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Speaker 1: Hello, Everyone's Episode one three six of the Hammer Territory podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Brad Rowick, coming to you on a

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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, and I'm joined by Scott Coleman. Scott, it's

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Speaker 1: lunchtime for both of us, kind of on both sides.

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Speaker 2: How are you, hello, Brad, I'm doing well. The podcast

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Speaker 2: never sleeps.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Even if maybe we don't have like groundbreaking sound all

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Speaker 2: the alarms news today to talk about, but there has

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Speaker 2: been just enough news since the last time we did

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Speaker 2: a podcast to say, hey, let's do a show, let's

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Speaker 2: talk about some stuff, and here we are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we should say at the top of the

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Speaker 1: show we are part of Foul Territory as a network.

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Speaker 1: We are Hammer Territory. We covered the Atlanta Braves all

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Speaker 1: year long, and we actually have lots of podcasts in

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Speaker 1: the bank. The last few days and weeks we had

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Speaker 1: Justin Tiscano and Grant mccallay on the show. Last week,

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Speaker 1: Scott and I did a show on Saturday. It is

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Speaker 1: still relevant at this point in time. But as you

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Speaker 1: sort of alluded to, there's a little bit of news

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Speaker 1: and notes. This would be a short one, I promise

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Speaker 1: of sometimes we say that and it's not. This is

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Speaker 1: going to be a short one, I'm pretty sure. But

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Speaker 1: we thought about Jeff Hoffman on Saturday, United scott and

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Speaker 1: some interesting reporting since then. So in case you missed it,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Hoffman was a potential target in the Braves. We

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Speaker 1: talked about a lot this winter. Potential hybrid guy, reliever

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Speaker 1: He signed a deal with the Blue Jays over the

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Speaker 1: weekend for three for thirty three. Reasonable deal for him.

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Speaker 1: It was reported at the time as we discussed that

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Speaker 1: Baltimore had failed at physical on Jeff Hoffman, so that's

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Speaker 1: the backdrop. Then today Monday, as we're recording this podcast,

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Speaker 1: Mark Bowman in front of the podbe dot Com reported

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Speaker 1: that Hoffman had a potential deal that was quote unquote

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Speaker 1: next when he failed a physical with the Braves medical staff.

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Speaker 1: So that's the closest the Braves have come to signing

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Speaker 1: a preas it seems like I was the real one

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Speaker 1: this winter. What did you make of this? Look, it's

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Speaker 1: not a huge surprise when you feel a physical somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: You might feel his physical summer, but hey, this is

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Speaker 1: direct Braves News. And it was interesting timing too.

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Speaker 2: I think our co host Stephen Tolbert said it best

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Speaker 2: that it's fitting that in like two months, the biggest

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Speaker 2: bit of news that we've had, like honest reporting Braves news,

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Speaker 2: is that the team didn't sign somebody because of medical concerns.

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Speaker 2: I will say, even if we would have all been

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Speaker 2: have come out that two other teams failed him on

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Speaker 2: medical concerns and the Braves were the team that signed him,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think you and I would probably do

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Speaker 2: a show terrified that. And it wasn't just Hoffman's elbow,

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Speaker 2: but his shoulder is apparently the concern to So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, in the big picture, he signed with Toronto,

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Speaker 2: probably the last time we're gonna say Jeff Hoffman's name

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Speaker 2: But the fact that Mark Bowman, who I think even

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Speaker 2: it's like Fort Knox trying to get information out of

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Speaker 2: the Braves. But you know the fact that Bowman has

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Speaker 2: Braves did check in on Hoffman to some level. And

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you what you think this means,

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Speaker 1: because I think it probably is just that there the

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Speaker 1: Tanner Scott stuff from DVB we talked about a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. He's still unsigned. For the record. Also, look,

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Speaker 1: I'll be the cynic Scott. I'll do the jobs and

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Speaker 1: now and just say there's a whiff of Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: The Braves are not with a team that actually cares

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Speaker 1: too much about pr I don't think Alex is a

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Speaker 1: But if it is for the Braves, that would be

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Speaker 1: in line with Alex's history. He is someone who likes

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Speaker 1: this winter already. And yeah, there's also a potential that

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Speaker 1: failed a physical on him. We would have noted it

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Speaker 1: not saying the Braves shouldn't have signed jump Offen. We

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Speaker 1: just can't possibly know that with where you and I

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Speaker 1: enough smoke here where it's like, all right, I always

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Speaker 1: what did you make of this? It says potential deal.

