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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm chandeler Rome, joined by Tyler Stafford, the master of

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Speaker 1: the mute Button. Happy Selection Sunday to everyone. We're recording

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Speaker 1: this about an hour before NCAA tournament brackets are released. Tyler,

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Speaker 1: I think this is the day where most Aggies remember

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Speaker 1: that they have a basketball team.

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Speaker 2: I am looking forward to watching my first minute of

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Speaker 2: Aggie basketball this season, bucket ball. I've heard it said.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means yet, but I'm excited

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Speaker 2: to find out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he looks like he should, like still

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Speaker 1: be in high school, and I think he was a

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Speaker 1: high school coach before this. And I think they just

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Speaker 1: like press a bunch and play like twenty players a game.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's one of those like it's one of

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Speaker 1: those kind of gimmick styles that has apparently worked.

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Speaker 2: But I've worked for my district championship seven B team

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Speaker 2: that I coached, so I don't see why I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: work at the collegiate life.

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Speaker 1: Good for him, though, I think they have to make

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Speaker 1: it to the second weekend to ensure all their inn

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Speaker 1: il money doesn't go to football so good luck to

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Speaker 1: the Aggies in the NCAA tournament. We won't talk about

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Speaker 1: the other school that is normally discussed on this podcast

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Speaker 1: because they won't be in the tournament.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's too bad. Yeah, at least their baseball team

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Speaker 2: has been good.

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Speaker 1: Hey, they're up seven to nothing right now, I think.

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Speaker 1: Don't ask how the first two nights went. Not much

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Speaker 1: going on here in West Palm Beach. The Astors played

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Speaker 1: a game today. There was another fella named Alvarez in

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Speaker 1: the lineup. Jordan hit third, and then hitting fifth was

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Speaker 1: eighteen year old Kevin Alvarez, probably, depending on the service

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Speaker 1: you subscribe to, depending on your view of the system,

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Speaker 1: either their best or second best position player prospect. We

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Speaker 1: interviewed him after the game. He could not have been

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Speaker 1: more excited to play in a spring training game in

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Speaker 1: front of two thousand people. He said he was very nervous.

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Speaker 1: He swung at the first pitch she saw, grounded it out.

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Speaker 1: But second second at bat hit a one hundred and

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Speaker 1: three mile an hour line drive right up the That'll

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Speaker 1: write at somebody, But that's what makes spring training fun,

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Speaker 1: you know. Joe Aspot has said that he wanted to

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Speaker 1: uh he had targeted trying to get him into a game,

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Speaker 1: get him over to the big league side, let him,

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Speaker 1: you know, be around the guys whose al twov was

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Speaker 1: in the lineup today. And Kevin Alvarez talked after the

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Speaker 1: game about how he got to talk to Josel Tuve

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Speaker 1: in the dugout, how he got to talk to Jordan Alvarez,

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Speaker 1: who he called somebody that has been very influential in

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Speaker 1: his career, and Jordon actually said that he had not

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Speaker 1: met him in person until today. So it kind of

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Speaker 1: goes to show you what influential means to Kevin Alvarez.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy that I'm gonna age a lot

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Speaker 1: of people here. This is a guy that has been

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Speaker 1: watching Jordon Alvarez since he's been growing up, and so

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Speaker 1: it was a It's those are the fun spring training

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Speaker 1: stories when you can bring a kid over from minor

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Speaker 1: league camp, let him, let him get a day with

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Speaker 1: the big leaguers. They did that with Ethan Frye earlier

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Speaker 1: this year, Earlier this spring, Xavier Nions may get the

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Speaker 1: same treatment. I'm not sure, but if there's going to

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Speaker 1: be one more person to get that treatment, it would

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Speaker 1: probably be Xavier Nions. But Yeah, Christian Hobvier looked better today.

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Speaker 1: The velocity was back where you would expect for him

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Speaker 1: around ninety two ninety three. They liked the IVB that

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Speaker 1: harder because the ashers asked him to. It looks better,

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Speaker 1: which I know was a concern for some. But Tyler,

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Speaker 1: he looks like he's maybe a tad behind just in

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Speaker 1: terms of build up. He only went I believe three

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Speaker 1: and a third or four innings today, so pitch counts

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Speaker 1: maybe not where like Mike Burrows and Hunter Brown are,

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Speaker 1: but he'll have one more start to get built up.

