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Speaker 2: Hey, we've got astro starter Hunter Brown joining us right

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Speaker 2: now on Foult Territory. Hunter, Great to have you on

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Speaker 2: the show man. How you doing. How's the season going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, guys. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, us too.

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Speaker 2: I want to just you know, make sure our fans

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Speaker 2: the past year or so. You know, we've had Bregmant

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Speaker 2: but can you just take us back to a combo

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Speaker 1: So, you know, I came up from Triple A and

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Speaker 1: So, like I said, I was, I was open ears

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Speaker 5: Now, Scott asked you right when we came on Scott

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 2: For somebody to look at where you are now and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was, you know, wopping eighty six, eighty seven,

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Speaker 5: Do you miss hitting even though it didn't go well

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Speaker 4: No, I don't at all. I mean these guys, you

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Speaker 5: Why wait, wait wait wait wait?

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Speaker 5: Like this is like it's essentially like Michigan high school baseball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I used to you know, I used

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Speaker 4: Adjustment at all speed pitch. So it's a it's a

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Speaker 5: All right, So does that mean? Does that mean baseball

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Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, you know, I think it's

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Speaker 5: Can baseball coaches teach command.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on here, man, Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 2: All right, Marina, that's gonna help us out with a

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Speaker 2: Let's start simple here, Factor fiction. The National League West

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Speaker 5: So let's just wait. Let's wait until he faces. Let's

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Speaker 5: see faces the Red Sox he knows they got some cash.

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Speaker 5: Wait till he faces the Cubs nose they got cash.

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Speaker 5: He's like, hey, this is a tryout, this is a

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Speaker 5: full season tryout. I get it. But New York, the

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Speaker 5: Mets and the Yankees, they got some cash. So you

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Speaker 5: know what, I'm gonna show out a little bit more

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Speaker 5: so that they see it front and center who they

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Speaker 2: And I do want to make sure I correct myself

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Speaker 2: because I'm like, oh, he's having a good year. I

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Speaker 2: mean technically r race standards actually not four nine, three

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Speaker 2: and thirty eight and a third, but dominating in those

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Speaker 2: big ones in New York. And let's finish with this

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Speaker 2: factor fiction Kratz. Hunter Green is the best pitcher in

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Speaker 2: the National League.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna forget somebody. Hunter Green is the I'm going

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Speaker 5: to go fact. Yeah, because I'm forgetting somebody. What the

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Speaker 5: adjustments he's made. The adjustments he's made have been incredible.

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Speaker 5: He was just a thrower. He threw the absolute snot

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Speaker 5: out of the he threw. He threw the snot out

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Speaker 5: his slider, he threw it out his fastball. He's always

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Speaker 5: sits ninety nine to one oh one. Now he's starting

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Speaker 5: to command that he's starting to work that ball down

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Speaker 5: in a way to righty's and he's and his strikeouts

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Speaker 5: are going up. He's not like, he's not decreasing his

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Speaker 5: strikeouts to be able to get deeper into the game.

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Speaker 5: And I think the pickup of Brady Singer is only

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Speaker 5: going to help him. See, guys that you know what

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Speaker 5: this dude, This dude goes out and makes thirty two starts.

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Speaker 5: I did this last year, but he gets a lot

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Speaker 5: of innings. I want to do that, and I think

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Speaker 5: it's going to help push him in that aspect of

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Speaker 5: his pitching development, which he is still developing.

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Speaker 4: This is a young dude.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say yes too. I would say yes too.

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Speaker 6: But there's some guys right behind him. No, of course,

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Speaker 6: but he is. He came out of the gates hot

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Speaker 6: and he's and he's right here.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: There hasn't been that much of a letdown, if any.

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Speaker 6: And he is, uh, he's been and he's a stud

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Speaker 6: right now. He's on pace. We talk about cy young,

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Speaker 6: he's right there. I know it's early. I hate to

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Speaker 6: say it. People be like, well, you're doing that, but

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Speaker 6: this dude.

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Speaker 3: Is on pace.

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Speaker 6: We talked about him last year almost you know, on

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Speaker 6: pace to get close to it. So I do I

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Speaker 6: like it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Kratz.

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Speaker 5: Un exactly right. Zach Wheeler ends up eclipsing ends up

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Speaker 5: eclipsing Hunter Green and Yamamoto for the cy Young this year.

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Speaker 5: And don't forget about you know, I think people would

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Speaker 5: take I think people would take Paul Skeins over him,

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Speaker 5: even though Paul Skeens is three and four this year.

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Speaker 5: He was mortal last night. I think Zach Wheeler is

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Speaker 5: the top of the class. But you're still talking about

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Speaker 5: a dude that's twenty five, twenty six and a dude

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Speaker 5: that's in his thirties. So I think I think Zach

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Speaker 5: Wheeler's still the top of the class in the NL,

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Speaker 5: and I just couldn't think of who else was out

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Speaker 5: there while when you drop the drop the.

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Speaker 2: Line on me, and just keep in mind if you're

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Speaker 2: watching the slater and you're just looking straight e Ras,

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Speaker 2: we're talking a little bit on that. Plus Hundre Green

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Speaker 2: pitches in Cincinnati. That is not fun and Cincinnati should

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Speaker 2: not be treated the same as almost any other park

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Speaker 2: you know in the National Philly Colorado, Different World, Phil

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Speaker 2: Philly ain't easy, but Cincinnati I think is tougher.

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Speaker 6: No, No, I think they're both nice parks to hit it.

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Speaker 5: Exactly.

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