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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City

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Speaker 1: Territory on chandeler Room, joined by Tyler Stafford and everyone's

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Speaker 1: favorite Cornhusker and the Astros starting center fielder Jake Myers. Jake,

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Speaker 1: what's up, buddy?

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Speaker 2: What's up? Guys? Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate this a little bit, uh sort of an off

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Speaker 1: day to day for you. I didn't have to make

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Speaker 1: the very very very long bust trip to Bradenton to

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Speaker 1: play against the Pirates. There were some live AB's that

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Speaker 1: happened on the backfields, ed. I didn't stick around for

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Speaker 1: all of the live AB's. Did you take any or no?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I took five or six.

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Speaker 3: It's nice to kind of start getting AB's every day

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Speaker 3: and try to get into a rhythm.

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Speaker 1: Nice. Do you face Emi? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he has some good stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's really fun to face him and kind of, you know,

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Speaker 3: see how he pitches because he's he's a really good pitcher.

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Speaker 4: Tell me about the slider. What does that thing look

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Speaker 4: like in the box?

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Speaker 3: It just is deceiving to your eyes. It just doesn't move.

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Speaker 3: I think in today's game, the everyone's fighting for so

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Speaker 3: much movement that it plays did not move, and that's

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Speaker 3: kind of how his slider works.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's been the talk of camp. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know a backup slider could become the talk of camp,

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Speaker 1: but here we are that, uh, that the backup slider

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Speaker 1: has become one of the main talking points. But otherwise

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Speaker 1: pretty boring camp here in West Palm Beach. Not much

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Speaker 1: has happened, which is good, Jake, because you don't want

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Speaker 1: you don't want a ton of news in camp. You

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Speaker 1: don't want things to be happening. You don't want me

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Speaker 1: to have to work. That's that's bad when I have

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Speaker 1: to when I have to work a bunch in camp.

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Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's talk about your season last year. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: on the you you bring the glove every day. The

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Speaker 1: defense is never in question. You've distinguished yourself as one

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Speaker 1: of the better defensive center fielders in baseball. But with

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Speaker 1: the bat last year, the end zone contact rate went

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Speaker 1: way up, the on base percentage went up, the whiffs down.

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Speaker 1: What did you do last year or what did you

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Speaker 1: notice last year that allowed you to have the offensive

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the main thing is just focusing on

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Speaker 3: on what I wanted to hit. I think in this

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Speaker 3: league they really try to get you to think about

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Speaker 3: a bunch of different pitches and chase outside the zone,

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Speaker 3: and I just wanted to set a really good approach,

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Speaker 3: lot of really quality abs. And that kind of ended

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Speaker 3: up at the end of the year when I looked

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Speaker 3: at it, I had a lot of quality A b's

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Speaker 4: You hit three hundred on off speed pitches last year?

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Speaker 4: Is that real? How did you do that? Why were

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Speaker 4: we so good at off speed pitches last year?

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Speaker 3: I think partially because I got them a lot, and

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Speaker 3: so I kind of started to look for him and

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Speaker 3: got comfortable hitting them. But I mean, I owe I

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Speaker 3: owe a lot of it to Troy Snicker as well.

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Speaker 3: He I had worked with him for four years and

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Speaker 3: he kind of really helped me focus on what I

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Speaker 3: I was really confident with it, and so it kind

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought snit up because I want this

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Speaker 1: is a general question, because it's one that I get

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Speaker 1: a lot It's one that Tyler and I have debated

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Speaker 1: on this podcast a good bit because fans or this

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Speaker 1: is just something that keeps coming up, and it's kind

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Speaker 1: of the role of a hitting coach and the role

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Speaker 1: of kind of what a hitting coach kind of does

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Speaker 1: for you guys. So in general, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: maybe be specific to Troy, but what what is your

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Speaker 1: ideal hitting coach, Like, what does a hitting coach do

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Speaker 1: for you? And what do you think makes someone good

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Speaker 1: at that? What what is the best thing a hitting

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they they can understand kind of how I think

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Speaker 3: up the picture that we're facing, helping me really really

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Speaker 3: I mean, the main thing is is just kind of

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Speaker 3: chance to compete in the box, because that's that's ultimately us.

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Speaker 2: As you know, athletes and.

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Speaker 3: Baseball players that's what we're great at, is competing, and

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Speaker 3: I think sometimes we can get outside of it by

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Speaker 1: Josh Raddick will come on here and talk about, you know,

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Speaker 1: hitting coaches are kind of like psychiatrists, right, they kind

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Speaker 1: of they're there to they're there to really just kind

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Speaker 1: of listen to you guys vent sometimes because look, you

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Speaker 1: don't get to this level, you don't get to be

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Speaker 1: a big lead you're an everyday big leaguer if you

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Speaker 1: don't know how to hit, if you don't like know

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Speaker 1: the basics of hitting, and you don't have a good swing,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a good load, like things like that.

