.

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Speaker 4: Approach, yeah forty two steals last season across a couple

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Speaker 4: of different levels of minor. Leagues that that'll. Play that's

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Speaker 4: that's a good guy to have.

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Speaker 1: Around, yep that'll. Play we've been very position player, Heavy.

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Speaker 1: Sam so before we get you out, HERE i want

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Speaker 1: to Get dana always brings. Up dana's got two guys

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Speaker 1: that he always brings, up and Then i'm going to

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Speaker 1: ask you about a. Third so three pitchers very. Quickly

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Speaker 1: Bryce mayer And Ethan peco are two of the guys

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Speaker 1: THAT i, think as we have seen pitcher injuries occur

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Speaker 1: and depth is always, NEEDED i would imagine that those

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Speaker 1: a need at the major league level this, Season Ethan

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Speaker 1: peco And Bryce, mayor and then the guy that started

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Speaker 1: the spring breakout, Game James. Hicks just really quickly on

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Speaker 1: those three, guys what excite you guys in the upper

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Speaker 1: miners that that could be pushing pushing down the big

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Speaker 3: Soon, Yeah i'll start With.

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Speaker 2: HICKS i Think bryce And ethan in their own right

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Speaker 2: are the front runners of that, group But james is a. Sleeper,

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Speaker 2: obviously the performers in The Fall league from this past

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Speaker 2: YEAR i think propelled with some momentum into the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six. Season he showed up early with us as,

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Speaker 2: well and it's thrown really. Well it's the kitchen sink,

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Speaker 2: approach the ability to pitch to both sides of the.

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Speaker 2: Plate the sinker to writ is, lethal the, sweeper the.

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Speaker 2: Changeup he's got all options to both batside a ton

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Speaker 2: of shrikes as a.

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Speaker 3: Nice compliment to the.

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Speaker 2: Arsenal the powers ticked up this, spring which has been

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Speaker 2: a nice surprise for. Him we're hopeful and confident that's

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Speaker 2: going to maintain throughout the. Season and then you Mentioned

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Speaker 2: Ethan ethan's working his way back right now from a

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Speaker 2: little injury that he suffered last. Year he'll be a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks delayed into the, season but all accounts right,

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Speaker 2: now his rehabs progressing, well in a good spot heading

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Speaker 3: Six and you, know, Yeah bryce's you.

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Speaker 2: Know a five pitch mix working on the change up right,

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Speaker 2: now the, sweeper the, curveball the. Slider he's got the

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Speaker 2: full arsenal to both bat, sides similar To. Hicks BUT

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Speaker 2: i think the thing With Bryce i'll touch on is

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Speaker 2: just the intentionality to his. Identity he knows himself really really.

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Speaker 2: Well monitors' workload from a daily throwing standpoint at a

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Speaker 2: really high. Level just a special individual goes about his

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Speaker 2: work in a really silent, manner but when he gets

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Speaker 2: in the, mound he flips that. Switch his ability to

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Speaker 2: take it to the opponents is. Real so all three

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Speaker 2: of those guys are are names THAT i WOULD i

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Speaker 2: would watch as as, contributors whether it's in the first

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Speaker 2: half or second. Half but all three are in really

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Speaker 1: Six, Here i'm gonna get you out of here on

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Speaker 1: a difficult question BECAUSE i know this is like asking

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Speaker 1: every farm director or every scout like to name their favorite.

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Speaker 1: Kid but if you could give a, SLEEPER i know

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Speaker 1: you just Said James, hicks he doesn't. Count you can

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Speaker 1: give a sleeper for this, season somebody that is maybe

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Speaker 1: on maybe down the, list stuned some top thirties on

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Speaker 1: Publications do you have one in? Mind is there a

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Speaker 1: sleeper that you think fans should should really keep an eye.

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Speaker 2: On i'm gonna go with there's a handful that that

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Speaker 2: that come to mind on this. Question the One i'll

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Speaker 2: say Is Caiden. Powell you, Know, cayden by, nature in

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Speaker 2: previous years has played on the. Infield we've made the

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Speaker 2: switch to the outfield With caden plays, center left and.

