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Speaker 1: What is up? Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of The Mets Stuff Podcast, Episode number one seventy six.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about in this episode.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not the greatest stuff, but we do have to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Edwin Diaz, Brandon Nemo, spring training, the

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Speaker 1: new relievers, the new players, what's going on with this team,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of WBC talk, talk about Amazing Day,

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Speaker 1: which is Amazing Day which is coming up this weekend.

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Speaker 1: A lot of baseball to talk about. You guys know,

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Speaker 1: this is the place to do it. If you're a

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Speaker 1: drops a review, download and subscribe. James, how are we

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Speaker 1: doing out in New York while I'm still in beautiful Miami.

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Speaker 2: It's been awful. I got strep throat last week. It

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Speaker 2: was so miserable having strep throat, like as a single

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Speaker 2: adult in New York City is the absolute loneliest place

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Speaker 2: in the universe. I have a fever for days my throat.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't like swallow eat anything. I had to work

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Speaker 2: all the days because Mojo launched like marsh badness stuff

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Speaker 2: and there was just no one else who could do

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Speaker 2: the stuff that I was doing. And it was a

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Speaker 2: miserable couple of days coming off of off of the

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Speaker 2: EDDS thing on Wednesday, went to urgent care on Thursday

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Speaker 2: and have been sick. It was six since Sunday.

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Speaker 3: It was terrible.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm not to rub salt in the wound.

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Speaker 1: But I've had a great time down in Florida. It's

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Speaker 1: been sunny. It's been eighty degrees every single day. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting a nice little tan in. I've been going to

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Speaker 1: the horse track. Shout out to my boy Jack Abrams,

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Speaker 1: big met fan, old roommate. He's a horse trainer down

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Speaker 1: here at Gulf Stream. He's won the two races that

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Speaker 1: I've been at back to back, so I'm a good

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Speaker 1: luck charm. We've We've had a great time down there.

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Speaker 1: Horse Racing's fun. If you haven't been to a track,

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Speaker 1: I highly suggest it. Watching some World Baseball Classic. It's

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Speaker 1: it's been a good trip for me and it's coming

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Speaker 1: down to an end here on Monday. We have two

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Speaker 1: games left. I have the semi finals today against Japan

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Speaker 1: and Mexico and then the finals with USA, hopefully against Japan,

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Speaker 1: which I would really love to see that matchup.

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Speaker 2: I have a fun question for you, Okay, hit me,

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Speaker 2: what was your least fun moment of the last week

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Speaker 2: at the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's not a fun question. I don't know. A

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Speaker 1: fun question. Is the way I'd phrased that, I would

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Speaker 1: say agonizing question more so? Uh yeah, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the elephant in the room, Edwin Diaz getting hurt at

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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic. From the celebration after Puerto Rico

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Speaker 1: beat Dominican Republic to move on to the quarterfinals in

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Speaker 1: the WBC. You guys know what went on. You saw

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Speaker 1: the videos, you saw the clips, you saw everything. I

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Speaker 1: was there live in person, and I did not know

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Speaker 1: what to do. I was I was like filming myself

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you see it just like turn white, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, someone's down. Please don't be

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Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz. Please don't be Francisco lindor the two guys

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Speaker 1: on the Mets that matter the most. And then I

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Speaker 1: At first, I was like, oh my god, he fainted.

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Speaker 1: Like the moment was too big. He fainted. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: No one seems to care. And then when they started

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Speaker 1: And then the text started flying in obviously tore his

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Speaker 1: what was it called pateller tendon in his knee. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: bru brutal sucks, really really sucks for the Mets. Really

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Speaker 1: sucks Redwin Daz too, because the dude's the best closer

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Speaker 1: in baseball, has been the best closer in baseball for

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Speaker 1: probably the last two years now, and it's really just

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Speaker 2: It'd probably even goes as far as say, one of

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Speaker 2: the best closers in history of baseball just to five

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Speaker 2: year samples put together, besides a MLB's crew up the

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Speaker 2: ball on him. But it was, it was it was

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Speaker 2: at like almost eleven o'clock at night, I'm like, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, this is really dragging out. But I saw

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Speaker 2: the celebration going on. I was like talking on the

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, I saw Key Hernandez like flush, and

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Speaker 2: I was like, I thought Key k Hernandez was Puerto Rican,

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Speaker 3: Why is he upset right now? And then they zoomed out.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, And I saw everyone on

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Speaker 2: And then the moment I think every every Mets fan,

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Speaker 2: Edwin's brother, Alexis was bawling, was sobbing. Usually when your

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Speaker 2: something is seriously seriously wrong. And it just from that

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Speaker 3: Mets fans, baseball fans, everyone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of anti WBC rhetoric going around Twitter

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Speaker 1: and social media, to which I will not stand for. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: it's it's awful what happened to Edwin, and I wish

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Speaker 1: it didn't happen. I think that's that's pretty obvious. I

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Speaker 2: I will say the Mets, the medical corresponds and Schyler

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Speaker 2: boy Nicolo, he works in he worked in a worked

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Speaker 2: in a strengthy strength coach the Houston Astros.

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Speaker 3: That's not official titles.

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Speaker 2: Fishtal is much more scientific than that, but he'll he'll liked,

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Speaker 2: he liked the bralic name. He I got the word for,

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Speaker 2: I got to scoop from right after specputeller tendons in

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Speaker 2: generally said one one thing is tendons in the whole

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Speaker 2: This happened just happened during the WBC. But also I

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Speaker 2: I was very mad at the WBC. I was tweeting

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Speaker 2: out of the depression storm that night. I was really upset.

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Speaker 2: I lost a couple of followers, also gained a couple.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was just I think every

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Speaker 3: As a Mets fan.

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Speaker 2: You're just so used, you're so ready for the other

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Speaker 2: basically since Steve Cohen bought the team, and for something

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Speaker 2: like this to happen just two weeks before the season,

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Speaker 2: it's like, you have to just be kidding me that

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Speaker 2: like this happened. So again, there was a lot of

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Speaker 2: anti WCS. I never never swore off WBC. I said

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Speaker 2: I would not forgive the WBC, which is different than me.

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Speaker 2: I would never forgive it. I didn't say the games

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Speaker 2: are meaningless, because the games are not meaningless. Anyone with

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Speaker 2: they're not meaningless.

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Speaker 3: But it did.

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Speaker 2: It has left like a different taste in my mouth

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Speaker 2: about to WBC.

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Speaker 1: It's tough because it was like a freak, freak accident

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Speaker 1: the way that it happened. We I think days later

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Speaker 1: after seeing what went on, obviously in the moment, we

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Speaker 1: you all condemn condemned the WBC, which I take those

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Speaker 1: words back. I was I was thinking out of haste,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like people were really mad. Like I met

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Speaker 1: I had the a peede alonzo Usa jersey on. He

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Speaker 1: WHOA hold on a second, here, buddy, hold on a second.

