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Speaker 1: What is Up, Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of the Mets Uff Podcast, A little Trade Deadline edition,

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Speaker 1: a little Washington National Series to talk about. Definitely a

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Speaker 1: lot going on in the baseball world, especially in the

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Speaker 1: Mets world, so we're gonna cover everything here. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about the Max Scherzer trade, the David Robertson trade,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll end with the Washington National Series, which

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Speaker 1: went really well three out of four. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the secret headline of this entire episode

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Speaker 1: is that the Mets played really good baseball this weekend.

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about everything with you, guys. Make sure

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Speaker 1: might have been the nicest day of the entire year.

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Speaker 1: How are we feeling?

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Speaker 2: It was kind of funny that all this crazy stuff

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Speaker 2: has happened this weekend, like as this awful heat and

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Speaker 2: humanity lifted out of New York City and now it

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Speaker 2: was beautiful and it was a wonderful day just sitting

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Speaker 2: the sun at the ballpark and enjoy a nice, easy

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Speaker 2: Mets victory.

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Speaker 3: But with that weird little sense in.

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Speaker 2: The back of here, like what had transpired in the

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Speaker 2: last like twenty four hours even seventy two hours, going

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Speaker 2: back to both trades of Max Scherzer and David Robertson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about it.

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Speaker 1: The Mets have made a couple moves, like you just said,

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Speaker 1: Scherz are and Robertson on the move. Sures are going

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Speaker 1: to the Texas Rangers. David Robertson's staying in the vision

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Speaker 1: going to the Miami Marlins. Let's go ahead and started

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Speaker 1: off with the Max Schurzer trade, because I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of conversation here, a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Talk about what's going on. What did the Mets get?

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Speaker 1: A lot of questions. I'm sure you guys have you

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Speaker 1: want to know more about these prospects, because let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: some of the people that do a lot of the

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Speaker 1: reporting don't know that much about the prospects, So tell

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Speaker 1: you all about it, Max Scherzer. And was it thirty

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Speaker 1: six million dollars going to the Texas Rangers. Yes, in

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Speaker 1: exchange for Luis on Hell Acunya. A bit of an

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Speaker 1: a mouthful with the name Luis on Hell, though that's

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Speaker 1: how we're gonna know him as for the rest of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's not Acunya, while he is Rolly CUNY's brother.

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Speaker 2: And that is the headline that most people went with

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Speaker 2: for this trade, because that's the easy reporting. That's you

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Speaker 2: could take off the top, that's the thing you could

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Speaker 2: say without doing any research, and many people did do that.

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Speaker 2: I really want to call you Mets fans to not

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Speaker 2: compare this person to his brother.

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Speaker 3: Not fair. It's not fair. Not fair.

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Speaker 2: He's a good prospect, he's a really good chance to

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Speaker 2: be a really good player. But Rolly Kunyon, you's gonna

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Speaker 2: be one of the best baseball players. And of us

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Speaker 2: see in our respective lives, might at forty and seventy

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Speaker 2: this year he's traced. He's pacing right now for one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest single seasons in baseball history, which is

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Speaker 2: weird because like after someone has had one of the

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Speaker 2: best years in baseball history. And while someone else is

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Speaker 2: probably having the best year in baseball history, but in

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Speaker 2: terms of the National League, no one's ever had twenty

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Speaker 2: homers and fifty thirty homers and fifty steals in a year.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna have that by the end of August.

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Speaker 1: No, he's been playing really special. But his brother is

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Speaker 1: other thing that is really important about this trade. The

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Speaker 1: prospect in exchange for Maxuers and Max Suers or all

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Speaker 1: the accolades, all the acclaim all the knowtheriety, Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame Pitcher was at this time definitely as what thirty

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Speaker 1: big thing about Luisan Helicunya.

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Speaker 2: Is that he's just ridiculously explosive, twitchy, twitchy.

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Speaker 3: He's smaller than his brother.

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Speaker 2: He's only about five, the heights five to ten. Some

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Speaker 2: He plays great defense up the middle like if anything,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the way, I'm gonna read the description of Baseball

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Speaker 1: of describing what kind of player he is. Akunya has

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Speaker 1: interesting for me. He doesn't project to be the same

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Speaker 1: which is fantastic, fantastic everything you want. With the explosiveness

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Speaker 2: Yes, and something interesting about the defensive linements that Mark

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Speaker 2: a little more. What's what I'm looking for? Enticing attractive

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Speaker 2: in these trade andiations because they have a great team,

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Speaker 3: They're especially strong up the middle.

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Speaker 2: They two years ago signed Corey Seeger and Marcus Enmian

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Speaker 2: for combined like what almost five hundred million dollars to

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Speaker 2: So it was gonna be difficult for them to find

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Speaker 2: Don't know who's gonna wind up with the Mets yet,

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Speaker 2: but him playing those games the centerfield recently make me think,

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Speaker 1: And if you look at a lot of the top organizations,

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Speaker 3: You don't normally hear too many.

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Speaker 2: I think about two of the last three first round

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Speaker 2: Lindor and brand Nemo we were talking about because you're

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Speaker 2: trying to these trades will kind of make us all

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Speaker 2: think about next year now more than this year, and

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Speaker 2: like where the direction of the team is going. And

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Speaker 2: you look and you no matter what, what you can

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Speaker 2: say is that the Mets are very strong up the

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Speaker 2: whatever happens guys fan out. Mark Fiantez was drafted as

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Speaker 2: a short stop, yes, and now we will know his position,

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Speaker 2: but that's just how it works. Like you're a good athlete,

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Speaker 2: you figure it out later. That's why a lot of

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Speaker 2: people we've heard online assessing over the positions of some

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Speaker 3: Couldn't matter less, It could not matter at all, completely irrelevant.

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Speaker 2: If you're good enough, you'll find a place to play

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Speaker 2: Marco's talked about the fact that Acuna played much better

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Speaker 2: he didn't really get to any power. This year, he's

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Speaker 2: getting to more power. He's twenty percent better than league average.

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Speaker 2: He's kind of strikeout rate by three points, and his

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Speaker 2: he's forty two steals, yeah, already in eighty four Double

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Speaker 2: you're very fast, yes, really fast. But two, you're kind

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Speaker 1: I mean three fifteen average, three seventy seven on base,

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Speaker 1: I get a market amateur. I know I left the

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Speaker 2: It just depends on the stadiums. Ro the Rangers double

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Speaker 2: He probably this year's draft just because it was a

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Speaker 3: I could have been up there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there was anybody else who had

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Speaker 1: No, and it's super important, like twitch. Twitch is kind

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Speaker 1: of the thing that the pod. I'm not comparing these two,

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Speaker 1: really focusing on explosiveness and twitch was one of the

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Speaker 3: Like seven inches talk.

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Speaker 2: I know, but I'm just saying that twitchy guy and

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Speaker 3: Like my favorite interview I've ever done, for sure. It

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Speaker 3: Like I started calling John. I was frasic. I was

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Speaker 2: Because even though it was great, yes, there was, there

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Speaker 2: them in from the ground up right, and then when

438
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Speaker 2: you get a guy in the middle, like let's say

439
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Speaker 2: you get a picture in hy A double A, even

440
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Speaker 2: triple A, like a lot of Mets fans are clamoring

441
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Speaker 2: for that picture is already being developed by the team,

442
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Speaker 2: and you might have a completely different plan for that.

