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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to episode twenty nine in the

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Speaker 1: Hammer Territory Podcast. I am your host, Brad Roland, coming

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Speaker 1: to you on the evening of June sixteenth. It is

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Speaker 1: Father's Day, and I am joined as I almost always am,

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Speaker 1: by Scott Coleman. Scott, how you feeling here in mid June?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Brad, Happy Father's Day to all of our dad

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Speaker 2: listeners out there. And I gotta be honest, Bread, for

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Speaker 2: the first time in a while, it feels like you

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Speaker 2: and I are doing one of these Sunday evening shows

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Speaker 2: and there's some like legitimate good things going on with

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Speaker 2: the Braves. It certainly has not always felt this way,

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Speaker 2: of course, coming off of a pretty terrible road trip,

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Speaker 2: but it looks like finally the Braves have woken up

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Speaker 2: a little bit offensively, and that is very much a

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Speaker 2: site for sore eyes, because as we know, it has

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Speaker 2: not been the prettiest picture over the last month and

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Speaker 2: a half. That's right, and of course the Sunday curse

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Speaker 2: for those of us, for those people who've listened to

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Speaker 2: us for a long time, know that even when the

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Speaker 2: Braves semlarly are playing well, they tend to lose on

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Speaker 2: Sundays before me and Scott in particular have to record

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Speaker 2: podcasts that actually happened today. But I totally agree with

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Speaker 2: you there is more of an upbeat tenor to this podcast.

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Speaker 2: We should also stay at the top of the show

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Speaker 2: that we are part of the Foul Territory network of podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Please subscribe to this show. It would be a huge

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Speaker 2: favorite to us rate and review as well Apple, Spotify, Overcast,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. We will focus some later on the podcast

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Speaker 2: about Michael Harris and the injury there. Unfortunately, in the

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Speaker 2: fallout of that, also touch on Grant Holmes's debut, the

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Speaker 2: movement that is Grant Holmes, also some struggles from person

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Speaker 2: and Waldrope, et cetera. But we should always begin where

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Speaker 2: you just started, and that is with a pretty encouraging

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Speaker 2: weekend plus So basically, the Braves just went three to

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Speaker 2: one since the last time that either you I were

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Speaker 2: on the show, and that's a positive thing. They won

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Speaker 2: the series this weekend against Tampa even it would have

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Speaker 2: lost today and you teased it. But I think the

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Speaker 2: biggest story by far, even with the Harris injury, which

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Speaker 2: Feed with Steven and Sean that the offense actually scored

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Speaker 2: some runs twenty eight runs in the last four games,

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Speaker 2: including and I think crucially, at least six runs in

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Speaker 2: all four of those games. You don't want to sort

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Speaker 2: of celebrate too early about this team being quote unquote back,

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Speaker 2: especially given the injuries and the losses that they have,

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Speaker 2: but at the very least the bats have started to

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Speaker 2: to see, and especially some of the players that the

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Speaker 2: Braves really need to step up have seemingly started to

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Speaker 2: step up. Austin Riley had his best weekend by far

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Speaker 2: all season long. I mean, he had a tremendous at bat,

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Speaker 2: a two run homer to dead center. There's encouraging signs there.

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Speaker 2: Jared Kelnick is kind of quietly really putting together a

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Speaker 2: nice season. Seems like he's figuring some things out. Sean

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Speaker 2: Murphy drove the ball pretty well at times over the

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Speaker 2: And maybe the stat of the podcast and this blew

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Speaker 2: this because math was never my strong suit. But stat

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Speaker 2: of the podcast tonight, the Braves scored twenty two runs

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Speaker 2: in the three games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Twenty two runs.

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Speaker 2: That's the most runs the Braves have scored in three

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Speaker 1: So we're talking quite.

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Speaker 2: Literally, since that first series of the year, the Braves

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Speaker 2: some signs of life. Of course, we're only talking about

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Speaker 2: four games where the offense has woken. We need to

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Speaker 2: see them continue to do it, and God, let's hope

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Speaker 2: And let's hope this weekend was really just a big

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Speaker 1: That would, of course be nice, and there is reason

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Speaker 1: for belief. You know, we talked to you and I

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Speaker 1: had they been, which is where they worried the previous

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Speaker 1: having guys who are supposed to hit, namely Austin Riley

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Speaker 1: for all of Marcelo Zuna is brilliance, and he has

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Speaker 1: And it's got to be a collective effort, and we

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Speaker 2: Well on the advats look better. I mean, that was

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Speaker 2: really my takeaway. Obviously the results are one thing, but man,

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Speaker 2: And it was a warm weekend in Atlanta. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: Off the top of my head, the Braves had seven

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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of that, I promise listeners that are new

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Speaker 1: and look, we will kind of gloss over this. It's

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Speaker 1: been talked about, but Alex Vanthopoulos did a pretty lengthy

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Speaker 1: He doesn't usually call those kind of interviews mid season,

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Speaker 1: and when the power is happening, as it usually is,

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Speaker 1: your point, they tended to blast the ball this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and hey, would you look at that. The results were

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Speaker 2: you to go back and listen. Justin had some really

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Speaker 2: with the state of the roster, and you know, as

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Speaker 2: there are quite a few things that this roster could use.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are a line there. And I would echo

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Speaker 1: Because I know, by the way Stephen and especially Sean,

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Speaker 2: Charlie Morton hit a batter.

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Speaker 1: With a curveball?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's just a game that I'll play by myself.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, Yes, I saw some enthusiastic responses to your tweet,

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Speaker 1: so somebody's gonna be along with you.