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Speaker 1: Like when you get here you kind of have it down, pat.

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Speaker 1: Is it more about having a guy that can just

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Speaker 1: that you can just kind of talk through things maybe

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Speaker 1: more than them looking at your swing saying all right,

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent, Yeah, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I think I think to your point, it is really

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Speaker 3: about us needing another pair of eyes, you know sometimes

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Speaker 3: and we'd all love if we could just all do

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Speaker 3: it you know, do it on our own, which some

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Speaker 2: Some guys can.

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Speaker 3: They're you know, they're super talented and gifted, and.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, we know how to hit.

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Speaker 3: I think just sometimes having someone else, another pair of

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Speaker 3: because you know, the pictures are really good too, so

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Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned, you know, a lot of your

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Speaker 4: Is that a you know, part of a different approach

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think I think it's part of uh maybe part

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, like that's that's cool to hear. I

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Speaker 3: didn't I actually didn't know I stayed through the middle,

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Speaker 2: That's that's cool to hear.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you were there is there is a conscious effort

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were thirty two and twenty twenty three, thirty four,

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Speaker 4: and then last year forty two. So you were I

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Speaker 4: mean straight up them Midt almost half the time when

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Speaker 4: a that's a pretty good way to lead to success.

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Speaker 2: I would say, absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting, Jake, Like, I'm sure you've talked to Korea

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Speaker 1: about Korea is like the guy that is always looking

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Speaker 1: are you a guy that looks at maybe the underlying

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Speaker 1: Do you look at that stuff or do you just

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Speaker 1: kind of try to stay away from that and just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I try to stay away from it. Me like,

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Speaker 3: knowing thyself, that's not going to provide me a whole

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your defense. Is there one catch in

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Speaker 1: your in your head? Like, do you have in your

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Speaker 3: I think two years ago.

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Speaker 4: There you go. My hot take, Jake, is that you

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Speaker 4: Do you feel though, like can you tell, like what

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Speaker 4: how do you get such good jumps on everything?

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Speaker 4: Like, what, what what is it that you're doing that

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Speaker 3: I think I think the big thing, Uh, the big

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Speaker 3: And so I was talking about jumps and playing center field.

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Speaker 2: I mean when I was five years old, you know,

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Speaker 3: And and I was focusing on that when I was

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Speaker 1: Was your dad as athletic and as gifted of a

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Speaker 2: he was, uh, And I'm sure he.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he was really good because the guys that

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Speaker 3: So I'm sure he was good. But I like to

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Speaker 4: Well, while we're on the subject of dad, this is uh,

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Speaker 4: you're not gonna get asked this question a lot and

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Speaker 4: and interviews. Your middle name is Berkshire. Yep, like Warren

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Speaker 4: Buffett's company. Is that? Is that what you're named after?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not I get that often. Come on, but

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Speaker 4: But there it's in Omaha, right.

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Speaker 4: She's a Berkshire from Omaha. And you don't think that

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Speaker 2: Dollars at some point, man, I don't think So.

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Speaker 4: Do a DNA test. You need to file something.

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Speaker 1: While we're on the dad thing, I was thinking about

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Speaker 4: Is the dad strength real? Like the the you know,

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Speaker 3: I think that's maybe where it comes from. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're just walking around with a twenty pound weight

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Speaker 1: Absolutely As someone that is such a gifted defensive outfielder

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's just really special knowing knowing where he needs

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Speaker 3: You know that that accumulates over years, and he was

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Speaker 3: A half, you know, I felt like, you know, we

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Speaker 4: Is this the first year that you felt like the

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Speaker 2: Like what I felt it a little bit last year.

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Speaker 3: I felt I felt it a little bit, like you said,

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Speaker 2: That was really cool. But it's been really cool for me.

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Speaker 3: To, you know, kind of share my experiences and try

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Speaker 1: You maybe more than anyone I've covered. Jake, your name

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think over the course of the years, I

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Speaker 3: You know, sometimes could be me getting traded, and so

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Speaker 3: So I try to I try to focus on what

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Speaker 3: But I absolutely love being here and playing for the Ashhros.

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Speaker 1: As you look forward to the twenty twenty sixth season,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, uh, going off of kind of

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Speaker 2: Uh, that's that's what I'm gonna try and do. And

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Speaker 1: It's one thing you've done a d a good job of,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it just is really dependent

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Speaker 1: Well, Jake, this was fun. We really appreciate this during

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Speaker 1: spring training, taking some time out and more importantly, before

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Speaker 3: Look, guys, I'm not gonna lie to you. This is

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Speaker 3: you know what, I'm feeling good about it. But that

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Speaker 3: I think I think this is the team that's gonna,

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Speaker 4: There you go. Well, I'm just a couple years older

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Speaker 4: and grew up in Aggie, so we were yelling at

443
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Speaker 4: each other without knowing it all all growing up. So

444
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Speaker 4: got a long history there. So yep, that's that's fun

445
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Speaker 4: and also not a lot of success. I can relate

446
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Speaker 4: to that quite a bit of not having that.

