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Speaker 1: In this episode, former Big leaguer Eric Kratz and I

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Speaker 1: are taking out our balls. That's right, our crystal balls,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to peer into the future of the

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Speaker 1: New York Yankees. It's time for our annual over under episode.

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Speaker 1: Well Aaron Judge at fifty more home runs to his resume,

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Speaker 1: plus a lot more. It's time to get our balls

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Speaker 1: out and look into the future. This is pinstripe territory.

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Speaker 2: Just wanted to talk, that's all.

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Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back, everybody. A little too brighton here,

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Speaker 1: let me close a couple of bright windows here e K.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, my man? How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I am awesome. I appreciate you having me on again.

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Speaker 2: This is always it's always good to see a smiling

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Speaker 2: face like yours.

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Speaker 1: Ah. You know, my grandpa used to always say it

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Speaker 1: takes many more muscles in your face to frown than

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Speaker 1: to smile. So it's kind of my default position. But Eric,

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Speaker 1: zero home runs in your Yankees career despite two stints

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Speaker 1: with the team, does that gnaw at you a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Only not that I didn't hit a homer. It's that

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Speaker 2: John Sterling wasn't able to make a call. It's like

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Speaker 2: one of those iconic things you would look back and

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Speaker 2: be like, what would the call have been? We asked

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Speaker 2: John about it, and you know, in his illustrious voice,

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Speaker 2: he was like, oh, I don't know. Sometimes I just

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Speaker 2: came up with these on my own. So it was

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Speaker 2: one of those things that, No, it doesn't gnaw at

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Speaker 2: me as much as not because I did well for

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Speaker 2: the Yankees. Not having a triple in my big league

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Speaker 2: career that gnaws.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Cratzy swings the batsy maybe something like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, it would have been some or it would

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Speaker 1: have been some show tune from like a nineteen thirty

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Speaker 1: eight Broadway show that nobody's ever heard, where the character

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Speaker 1: was named Kratz. Kratz see has the bats like some

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Speaker 1: you know, and everybody like what is that? You know?

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Speaker 1: But all right, So here's what we're gonna do. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go through the over unders this year. One thing

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Speaker 1: that the Yankees need to do is they need to

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Speaker 1: provide some offense because they lost a lot with Wan

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Speaker 1: Soto and John Carlos Stanton. Sodo's obviously Crosstown. Stanton's gonna

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Speaker 1: miss some serious time. We know that some of that

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Speaker 1: will come from the Cody Bellingers and the Paul Goldschmidz,

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Speaker 1: the new guys, but it's also gonna be some of

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Speaker 1: the internal guys that are gonna be relied on. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start with Austin Wells. Tonight, I was drink

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Speaker 1: your milkshake. Name that reference. You've seen that movie? Tell

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Speaker 1: me you've seen There will be Blood.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Daniel day Lewis, I drink you. I know what

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Speaker 1: movie you're talking about. I gotta cueue that up. Then

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Speaker 1: it's an old timer. It's an old timer. You do

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Speaker 1: have my movie account so you can check it out.

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Speaker 1: But all right, Austin Wells hitting lead off this year?

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Speaker 1: Probably it's been hitting lead off in spring training a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's been hitting the ball hard. He had a two

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Speaker 1: month stretch last year where the ops was like nine hundred,

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Speaker 1: so he was extremely comfortable this year. He's not competing

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Speaker 1: for a job. He's the starting catcher. That seems to

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Speaker 1: have kind of lightened the load a little bit. You

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Speaker 1: wouldn't know what that's like. But thirteen home runs either one,

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Speaker 1: I know, twenty twenty four. I set the over under

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Speaker 1: it nineteen and a half. Basically, Eric, I'm asking if

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Speaker 1: you think this guy can put up a twenty home

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Speaker 1: run season getting one hundred and thirty, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty games under his belt this year, full year, not

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Speaker 1: a rookie anymore. Training wheels are off, he's comfortable, he

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Speaker 1: three and a half home runs a month from Austin Wells?

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Speaker 2: Oh right, this is I hope all these are this

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Speaker 2: season over.

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Speaker 1: Over all, Right, it's super easy.

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Speaker 2: Because look, even if he doesn't catch one hundred and

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Speaker 2: thirty games like the catchers of yesteryear, he's gonna play.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna get more at bats. A first, a leadoff

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Speaker 2: hitter is going to technically, I think it's forty two

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Speaker 2: Then the three hitter over in entire entirety of a season,

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Speaker 2: that alone is just going to allow him to pump

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Speaker 2: one or two more, just based on his career stats

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Speaker 2: If you look at my numbers when I played back

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Speaker 2: and I had a couple of years where they're starting roles.

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Speaker 2: he might get complacent. I promise you're into big leagues.

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Speaker 2: You fly big league flights, eat big league food. You're

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Speaker 2: not complacent. You want to stay there and you want

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Speaker 2: to get paid. All it does is it gives you

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Speaker 2: the ability to have better at bats because you know

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get four or five more of them tomorrow

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Speaker 2: and you're not coming out of the lineup and we'll

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Speaker 2: see you in five days.

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Speaker 1: I'm unfortunately gonna take the under. Here's why because last

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Speaker 1: just to be contrarian, I had over in my notes.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna take the under. I'll say nineteen. I'll

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Speaker 1: say nineteen home runs, even though in my heart I

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Speaker 1: think he probably can hit over that. It just goes

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Speaker 1: to show how amazing guys like jor Ae Pisada and

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Speaker 1: Pad Rodriguez. Are these guys who put up thirty pumps

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Speaker 1: while being a catcher. The guy that amazes me is

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Speaker 1: your ex teammate Salvi Perez, because this guy catches every

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Speaker 2: Different, But I mean, I have to say, if you

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Speaker 2: including when I was there, his second halves were abysmal.