443
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Speaker 2: So it's still while the picture might seem close, they

444
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Speaker 2: might not actually be close because you might have to

445
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Speaker 2: undo some things that have been done, change the shape,

446
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Speaker 2: change an approach, change a sequencing habit that they have,

447
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Speaker 2: and then bring them back. So even when a guy

448
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Speaker 2: seems close as a pitching prospect, they might not be close.

449
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Speaker 3: Even as of right now.

450
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Speaker 2: All the pictures that Mark mentioned, and we've gotten some

451
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Speaker 2: great content coming out with a lot of these guys

452
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Speaker 2: on Future Flushing John Vivo's podcast.

453
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Speaker 3: They're going to do an interview with Drew Tussant coming up.

454
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Speaker 2: There is this kind of like this feeling that right

455
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Speaker 2: now the Mets have some of the better upper miners

456
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Speaker 2: pitching depth of any organization in baseball. Yeah, because of

457
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Speaker 2: what's gone on off for the last basically eighteen months

458
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Speaker 2: here with these pitching prospects, and like this is where

459
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Speaker 2: a tool like pipeline like I think pipeline's fine, like

460
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Speaker 2: as a base research thing, but like when you're looking

461
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Speaker 2: at prospect rankings, they're so fluid, they're so fluid, they're

462
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Speaker 2: constantly changing.

463
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Speaker 1: Guys get better, guys get worse. Pipeline just doesn't update

464
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Speaker 1: regularly enough to change guys like Marco Vargas or a

465
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Speaker 1: lot of the Mets pitching prospects that have been performing

466
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Speaker 1: really really well, like a Christian Scott, where they're just

467
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Speaker 1: not gonna be changing every day. They're not gonna be

468
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Speaker 1: changing every month. They make like two or three changes

469
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Speaker 1: a year. It's like preseason draft, end of the year.

470
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Speaker 1: That's pretty much what they do. And there's nothing wrong

471
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Speaker 1: with that. They're covering every single team's prospect in all

472
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Speaker 1: of baseball. But that's where like the reporting of what

473
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Speaker 1: the Mets got back or what the Mets pitching depth

474
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Speaker 1: in their farm system gets leaves you a little wanting more,

475
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Speaker 1: is because they're just not giving you the full scope

476
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Speaker 1: of what's happening.

477
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Speaker 2: And that's why there's a lot of value in using resources,

478
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Speaker 2: especially like Baseball Perspectives, Baseball America, and Fangrafts. And we

479
00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,360
Speaker 2: had a lot of people from those three outlists most

480
00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,560
Speaker 2: trusted prospect sources in the world, even some Mets haters, yes,

481
00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,280
Speaker 2: even some messas, even someone who John's reference before, as

482
00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,320
Speaker 2: Jared Sidler said, he was absolutely over the moon. He's

483
00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,880
Speaker 2: a baseball prospectus prospect rather specifically, and a Mets fan

484
00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:14,640
Speaker 2: over the moon by these two returns for the Mets,

485
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Speaker 2: just from a prospect perspective, because these guys are some

486
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Speaker 2: people have elevated their standings this year. Marco Vargas last

487
00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,000
Speaker 2: year was a seventeen year old in the complex like

488
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Speaker 2: he had a great year, but like it really that

489
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Speaker 2: just doesn't really matter. You're seventeen years old. Best case

490
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Speaker 2: scenario what your four years to major leagues. Luis onn

491
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Speaker 2: Helocunya was a prospect who was very up and down

492
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Speaker 2: because he was explosive. He had a live swing and

493
00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,800
Speaker 2: miss struggle with pitch selection, but had all the raw tools.

494
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Speaker 2: He had a really bad go last year double A

495
00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:38,560
Speaker 2: in his first time there and a really bad time

496
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Speaker 2: in the AFL, so he dropped down.

497
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Speaker 3: This year he's been great there, so we went back up.

498
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Speaker 2: And that's again, like Mark said, where pipeline fall short,

499
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Speaker 2: where it doesn't update, thats frequently not that their data

500
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Speaker 2: isn't as good, but they're just less frequent. Baseball America

501
00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:50,760
Speaker 2: is very proud to updated. I think that they told

502
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Speaker 2: us every single month. Yeah, and that's a new initiative

503
00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,639
Speaker 2: they've done this year, fangrass and prospectives. They're rolling these

504
00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,680
Speaker 2: prospect updates out kind of just add nausea in the

505
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Speaker 2: entire season.

506
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Speaker 3: Guys playing well, they bump them up.

507
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Speaker 2: They talk about him to get aggressive, and then they

508
00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,879
Speaker 2: can kind of make shift and maneuver when they have to.

509
00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,560
Speaker 2: And a guy like Vargas is someone who you wouldn't

510
00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,240
Speaker 2: have seen it from the from the the MLB pipeline rankings,

511
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Speaker 2: but he is in He's a dog. He is someone

512
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Speaker 2: who can be incredibly, incredibly exciting. Still only eighteen years old,

513
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,480
Speaker 2: a bit of a smaller prospect, six feet tall, about

514
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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy pounds, so he's not very projectable

515
00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,240
Speaker 2: size wise, especially in terms of power ceiling. But he

516
00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,880
Speaker 2: has a very compact, short leverage swing from the left side,

517
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,360
Speaker 2: which is very cool. You love a nice infield lefty prospect.

518
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,240
Speaker 2: And he has insane, insane, insane bats to ball ability.

519
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Speaker 2: He has a crazy hit tool potential to be one

520
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Speaker 2: of these like really special, like seventy hit tool kind

521
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Speaker 2: of guys. And this year is an eighteen year old

522
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Speaker 2: again in the complex, he's nearly twice as many walks

523
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Speaker 2: as strikeouts.

524
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Speaker 3: Just huge.

525
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Speaker 2: As of right now, over the last ten years of

526
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,200
Speaker 2: minor league day that he has the third best strikeout

527
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Speaker 2: to walk ratio any guy.

528
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Speaker 1: That's a I literally just read that running down in

529
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Speaker 1: the notes. That's absolutely insane, insane, and like two guys

530
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Speaker 1: ahead of him, neither of them really came.

531
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Speaker 3: Out too much.

532
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Speaker 2: But the guys right behind him are lined number one

533
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Speaker 2: canadaal Gato, I don't know, he might be the miners now.

534
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Speaker 2: Two Alejandra Kirk say what you want in the major league,

535
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Speaker 2: Major League. Also four Wander Franco not bad, not bad.

536
00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,399
Speaker 2: I'm not comparing any of these guys to each other,

537
00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:05,960
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying, like, when you're walking out that

538
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,800
Speaker 2: much more and you're striking out, you're that much more

539
00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,959
Speaker 2: advanced at the level you're at, you have a lot

540
00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,480
Speaker 2: of potential and it's time to see if you.

541
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Speaker 3: Can start rising. And you were telling me the thing

542
00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:13,760
Speaker 3: about Max Clark too.

543
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Speaker 1: Max Clark number three overall pick by the Detroit Tigers

544
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Speaker 1: in this past draft, extremely hyped up prospect, top high

545
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,760
Speaker 1: school hitter, top high school hitter, similar age, similar age,

546
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Speaker 1: six months older than Marco Vargas, and Marco Vargas has

547
00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,760
Speaker 1: basically the same eggs of Vello as, the same hit tool,

548
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,800
Speaker 1: the same grades outside of like maybe like athleticism grade,

549
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,040
Speaker 1: slightly better swing speed and EGX of velosities. And that

550
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Speaker 1: was a guy who just went number three over all

551
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Speaker 1: in the draft as one of the most highly touted

552
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Speaker 1: prospects in the entire draft.