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Speaker 2: I think let's get it going. You know, could we

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Speaker 2: could turn it into a segment on the podcast. We

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Speaker 2: could get some awards or like little giveaways if you

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Speaker 2: get the inning, or I don't know, we'll work shop

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Speaker 2: this for another day. Scott's creating more work for me

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Speaker 2: is what he's trying to do right now on the podcast,

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Speaker 2: which I definitely appreciate. No, I'm kidding, of course, tongue

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Speaker 2: in cheek, but it is worth noting that the pitching

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Speaker 2: still has been for most most days. One of five

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Speaker 2: days anyway has been quite solid.

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Speaker 1: And that includes Charlie, who for my money is the

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Speaker 1: best is the best four starter in baseball right now,

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Speaker 1: and I will stand on that both with the numbers

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Speaker 1: and the eye test. Okay, Scott, let's talk about Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a lot of talking about Sunday. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: FT fam Okay Scott let us dive into Sunday's game.

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Speaker 1: It was a roller coaster. The curses alive as far

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Speaker 1: as Sunday lost their concern. They were down six to

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Speaker 1: two after four innings. They come all the way back

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Speaker 1: two runs into sixth on four consecutive two out hits.

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Speaker 1: Astronomy we mentioned a few times what we should always say.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the at bat. I definitely agree with you.

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Speaker 1: A fantastic played appearance follow off six pitches. He seemingly

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Speaker 1: has found it in a way that he would think

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Speaker 1: he would as an established star player. By the way,

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Speaker 1: he doubled his whole run total for the season this weekend.

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Speaker 1: He had three home runs this weekend after geting three

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Speaker 1: to this point in the season. Now the first number

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Speaker 1: is much more concerning the second number, but I think

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Speaker 1: that Austin is alive. But I'll just give you the

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Speaker 1: numbers now while I have it in front of me.

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Speaker 1: His first fifty three games of the season, so until

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Speaker 1: basically Friday, he had a six eighteen ops and that

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Speaker 1: included a four to six yikes ops. Since your return

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Speaker 1: from the injury, those numbers are now looking like they're

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Speaker 1: hopefully quite long in the past. And yes, they lost

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Speaker 1: the game, but I just want to say this out

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Speaker 1: loud that you know Riley looks like Roddy Agan.

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Speaker 2: He does. And really, I thought the most encouraging part

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Speaker 2: was despite going down six to two pretty early, the

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Speaker 2: Braves fought back. They had big hits from a handful

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Speaker 2: of players in the lineup, and that was such a

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Speaker 2: trademark of this team the last couple of years, where

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Speaker 2: even if they were down early, it never felt like

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Speaker 2: they were out of a game, and candidly, that has

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Speaker 2: not been the case for a lot of this season.

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Speaker 2: I mean, how many games during the downturn did the

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Speaker 2: Braves go down five to nothing early and I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: that's game. It was good to see them fight back

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Speaker 2: from down four of course, and unfortunate ninth. Then with

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Speaker 2: Ryce Eele Iglesias, who we're going to talk about here

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Speaker 2: in a little bit, and a pretty discouraging start I

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Speaker 2: thought from Hirst and Waldrop, but again kind of the

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Speaker 2: overall theme of this podcast was the offense looks so

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Speaker 2: much more back to normal and if that's gonna be

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Speaker 2: the big takeaway from the series and moving forward. Even

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Speaker 2: though they only won two games this weekend, which is

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Speaker 2: funny to say, but only one two out of three,

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Speaker 2: you will absolutely take it if it means that better

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Speaker 2: days are on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we agree on that, and there's a reason why

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Speaker 1: we're trying to emphasize that. It is the theme of

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Speaker 1: the podcast. With that said, there was not a lot

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Speaker 1: of encouragement with the pitching on Sunday, which got always

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Speaker 1: talk about on this Sunday Evening podcast. So you mentioned Waldrop.

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Speaker 1: He's looked okay the first time through the order in

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Speaker 1: both starts, and then after that the wills come off

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Speaker 1: both times, his command, etc. The Braves have already announced

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna go back to Gwinnett, so that's not

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Speaker 1: a huge surprise after he struggled today, But that is

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Speaker 1: already happening as we're recording this podcast. Look, he's still

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Speaker 1: a young guy, and we tried to kind of warn people.

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Speaker 1: I know when I talked to Garrett Spain, a prospect

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Speaker 1: expert that we trust immenseally, on this podcast couple weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: he kind of warned about this than we did, and

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Speaker 1: I know Sean Steven did. The Waldrop is not considered

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Speaker 1: to be anything close to a finished product. He is

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Speaker 1: the high upside guy. He is really talented, his splitter

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Speaker 1: is incredible, all that stuff, But they, I think the

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Speaker 1: people that I trust in valuating minor league options were

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Speaker 1: not super convinced that he's gonna be pretty good when

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Speaker 1: he arrived because he's not quite there yet. And look,

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Speaker 1: that looks to be the case at this point in time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to close the

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Speaker 1: door on him for the year by any means, but

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Speaker 1: I think that at the very least, we've kind of

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Speaker 1: seen why the conterns were there between the fastball not

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Speaker 1: being fantastic at this point in time and really kind

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Speaker 1: of make a two pitch guy for the most part.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what else you want to add to that,

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Speaker 1: but it was it was frustrating. I don't think though,

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Speaker 1: this is just me maybe differently. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: this is like curtains for him by any means, but

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Speaker 1: he did not look great this week.