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Speaker 2: old friend Kirby Yates actually years ago the Braves failed.

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Speaker 2: But just because there's concerns about an elbow or a shoulder,

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Speaker 1: Right. Another cynical view would be like every picture has

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Speaker 1: And there are degrees of course of this and sudden

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's the title of this episode, The Braves almost

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Speaker 1: Who is Garrett Cooper? Well, he was the basically the

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Speaker 1: But I will say he was a real starting caliber

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Speaker 1: way cheaper. It's way easier to be out of market

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Speaker 2: In God, let's hope that changes, not just for the

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's coming. I think it

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Speaker 1: We're getting closer and closer to that. It is so

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Speaker 1: unbelievably stupid that somebody who lives in the apartment complex

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Speaker 3: I do two thousand miles away. Yeah, I mean, come on,

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Speaker 3: well what are we doing. That's that's well said, but hey,

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Speaker 3: this is a good step in the right direction. I look,

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Speaker 3: the afternoon. I won't be able to watch all of them.

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Speaker 3: I won't tell you that I will, but I know

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Speaker 3: a lot of people can watch more, a lot more

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Speaker 3: like six o'clock starts, four o'clock starts, so you can

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Speaker 1: I think it on in the background is cool. Well,

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Speaker 1: we love we love baseball, like we wouldn't be doing

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Speaker 1: did love baseball. Having it on more in February and

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Speaker 1: March is just a good thing. There's no uh no

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Speaker 2: Cool, Yeah, Spencer Schreider is going to make his first

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Speaker 2: spring appearance. Boom, let's turn it on. Or Drake Baldwin

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Speaker 2: turn it on. Or oh, the braves are running out

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Speaker 2: there everyday regulars for five innings today. Awesome, let's watch

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Speaker 2: five innings. You know that that kind of thing, and

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Speaker 2: it is nice that I guess the Braves are taking

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Speaker 1: One Okay, Scott, we have fulfilled our pledge to keep

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Speaker 1: us one short. God bless it. We did it once.

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Speaker 1: We never do it ever, but we managed to do

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Speaker 1: it today on a Monday afternoon pseudo emergency, not so emergency,

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Speaker 1: but quick unplanned podcast, Scott. For those people that might

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Speaker 1: not be familiar with your work beyond the show, where

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Speaker 1: can they find all of your musings on the internet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am at Scott Coleman at fifty five on

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Speaker 2: socials if you want to follow along there. And let

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Speaker 2: us hope, Brad, now that we are about a month

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Speaker 2: away from pitchers and catchers showing up, let's help that

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Speaker 2: the damn breaks and we get some Braves moves, we

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Speaker 2: get some just more activity across the whole league too.

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Speaker 2: I mean we've been pacing for like one signing every

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Speaker 2: always slows down around Christmas and New Year's and everything.

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Speaker 2: But let's help. We here at the end of the

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Speaker 2: tunnel for the Braves just basically silent winter, and we

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Speaker 2: are talking about real transactions and maybe not mind league

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Speaker 2: deals where if you squint it's like, yeah, I could

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Speaker 2: see Garrett Cooper twenty six man.

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Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, that'd be more fun to talk about for sure. No,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more on the podcast this week. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to spoil it. We have a couple of things planned,

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Speaker 1: one of which is top member Corey Dits. I won't

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Speaker 1: talk about it until it's done, but more to come

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Speaker 1: on the show as always, so please subscribe to Hammer

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