447
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nebraska and Troy Thursday, it's a night game. Asher's

448
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: playing night game, So Jake Myers will be locked in

449
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Speaker 1: to the corn Huskers and the Troy Trojans. Jake, this

450
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Speaker 1: was great. Thank you very much again, Good luck this

451
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Speaker 1: season continued health and I will see you tomorrow.

452
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thank you guys, thanks for having me on.

453
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Speaker 3: This is awesome.

454
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Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.

455
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Speaker 4: Thanks Jake.

456
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Speaker 1: Thanks Jake, thank you guys. Well that was Jake Myers.

457
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: Appreciate him getting some time fitting us into his schedule

458
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Speaker 1: and spring training. These guys do a lot. It's it

459
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: can be hectic trying to get these guys on. We

460
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,919
Speaker 1: were supposed to have him on last week, had to

461
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,639
Speaker 1: go in and take some early live at bats on

462
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Speaker 1: the day we were supposed to get him last week.

463
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Speaker 1: But happy that Jake squeez us in. Interesting to hear

464
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Speaker 1: just kind of his his mindset offensively because I didn't

465
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Speaker 1: want to ask him too much about his defense only

466
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Speaker 1: because like we know what he can do defensively and

467
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Speaker 1: he's so good. But uh, it's interesting to hear just

468
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Speaker 1: kind of what he wants to build on and maybe

469
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Speaker 1: this will stop people from yelling about Troy Snicker many

470
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Speaker 1: many times like they used to.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh, yeah, No, he was great. That was that

472
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Speaker 4: was really fun. Uh. My goal right now is I'm

473
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Speaker 4: I'm going to figure out how to get him Warren

474
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 4: Buffett's fortune. He's got to have some some line. And

475
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 4: there's no way your name Berkshire, you're in Omaha that

476
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Speaker 4: something worked across the all.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think I think Jake Scots some up.

478
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Speaker 4: All I ask for is one percent of whatever I

479
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 4: can get you, Jake, that that'll come to me. That

480
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Speaker 4: will be my finder's fee.

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Speaker 1: I'll take half a percent even Yeah.

482
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Speaker 4: It's it's only a trillion dollars, So one percent I

483
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 4: think is more than fair.

484
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 1: I mean, if you put the I mean he'll he'll

485
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Speaker 1: give you that if you if you get the perfect bracket.

486
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Speaker 1: Is he still doing that thing where if you if

487
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: you fill out a perfect bracket, you get like a

488
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Speaker 1: billion dollars.

489
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Speaker 4: Jake or Warren Buffett, both, but probably Warren Buffett. I think,

490
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Speaker 4: uh yeah, that's a I go, I just go buy vibes.

491
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Speaker 4: I just I'm not who knows I'm making stuff up

492
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Speaker 4: over there, but I I am going to get it

493
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Speaker 4: right this year. I'm going to actually try. I'm gonna

494
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Speaker 4: get them all right.

495
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Speaker 1: I have faith in you. How about the WBC last

496
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Speaker 1: couple of nights. Oh that's been incredible.

497
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Speaker 4: Now I will I will say I watched the end

498
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Speaker 4: of the WBC because the Oscars were on first. But

499
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Speaker 4: what again, I mean, I can't wait for tonight. Very excited.

500
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Speaker 4: I really enjoyed your article Chandler about you know, Team

501
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 4: Venezuela being there and Altuve not being able to be there,

502
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Speaker 4: and I thought that was really good. I can't wait

503
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Speaker 4: for tonight. It's gonna be gonna be great.

504
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Speaker 1: I mean, al Twove seems okay, like he was enjoying

505
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Speaker 1: the game last.

506
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Speaker 4: Night, so the pictures of him behind home plate were

507
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Speaker 4: very funny.

508
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: It was funny Joe Spotta was sitting in those seats

509
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Speaker 1: two nights ago for US and for the US and

510
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic. And then I guess al tuo Bay

511
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Speaker 1: got the tickets for UH for Venezuela.

512
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Speaker 4: Should probably give it to him.

513
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's going back. Al Tuove will be at

514
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Speaker 1: the at the championship game tonight US against Venezuela. He'll

515
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Speaker 1: be sitting in the same seats. He said that today.

