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Speaker 1: Welcome on it all to the Heber Territory Podcast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Sean Coleman. Hope, wherever you are and wherever

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Speaker 1: you are listening, you're having a great start to your week.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's hard to believe it's already the end

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Speaker 1: of May. We're basically one third of the way through

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Speaker 1: the baseball season. Memorial Day is right around the corner,

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Speaker 1: and the Braves are.

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Speaker 2: Once again playing some head scratching baseball.

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Speaker 1: To all who are listening, who enjoyed the weekend in Boston,

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. We were looking forward

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Speaker 1: to Spencer Strider returning, Ronald Cooper Junior being right around

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Speaker 1: the corner. The offense got three runs in the first

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Speaker 1: inning and then nothing. That's been the story of the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Atlanta Braves, and no one can tell

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Speaker 1: it better than my podcast partner, Steven Tolbert. Steven would

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Speaker 1: be like, it feels like that We've done a lot

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Speaker 1: of wins, a lot of podcasts after wins here recently.

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Speaker 1: It's unfortunate that tonight, you know, we kind of see

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Speaker 1: the momentum from the weekend stop with the loss of

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Speaker 1: the Nationals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's up, buddy?

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Speaker 4: It was an exciting day because we knew Spencer was

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Speaker 4: coming back Spencer Strider, and we're obviously going to talk

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Speaker 4: about him in linked here. This is gonna be probably

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Speaker 4: the main topic of the show. Is his first start

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Speaker 3: And he looked rusty.

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Speaker 4: That's perfectly fair. He did not look sharp. He had

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Speaker 4: some interesting comments after the game that we'll get to,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, just a kind of another the Braves are

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Speaker 3: They just.

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Speaker 4: I don't think at any single point, maybe one time

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Speaker 4: this year in that little stretch when they swept the

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Speaker 4: than that, there really doesn't seem to be a point

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Speaker 4: at any time in this season where they've had every

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Speaker 3: Team going at one time.

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Speaker 4: And you know, in Boston the offense really picked up,

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Speaker 4: but the run prevention, you know, kind of went by

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Speaker 4: the wayside and they had to win some high scoring games.

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Speaker 3: Tonight.

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Speaker 4: You know, it looked like the offense was going to

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Speaker 4: pick up right where they left off, you know, leaving

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Speaker 4: Boston and they scored three runs in the second inning

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Speaker 4: after Washington had scored three runs in the first. The

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Speaker 4: Braves came back immediately covered it up, got three in

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Speaker 3: They got two.

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Speaker 4: Singles, one from Nick Allen and one from Stuart Fairschild

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Speaker 4: the rest of the night, and that was it didn't

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just another like where did this come from?

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Speaker 4: You know, the offense was just clicking on all cylinders,

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Speaker 4: And even after that second inning, look like, here we

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Speaker 4: just frustrating, annoying. You know, this offense is going to

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Speaker 4: that should help with that. But yeah, Strider is the

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Speaker 4: big story. But I think the main takeaway from this

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Speaker 1: Coaster, absolutely and you know, the ups and downs of

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Speaker 1: that roller coaster just seemed today at all, it seems

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Speaker 1: to be there's there's very little straight line of expectations.

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Speaker 1: But we'll get into the offense in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a bit out Spencer Strider. Of course, everybody

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Speaker 1: excited as can be, as they should be. When the

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Speaker 1: more often than not, are going to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: But Strider tonight, overall, definitely looked rusty. He looked like

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Speaker 2: But the first thing that.

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Speaker 1: Stands out to me about this, Stephen, is what me

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a weird game.

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Speaker 4: You know, Spencer definitely got bad hipped a little bit

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Speaker 3: But it is fair like a we do not know

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Speaker 4: We don't like we have hopes, and there are plenty

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Speaker 4: not gonna spend too much time on velocity after one start.

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Speaker 4: That's that's that's pointless because we you know, you kind

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Speaker 4: I know a lot of people were freaking out online

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Speaker 4: The command stuff is just Russ, you know, he's never

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Speaker 4: you what I love about Spencer Strider is after the game,

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Speaker 4: you know, the the the the reporters asked him, and

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Speaker 3: So they asked him even though it was a frustrating night.

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Speaker 4: Is it nice just to be back out there, just

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Speaker 4: it's great to be back out there. I love I

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Speaker 4: What I love about Spencer is that Spencer does not

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Speaker 3: And Spencer's answer was, no, it's not great at all.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 4: The point is to win, and I'm not helping us win.