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Speaker 1: Losing Edwin da is a huge Obviously he's important to

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Speaker 1: not built where one guy goes down and the season's over,

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Speaker 1: one guy leaves the team, one guy can't be a

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Speaker 1: part of it, and all of a sudden, the seasons over.

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Speaker 1: Especially the closer position, which me and you have talked

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Speaker 1: someone else can step right in. And I feel like

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Speaker 1: the Mets have built that bullpen this year. So all

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Speaker 1: our closer, I get the feeling. I understand how you feel,

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Speaker 1: but you also have to know that's that's a crazy

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we just we've watched teams go to

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Speaker 2: the World Series last few years with complete question marks

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Speaker 2: of the bullpen. Think the Braves won a World Series

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Speaker 2: with was objectively a bad bullpen. The Phillies the World

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Speaker 2: Series last year was objectively a bad bullpen, Like these

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Speaker 2: are these are normal things that happen in baseball. The

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Speaker 2: Astros the average baseball fan, and they maybe one or

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Speaker 2: two relievers in the entire Astros team, and they have

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Speaker 2: seven guys's never heard of, so that it is it

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Speaker 2: is a bigger thing for the Mets to deal with

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Speaker 2: just because we love had the best closer, Like when

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Speaker 2: you have the one hundred percentile closer, losing them is worse.

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Speaker 2: But if you're gonna lose, I mean, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: say that because I don't want to lose any good players,

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Speaker 3: Say that at all.

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Speaker 2: But it just this disportunately affects the Mets because of

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Speaker 2: how good he is, Like him being the best closer

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Speaker 2: by a lot makes this hurt worse just because you

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Speaker 2: lost a blue chip player. Any team losing a blue

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Speaker 2: chip player hurt. Luckily, this blue chip player only is

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Speaker 2: gonna be it was gonna only gonna be in sixty

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Speaker 2: games or so anyway, so that makes it a little

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Speaker 2: bit better. Someone else had a logical point where it

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Speaker 2: was like one of the day the guys that follow

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Speaker 2: I think it was either Jeff Zimmerman or Derek Carthy

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Speaker 1: Out Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez, Roefield, Evers was it was

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Speaker 2: of Vino as the guy who is the fireman who

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Speaker 2: gets the best right handed hitters out all the time

434
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Speaker 2: because he is incredible. He had one of the best

435
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Speaker 2: relievers of any really pitcher in baseball last year, only

436
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Speaker 2: one of three I've says before in the show, only

437
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Speaker 2: one of three relievers to have at thirty percent strike

438
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Speaker 2: up rate, a fifty percent ground ball rate in less

439
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Speaker 2: than ten percent walk right in the entire league last year.

440
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Speaker 2: And the other two where Joan Duran and Andres Munos

441
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Speaker 2: probably the two nastiest relievers besides Edwind Diaz in the

442
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Speaker 2: entire sport. And Adamunt of funs with those guys with

443
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Speaker 2: those distinctions, and he's been throwing frisbees in WBC. So

444
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Speaker 2: with these two guys the back again, it sucks losing

445
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Speaker 2: Edmond didas we lose by far the best reliever in baseball.

446
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Speaker 2: But there's still two very formidable options who are a

447
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,760
Speaker 2: better one two punch of the back then most teams

448
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Speaker 2: could even offered the He used to be part of

449
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Speaker 2: a one two to three that was better than any

450
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Speaker 2: team could have offered, but now is a one two.

451
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Speaker 2: It still puts us in a pretty decent position.

452
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Speaker 1: And I think this also leads us to now the

453
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Speaker 1: other guys also need a step up. It's just everyone's

454
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Speaker 1: gonna have to step up on this team all year long.

455
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Speaker 1: Even if you had Edwin Diaz and you want to

456
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Speaker 1: win a World Series, people have to step up, right.

457
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Speaker 1: It's just a little bit more important now a little

458
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Speaker 1: more prevalent, but guys in the back end of the

459
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Speaker 1: bull or I shouldn't say back into the front end.

460
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Speaker 1: I guess it's technically what you would call that, right

461
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Speaker 1: the front end of the bullpen. Guys like Drew Smith,

462
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Speaker 1: Drew Flow, Drew Chains, John Curtis Brooks, Raley, just to

463
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Speaker 1: name some guys like all those dudes. That's why we

464
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Speaker 1: talked about them so much during the offseason, because we

465
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Speaker 1: knew they were gonna be very important. Maybe not for

466
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Speaker 1: this reason, but these guys are gonna now have to

467
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Speaker 1: step up and fill in those spots now because a

468
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Speaker 1: guy like Ottavino and Robertson kind of get pushed up

469
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Speaker 1: one ending.

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Speaker 2: Now definitely, And I think Ralely is someone interesting to

471
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Speaker 2: talk about here because Andy Martinez he said specifically the

472
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Speaker 2: other day that Raley and d rob were the guys

473
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Speaker 2: who are gonna get to save opportunities, which also made

474
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Speaker 2: me think that they were just going to maintain out

475
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Speaker 2: of Vino's role as it was and what it was,

476
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Speaker 2: because how successfully he was and rarely got like half

477
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Speaker 2: a dozen saves last year with the Rays.

478
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Speaker 3: He can get guys from both sides to play out.

479
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Speaker 3: He's a wily pitcher.

480
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Speaker 2: And It's kind of like with bullpens when you think

481
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Speaker 2: about like the depth chart changing, it's like everyone kind

482
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Speaker 2: of moves up or wrung instead of like we like

483
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Speaker 2: shuffle tears, Like everyone just kind of has to get

484
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Speaker 2: up one spot. Everyone goes up one spot, So like

485
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Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, like someone else, someone else from the

486
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Speaker 2: teams go to the A team. Someone from team has

487
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Speaker 2: to go to the beat team, someone else who was

488
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Speaker 2: kind of in the mixing match spot the I being

489
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Speaker 2: the C team.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of how this works. Drew Flow is.