516
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Speaker 1: But I feel look, I'm not trying to like get

517
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Speaker 1: inside al tuo Ve's head, like he seems to be

518
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: doing fine, like he was smiling, laughing today, having a

519
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: good time it up at the field. But it just

520
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: doesn't feel right.

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00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 4: Man, dugout, Why why is he not in the dugout?

522
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, like give him a special

523
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 4: assistant to the manager.

524
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Trek Scooble is in the US dugout. Clay Holmes

525
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: is in the US dugout like I think he could.

526
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Speaker 1: I don't know, it just I feel bad.

527
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Speaker 4: For him to let the man play with his friends

528
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Speaker 4: from his home. But man, I'm I'm pumped. It's gonna

529
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Speaker 4: be a great game, very excited.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a stretch. It's not a stretch.

531
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's fact that with Miguel Cabrera's retirement, JOSEL.

532
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: Tuve is the most recognizable and the most decorated active

533
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Speaker 1: Venezuelan baseball player. Oh yeah, and this is this is,

534
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: without a doubt, the biggest game, the biggest baseball game

535
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Speaker 1: in the history of that country. And it just feels it.

536
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: I tweet this is what. I couldn't come up with

537
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: a better way to phrase it last night on when

538
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: I tweeted, so I just said, it's a shame, and

539
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: it does. It feels like it's a shame really that

540
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: this guy is. He's done so much for not only

541
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Speaker 1: the country but the team. And then you know, you

542
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Speaker 1: factor in Omar Lopez, who's going to manage tonight, who's

543
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: managing Team Venezuela. You know, Omar Lopez has been in

544
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Speaker 1: the Ashers organization since nineteen ninety nine. Crazy started as

545
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,479
Speaker 1: a Venezuelan area scout and a coach, and he and

546
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: al Padrique were integral and discovering Jose Altuve in Marrachai, Venezuela.

547
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Speaker 1: Al Padrique was his signing scout, yes, but Omar Lopez

548
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,239
Speaker 1: was was also there, and Omar had you know, was

549
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Speaker 1: involved in the conversations. Al Padrique was one of the

550
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Speaker 1: main guy that really pushed Altuve onto the Ashers, but

551
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: Omar was was also there saying, yeah, we need to

552
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Speaker 1: give this guy a chance. And then Omar Lopez was

553
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Speaker 1: Altuve's first professional manager in the Venezuelan Summer League, which

554
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Speaker 1: is now no longer a thing, but that was in Garaka, Venezuela.

555
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: And now you know, these two guys are so tied in,

556
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: you know, together, they're inextricably linked, both for the Astros

557
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: and for that country. And to see Omar go out

558
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 1: there tonight and manage the biggest game in Venezuelan and

559
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: baseball history without al Tuve in the dugout, it just

560
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: doesn't feel right. And I mean, look, I know, the

561
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: insurance is what it is. The insurance is the reason

562
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: I say all two ves not playing, But there were

563
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: other factors as well, as we've talked about. Jim Crane

564
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: called Carlos Korea and politely asked him not to play.

565
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: I can't imagine he did that for Korea and not

566
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: al Tuve. I he was involved as well, but again

567
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: he didn't get insurance. That's why he's not playing. But

568
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's it's sad. I think you know

569
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Speaker 1: al Tuove is gonna love it tonight if they win.

570
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: He he was saying that, you know, he's he's gonna

571
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Speaker 1: have a good time if they win tonight. And I'm

572
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: who knows if he'll be in the lineup, who knows

573
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: if he'll be in the spring training lineup tomorrow if

574
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,239
Speaker 1: they win tonight. But he seems at peace with it.

575
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: But I know he wanted to play very badly. He

576
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: told us on the record, you know, in January that

577
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: he wanted to play very badly. It just sucks. It

578
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: sucks that he's not going to be out there, and

579
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: it sucks that he can't represent his country and what

580
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: and what will be the biggest stage it's been on

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Speaker 1: in a very long time.

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Speaker 4: Agreed, Yes, it's uh, it's too be you know, it's

583
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 4: one of I mean, it's one of those things too.

584
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 4: If they'd gotten bounced, you know, three games ago, we

585
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 4: wouldn't be tiring. But I mean they're right there, and

586
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 4: I too, I mean so much to that country. I

587
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 4: mean every time any player from Venezuela, even surrounding countries,

588
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 4: but specifically Venezuela, they play the Astros, there's always a

589
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 4: story about that guy coming up to Alatu and talking

590
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 4: about how much he means to them. And I mean

591
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 4: he's a he's a legend. Uh And so I yeah,

592
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 4: I wish, I wish that he were playing, uh, but

593
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 4: excited to watch this either way. And I need him

594
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,959
Speaker 4: in the dug I do not want to see happy

595
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 4: or sad Al two b two rows up or Mike

596
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 4: get get the man in the dugout. Just let let him.