553
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Speaker 2: And maybe you can comment on this because I'm not

554
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Speaker 2: as hip with the draft stuff, but I don't know

555
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Speaker 2: what the talent level is compared to like a major

556
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,960
Speaker 2: league complex league versus where Max Clark was playing a

557
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Speaker 2: circuit league.

558
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Speaker 3: He was playing in Indiana, and the legit.

559
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Speaker 2: Watch it at the state of Indiana. I'm not going

560
00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 2: about the Hoosiers. I'll just say the like playing baseball

561
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Speaker 2: in the state of Indiana. It's not playing baseball in

562
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Speaker 2: the state of even New Jersey. When you think of

563
00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 2: baseball hop as Indiana is never there. It makes it

564
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,919
Speaker 2: extremely impressive that maxwork was even found. The fact that

565
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Speaker 2: he plays in the state of Indiana. I bet you

566
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Speaker 2: they don't have many top ten draft picks from high

567
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Speaker 2: school from the state of Indiana.

568
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Speaker 1: There's nothing. I'm not like taking any shots at Max

569
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 1: Clark by any means. I think he's a great prospect.

570
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 1: But the idea is that, like where Marco Varga Vargas is,

571
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Speaker 1: I thought, I'm not cho Varga for a second. You've

572
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,600
Speaker 1: been saying saying all day it's just better calls a

573
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Speaker 1: great show. But where Marco Vargas is, he's just been

574
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Speaker 1: playing professional baseball for another year.

575
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll have you know Gil Hodges, Gil Hodges, Scott Rowling,

576
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Speaker 5: and Hall of Famer Chuck climb all from the Hoosier State.

577
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Speaker 3: So you watch market watching, Matt, I will slander Indiana

578
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 3: all day. It's a watch, Matt. It's a flyover state

579
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Speaker 3: for a reason.

580
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Speaker 2: Basketball though, But goodball this Marco Vargas, while again this

581
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Speaker 2: is you. You were trading three months about of an

582
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Speaker 2: almost four year old re league catcher.

583
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Speaker 3: Which and like we just saw Jordan Hicks get traded.

584
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Speaker 1: Yeah, who debates has better stuff than David Roberts, but

585
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Speaker 1: worst results, worst results, but he throws one hundred and

586
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 1: three like wipeout stuff. He just got traded to the

587
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays for Sam Robertsa and Adam Kloffenstein, who are

588
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,360
Speaker 1: like twenty three year old Double A pitchers who are

589
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 1: like a whole lot of nothing.

590
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cloffenstein's a kind of a meme in the prospect

591
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 2: world because he's for some reason been MLFY pipeline top

592
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 2: one hundred for years and we don't really know why.

593
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Speaker 1: Those are guys who're rocking like twenty percent k rates

594
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,719
Speaker 1: at like the league average age in Double A. Like

595
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're not good players, but like the

596
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 1: idea that the Mets were gonna be able to flip

597
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: David Robertson for this like next great picture was insane.

598
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: There was no shot it was ever happening. Ve don't

599
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: make a good point Earlier's like we're traded in for

600
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:37,719
Speaker 1: Noahs Kindergarten Travis Star.

601
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 3: No, Like that's not happening again.

602
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Speaker 2: No, I have a quite funny question I want to

603
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Speaker 2: ask you, because now we're talking back about David Robertson.

604
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Speaker 2: How many innings you think David Robertson threw for the

605
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Speaker 2: Mets in the last I wrote it down here in

606
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Speaker 2: June and July combined, so because you basically have August

607
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 2: September left, so that's two months the last two months.

608
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Speaker 2: How many innings you throw twenty one nineteen and two thirds. Oh,

609
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 2: was close nineteen and two thirds to the Mets in

610
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Speaker 2: the last two months. So you traded about twenty innings

611
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Speaker 2: of a closer on a team that is decently out

612
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Speaker 2: of the playoff race for a prospect to a lot

613
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 2: of risk, so much super yeah, but a ton of

614
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 2: sealing potential and a guy who is known as being

615
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 2: very exciting, very projectable. He he kind of reminded me

616
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Speaker 2: just looking at his profile, watching his swing and seeing

617
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Speaker 2: these complex stats.

618
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Speaker 3: We'll see how he does. Jihn's going to Port Saint Lucy.

619
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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, well maybe maybe, okay, maybe we'll take

620
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Speaker 2: it maybe strong maybe Ave l Amador, he's been one

621
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Speaker 2: of the hot, fat prospects. Yeah, and same height, same

622
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 2: kind of short swing. I'm a door to switch hither

623
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 2: and he's a little bit bulkier, but he's two years older.

624
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 2: So Vargas has the ability to get a little bigger.

625
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,399
Speaker 2: But I'm a door right now. Is projecting as one

626
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 2: of the best prospects in the whole league based purely

627
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Speaker 2: on the date.

628
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 1: Get him on the Randyer Rose rain to diet chicken

629
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Speaker 1: and rice, chicken and rice, chicken, rice and push ups

630
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 1: and push ups.

631
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of push ups all you need. And

632
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: we got another prospect back in this year. Yea some

633
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 2: more Yeah, some of the very similar profile as Vargas.

634
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 2: What his name, Ronald Hernandez, nineteen year old complex catcher,

635
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 2: similar skills set, also more walks and strikeouts.

636
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 3: Definitely a little bit lower rated, but similar idea.

637
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 2: Just get a guy in the complex who's playing much

638
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: better league average, looks incredibly advanced, good hitter and push

639
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 2: him up.

640
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 3: Just keep moving them.

641
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 2: Yep.

642
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot that gets talked about in the

643
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 1: world of prospects from people who just have a baseline understanding.

644
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to pretend like we're experts by

645
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: any means, No, but we for sure know a decent

646
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: bit and past that just knowing where to look, Yes,

647
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: research like undertaking the extra ten minutes before you send

648
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Speaker 1: your tweet.

649
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, goes a very very long on, much a long way.

650
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 2: And I remember years ago other trades that bets have

651
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 2: made for relievers. We want to trade ads and read

652
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 2: for Garson Batista Jamie Callahan and Steven Nigosik. Yeah, sometimes

653
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 2: you get pictures who are MLB ready and it really

654
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,239
Speaker 2: is not going to turn out too much. So even

655
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Speaker 2: though these guys are eighteen nineteen years old, very high

656
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 2: risk with their high ceilings, like sometimes the guys who

657
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 2: are closed are also high risk. Jimmie Callahan's shoulder like

658
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 2: fell off. It was done, couldn't pitch anymore. Stephen and

659
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: Goosik say what you wanted about him, He did make it.

660
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 2: Garson Batista part of another trade that we can't not

661
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 2: gonna talk about. Dis Yeah, trade that really worked out,

662
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 2: like trade of the hot head for the best closer.

663
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 5: Ever, there's also other context to consider. Like you mentioned Hernandez,

664
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 5: he came over to the States two years ago, struggle

665
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: bit in the FCL. This year is OBP has increased

666
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 5: by one hundred and thirty five points a lot as

667
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 5: he learns. Vargas is stateside for the first time. So

668
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 5: these are young These are young people.

669
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 3: Forget players.

670
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 5: There are young people that are coming to a brand

671
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 5: new country the first time ever, for the first time ever,

672
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 5: having brand new experiences. And you can't just look at

673
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 5: the Baseball Reference page as much as you want to,

674
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 5: and I'm inclined to do that as well. But there's

675
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 5: a lot of contact and when a guy thrives in

676
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 5: his first or second year in the States, there is

677
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 5: reason to be even more excited about a prospect like

678
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Speaker 5: that I had.