491
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Speaker 2: Gonna be a guy who's gonna be incorporated. He's got

492
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Speaker 2: to slide in the fastball work in the spring. John

493
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Speaker 2: Curtis is someone who the Mets made that cool signing

494
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Speaker 2: last year, like we'll pay for your rehab for one

495
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Speaker 2: year to get one year of you hopefully being an

496
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Speaker 2: elite reliever. And he's sitting around fifty percent strike as

497
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Speaker 2: the spring. His fastball velocity is like about Newyear ninety five,

498
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Speaker 2: where it's been most of his career. Slide velosities up

499
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Speaker 2: where it's always been two. But he's kind of like

500
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Speaker 2: I'm noticing something with a lot of the Mets pictures,

501
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Speaker 2: like over the last like eight or nine days. Just

502
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Speaker 2: looking at their velocity readings day by day, a lot

503
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Speaker 2: of them have pulled velocity back from the like the

504
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Speaker 2: week before. So I don't know if we've just had

505
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Speaker 2: bad guns for a week or if there's like an

506
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Speaker 2: organizational ideal to be like, all right, we're like we're

507
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Speaker 2: managing effort week by week here, so it's like eighty percent,

508
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Speaker 2: sixty percent, ninety percent, or like just that's just an

509
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Speaker 2: example throwing into my head. So it seems like Curtis

510
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Speaker 2: is a guy who I think Mets fans should be

511
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Speaker 2: aware of because also for Curtis, he's had such a

512
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Speaker 2: good spring, then maybe this last week he's pulled back

513
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Speaker 2: velossy because he's like, Okay, I made the team now,

514
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Speaker 2: so I can chill a little bit, like I can

515
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Speaker 2: I can keep this thing safe and get ready for

516
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Speaker 2: April rather than trying to throw a hundred percent trying

517
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Speaker 2: to prove myself to these guys. He also did an

518
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Speaker 2: interview in SNY. He literally looks like a dude. He's

519
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Speaker 2: got like the mel pattern baldness. He was just like

520
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Speaker 2: he's wearing like a T shirt. He was just like

521
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Speaker 2: kind of joking around with the reporters. I was like, oh,

522
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Speaker 2: this could be a fun guy to an interview.

523
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Speaker 1: I'll always tell you he's one of the best athletes

524
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen. When I was at the COVID World

525
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Speaker 1: Series watching the Rays versus the Dodgers, I was sitting

526
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Speaker 1: in right field before the game watching VP. John Curtis

527
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Speaker 1: was run around the outfield the robbing home runs like

528
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Speaker 1: Kevin Kiermyer. The dude is a freak athlete. I don't

529
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Speaker 1: really know what that has to do with him being

530
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Speaker 1: a pitcher. Now, well, it will pitch this year. I'll

531
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Speaker 1: tell you right now. If you get to the ballpark early,

532
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Speaker 1: watch the guy shagfly balls in the outfield. It's electric.

533
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Speaker 1: He's money.

534
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Speaker 2: Bryce Montesteoka again, we talked about it last week, but

535
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Speaker 2: avoided the worst with his uh sore forearm.

536
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Speaker 3: He's gonna be shut down for it was a couple

537
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Speaker 3: of weeks.

538
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Speaker 2: So hopefully we see him back and throwing his Frisbees

539
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Speaker 2: blitz balls like by the middle of May. And the

540
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Speaker 2: other guy, I gotta talk a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: I wait, someone start the clock. We got thirty seconds.

542
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Speaker 1: It's the James Jeff Brigham. Half minute go.

543
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Speaker 3: The Bringham extravaganza.

544
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Speaker 2: Just similar to Dremla John Curtis, the Velo has gotten

545
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Speaker 2: almost all the way back to where it was. It's

546
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Speaker 2: basically back to where he was last year. It's not

547
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Speaker 2: back to the ninety seven he sat at twenty nineteen,

548
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Speaker 2: where he really broke out as a reliever with the Marlins.

549
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Speaker 2: But the fact that he's already getting to ninety five.

550
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Speaker 2: He's touched ninety six few times makes me think that

551
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Speaker 2: he will be able to max out in ninety seven

552
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Speaker 2: and a half ninety eight once his arm gets fully

553
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Speaker 2: warm and the weather moves up. The sliders also back

554
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Speaker 2: at last year's average. If we get to that ninety

555
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Speaker 2: seven again, if we get to the ninety seven again,

556
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Speaker 2: I really think this guy could be a force the

557
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Speaker 2: back into the ball. I'm not even kidding, but it

558
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Speaker 2: is something to keep an eye on. In his appearance.

559
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Speaker 2: I believe it was the Fridlier Saturday, he was stretched

560
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Speaker 2: out to forty two pitches. They tried the game through

561
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Speaker 2: two winnings. He had some control issues, so he can

562
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Speaker 2: get through one of two thirds, but forty pitches. So

563
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Speaker 2: Brigham might be a guy who the Mets are using

564
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Speaker 2: his stars experience. If he can sit ninety four to

565
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Speaker 2: ninety five for forty pitches, and he could be like

566
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Speaker 2: a two winning guy. That's also a weapon with his

567
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 2: ridiculous slider. That's kind of fun. That was kind of cool,

568
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Speaker 2: something to keep an eye on. But I think Jeff

569
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Speaker 2: Brigham has done enough this spring to get himself inside

570
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Speaker 2: opening day bullpen. He does have an option still, and

571
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Speaker 2: I think he is someone who's gonna be very interesting

572
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Speaker 2: to watch as we shuffle around try to find new

573
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Speaker 2: guys to make impacts.

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Speaker 1: I just hope that whenever we inevitably get to talk

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Speaker 1: to Jeff Brigham, that he appreciates how big of a

576
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Speaker 1: fan you are of this guy, because, like I mean,

577
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Speaker 1: there's no podcast, there's no person in the world. I

578
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Speaker 1: don't even think his parents talk about him as much

579
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Speaker 1: as games.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, bring him Young's my guy right there.

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Speaker 2: I love Jeff Brigham. I also just think he can

582
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Speaker 2: be good. Like that's the biggest thing here. Like I

583
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 2: look at this bullpen, I look at who who could

584
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Speaker 2: step up, who has some potential Johnson come in at

585
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Speaker 2: some point, I'm sure talking about boy Jimmy Acabonis, who

586
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Speaker 2: also probably has pitched well enough this spring to earn

587
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Speaker 2: himself a spot in the team because he is out

588
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Speaker 2: of options, one of the few guys who is out

589
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Speaker 2: of options in this mix. So he's someone's gonna be

590
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Speaker 2: interesting here. We lost Zakreen back to the Yankees. Poor

591
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 2: went out for our Rule five baby Zach Green. But

592
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Speaker 2: there are just a lot of guys back here. This

593
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Speaker 2: is this is the cruel, the cruel, karma and fate

594
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Speaker 2: of what's happened to Edwin Diez. Because now, as we've

595
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Speaker 2: talked about for years doing this show, how much we

596
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Speaker 2: want like a modern bullpen, all these different guys to

597
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Speaker 2: make it up. We talked about the Astros, talking about

598
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, talking about the Rays. We literally lost our

599
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Speaker 2: lightning rod that made us like the best bullpen. And

600
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Speaker 2: now we're like, this is this bullpen you guys wanted,

601
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Speaker 2: You just got it, Like, have fun with it is

602
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Speaker 2: your karma.