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Speaker 2: Well like ninety nine point eight percent of pitchers. There

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Speaker 2: is a reason that even if you are a top

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Speaker 2: draft pick, they always get one or two years in

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Speaker 2: the minors, full seasons in the minor leagues before they

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Speaker 2: are even close to being ready. Of course, the Braves

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Speaker 2: are very aggressive with pushing Waldrop up, but you have

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Speaker 2: to remember this dude was pitching in the College World

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Speaker 2: Series one year ago. If you ever need to remind

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Speaker 2: yourself that I know. Today the hot takes were unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: This kid's terrible, This kid is a bust, this kid

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Speaker 2: is a reliever.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Right, I get it.

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Speaker 2: People were frustrated. People wanted to sweep. But at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, Waldrop is twenty two years old.

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Speaker 2: He has a plus plus splitter, he has an upper

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Speaker 2: nineties fastball, and he has a work in progress breaking ball,

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Speaker 2: a pretty tight slider that he throws.

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Speaker 1: It is going to take some time.

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Speaker 2: Not every twenty two year old is going to come

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Speaker 2: up and be Spencer Streider right away, right out of

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Speaker 2: the gate. I think this is almost going to be

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Speaker 2: if you're looking for a overlining, I think this could

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Speaker 2: be a good thing for Hurston that probably, for the

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Speaker 2: first time in his baseball life, he got his ass

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Speaker 2: kicked a little bit right, like a bad start in DC.

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Speaker 2: It started out pretty well, but it went very south,

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Speaker 2: very quickly, and then got hammered the second time through

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Speaker 2: the lineup today, for the first time in his baseball life,

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Speaker 2: I think he's kind of taken one on the chin

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Speaker 2: and now he knows that he has stuff to work on.

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Speaker 2: Has to work on the command, has to work on

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Speaker 2: the fastball, has to work on developing his third pitches

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Speaker 2: to keep hitters. Honest, I do agree that for this season,

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Speaker 2: I probably don't see Waldrop making much of an impact.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they could bring him back in a bullpen roll

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Speaker 2: or in a fifth starter spot in August or September

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Speaker 2: once he's had more time in Gwinnett. But long term,

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Speaker 2: even though these first two starts were not great, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it would be kind of silly to make any long

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Speaker 2: term decisions on Waldrip based on two starts less than

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Speaker 2: a year after he was drafted.

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Speaker 1: Right, and I lost a bet to you on this

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Speaker 1: podcast asked about when he would be called up, and

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Speaker 1: I was a little surprised that they went as fast

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Speaker 1: as they did with him. I kind of thought there

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Speaker 1: was a chance that he might be up late in

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Speaker 1: the year as a reliever. And this is again, this

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Speaker 1: is more in a free strattered injury world. But what

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Speaker 1: right now? Waldrop's arsenal is more of a reliever arsenal

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Speaker 1: like he's working on a third pitch, But yes he is.

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Speaker 1: He throws hard and again the splitter is disgusting and

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Speaker 1: it looks great even in the majors, But he doesn't

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Speaker 1: really have the arsenal right now, I'm look, I'm already

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Speaker 1: kind of dreading this next segment because I already know

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Speaker 1: what the response will be from a lot of different people.

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Speaker 1: But there's a world in which he's just not as

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Speaker 1: good as guys like Alan Winans and Bryce Elder, who

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Speaker 1: are not as talented as Hersman Walter Piss. But as

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Speaker 1: far as getting major league hitterers out right now, especially

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Speaker 1: in the third, fourth, fifth innings, it's a difference. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right now today on Jude sixteenth, again, if you give

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Speaker 1: me a career. I will definitely take Waldrop part of

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Speaker 1: those guys. But as far you know, that's there's always

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Speaker 1: a gap there between prospect rightiness and also, look, I'll

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Speaker 1: raise my hand here, I'm sure you would admit this

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Speaker 1: as well. Brace Fan's been pretty spoiled with how well

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Speaker 1: all of their big famous prospects have done recently. How

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Speaker 1: many guys that are their top, top, top guys have

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Speaker 1: come up and not play well right away, like very few.

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Speaker 1: And that's part of this too. People are kind of

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Speaker 1: spoilt and that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a learning opportunity for Hurston. I've said this

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Speaker 2: a few times. I'll say it again. Nothing in my

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Speaker 2: mind has changed long term. He has to figure out

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Speaker 2: a way to work the fastball better. He had no

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Speaker 2: swing and miss on the fastball today. I believe he

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Speaker 2: threw it twenty five times and did not get a

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Speaker 2: single whiff on that pitch. The splitter is great, but

634
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Speaker 2: if big league hitters are only looking for one pitch,

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Speaker 2: guess what, it can be the greatest pitch on planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: It is not going to get them out consistently. And

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Speaker 2: we mentioned the slider is very much a work in progress.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two years old going to go back to Gwinette.

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Speaker 2: I hope the Braves leave him in Gwinnette for at

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Speaker 2: least the next two months, so he has a chance

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Speaker 2: to go back and kind of pick up on what

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Speaker 2: he learned and pitch every five days with the Stripers,

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Speaker 2: and who knows, maybe in September or even October he'll

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Speaker 2: play a role of some kind. Of course, the Braves

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00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: need Hurst and Waldrop to be good with the uncertainty

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Speaker 2: and the rotation moving forward. They have every reason to

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Speaker 2: develop him in the minor leagues. It was not a

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Speaker 2: good first glimpse by any means, but Waldrop's ceiling is

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Speaker 2: still high, and you just have to hope that he

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Speaker 2: continues to get better.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and we'll leave that there for now. The fallout

652
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Speaker 1: is interesting too, because we're for this again Sunday evening.