679
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: I got a class at South Carolina. It was about

680
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: like the business of baseball, and it was taught by

681
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: the guy who owned the Columbia Fireflies when the Mets

682
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: were part were affiliate with them, and he used to

683
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: be the owner of the Savanna san Nats. And he

684
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: told a story which was very funny because I was

685
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: the only Mets fan obviously in the class, about this

686
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,640
Speaker 1: young prospect that was in Savannah as a sixteen year

687
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: old for the first time ever in America, by the

688
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,959
Speaker 1: name of Wilmer Flores. And he goes like, I like

689
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: basically brought him in as part of my family. Like

690
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: he's a child who doesn't speak any English in Savannah, Georgia,

691
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: which couldn't be less baseball inclined at all. He's like

692
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: these kids, like there's a lot of growing that goes

693
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: on for a lot of them outside of also playing

694
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: baseball with the pressure a lot of times of like

695
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: being extremely successful.

696
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 3: This is what their family might need sometimes.

697
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 2: Could you imagine dropping sixteen year old Mark in the

698
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 2: Megigan republish absolutely nothing.

699
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 3: It just exists, live your life, go go be a superstar.

700
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 3: I would fail. Fail. It seems really hard.

701
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 2: And also, just as we wrap up this conversation, I

702
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: know Mark Wilson wants to go through a little bit

703
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 2: of who the Marlins had ranked ahead of these guys,

704
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 2: but you really just there is this kind of inclination

705
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 2: to outrage METS fans on the internet. Yes, people know

706
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 2: that that gets clicks, that that gets better engagement.

707
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 3: It's obvious, and you see reporters who are out there.

708
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say who said this, but there was

709
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 2: one reporter who did an unbelievable double take and it

710
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: was it was.

711
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 3: It was twelve almost exactly.

712
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: Ten hours apart his tweet, the first one when this

713
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 2: trade happened, started with texted with an MLB scout who

714
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 2: admits he doesn't know much about these young minor leaguers.

715
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 3: So should have ended? Should shouldn't shouldn't it? Once you

716
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 3: write that, you should not send a tweet.

717
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 2: So I'm now commenting about someone's comment who admitted and

718
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 2: I'm telling you they admitted that they know nothing about

719
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: these players. Thought the Mets would get more like what

720
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: the Cubs got last year for Ben Brown. Mets need

721
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 2: pitching in their system, drafted over twenty pitchers in the

722
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: last two draft. Yeah, they thought they used Roberson to

723
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: add a pitcher. And again, this is an unfair comparison,

724
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 2: because the Ben Brown, who the Cubs got last year

725
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 2: from the Phillies for Dave Robinson, has sent into a

726
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 2: star top ten overall pitching prospect in baseball when that

727
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 2: trade was made, though, Ben Brown's a twenty two year

728
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: old in Higa who is still really good, getting good results,

729
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 2: but struggling with command. And since then he's had media

730
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 2: other cries. There's absolutely no saying that that doesn't happen

731
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 2: to Marco Vargers over the next year. It's no saying

732
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: it will, no saying it won't. No way to say that.

733
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: But to compare that from last year a little bit

734
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 2: unfair and the other thing people were getting first.

735
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 3: Actually, I want to close this loop here.

736
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: Same person tweeted ten hours lay there heard from a

737
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: former GM who wanted to defend Eppler. I get the

738
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 2: fans won't like the trade. But this is how you

739
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: build a strong farm system. You bet on the best talent,

740
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 2: regardless of physician age or level, based on your organizational scouting,

741
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: not the prospect ranking. Give it some time, correct. The

742
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 2: same person said those two tweets ten hours apart. I mean,

743
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 2: it's just word vomit point, it's just crazy. But people

744
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 2: were upset about the fact that the Mets made this

745
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 2: trade days before the deadline, where it logically that could

746
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 2: make some sense, especially the Ben Brown thing that the

747
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 2: idea of leverage, Yeah, waiting leverage like work, But technically

748
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: that might not work for the Mets because everyone and

749
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: their mother knew they wanted to trade David Robertson the

750
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 2: thirty eight year old and a one year deal and

751
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: the team that is far out of the playoff race.

752
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 2: And two, if they really liked Marco Vargas, which by

753
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 2: all accounts they very much did. Like we said before,

754
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: he was the Marlins' best piece, and the Marlins have

755
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 2: been very aggressive this deadline. They're probably not even done yet.

756
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 2: John's Marlins as they fall well out of the playoff race.

757
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 3: And the Mets first half team. The Mets don't see

758
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 3: them again for two months. Which is crazy that played

759
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers will played multiple games the Jets.

760
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: Hopefully by the time we see the Miami Marlins again,

761
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: I'll talk about my coach.

762
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: I'll talk about my coach like that's a little blow.

763
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 2: But if this is the guy you wanted and they're

764
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: gonna dangle him for other relievers, other hitters, other starting pitchers,

765
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 2: then you have to just make the trade. Yeah, if

766
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 2: you circle this guy and I prosperate. People are saying,

767
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 2: he's probably already the top seven five prospect of another

768
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: good year, especially if he gets good results in single A.

769
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 2: Could be the met second best prospect by the way,

770
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: literally could be. It's not the third.

771
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 3: He could be.

772
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: He could really push all the way up the system,

773
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 2: all the way have prospect ranks by the time LB

774
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 2: pipeline comes out next year. He could be a comedy.

775
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 2: He could be media rising. So then if this is

776
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: the guy, if you circled him, you're scouting, you believe

777
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 2: in everything. If the organization is coherent in total, you

778
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 2: go out and get the guy you want to get.

779
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: That's a good move.

780
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

781
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: I mean, like some of the guys that were head

782
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: of in the Marlins organization, real quick Max Meyer, Tommy John,

783
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: Jacob Barry has been god af awful, Dax Fulton injuries,

784
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: Jake Eder, Another Braxton Garrett, Tommy John, Joe Mack is

785
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: twenty years old at hig A and has a five

786
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: P fifty two ops sounds bad Yiddi cap Jacob Miller,

787
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: Jordan Grosshans has never hit in his life.

788
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 2: Six Dough Sanchez, six Sanchz. He hasn't played baseball in years.

789
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: He still has rookie eligibility when he comes back. If

790
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: he ever comes back, he's a twenty five, he'll be

791
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 2: twenty six.

792
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: I think in a few months here.

793
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: The prospect rankings are just they're they're a tool, but

794
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: don't make it like word proof anything.

795
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: Something else I think I noticed from LB pipeline. This

796
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 2: isn't like crobre This isn't I haven't like regressed the statistically,

797
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 2: but it seems like since they're very much intertwined with

798
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, because they are yeah same place, they

799
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: will a lot of times use with a guy I

800
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: guess as a signing bonus when I signed internationally, of course,

801
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: and Marco Vargas was not a highly said after international

802
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: signed player. It was Luis and Helicunya. Both them were

803
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: a little smaller, and that will hurt your signing bonus

804
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: a lot. So sometimes LB pipeline, when a guy's not

805
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 2: signed very highly, it takes him a very long time

806
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: to actually put them high in their list. And there's

807
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 2: a really, really, really good example of this that Mark

808
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 2: and I found the other day, totally original, totally independently

809
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: tweeted that both got great engagement at some tweets and

810
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: that definitely definitely didn't get a text from anyone here.