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Speaker 4: And they sent down a guy who was pitching pretty

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Speaker 4: I don't. I'm not out here just to be out here.

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Speaker 4: I'm not out here just to you know, just to

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Speaker 4: I've made two starts this year and I've contributed to

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Speaker 4: I'm and and there was another question about, like, you know,

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Speaker 3: But that is Spencer.

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Speaker 4: Tried and true, and and so that's why I have

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Speaker 3: And it was not a great first start.

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Speaker 4: The offense will get to in a minute. Maybe even

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Speaker 4: Maybe he's trying to build off of get the command better,

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried. Worried is not the right word, but it.

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Speaker 4: Is something to monitor because we don't know. We don't

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Speaker 1: But it does give you confidence in the fact that

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Speaker 1: the best way to put it is that Spencer Strider

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Speaker 1: expects excellence. And it's not in an arrogant way. It's

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Speaker 1: And when he's willing to put in the hard work,

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Speaker 1: And again, I know that he may never be satisfied,

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Speaker 2: So Stephen, welcome back to the harbit Territory podcast.

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Speaker 6: Stephen.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a bit about the season as a whole

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Speaker 1: moving forward coming up on game fifteen. When it comes

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Speaker 1: that's great. You know, I've seen it a couple of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen that too, of the hottest team in

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Speaker 4: They swept the Twins, they took two out of three

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Speaker 4: the offense is the main culprit. Listen, that's one hundred

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Speaker 4: You know, tonight it's probably a little of both. You know,

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Speaker 4: I think you had a stat once you give the people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and the number five is to be

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Speaker 1: You know, when we score five or more runs so

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Speaker 1: We're fourteen and two when we score five and more runs. Now,

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Speaker 1: I hope that we do that again. But this team,

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Speaker 1: The Braves got to get that done at some point,

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Speaker 1: and it's just hard to have trust that they eventually will.

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Speaker 1: With where this offense is, you hope Ronald changes that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's kind of where you put your

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Speaker 4: the team and specifically the offense. But listen, and we've

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Speaker 4: any substantial amount when you're playing low scoring one run games,

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Speaker 4: and tonight wasn't a one run game. Technically the Nationals

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Speaker 4: it's an offensive problem to start with, and tonight was

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Speaker 4: the same thing. Listen, the Braves need we're out of

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Speaker 4: Austin Riley. I know he's had a solid year. I

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Speaker 3: That's solid, but that's not what the Braves. That's not

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Speaker 4: The Braves didn't give Austin Riley two hundred and ten

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Speaker 4: And you know, I know Austin the last couple of years,

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Speaker 3: Of the season.

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping when June kicks in, we get like summer

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, I know Strider wasn't great tonight, but

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Speaker 3: Is going to address the in the off season. All right,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry at the trade deadline, but the offense is

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Speaker 4: I mean, Acun is coming back and Profar is coming back,

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Speaker 3: So the Braves need more from guys.

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Speaker 4: They need more from Austin Riley, they need more from

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Speaker 4: you know, But Ozzi Albi's, Michael Harris, Austin Riley, you know,

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Speaker 4: Olsen has picked it up.

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Speaker 3: You know, the catchers have been awesome. Azuna has been good.

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Speaker 2: But like the.

443
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Speaker 3: Braves need more ont of Austin Riley, Michael Harris.

444
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Speaker 4: And Ozzy Alby's and then hope that acun you can

445
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Speaker 4: do something big when he gets back.

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Speaker 3: You're on mutuam forgive me the other that mute button

447
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Speaker 3: you need button in a.

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Speaker 2: Gets me every time.

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Speaker 1: About the other thing that I'll say is this is

450
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Speaker 1: that what truly does stand out about this offense, even

451
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Speaker 1: compared towards the end of May, is that our power

452
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Speaker 1: has just been sapped as well currently in the month

453
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Speaker 1: of May. Currently in the month of May, this team

454
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Speaker 1: is twenty third or worse in team slugging, Team ISO

455
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Speaker 1: and home runs. They currently are twenty fifth in the

456
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Speaker 1: home runs in the month of May. In baseball, they

457
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Speaker 1: have hit fifteen home runs across I believe seventeen sixteen

458
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Speaker 1: seventeen games in May. Right now they have a three

459
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Speaker 1: seventy nine slogan percentage to or twenty sixth in ISO.