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Speaker 2: He would make All Star teams hitting three hundred, hitting

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Speaker 2: We're past Like there's there's no Savage or Perezes. Ustin

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Speaker 2: Wells doesn't need to be that guy. He's already gonna

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Speaker 2: get his at bats being in the lead off spot,

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Speaker 2: which I think is also going to give him pitches

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Speaker 1: Yeah, bump, bump, bum in front of Aaron Judge. Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, so let's move on to mister Max Freed.

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Speaker 1: Max Freed, I barely got to see him pitch when

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Speaker 1: he was with the Braves. That's part of the thing

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Speaker 1: that comes with watching every single game for one team

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Speaker 1: and Yankees don't play the Braves that often. But three

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Speaker 1: biggest contract of all time for a lefty. He beat

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Speaker 1: David Price's record eight years, two hundred and eighteen. I

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Speaker 1: basically set the over under it what he had last year,

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Speaker 1: three point twenty five. You know, I'm wondering if he

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Speaker 1: a little worse like most pitchers do, not only when

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Speaker 1: they come to New York and have that you know,

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Speaker 2: For sure. But he's not getting any more older than

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Speaker 2: he was last year. Like it's only one year. Everybody

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Speaker 2: thinks the first year, oh man, he's gonna be here

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Speaker 2: for eight years. He's already so old. Like, no, he's not.

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Speaker 2: He's in the prime of his career right now. What

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Speaker 1: Well he won ALCSMVP, but I think his his numbers

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Speaker 1: the numbers on CC.

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Speaker 2: I am going to go over slightly over.

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Speaker 1: All, right. So CC he was coming off that year

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Speaker 1: combined he was at two point seven zero and then

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Speaker 1: he went up point sixty seven. Uh. He finished with

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Speaker 1: a three point three seven ERA with the Yankees. He

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Speaker 1: was also twenty eight years old, so he's a couple

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Speaker 1: of years, you know, younger than Max Freed. Also, I

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Speaker 1: than Max Freed. I mean, Freed threw one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy four innings. Not that's a real number. But CC

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Speaker 2: Not it Like that's not even real, like one seventy

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Speaker 2: think he missed three starts if I remember correctly, and

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Speaker 2: And the only reason I'm saying it's over is because

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Speaker 2: League East is tough too. It is he didn't have

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Speaker 2: in against a Blue Jays lineup that while people say

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Speaker 2: be playing three teams, well two teams, was there one

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Speaker 2: of them? Two teams that are playoff contention. I don't

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Speaker 2: So my thing is you had the Braves and the

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Speaker 2: Phillies were the top two teams. The Mets came on late,

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Speaker 2: but if you don't catch him at the right time,

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Speaker 2: it's not in full season. They were struggling early offensively,

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Speaker 2: so to me, it's gonna go up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: He's got to face the Orioles probably three starts. He's

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Speaker 2: got to face the Red Sox if they line it up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you want your two hundred and eighteen million

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Speaker 2: dollar man to face the Socks, like that's why you

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Speaker 2: signed him. Yep.

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Speaker 1: I'm also going to say it's gonna be a little higher.

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Speaker 2: He took the under.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be probably three point six three

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Speaker 1: He he hasn't had to pitch, you know, two or

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Speaker 1: got the wall, you got all the funky angles and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And the Red Sox is gonna be pretty good this year.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Orioles. They also got to play the Rays,

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Speaker 1: George M. Steinbernfield, where the ball is gonna be like

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Speaker 1: I think in the heat, the ball is gonna be

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Speaker 1: flying down there. I mean, you see what it's doing

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Speaker 2: I'm going under and I'm going under official. He took

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Speaker 1: So you don't he had multiple injuries, so he had

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Speaker 2: So he's definitely pushing it. At twenty one years old,

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Speaker 2: The other thing is fearful this team has World Series aspirations.

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Speaker 1: Though you see the minor league number three fourteen. I

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Speaker 1: He hits line drives and he'll he'll use the five

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Speaker 1: the half life on Nuclear Stanton might be wearing a

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Speaker 1: So twenty seven home runs in twenty four seven home

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Speaker 2: Everyone's like everyone says kind of what you said, like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I can tell by this no chance. If you would

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Speaker 3: Growing hamstring right, because he's got a high butt. If

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Speaker 3: you watch him, anybody with high butts, it's ham strings.

432
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Speaker 3: Your hips are in a different location that you know.

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Speaker 3: It's you're just constantly working to try to keep that

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Speaker 3: big body moving in a linear fashion, in a straight line.

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Speaker 3: But he also said this is a bad injury, not

436
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Speaker 3: this will be a season ending injury. We all have

437
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Speaker 3: some type of injury that you got to play through,

438
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Speaker 3: and for some reason, I could be totally off. He

439
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 3: could play seven games all season. I feel like the

440
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Speaker 3: things he was saying, he's gonna get back out on

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Speaker 3: the field. He doesn't have a fractured elbow, he doesn't have,

442
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Speaker 3: you know, a lingering calf string. He's not gonna go

443
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Speaker 3: and run fast. They're not putting him out in the field.

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00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 3: I feel like maybe he'll have a stint where he's

445
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Speaker 3: back and then he goes back on the IL, but

446
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Speaker 3: it'll be a playoff push type of thing, and I

447
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,439
Speaker 3: think he's gonna get I think he's gonna be anywhere

448
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 3: from seventy five to one hundred games, and I think

449
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Speaker 3: that's okay.

450
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Speaker 2: But they need him in the lineup. They need him.

451
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Speaker 2: They need him badly. You know that. Everyone knows that,

452
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Speaker 2: no matter when people hate on him or not hate

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Speaker 2: on him, they need g or Mike, whatever name he's

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Speaker 2: gonna go with this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the under. But but I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be back for the playoffs. I think he'll find

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Speaker 1: a way to align things and the Yankees will find

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Speaker 1: a way to work this out to where he's there

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Speaker 1: when they need to hit a lefty in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: I do feel optimistic about some of the other things

461
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Speaker 1: we've seen from the other you know, guys who are playing,

462
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to be the dh You know, Ben

463
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Speaker 1: Rice hitting the ball hard. This spring job is gonna

464
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Speaker 1: get a lot of time at DHUH. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I think they can survive. If you look at his

466
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Speaker 1: overall war and I'm not a big war guy. We'll

467
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Speaker 1: talk about that, but he had zero point four war

468
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Speaker 1: last year, so something like that or zero point seven.

