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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: You have another hot take.

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Speaker 3: Will not and Ot make the playoffs show? Hey me

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Speaker 3: the money, Rob Parker, Come on, I've been covering Major

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Speaker 3: League baseball for almost forty years now, in New York,

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Speaker 3: in Cincinnati, in Detroit, in LA. I love this game.

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Speaker 3: Let's go. Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker,

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Speaker 3: and what a show we have for you today on

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Speaker 3: Inside the Parker. Coming up, we'll talk with former Major

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Speaker 3: league infielder and outfielder Jerry Harriston Junior. Also Detroit Tigers

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Speaker 3: radio color analy Bobby Scales also drops in that plus

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Speaker 3: foul a fare, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off. It's getting robbed and keep

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Speaker 1: them mind. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

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Speaker 3: I know there's a long way to go into baseball season.

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Speaker 3: It's a marathon and it's not a sprint, but there's

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Speaker 3: no way you can look at the Padres start through

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Speaker 3: is going on. Twelve and one at home and fifteen

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Speaker 3: let's not forget about last year. I know they choked,

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Speaker 3: and then for whatever reason, they couldn't score another run.

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Speaker 3: They scuffled, three games lost, and the Dodgers went on

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Speaker 3: But this is a good team. This is not a fluke.

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Speaker 3: I'm not. If you watch the first podcast this season,

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Speaker 3: I picked the Padres to go to the World Series.

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Speaker 3: I know on paper, the Dodgers are a better team,

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Speaker 3: but take a close look at this Padres team. Twelve

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Speaker 3: scoring ten to eleven runs like it's going out of style.

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Speaker 3: Who would have thought that the NL West, with this

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Speaker 3: It's only fitting that Aaron Judge was named Team USA

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. Aaron Judge has been phenomenal. The Yankee

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Speaker 3: Last year twenty twenty four, he wonted unanimously, and he

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Speaker 3: We know how great sho hae Otani is and what

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Speaker 3: he's done for baseball, but as far as an American player,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge is it. He is the face of baseball.

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Speaker 3: Look at his stats. There was a recent stat the

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Speaker 3: first almost thousand games that the Babe Ruth and Aaron

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Speaker 3: that that's crazy that anybody would have identical home run

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Speaker 3: great smile, home run hitter. You know, that's what baseball

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Speaker 3: by a team. USA. Number three Atlanta Braves pitcher Spencer

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Speaker 3: Jerry Harriston junior. Of course, he played sixteen big league seasons.

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Speaker 3: I always great to see it, no doubt, great to

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Speaker 4: There's competition the West. I think it's great for baseball.

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Speaker 5: You know, credit to the San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks,

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Speaker 5: Padres were one game away last year from eliminating the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Mookie Betts and the illness in Japan.

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Speaker 5: We've all had those summer bucks, and you know, sometimes

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Speaker 5: Really get a shortstop, and we know his hitting prowess,

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Speaker 3: here on inside the Parker. Let's not forget the elephant

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Speaker 3: in the room show, hey Otani. And of course year

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Speaker 3: Expectations can he perform the same or do we expect

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Speaker 5: Here's the thing, the rob I'll play with a guy

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Speaker 5: Albert Bell also did fifty to fifty, but he did

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Speaker 5: especially now that he's going to be pitching probably the

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Speaker 5: This kid is incredibly talented, but as far as fifty

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Speaker 3: He had a bad stolen base attempt in the game

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Speaker 3: You know, I know he had had a consecutive steal streak,

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Speaker 3: but that just there's times to run, Jerry, You know this,

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Speaker 5: One of those things where and you're exactly right, Robert,

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Speaker 5: Mookie Bets swing the bat. But you know what, I

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Speaker 5: love our star players being aggressive, and now with that

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Speaker 5: Their bullpen has been impressive so far. We needed that bullpen.

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Speaker 4: Rob you have thrived in this game of baseball.

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Speaker 6: Rob Parker's in the showdown And just to give people

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Speaker 2: We're already I'm stunned, Rob.

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Speaker 6: We're already in the I Told you So part of

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Speaker 2: And what should I learn from your brilliance?

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Speaker 6: Wan, he's not He's not exactly I know where you going.