597
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 4: Let him in there. What are we doing?

598
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure they can because like I said,

599
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: Trek Scoobels in the US dugout, Clay.

600
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 4: Sure he can do whatever. Just yeah, well, I mean

601
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 4: those guys were technically on but.

602
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Speaker 1: Literally but they're not on the roster anym Yeah, who

603
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: let him in the same boat? Like just like Al

604
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: two B's not on the Venezuelan roster, Schoobl's not on

605
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: the US roster, Kershaw is not on the US roster,

606
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: and they're still hanging around.

607
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 4: So get him in the dugout.

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00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I think he should be in the dugout.

609
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: But if he's going to be behind the plate, uh,

610
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Speaker 1: and you want to watch and see jose Al Tuo

611
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: behind the plate, you can do that on Fox one.

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617
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Speaker 1: code still there on the screen, Tyler. We're coming up

633
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Speaker 1: toward the end of spring training here, not again, not

634
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Speaker 1: an unchanging the Astros today, like we talked about with

635
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:03,959
Speaker 1: Jake a little bit.

636
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 3: Uh.

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00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: They went to Bradenton today, which is all the way

638
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: across the state. It's a very long drive that I

639
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: did not want to take. No one else really did either.

640
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: All the media covering the Astros stay behind in West Palm.

641
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: We watched Tetsuya em I throw a live VP on

642
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: the backfields, watched in all Della Santos through through an

643
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: Inninger Diaz took him deep apo in that inning, so

644
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: good for you. Iiner. Lance mccullors pitched in Pittsburgh and

645
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. You know. The I can't say looks

646
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: pretty exciting watch it, but the the box score, the

647
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: line looks good. The Velo was about what it's been

648
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: all of spring. Zach Cole homerd which I don't know

649
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: if anyone needed a spring training home run more than

650
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Speaker 1: Zach Cole, but he got it. Good for him. But

651
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: uh yeah, a little bit more, Uh, just another day

652
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: closer to the season.

653
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Speaker 4: It's been a very uh y uh. You have a

654
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 4: new roster projection out do you want to go over that?

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00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't have Zach Cole on it, which is

656
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Speaker 1: why I kind of hinted right there. You know, I

657
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: think if you're going to take if we're taking Joe

658
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: Aspada at his word, Great Fruit League play matters when

659
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: it comes to filling out the outfield, and Zach Cole

660
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: has not played well in Great Fruit League play. He

661
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: homer today, which he needed, but he also struck out

662
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: two more times today That would make it, I believe,

663
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: sixteen strikeouts in thirty one or thirty two Great Fruit

664
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: League at bats. He is still swinging and missing way

665
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: too much. His base running has been I think I

666
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: wrote it as borderline reckless.

667
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 3: He is.

668
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: He looks like someone that is very very much trying

669
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 1: to make a team. He looks like he was trying

670
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: to stand out. It looks like he's trying to push

671
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: the envelope to get noticed. I don't know if he had.

672
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: I don't know that's the right word, because it's not

673
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: like he's coming from out of nowhere, like we knew

674
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: who he was coming into camp. But it looks like

675
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: a young, inexperienced player trying to do too much in

676
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: spring training. And you know, he's played a good bit

677
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: of double A baseball. This isn't somebody that hasn't played

678
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: in the upper minor league. So just saying he needs

679
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: to go get more at bats and more seasoning probably

680
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: isn't the right way to phrase it. But with the

681
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: way he's played in camp and the way Taylor Tremell

682
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: has played in camp, Taylor Tremell has been one of

683
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: the Ashers better players in grape Fruit League play. They

684
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: both hit left handed. I think they would take maybe

685
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: the more sure thing in Taylor Tremell, who, again, for

686
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: his career, Taylor Tremell is not and I don't mean

687
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: this to disrespect Taylor Tremmeell, but in his career it's

688
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: not as if he is a difference maker of any kind.

689
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: But I think if we're going by what they have

690
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: set out as the parameters for the outfield, Taylor Tremmell

691
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: has earned a spot more than Zach Cole has earned

692
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: a spot.

693
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 4: You know you also have in there Bryce Matthews. Yeah,

694
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 4: you have him listed as an infielder, but obviously because

695
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 4: he can do some of that, but he's been playing

696
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 4: mainly outfield. There's another guy who plays outfield in a

697
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 4: little bit of infield. And I'd like to ask on

698
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 4: behalf of my fellow desenterates, what's gonna happen with Zach Dezenzo.

699
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 4: He just led Italy all the way to the quarter

700
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 4: you know, quarterfinals here. What's what's going on? Is he

701
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 4: is he in plans?

702
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: Like?

703
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 4: What's what's going on with him?