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Speaker 2: It was not.

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Speaker 1: It was not a high war. So I think the

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Speaker 1: Yankees can make that up. But just the threat that

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Speaker 1: he is I think is stressful for pitchers and we're

473
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Speaker 1: gonna miss that. By the way, were you were you

474
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Speaker 1: on the team when he hit that shot off of

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Speaker 1: Massiro to knock his head. No, during the COVID season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it wasn't the COVID.

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Speaker 1: It was during the ramp up. It was the ramp

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Speaker 1: up to COVID in the inter squad games.

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Speaker 2: Yes, now that you say that, I wasn't in the

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Speaker 2: stadium at the or I wasn't on the field at

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Speaker 2: the time because they had the varsity and JV teams

482
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Speaker 2: playing at different times because they thought, ooh, we could

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Speaker 2: give each other COVID. So they were keeping us separate

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Speaker 2: in that time, and we would do our ramp up

485
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Speaker 2: stuff at a separate time. They would like bring out

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Speaker 2: new baseballs. It was wild and bananas, but anyway, because

487
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Speaker 2: they thought we were gonna be and the coaches were

488
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Speaker 2: on the field the whole day with masks on like

489
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Speaker 2: outside You're like, I don't think this is necessary, But no,

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Speaker 2: I did not see it. But I got to the

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Speaker 2: field and I heard about it because I think they

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Speaker 2: practiced that day at like ten in the morning, and

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Speaker 2: I think we were at one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was scary. I mean if if if

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Speaker 1: that had happened to me, if I had been pitching

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Speaker 1: to John Carlos Stanton and he hit one back off

497
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Speaker 1: my head, I would leave the continent. I would go

498
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Speaker 1: to Japan just to reduce the chances of that happening again,

499
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Speaker 1: because on another continent there's no way he can hurt

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Speaker 1: you there. But you know, I love I love Big

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Speaker 1: Well maybe I mean he does have some power.

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Speaker 2: Uh did you see the ball he hit against that

503
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Speaker 2: he hit against the Rays in the COVID season glass,

504
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Speaker 2: Now that actually went to Japan from San Diego were

505
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Speaker 2: closer went to Japan.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what my That's one of my favorite John

507
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Speaker 1: Carlos swings of all time. That ball got small in

508
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Speaker 1: a hurry. But I mean, I love Big G, but

509
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Speaker 1: I feel like he's in that Sharon Stone walking down

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Speaker 1: the hallway with Howls of the Rising Sun playing in

511
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's where he's at in his career.

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Speaker 1: let's move on to Cody Bellinger Belle. So that's my

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Speaker 1: favorite sound effect by the way my belly get in

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Speaker 1: my belly, Oh sadly, And that's that's a damn good

556
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Speaker 1: impression there. Uh so belly is an interesting one. I

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00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: took twenty five and a half home runs for him.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's the guy that's gonna hit forty

559
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,239
Speaker 1: seven home runs again. I think that guy is in

560
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: the past. It was combination juiced ball and his swing

561
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Speaker 1: pre shoulder surgery. But he was an absolute menace a

562
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: couple of years ago for the Cubs three zero seven average,

563
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Speaker 1: twenty six home runs. It was kind of a proven year.

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Speaker 1: Last year. He had some injuries, but there were different

565
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Speaker 1: types of injuries. There were collision injuries, hit by pitches

566
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: and things like that. There's an athlete still in there.

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Speaker 1: I've been watching him this spring. His swing is it's quick,

568
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Speaker 1: it's smooth. He gets to that low and end pitch

569
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Speaker 1: like you know that down in his zone for lefties

570
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: is the deadly zone you missed there. He's gonna put

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Speaker 1: it in that second deck. But then he'll also take

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00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: that sinker loan away just like Dominguez, wait on it

573
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Speaker 1: and just drive it the other way. In fact, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times I think he's looking to do that.

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Speaker 1: So I think he might be able to hit three hundred,

576
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Speaker 1: but I want that twenty five plus home runs. And

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Speaker 1: we know the you know as well as anybody because

578
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Speaker 1: you played for the Yankees and didn't hit any They

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00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: want home runs, and they want you to put some

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Speaker 1: pumps in the seats. Over under. Twenty five and a

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Speaker 1: half home runs from Cody Bellinger over, that's correct, that's correct.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna hit over. He is motivated. He's motivated, but

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Speaker 2: he's also like something about just that fit on him,

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Speaker 2: something about the way his swings look in spring training. Again,

585
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Speaker 2: numbers could care less. I think at one point he

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Speaker 2: was hitting like five hundred in spring training. To me,

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Speaker 2: it looks a lot like twoenty nineteen in spring training.

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Speaker 2: And I was one of the guys that he hit with.

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Speaker 2: His name was Jacob Nottingham. Jacob was a prospect for

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Speaker 2: a ton of teams as a catcher, kind of got

591
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Speaker 2: a little bit of time in the big leagues, but

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Speaker 2: he hit with him in the offseason. He's like, he

593
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Speaker 2: looks at me and he goes, I go, man, Cody

594
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 2: just isn't moving at all before the pitch. I don't

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Speaker 2: know how he's gonna do and it was a spring

596
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Speaker 2: training just whack whack, whack whack, And I was like, WHOA,

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Speaker 2: I get traded the Giants. Well, guess who we play

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00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 2: all the time with the Giants, we're trading. We're playing

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers for some reason. In nineteen, his swing he

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Speaker 2: was so still before the pitch and it almost just

601
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Speaker 2: looked like he was gonna be late for everything, but

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Speaker 2: it was perfect timing. It looks exactly the same this

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Speaker 2: spring training. He doesn't have the waggle, the over the

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Speaker 2: over extended hook that he's had the last few years.