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Speaker 2: Right this, spring we really just wanted to let the speed,

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Speaker 2: play let the arm lengthen out a little bit and

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Speaker 2: free free up his, athleticism WHICH i think he's done

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Speaker 2: this spring training at the plate is real. Power it's

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Speaker 2: probably the most raw power we have in the. System

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Speaker 2: there is some punch in. There he'll walk a little,

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Speaker 2: bit but when he gets on the, basis it's a

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Speaker 2: true plus plus. Runner he's a guy THAT i know

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Speaker 2: was talked about you know here and there and m

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Speaker 2: Wilb pipeline and other. Publications but he's SOMEONE i would

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Speaker 2: walk out. FOR i think the center, field the left,

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Speaker 2: field the right field hopefully frees up the mind a

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Speaker 2: little bit to be himself in the box and let

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Speaker 2: the athleticism. Play so he's someone that's pressed a lot

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Speaker 2: of us to this camp and have high expectations for

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Speaker 2: him going to the twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: HERE i remember when you guys Drafted Cayden. Powell you

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Speaker 1: it wasn't you, guys you weren't here. Yet but when

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Speaker 1: The ashers Drafted Cayden, POWELL i. WAS i remember they

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Speaker 1: drafted him out Of Seminole state In. Oklahoma his slash

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Speaker 1: line At Seminole state in two hundred and seventeen at,

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Speaker 1: Bats so this is a representative sample. Size this young

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Speaker 1: Eight that is a that's that's. Good that'll that'll that'll.

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Speaker 3: Play there's certain guys that you want to. Watch xavier

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Speaker 2: Them caden's another where when they're TAKING, vp you want

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Speaker 2: to go to that. Field you want to see how

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Speaker 2: far these balls, go the distance they, travel the speed

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Speaker 3: Bat it's.

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Speaker 2: Impressive and AGAIN i think the more that he, plays

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Speaker 2: the more reps he continues to gain in the, outfield

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Speaker 2: Him so a smart, kid a smart, player sees the

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Speaker 2: favorites on the coaching staff, side and, again just excited

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Speaker 3: Six that transitioning into the, outfield.

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Speaker 1: WELL i know fans will keep an eye on. That

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Speaker 1: and thank you so, Much. Sam this was. GREAT i

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Speaker 4: Well before we move on to important. Things you, know

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Speaker 4: we talked a lot ABOUT bp that you want to.

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Speaker 4: Watch there's SOME bp THAT i would like to watch

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Speaker 4: from from. Today can you can you give us a

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Speaker 4: rundown of what happened in?

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Speaker 1: Camp luckily there's no. Video SO i Think Joe espota

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Speaker 1: got inspired By Joe, missoula The celtics coach who challenged

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Speaker 1: the media to a five on five with The celtics

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00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 1: coaches and that became AN nba. Thing So, joe, uh

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Speaker 1: he's been saying this since Like, december that he was

501
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Speaker 1: going to make the Three beat, writers, Myself brian, McTaggart Matt,

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00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: kalahara he was gonna make, us you, know basically have

503
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Speaker 1: a media challenge like go through a spring training workout.

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00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: Style well that finally happened this. Morning WE, uh we

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00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: got to we got to the facility at about nine a.

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Speaker 1: M and we shagged fly balls off the machine in center.

507
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: Field we got hit some fungos at shortstop and had

508
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: to throw across the diamond to a. Target and then

509
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Speaker 1: we had to take SOME vp with with a staffer

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Speaker 1: standing behind the cage and tracking it.

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Speaker 5: ON.

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Speaker 1: Uh they have a portable track man that that tracks exit,

513
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Speaker 1: velocity and there was like they had a whole system

514
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: in place of you, know you get this many points

515
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: for catching a fly, ball you get this many points

516
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Speaker 1: for hitting the target when you're. Throwing and then the

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Speaker 1: highest exit velocity out of the two rounds OF bp got.

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Speaker 1: Points to protect all, INVOLVED i will NOT, UH i

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00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: will not disclose who. WON i will not disclose the point.

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00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: TOTAL i will not disclose how it. Went BUT i barreled.

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00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: ONE i will say, THIS I i barreled one ball DURING,

522
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: vp and for full, DISCLOSURE i played. BAIT i didn't

523
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: play baseball in high. SCHOOL i played baseball UNTIL i

524
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Speaker 1: was ABOUT i don't, know eleven or twelve years, old

525
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: like my that's when my baseball career. Ended SO i

526
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: don't really know the feeling of barreling a, ball but,

527
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: MAN i barreled a ball and like that is an incredible,

528
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: feeling like you don't even feel it leave the. Bat

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Speaker 1: and then Like i'm not trying toot my own horn,

530
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: here but this ball like it went in to the

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Speaker 1: left center gap like kind of far and like. Uh

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Speaker 1: and they tried to tell, me, LIKE i think THE

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Speaker 1: i think the portable uh track man was. Broken so

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00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: they tried to tell me that was fifty eight off the.