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Speaker 1: The only player right now that has a four to

461
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Speaker 1: fifty or above slogan percentage in the month of May

462
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Speaker 1: is Matt Olsen, and that's really because he's starting to

463
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Speaker 1: hit well here recently. So again, this offense home runs.

464
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Speaker 1: Nobody expects for this team to be able to hit

465
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Speaker 1: home runs like they did in twenty twenty three. But

466
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Speaker 1: they've got to be able to hit home runs with

467
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Speaker 1: how they're built, and they're perfectly capable well doing that.

468
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Speaker 1: But Unfortunately, right now, Nick Allen is returning to who

469
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Speaker 1: we expected Nick Allen to be. Alex Redugo has fallen

470
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Speaker 1: off completely, Eli White starting to come back down to

471
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Speaker 1: earth a bit, and Ozzie Alby's and Michael Harris have

472
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Speaker 1: not gotten going. That's more than half your lineup, and

473
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Speaker 1: Ozuna and Riley also are struggling as well. So the

474
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Speaker 1: power's got to show up at some point. One thing

475
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Speaker 1: I will say is as good as it is to

476
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Speaker 1: get Ronald back, he will bring some power to the equation,

477
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Speaker 1: but the power output for much of the lineup has

478
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Speaker 1: to improve for this offense truly to be where we

479
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Speaker 1: need it to be again to win at the level

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Speaker 1: that we need to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the power stuff is weird. I don't get it.

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Speaker 4: Like Ozzie has five homers this year. Ozzie's slugging percentage

483
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Speaker 4: is like the three hundreds. I don't know what's happened there.

484
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Speaker 4: You know Riley's if you look at if you look

485
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Speaker 4: at Riley's slugging numbers the last two years, you know,

486
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Speaker 4: from twenty one, twenty two and twenty three, Riley has

487
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Speaker 4: slugging percentages easily in the five hundreds, like five twenty

488
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Speaker 4: five thirty slugging percentages. In the last two years it's

489
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Speaker 4: dropped down to like four forty and I don't know why.

490
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Speaker 4: I don't have a good answer for that. And just

491
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Speaker 4: the power overall on the team now, listen, not having

492
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Speaker 4: Akunya matters. That dude can hit forty home runs like that.

493
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's just a monster. So of course you've

494
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Speaker 4: you've you've traded out Ronaldacuna Junior for Alex Radugo or

495
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Speaker 4: you know, went Maryfield or Ramon Loreano or pick your guy.

496
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Speaker 4: But yeah, the team wide power output has been very low.

497
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Speaker 4: And like you said, they're twenty third in May, they're

498
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Speaker 4: twenty third in baseball and home runs.

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Speaker 3: That's not good enough. This team is not I mean,

500
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Speaker 3: this team is not built a score in a lot

501
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Speaker 3: of other ways. Quite honestly, they don't really. You know,

502
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Speaker 3: when they were.

503
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Speaker 4: When the team was put together, there was not a

504
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Speaker 4: lot of emphasis put on speed or on base percentage.

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Speaker 3: You know, those things weren't factored in a lot. What

506
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Speaker 3: was factored in.

507
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Speaker 4: Those power hitting the ball out of the ballpark. And

508
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,479
Speaker 4: quite frankly, the Braves just haven't done it. Matt Olsen

509
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Speaker 4: has gotten hot and the catchers have been hot Baldwin

510
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Speaker 4: and Murphy, but other than that, there hasn't been a

511
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Speaker 4: lot of power.

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Speaker 3: And that's you can honestly trace it all back to that.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't expect this team to hit four

514
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Speaker 4: singles in a row. That's not how they're built. They're

515
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Speaker 4: built to get a walk and somebody pop a two

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Speaker 4: run homer and do that a couple times every night,

517
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Speaker 4: and we just.

518
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Speaker 3: Haven't had that. And I think, honestly, you can start there.

519
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Speaker 4: The Braves need to get back to hitting home runs

520
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Speaker 4: and Acunya will help one hundred percent. But they need

521
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Speaker 4: some of their guys who they depended on over the

522
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Speaker 4: last couple of years to look like they're themselves again.

523
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Speaker 4: And you know, I think Austin Riley's kind of at

524
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Speaker 4: the forefront of that.