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Speaker 2: He's just standing there and he's falling to the ball

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Speaker 2: and it's controlled. I'm expecting him to have an awesome year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean Edwin Edwin Yang. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I see what you're you're putting down there with a

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Speaker 2: with a thirty to thirty five homers, that's a big gap.

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Speaker 2: I am definitely going over here. And I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's just going to be him hitting homers. I think

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Speaker 2: his ability to cut down his strikeouts cost him a

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Speaker 2: little bit in free agency. I think he's learned how

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Speaker 2: to cut down his strikeouts now because that year when

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Speaker 2: he cut him down and with two strikes, he was

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Speaker 2: able to take the ball that way. The way this

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Speaker 2: lineup's built, He's gonna now hit some dingers too and

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Speaker 2: still be able to cut down strikeouts. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 2: out on a limb. He's not even thirty yet. All

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Speaker 2: Star season from Cody Bellinger.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's uh. I'll also take the over. I want

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Speaker 1: to share something with you, Kratzy. It's gonna take some

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Speaker 1: finagling here because I gotta share my screen. But if

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Speaker 1: you look at his spray chart, you see that he

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Speaker 1: has a lot of these shots towards the left side,

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of these. If you go back and

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Speaker 1: click on these dots, it'll show you the hit. A

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Speaker 1: lot of these are with two strikes. He becomes a

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Speaker 1: left side hitter. With two strikes, he looks for that

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Speaker 1: pitch that's sinking low and away, and often he hits it,

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Speaker 1: and you know he'll hit it hard. Somewhere as far

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Speaker 1: as twenty five home runs, I'm also taking the over.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the thirty five home runs is

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Speaker 1: realistic because I don't think he wants to be that guy.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll naturally run into upper twenties home runs.

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Speaker 1: If he's healthy because he's gonna hit some hanging sliders

637
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium and some hanging changeups and things like that.

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00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: But I think if you ask him, he would say

639
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Speaker 1: he's coming to the Yankee Stadium at the right time

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Speaker 1: in his career. When you're a young player, you see

641
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: that three fourteen and you see that auxiliary scoreboard out there,

642
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: and you probably think, man, I'm gonna put forty to

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Speaker 1: fifty home runs in the seats every year, and that

644
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: can probably get you into more of a poll happy swing.

645
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: But now, I think as a veteran who's been in

646
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: the league and has had to make adjustments and go

647
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: through things, he probably looks out at that left center

648
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: field gap and says, you know what, there's thirty five

649
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: doubles out there for me, you know, and then I'll

650
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: run into the home runs. And I hope that's the

651
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: way he's thinking. You think that's the way he's looking

652
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: at or am I just is that just fan optimism

653
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: for me?

654
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: One hundred percent of the way he's looking at it.

655
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: He understands what it means to be a complete hitter now,

656
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: going through the injury, going through kind of that adjustment,

657
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: like we talked about with two strikes, but also there's

658
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: gonna be stakums out there. There is dudes in front

659
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 2: of him that get on base, and I think he's

660
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: the protection until G comes back. And even when G

661
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 2: comes back, it's only when he's hot that you want

662
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 2: him to protect him. But there's gonna be guys on

663
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 2: in front of him and he's gonna have to prove it.

664
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 2: It's it's like the I don't know what it is.

665
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 2: It's like the perfect storm when everything's coming together because

666
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: people look at this lineup and even A J. Persiski

667
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 2: and I were talking about it on the on Foul

668
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: Territory the other day. Why would anybody pitch to judge

669
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 2: because Cody Bellinger is behind him? Because Ben Rice is

670
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 2: behind him. No, not on paper, but somebody has to

671
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: clean that up. And what's gonna happen is it's going

672
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 2: to fall to Cody. And I think other thing too.

673
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: It's easier for him to get his twenty six homers

674
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 2: because he's gonna be out there on the field. They're

675
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: gonna they need him to and they're gonna ride, They're

676
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna run him out there every day that

677
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: he's available.

678
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: You know, you didn't realize you were doing this, but

679
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: you gave me the perfect segue to my next one.

680
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:35,919
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm also taking the over on Cody.

681
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if I mentioned that, but Paul Goldschman,

682
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: this is a guy that I think the Yankees are

683
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: relying on much more now than they expected to when

684
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: they signed him because of the loss of Big G.

685
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: Big G was gonna be the cleanup guy, right he

686
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: was that built in protection. But now goldschmanth's gonna be

687
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: the four guy, and he's gonna have to clean up

688
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: some of these base runners as well. The good news

689
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: he had his seven ninety nine ops in the second

690
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: half last year. He was much closer to the guy

691
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: that we're all used to. We had a really, really

692
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: bad first half. I have a couple of friends who

693
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: are Cardinals fans, and they told me that he was

694
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: tinkering with his mechanics a lot earlier in the year

695
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: and he just couldn't get it together. But then around

696
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: the All Star break it clicked. And so I'm hoping

697
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: that he maintains that he's gonna have a ton of

698
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: guys on base He's never had anybody on base as

699
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: much as judge is gonna be on base in front

700
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: of him ever in his career. So my over under

701
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: for Paul goldschmant is seventy four and a half RBIs.

702
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: He's got four one hundred seasons in his career. He

703
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: had sixty five last year.

704
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: This is your easiest one, OVA, all right, this is

705
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 2: this is what veterans do. The way that you get

706
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 2: RBIs in the big leagues is you elevate the ball

707
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: to the opposite field. This man can elevate the ball

708
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 2: to the opposite field with the best of them. He's

709
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 2: got a short swing. Some people would say it's an

710
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: up cut swing, not like judges, but it's a short

711
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 2: arm swing that he gets the barrel to the ball

712
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 2: and he's able to elevate that ball to the opposite field.