704
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: No, it's a fair question. And I think his showing

705
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: in the WBC helped him. It helped his standing in

706
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: the hierarchy. I think the thing that's going to hurt

707
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: Zach Dezenzo is most of where he is best defensively

708
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: is at both corner infield spots, and they don't need

709
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: any more of those. He can play some left field.

710
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: I think if he has a path to make this team,

711
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: it would be as a guy that shares time in

712
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: left field. I would say what's working against him is

713
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: that he hits right handed. They desperately need balance, they

714
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: need left handed bats. They are scouring the open market

715
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: for left handed bats. Again. It's I'm of the opinion

716
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: that you bring your best twenty six guys regardless of handedness.

717
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure they're going to think that way,

718
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: just because it doesn't make practical sense to like have

719
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: one left handed hitter on the roster, even if it's

720
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez, and they won't. You know, Joey Loprafito is

721
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: going to make the team one of one of these

722
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: three guys in low Braffito, Cole, Tremmel, all of whom

723
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: hit left handed, at least one of them.

724
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 4: Making two of those are going to make it probably two, right,

725
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 4: So I mean as Tremell or Zach Cole I would imagine.

726
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: So I think it may honestly come down to Bryce

727
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: Matthews or Zach Dezenzo when you start talking about when

728
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: you really boil it down. I think they like Matthews's

729
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: upside more just athletically. He's a lot more athletic. He

730
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: can steal bases, he can back up, he's got more

731
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: defensive flexibility. They Josh has come on Josh Reddick has

732
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: come on here and talked about how impressed he's been

733
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: with his transition to center field or the times he's

734
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 1: played there. They played him in left field, I believe

735
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: what's today. They played him in left field on Sunday

736
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: in the Great Fruit League game for a couple of innings.

737
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: You put him in left field at Dyke and Park. Again,

738
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to play there. I think he has

739
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: more versatility positionally, it gives them more options on their roster.

740
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: And he's a little more athletic than de Zenzo. But

741
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: don't don't discount de Zenzo though, but I think him

742
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: hitting with hitting right handed may may hurt him a

743
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah.

744
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 4: I think the flexibility of him being able to play second,

745
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 4: even though you obviously have al Tuo vay N Nick Allen,

746
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 4: who I definitely remembered was on the Astros.

747
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: Bro I'm here to tell you Nick Allen can picket. Yeah.

748
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: I mean the offensive numbers are what they are, but

749
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: watching him take infield is a that's a sight to

750
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: see he can picket. There you go.

751
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 4: And then obviously Bryce Matthews I think has the ability

752
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 4: to be a useful bench player at the end of

753
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 4: a game in a pinch run or in a positional

754
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 4: flexibility standpoint. You know, for example, if if Nick Allen

755
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: is starting at second and you want to pinch it

756
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 4: for him late in the game, you've got a guy

757
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 4: that can play second. Or obviously if you need a

758
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 4: pinch run for just about anybody, you've got Bryce Matthews

759
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 4: there as well. And yeah, I mean obviously just prospect

760
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 4: capital there, there is a difference there. But we look

761
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 4: and me and my designates don't get enough talk on here,

762
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 4: so I had to bring that up.

763
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, Zach will be he should be back in camp tomorrow,

764
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: so it'll be issue. It's him just about that experience

765
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: and get Joe a spot as inside on. Like I mean,

766
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: he succeeded at He succeeded against very good pitching on

767
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: the sports biggest stage when the stakes were high, and

768
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: that means something. It means it it trust me, it

769
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: means something. That doesn't mean he's gonna make the roster.

770
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's gonna make the team, but he

771
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: has moved up the organizational just kind of hierarchy of

772
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: you know, entrance into this competition to make the Rosters.

773
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 4: He was hitting in front of Jack cagleone.

774
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: I texted someone that, like that night, I was like,

775
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 1: I never thought i'd see the day Zach Senzo's hitting at.

776
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 4: DU I love his swing, but yeah, he was hitting

777
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 4: fifth in front of him, so watch out.

778
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: And it worked. That was in that game too, like

779
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: nice two barrels too, like a line drive up the middle.

780
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: I know was one and then the other one. I

781
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: think he hit won ten off the bat. So yeah,

782
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: there's still Look, you could probably write out the opening

783
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: day lineup right now, which is gonna look a little

784
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: bit different because you say Kakuchi is not starting on

785
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: opening day for the Angels, Jose Soriano.

786
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 4: Is why on purpose or why?