653
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Speaker 1: We don't know yet what's going to happen on Monday.

654
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Snicker did tell the media today the plan is to

655
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Speaker 1: bring a bullpen arm in for Monday. That does not

656
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Speaker 1: mean explicitly that the Braves are going away from the

657
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Speaker 1: six men rotation.

658
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 3: Now.

659
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Speaker 1: They could go away from it, but it would make

660
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: logical sense for them to use a reliever just because

661
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: they can right now for a couple of days. And

662
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: also there's a wrinkle here. I don't know if this

663
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: is going to happen, but AJ Minter is eligible to return.

664
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Speaker 1: He's his fifteen days are up. He was throwing long

665
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: toss at the stadium today, according to our guy Chris

666
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: willis battery power. I don't know if he's ready, but

667
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. And even if it's not AJ,

668
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: they can go to a reliever if they want to,

669
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Speaker 1: and then they can decide or maybe they already have

670
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Speaker 1: decided whether to go back to five day rotation, or

671
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: they have you know, five days now basically six days

672
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: now to choose another starter, whether it's I think it

673
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Speaker 1: will probably be either Elder or Winans based on their

674
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Speaker 1: performances recently in Gwinette. But that's an interesting decision that

675
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Speaker 1: they have to make, especially if AJ is ready. I

676
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Speaker 1: think obviously he'll come back because he's one of the

677
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Speaker 1: best relievers. But if he's not ready, we'll see.

678
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we will see on the short term, and I

679
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 2: mean I guess the long term too. I think justin

680
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: Tiscano had some interesting insight that clearly the Braves value

681
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 2: pushing their starters back and utilizing the six man rotation

682
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: whenever they can. It's my guess that Bryce Elder will

683
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: be back up to make a start at some point

684
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Speaker 2: this upcoming week. You mentioned he's been very good in

685
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: Gwinnett in the month of June. I believe he's made

686
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: four starts with a zero zero point eight two ERA.

687
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: And maybe this is the most surprising and encouraging thing.

688
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: Twenty two innings, twenty nine strikeouts and four walks for

689
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Speaker 2: Brice Elder. And what do we always say, Scott about

690
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: Bryce Elder? Don't yeah, what can he not do?

691
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: Walk people? Because Bryce Elder? Yeah, well, yeah, the strikeout

692
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: numbers are I would take that with a grain of salt.

693
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Speaker 1: It is triple A. You have to adjust a little bit.

694
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Speaker 1: But he has been And look, I know I am

695
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: lower on Brice Elder than a lot of people were

696
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: even when he was pitching well. But something we have

697
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: always said for new listeners dating back a year plus

698
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: is that Bryce Elder cannot be a major league starter

699
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: if you watch guys. He doesn't have the stuff for that.

700
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: So if he stops walking people, I can buy him

701
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: as a fifth starter. I don't think he's much beyond that,

702
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: but again there's a world where he's okay. Allen Winans too,

703
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: Like I saw some eye dropping numbers. I think a

704
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: guy Garrett Spain again wrote on Twitter that he this

705
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: is crazy. Alan Wyans generated eighteen swings and misses on

706
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: his change up in one start. Now that's triple A.

707
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: But still that's kind of absurd. And he has seventies

708
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: strikeouts and his last two starts with two walks. So

709
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: like again, no one's going to get terribly excited about

710
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: Ellen Winen or Briyce Elder and including me. But we'll

711
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Speaker 1: do our little mini spiel now about fifth starters and

712
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: how everybody doesn't have a great fifth starter. That's still

713
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: the case, and the brids are just plugging holes. And look,

714
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: Schwellenbach is still by the way in the rotation, just

715
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: to say that out. Well, we'll get that, we'll probably

716
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Speaker 1: at the end of the podcast. But Schwellenbach is the

717
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: currently probable starter for Tuesday, So that's your really their

718
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: fifth starter at the moment, and their sixth starter is

719
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: this spot if they kind of do this, so it's

720
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Speaker 1: up in the air. No one should be surprised if

721
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Speaker 1: it's Elder or Wine ins. I would say, if it's

722
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: not one of those two guys, I'll be surprised, and

723
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: we will see if they even use that starter spot.

724
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: And the Braves do have a day off this week

725
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: on Thursday, so maybe maybe that will impact how they

726
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: handle the rotation. It is very much it feels like

727
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: day by day or the rotation, especially given the age

728
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: and the workload stuff.

729
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: But who knows.

730
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: At some point Bryce Elder is going to find himself

731
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: back in Atlanta. It might be this week, it might

732
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: be in a couple of weeks, it might be next month.

733
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 2: But again, it is so obvious the Braves are trying

734
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: to limit innings when they can for their starters, which

735
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: is something that I think everybody should be in favor of,

736
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: because if there's one thing the Braves have not had

737
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 2: the last two postseasons, the rotation has not been healthy

738
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 2: in back to back years. And I know injuries are

739
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 2: impossible to prepare for and all of that, but I mean,

740
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: the Braves have to do what they can to have

741
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 2: Ronaldo Lopez, Chris Slee, and Max Freed healthy come October.

742
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: Whatever they can do, and if that means that Bryce

743
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Speaker 2: Elder goes out there and just pitches, okay, a couple

744
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: of times in an effort to get those guys an

745
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: extra day or two of rest.

746
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Speaker 1: Then so be it. Maybe it's not the.