713
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 2: To me, Paul Goldschmidt is another guy I love the

714
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 2: pickup because he's gonna be on the field. And if

715
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: people are listening to this and it's not just watching it.

716
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 2: The stat that means a lot to me is right

717
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 2: in the middle twenty twenty two MVP. This guy has

718
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: that ability in there a eight hundred ops in the

719
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 2: second half. You are always tinkering with things. As you age,

720
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 2: things change, you don't have the same reactions. You don't

721
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: have you know, you don't usually get better with age.

722
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 2: The difference is guys like Paul Goldschmidt have created who

723
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 2: they are as a player. He is going to be.

724
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 2: He's gonna have made the adjustments that he struggled with

725
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 2: in the first half last year because because he's that

726
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: type of guy, he will figure out how to get

727
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: it done, just like he figured it out on a

728
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: really bad team with the Cardinals last year, how to

729
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 2: get it done in the second half in Yankees fans

730
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 2: are gonna love this guy. They're gonna forget that he's there,

731
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 2: and then they're gonna look at the box score and go, hey,

732
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 2: two for four again, three stakes, he didn't even hit

733
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 2: a homer. They're gonna love Paul Goldschmidt. And this is

734
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 2: an easy over for me.

735
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also taking you over. I think that he's

736
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna get a lot of like sackflies

737
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: and just like getting the runner in in big situations.

738
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: And the thing I like about Paul Goldschmidt is you

739
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: can see him in spring training working on stuff. He

740
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: is actively trying to hit the ball to right field

741
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: because he wants to redirect some of that power. He

742
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: knows that he can run into some dingers. The other way.

743
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: They did the stats, you know these nerds. They put together, Oh,

744
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: if you played Yankee Stadi, me would add such and such,

745
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: and it came out to twenty seven home runs. So

746
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: he would add five more home runs supposed if he

747
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: played all his games. But nobody plays all their games

748
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: in the same park, so I've always hated that. But

749
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: I do think that he will have a nice bounce back.

750
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: I think he's closer to the guy in the second

751
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: half than he was in the first half. And there's

752
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: probably something rejuvenative, if that's a word, of playing for

753
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: the Yankees and being in the Al East and being

754
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: in a pennant race again, because let's face it, the

755
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: Cardinals got off to a bad start and they had

756
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: a bad year, and it was just a negative aura

757
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: around that team all year. They couldn't get it going offensively.

758
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: Being counted on to be the guy to drive in runs,

759
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to see that as pressure.

760
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to see that as a burden.

761
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna look at it as like a

762
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: good old fashioned an athlete saying, all right, let's go

763
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: get it one more time. At thirty seven, let's do it.

764
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: I think he still has more time than that. It's

765
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: only been essentially, it's been one and a half seasons

766
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: since his twenty twenty two MVP, because you discount the

767
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 2: first half of the season where he struggled last year

768
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 2: and nobody was on in in front of him. Nolan

769
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 2: Eronado's numbers were awful. Paul Goldsmith, the whole team didn't

770
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: hit a home run in spring training until like the

771
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 2: fifth to last game or something like that.

772
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: Like it was, it was, it's hard to imagine.

773
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 2: I don't understand. I was joking with the hitting coach

774
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 2: the other day when we were at Cardinals camp. I said, hey,

775
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: you guys hit a homer the other day. I was like,

776
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: that's like twenty games ahead of schedule. You're already you're

777
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 2: already a way better hitting coach this year.

778
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: All right, we got two more player over unders and

779
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: then we're gonna get the Yankee wins. Sorry, crats, I'm

780
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: keeping you out past your bedtime here. Anthony Vopi in

781
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: his first year, Fangrafts gave him a one point eight

782
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: f WAR. His baseball reference WAR was slightly higher. I

783
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: haven't decided if I like WAR or not, because when

784
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: you when it's calculated different different ways in different places,

785
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like an actual stat. Like I feel

786
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: like I should be able to do the stat on

787
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: a napkin. Right. If somebody says, what is Aaron Judge hitting?

788
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: I say how many bats does he have? How many

789
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: hits does he have? I can tell you what he's

790
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: hitting war. There's so many built in formulas and things

791
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: that are weighted. I wasn't good enough at math. I

792
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: was an athlete. When I got to college. My math

793
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: class was five birds are on a fence and three

794
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: of them fly away? How many birds are still on

795
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: the fence? That was my math class. I can't calculate war.

796
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: I have to put my faith into what other people say.

797
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: They say he got a little bit better last year.

798
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: I saw an improvement of thirty points plus in the average.

799
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: I saw a decrease in power. RBIs were the same,

800
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: Stolen bases were up slightly from twenty four to twenty eight.

801
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: All the talk in spring training is that this guy

802
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: is hitting the ball harder. But he's swinging the bat

803
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: harder as well. He's gained some weight, much like Ben Rice,

804
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: He's put on some muscle. He's noticeably thicker. Maybe he's

805
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: just wearing a true classic jersey.

806
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: Hey, but.

807
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: Hey, that's that second drop there. That's extra. They gotta

808
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: pay me extra for that. But at least send me

809
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: another pair of jeets. I don't know what we can

810
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: expect from this guy. I set the the over under

811
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: at four war. This is year three. Training wheels are off.

812
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:08,959
Speaker 1: Kind of need this guy to take a big step

813
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: forward to the Yankees. You're going to get where they

814
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: want to go. So my war is over under four

815
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: point zero?

816
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: What do you say?

817
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: What do you say?

818
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 2: What do you what do you say? I'm going under?

819
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 2: He took the under.

820
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: By the way, shout out to Morgan Freeman doing the

821
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: narration there for us.