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Speaker 6: He's not torn it up. But Rob, he's got a

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Speaker 3: But you gotta admit BK two fifty two home run

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Speaker 2: You're from Queens. What's the difference.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a lot of Met disasters year one, right,

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Speaker 8: All right, give you that, all right, And you'll say

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Speaker 2: You want to dump on Dela Cruz again, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he's been two thirty eight and he's striking out

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Speaker 6: Fifteenth, Rob, it's April fifteenth.

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Speaker 2: I know, I'll say this.

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Speaker 6: He was tearing it up in spring training and he

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Speaker 2: I'll give you that, but it's way too early, Rob.

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Speaker 3: He had the one big game with the two home runs.

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Speaker 6: It's a fair point you pick up. Then you picked

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Speaker 3: It's the Los Angeles Angels. I know the Dodgers have

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Speaker 2: We're very early. Good for them, but we're very early.

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Speaker 6: And you know, will Trout finish a season that remains

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Speaker 6: I hate to pump the brakes on your Mike Trout train,

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Speaker 2: He's not Mike Trout, Mike Trout from years back. He's Mike.

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Speaker 6: Good stuff, Rob, Thank you so much, mlbbro dot com

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Always BK And remember I told you one so so

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,

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Speaker 2: I'm fantastic, Rob.

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Speaker 10: At the end of the year press conference, one of

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Speaker 10: the things that I thought was very interesting is that

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Speaker 10: AJ Hinch himself said that this was the floor, this

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Speaker 10: is now the new floor, this is the expectation. So

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Speaker 10: I think that was pretty succinct in what he said.

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Speaker 10: This is the expectation. So the playoffs are the expectations

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Speaker 10: for this Tiger ball club, and obviously the easiest path

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Speaker 10: to doing that. I say easy, as if winning one

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Speaker 10: baseball game in a Major League season is easy. But

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Speaker 10: the easiest path to do that is winning the division.

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Speaker 10: So I don't know that a Scott Harris has said

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Speaker 10: that per se, but if this indeed is the floor

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Speaker 10: getting to the playoffs, the easiest path is to win

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Speaker 10: the division, and that's the goal.

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Speaker 3: Tiger's off to a good start ten of their first

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Speaker 3: seventeen games, and on Friday open up a three game

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Speaker 3: series at co America Park against the Kansas City Royals.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the pitching targ school boy of course,

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Speaker 3: American League. Cy Young last year had a couple of

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Speaker 3: bumpy starts, but has gotten it together. Just talk about

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Speaker 3: him and try to duplicate what he did last year.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you could really do that, but

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Speaker 3: as close as possible.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and you're right, Robert, a couple starts early, not

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Speaker 10: even in truth, if you go back through those starts

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Speaker 10: with a fine tooth comb, you're talking about one or

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Speaker 10: two pitches here and there, and especially the Dodger start,

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Speaker 10: one or two pitches, he hung the change up to

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Speaker 10: Taoskar in the first pitch he jumped over for the

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Speaker 10: homer that got him out of the ball game. And

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Speaker 10: then in Seattle he was kind of the victim of

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Speaker 10: some poor luck. He had a couple they weren't they

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Speaker 10: didn't go as errors, but they were misplays behind him.

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Speaker 10: And then Dylan Moore hit beat him with a backside homer,

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Speaker 10: an opposite field homer on a hanging slider away, and

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Speaker 10: Dylan Moore hasn't been known for being a power hitter,

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Speaker 10: so you know, after that, it's been vintage Trek Scoogle.

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Speaker 10: Can you duplicate the triple crown from last year leading

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Speaker 10: the league and wins strikeouts in e r A. Maybe,

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Speaker 10: but it's gonna it's gonna be an unbelievable feat to

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Speaker 10: do that. So I definitely think he is doing exactly

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Speaker 10: what he needs to do. He's back on his last

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Speaker 10: few starts to have been vintage Schooble, so I have

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Speaker 10: there's no there's no concern or worry about him at

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Speaker 10: all as far as the rest of the guys go.