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Speaker 1: But that was an encouraging sign though, that he looked

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Speaker 1: better today than he has been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, and we're starting to get to the

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Speaker 2: point where the I mean, the build up obviously matters

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Speaker 2: just because the season is starting, but also where you

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Speaker 2: slot in the rotation at the beginning. I assume that

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Speaker 2: slot kind of your your bigger arms, as we've seen

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Speaker 2: with Trek Skoubel as previously discussed on this podcast. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we definitely need to see him get what

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Speaker 1: He said today? One he said today? One or two?

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Speaker 2: Okay, but well, it's certainly better than it has been.

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Speaker 2: I'm still nervous, but at least it was not a

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Speaker 2: third consecutive scary start. But you know, again, try not

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Speaker 2: to look too much into spring training stuff, but the

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Speaker 2: velocity has been what has concerned me. Do you have

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Speaker 2: that readings? Was it any better still? Ninety one ninety two?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know that's Christian Avier, but he used

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Speaker 1: He averaged ninety two and a half today and he

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Speaker 1: first that was like right at ninety four ninety four

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Speaker 1: about IVB, like, velocity is not Christian Hobvier's calling card.

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Speaker 1: Even when he is in stretches where he is pitching well,

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Speaker 1: his velocity will fluctuate. And there's been a couple of

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Speaker 1: outings that I've covered of his that the first four

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Speaker 2: It's just for context, though, twenty twenty two his last

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Speaker 2: like full well, I guess twenty twenty three he was

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Speaker 2: healthy too. But twenty twenty two he averaged ninety three

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Speaker 2: and then it was ninety one seven when when he

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Speaker 2: ninety two nine. But you know, you really want to

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Speaker 2: see him averaging ninety three. So ninety two five is

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Speaker 2: still lower than I would like, but it's not scary.

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Speaker 2: It's not ninety one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And let's also put the caveat out there. It's

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Speaker 1: March fifteenth, and they're not at these guys to unless

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Speaker 1: they're fishing on the WBC. They're not asking these guys

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Speaker 1: to go full adrenaline like they even like sometimes we'll

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Speaker 1: because you don't want in Christian Hobbyer's case, if ninety

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Speaker 1: but all in all a good day for him. In

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Speaker 1: the absence of actual storylines or anything that is going

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Speaker 1: on in camp, we went to the Twitter machine and

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Speaker 1: we asked many of you, many of our loyal listeners,

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Speaker 1: for mailbag questions. So we will answer a few of

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Speaker 1: So first question that we will that we will tackle

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Speaker 1: can read the question along with us. Josh says, it

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Speaker 1: is looking like Panal. Is it looking like Panya will

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Speaker 1: be ready for the start of the season. If not,

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Speaker 1: how likely does a hot start from Paradus relegate walker

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Speaker 2: Before you move on, I want to point out that

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Speaker 2: his handle is smooth Grandmama, which is wonderful. Well done, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I actually talked to Jeremy Panya on Saturday for a

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Speaker 1: story that ran in The Athletic Today. Sunday morning, and

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Speaker 1: talking to Jeremy sounds like he is progressing very well.

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Speaker 1: He even laughed and said that he canceled a planned

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Speaker 1: doctor's appointment that was supposed to be going he was

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Speaker 2: What are we doing? Get the man to the doctor,

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Speaker 2: get an image? What? What did we not learn anything

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Speaker 2: authority to cancel a doctor's appointment? Get him on what?

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Speaker 2: What is happening?

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Speaker 1: Because he's Jeremy Payne.

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Speaker 2: I don't get him to see a doctor? What are

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Speaker 1: He will see a doctor. I believe he is going

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Speaker 1: to the doctor this week. It will be the coming

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Speaker 1: up on the two weeks of reevaluation that they said

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Speaker 2: They should have a doctor in the door. I want,

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Speaker 2: I want an MRI in the clubhouse. What fine?

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Speaker 1: So Jeremy continues to say that his goal is to

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Speaker 1: be ready for opening day. He thinks that is realistic.

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Speaker 1: As far as what he is doing right now, he

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Speaker 1: until that can happen, he's obviously, you know, nowhere close

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Speaker 2: So not not a full participant at all? Those seem

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Speaker 1: Do, Okay, he's he's, yes, Sure, he's not a full

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Speaker 2: He can't throw it and he cannot hit. But other

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Speaker 2: than that, he is fully.

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Speaker 1: Can't hit one hand.

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Speaker 2: He's fully participating in baseball.