747
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 2: Sexiest start that you're ever going to see, but we've

748
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 2: also seen that Elder has been successful at times in

749
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Speaker 2: the majors.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Absolutely. And by the way, this might be a

751
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: throwback a long episode of the podcast, as I sort

752
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: of checked the time set of timestamp on the show. Anyway,

753
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: speaking it up a little bit here, Scott. The Braves

754
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: did option ray Kerr to the Miners on Sunday and

755
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: called up. I think is a player that's already a

756
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: fan favorite after one day. Grant Holmes a twenty eight

757
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: year old right hander who threw three scrorel with sendings

758
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: in his major league debut. Yes, major league debut for

759
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old. He was a first round

760
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: pick ten years ago. And for anybody that didn't see this,

761
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: Grant Holmes has a phenomenal head of hair.

762
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 2: I gotta say, yeah, that is a beautiful flow of lettuce.

763
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 2: You know, he looks like Kenny Powers from Eastbound to down.

764
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: He sure does, even throws like him a little bit. Really,

765
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 2: I mean, dude, I'm such a sucker for guys who

766
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: stick it out in the minor leagues for a decade

767
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: and ride those bus those bus trips across the country

768
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 2: and stay in the rinky dank hotels and make not

769
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: a lot of money just to get that one chance

770
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Speaker 2: at the major leagues. So for Holmes to get it today,

771
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 2: three scoreless innings in front of his family really cool.

772
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 2: And hey, he's got a live fastball. Tampa's hitters could

773
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Speaker 2: not do anything against it. It feels like he's gonna

774
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Speaker 2: get a real chance to stick. Holmes was actually starting

775
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 2: a bit for Gwinett, so he has the ability to

776
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 2: go multiple innings, which is not something this bullpen really

777
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 2: has right now. Potentially could even be like an opener

778
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 2: at some point if the Braves wanted to do that

779
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 2: with the bullpen. So very very happy for him. I

780
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 2: am sure he is elated to finally get his chance.

781
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: Good for him.

782
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 2: And let's hope the grant sticks and has a nice

783
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 2: year because he deserves it. Again, Man, a decade in

784
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 2: the minor leagues that has to be a lot of

785
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: just kind of laying in bed late at night and

786
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 2: just kind of thinking about your life, because a lot

787
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 2: of players bail far before you hit your ten years

788
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 2: and the miners, and good for him. It really was

789
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: an impressive debut for.

790
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: Sure, and the minor league guys that we trust, we're

791
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: talking about it today and like he's looked good in Gwinett,

792
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: Like it's not just a and it's obviously it is

793
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: a great story. But I think he might be major

794
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: league talent. He was first round pick a long time ago.

795
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: We will see how this goes. And you know, unfortunately

796
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: you could say he threw three innings today, that kind

797
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,959
Speaker 1: of makes him maybe a candidate to not be around

798
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: that long because he can't pitch probably tomorrow, et cetera.

799
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: That's kind of tough. But yeah, to your point about

800
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: going multiple innings, that is a valuable skill set, especially

801
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: if things get off the rails at times or you

802
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: get a short start, et cetera. And really just a

803
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: great story and something that should have been I mean,

804
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: it would have been nice to get a win today,

805
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: But he did his part for sure, Like he kept

806
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: it right there, like the Braves had a chance to

807
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: win this game today because he kept it at six two,

808
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: like for as long as he did three innings and

809
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: a big spot there was a lot of fun and

810
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: fantastic story to be sure. Briefly, do you want to

811
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: just discuss Ryce Iglesias, because I think people are pretty

812
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: angsty about him right now. It was a home run

813
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: that he allowed that kind of lost them the game today.

814
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: If you watch the game or even watch the stack cast,

815
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: it was a really good pitch. It was nowhere near

816
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: the zone. It was below the zone. Like harve me

817
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: to get pretty mad about that. And he's still been

818
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: pretty good this season, both the season and also recently.

819
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: I think he had like a one era and his

820
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: past nur ten games four today still a sub three

821
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: er for the season. Did you see any of that today?

822
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: Like people were kind of mad about that. I mean,

823
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: I guess it's just normal closer stuff, but I saw

824
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: that he's not a closer. It's like, well, actually he

825
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: has been a closer for a very long time, and

826
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Speaker 1: a very very good one.

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00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has, you know, the lack of strikeouts. It's funny.

828
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Speaker 2: Before today's game, when we kind of laid out the

829
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: podcast outline, we were going to talk about Rice El

830
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Speaker 2: and the fact that he has not struck anybody out

831
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Speaker 2: this season.

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Speaker 1: Way down his strikeouts were way.

833
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 2: Down compared to his career norms, which has been a.

834
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: Very good career.

835
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Speaker 2: And of course, even though we gave up the homer

836
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 2: on Sunday, he struck out three hitters.

837
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: Sure, it's like Ryce.

838
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 2: El sees our Google doc with all of our notes.

839
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Speaker 2: I am not necessarily concerned. I do want to see

840
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 2: the strikeouts come back up. Anytime you can strike guys

841
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: out in the ninth inning, it is only going to

842
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 2: help things to remove the flukiness of a couple of

843
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: soft singles or giving up a home run. On even

844
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 2: a good pitch, you give up a home run. I'm

845
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: not really concerned about Rice El. I honestly hadn't even

846
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 2: noticed the strikeouts were down so much. And sure, I mean,

847
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 2: is he prime Mariano Rivera or prime Craig Kimberrel. No,

848
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 2: But he's been fine enough for me. And anytime a

849
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: closure gives one up, especially with all of the emotional

850
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 2: highs of Riley's home run and then like five minutes

851
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: later he gives up the homer and it was just

852
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 2: kind of a wamp womp. But you know, I think

853
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 2: for Rice L he's a veteran, the velocity is still fine.