535
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: BAT i, said hell, no that thing was way too

536
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Speaker 1: far and it felt way too good off the, bat

537
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Speaker 1: the only.

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Speaker 4: Thing, yeah and their stuff was broken for, Sure, yes,

539
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Speaker 4: no yes it. Was that's that's. Fun did you did

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Speaker 4: you with on ANY?

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Speaker 1: Mvp oh my, god, yes like the First, well like,

542
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: okay SO i MEAN I i keep Myself Like Joe

543
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: aspota was like amaze, that LIKE i was so bad

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00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: at everything. Today he was, like you're an, ATHLETE i, said, No,

545
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Speaker 1: joe LIKE i, run like most of my most of

546
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Speaker 1: my athletic activity is like running and going to the

547
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Speaker 1: gym that doesn't require hand eye, coordination like running does

548
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Speaker 1: not like putting one foot in front of the other

549
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: does not require being having any hand eye. Coordination lifting

550
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 1: weights does not really require that. Either my hand eye

551
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: coordination is non. Existent SO i ONLY i only fell.

552
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: Once it was there was there, was there was dew

553
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: on the grass in the OUTFRE i only fell once

554
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 1: trying to. Track, oh the sun was, brutal, Brutal like,

555
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: NO i mean like that that didn't impact my fly

556
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: of all. Performance but the sun was brutal like it.

557
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: Was and then they told us, after they're, like, oh,

558
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Speaker 1: yeah well this is, this this is the field where

559
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Speaker 1: the sun is always the. WORST i was, like why

560
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: couldn't we have just gone across the wing on the other,

561
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Speaker 1: Field but.

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Speaker 4: We were out there in your your press uniform of

563
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Speaker 4: like jeans and a polo or no.

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00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: No so like that was the other, thing like we so,

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Speaker 1: again woe is me play the world's tiniest. Violin but

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00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: today they they. Played today's game was In Port Saint

567
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Speaker 1: lucy against The, mets and that's about an hour. Drive

568
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: so we all had to like do this and like

569
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Speaker 1: it was it was not, hot but it wasn't, cool

570
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: so like and all of us worked up like a

571
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,719
Speaker 1: pretty nice. Ladder we had to, then LIKE i, mean

572
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: we bought workout clothes and. Stuff then we had to

573
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: change into our press uniforms and drive an hour To

574
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: Port Saint. Lucy there was no real time to go

575
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: get freshened. UP i brought some, dewdorant, thankfully but, yeah

576
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: it was my ham, like my hamstrings are gonna hurt

577
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: for the next like three. Days it's not gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Fun there's no. Video you can't find. It if you

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Speaker 1: wanted to find, it you.

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Speaker 4: Can someone's got a. Video somebody send it. In somebody

581
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Speaker 4: has one from. Somewhere we will find. It there's got

582
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 4: to be a security cam at that ballpark that we

583
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 4: can get.

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00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: A certain a certain middle infielder that went one to

585
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,959
Speaker 1: one in a draft one time and that got traded

586
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: back over here last. Year he came to watch a

587
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: little bit of the proceedings and all he yelled was

588
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: make an, adjustment make an, adjustment when he wasn't really

589
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: saying what that adjustment should have.

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00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 4: Been that's. Great who's glove did you?

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00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: Use Jason? Bell they had a couple extras laying Around

592
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: Jason bell out of, glove so it's able to use.

593
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: THAT i Asked, Jason Like Jason bell's the outfield. Coach

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00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: he threw he THREW bp and by the, way THE

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00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: bp was not thrown from the. Mound THE vp was

596
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: like in the middle of the middle of the mound

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00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: and home. Plate this was not we were not going

598
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: sixty feet six. Inches BUT i asked him. BEFORE i was,

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00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: like can you just like plunk, me just plumped me

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00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: to get put me out of my. Misery i'll pay.