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Speaker 3: As we sit here today.

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Speaker 4: That could change next week, it could be a different guy,

527
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Speaker 4: but as we sit her today, I think it starts

528
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Speaker 4: with Austin Riley. They need him back to the guy

529
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Speaker 4: he was and then hope that Acunya can fill in

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Speaker 4: the rest.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of mccunya, we're going to have the latest on him,

532
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Speaker 1: including some merds directly from Alex and thopless on when

533
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Speaker 1: we might finally expect Ronald Accoonye Junior to be back

534
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Speaker 1: in the majors.

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Speaker 6: I just want to say, before Arena Club, if you

536
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Speaker 6: were trying to very actively buy sell trade, it was

537
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Speaker 6: very complicated and used a lot of mail that was unnecessary.

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Speaker 5: I don't know I even know how to do it,

539
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 5: but I'm glad we have Arena Club now because it's

540
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Speaker 5: a one stop shop for everything card related.

541
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Speaker 6: It is, and right now you can get twenty percent

542
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Speaker 6: off your first slab pack or your first card purchase

543
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Speaker 6: by going to Arena club dot com. Slash foul, use

544
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Speaker 6: code foul. If you're a collector, you've got to check

545
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Speaker 6: out Arena Club, go get after it.

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Speaker 1: So Stephen Ronald ACCOONYA Junior obviously has looked out standing

547
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Speaker 1: in the Florida Complex lead. You know last week, you

548
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Speaker 1: know in Gwinnette. Now, I think for three or four

549
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Speaker 1: games tonight, I'll go let you give a little bit

550
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Speaker 1: more detail tonight. I know that there's been some nasty

551
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: weather that we've all been experiencing, but tonight the game

552
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: was a little bit shorthanded due to some rain. But

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Speaker 1: I bring all this up to say this Alexanthopolis was

554
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Speaker 1: asked about, you know, ronald'cune junior, potentially when the Braves

555
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Speaker 1: returned home on Friday, could he make an appearance, you know,

556
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Speaker 1: could that be when he returns, especially with the fact

557
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Speaker 1: that the Braves are going to be based in another

558
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Speaker 1: contender in the National League in San Diego, and Alex

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Speaker 1: and Thopolis basically said, listen, I'm not completely ruled it out,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's very unlikely. And I'll personally say

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Speaker 1: I applaud that answer from Alex and Thopolis. The reason

562
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Speaker 1: why is this, Ronald d'acuonya has looked spectacular. He's saying

563
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Speaker 1: all the right things. I truly feel like he's in

564
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Speaker 1: a much much better position coming back this time around

565
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Speaker 1: than he was in twenty twenty two. But I also

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Speaker 1: the reason I applaud alex and Thopolis is because the

567
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Speaker 1: Braves want to check every box. They want to make

568
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Speaker 1: sure that Ronald d'aconey junior once again is being put

569
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Speaker 1: in the routine of the different things that he can do,

570
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Speaker 1: being productive on the bass pass, playing a full nine

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Speaker 1: innings out in the outfield, being able to you know,

572
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Speaker 1: travel on the road, and you know, if he were

573
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Speaker 1: to travel with Winnett. I think all of those things matter.

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Speaker 1: Getting him fully back into the routine again. He can

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Speaker 1: say he's fully competent, and I truly believe that he is,

576
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Speaker 1: that he feels one.

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Speaker 2: Hundred percent, But filling one hundred percent and.

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Speaker 1: Being back into the routine itker, I think, are two

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Speaker 1: different things. So even though it may not seem like it,

580
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Speaker 1: the Braves taking their time, they have the time to

581
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Speaker 1: do that, they should be doing that. I'm perfectly fine

582
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Speaker 1: with them being cautious with when Ronald A. Kuge junial

583
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Speaker 1: eventually returned.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So Alex did a couple of interviews today, did one

586
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Speaker 4: with I think six ninety the Fan, and then he

587
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Speaker 4: also went on John Hayman and Joe Sherman's podcast and

588
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 4: did like twenty twenty five thirty minutes with them, and

589
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Speaker 4: he made the point that usually when a guy on

590
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Speaker 4: a position players coming back from injury, and he was

591
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Speaker 4: doing his rehab starts, you're doing them so he gets

592
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Speaker 4: his timing back at the plate. But that's not what

593
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Speaker 4: Ronald's doing. Ronald's been hitting since the beginning of spring training,