603
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Speaker 1: We also picked up a couple of new guys after

604
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Speaker 1: the Edwin Daz injury. Dennis Dennis Santana or is it

605
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Speaker 1: is that you just pronounced it Dennis. I know sometimes

606
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Speaker 1: it's like Denny misschick.

607
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Speaker 2: I just saw that that was his name that was

608
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Speaker 2: pulled from like on crang Grass Baseball Reference, it was

609
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Speaker 2: called Dennis Maybe he goes by down by that point.

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Speaker 1: I believe he pitched last year against the Mets when

611
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Speaker 1: he was with the Rangers. He's always a dude who's

612
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Speaker 1: had good stuff but is never really put together, like

613
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Speaker 1: the strikeout numbers, right if I'm correct.

614
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I look a little bit into that because

615
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Speaker 2: he is a guy who has great stuff. He has

616
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Speaker 2: a good slither, and he throws cheddar cheese like it's

617
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Speaker 2: like ninety eight ninety nine. But looking through it, he

618
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Speaker 2: throws significantly more two seemers than four seemers, even though

619
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Speaker 2: both do great out as plus moving profile wise, and

620
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Speaker 2: that ratio was like four to one last year between

621
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Speaker 2: two seemers and four steamers. So that is a play

622
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Speaker 2: as a guy who probably would seek more ground balls.

623
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Speaker 2: And I do think that maybe it's something to watch

624
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Speaker 2: for Mets fans as he progresses, if he gets to

625
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Speaker 2: this team, because we're not gonna have this day that

626
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 2: he's in the minor leagues, how much that ratio either

627
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Speaker 2: stay changes or stays the same between his four seamers

628
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Speaker 2: and two seamers. That kind of seems like that seems

629
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Speaker 2: like the adjustment that can be made, and I will

630
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Speaker 2: be interesting to see if that's adjustment we do.

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Speaker 1: Make one hundred percent. We also got Bubby Rossman, who

632
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Speaker 1: was on Team Israel. I know you got a little

633
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Speaker 1: scouting port on him. I saw him pitch, I believe

634
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Speaker 1: against Team Venezuela in the pool play. I didn't notice much,

635
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Speaker 1: but you've got some stuff on him.

636
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's another guy who just throws hard.

637
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Speaker 2: I commend the Mets for something bad like this happening

638
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 2: and getting right to the grindstone the next day and

639
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 2: getting two guys who throw ninety miles an hour. I

640
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 2: feel like there's certain people in the past who maybe

641
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 2: would have signed, just like a thirty nine year old

642
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: guy who had like eighteen saves over the last two years.

643
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Speaker 2: I remember Howlong for the day as the Jose Falverde

644
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 2: in the back end of a bullpend. But I'm happy

645
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 2: that Me's got too, mostly unknown guys who actually throw hard.

646
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Speaker 2: Rossman's fastball, though it is just very straight, it doesn't

647
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 2: really have a lot of hop ride on it, so

648
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Speaker 2: we probably will need a little bit. Ferry does probably

649
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Speaker 2: will need to gains to the lab and if that

650
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 2: fourteen fastball doesn't get the hop because one of the

651
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 2: hardest things a pitcher can change, it's literally the shape

652
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: on his fastball. We'll see maybe if he's a guy

653
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 2: who experiments with two seamer sinker or color, just depending

654
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Speaker 2: on what happens with the Jeremy Heffer Fairy does.

655
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

656
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: And then there's obviously been the conversations by no one

657
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 1: important necessarily, but just by people on Twitter, be like

658
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: who coul we trade for? Who cool we go after?

659
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: And there's I mean, it's the reliever market, so seemingly

660
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: almost everybody is available that you could probably think of,

661
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: and especially the guys who are coming up on getting

662
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: paid right, like coming up to arbitration paydays. Guys like

663
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Speaker 1: like a Dave Bednar.

664
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Dave Bednar, friend of the program, shout

665
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: out my boy Ross. He's he, I mean, he's like

666
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 2: the dream.

667
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 3: But you're not. You can't make a trade for a leaf.

668
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 2: Pitcher before like July fifteenth, like just the Major League

669
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 2: Baseball transactions don't work like that. You're gonna get your

670
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 2: arm twisted. You're either gonna be held to the fire him.

671
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 2: I would say, maybe like Scott Barlow than anybody who

672
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 2: steps up for the Tigers. Anybody who steps up for

673
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 2: the Rockies. Bart kind of makes a lot of money,

674
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Speaker 2: and we just saw him kind of lose a little

675
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 2: bit over the weekend. So I don't really know. Again,

676
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 2: Mets fans, Mets fans are dying for Alexis DS right now,

677
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 2: but he has so much team control it probably and

678
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 2: you also might be a little bit unstable skills wise.

679
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 2: He also just could not pitch the day after the

680
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 2: injury happened.

681
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 3: He that's a good brother. That's a good brother.

682
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 2: Though right there, you're you're so bent out of shape

683
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 2: that you're that you're a big brother. Is like it

684
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 2: is gonna be out for an extended period of time.

685
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,360
Speaker 1: But they played the trumpets for Alexis DS too, came

686
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: out and it felt it felt very strange, felt very

687
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: felt like like that. Yeah, it felt like like like

688
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: a sad tribute, like of like like it felt like

689
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: we were mourning. I didn't like it.

690
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 2: I don't like the but I mean, these are the

691
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: options that you're gonna hear about. No trade talks can

692
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: even be considered half serious until we get to July,

693
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 2: middle of July least, so that's a long time away.

694
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 3: We're still in March twentieth.

695
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: The Mets are gonna play like eighty games, not one

696
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 2: hundred games until we can even consider trading for a reliever.

697
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 3: So I'm sure.

698
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll be active with cuts from spring training.

699
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll be active on the wavemarket. I'm sure

700
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 2: they'll be active with like weird forty men roster cuts.

701
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,959
Speaker 2: They're gonna be going on as these weeks go on.

702
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 2: The Rays famously pulled Nick Anderson in mid season trade.

703
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 2: They pulled Peter Fairbanks for Nick Solak, like on the

704
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: eve of the season a couple of years ago. Like

705
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 2: there are options that rise for teams and players like this,

706
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: but I think would you're you're not really gonna see anybody,

707
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: you know, any transactions off the bat, And we're gonna

708
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 2: A lot's gonna be about John Curtis. Lot's gonna be

709
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 2: about Drew Smith. Lots can be about Brooks rarely. Lot's

710
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 2: gonna be a freaking Jeff Brigham. You're gonna these guys

711
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 2: in the bullpen right now, A lot's gonna be on

712
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 2: their shoulders and it's gonna be up to them to

713
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: pick up the slack for sure.