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00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: You but then we had to SIGN i because my

602
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: whole thought, was, oh like IF i get, HIT i,

603
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: can LIKE i can make some money off of. THIS

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00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: i don't want to work. Anymore and then they made

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00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: a sign and then they made a sign of. Waiver

606
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: SO i was, like, oh damn, it my plan is

607
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: A my plan went To my plan was. Thwarted but that's, Man,

608
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: no it was it, was, look you, Know i'm gonna

609
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: go on a little bit of a rant, HERE i.

610
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: Guess but like it's. It it can get isolating down,

611
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: here especially when LIKE i haven't even been here the whole.

612
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: Time Matt kalahar And brian mctacker have been here longer

613
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: THAN i. Have but, like you come down here and

614
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: it feels like Groundhog. Day it feels like you're doing

615
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: the same thing every. Day the mornings. Suck just could

616
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: you get up every? Morning the games don't. Matter everyone's

617
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: just waiting to leave and to have a to have

618
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: a day where it was a little, different like it

619
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: was a little. Different you got to have a little

620
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: fun and mix it. Up thank you To Joe, espada

621
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: who has been adamant about this Since, december and we

622
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: all thought he was lying and he was. Not so,

623
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: yeah that was.

624
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: Fun it was fun out. There the, coaching of.

625
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: Course he, was he was out, There Omar lopez was out.

626
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: There most of the coaches came by to, watch but you,

627
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: know the players would would walk by and kind of

628
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: like they'd stop and look for a little bit and

629
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: kind of laugh and walk. Away so thankfully the audience

630
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: of players was not, huge BECAUSE i don't know THAT

631
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: i would have been able to overcome. That i'm already pretty,

632
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: awkward And i'm already pretty awkward and unappealing as it,

633
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: IS i can't imagine having already having this already attached as.

634
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Speaker 4: Well it's gonna be tough to Ask korea on a

635
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 4: game where he strikes out four, times what happened when

636
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 4: when he's seen you do that.

637
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: Now, well he only saw me fielding ground, balls and

638
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: you're fine fielding ground balls and throwing across the.

639
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 4: Diamonds how how is your?

640
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: Arm?

641
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 4: You did you make it over? There could you throw

642
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: it from?

643
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: Me that was the. THING i made it over?

644
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 5: There.

645
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: Okay the accuracy is not great LIKE i made it over.

646
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: Like the arm strength is no. Problem it's getting it

647
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: getting the baseball to go WHERE i would like it to.

648
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 5: Go that is that a bigger.

649
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 4: Problem.

650
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: Here there you, go AND i will NOT i will

651
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: protect everyone ELSE'S i can only speak for. MYSELF i

652
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: will protect everyone else and not give scouting reports and

653
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: everyone else that participated.

654
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 4: Today if you had to grade your performance with like

655
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 4: a precious, metal what would you grade?

656
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: It? Oh, like what's worse than?

657
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 3: Bronze?

658
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 4: Like, WELL i think there were only three.

659
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: Of, you so you, know, yeah what's worse than bronze like?

660
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: That it's it was, Bad it was not. Good it

661
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: Was look those that don't do, right and that's what

662
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: that's what, today that's what today. Exemplified if you haven't,

663
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: noticed because we've discussed this for fifteen, minutes nothing's happening

664
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: In astro's. Camp we're recording this On saturday. NIGHT i

665
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: do anticipate some clarity On sunday about some roster. DECISIONS

666
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: i don't think it'll be the roster decisions that everyone

667
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: is hoping or waiting. For they're going to take it

668
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: down the wire AT diyk And. Park you, KNOW i

669
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: don't know that there's much we can add from the

670
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: last time we talked to you. GUYS i Think Bryce

671
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: matthews is still doing a pretty good job of solidifying

672
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: himself on the. Roster Zat cole struck out two more

673
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: times today In Port Saint, lucy but he did destroy

674
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: a triple down the first baseline at one hundred and

675
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,479
Speaker 1: eight miles an hour off the bat so a Very

676
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: Christian walker ripped on. Too he, did and we talked

677
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: To christian after the. Game he was a good swing

678
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: for him to end spring. On he and as we

679
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: discussed With, josh you, know in the last, pod you,

680
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: Know christian said To i've been working on a lot

681
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: of different timing, techniques timing. Mechanisms you, Know he's trying

682
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: certain things and certain counts that he probably won't use

683
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: in the. Season he talks, about you, know HE i