822
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 2: Well done, good musica. No, that's okay, it's okay that

823
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a four war. You're getting you're getting

824
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: a three point five war from your shortstop. You're you

825
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 2: have a legit team because you're strong up the middle,

826
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: You're going to be strong in the in the stat sheet.

827
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 2: That's just that's where it's at. And I don't know

828
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 2: that his his value is a is a war stat

829
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: you know he's not a war darling. He doesn't have redict.

830
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 2: He's got a great glove, you see gold there in

831
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: his glove. But is his range factor, you know, gonna

832
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 2: affect it. He doesn't have a big on base percentage,

833
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: which is gonna hurt that. That's okay, pro Duc Sun

834
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: if you had said he has a three point five

835
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,479
Speaker 2: war but seventy five stakes no matter where he's hitting

836
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 2: in the lineup, the Yankees are again pushing for the

837
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: World Series. Like, to me, that's where this team is.

838
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 2: That's where this team is able to help a young

839
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 2: player still be productive, Like get that stake. Figure out

840
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 2: how to get that stake. It's okay. If you hit

841
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: two forty and you're driving the ball to the right

842
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: side and it drives the run in, you're getting that sack.

843
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: Fly to me, I think nobody's gonna nobody's gonna benefit

844
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 2: better than Anthony Volpi from watching Paul Goldschmiz at bats,

845
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 2: having a right handed hitter in the lineup who has

846
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 2: a short swing. Not saying they're the same hitter, but

847
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: just how he attacks pitches, how he shortened his swing

848
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 2: up throughout his career, and how he's gonna show him

849
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 2: how to drive runs in think about the other right

850
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 2: handers in the lineup. Is Anthony Volpie gonna learn anything

851
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 2: from how teams pitch g or how teams pitch judge.

852
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have somebody that's a little bit closer to

853
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: your stratosphere, a little bit closer to what you want

854
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 2: to do as a player in a sense of elevating

855
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: that ball to the opposite field. To me, I think

856
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a huge, huge help with Paul in

857
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 2: the lineup.

858
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 1: With him, That's awesome. That's a great take. I'm also

859
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: taking the under. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing too many bail

860
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: and whale swings in spring training on balls in the dirt.

861
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: I know spring training stats don't count, but I have

862
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: a tough time saying that spring training doesn't matter because

863
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: I think habits are built in spring training. We saw

864
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: bad habits get built by the Yankees last year that

865
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: carried right on through the World Series. In reality, I

866
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: think Anthony Volpi, instead of beefing up and investing in

867
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: being a home run guy, I think he should be

868
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: the guy that was getting on base thirty four times

869
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: in a row in the first part of the year

870
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: because he was so valuable at the top of the lineup.

871
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: They don't have a legit leadoff man right now. They're

872
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: using Austin Wells there who might do a great job.

873
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: But a speedy guy who gets on base is within

874
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: his capabilities, and it seems like he's leaning more into

875
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 1: becoming a power guy more than the huge statistical numbers

876
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: from Volpie. I want to see consistency. I want to

877
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: see a guy who maybe the added strength maybe doesn't

878
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: mean he needs to be rested as much throughout the season.

879
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: He can just play through and maintain that, you know,

880
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: avoid the peaks and valleys and have more of like

881
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: a steady you know, consistency, you know. A great story

882
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: One of my favorite stories shout out to Ricky Henderson,

883
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: who he lost. He showed up late to spring training

884
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: one year and they asked Don Matting, when he was

885
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: the captain, about it. They said, he might not have

886
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,479
Speaker 1: been the captain yet, but he was the de facto captain.

887
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: They said, Donnie, what do you think about Ricky Henderson

888
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: showing up late for bring training? Second year in a row,

889
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: and he said, at least he's consistent. That's what you

890
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: want out of a player, consistency. All right, let's talk

891
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: about the new captain, Aaron Judge. And this is crazy

892
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: to me because I set the over under at forty

893
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: nine and a half home runs for Aaron Judge, and

894
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: you can make the case that that's low. In two

895
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: of the last three years, he said at least fifty

896
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: eight home runs, and then the other one he was

897
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: injured and he was on pace for sixty. I think

898
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a lot more time at DH this

899
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 1: year without John Carlos Stanton. I think he's also gonna

900
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: get walked a ton without you know, as many reinforcements

901
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,919
Speaker 1: like Soto and Stanton in the lineup. I think they're

902
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: going to be counting on Bellinger and Goldschmidt to do

903
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: some damage behind him so that he gets pitched to

904
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And I was thinking about how

905
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: crazy it is that, you know, fifty home runs basically

906
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: is a realistic over under for this guy. You know,

907
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: there was a time when each row two hundred and

908
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: thirty hits was a very realistic over und, you know.

909
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: And we were talking about Wan Goanzales one hundred and

910
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: forty stakes was a realistic over under. Some guys are

911
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: just statistically in a different place, and Aaron Judge is

912
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: one of those guys. So forty nine and a half

913
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 1: home runs in his age thirty three season. He can't

914
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: keep doing fifty eight forever, but I think he's got

915
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: a couple of more years of massive power if he

916
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 1: stays healthy. What are your thoughts? Forty nine and a

917
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: half over under Aaron Judge?

918
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 2: No over over And it's crazy to say. It's so

919
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 2: crazy to say that it over can hit at fifty

920
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 2: homers because the telling stat for me is thirty seven

921
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 2: homers in twenty twenty three in one hundred and six games.

922
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 2: Can't can't not, can't not take the over with this guy,

923
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: because if you're sitting there going, okay, what is this

924
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 2: team going to rely on? They don't need him to

925
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 2: hit three three point thirty like he did last year.