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Speaker 1: He's taken eleven at bats in Greape Fruit League play already,

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Speaker 1: So I think that helps in some way that he

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Speaker 1: He said, it's a feel thing for him. He said,

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Speaker 1: maybe he gets maybe he does three games, maybe does five.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to put a number on it. But

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Speaker 1: I know everyone's going to look at the calendar of

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Speaker 1: how many Great Fruit League games they have left. But

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Speaker 1: they can alter this to where like they can just

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Speaker 1: go send him to a minor league game on a backfield,

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Speaker 1: eight at bats in a day, just because minor league

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Speaker 1: to minor league games. So that could be an avenue

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Speaker 1: Hey, chan there, okay, But in terms of Paradis as

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Speaker 1: that's part of it. But I think the Bryce Matthews

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Speaker 1: part of this has been very interesting to me this

436
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Speaker 1: spring because did you see he played left field today?

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Speaker 2: No, I knew he'd been playing center, and Josh said

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Speaker 2: he looked good, So.

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Speaker 1: He played left field today. Okay, final, like three innings

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Speaker 1: of the game today. I think that just underscores how

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Speaker 1: much uncertainty they have with the outfield.

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Speaker 2: Because I mean, I think I think the pinch hitting

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Speaker 2: thing is correct, because right now it's all of this

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Speaker 2: positional flexibility in the outfield. All of these guys are

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Speaker 2: playing all three outfield positions, and to me, what that

446
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Speaker 2: looks like is it's the seventh inning and there's two

447
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Speaker 2: guys on and one of these three outfielders is up,

448
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Speaker 2: and I'd rather use a guy on the bench that

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Speaker 2: I think is a better hitter. I need to know

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Speaker 2: that any of the outfielders that I have on my

451
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Speaker 2: bench can play any position, just to be able to

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Speaker 2: move things around. I don't think you're gonna see like

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Speaker 2: I would imagine that starting the game, they're gonna kind

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Speaker 2: of have defined positions. It's this guy's the left fielder,

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Speaker 2: this guy's the right fielder. This guy's centerfielder. But when

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Speaker 2: you pinch hit, when you pinch run whatever in the

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Speaker 2: seventh inning, and you got to move people around, that's

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Speaker 2: when it becomes kind of you know whatever. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: outside of Joe Madden, I think every manager would prefer

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Speaker 2: to just have the same lineup every day with the

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Speaker 2: same guys in the same like. It's not like positional

462
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Speaker 2: flexibility is like, oh this is fun, I get to

463
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Speaker 2: move that. You would rather just have nine good players

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Speaker 2: that play their positions well and hit and you just

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Speaker 2: put them in the lineup every day. But yeah, I

466
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Speaker 2: think this is more so for late inning substitutions. And

467
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Speaker 2: you know, the back half of the roster is not

468
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Speaker 2: remotely finalized of who's going to be on the team,

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Speaker 2: So every player needs to show that they have as

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Speaker 2: much of this in their toolbox as possible to be

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Speaker 2: able to be on the team. Like Bryce Matthews is

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Speaker 2: significantly more valuable if he can play the outfield than

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Speaker 2: if he can just play second base, Like he is

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Speaker 2: way more likely to make the team and to be

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Speaker 2: a contributor if he can do that, then if he

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Speaker 2: was only able to play second.

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Speaker 1: And even further with Bryce on this team, Like, yes,

478
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Speaker 1: Bryce Matthews has defensive versatility, like he can play all

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Speaker 1: around the infield, but this team, yeah, yeah, this team

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Speaker 1: already has too many infielders as it is. And then

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Speaker 1: if that surplus ever gets resolved or like in a

482
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Speaker 1: normal season, like this infield's entrench, like you're not, like

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Speaker 1: Bryce Matthews isn't playing over Josel two Bay at second base,

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Speaker 1: or Jeremy Paanna at short or Carlos Korea at third

485
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Speaker 1: or whoever, not that he plays first base, but whoever

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Speaker 1: is playing first base. So for Bryce to make an

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Speaker 1: impact on this team, he's probably going to have to

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Speaker 1: show that he can play a little bit in the outfield,

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Speaker 1: that he can stand out there and not be completely

490
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Speaker 1: intimidated by it. And I'm starting to think, you know,

491
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Speaker 1: just actions speak a lot louder than words a lot

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Speaker 1: of times. I think every time, the fact that they

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Speaker 1: keep pushing Matthews to do all this different stuff in

494
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Speaker 1: the outfield, I'm starting to think that he's got a

495
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Speaker 1: pretty clear path to making the roster out out of camp,

496
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Speaker 1: especially if Jeremy Paanna is on the IL to start

497
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Speaker 1: the year. That makes it pretty cut and dry, like

498
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Speaker 1: there's a pretty obvious lane for him to make the

499
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Speaker 1: roster there. But you know, Joe's always talked about in

500
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Speaker 1: his entire managerial tenure, he doesn't want to carry prospect

501
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Speaker 1: Bryce is still a prospect even though he's been in

502
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Speaker 1: the big leagues before. He doesn't want to carry prospects

503
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Speaker 1: if they don't have every day at bats available for Tyler.