811
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: Johnny Stat's like five minutes before I tweeted out.

812
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: Definitely the hanger of it, no way. But one of

813
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: the most exciting young players in baseball right now.

814
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 2: His name if you ever, guys I've ever heard of them,

815
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 2: Elie de la Cruz year, Brian de la Cruz's brother.

816
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

817
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in twenty twenty three, he's twenty one years old,

818
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: and he is one of the most exciting players in

819
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. At the end of the twenty twenty

820
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 2: one season, so one full year of the miners in

821
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: between there, he was not in the Cincinnati Reds Top

822
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 2: thirty prospects lbpie. Yeah, he was not in their top thirty.

823
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 2: There were there's a who's who of names who were

824
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: in the top thirty besides him, not him, Joe Boyle,

825
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 2: who's actually because had had the research right recently. Yeah,

826
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 2: it's it's just it's you can't really go to these

827
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: rankings and take them as gospel because they're just.

828
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 3: Not even from the Mets.

829
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: Francisco alve Reson twenty nineteen was the thirteenth rank prospect,

830
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: behind big names like Shirviyan Newton, Anthony K. Thomas, A

831
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,479
Speaker 1: Pucky Franklin Colome, and Desmond Lindsay.

832
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: I mean, Michael Sianni. I'm still waiting for the breakout

833
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: for the rest. They go one more outfielder and that

834
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: team they're gonna make a run this yeh, No worry

835
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 2: about Michael Ciatti. Yeah, I mean, like that's your boy,

836
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: Ivan Johnson. Of course, that's.

837
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: Kind of the whole just conversation that we wanted to

838
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: have with you guys about these trades.

839
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 3: Met's got a lot of really good stuff.

840
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: Back and a lot of smart people think the mess

841
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 2: did a really good job this weekend.

842
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: So I think based on what we've seen, what we've heard,

843
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: what we know, you should be happy with the haul back,

844
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: I understand, like trading matchers or and David Robertson like

845
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: is sad. Like I think we we very much wanted

846
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: the mess to be buyers, like we were hoping there

847
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: was a world that that existed.

848
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 3: But it's just not the case right now.

849
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: The problem isn't the reaction to what happened. The problem

850
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: is what's happened. The problem is the reality. The problem

851
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: is that the Mets had a disappointing season and now

852
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 2: they founded more advantageous to trade these guys for assets

853
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: right than keep them for the next half of this

854
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 2: which is the right move and that but that part

855
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: does suck.

856
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 3: That park sucks. Wake up in the morning every day.

857
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: I'm like, I wish them as were in the first place.

858
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 2: Again, Yeah, like I do. I wish it'd be great

859
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 2: if they were. But sometimes you have to you have

860
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: to see the forest through the trees and that's it.

861
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 2: And despite all that, Mets took three or four from

862
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: the Nationals this week. Yeah, they played in really good baseball,

863
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: really good baseball.

864
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 3: Fourteen and nine so far in July. Yeah, I mean

865
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 3: it's been great.

866
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: Talk about Game one code I Sanga again, so great,

867
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: so fantastic great. It is even a game where he

868
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: wasn't really getting the same amounts of strikeouts compared to walks.

869
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: I've seen recent games only three walks and only five strikeouts.

870
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: We had fourteen wists and six innings, and you gave

871
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: one earned run on a leadoff walk to c J.

872
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: Ris who stole a base to score and a sack fly.

873
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: And the biggest thing about Sanga this last month and

874
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: a half said a lot to you guys, this color

875
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: has really really really transformed his game. If he's primary

876
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 2: pitch on Thursday, second time he's done that this month,

877
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 2: only two times he's done that this entire season, where

878
00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: color was the most thrown pitch, He's thrown more colors

879
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 2: than ghost forks. Now this season, if you talk about

880
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: how far that pitch has come along and how often

881
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: he's been using it recently, weirdly though he didn't throw

882
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: any of them in oh two one two counts, it's

883
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: just really really really becoming like.

884
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 3: His key way to get soft contact.

885
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: And we said that was something he was struggling with

886
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 2: the first month, six weeks he was here, he's getting

887
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 2: ahead of these counts, and then sometimes the guys were

888
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 2: ready for the ghost fork, and then they were kind

889
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: of just waiting for the fastball and there wasn't really

890
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: way to pitch through. He got past that by pitching backwards. Now,

891
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 2: adding in the color, he's got over fifty percent ground

892
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: ball rate against and a seventy one percent poor contact

893
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: rate per Alex Chamberlain's pitch leader Board, some of you

894
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: guys can find on Twitter keeps every single staff for

895
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: every single pitch a little more in depth than Baseball Savan.

896
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 2: That seventy one percent poor contact rate is the second

897
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: for any pitch by any starting pitcher in.

898
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 3: All of baseball. Wow.

899
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: The only one with a better poor contact rate is

900
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 2: Kyle Hendrix. Change It was a way smaller sample too, Yes,

901
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 2: and he's a guy who's been using that change up

902
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: as the only thing basically keeping in the major leagues

903
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 2: for what a half a decade now eight years Kyle Hendrix.

904
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 2: So the fact that this pitch and Koda Sang has

905
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: been throwing it for eight weeks in total just learned it,

906
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: and the fact that early this could the result is ridiculous.

907
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: And with that it supplements it goes fork really well.

908
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 2: I had another fifty percent with Fray game, which lowered

909
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: this full season with Fray down to a round sixty percent,

910
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: which is really stupid. Still one of the best pitches

911
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: in baseball, and as of Saturday, Code Sanga ranked fourth

912
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: in the n L and era, fourth and strikeout rate

913
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 2: and third and batting average against.

914
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 4: Yep.

915
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: I mean he's been great. Remember when Kyle Hendrix made

916
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 2: a start in the twenty fifteen playoffs.

917
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 3: Against the Mets.

918
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: God, yeah, that's a long time ago, eight years ago. Yeah,

919
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: he's still there. He's still kicking, kicking around. But yeah,

920
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: Vogie had a big hit in the eighth inning time

921
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: the game up.

922
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 2: Then we had that like super crazy rain delay where

923
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 2: it just poured like crazy for like forty minutes.

924
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 5: Question for you guys, which rain was crazier. I've been

925
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 5: big on the weather, if you can attest to that

926
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 5: recently maybe weather we Johnny Radar, I mean, the weather

927
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 5: has been insane. So and those were both like end

928
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 5: of time storm.

929
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 3: So which which one was spookier? To you guys? Which

930
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 3: one had you shook?

931
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: I think I think the first one Thursday, Yeah, Thursday

932
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: nights because I was in the car.

933
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 3: That during that game. That's sound good.

934
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: No, my sister very nicely came picked me up to

935
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: go home for the weekend to Jersey, and once she

936
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: got to me, she was like, you have to drive back.

937
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 3: That's super fair, you said. Your sister's a little scared

938
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 3: too driving.

939
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: She's gotten so much better since she like lived and

940
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: worked in Southside Chicago. She's really good now. She used

941
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 2: to be not so good, but now she's really good.

942
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 2: I hope she listens to this. I hope my mom

943
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: or dad here is this show. Thanks John, not you John,

944
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 2: John John can't say that.

945
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: Why not John? You guys John John's got a wife and.

946
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: Kid at home. But this rainelay was also really weird

947
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: because the Mets had just tied the game up the

948
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 2: game where they were being shut out until the eighth inning,

949
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 2: and before that Randola David Robs was warming up with

950
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 2: the bullpen and during the rainda Brooks really came out

951
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 2: after him. The little people were like, I wonder why

952
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 2: that happened, And then we figured out why that happened.