854
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 2: I'm not really concerned. We'll just have to keep an

855
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 2: eye on him and hopefully those strikeouts tick back up,

856
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 2: because that's such a weapon for closers. You know, I'm

857
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: a fan of talking about sample size as the thing

858
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: that matters, and with relievers it's even more pronounced. The

859
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 2: samples are just tiny on even like full season samples

860
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 2: for relievers are very small. But yeah, that's I'm attributing

861
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 2: this mostly annoyed. I did a little bit of a

862
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: deep dive, like you said, were already preparing for this.

863
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 2: His whip writes down, which is kind of what you

864
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 2: would look at as to why he's strikeouts. But he

865
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 2: is currently a ninety ninth percentile barrow right aloud, So

866
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 2: like no one's at the ball har on him. He's,

867
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: like you mentioned, his velocity is almost exactly as sam

868
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: as the lost last year. I'm not concerned, just one

869
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 2: of the least flag it because you don't like to

870
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 2: your point, you have to strike guys out eventually, But

871
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 2: I'm not concerned. All right, last thing before we get

872
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 2: out of here, a quick Michael Harris check in.

873
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: Obviously we talked about it on the feeds. If you

874
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: want more of the reaction from Steven and shall On,

875
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: et cetera. That is available for you. But we now

876
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: know always as of today, it's a grade two hamstring

877
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 1: strain for Michael Harris. There is no official timetable. The

878
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: Braves don't often give time tables. But if you look

879
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: around as I did today, I don't know if you did,

880
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: I did some googling, it would be a shock to

881
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: me and I think everyone if it was less than

882
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: a month for Michael Harris. It might be two months,

883
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: it might be longer. We don't really know. It's all

884
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: a guess, but Grade two is not what you wanted

885
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: to see for sure. Process wise, they were able to

886
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: get out along the roster because Strider I was not

887
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: on the sixt to day yet that happened today, but

888
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: not even I mean, of course it's your reaction of

889
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: the grade too, but even beyond that, we you gotta

890
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: talk about the state of the outfield, because captain obvious here, Scott,

891
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: the outfield situation is not what anybody wanted it to be.

892
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: And right now it is like looking like twenty twenty

893
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: one free traits, like it's pretty dark out there in

894
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: the outfield. Yes it is, and.

895
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 2: Man, you look at the outfield right now. And if

896
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 2: you would have told me the outfield was going to

897
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: be this in mid June coming into the season, I mean,

898
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 2: it would be hard to even get to this point right,

899
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 2: like to connect the dots. It's like, well, wait, where

900
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 2: are the outfielders who are like superstars? Where's the MVP,

901
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 2: where's the Gold Glove winner?

902
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 3: You know?

903
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 2: For Harris, it sounds like one to two months is

904
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 2: going to be the timeline. He of course is a

905
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: young guy. He's athletic, so let's hope it's on the

906
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: shorter end of that. But at the very least, the

907
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 2: Braves have to find three outfielders to play every single

908
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: night until Michael comes back. And man, I mean keil

909
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 2: Nick is playing better, which is encouraging. Adam Duval has

910
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 2: a negative forty the negative forty WRC plus against right

911
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 2: handed pitching this season.

912
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, I've to cut you off now. I was

913
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: waiting for this. I do not prap you for this.

914
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 1: We should at least say out loud. And the number

915
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: is hilariously bad. Adam Duvall is actually not not a

916
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: historic platoon split guy. Adam Duval actually has been pretty

917
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: good against Riots in his career like he's not. I

918
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: think people think of him as a slugger, and sluggers

919
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: often have big platoon splits. He usually doesn't. But man,

920
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: uh sample size, maybe I don't even know. I'm I'm

921
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: not trying. I'm not trying to wave it away, but man,

922
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: it's really, really, really bad. It's ridis and you have

923
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: to hope that it's honestly. Devaal's kind of always been

924
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: this super streaky guy, so maybe that's just maybe it's

925
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: just noise or mostly noise. But I laughed when I

926
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: saw your notiviz. The RCI plus gets ridies. It's in

927
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: the negatives and not just.

928
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 2: By little yeah, I mean below one hundred batting average.

929
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: His ops is below two hundred. Again, in ops below

930
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 2: two hundred against Fridays, he is mashing lefties, which is encouraging,

931
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 2: of course batting from the right side. I mean, there's

932
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 2: some value in that, but clearly at age thirty five,

933
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 2: I mean, Adam Duval has some limitations. We talked about

934
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 2: Kelnick Ramon Loriano is interesting. Once upon a time he

935
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 2: was really good with the Oakland A's, but he got

936
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 2: popped for peds and was suspended and hasn't been quite

937
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: as good since he was cut by the Cleveland Guardians

938
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. Brian Anderson is around. He similarly,

939
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 2: once upon a time, was quite good with the Marlins,

940
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: but has not been that player for a few years.

941
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 2: JP Martinez is like the epitome of like a fifth outfielder.

942
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 2: You also have Forest Wall and Gwinnett, who is in

943
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: his mid twenties. I mean, maybe he could bring a

944
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: little bit of spark with his on base and his steed.

945
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 2: He can't hit man, Yeah, he's never hit twenty six

946
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: years old in the minors. Not impossible, but if you

947
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 2: hit your mid twenties in the minor leagues, the reality

948
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 2: is a hitter is you're probably not going to make

949
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 2: a great impact. So we're gonna see they're very much

950
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 2: gonna have to piece it together, and I mean it

951
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 2: feels inevitable now even if it was leaning this way

952
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: before Harris's injury. Alexanthopolis has to go get an impact

953
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 2: outfielder at the deadline. Maybe maybe not a superstar that

954
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 2: or may not even be available, but he has to

955
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 2: get somebody, preferably who could platoon with Duval or even

956
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: spell Kelnick because I mean, again, you know Akuoni has

957
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 2: done for the year. Let's say that Harris comes back

958
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 2: in six weeks. I mean, what if there's another injury, Brad,

959
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 2: I mean, then we're getting into scary hours.