714
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: And of course, like with Best Baseball going on now.

715
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: We just talked for about thirty minutes about Edwin Diaz,

716
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: brandan NEMO injury, all that kind of stuff. We can

717
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: we can get a little positive now here because we

718
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: have had the spring training games continuing to go on

719
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: while the WBC has been happening. We've had Shures, are

720
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 1: been pitching, Peterson, McGill, Carrasco, Brett Baby, DJ Stewart hit

721
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: for the psych on. I mean, there's been a lot

722
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: going on. I think everyone probably wants to talk about

723
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: the pictures though, right.

724
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: I mean, for sure, over since over the last week,

725
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 2: since we last talked to you, guys, shurs are and

726
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,959
Speaker 2: for Land are both shoved. So we have some solace

727
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,239
Speaker 2: in that though. Oh yeah, we do still have two

728
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 2: of the two of the best pitchers in the entire

729
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: sport ever in our entire any of our lifetimes listening

730
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: to the show right now, are on this team. So

731
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 2: that's a really good thing. Dave Pearson also looked amazing

732
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 2: again on Sunday. It's crazy that when this guy came up,

733
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 2: and even he was drafted, he was a sinker, change

734
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 2: up guy, and he walked out there on Saturday and

735
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 2: threw almost exclusively fastball, sliders and curves. It was like,

736
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 2: it's like you could I couldn't even believe it. And

737
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: his curveball hasn't really been ating that well in terms

738
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 2: of a lot of like moving metrics so far the spring.

739
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 2: But when I look at it, I don't think it

740
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 2: looks that bad. So I'm thinking that maybe this is

741
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: something that is useful. And he threw twelve of them

742
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 2: in four innings on Sunday. That is more than he's

743
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 2: ever thrown in and outing his entire career. He threw

744
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 2: him in four innings of a spring training game. So

745
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 2: I'm really fascinated to see how his pitch mix develops

746
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 2: early in the season, if this curveball thing is or

747
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 2: something's working on the spring and then he kind of

748
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 2: eases it in or he just walks in the regular

749
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 2: season just dropping hooks left and right.

750
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably coming from being

751
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: around guys like Verlander and Sures. Two. As we've mentioned,

752
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: the David Peterson and Tyler McGill interviews are going to

753
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: come out on Wednesday for you guys, so keep an

754
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: eye out for that because we talk a lot about

755
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: pitching with both of them, but hearing you know that

756
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: they what it's like to be around guys like Baxers

757
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: or and Justin Verlander for them and what they're learning

758
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: and their experiences. I think part of that has to

759
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: do with maybe Peterson experimenting with this curveball. We've talked

760
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: about it before. It's just a nice extra pitch to have.

761
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: It's now something else that the hitters have to keep

762
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: in their head. Even if you said like it doesn't

763
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: great as like a great curveball, just the fact that

764
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: it exists, or that he could even get it over

765
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: for a strike, not trying to use as a strikeout pitch,

766
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: but maybe sneak start account oh one, because oh it's

767
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: it's curveball, not a fastball or a slider that's coming in.

768
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: That's huge for a guy like David Peterson. His potential

769
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: has just continued to climb and climb, and he's gotten

770
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: so much better since the start. I mean, we've we've

771
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: been big David Peterson guys the last two years now,

772
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: and we've been really really pushing it forward this year.

773
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: It's just he he could be a huge difference maker

774
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: for this team.

775
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: He's also such a unicorn because he's so big, like

776
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 2: a lot of what we're using to track pitcher like

777
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 2: movement and pitcher stuff these days. I just like I

778
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 2: look at a lot to Brooks Baseball Baseball Savant to

779
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 2: get like the per game movement data, and I use

780
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: you know, Sarah's stuff plus model a lot because.

781
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 3: Usually it captures a lot.

782
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of statistical hypermetric research done

783
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: this year, is partificularly by Jordan Rosenbloom who works with

784
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: you know, and Tom Tango, who's like the father like

785
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: one of the most the leading people in cybermetrics. They

786
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 2: both said it actually is really really useful in predicting

787
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: era and strike out raid for a season, So something

788
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: he was a lot because it's proven to me very

789
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: predictive and for some reason, a lot of it just

790
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: misses a lot of what Peterson as well. I really

791
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 2: think it has a lot to do with his ridiculous extension.

792
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 3: He is so big.

793
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 2: Like if you guys ever stood next David Peterson, you

794
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: saw the pictures we put up of David Peterson, I

795
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 2: look like I look like a cartoon character. I look

796
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 2: like like someone a anim who's like it's like I'm

797
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 2: the sidekick, and he's like the superhero because he is

798
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 2: like nine feet tall and his.

799
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 3: Arms reach like across the room.

800
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Speaker 2: So like, I feel like there's something, there's things that

801
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: he's doing that we aren't really catching as members of

802
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: the public right now in terms of baseball, and just

803
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: watching him get more and more comfortable, more and more

804
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 2: effective is really unbelievable.

805
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, he's done really good. And I mean having

806
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: him in that rotation to fill in is it's it's

807
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: gonna be phenomenal. It's gonna be great. And I know

808
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: you guys are probably like, hey, you're talking a lot

809
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: about pitching this episode. Just just want to remember or

810
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: remind you guys that like the majority of the Mets

811
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: headers are playing in the World Baseball Classic right now,

812
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: so there is not a whole lot of hitting to

813
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: be talked about. It's gonna be it's gonna be a

814
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: lot of pitching until the WBC NDS, which actually has

815
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: got a couple of days left, so we'll get back

816
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: to those guys back in camp soon. But I will say,

817
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: on the on the hitting side, Brett Baty still doing

818
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: his thing, still doing his thing. That kid can play.

819
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I'm all in on Brett Bady

820
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: Cards as I've been telling you. Dude's just a ballplayer, man,

821
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: absolute ballplayer.

822
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 3: He just hits everything. He really just truly hits everything.

823
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 2: And he As far as the mess prospects, Viento's and

824
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 2: Mauricio both started much higher the spring. They both kind

825
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: of cool come a little back to earth the last

826
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 2: few weeks, more so Viento's than Mauricio. But Baty just

827
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 2: baby gets hit every single day. Baby just walks on

828
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: the field and gets a base hit.

829
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 3: It's kind of unbelievable to watch.