504
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Speaker 1: You just alluded to it. If he can only play

505
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Speaker 1: on the infield, there's not every day at bats available

506
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Speaker 1: for But if the outfield, if he can stand in

507
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Speaker 1: left field at Dyke in Park and he's athletic enough

508
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Speaker 1: to where he can run some stuff down, he knows

509
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Speaker 1: what he's doing out there. He's a smart baseball player,

510
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: like Josh. Josh Reddick has been on this show and

511
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Speaker 1: talked about how impressed he was in center field, Like

512
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Speaker 1: if he can even turn into being like a tick

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Speaker 1: below average outfielder, like there you go, Like, that's the

514
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: way that he can get on this team and have

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Speaker 1: a regular, defined role, because as it is right now,

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Speaker 1: just as a soul infielder, he could be on the team,

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Speaker 1: but it would be as a bench bat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not the type of bench bat that

519
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Speaker 2: a spot is because he wants the pinch hitting bench bats,

520
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Speaker 2: you know, and that's you're you're not pinch hitting anybody

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Speaker 2: in that lineup with Bryce Matthews.

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Speaker 1: Before we get running, maybe, but yeah, yeah, pinch run.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he can definitely run. No, no worries about that.

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Speaker 1: But the other thing is, like all the guys that

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Speaker 1: Joe would pinch hit for or like late are very fast,

526
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Speaker 1: like he wouldn't run for them necessarily. It be like

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Speaker 1: I'm pushing buttons over here. It's been allowed to you.

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Speaker 2: You're reading you're clicking buttons. It's hard. It's harder than

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Speaker 2: it looks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you had to do this once.

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Speaker 2: It was awful.

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Speaker 1: I hate Yeah, I picked this question. I'm probably not

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Speaker 1: going to answer it like the way El Tierro wants

567
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Speaker 1: me to answer it, But I think it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's worth reinforcing a little bit. Just he asks, has

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Speaker 1: Dana or any of the scouting department indicated what their

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Speaker 1: focus will be on the twenty six draft, college or

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Speaker 1: more immediate help to replenish the farm so as anybody

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Speaker 1: that works in major league scouting, major league amateur draft

573
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Speaker 1: will tell you, you don't draft for need in major

574
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Speaker 1: league Baseball, you draft best available. If a guy that

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Speaker 1: was supposed to go in the top ten is still

576
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Speaker 1: there at seventeen when the Ashers are gonna pick first,

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Speaker 1: that they're going to take that guy, regardless of position.

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Speaker 1: When you look at their farm system, however, it is

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Speaker 1: a little light on infielders. It's a little light on

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Speaker 1: like high impact infielders. Now, it's light on impact infielders because,

581
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Speaker 1: as we just talked about, there ain't much room for

582
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Speaker 1: infielders to break in on this team when you've got

583
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Speaker 1: al Tuo Vay under contract for as long as you've

584
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Speaker 1: got him. You may have Jeremy pania Pass next year

585
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Speaker 1: if you don't trade him this coming winner, but he's

586
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Speaker 1: he's not a free agent until after next season. Esak

587
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: Paratus the same thing. If he's not traded, he's got

588
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Speaker 1: another year of of under control. Christian Walker the same thing.

589
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: Carlos Korea is obviously here for a very long time,

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Speaker 1: so there's not like a need per se. But like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they don't have really at the high upper miners. They

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Speaker 1: don't really have like infielders that you would look at

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Speaker 1: and say, man, like that can be like the next

594
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Speaker 1: second baseman, that can be the next short stop, like

595
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Speaker 1: they don't have. They don't have a Jeremy Panna waiting,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know that they can get that in

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Speaker 1: this draft. But if you're asking me, like where maybe

598
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Speaker 1: their most positional need is. I'm not saying they're going

599
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Speaker 1: to draft a bunch of infielders, but if there's a

600
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Speaker 1: college infielder that they really like that's, you know, available

601
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Speaker 1: when they're picking, that they have scouted and identified, wouldn't

602
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: be stunned if you see them go that way. Now

603
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: it should be noted Xavier Nians. They're first or second

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Speaker 1: best prospect, depending on your outlook of him. He's he's

605
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Speaker 1: a left side of the infield guy. He's he's drafted

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Speaker 1: as a shortstop. He will probably be a third baseman future.