594
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Speaker 4: like he's been actively hitting live pitching, you know, batting practice,

595
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Speaker 4: he's been hitting at all points. The thing that Ronald

596
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 4: hasn't been doing is running around in the outfield and

597
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 4: running the bases, because he just got cleared to run

598
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 4: and cut a couple of weeks ago. And so Alex's

599
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Speaker 4: point was, we're not so much looking at the timing

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Speaker 4: because if you watch his at bats, he looks like

601
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Speaker 4: he could play tomorrow. He's got a seventeen hundred ops

602
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Speaker 4: in triple A right now. You know, launching ball, he

603
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 4: had a slider. There was a slider on the outside

604
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Speaker 4: black of the plate that he hit four hundred and

605
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Speaker 4: twenty feet to left field. I don't know how he

606
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Speaker 4: did it, stuff that only Ronald could do. So like,

607
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 4: it's not about the bat, it's it's much more about

608
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Speaker 4: getting his legs ready to go to play the outfield,

609
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Speaker 4: because he's got to play the outfield. You know he can't.

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Speaker 4: He can, he'll DH maybe some, But how many nights

611
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Speaker 4: are you gonna take Ozuna out of the lineup?

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Speaker 3: Not many.

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Speaker 4: More likely is he's gonna rest, you know, more than

614
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Speaker 4: a DH's. But he's got to play the outfield. And

615
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Speaker 4: I would, I do want to say this, I have

616
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Speaker 4: very low expectations for Ronald as an outfielder in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty five. I have very high expectations as Ronald as

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Speaker 4: a hitter, but as an outfielder, I'm guessing it's probably

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Speaker 4: not gonna look great. There's gonna be some misplays. There's

620
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Speaker 4: gonna be some awkward plays. You know, he's not gonna

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Speaker 4: win a goal glove this year, that's for certain. So

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Speaker 4: I you know, I would, I would go ahead and

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Speaker 4: Warren fans, it's probably gonna look a little messy in

624
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Speaker 4: the outfield even when he gets back, and that's probably

625
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Speaker 4: gonna be the last part that goes.

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Speaker 3: And let's be honesty, but even before he.

627
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Speaker 4: Had the injury, Ronald wasn't the greatest defensive outfielder in

628
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Speaker 4: the world anyways. He's got a cannon for an arm,

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Speaker 4: but he's never actually been a very natural like route

630
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Speaker 4: runner in the outfield, you know, getting jumps on ball,

631
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Speaker 4: stuff like that. So my guess is it's good. It's

632
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Speaker 4: probably gonna look a little messy. But that's what they're

633
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Speaker 4: waiting on, is al. That's what Alex's point was and

634
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Speaker 4: probably why he's not going to come back on Friday.

635
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Speaker 4: It didn't help that their game tonight got rained out

636
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Speaker 4: in the fifth inning. He only got two at bats nine,

637
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Speaker 4: only played four innings in the field. I think the

638
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,479
Speaker 4: goal tonight was him to play at nine innings, and

639
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 4: then the rain came and swept that away. So that

640
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 4: probably even hammers at home more that he's not going

641
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Speaker 4: to be back on Friday.

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Speaker 3: And I understand.

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Speaker 4: You got to get his legs underneath him. He's got

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Speaker 4: to play in the outfield for nine innings. He's got

645
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Speaker 4: to be able to come back in the next day.

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Speaker 4: Feel good, do it again. Come in the next day,

647
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Speaker 4: feel good, do it again. So I get waiting. It's

648
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Speaker 4: just tough when you see a guy take the adbats

649
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Speaker 4: that he takes and the offense being inconsistent the way

650
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Speaker 4: it is. It's like, good lord, I would love to

651
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Speaker 4: have Ronald Accouny in this offense right now, but you know, uh,

652
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Speaker 4: you know, it's probably best to be a little more

653
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Speaker 4: prudent at this point with your franchise Superstars.

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Speaker 3: So I get it. It makes sense to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the other thing to consider is the

656
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Speaker 1: fact that the reason why they're doing this is because

657
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: they've got to have him play the outfield. You know

658
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: that they can't afford to sit here and sit Marcelo

659
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Speaker 1: Zuna and let him kind of ease his way back in,

660
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: you know, play d H. They've got to be able again.