926
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: He will have a higher average because his walks are

927
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 2: gonna be up there. I think that's what locks him

928
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 2: in to me. I think in the postseason everyone's like,

929
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 2: what is his postseason struggles? They were still throwing him

930
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: the same balls. He was just swinging at him in

931
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: the season, he doesn't swing at him. And to me

932
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 2: that it sounds crazy. But when you're talking about elite

933
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: power guy, taking your walks locks you in more because

934
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 2: your swing is able to only attack the balls in

935
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 2: your area, in your happy zone, and your happy zone

936
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 2: is almost an automatic home run. And I wish I

937
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 2: would have seen who wrote it. Who wrote it in

938
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 2: on the chat Dad's strength. It's a real thing. Dangers,

939
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 2: dangers for dads.

940
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That was our buddy Frankie Baseball, who

941
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: does the over unders there on foulter early. I'm sorry,

942
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: over there's the out of context on foul territory. Frankie's

943
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: been working here with me for the last time. Round

944
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: the clause for Frankie, I'm also taking the over call

945
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: me crazy. But certain athletes, certain athletes I think just

946
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: have a different gear that they go to, like you know,

947
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods at the Masters that one year, and and

948
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: Tom Brady or Lebron James. I think Aaron Judge can

949
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: be one of those guys. He gets a lot of

950
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: crap for his postseasons, but I think it was a

951
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: mechanical thing. Maybe he got in his head a little

952
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: bit but he's still a supernaturally strong human being and

953
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: hand eye coordination that's in the top, you know, one

954
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: tenth of one percent in the world. Right this this

955
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 1: guy is a different species from the rest of us.

956
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: And I think that if he can stay healthy, you know,

957
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: throughout a full season, I think sixty home runs is

958
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 1: pretty much a lock this year for me. Sixty plus.

959
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna get you know, seventy,

960
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: but he's he could push towards mid sixties, mid six

961
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: If I told you Aaron Judge hit sixty eight home

962
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: runs this year, would you would you break nah? Or

963
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: would you? I mean, that's realistic.

964
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say nah because some of these, some of

965
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 2: these pictures that I look at, I just I'm reminiscing

966
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 2: back to the times that they always put me in

967
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 2: his batting practice group, and I'm like, why on Earth

968
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 2: it was me, Greg byrd G and Judge. And then

969
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 2: when one of those guys would be playing this is

970
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 2: spring training type of stuff they put they put Gary

971
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: el Gary in my group, and I'm like, why on

972
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 2: Earth am I in this group? But I just remember

973
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 2: watching each of them hitting home runs at a different

974
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 2: proficiency at a different ability level. Judge would hit pop

975
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 2: ups to right field that would go into that you

976
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 2: know the judges, you know, the judges court that he

977
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 2: has out there in right field chambers or judges chambers, yeah,

978
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 2: or to the second deck in George Steinbrenner Field there,

979
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 2: like the decking of seats that they have, Like those

980
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 2: are mishit balls that he can hit homers for. So

981
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,399
Speaker 2: if you say sixty eight homers, I'm like, Wow, I'm

982
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: so excited to watch this season. But I'm not like,

983
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 2: not a chance, no way in the world. Like he

984
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 2: can do crazy stuff and he's still only thirty three,

985
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 2: He's not thirty nine years old.

986
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, are athletes able to stay

987
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: healthier longer? I mean, we look at Lebron He's got

988
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: better numbers now than he did with twenty eighty science

989
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: getting to the point, don't know how much you know

990
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: about this, but you're a coach, you're a former professional athlete.

991
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: Are we getting better at like just keeping guys healthy if.

992
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 2: They want to? Yes. I feel like I'm a prime

993
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: example of it. I didn't make the big leagus till

994
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 2: I was thirty, and I stuck around till I was

995
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 2: forty and I had better seasons the older that I got.

996
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 2: Did it take a lot of work, Absolutely, but take

997
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 2: a out of work, like, don't tell me about work

998
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: like dudes. Dudes go to guys. Guys and girls go

999
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 2: to work every day for ten twelve hours. If I

1000
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 2: have to take care of my body to stay on

1001
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 2: the field, yes, it can totally easily happen. I think

1002
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 2: we're seeing pitchers aging a lot more gracefully than position players.

1003
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 2: But I think there is a there's a certain body

1004
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 2: type that can age better than others. And you look

1005
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 2: at a guy like Aaron Judge. If you don't put

1006
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge around other people that are smaller than him

1007
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 2: or shorter than him, you'd be like, oh, yeah, he's

1008
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 2: a well put together guy. And then you see six

1009
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 2: foot eight, he's just so proportioned. And I think that

1010
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 2: may maybe part of G's issues is he's a large man,

1011
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 2: but his waist is this big, his joints are tiny,

1012
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 2: but his muscles are ginormous. You know, he's built like

1013
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 2: a Greek goddess.

1014
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know if he would.

1015
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: I think he might object to the goddess part of that,

1016
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: But maybe a Greek god. Yeah, all right, let's move

1017
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: on to the Yankees win total here and if you

1018
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: missed it, that was Hayman. Okay, believe it. That's my

1019
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: favorite quote of the winter. All right, So that was

1020
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: a classic Bellinger in Goldschmidt in Freed, Williams in Eliza

1021
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: ga Re signed, Tommy Cainley gone. He was the biggest

1022
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: loss of the winter, I think, in my opinion. Also,

1023
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: some guy named Soto Garrett Cole is going to be

1024
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: out for the year. Glaber Torres took his act to Motown,

1025
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: and Anthony Rizzo and Alex Verdugo are playing in you know,

1026
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: men's league softball. Now, so you know last year I

1027
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: have eight and sixty four. That's actually incorrect. They were

1028
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: ninety four and sixty eight last year, so let me

1029
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: correct that. So I put the over under at ninety

1030
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: and a half win. So, knowing what we know about

1031
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: the injuries and about this team organization, the propensity to

1032
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: go get you know, go get players at the trade deadline,

1033
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, ninety and a half wins, what do you think.

1034
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: I'm going under? I'm saying nine eighty nine, and I

1035
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 2: don't think that that's a knock on the Yankees. I

1036
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 2: don't think that's gonna I just don't have them winning

1037
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 2: the division. So I can't sit here and go I

1038
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 2: was I was debating between eighty nine and ninety one.