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Speaker 1: But he is a But he's eighteen years old and

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Speaker 1: has never played in the affiliated game. So but I

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Speaker 1: picked the question more so because I don't think Tyler

610
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Speaker 1: like And we'll talk about it more obviously as June

611
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: gets closer, and we'll have Campandino back on the amateur

612
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: scouting director to to remind us how important this is.

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Speaker 1: But this team has four picks in the first ninety

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Speaker 1: three selections of the draft coming up. They are going

615
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Speaker 1: to have their biggest bonus pool, really maybe in team history.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have their biggest draft bonus pool. It is

617
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Speaker 1: not as stretch to say, Look, they're gonna pay one

618
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games this season. They may win

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Speaker 1: the World Series, it may be a great season on

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Speaker 1: the field, and that is obviously what everyone's going to

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Speaker 1: devote all their attention to. But it's not a stretch

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Speaker 1: to say that this upcoming draft in June may be

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Speaker 1: the most consequential event for this franchise that takes place

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they they have to hit on a couple of

626
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Speaker 2: of top prospects. They just they have not in a

627
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Speaker 2: long time. And that's been okay because they've had just

628
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: the inertia of talent that this roster has had. But

629
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Speaker 2: I mean they haven't what since Kyle Tucker really, like

630
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Speaker 2: when's the last like first round or even second round

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Speaker 2: pick that's made a real impact on the team. It's

632
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Speaker 2: been a long time since they've had anybody come up

633
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Speaker 2: and have like staying power. Yeah, they've got to have

634
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Speaker 2: two or three big leaguers that come out of you know,

635
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Speaker 2: those top ninety four picks. They're just gonna have to

636
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Speaker 2: in order to be competitive five years from now. Those

637
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Speaker 2: guys have to be good. So that's why you don't

638
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: get locked into what positions do we need or whatever,

639
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: Like you're thinking, when this guy is twenty six and

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Speaker 2: in his second year in the big leagues, are they good?

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Speaker 2: You know that you'll figure out where to play when

642
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 2: they get there if they're good enough. See Cam Smith,

643
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Speaker 2: you know, you who cares what position they play, find

644
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Speaker 2: a place to put them if they're good enough.

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Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned Bregman. They drafted Alex Bregman as

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Speaker 1: a shortstop out of LSU the same week Carlos Korea

647
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Speaker 1: debuted for them. Yeah, as a twenty year old. Like,

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Speaker 1: they literally had their shortstop of the future on the

649
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: field for the major league team at twenty years old,

650
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: and they still took a college shortstop named Alex Bregman.

651
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: They moved them to third base and that worked out

652
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: pretty well. Like again, like you can't look at it

653
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: as just like we've got this position, we don't need

654
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: to draft it. Like no, Like I think you put

655
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: it beautifully, Tyler, Like you pick the best player and

656
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: you figure out how to use them, like because if

657
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: you can hit, if you like, they can figure it out.

658
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: They can if they're good enough, they'll figure it out.

659
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 2: I will tell you. The Astros draft seventeenth UH the

660
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: the sixteenth ranked prospect according to MLB dot Com. It's

661
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 2: a short stop from Texas A and m so Chandler.

662
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 2: That'd be exciting for you, So so maybe that'll happen.

663
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: They need more former aggies in this uh in this organization, right.

664
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 2: You can't do that?

665
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: What is the story behind that?

666
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 2: Why can't you make because you're always an aggie. I'm

667
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: not a former aggie just because I don't go to

668
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 2: school there anymore. I'm still an aggie.

669
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: That's so dumb.

670
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 2: Whatever. Whatever, they didn't teach you past tense at LSU.

671
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to L s U.

672
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 2: I went I went to A and M. But I'm

673
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 2: still an aggie.

674
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm not a Tiger.

675
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:44,959
Speaker 2: Well that's your fault.

676
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: I know, pick a better school. You asked when the

677
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: last time they've had a high round pick like really

678
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: impact them, Like, honestly it is Bregman and Tucker. They

679
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: have not had that. This is the stat I always

680
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: discuss talking about the astros woes drafting like high in

681
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: the draft. They have not had a second round pick

682
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: produce a positive Major League B war since Adrian Hauser

683
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: and Adrian Hauser accrued all of that with the Brewers

684
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: they drafted Adrian Howser in twenty eleven. It's they've done

685
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: a They've done a marvelous job finding the guys from

686
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: Wayne State and Millersville University and you know, insert tiny

687
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: school you've never heard.