830
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: And then we shall also touch on for Cis Gualvarez,

831
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: who hasn't had the strongest spring by all accounts of

832
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: the plate, but he still is hitting the ball very

833
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: hard regularly. And he is also as everyone remembers, twenty

834
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: one years old and trying to catch for like these

835
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 2: a lot of these pitchers for the first time his

836
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 2: entire career. So I think it is can I remember

837
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: remember was the whole thing last spring that he was

838
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: in camp but he didn't catch any of the guys

839
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: like that was kind of a story that kind of

840
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 2: went out of the course of the season. So this

841
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: is the first time for Siscqualva is working on this

842
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: part of his game with all the pitchers on the

843
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 2: major league team, which is meaningful for what they expect

844
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 2: his role to be this year and next year. I

845
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: would say, but I do think that there's a lot

846
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: going on. There's a lot that's been put on him

847
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: right now. So the fact that he's while making hard

848
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 2: contact ball isn't finding holes are dropping. I don't think

849
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 2: that's that's something that we should be focusing on as

850
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: a fan based organization now.

851
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: And then some like I don't want to say ancillary,

852
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: but some guys on the outside looking in, some dudes

853
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: who will be more like role depth players. DJ Stewart,

854
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: we mentioned hit for the cycle, which I feel like

855
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: there's always one cycle every spring training, and I always

856
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: go like, how does that even happen? Like one for

857
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: a player to play a full game? Pretty crazy in

858
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: spring training? John says, first since twenty twenty, Okay, well yeah,

859
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: see like pretty much every spring training there's a cycle,

860
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: it seems like, except those other two years that happened

861
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: in between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. But uh yeah,

862
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: DJ Stewart, man, he's he was a guy who in Baltimore.

863
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: I think while Buck was there right had some success,

864
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: had some pop in his bat, so it's good to

865
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: see you swinging it. Well.

866
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: I think it was after Buck was there. I feel

867
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 2: like he was a college guy, so he got drafted

868
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 2: I want to say, like eighteen nineteen times around then,

869
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: so definitely, but yeah, he had great I mean, he

870
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 2: was a great player in college.

871
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 3: He was a high draft pick.

872
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: He has incredible mat speed, he's a pretty he's like

873
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: he's rotationally.

874
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 3: He's a great athlete.

875
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: He's a guy who can hit the ball relatively hard.

876
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: So I think he's so much interesting. Tim mcash has

877
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: also continued to just like Reeka again on base the spring,

878
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: Wisky Army is getting on base a lot. Who else

879
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 2: was the bats right now? Tommy Famps in the ball hard,

880
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: but he is not really finding holes either. So that's

881
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: that's the guy who, with this NMO injury, could be

882
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: in the Liby opening day, so someone to keep an

883
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 2: eye out for. The Otherwise, most of our hitters I

884
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: have just not have just been at the World Baseball Classic.

885
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: We like basically the entire Lions has been gone. Edward

886
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: francsclendor still has like some of the like the most

887
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 2: batted balls one hundred five miles now above and all

888
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: spring training gets take a spring training at bad in

889
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: like almost three full weeks, but just kind of shows

890
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: how locked in he's been, yeah, and how good he's been,

891
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 2: how good he was in WBC. Just looked like we

892
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 2: have a monster right there.

893
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: And then he's been Ye, most have been swinging the

894
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: bat well and or was swinging the bat well at

895
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 1: the WBC. He should be back in spring training soon though,

896
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: because Puerto Rico got knocked out.

897
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: But yeah, it'd be like probably to the tomorrow. But

898
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 2: also just touching a couple more pictures. Drew Smith's having

899
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: a fantastic spring. Ah Strick gots two walks, one earned

900
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 2: in five innings. Drew Flow is flowing.

901
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 3: He's a guy again.

902
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: He's gonna be pushed up or wrong. I'll probably see

903
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 2: him a lot in eighth inning. D these when the

904
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 2: season begins with him out of the v you know,

905
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: with Rayley and Robertson probably also save opportunities. Tyler McGill

906
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: did not have a good outing when he came into

907
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: the game on Sunday.

908
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: He came in.

909
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 2: After I think it was it was Peterson's then reliever.

910
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: It might have been Robertson. It might have been Robertson

911
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: and then McGill. Maybe it's just something about McGill's preparation

912
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: where when he comes in from the bullpen, things are

913
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 2: different and it's like a mental hurdle he has to

914
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 2: get over. But he really really focused on throwing his slider.

915
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 2: This adding much more he thrown in any other spring

916
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 2: outing so far the season. It was almost forty percent usage,

917
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: and he just was missing a lot of spots right

918
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 2: these n lefties. He did had a couple of nice

919
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 2: head where he found black on some whifts, but it

920
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 2: wasn't really it just it wasn't it wasn't really that sharp,

921
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: and he ended up leaving a lot over the plate.

922
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: He end of missing a lot of spots, got behind

923
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 2: a lot of counts, throwing a lot of pitches, and

924
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 2: then he's still just really chilling with the vilo. And

925
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: I feel like a guy like Tyler McGill, his velocity

926
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 2: is very important to his just to his effectiveness, probably

927
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: more so than a lot of other pitchers. So when

928
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: you pull that back, like the three four percent he has,

929
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 2: it probably has a little bit more of an impact

930
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: on his effectiveness.

931
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: One hundred p. And I mean, like you said, throwing

932
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: the sliders much he did, Maybe he was working on something,

933
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: and I think that's what's me and that's whatever work

934
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: he's working on something. Always has to remember about spring training,

935
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 1: always working on something, especially the pictures, always working on something,

936
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: and the pictures are always ahead of the hitters. So

937
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: that's those are my two favorite things I love to

938
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: say about spring training. Pictures are working on something, the

939
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: pictures are ahead of the hitters. It doesn't make any

940
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: sense when you think about it, but it's definitely my

941
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: two favorite spring training cliches.

942
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: No, the best part of best spring trainings. If you

943
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: have a good game, you're like, if this meaningful, he's hot,

944
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 2: ready to win. Guy's a bad game, he's working on stuff.

945
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: That's fine, no big deal, it's just been training.

946
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 3: These games don't count.

947
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: A little peak behind the curtains for you guys. Me

948
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: and James have been talking like about players and cards

949
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: and guys that we like and think like cards we

950
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: should buy. And we're talking about like how great Spencer

951
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: Torkelson has been, how Cody Bellinger is not striking out

952
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: at all. But then like you ignore the guys that

953
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: you love who are having an awful spring training.

954
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, or or the guys that you hate, like

955
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: James Wanson, who is like one for twenty eight with

956
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,439
Speaker 2: like strakeouts to start spring training would be a real

957
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 2: shame if he was just never good again, that that

958
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: feather haired freak. But whatever, just whatever, okay, okay, guys,

959
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 2: it's this was this was this was.

960
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 3: This was a trying week for Mets fans. There was

961
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 3: a lot of emotions at the end of the week.