684
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: think the way he described it, today was having a

685
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: lot of things in his back pocket that he can

686
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: try that he can go to in the. Season it's

687
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: not saying he's going to use them, all but they're

688
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: just he he's got different ways Of sometimes it'll be

689
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: a toe, tap sometimes it'll be a toe. Roll sometimes

690
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit of a leg. Kick like

691
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: he tried all these different things in spring to see

692
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: what worked for, it and that's part of the results

693
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: you're looking at when the results aren't. Great, Now i'm

694
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: sure he would have loved to not hit ninety whatever

695
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: he hit in spring, training but that doesn't really. Matter

696
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: he did, say you, know in the last week or,

697
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: so he's felt his timing has gotten where he needs to. Be,

698
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: said he feels like he's on time for. FASTBALLS i

699
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: don't know THE i don't know the velo of the

700
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: homer of the pitch of the house, today but you,

701
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: know he he felt like he was on time for fastballs.

702
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: Today i'm pulling it up right.

703
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: Now that was.

704
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: Ang he had a hanging slider, today but he was on.

705
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: Time he said he was on time for the ninety

706
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: six that the guy. Had he fouled a couple of

707
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: ninety six his. Backs so, YEAH i think again we

708
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: have to take performance into account for the young, guy

709
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: for the younger inexperienced guys That JOE A spot has

710
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: said performance will matter. For but for the older, guys

711
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: it's just they need to get out of here. Healthy

712
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: they need to get out of here in one piece

713
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: and ready to go for the. Season that Was Christian walker's.

714
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 4: Goal so he has a lot of stuff in his back,

715
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 4: pocket and Famously Juli guriel had nothing in his back

716
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 4: pocket because it would just swing around back. There so

717
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 4: we're gonna find out which approach works.

718
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: Better it was funny WHEN i was Asking sam, about you,

719
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: know whether how much he knew about The cuban. Influence

720
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: it always reminds me of a STORY i. Did this

721
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: was this was during the lockout last, time when they

722
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: had like a mile when they when everyone was hard

723
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: up for. Content so The chronicles sent me down here

724
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 1: to cover like minor league. Camp they were doing minor league,

725
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: camp and they were the only people you could talk

726
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: to were minor, leaguers and because the lockout was going,

727
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: on AND i just remember seeing there were like five

728
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: or six Young latin players that had their back pocket hanging,

729
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: out AND i saw the numbers AND i was, like

730
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: if all these dudes are From, cuba this is going

731
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: to be like. Something and sure enough all of them

732
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: were From, cuba and they all had the back pocket

733
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: hanging out and it was every one of them was, like,

734
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: yeah Because julie does. It LIKE i don't know THAT

735
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: i can express to, you like how much of a

736
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: household brand The astros are In cuba first because Of.

737
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: Juli because you, know there's someone that was formerly in

738
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: The astros organization that always, says If juli would have

739
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: come over to THE us five to eight years, earlier

740
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: he would be A hall Of. Famer he would be

741
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: A National Baseball hall Of.

742
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 4: Famer he's hitting three hundred at thirty, five thirty six,

743
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 4: Whatever LIKE i, mean he was an incredible hitter.

744
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: And he was HE i don't know that we can

745
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: comp him to one, guy but like he was The

746
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: Mike trout Of. Cuba he was his, family his family

747
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: And yuli, himself like they are they are. Royalty they

748
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: Are Cuban baseball. Royalty and the mere fact That juli

749
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: put on An astro's uniform just Made. Cuba that made

750
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: The asher's a household name In. Cuba and then obviously

751
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: with What Jordan alvarez has done since he's come up

752
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: in twenty, nineteen he's only kind of extended. That Now

753
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: jordan doesn't have the the trademark. Anything he doesn't have the,

754
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: heye he didn't have any, hair but he doesn't have

755
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: like the pineapple. Hair he doesn't have the back pocket.

756
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 1: Out But jordan is another guy that it's like carrying

757
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: the torch In. Cuba and you, know Maybe Kevin alvarez

758
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: is the next guy that we just talked. About BUT

759
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: i JUST i hope people appreciate like how much that

760
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: stuff matters and how much just you, know signing one international,

761
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: player like Giving Juli guriel forty seven and a half

762
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: million dollars on that, contract like that was worth its

763
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: weight in gold and more like for the future stuff

764
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: that they invested in just because of what he did In.