688
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 2: Of here livingly the gas station.

689
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: Yes, like they've done a great job finding those, but

690
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: they have either not hit or not had picks in

691
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: the first and second round that can be those franchise

692
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: altering players. And for the first and this June, for

693
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: the first time, they will have access to a pool

694
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: of players that can possibly be that. Again, four picks

695
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: in the first ninety three selections. I'm going to put

696
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: that in perspective a little bit, so in this June's draft,

697
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: they'll have four picks in the first ninety three picks.

698
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: Last year their first two picks were twenty one and

699
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: ninety five, and then in twenty twenty four, their first

700
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: two picks were twenty eight and one oh one. It's

701
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: it's not even like it's The pool of talent that

702
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: they will have access to is just so much better

703
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: than the pool of talent that they had access to

704
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: in these past two and three drafts that if they

705
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: do it right and again Dana is in the last

706
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: year of his deal. This is why Dana is here

707
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: in part because this is what he nails. He nails

708
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: the draft, he nails player evaluation. This is what he

709
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: is good at. This is what he came up in baseball,

710
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 1: and that is this is what he made his name

711
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: in baseball doing. He needs to do it this time around,

712
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: and who knows if he'll be here to see the

713
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: fruits of his labor. But what I mean, but if

714
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 1: you wants to leave a nice party gift, it would

715
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 1: be to hit this draft, because they hit this draft. Okay,

716
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: we have two more questions. We'll motor through them real quick.

717
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: First comes from Sherry, a very loyal listener, very loyal follower.

718
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: Love Sherry. Why do the askers seem to prefer Vasquez

719
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: over Salazar for catching? Well, I think it's just a Christian.

720
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: Vasquez has done it.

721
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of them has done it thousands of times.

722
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I struggle to talk about this without, you know,

723
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: sounding like I'm coming down on Sasar Salazar, But you

724
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: kind of just have to look at how they've treated

725
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: him the past four years, Like there would be stretches

726
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: where he would come up on the major league roster

727
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: and they just wouldn't use it. Like again, we talk

728
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: about like actions speak louder than words, and every word

729
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: you hear about Seesar salas Aar is incredible. He's beloved

730
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. His makeup is off the charts. He's

731
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: a great they say he's a great game caller. Pitchers

732
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: love throwing him. That this is what you hear about him,

733
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: and then you know when he get when they have

734
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: opportunities to use him at the big league level, they

735
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: choose not to do so. And I think it's because

736
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: they they're worried about and I've written this, they are

737
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: worried about over exposing him at the big league level.

738
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: I think they understand, or I think what's been communicated

739
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: to me is that they see a ceiling there. They

740
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: see a ceiling in his performance, and they think that

741
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: maybe that ceiling is pretty low. Now it's fair to ask.

742
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: You know, Christian Vasquez is thirty five years old and

743
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: has a like a seventy ops plus across the past

744
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: four seasons.

745
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: You know how old, says ar Salazar, is.

746
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: He turned thirty today They had a Marriacha.

747
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's thirty. He's not a prospect. This is not

748
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 2: like some young buck that they're trying to protect. This

749
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: is a thirty year old who hit two thirteen in

750
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 2: Triple A sugar Land last year in the PCL, which

751
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 2: is a very offensive friendly league. I mean, again, you're

752
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 2: backup catcher, You're you're just looking for stability, but you

753
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 2: at least know that Christian Vasquez has seen enough to

754
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 2: kind of know what he's doing and to not let

755
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 2: that affect him. But I mean, look, neither one of

756
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 2: those guys are going to change your season. I mean

757
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 2: that they're there to spell yiner, you know, once or

758
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 2: twice a week, and to be there in case something

759
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: crazy happens. But I mean, if your season is coming

760
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 2: down to either one of those guys, something has gone

761
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 2: terribly wrong.