962
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: If you guys could see the Metstep group chat on

963
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 2: Thursday and Friday, just sold a mission to that thing.

964
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 3: But we're all right, it's gonna be.

965
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a unique set of challenges for this

966
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: coaching staff right now, to unique set of challenges the

967
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 2: players since ballpen's unique set of challenges the leaders in

968
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: this team to keep everyone together and maintain what we

969
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: expect to be a team that's world serious caliber.

970
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: You saw the thing about uh, Steve collen Wright like

971
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: hiring like a nutritionist and like a physical therapist to

972
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: just basically like with ed Edwin Diaz and like be

973
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: around in twenty four to seven so that he can

974
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: get back as soon as possible and be as healthy

975
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: and strong whenever he does come back as possible, which

976
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like everyone takes notice of that

977
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: because that's a lot of owners don't do that.

978
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 3: It's a personal trainer, a chef and nutrition.

979
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: So we got an amazing day coming up. We're of

980
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: course going to bring in John here. As you guys

981
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: can see, he's also got some minor leaguers who's been

982
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: hanging out talking to some of those guys, some minor

983
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: league guys who could come up make an impact for us.

984
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: So John, before you tell us a little more about

985
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: amazing day, who are those minor leaguers to keep an

986
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: eye out for.

987
00:36:58,480 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 4: Well, there are a lot.

988
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 5: And you know, one thing I want to remind Mets

989
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 5: fans of is twenty fifteen. Let's bring it back to

990
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen opening day. Henry Mihea was the projected closer

991
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 5: that season. The Mets had the lead into the ninth inning,

992
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 5: Lucas Dude that took Max Scherzer deep, and everyone expects

993
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 5: Mehia to come in try to nail down the.

994
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 4: Save, and it's actually Buddy Carlyle that.

995
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 5: Came in to nail down the save. Mehea was hurt.

996
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 5: Some other things transpire the rest of the way. Next thing,

997
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 5: you know, out of nowhere, Jerry's familiar turns in one

998
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 5: of the or two of the best seasons by relievers

999
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 5: in Mets history. So obviously the Edwin dis situation not good.

1000
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 5: Nobody asked for it. But situations like these can give

1001
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 5: birth and the lead to seasons like Jerry's familia had.

1002
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 4: So look, no one's replacing it with Diaz, we all

1003
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 4: know that.

1004
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 5: But there are some guys along with the ones that

1005
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 5: you guys mentioned, that can step up here and make

1006
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 5: a difference in this bullpen. And I'm going to focus

1007
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 5: on some of the guys in the minor leagues right now.

1008
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 5: You guys know, and the listeners know. I'm a big

1009
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 5: Grand Hartwig fan, and there is a lot to like

1010
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 5: with grant Hertwick. He did pitch in major league camp

1011
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 5: this year, didn't have too much work, but he did

1012
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 5: strike out three the eight hitters that he faced. A

1013
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 5: very threebral guy. I'm sure you guys saw a lot

1014
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 5: of the articles that have come out about him. He

1015
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 5: was pre med at Miami of Ohio, so a really

1016
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 5: really freeble guy. Another interesting part about him is that.

1017
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 4: He caught in college.

1018
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 5: He hit, so I mean, when a guy's in the box,

1019
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 5: the battle is the batter against the pitcher and the catcher.

1020
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 4: Grand Hartwig has experience with all three of those situations.

1021
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 4: I love that.

1022
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 5: I love that this guy knows what the hitter is thinking,

1023
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 5: he knows what the catcher is thinking. He also didn't

1024
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 5: allow a single home run in fifty six and two

1025
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 5: thirds innings across not one, not two, not three, but

1026
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 5: four levels of the minor leagues last year, so he

1027
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 5: shot through the system. James, you mentioned Jimmy yakabonas Central

1028
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 5: Jersey guy.

1029
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 4: It does exist.

1030
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 5: Went to CBA, had a great conversation with him recently.

1031
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 5: A great spring six innings, no runs allowed, whatsoever. Guy

1032
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 5: pittch for buck back in twenty seventeen with Baltimore. Slider

1033
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 5: has great vertical movement, pitched very well in twenty twenty

1034
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 5: one for Tacoma.

1035
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 4: That's the Myriners.

1036
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 5: Triple a affiliate and a guy the Raised were on

1037
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 5: last year and as we know in the Razer on you,

1038
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 5: there's definitely something there. So Jimmy Octabona is a good option.

1039
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 5: Troy Miller another one. Not a household name necessarily. I

1040
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 5: know Mark, you've mentioned Troy Miller acquired by the Mets

1041
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 5: and the Jacob Barnes deal, a very minor deal. Had

1042
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 5: Tommy John surgery. He's now twenty six years old, a

1043
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 5: good four pitch mix, worked very hard to get back

1044
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 5: from his Tommy John, and he can really spin it.

1045
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 4: That's the thing.

1046
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 5: He doesn't throw overwhelmingly hard, but he can definitely spin

1047
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 5: the change up the slide of the curve ball. Another

1048
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 5: one of those guys who could factor in this season.

1049
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 5: Brendan Hardy another one. So Brendan Hardy is a really

1050
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 5: interesting fact. A thirty fourth round pick I believe in

1051
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen other Mets out of high school in Mississippi.

1052
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 5: He's grown a couple inches since the Mets drafted him,

1053
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 5: which that's unusual obviously, but he's now about six to

1054
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 5: four and he leverages.

1055
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 4: That height that he that he added.

1056
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 5: No homer's allowed in twenty three appearances last year between

1057
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 5: Brooklyn and Binghamton. He did succumb to his shoulder injury.

1058
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 5: A k raid over thirty percent, and a lot of

1059
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 5: it is with a sweeping slider that he's developed. So

1060
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 5: that's another guy not super Young has at least gotten

1061
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 5: to Binghamton. I mean, look, to be honest, you know,

1062
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 5: if you're an arm if you're a dude, but you

1063
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 5: haven't pitched past Brooklyn, it's probably unlikely that you're reaching

1064
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 5: the bigs this.

1065
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 4: Year, unless obviously you're going to be fast tracked.

1066
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 5: But Brendan Hardy has pitched in Binghamton, so there's a

1067
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 5: guy to keep an eye on.

1068
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 4: Another one is Josh Walker. He's now twenty.

1069
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 2: Yes, James, have any of these pitches you mentioned pitch

1070
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 2: in the Fall League because usually that's an indicator that

1071
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: they could get a major league LOLUK.

1072
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 5: So grand Hartwig did I believe that. I believe Brendan

1073
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 5: Hardley Hardy was going to, but then his shoulder injury

1074
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 5: prevented that.

1075
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 4: Grand Hartwig did.