661
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Speaker 1: With Alex Rodugo struggling like he asked for much of

662
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Speaker 1: may Eli White followed a bit off as well, you know,

663
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Speaker 1: you've got to be able. You're already going to have

664
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Speaker 1: the other outfield spot as a weak source. He's got

665
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Speaker 1: to be able to play the outfield. So I think

666
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Speaker 1: that that makes a ton of sense to be able

667
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Speaker 1: to make sure that he's comfortable play that outfield. That's

668
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: if that's the obstacle he could overcome. That was probably

669
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Speaker 1: the biggest obstacle for him to overcome last time. He

670
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: overcomes it this time, then that's going to be the

671
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Speaker 1: best path for him be and the Ronald Coundie Junior

672
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Speaker 1: that we're all used to. So with the loss tonight,

673
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: the simple truth is this, the Braves have to win

674
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Speaker 1: this series and you have to feel confident that with

675
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Speaker 1: Smith Shoff as well as Chris sail On the maut

676
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: the next two games, we should be in a good

677
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Speaker 1: position to do that. But it's essential, especially with a

678
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Speaker 1: huge series coming up over the weekend with San Diego

679
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: coming back to Atlanta. We just saw Trevia Williams versus

680
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: Smiths Show versus ag Spi the last time both pitchers

681
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: was out Spish shower. What's the Kid was excellent? Be

682
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: interesting to see him facing this saved light up and

683
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Speaker 1: what that's got some pretty good hitters with Washington him

684
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: facing the save light up for the second straight time.

685
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: What will happen? How will he adapt? How will those

686
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: hitters adapt? But again, you have to feel competent. You

687
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: just have to see this office supporting. It would be

688
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: great if they could replicate what they did in the

689
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Speaker 1: early eddids bro tonight tomorrow night, but also get a

690
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Speaker 1: few of the middle of deeds as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you need.

692
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Speaker 4: I mean, it'd be a real bummer to lose this

693
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Speaker 4: series after coming in from Boston playing so well, you know,

694
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Speaker 4: winning a big series on the road the Brazil Despite

695
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Speaker 4: what they did in Boston, the Brazs have not been

696
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 4: a good road team this year. A lot of their damage, uh,

697
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Speaker 4: they've done at home and they've just kind of survived

698
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 4: on the road and obviously they're owing a lot of

699
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 4: that is the oh and seven start off.

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Speaker 3: All seven of those games are on the road. Obviously, but.

701
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Speaker 4: You know, this Washington's series is important because the schedule

702
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: gets really tough after this, Like they play San Diego,

703
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 4: they play Philadelphia, they play Arizona, you know, they play

704
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Speaker 4: San Francisco. Like you know, they've had this stretch of

705
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 4: playing the Pirates and the Rockies and the Nationals. You know,

706
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 4: even the Red Sox are kind of more of a

707
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 4: five hundred team than a great team.

708
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Speaker 3: Well that's going away.

709
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Speaker 4: The schedule picks up at you know, the first half

710
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Speaker 4: of June is tough, and then at the end of June,

711
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Speaker 4: I think they get the Mets twice and not maybe

712
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 4: not back to back series, but like you know, one

713
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 4: series in between. So the June schedule is much tougher,

714
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Speaker 4: and you know, and so it would stink to lose

715
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 4: this series and then go into that rough stretch. Now,

716
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 4: the Braves could beat good teams, but it's not gonna

717
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 4: be quite as easy as it's been. And again, like

718
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 4: we talked about, even with a kind of an easier

719
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Speaker 4: schedule in May, the Braves are basically a five hundred team.

720
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Speaker 4: They're one game over five hundred in the month of May.

721
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Speaker 4: So I don't know, we'll see, you know it would

722
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 4: stink to lose this series. Obviously, when you lose the

723
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Speaker 4: first game, the odds of you losing the series goes

724
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Speaker 4: up a lot. Smith Shelver has been unbelievable this year.

725
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 4: Chris Sale has looked awesome in the last you know,

726
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 4: three or four weeks or so, so I think they

727
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 4: got a shot. The Nationals are not a good team.

728
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Speaker 4: I mean, quite frankly, they're not. The Braves should beat

729
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Speaker 4: the Nationals, but they didn't really beat them last year.

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Speaker 3: They just lost tonight. We'll see, we'll see what happens.

731
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Speaker 4: I know what would help is like seven runs that

732
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 4: would help a lot, Seven or eight runs scored both games, give.