953
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 2: It kind of made the whole David Robinson saga get

954
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 2: a little weird as well. Yep, Mark Cannon with the

955
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: sackfly Mets win this game. Brooks Raley with the save

956
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 2: Brooks really with the same closer in baseball Brooksie, Baby,

957
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: let's go game two.

958
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 3: Max Sus just the last start with the Mets.

959
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: Really good, really good, so good really uh good send off,

960
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, and uh it was it was. It

961
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: was weird that you had such a good start and

962
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: he was traded after it. Yeah, usually when you have

963
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 2: an asset you're trying to trade, especially one that is

964
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 2: older and has been injured, like you.

965
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 1: Don't you doesn't pitch. Yeah, it's typically the way it goes.

966
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: But maybe that's also what the range are like, ooh,

967
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: little Max Suirs. Yeah, could get a little Max in there.

968
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: And Pete totally back. Pete's so back. He's just been

969
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: crushing baseballs. Even today.

970
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 2: He had like a ball at the end of the bat,

971
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 2: like right to the warning track and leftfielder like man, yes,

972
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 2: swings feeling good right now. Yeah, it just looks like

973
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: he's just dealty again, which is a really big thing

974
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 2: for Pete. And this game's from pub the x Volossies

975
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 2: right here. The one home run one hundred twelve and

976
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 2: a half one hundred and seven point one. So I

977
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 2: mentioned that stat about two balls and playing one game

978
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: with over one hundred five miles our x velosity.

979
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 3: It seems like Pete's back.

980
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: It was.

981
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 3: It was a very very clean win again for the Mets.

982
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: John's saying that Piazza TI or Pete tied a couple

983
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: of Piazza things in the game.

984
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 3: What do you got for us ERTHI home run?

985
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 5: Yes, now has four seasons with thirty plus home runs,

986
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 5: tied for the most in Mets history. And he also

987
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 5: is now tied with Mike and Carlos Speltran for the

988
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 5: most multi homer games with seventeen and his first homer

989
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 5: won four to fifty three.

990
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: Wow.

991
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 5: He has the same amount of home runs hid four

992
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 5: fifty feet or more as sho Heyo Tani was he

993
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 5: broke into the league.

994
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: So that's awesome. The guy's a freak. Yeah, and with

995
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 3: the best power hitter on that history.

996
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he's probably the best power hit in baseball

997
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: since he came up. He's like twenty five home runs

998
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 2: clear of the field. Like he said, last episode's ridiculous,

999
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: but also something super nerdy, super weird baseball scoring thing

1000
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: happened in this game.

1001
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 3: Didn't mean anything.

1002
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: I thought it was funny Keeberwieze dropped a foul pop

1003
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 2: up by Jeff McNeil, and it prolonged the bat, so

1004
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 2: ruled an error.

1005
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 3: And then Jeff McNeil hit a single.

1006
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was funny, so I still ruled a hit,

1007
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 2: even though would have been under run if he came

1008
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: round of the score. Yeah, just neary the baseball thing.

1009
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of cool Nerds baseball for sure.

1010
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: Then you have Game three.

1011
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: The torrential rain caused the delay, and as that delay

1012
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: was happening, trades happening, I was at my house. I

1013
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: was prepared to make a video record the Surezer part

1014
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: because all the reports have been coming out already, and

1015
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: then it was like eight fifteen, hadn't heard anything. I

1016
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to that hour. Weird, that weird hour.

1017
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm going to the game because it's delayed

1018
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: eight thirty. I sent my parents away. My parents came

1019
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: to go to the game with him, go without me.

1020
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: I'll meet you there. As soon as I get out

1021
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: of the uber at City Field, my phone starts buzz

1022
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: and macures been officially traded to the text trade, and like,

1023
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable timing for me trying to make a

1024
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: video because.

1025
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 2: We're like ten mints there where. It seemed like it

1026
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 2: like this might not happen based on Twitter. I a

1027
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: little scared. Yeah, it would have been quite awkward saga

1028
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 2: I think, as Hayman called it.

1029
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm blog. Yeah, you wouldn't have seen that lot.

1030
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: Saw John Hayman in the city. Yeah, I was just

1031
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: walking around in New York. Turn on the corner, go

1032
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, John Hayman. They're standing right next to him.

1033
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 3: He went like Jim Shorts. He was just hanging out.

1034
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 3: I mean respect it respected among the people.

1035
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was another tough stuff for Carrasco, who's had

1036
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 2: a really rough GOVID. And the fact that we watched

1037
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: Max Scherzer go as he was getting crushed in the

1038
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 2: first hitting that was that was weird.

1039
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 3: About reg Garrett. Let's talk abouthim. Regrett look good. I'm

1040
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 3: not gonna lie Regard. It looked really good.

1041
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 2: As only as third appearance of the year he'd been

1042
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: he'd bounced around the Orioles Nationals Tigers last few years.

1043
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 2: Primary pitch was a slider and was above ninety miles

1044
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: an hour. Nice hard slider too, ninety seven mile an

1045
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 2: hour fastball with pretty decent hot, good rising action, and

1046
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 2: he mixed in a splayer also looked good.

1047
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 3: Could be a fine, could be fun, could be a fine.

1048
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 2: Something we're gonna learn probably as the season goes on.

1049
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 2: We're gonna find some guyssn't get more innings. He almost

1050
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 2: three innings too, and we'll still well, still hop by

1051
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 2: the end of it. Yeah, and Mark Viento's home run.

1052
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 2: He's been hot since he got called up. I think

1053
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: you said six or eighteen. I think might be seven

1054
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: for twenty one or is it six point eighteen?

1055
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 1: I thought I saw seven for twenty one on Twitter today, regardless,

1056
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: sitting three hundred since he's been called up, extra base hits, doubles,

1057
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: home runs, looking great at the plate, YEP.

1058
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: And Francisco Howers his twentieth running the season that made

1059
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: him the second catcher aged twenty one years old or

1060
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 2: younger to have twenty home runs in the season, only

1061
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 2: behind Johnny Bench.

1062
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 3: We're gonna We're gonna get you, Johnny.

1063
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: Seven home runs to beat Johnny Bench for the most

1064
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 2: home runs everybody catch her age twenty one or younger.

1065
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: We've been coming for that stat since April John, I

1066
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 3: have a trivia question for you guys.

1067
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 5: He is the first catcher to hit rookie catcher with

1068
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 5: twenty homers in a season since.

1069
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 3: Who Giovanni Soda?

1070
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 5: No, that's a good guess, and it's like kind of grychez.

1071
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 3: What carry Sanchez? No? WHOA?

1072
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: All right?

1073
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 3: I don't know who is it?

1074
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 2: I mean, take another guess, take another guess another rookie.

1075
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 5: If you guys watch this dude play and he had

1076
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 5: a crazy falloff. He was doing this to Korea in

1077
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 5: like two years.

1078
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: It felt like, ooh, doing this to Korea or my

1079
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: next that's gonna be will I was gonna, honestly guess

1080
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 2: Travis Darno.

1081
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,479
Speaker 3: No rookie to all powers. He was thirty one years old,

1082
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: went to Atlanta.

1083
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 5: I'm like he had twenty eight homers in twenty twelve

1084
00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 5: as a rookie catcher.

1085
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: Twenty two Well twelve, man, I'm Chris Iyanetta, No, who

1086
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: is it?