762
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: And I think they are in a spot where or

763
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: they will try to improve the position near the dead

764
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: presuming they're still in it, and presuming that they are

765
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: buying at the deadline, which I can't well, I can't

766
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: envision the world they're not buying at the deadline, but

767
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 1: let's not envision that for these purposes. If they're buying

768
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: at the deadline, if they're in it, I can envision

769
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: that that will that will be a position that they

770
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: seek to upgrade at the deadline. Because the other thing

771
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: is like everyone's well, why haven't they sign anybody? Because

772
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: they were the backup catcher market was Victor Carrottini, and

773
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: no one else like Victor Carrottini got everyday money. Yeah,

774
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: they weren't going to pay Victor Carrottini nine million dollars

775
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: after paying him fourteen million for the like. Where they

776
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: really aired was I'm not sure if Victor Kartini wanted

777
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: to stay here. I think he did, but I can't

778
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: say that for certain. Where they aired was probably not

779
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: trying to get an extension done with him, like early

780
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: mid last season. But it's also like how many teams

781
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 1: extend their backup catchers.

782
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, he probably he wants to start.

783
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 2: Why why would you sign an extension to be a

784
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: backup catcher?

785
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: Correct, he should, but so that's why, that's why they

786
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: are where they are. Christian Vasquez will be in camp.

787
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: He's supposed to. The Ashers are off. We're recording this

788
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. The Ashers are off on Monday. He'll be

789
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: in camp on Tuesday, and he's gonna catch all nine

790
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: innings of their their game against the Pirates, which Lance

791
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: mccullar's junior will start in Bradenton, Florida, saving the UH

792
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: saving The toughest question for last, Chris asks, do you

793
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: have any bold predictions for the season? Mine is Brown, Burrows,

794
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: Emi and Weiss turn out to be one of the

795
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 1: league's top five rotations. Well, that's Chris. I'm not sure

796
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: Ryan Weiss will be in.

797
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, why this is a why this

798
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 2: is an interesting addition. I was with you for the

799
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 2: first three.

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00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's pitching well though, and I think he'll get

801
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: He'll get he'll start games for this team this year.

802
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: I don't think he opens the season of rotation. He's

803
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: pitching well. I do think I agree with I'm not

804
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: sure I'm going to go top five rotation in the league,

805
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to pitch it very well.

806
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: I think the team. I think this team is going

807
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: to pitch it very well. I'm I could be wrong,

808
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: but I've kind of just learned to blindly trust friend

809
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: of the Pod Josh Miller, and the Ashers pitching infrastructure,

810
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: their department, kind of how they do things. They seem

811
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: to have the secret sauce that they can just do

812
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: it every year. I kind of blindly trust them. I

813
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: think they're going to pitch it well. But if you

814
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: want a bold prediction, I'm gonna say that jord And

815
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: Alvarez will lead baseball in home runs.

816
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: That was gonna I literally I was that. I told

817
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: you before. I have a good bold prediction. Mine was

818
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 2: going to be that he has a career high in

819
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: home runs, which sounds like a bold prediction until you realize,

820
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: do you know what his career high in home runs is?

821
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 2: Has he hit thirty five before thirty seven? And is

822
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: his career high? Which seems crazy. I don't know if

823
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: you saw, but a fellow named Big Dumper hit sixty,

824
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 2: So it certainly seems like Jordan could could get to

825
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 2: thirty eight at some point in his career. But yeah,

826
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you're on rules like that could easily happen.

827
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that every year he could easily

828
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 2: lead the league in home runs. The only reason that

829
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: I think that that is a bold prediction and not

830
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 2: like you can you know, you can bet on that

831
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 2: or whatever, but it's he's such a good hitter outside

832
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 2: of hitting home runs that sometimes he will hit doubles,

833
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 2: or he'll take a walk instead of just swinging for

834
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 2: the He's just such a good pure hitter that he's

835
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 2: not it would be very shocking to see him put

836
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 2: up fifty sixty home runs because his pittuers will start

837
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 2: to pitch around him, and he's so good at being

838
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 2: patient that he's not going to even if he gets

839
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 2: a pitch that he likes in a you know, two

840
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 2: er count, you're one that he could handle, he might

841
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: sit back on it and end up drawing a walk

842
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 2: because pitchers are scared of him and there's not a

843
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: lot of lineup protection, so he's not going to get

844
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: a lot of just fastballs down the middle. But yeah,

845
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: I'm with you, he's so good. I know that everyone

846
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 2: listening to this understands this. But he is just one

847
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 2: of the best hitters in baseball, and when he's healthy,

848
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 2: I think he's up there as the best all around

849
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 2: hitter in baseball.

850
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: My other bold prediction was going to be the Christian

851
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: Walker hits thirty homers this year, because if he hits

852
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: twenty seven homers off of that season he had last year,

853
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: if he's like even a modicum better, yeah, like you

854
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: can pop thirty like like that, that would be my

855
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: other one is that Christian Walker has thirty.