1039
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 2: I think the Orioles win the division. I just think

1040
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 2: they've learned from their mistakes, and I think there'll be

1041
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 2: a couple couple of games here and there where the

1042
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 2: where the Yankees lose to the Orioles, the team that

1043
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 2: they've until last year historically beaten. You know, they just

1044
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 2: went in there and just took those wins. I don't

1045
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 2: think that those wins are going to be as easy.

1046
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 2: But I think they have a lockdown closer from jump.

1047
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 2: I think Clay Holmes, you know, was an All Star

1048
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 2: last year. I think Devin Williams is going to do

1049
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 2: everything possible to stay on the field this year. I

1050
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 2: think those games that they started losing later in the

1051
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 2: season or three quarters of the way into the season,

1052
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 2: I think are going to now be locked down. You

1053
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 2: have the best closer in the game. Yes, I know

1054
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 2: you lost Sodo and that is irreplaceable. That is totally

1055
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 2: fine because there's other guys that are gonna step up

1056
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 2: and have production. That's not gonna equal Sodo. But that's

1057
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 2: why I'm taking the under at eighty nine. Is Sodo

1058
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 2: worth five five wins? No, but I think Sodo is

1059
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 2: probably worth three and the half a season that you're

1060
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 2: losing from last year because Garrett Cole wasn't healthy all

1061
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 2: year last year, he was only there half a year.

1062
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 2: So to me, those are the two wins, and I

1063
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 2: think those are easily by are world's ahead of the worst,

1064
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 2: you know, the worst losses that they have for this seas.

1065
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also gonna surprise myself. I'm taking the under. Unfortunately,

1066
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say ninety wins on the dot. Ninety wins

1067
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: on the dot. I think it's gonna get them to

1068
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I agree with some of the people

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Speaker 1: in the chat that the Orioles and the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: probably the two favorites, although the Orioles, like someone said,

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Speaker 1: do have some pitching issues. They lost Corbyn Burns. Red

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Speaker 1: Sox are looking good, man. I watched a couple of

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Speaker 1: their spring training games. They got Garrett Crochet, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they got some three young prospects who could come

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Speaker 1: up and inject life if they need it. They're looking

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I think either one of those teams could

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Speaker 1: win ninety two ninety three games, and the Yankees are

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Speaker 1: gonna be a wild card team. But that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that you can't go deep in the playoffs as a

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Speaker 1: wild card team, especially since we're gonna have big G back,

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Speaker 1: big g back after his fifty nine games and fifty

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Speaker 1: six home runs. All right, ladies and gentlemen, uh, go

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Speaker 1: ahead and subscribe to the channel. Subscribe to foul Territory,

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Speaker 1: where you can find Krats most week days. I'm on

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Speaker 1: there occasionally too, when they run out of real guests

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Speaker 1: to talk to one week until opening Day, Krats. Any

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Speaker 1: final thoughts on the Yankees this year?

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Speaker 2: Playoff team playoff teams, It's okay. You don't want your

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Speaker 2: team to be built as a playoff team and just

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Speaker 2: like get into the playoffs. You want your World Series

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00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 2: built team. Brian Cashman did everything he could to get

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Speaker 2: this team to be in the playoffs, and I think

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be a good playoff team because there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be two dudes in that rotation that step up that

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Speaker 2: Yankee fans are like, okay, okay, we can deal with that. Cole.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my one Soto prediction, and I

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Speaker 1: want you to tell me at what you think this this?

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Speaker 1: What do you think of this? Two seventy thirty five

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Speaker 1: home runs?

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Speaker 2: Wow? His own base percentage, that was gonna be like

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Speaker 2: four fifty.

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Speaker 1: I know it was four nineteen last year. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be high than that because he's gonna get walked to

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Speaker 1: gazillion times without Aaron Judge behind him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's my thing is I could care

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Speaker 2: less what his batting average is, and only certain fan

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Speaker 2: bases still care about batting average. But to me, that

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Speaker 2: on base percentage is gonna be there thirty five? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean I would say why not. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: feel like he's a guy that if you like, if

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Speaker 2: somebody's like, hey, that you can't hit forty five homers,

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Speaker 2: he'd be like, here comes forty seven. Like it's almost

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Speaker 2: like he can do what he wants to do. So

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Speaker 2: that's a good season for the for the Mets. Mets

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Speaker 2: fans if he has a four to twenty on base percentage.

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Speaker 1: Again, the other day, some fan was given him crap

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Speaker 1: in the outfield. I'm sure you saw this on social media.

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Speaker 1: Most impressive thing I've ever seen in any sport of

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Speaker 1: all time. This guy's yelling at Juan Soto overrated, you

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Speaker 1: suck wan So casually turns around, stares at him for

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Speaker 1: a second, gets a good look of the landscape next

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Speaker 1: to bat, hits the guy with a home run, hits

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Speaker 1: the guy with all I've never seen anything like that.

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Speaker 1: If he did that on purpose, it's the greatest achievement

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Speaker 1: in human history, better than flight, better than going to

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Speaker 1: the moon. That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: The closest thing I ever heard to that was Tony

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Speaker 2: Gwynn when he was done playing. So he's done, like

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Speaker 2: he's done. Tony Gwinn and he was helping out of

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Speaker 2: San Diego State and my buddy was there, and one

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Speaker 2: of his buddies had this like ridiculous change up that

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Speaker 2: nobody in college could hit. He actually was a prospect

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Speaker 2: in or a picture in the Yankees organization in like

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Speaker 2: two thousand and four or five that time. Great change up,

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Speaker 2: and he's facing Tony Gwynn after he's retired, and Tony

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Speaker 2: goes as the changeup was in the area, goes heads up,

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Speaker 2: whack hits it right back at the right back at

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Speaker 2: the picture like that's calling Your shot was otherworldly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for watching. One

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