1087
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 3: Willie?

1088
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 5: And roar?

1089
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 3: WHOA never would have pulled that name? Deep pull Colorado.

1090
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: Rocky's the great idea that sent me right back in

1091
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: though interesting Willan Rosario sixteen gone, You're right, what happened?

1092
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 3: He must have been horrible defensively, must have not been

1093
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 3: able to catch juice juice, juice juice.

1094
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, Alva rest awesome, awesome hitter, like two hundred

1095
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: fifty play appearances a year as twenty homers now and

1096
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: then wrap this year is up Game four on Sunday.

1097
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 1: Weird vibesday after the shows are trade just strange, strange,

1098
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: little like like a film was over everybody here, maybe

1099
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: just usespecially because again, like the fascinations we've had with

1100
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: Shars are the way that he kind of helped help

1101
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: spawn us individually and as.

1102
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 3: A duo here.

1103
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: But Orlander was great, gave give her run the first

1104
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 2: inning that was super clean. After that, left in the

1105
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 2: sixth to a really really nice standing ovation a very

1106
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 2: appreciative fans, a group of fans of City Field really

1107
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 2: really let us in Verlander here. That was really nice

1108
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: because he threw a game and he's been lights out

1109
00:39:59,160 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: for like two months now.

1110
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the offense also started swinging the bat

1111
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: as well. McNeil hitting third, got a couple of hits

1112
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: for US, big big RBI at one point down the line,

1113
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 1: Lindor home run, double, single, triple, away from the cycle.

1114
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo swinging the bat. I know he didn't get

1115
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: any like uh I think results, but he was swinging

1116
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: the bat.

1117
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: Well almost got the third game this calendar month where

1118
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 2: Fa Cisco Indorge four balls and play over one hundred

1119
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 2: miles an hour. Yep, that's something that of course John

1120
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 2: didn't listen last episode. That's something Exander Bogar has only

1121
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: done twice in his career. Yeah, Lindor almost jundred, one hundred,

1122
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety nine.

1123
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: Speaking of John, John's favorite player, Danny Mendick, big day,

1124
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: huge day.

1125
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 3: Usually for Danny. Mandy brought the ops up like two

1126
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 3: hundred points.

1127
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good day, it's good days. Hit clean day

1128
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: of baseball. Da Peterson came into this game, did a

1129
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: pretty good job too.

1130
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 3: Gave up run but it was unearned. Then Ottavino and

1131
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 3: elite closer Brooks really struck out the side. Yeah, good baseball.

1132
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 3: Maybe good baseball team. I don't know.

1133
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 2: There might be something about just the looseness. Now this

1134
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: team's gonna happen. It looked like they're really just have

1135
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 2: a fun out there. Lindor looked really relaxed, really chill.

1136
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 2: He had a great play up the middle, couple, a

1137
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: couple of great plays, Brooks Rey, it was cracking a

1138
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: huge smile.

1139
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: Yep, Jeff hit the triple. Relaxed. Just get to play

1140
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 3: some ball with the boys.

1141
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 1: Play some ball with the boys. Play some ball with

1142
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: the boys. Three or four from the Nationals. Keep moving on.

1143
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: Got the Royal Series coming up next, which we'll talk

1144
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: about here in a second. But well, of course have

1145
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: to talk about the estimate. John, how did we fare?

1146
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: What were you looking at?

1147
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 5: There were a lot of pitchers used in this series.

1148
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 5: There were twenty five different guys used. Your guesses are

1149
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 5: crazy high. Yeah, but it turned out to actually not

1150
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,479
Speaker 5: be that high, like not too over the top high.

1151
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 5: So another dub for Mark. Yeah, another dub from Mark.

1152
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 5: But James, you got the Boston one. Yeah, I guess

1153
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 5: you guys didn't. We didn't have to count on that.

1154
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: No, we didn't, James. James got one in Boston. So

1155
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm up to plus two two.

1156
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 5: Up up too on aggregate on aggregate. So now Kansas

1157
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 5: City Barbecue, grey.

1158
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 3: Barbecue, really good barbicue Kansas City.

1159
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 5: You know, Chris Majkowski today was telling me that Kansas

1160
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 5: City Barbecue is one of the most overrated things in America.

1161
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 3: Definitely the wrong place. He does not pick good places.

1162
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: I think I think that North Carolina barbecue is the

1163
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 2: most overate barbecue I've ever.

1164
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: Had North Carolina. I think they're all good. I saw.

1165
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 1: I would say North Carolina's is definitely worse than South Carolina.

1166
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 3: No doubt that's from Carolina.

1167
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 4: No.

1168
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 3: South Carolina had barbaric way better, significantly better.

1169
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: But Texas barbecue is awesome. Missouri barbecue or Saint Louis barbecue.

1170
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Technically this is called really good.

1171
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: Tennessee barbecues is awesome too, has some great Memphis barbecue.

1172
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 3: I haven't done as much as you're touring of the.

1173
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 2: South as you have rendezvous in Memphis. Yeah, sec boy,

1174
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 2: but I really enjoyed. Can't see the barbecue I was there.

1175
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 5: Well, Madge doesn't seem to like it. So maybe I

1176
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 5: could put you guys in touch and you could maybe

1177
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 5: I would love to them to argument Madge. All right,

1178
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 5: Well anyway, Bobby Wood Junior red hot. The Royals by

1179
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 5: the way, heating up just in time. They just want

1180
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 5: the twins and Bobbywood Junior two homers, a double a

1181
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 5: triple nine, RBI.

1182
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 2: Walk off, Grand Slam walk off Grand Slam.

1183
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 5: Did you see the girl the video of the girl

1184
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 5: from Georgia who went to see her favorite player play

1185
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 5: and he did that? Very cool, very cool.

1186
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 3: That's big league.

1187
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 2: That was also the fastest pitch that was hit for

1188
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 2: home outside the strike zone since we had pitched tracking

1189
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen.

1190
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty cool, it was. It was, say, Bobby Wit sick.

1191
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 2: He's so good.

1192
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 3: Glad I got some baseball cards of him.

1193
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 5: Nice great player and the Mets very good shortstop of

1194
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 5: their own friends of school Indoor. Last three games against

1195
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 5: the natsicks twelve, two homers and double so two premier

1196
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 5: shortstops in the game. So I want you guys to

1197
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 5: tell me how many total bases or how many total

1198
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 5: bases combined will there be between Bobby Wit Jr.

1199
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 3: And Francis School Indoor. Where'd you get the whiteboard from

1200
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 3: b y O w your own? I got one? I

1201
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 3: got Oh, John's got a white board for me. I

1202
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 3: can't wait.

1203
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 5: I haven't wropped my hand.

1204
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 3: Let me get that whiteboard, John Well James to total bases.

1205
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bobby Wood series, Bobby WIT's been great, Thank goodness.

1206
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: Stolen bases don't count because he yeah, he steals a

1207
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: base or two. He's a fast boy. Yeah, he's a

1208
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: great player.

1209
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: It's also I mean the Royals pitching staff has been

1210
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 2: that's so great. I'd say for the last I don't know,

1211
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five is years.

1212
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 3: So now they were twenty fifteen they were okay, they're

1213
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 3: good enough for you. A couple underrating.

1214
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: There were Cuato, Edison, Violcauz, Giordano Ventura.

1215
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 3: Yes, yeaheah, I don't know. I thought you were Donnie.

1216
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 3: May you rest in peace? Yeah?

1217
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: They had some good pictures on that team, all right.