787
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: Well, Jose Soriano is good. He is very good. But

788
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't get talked about a lot. But like he

789
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: throws a sinker at like a hundred and he I

790
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: think he had I think he shut out the Astros

791
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: one start last year. But anyway, he's very good. He's

792
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: not as known or as well paid as Kakuchi, but

793
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: he's he's good. But he's as their guy too, you know,

794
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 1: in a way that isn't And Kakuchi went to the WBC,

795
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: Soriano didn't. So Soriano's on a more regular schedule. He's

796
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: been en camped the whole time. Kakuchi's gone to Japan

797
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: and back for the WBC, so is his schedule has

798
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: been kind of interrupted. So it makes a little bit

799
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: of sense. But Jose Soriano is also a right hander.

800
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: You say, Kakuchi, when when you were when you were

801
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: thinking about the lineup, with the infield configuration that they have,

802
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: you were thinking they could get all the guys in

803
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: the lineup against the left handed pitcher. You could do

804
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: it a lot of different way. Now you have a

805
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: right hander.

806
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 4: Wait, am I, how how is it different? Painia is hurt?

807
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: Well, no, that's what I was going to say. I

808
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: meant when Pania was healthy, Okay, when Painya was healthy

809
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: and we were making the debate about can they make

810
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: this work, it was always, oh, yeah, they'll be able

811
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: to do it on an opening day because they're facing Kakuchi,

812
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: who's a left hander, and they want, as they wanted

813
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: as many right handed bats as.

814
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 4: Possibly would have changed, though they.

815
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: Would have put yourd On in left field probably and

816
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: probably d H Paradis to get another right handed bat.

817
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 4: I think they would have done that regardless. If if

818
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,240
Speaker 4: you'll think, all right, yes, if Kakuchi was starting opening

819
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 4: day and they had the same team, that there's no

820
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 4: way that Parades would not have been in the opening

821
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 4: day lineup. No chance.

822
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm just again, I'm not doing

823
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: this anymore. But this is how it's gonna be.

824
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, on opening day, there's no way they're starting,

825
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 4: no offense, and it's Joey Lo Perfido over each parade.

826
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 4: He's the guy you're paying ten million dollars to.

827
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna play Esock Paradus in left field.

828
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 4: No, I'm saying you put Alvarez. I'm saying they would

829
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 4: have put the same lineup out regardless if it was

830
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 4: a leftier or righty. That's your best lineup. But it

831
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 4: doesn't matter because is not there.

832
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: But okay, but yes, I was Sorriano is gonna start

833
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: an opening day, which means Game two we could have

834
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: could have use Kakuchi against Tatsuya Emi, which would be fun.

835
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: That would do numbers, that would do numbers around the globe,

836
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: big league debut against Usekakucci Otherwise in that rock. The

837
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: only other thing in that roster projection that I think

838
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: bears monitoring. He's not in the roster I projected, but

839
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: Peter Lambert is. I don't think have we talked about

840
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: him on here? I don't think so. Who ah, Okay,

841
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: he pitched for the Rockies for a little while, and

842
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but once you

843
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: leave the Rockies magically get better because you go to

844
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: organizations that know what they're talking about. So he's been

845
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: very impressive in Asher's camp. They like him a lot.

846
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: He's on a minor league deal, but the minor league

847
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: deal that he signed has an opt out at the

848
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: end of spring training, which will allow him to essentially,

849
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: if the Ashers don't guarantee him a spot on the

850
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: forty man roster, he will opt out of his contract

851
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: and go find somewhere that will guarantee him a spot

852
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: on the forty man roster. I'm here to tell you

853
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: that they like Peter Lambert a lot. I don't think

854
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: they want to lose him. I don't think they want

855
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: him to opt out and go elsewhere. So I don't

856
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: know that that necessarily means he's going to make the

857
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: opening day roster, but I do think you could see

858
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: a situation where they clear a forty man roster spot

859
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: and add him to the forty man so he's there

860
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: and they maybe could send him a triple A keep

861
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: him as a depth starter, or they could put him

862
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: in the opening day bullpen as a long guy. But

863
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: then you start to run into you never want to

864
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: say this out loud because you're gonna curse something, but

865
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: you almost run into like you've got too many of

866
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: those options with Weiss, with blue Ball, with you know,

867
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: maybe Arraghetti, depending on kind of what the birth of

868
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: his twins in the next few days, kind of what

869
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: that does to his schedule, whether he's going to be

870
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: built up and ready to go by the time the

871
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: season starts in nine days. So they've got a lot

872
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: of options there in terms of who they could have

873
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 1: as you know, swing guys, long guys, maybe back into

874
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: the rotation guys. But keep an eye on Peter Lambert because.

875
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 4: He just has to be on the forty man. He

876
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be on the active roster.

877
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: He's just That's how I I'm gonna be honest, like

878
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: I don't know his specific situation, okay, but most of

879
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: the time, most of the time with these minor league deals.