856
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say my bold prediction is

857
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 2: a bounce back here for Korea. For the fifty games

858
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 2: that he was in Houston, he had a one seventeen

859
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 2: ops plus he hit two ninety. You know, he was

860
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 2: a very good hitter for the Astros during that time.

861
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 2: He's still only thirty. I mean, he turns thirty one

862
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: this year. I mean, that's that's says Oar Salazar's age.

863
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 2: You know, he's not he's not old. He's had some

864
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 2: injury issues, but he's not. It's not like he's anywhere

865
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 2: near past his prime. Like he's he's thirty one. He

866
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 2: easily could have a bounce back season. So you know,

867
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: if you if you look at kind of Korea's numbers,

868
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 2: I mean, his best offensive season was in twenty twenty

869
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 2: four with the Twins. He had a one to fifty

870
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: two ops plus, but he well, at twenty seventeen, he

871
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: had a one fifty five with the Astros. But I mean,

872
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 2: I could easily see him having a one thirty ops

873
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 2: plus and being a very very good hitter, especially because

874
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 2: he's not playing as demanding a position at third base.

875
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 2: He's not having to you know, run quite as much.

876
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 2: You know, be that he can he can focus more

877
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 2: on hitting. And I do think I know I like

878
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 2: to get analytical, but I do think there is something

879
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 2: to be said about him being back in Houston. I

880
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: think that matters to him. I think it. I think

881
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 2: it juices him up. I think he is more engaged

882
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 2: and you know, plays better as an Astro. And I

883
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 2: mean we saw it last year. He he was not

884
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 2: good for the Twins. He had a ninety four ops

885
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: plus in ninety three games to sixty seven batting average.

886
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 2: He changes teams and immediately hits two ninety with a

887
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: one to seventeen ops plus that the Astros did not

888
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: do anything to. It's not like he magically fixed something

889
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: a day into becoming I think he just locked in.

890
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 2: I think it means something to him to be here.

891
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: I think a full season, especially after missing the playoffs

892
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 2: last season, I could see that being something that is,

893
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 2: you know, a fire under him and having a really

894
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 2: good year. I'm so excited to see a full season

895
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 2: of Mike Burrows. I know we've only seen a few

896
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:35,240
Speaker 2: spring training games, but his stuff just looks so good.

897
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to see what that looks like. And

898
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 2: look TERRK. Scooble is amazing. It's pretty hard to win

899
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 2: a cy Young three times, So that would be my

900
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 2: bold prediction is I think I think Hunter Brown wins

901
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 2: the cy Young.

902
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: The you know what else you didn't say about Korea.

903
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have to play in thirty degree weather

904
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: for the first two months of the season.

905
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 2: Either.

906
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: You can lap, but that matters. Yeah, look that the

907
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: first road trip that the Ashers take this year in

908
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: April is Sacramento, Denver, and Seattle. It's gonna be cold,

909
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: like it ain't like he's avoiding the cold altogether, but

910
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna be in the cold every day, and

911
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: that that makes a difference. Don't don't get me wrong,

912
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: there's I've not asked Carlos about this, but in general,

913
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: there are players that just don't hit well in the cold.

914
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: There are players that don't. But and I don't know

915
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: that that's Carlos, because he had good years in Minnesota,

916
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: like he had. I mean, he was an All Star

917
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: at least one of those years in Minnesota. It's not

918
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: as if you went to Minnesota and just completely fell

919
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: on his face. But it's easier for some people to

920
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: hit in the climate control of Houston. The air condition

921
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: works sometimes, but the roof will be closed. He has

922
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: to know that they will not open the roof. Don't

923
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: worry about that. So, yeah, he won't have to hit

924
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: in twenty degree weather in Minneapolis anymore, so that'll help.

925
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: We should probably do bold predictions again, like closer to

926
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: the season, maybe like a week the week, a couple

927
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: of days before opening day so we can like, you know,

928
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: really put our names on it. I think that was

929
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: kind of just us riffing a little bit, but we'll

930
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: do that closer to opening day. But until then, you

931
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,600
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932
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,480
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933
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934
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935
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: really help us. We'll be back next week. Our special

936
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: guests that had to do early work this last week

937
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: and ruined our schedule is scheduled to join us next week,

938
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Speaker 1: so that'll be fun bringing you guys another interview. Josh

939
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: Raddick will be back at some point, and we're getting

940
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: closer to opening day, so we will be back and

941
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: talk to you soon, and until then, thank you for listening.

942
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Speaker 2: Byett