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Speaker 10: Jack Flaherty off to a nice start, throwing the ball well,

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Speaker 10: Casey Myves has been a very pleasant surprise for this

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Speaker 10: for this Tigers team. You didn't exactly know based on

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Speaker 10: you know, his injury history and the way he's pitched

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Speaker 10: in previous years, which you were gonna get worked on

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Speaker 10: a number of things. He really throws three different types

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Speaker 10: of sliders. One he really gets for a strike, one

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Speaker 10: he can get some swinging miss in his zone, and

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Speaker 10: a third one that's a little bit bigger. He gets

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Speaker 10: swinging miss strike the boss when you missed below the

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Speaker 10: zone with but his arsenal, he's throwing the ball a

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Speaker 10: little bit harder. The split is a little bit harder.

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Speaker 10: It's as nasty as I've seen in the last three

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Speaker 10: years too. And then you got the young fellow Jackson

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Speaker 10: job phenomenal stuff. If you ask some of the guys

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Speaker 10: on the staff, they think he has the best stuff

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Speaker 10: of them all at scooball included. And that's that's saying

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Speaker 10: a lot. He just has to learn how to pitch

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Speaker 10: at the major league level. Nothing left for him to

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Speaker 10: prove at the minor league level. Made the rotation out

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Speaker 10: of spring training and.

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Speaker 4: Deserve to be there.

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Speaker 10: And then the guy that I personally think is is

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Speaker 10: he kind of gets lost in the shuffle, but he

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Speaker 10: was really, really good before he got hurt last year.

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Speaker 10: Is a kid out of Georgia named Rhees Olsen. He's unheralded,

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Speaker 10: but it's it's a four pitch mix. When he is

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Speaker 10: has his mix correct, there is really good.

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Speaker 4: It's really good.

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Speaker 10: When he gets a little too slighter, heavy, things get

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Speaker 10: out of whack for him. But when his mix is correct,

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Speaker 10: his stuff plays anywhere on any team in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 10: He was fantastic last year. Every you know, you've seen

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Speaker 10: this enough, Robin, your career is that you have one

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Speaker 10: guy on the staff that is going to be for

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Speaker 10: whatever reason, the team doesn't score runs when he pitches well.

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Speaker 10: Ree Olsen was sitting at one in eight last year,

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Speaker 10: was like a two eight at one point, and then

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Speaker 10: got some run support and then pitched really well and

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Speaker 10: then ended up getting hurt and missed the majority of

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Speaker 10: the rest of the season.

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Speaker 3: But those five starters have done a tremendous job. I

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Speaker 3: guess is Bobby Scales Detroit Tigers radio color analysts want

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Speaker 3: to talk about the Tigers going out getting Glabor Torres

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Speaker 3: a free agent time play second base. Just about Glabor

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Speaker 3: fitting in with the Tigers, Well, he fits in.

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Speaker 10: For one thing, he's a proven right handed bat. If

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Speaker 10: you look at how the Tigers are put together offensively

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Speaker 10: in their position player corps, they are very left handed.

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Speaker 10: And two things needed to happen. They needed to get

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Speaker 10: some right handed thump, and they needed to see the

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Speaker 10: resurgence of a player and Spencer torcosen that that that

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Speaker 10: we've seen thus far this year, and they did both.

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Speaker 10: Scott Harris targeted uh Glabor Torres. They were in the

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Speaker 10: Bergman's uh Bregman. Sweet Steakes didn't come up with Bregman.

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Speaker 10: He chose to go to Boston as we all know.

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Speaker 10: But Glabor Tors is a proven right handed bat in

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Speaker 10: this league. And you know, are there some defensive deficiencies, yes,

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Speaker 10: are they going to get better under you know, Joey

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Speaker 10: Koorra and the work that he's gonna do on the infield.

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Speaker 10: I think so if he can get to an average

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Speaker 10: major league average second baseman, uh, you know, great out

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Speaker 10: as average, I think that'll be a tremendous improvement. But

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Speaker 10: also we you know what you're gonna get with the bat,

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Speaker 10: and that's what really Scott Harris and Jeff Greenberg and

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Speaker 10: the rest of the Tiger brain trust for buying. They

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Speaker 10: knew that coming in and so, uh, he's fitting. Well,

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Speaker 10: he's And you talk to the guys in the clubhouse,

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Speaker 10: they just say, glabor Tour is a baseball player, and

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Speaker 10: he's a pro and and and thus far, that's what

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Speaker 10: you've seen, and that's what you've gotten from glabor Tours.