960
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: Well that's yeah, that's where we have to get to here,

961
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: because you know, there's nothing to say that you couldn't

962
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: get an injury now while Harris is already out and

963
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: it is it is pretty dire. You know, again, Harris

964
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: will be back eventually, like it might be a while,

965
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: but it isn't the season ending. Like you're gonna get

966
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: Michael Harris back and he's gonna be your center fielder

967
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: when he comes back. But you know, just the sheer

968
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: you gave the names just to say it out loud,

969
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: the five guys in the on the roster right now,

970
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: on the active roster Kellen nic Duvall, Loreano, Bran Anderson,

971
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: and Jap Martinez. That is not a outfielder on a contender,

972
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: outfit on a contender.

973
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 3: It's just not.

974
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: So everyone knows that. Of course, the extremely obvious thing

975
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: to say is that in twenty twenty one it was

976
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: maybe even worse than this because of injuries and Alex

977
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: went out in the span of a week and got

978
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who were not huge gits, but

979
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: starting caliber or at least platoon caliber outfielders. They're talking

980
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: about Solaire and Jock and all that. All that it

981
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: worked out beautifully, Eddie Rosario. Obviously, Alex batted one million

982
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: on the transactions. You can't always bank on that. They

983
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: don't have to get three guys like they did at

984
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: that time, but they do probably have to get somebody else,

985
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: especially because look, you know, we just mentioned how good

986
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: kellennickspan recently, and I think that realistically Kunnick's been as

987
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: good or better than I would have hoped to this point.

988
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: If he levels off, or if Duval just hits the

989
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: wall where he's you know, he's in his mid thirties.

990
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: What if he's just not pretty good like he's always

991
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: been streaky. We love aout him to all on this podcast.

992
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just not sing guy anymore. And then you

993
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: get into like, yeah, Loreano was good five years ago

994
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: in Oakland. I don't know if you can bank on that.

995
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: So not trying to paint a two diar of picture,

996
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: but I do think that they're gonna need somebody else

997
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: and they don't appear willing or eager at all to

998
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: play Marcel in left field, or they already would do that. Like,

999
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 1: we've reached the point where if Marcell was an outfield option,

1000
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: they would have been using him probably this weekend in

1001
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: the downfield. I have to guess.

1002
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 2: I think that ship has definitely sailed.

1003
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1004
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: I mean, and as we've longtime listeners know, it's always

1005
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: a talking point when we get closer to the trade deadline.

1006
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 2: But again, man, there are no exceptions to the trade

1007
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: deadline anymore.

1008
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: After July thirty first.

1009
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 2: There used to be the waiver period where you could

1010
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,720
Speaker 2: sneak players through and get some trade done in August.

1011
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 2: That's gone with So your roster at four pm Eastern

1012
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: Time on July thirty first, or whatever day the deadline

1013
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 2: is this year, I believe it's the thirty first that

1014
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 2: is your roster through the playoffs. It's not only do

1015
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,959
Speaker 2: the Braves have to navigate the next couple of months

1016
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 2: without Harris, but if someone gets hurt on August first

1017
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 2: in the outfield, the Braves are screwed. I mean, then

1018
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 2: you're talking about Ramon Loriano starting a playoff game or

1019
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 2: Forrest Wall starting a playoff game. I mean that that

1020
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 2: is not acceptable, and I think Alex Entthopolis would be

1021
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 2: the first one to tell you this. It's going to

1022
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: be a very interesting next six weeks or so. A

1023
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 2: navigating the outfield without Harris and b seeing what Alex

1024
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 2: does to add to this outfield that very much needs

1025
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 2: an influx of talent.

1026
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were very positive on the show and we

1027
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: still are on the whole here. But given all the injuries,

1028
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: you lay them out here in our document just to

1029
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: give you the credit for that, But Strider, Racunya, Ozzy

1030
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: miss time, Ronnie miss time, Murkhy miss time, Piers Johnson

1031
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: miss time, mentor still Paris is out like it has

1032
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: been worse than you would expect it to be for

1033
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 1: any team. The Braves have had below average in Drea

1034
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: locks so far, even if you know a factoring in.

1035
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: Ronald alone is a big loss for anybody as the

1036
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: best player in baseball in a lot of ways. But

1037
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: some work to be done for Anthopolis. You know, he

1038
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: didn't shy away from that and his comments to the

1039
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: media this week. He's not gonna come out and say

1040
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: we're going to do this, this, and this, because he's

1041
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: not that kind of guy. But it will officially surprise

1042
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: me and I know it will surprise you if they

1043
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: do not go get an outfielder of some acclaim between

1044
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: now and the deadline, which is six weeks away.

1045
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: Yes, it is going to very much be Alexanthopolis's time

1046
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: to make some moves, and I think that's something that

1047
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 2: Alex has. He has earned the trust of the fan base.

1048
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like a fanboy or I'm

1049
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 2: just constantly beating the drum for Alex and Thoppolis, but

1050
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 2: he has shown that through his five or six years

1051
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 2: now in Atlanta, he has generally hit on more things

1052
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: than he is. Not nobody's perfect. He's not going to

1053
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 2: be right on every single deal, but he's going to

1054
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 2: have to face the music here and maybe overpay at

1055
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 2: a track. I know that's something he probably would never

1056
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 2: want to do, but he might have to push a

1057
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 2: few chips in to try to give this team a chance.