765
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 4: Cuba so remember when he hit five hundred in The Cuban.

766
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: League that dude can. Hits Like i'm surprised he hasn't

767
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: gotten a job just because like HE i don't how,

768
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: OLD i don't know, how but like he's probably in

769
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: his forties by, now like forty.

770
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: One.

771
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: YEAH i think could probably still hit like sixty, Yeahine

772
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: but The astros don't need them because they have enough first,

773
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: Basement they have enough infielders as it, is as we have,

774
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: discussed and they will all travel back To, HOUSTON uh

775
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon after what should be the Quickest Grapefruit league

776
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: game in recorded history against The Saint Louis. Cardinals there

777
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: is there has been at times a not so subtle

778
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: edict to swing at the first pitch in the Last

779
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: Great Fat league, game and there's at times been punishment

780
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: if the first pitch is not swung at of the

781
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: Last Great Fruit league. Game so you could see a

782
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: quick one tomorrow between The ashers and The, cardinals and

783
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: then after that The ashers will head back To, houston

784
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: where On, monday Testsua emi will pitch against The Space

785
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: cowboys at Dyke In. Park On, Tuesday lance mccullors will

786
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: pitch at Dyk In park against The Space. Cowboy Spencer

787
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: arighetti should also pitch in that game and, relief but

788
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: they're still kind of determining. That we don't know the

789
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: full rotation. Yet i'd be surprised If Mike burrows does

790
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: not start game two of the. Season he looked terrific.

791
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: Again today he, allowed he, allowed he allowed a couple of. Runs. Embarrassing,

792
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: yeah but he looked terrific. Again so he should probably

793
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: Start game. Two but everything beyond that's. Unknown there's still

794
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: a lot of roster decisions to, make and we'll keep

795
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: you updated on those.

796
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 4: Here but until they, know there was there was some

797
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 4: news right about the rotation that it's a five man

798
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 4: now and not yeah yeah at the.

799
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 1: Beginning oh, yeah they're gonna go to they're gonna start

800
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: with the five man but they're only gonna stay in

801
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: the five man. ROTATION i gotta get let me pull

802
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: the schedule, up SO i get the SO i get the,

803
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: UH i get the date. Correct they're only gonna stay

804
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: in a five man rotation Until april, tenth because that

805
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: they start a string of thirteen games in a row that.

806
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: Day so they're going to be in a five man

807
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: rotation for like the first two. Weeks, now there's a

808
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: couple of different ways they could construct. Things they're gonna

809
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: carry multiple long relievers in their. Bullpen Joe spot has

810
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: said that today one because some of these pictures may

811
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: not be built up fully for their first turn, through

812
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: so they could do some design. Piggybacks and the other

813
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: thing is that they are going to shift to a

814
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: six man, rotation so they're going to carry a six

815
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: starter in their. Bullpen that could Be Spencer arraghetti who

816
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: starts the year in the bullpen and then jumps into the.

817
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: Rotation that could Be Ryan, weiss who starts the year

818
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: in the bullpen and jumps into the. ROTATION i think

819
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: both of those guys are certainly legitimate candidates to make

820
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: the opening day roster in that. Role but you will

821
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: see a couple of long relievers end up in the

822
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: bullpen to, start and then they will shift the rotation

823
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: once they get to a six. Man so, yeah like

824
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: and all the roster Projections i've, done Like i've kind

825
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: of hedged it a little, Bit LIKE i think they're

826
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: they're carrying six starters on the opening day roster, repark

827
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: it'll just be an actual five man rotation. Start but

828
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: there we. Go, yeah that represents the extent of the,

829
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: news but we don't know what the rotation will look.

830
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: Like if you've been watching and following, along you have

831
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: a pretty good, idea but we will let you know.

832
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: That and the position players and how it all shakes

833
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: out On Crush Shitty. Territory but until that is done and,

834
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: official you can follow me on x at Chandler Underscore.

835
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,839
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837
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838
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839
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: Week we'll do at least one episode before opening day On,

840
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: thursday at least, one maybe, two depending on when they

841
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: make all the roster. Decisions depending on when the roster is,

842
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: set that could drag Into wednesday. Mornings so we'll keep

843
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: you guys, updated but until that next, time we will

844
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 1: talk to you. Soon thank you for. Listening real quick

845
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