1218
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: Danny Duffy was he there? Total basis by the two.

1219
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: Joe Barlow, is dfade really bring him home? They've used

1220
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: to follow me on Instagram? So don't care.

1221
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 3: He doesn't follow me anymore, unfollowed me. Don't care.

1222
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: I was so Joe bar A lot of total bases

1223
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: between the two. I'm gonna go with, Yeah, I feel

1224
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: good about this. And you know what I'm gonna say,

1225
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: eighty percent is gonna come from Francisco. I'm gonna we

1226
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: don't care about the Jinks anymore. We've been anti jinks.

1227
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: No more jinks, no more jinks.

1228
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 3: For instance, gonna have eighty percent of this.

1229
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: I got mine alright ready, yep, three two, one, bang,

1230
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: fourteen thirteen.

1231
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 3: Wow, we just always on it. Oh so close. I

1232
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 3: was about to fourteen. I raced it for the thirteen.

1233
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 3: But you're normally an under guy. You should feel good

1234
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 3: about that. If I'm higher for.

1235
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 2: This series, I would like to be the over guy.

1236
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 2: If I'm being honest, that's gonna be tough for you.

1237
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 2: Whatever our pitching matchups, John, thank you for the estimate.

1238
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 2: As always, thank you, John. Pitching matchups this series. Tuesday

1239
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 2: eight ten Jose Kintana versus Zach Grink Battle of two

1240
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: Wiley veterans. We're gonna see a lot of pitches below

1241
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 2: ninety miles hour in this game, many to coul possibly

1242
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: imagine game two Wednesday, also a ten code I Sanga

1243
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 2: versus Alec Marsh. Alec Marsh is a pitcher who has

1244
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 2: the potential to have potential.

1245
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: The best way I could put that, that's fair. He's

1246
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: like ten once.

1247
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, if he was in most of the organizations in baseball,

1248
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: I'd be like, he could be exciting Royals might be

1249
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 2: a little smart. I don't know if that's a little

1250
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: hitting wise, maybe a little home run power out of it.

1251
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 2: They were a little smart hitting wise, but then we

1252
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 2: stole their minor league hitting coordinator a few years ago.

1253
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: They've been not too smart since he literally built Vini

1254
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: pas Patino, he built Bobby with and power from. Yeah,

1255
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, now they've all stopped developing these

1256
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 2: hits and we got their guys.

1257
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 3: I'm just saying. And then Thursday we have an open

1258
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 3: spot because that was Max Schurzers.

1259
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: Uh. It seems like based on minor league schedules, Tyler

1260
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 2: McGill's on track to pitch that day. His results in

1261
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: trip away have not been very good, but we don't

1262
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 2: know exactly, don't want to speculate. And two to ten

1263
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 2: game also Thursday afternoon, Brady Singer from the Royals. Okay, yeah,

1264
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 2: I mean Brace Singers like definitely their best picture. But

1265
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: he has a five to five R this year, such

1266
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 2: a little better recently.

1267
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, the Royals won thirty one games.

1268
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's bad baseball. Royals barely are head of the days.

1269
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 3: They're allegedly trying.

1270
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they I think they are they are trying. Yeah,

1271
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: severlent out for a little bit.

1272
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 3: Now he's back. Michael Carcia is someone who's a little

1273
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 3: bit exciting.

1274
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: He is.

1275
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: Oh no, I thought he was cousins with the Anas.

1276
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 3: He is.

1277
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 2: He's a lot of a lot of Major League Baseball

1278
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: people in his family. I don't remember exactly who. He's

1279
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 2: a lot of connections there. Yeah, Bobby what's incredible and

1280
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 2: Jim Melendez had not so good of a season, but

1281
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 2: he is a pet. Kay still hits the ball really

1282
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 2: hard and has a lot of potential.

1283
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 3: Past that. They started Nicky Lopez at first base? What

1284
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 3: on Sunday? He's what five eight?

1285
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: He's also like one of the best defensive middle and

1286
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: fielders in baseball.

1287
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: Doesn't make sense to put in at first base. They

1288
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 2: didn't care, follows me on Twitter. Nice guy, there you go.

1289
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: They didn't care. So yeah, I'm not gonna tell you guy.

1290
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: His team is very good, but they're not their cool.

1291
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: Thing is like in the bullpen, they have some guys

1292
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: to throw a little hard, and they do have John's

1293
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: favorite left handed opener, Ryan yardbro shoved today of.

1294
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 2: Course, miss Yarborough, sorry for John. Carlos Hernandez also going

1295
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 2: to be the reliever.

1296
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 3: I shout out.

1297
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: He is, uh probably some of the most electric stuff

1298
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: and be texted you about him.

1299
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 3: I think like last year and then the Baseball Classic.

1300
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 3: I was like, this dude.

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Speaker 2: Because he because I was really hot on him a

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Speaker 2: few years ago because he came into their rotation where

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Speaker 2: they just had an opportunity. It's a good park to pitch,

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Speaker 2: so deep Fantasy Baseball League're like, given the guy throw

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Speaker 2: one hundred miles now looked really bad. He's kind of

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Speaker 2: changed the shape on his fastball a little bit, which

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Speaker 2: is a really hard thing to do, really weird to

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Speaker 2: do that. And he has a good slider. Really looked

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Speaker 2: incredible in the World Baseball Classic. And he's had not

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Speaker 2: a good year results wise this year in the bullpen,

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Speaker 2: but his stuff is off the charge amazing. He's a

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Speaker 2: guy who like maybe someone can just can trick the

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Speaker 2: Royals into trade into trading him because the three six

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Speaker 2: ra maybe the Roles will be like, oh, yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: not really that good, but he's really.

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Speaker 3: Good, very good.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna see him thrown in and you're gonna be like,

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Speaker 2: whoa Carls Fernandez. So that's you gotta watch this series. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean sweep, let's sweep them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, start playing some good baseball. Sweep, let's loose, let's

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Speaker 4: get's go walk. That's went fourteen to nine in the

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Speaker 4: month of July. Solid month months not over, don't they

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Speaker 4: ofto are Yeah? Yeah, a month month over? Yeah, fourteen

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Speaker 4: nine the month of July. Keep playing good baseball, keep

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Speaker 4: putting some games. We'll worry about what we have to

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Speaker 4: worry about. If it gets to that time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there'll be more stuff to break down and talk

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Speaker 2: to you guys next on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but otherwise, guys, that is it for this episode

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Speaker 1: of The Mess Up Podcast. Big shout to Dylan on

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Speaker 1: the camera for us this episode. He appreciate you helping

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Speaker 1: us out.

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Speaker 3: I think we've ever shouted out Brian once.

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Speaker 5: When he was sleeping when he was thinking, Dylan, Dylan's

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Speaker 5: getting ready for Oyals Yankees. He's got he's got his

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Speaker 5: gunners at home.

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Speaker 3: He's ready to go.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, pig shout to Dylan. Thank you guys for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for watching this episode the mets Up Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you follow us on all our social media

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Speaker 1: at mets up on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a lot of content coming out for you guys.

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Speaker 1: These next few days.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching the YouTube version of this New York

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Speaker 1: Mets YouTube channel, subscribe over there. And if you're listening

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Speaker 1: drop us a review, download and subscribe James.

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Speaker 3: What's your Twitter? James underscore Gianna at Draftneckmark with a C.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening, Thank you for watching, and

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Speaker 1: we'll catch you on the next episode the Mets Up Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Peace Out, peace Out. See you guys next time.