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Speaker 10: Nothing should change.

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Speaker 3: This year, all right, I stink of course. Bobby Scales,

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Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers radio color analyst, Bobby, thanks for joining inside

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Speaker 3: the park. And my man, we'll see you out of

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Speaker 3: the ballpark close to you soon.

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Speaker 4: Hope, So come see me.

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the big leagues.

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Speaker 2: Who's a five believers?

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Speaker 3: Is it foul or is it fair?

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Speaker 1: And now from mlbdbro dot com, here's Jrgambo.

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Speaker 3: Jr. Is it foul or fair to say that pitcher

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Speaker 3: Clayton Kersherw coming back for the Dodgers will have a

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Speaker 3: huge impact on their race for back to back World

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Speaker 3: Series Championships?

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Speaker 11: Fair considering the plan was for Kershaw to lightly thread

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Speaker 11: through two innings rob but because he was tossing so effectively,

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Speaker 11: they stretched the thirty seven year old in his eighteenth

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Speaker 11: MLB season to a third inning. That's a great sign.

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Speaker 11: He threw thirty pitches and twenty two of them were

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Speaker 11: for strikes. Let's be honest, the Dodgers aren't counting on

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Speaker 11: their old ace to log major innings and lead the staff.

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Speaker 11: Those days are basically behind him. They already have a

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Speaker 11: plaque waiting for the great two time World Series champ

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Speaker 11: in Cooperstown. But he also has a lot to play for.

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Speaker 11: Does Kershaw a third World Series after all of the

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Speaker 11: talk about how he couldn't win the Big Game? To

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Speaker 11: wrap up his statistically dominant career with three rings would

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Speaker 11: be crazy work, wouldn't it. Kershaw also just thirty two

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Speaker 11: strikes short of the magical three thousand k mark. Remember,

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Speaker 11: ladies and gentlemen, it's been more than seven months since

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Speaker 11: Kershaw last toted the mound. In August of twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 11: he had to watch the Dodgers great championship run on

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Speaker 11: the bench, So that's more motivation for or a guy

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Speaker 11: who knows he's coming to the end of the road

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Speaker 11: and his body is breaking down. Kershaw is expected to

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Speaker 11: return no earlier than May, and even then, he isn't

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Speaker 11: expected to be immediately activated, they're gonna take some time.

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Speaker 11: So if he's healthy, the Dodgers have another luxury arm

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Speaker 11: down the stretch. And this season, you know, it's all

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Speaker 11: about the playoffs with Dave Roberts and his squad. And

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Speaker 11: wouldn't it be something if arrested Clayton Kershaw was available

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Speaker 11: to hop in that time machine, come back August through October,

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Speaker 11: get some clutch outs or even make a starting to clutch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rich get richer.

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Speaker 11: With the Dodgers stumbling in third place after an eight

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Speaker 11: no start and now trying to scrape back above the Padres,

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Speaker 11: they might want Cursehaw back.

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Speaker 4: Rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Make way for weekend wagers.

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Speaker 12: Yo, it's shine bo, Fire up those bed naps, let's go.

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Speaker 12: Last week was a little up, a little down. We

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Speaker 12: got that win on Friday with the Giants with those

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Speaker 12: plus many dogs, and then took the l against the

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Speaker 12: Yankees on Saturday. But hey, let's go two and oh

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Speaker 12: this week get that green and what better way to

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Speaker 12: do it than behind those Sacramento as.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we're taking the dogs again on Friday. JT. Jen

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Speaker 4: is one to know so far in the year with

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Speaker 4: a one point six.

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Speaker 12: To nine e and with the league leading home run

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Speaker 12: hitter and Soderstrum behind them. We think they could spoil

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Speaker 12: that home game against those Milwaukee Brewers. For Saturday, we

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Speaker 12: had the Queens New y'all go ahead and take the

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Speaker 12: New York Mexic Cody Sega minus one and a half

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Speaker 12: on the run line.

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Speaker 2: They should do.

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Speaker 12: Work against the Saint Louis Cardinals, who seem to be

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