1058
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 2: And I think we do have the benefit of having

1059
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 2: six weeks before trade deadline hits, so you can really

1060
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: evaluate and see what is Jared Kelnick like a month

1061
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 2: from now, does Adam Duval start to hit right handed pitching,

1062
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 2: or is he this automatic out, what is the shortstop situation?

1063
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 2: Like Orlando Arcia has been terrible for the last month

1064
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 2: and a half, one of the worst position players in

1065
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 2: the game. You go on and on down the list, injuries, whatever.

1066
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: It might be.

1067
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 2: So it's going to be a big next month and

1068
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 2: a half of evaluation for Alex in the front office

1069
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 2: because clearly this team still has the potential to have

1070
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: a deep run in October, but with all of the injuries,

1071
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 2: it is becoming more and more apparent they are going

1072
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 2: to need a couple of impact level editions if in

1073
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: my eyes anyway, if they're going to be a serious

1074
00:48:59,200 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 2: World Series can.

1075
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to back you up so people don't think

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Speaker 1: that you were just making stuff out of whole cloth

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Speaker 1: about Orlando Arcia. Actually, this is from our our friend

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Speaker 1: Steven Tolbert, our co host, who just tweeted this about

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Speaker 1: ten minutes ago. Arcia, in the last two months or so,

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00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: so it's April nineteenth, has is literally dead last in

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00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: all of baseball among qualified position players at the plate.

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Speaker 1: He's a thirty six dou RC plus in the last

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Speaker 1: two months. So you were not wrong about that, and

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Speaker 1: you weren't exaggerating about that. Hopefully that will balance out

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Speaker 1: in the near future. Okay, Scott, before we get out

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Speaker 1: of here, a brief look ahead at what's to come.

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Speaker 1: We'll kind of save the weekend preview because it's coming

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Speaker 1: up with the big series against the Yankees. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a showdown. And the Yankees are quite good this year.

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Speaker 1: But before that three at home against Detroit, Detroit is

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Speaker 1: basically the epitome of a five hundred team. So far

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00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: this year they look like that. And the projections in

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00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: the preseason over unders in the run differential, they are mid,

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00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: but not in a bad way. They're just okay, And

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00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: it's Freed, It's Schwellenbach and it's Lopez as the probables

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Speaker 1: so far for the Braves. As of Sundy evening, I

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Speaker 1: don't know about you. I'm looking forward to weds Get

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's game. It's of course the Old Businessman Special, So Scott,

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Speaker 1: it's a nine to twenty am start for you, but

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Speaker 1: it's a fantastic pitching matchup on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: It is Ronaldo Lopez, who I believe leads all of

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Speaker 2: baseball in era unless something changed, that is correct.

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Speaker 1: One point six to nine, very nice.

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Speaker 2: Nice and against Derek Scooble for the Detroit Tigers, who

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00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 2: might be the best pitcher in baseball. That is not

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00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 2: a household name. He's nasty, he's a lefty. That's about

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00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 2: as good as a pitching matchup as you're going to

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Speaker 2: get in the middle of Wednesday afternoon. So you know,

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Speaker 2: as you said, the Tigers not a bad team, not

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Speaker 2: a good team. They can't really score, like the offense

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00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 2: is pretty bad, but they found a way to be

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Speaker 2: competitive in the American League Central, which has surprisingly been

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Speaker 2: pretty good this year. They're very much a five hundred team.

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Speaker 2: Tigers were actually above five hundred after last year's All

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00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 2: Star Game team that kind of had some young players

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Speaker 2: start to figure things out. So they're not bad. They're

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Speaker 2: not a pushover. This is not the Tigers of a

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00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 2: couple of years ago where they lost like one hundred

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Speaker 2: and seven games, But a chance for the Braves, especially

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Speaker 2: at home, and especially the way the lineup has woken up,

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Speaker 2: to hopefully take advantage. Two out of three would be great.

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00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 2: Of course a sweep would be awesome, but yeah, clearer

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Speaker 2: schedules for Wednesday afternoon, because that is going to be

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00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 2: a terrific pitching matchup.

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Speaker 1: Or Wednesday morning. In one particular co host case on

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Speaker 1: this podcast, I looked this up. The Tigers have a

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00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: minus three frun differential this season, which is essentially zero.

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Speaker 1: So that's what they are at this point. Okay, Scott,

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Speaker 1: let us get out of here. Anything to plug at

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00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: the end of this what I believe will be our

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00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 1: longest episode of Hammer Territory yet.

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00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 2: Not a ton to plug. Good to do a show

1133
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 2: with you, Brad where we were not like banging our

1134
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 2: heads against the wall because of the offense. It's been

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00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 2: a frustrating couple of weeks, but some very encouraging signs

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00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 2: this weekend for the Braves. Let's hope they continue it

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Speaker 2: against the Tigers and then a big series against the

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Speaker 2: Yankees next weekend.

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Speaker 1: That'll be a lot of fun.

1140
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 2: Try to avoid Aaron Judge and One Soto hitting five

1141
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 2: hundred foot homers against this but overall hard to not

1142
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 2: be encouraged by the offense waking up this weekend and

1143
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:17,959
Speaker 2: let's hope it keeps you awing.

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Speaker 1: we're trying to grow the show. Check out the entire

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Speaker 1: Territory network as well. Not just us, but there's North

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Speaker 1: Side Territory and Daughter's Territory, et cetera. If you are

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