1076
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 5: Pitch in the Fall League, and that's also had some

1077
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: position players play in the Fall League. Brandon mcalwaine has won.

1078
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 5: But that's a really good point. So, I mean, I

1079
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 5: think I think it's natural to say that grand Hartwig

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Speaker 5: is probably the first guy that's going to get that chance.

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Speaker 5: Another guy to keep an eye on his lefty Josh Walker,

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Speaker 5: new Haven, Connecticut or he went.

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Speaker 4: To college in New Haven.

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Speaker 5: He's got really good pizza takes, which you can't go

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Speaker 5: wrong with that six to sixth frame, tall, big slider.

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Speaker 5: A great twenty twenty one, especially at Binghamton, where he

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Speaker 5: had a sub three e ra A.

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Speaker 4: Last year was injury plagued. I think he probably would

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Speaker 4: have cracked the big leagues.

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Speaker 5: By now had an injury, had injuries not prevented him

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Speaker 5: from getting there. But he's healthy right now. So that's

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Speaker 5: another guy, especially from the left side, to keep an

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Speaker 5: eye on. I'll just radd all.

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Speaker 4: Some other names here.

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Speaker 5: Eric Orzy's a name at him great twenty twenty one season,

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Speaker 5: He's had a really good spring training as well. And

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Speaker 5: then you know who knows what the Mets philosophy is

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Speaker 5: with starters and using them as relievers, especially to keep

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Speaker 5: the innings under control. The Mets have a couple of

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Speaker 5: starters right now. One is Dom Hammel pitch re Porto

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Speaker 5: Rico in the World Baseball Classic. Another one is Mike Vassel,

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Speaker 5: who had a great year last year was promoted to Binghamton.

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Speaker 4: So there's a lot of options here. There are a

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Speaker 4: lot of options.

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Speaker 1: Here, and yeah, Jose Budo, like none of these guys

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Speaker 1: would either I'd be taking over like a huge role either.

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Speaker 1: This is like filling in those those last death which

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Speaker 1: is which is important when you have a good team.

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Speaker 1: As we know, and I mean John's got the minor

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Speaker 1: league round up for a minor league roundup for us

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Speaker 1: there with some of those pitchers that could be coming

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Speaker 1: up maybe at some point for the Mets. And we'll

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Speaker 1: obviously keep tabs on all these guys as we do

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Speaker 1: throughout the season. Wrapping up this episode, I mentioned it

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Speaker 1: we have Amazing Day coming up. Make sure you wear

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Speaker 1: your Mets hat this Saturday, March twenty fifth. Sign up

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Speaker 1: for the sweepstakes at Mets dot com slash Amazing Day

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Speaker 1: for your chance to throw the first pitch at a

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Speaker 1: game and get a complete VIP experience. John can give

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more here on Amazing Day.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, So you throw on your Mets hat this Saturday

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Speaker 5: the twenty fifth, and you will unlock EUSt to the

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Speaker 5: city all over in New York City. I will personally

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Speaker 5: be at the Brooklyn Museum from ten to eleven thirty am,

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Speaker 5: so come by and say hi.

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Speaker 4: There will be merch.

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Speaker 5: You will be able to sign up for a chance

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Speaker 5: for Incredible Game Day experience is including throwing out the

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Speaker 5: first pitch at a game. I really can't think of

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Speaker 5: a better one. By the way, if you guys threw

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Speaker 5: out the first pitch, between the two of you, let's

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Speaker 5: throwing a strike. Let's throwing the better strike, Mark or James.

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Speaker 1: I am for sure.

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Speaker 2: I think I'd be fine. I think Mark would probably

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Speaker 2: be more likely to get a strike. And definitely, oh

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Speaker 2: I can't pitch, I just understand it better. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm very confident would throw a strike.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm confident i'd throw a strike too, even with

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Speaker 1: my bump shoulder. But you gotta gotta get the quarter

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Speaker 1: zone shot there, get the adrenaline going, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: fine to throw out a first pitch. I ever, given

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Speaker 1: the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very ready.

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Speaker 2: And waiting available opening day, available both by series games, available.

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Speaker 1: Available when we play the Tigers. I mean, whatever they

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Speaker 1: want to do.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready for all ready for all of the one

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Speaker 3: of the World Series.

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Speaker 4: If you need me, let me know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, as I was saying the key to City like

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Speaker 5: James doing right now, where are your mets? Had on

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Speaker 5: March twenty fifth, because you never know what met representatives,

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Speaker 5: who's going to see you and what sort of awesome

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Speaker 5: fun prizes that you can wear. But that's the key.

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00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 5: You wear your Mets hat. You could unlock all these

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Speaker 5: great experiences both on the day and down the road.

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Speaker 5: There will be pop up shops around the city where

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Speaker 5: you can buy incredible exclusive Mets merch There'll be community

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Speaker 5: events all around New York City, chance to win event tickets.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a great day. Mets fans are the

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Speaker 5: best fans in the world in all of sports, and

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Speaker 5: this is the day to show your Mets pride as

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Speaker 5: we get ready, it's gonna.

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Speaker 4: Be five days from opening day. Think about that, five

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Speaker 4: days from amazing to day. We'll be playing games that count.

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Speaker 1: We're what like eleven days day, right.

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Speaker 5: You include today eleven. But I mean, it's it's right

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Speaker 5: around the corner. It's crazy how it sneaks up on you.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, I said this last episode and the

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Speaker 5: NCAA tournament didn't be bad. So now I'll say it's

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Speaker 5: really the best time of year, as Opening Day is

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Speaker 5: right around the corner, and there's nothing better. The weather

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Speaker 5: is starting to into the fifties and get a little nice,

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Speaker 5: and I can sit outside wear a sweatshirt. Enjoy whatever

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Speaker 5: beverage it is you're looking to have and doesn't get

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Speaker 5: any better than that. So amazing day. Be there March

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Speaker 5: twenty fifth, Show your Mets pride. You never know who

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Speaker 5: will be there and what amazing day as in store

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Speaker 5: for you.

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Speaker 1: There you go, guys, Amazing day. That's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: end of the Mets Stub Podcast, episode number one seventy six.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening and watching. If you

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Speaker 1: do enjoy what you're listening to or watching here, make

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Speaker 1: some reviews for the twenty twenty three year Drop one.

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Speaker 1: We'll shout you out on the next episode if you

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Speaker 1: give us a good one. Obviously you give us a

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Speaker 1: bad one, we're not shouting out, but give us a

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Speaker 3: At James Underscore Chiano.

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Speaker 1: Follow me at your raffneck mark. Thank you guys so

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Speaker 1: much for listening, watching, and we'll catch you Wednesday for

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Speaker 1: the David Peterson and Tyler McGill interviews. Peace Out