733
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Speaker 3: The pictures some breathing groom. That would help a lot.

734
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Speaker 4: But with this offense, it's literally not it's not even

735
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 4: day to day.

736
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Speaker 3: It's like inning to inning.

737
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 4: You don't know the quality that you're gonna get. And

738
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Speaker 4: that's been part of the frustration in the season.

739
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Speaker 1: Absolutely the hit old Stevens point.

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Speaker 2: You know.

741
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Speaker 1: Currently, right down the playoffs teams National League are Los Angeles,

742
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and the Mets I think are tied down at

743
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: the last and one of them is the East, one

744
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: of them wild card. But Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and then

745
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: we'll say the Phillies and then the Mets, the Padres,

746
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: as well as the Giants and the Wildcard well through

747
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Speaker 1: the end of Jute the Braves. After this series against

748
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Speaker 1: the Nationals, they're going to have eleven series. They face

749
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Speaker 1: in six of those eleven series teams that are currently

750
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: in the playoff mix and the teams that they play twice.

751
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: In other words, we're going to play nearly fifteen games

752
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: against the Mets of the Phillies through the end of June.

753
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Speaker 1: That basically is one third of our games over the

754
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: next six weeks. So this is crucial. I don't want

755
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: to be too dramatic because at the end of it

756
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: we're still going to be only halfway through the season.

757
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: But you can easily look back. I think that when

758
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: they lost seven in a row to start the season,

759
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: but then when night out of eleven, that kind of

760
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: took you know, the impact of the losing that seven

761
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: in a row away. This right here is the stretch

762
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Speaker 1: that I really think defines the Sea. It may be

763
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: hard to go that, you know, died out of eleven

764
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Speaker 1: stretch like they did in April, but if you keep witted,

765
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: series you're a good spot, but you've got to have

766
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Speaker 1: success now and the only way that you're going to

767
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: do it is consistently score ruds or have every aspect

768
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 1: of your team on the right path. So a big,

769
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Speaker 1: huge opportunity for the Braves waits. It awaits the coming

770
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: into late May and early Jude. But they got to

771
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: make the most of We need every game where they're

772
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Speaker 1: expected to win, and that starts over the next two games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and listen to you know, the old saying is,

774
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 4: you know, momentum is the next day starting pitcher and

775
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 4: the Braves. You know, A j smithchalb has been a

776
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 4: revelation this year. Chris Sale has been awesome. So they

777
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 4: got a chantz. I think they I think they played mcgainn.

778
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 4: I think it's Sale versus Mackenzie Gore on Thursday, so

779
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 4: that'll be a fun game. It seems like every game

780
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 4: Sale pitches now is against the other team's ace. So

781
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 4: you know, you don't expect a lot of runs to

782
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: be scored in that game. But the offense, the offense

783
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,959
Speaker 4: just stepping up and hitting a couple of homers. I mean,

784
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 4: you know, they did it. They did it a couple

785
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 4: of times in Boston. But like the number of times

786
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 4: the Braves have multiple homers in a game is like

787
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 4: stunningly low. The number of times they do it with

788
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 4: you know, more than one guy is really low, like

789
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:19,959
Speaker 4: weirdly low.

790
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Speaker 3: So let's hit some lung balls. Let's hit some homers

791
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Speaker 3: like we used to.

792
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 4: Like we you know, we were built to take some

793
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 4: pressure off the pitching staff.

794
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 3: Hopefully Smith Shover and Chris Sale can keep it.

795
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 4: Up and they can get out of here with two

796
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 4: more wins and get back above five hundred, you know,

797
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 4: maybe even get like a little cushion so that we're

798
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 4: not doing this every day, you know, above five hundred,

799
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 4: five hundred, below five hundred, above five hundred five.

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00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 3: You know, let's maybe.

801
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 4: Win six or seven in a row and and get

802
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 4: this nonsense behind us and actually start trying to climb

803
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 4: in the standings a little bit.

804
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 3: But it starts with the offense.

805
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, the easiest way to be able to score runs

806
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: is to put them all over the fence. And just

807
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,959
Speaker 1: to be completely honest with you, the Braves are gonna

808
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: come nowhere close to where we all hope they can

809
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 1: get this season and beyond unless they start hitting homers

810
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: once again. Ronald Acuna Junior should do that, but it's.

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Speaker 2: Got to take others stepping up as well.

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