880
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: That's how it is like, because once you get on

881
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: the forty man, for lack of a better word, you're

882
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: making forty man money. Like you you're guaranteed forty man money,

883
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: which is you're making the league minimum on the forty man,

884
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: which is good, and that gives you easier access to

885
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: be put on the twenty six man and get up

886
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: to the big leagues. Usually, that is how these minor

887
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: league deals work. It's you either add me to the

888
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: forty man or I'm opting out. And I believe that's

889
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: how this one is structured. I am not one hundred

890
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: percent sure, so I don't want to say it as fact,

891
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: but most of the time that is how those work.

892
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: So you could see that. You could see it, so

893
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if in the next three or

894
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: four days you see some some house cleaning on the

895
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: forty man roster. They're going to need to make some spots.

896
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: They can move Hayden was Nesky and Renel Blanco to

897
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: the sixty day il. Those are two pretty easy spots

898
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: to open. I'm trying to think if they have any

899
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: other sixty day guys. Off the top of my head,

900
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: I don't know of any but so you could see something.

901
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 4: I mean, both of those guys are going to be

902
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 4: on there on the IL anyway.

903
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: So and if they if they choose the Brandon Walter, right, yeah,

904
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: Brandon Walter could be a sixty day candidate. If they

905
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: choose not to keep Rodery Munos, who's the Rule five pick,

906
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: and they returned him to the Reds, that opens a

907
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: forty man roster spot as well. So there's at least

908
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: four ways you can open forty man roster spots. If

909
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: you need to get Peter Lambert or whomever. Christian Vasquez

910
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: who caught today, they want to get him on the

911
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: forty man to you know, get him possibly on the

912
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: twenty six man. There's ways that they can do that.

913
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 4: You think that what scenario would he be on the

914
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 4: team instead of salas are on opening day?

915
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're going to use these next

916
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: how many days we have left in camp nine? I

917
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: think they're in next nine. I mean he caught, he

918
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: caught nine innings today. Yeah, like he came straight off

919
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 1: the WBC and caught nine innings today. So like they're

920
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: as as heavily as you can scrutinize a backup catcher candidate.

921
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: On March seventeenth, they're about to do it for the

922
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 1: next nine days in Florida because and I even wrote

923
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: this in the roster projection, like, to be honest with you,

924
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: I toyed with just putting Vasquez as the backup catcher,

925
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: but I wrote, like, I can't do that. It felt

926
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: wrong putting a guy that literally has not reported the

927
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: camp yet on the roster. So I think they're gonna

928
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: see how he looks again. I wouldn't be surprised if

929
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: they make some of those forty man moves and they

930
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: purchase his contract and put him on the forty man again.

931
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's gonna make the team, but that

932
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: means he's on the forty man because as of right now.

933
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 4: Oh he's got it. There's no way that they're gonna

934
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 4: let him out right now unless they get somebody else in.

935
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 4: But with the team that they have, he's got to

936
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 4: be on the forty man just so you have another option.

937
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: Right yner Dias and saysar Salas are the only two

938
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: catchers on their forty man.

939
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 4: Yes, right, So he's definitely getting on the forty man

940
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 4: but he can sign a he can be on the

941
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 4: forty man and then just agree to be I assume

942
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 4: he can't just be optioned. He has to agree to that.

943
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: Oh he's got to have ten years of service. Yeah, yeah,

944
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: it would, it would he would have to. Like, well

945
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: if if all they do is put him on the

946
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: forty man because he signed a minor league contract, right, okay,

947
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: like they would just purchase his car, like the team

948
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: would purchase, select the contract of him, and put him.

949
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 4: That's no longer dealing with the options or whatever. Like

950
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 4: he's on a league contract, right, but if he comes

951
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 4: up for a day, does that now mean that he

952
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 4: can't go back down? Yes, so that would mean that

953
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 4: would mean like if they put him on the forty

954
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 4: fine and dandy, But then like once they select his.

955
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 1: Contract, when you like, okay, here's the terms. Right, If

956
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: you select the contract of a player, you're selecting their

957
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: contract to the major league roster. That's to get on

958
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: the twenty six man roster. Once you do that, that's

959
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: when options and everything come into play. If you're just

960
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 1: adding someone to the forty man roster, then you like

961
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple, like just all right, Like he's on

962
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: the forty man. Now he's making the league minimum, but

963
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: he's not on the he's not on the big league team.

964
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 4: Everybody on the forty man makes league minimum, I believe.

965
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's cool.

966
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 4: I didn't know that I should know that, but I

967
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 4: figured it was if you were playing at the big

968
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 4: league level, it's good.

969
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: Work if you can get it, it's not bad.

970
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 4: But so then as soon as he's up, there's not

971
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 4: a way to then say, like, have an option, and

972
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 4: it's kind like he's just now he's here until he's not.

973
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 4: Basically he would have to go through waivers.

974
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: I mean yes, I mean he oh, he's got eleven

975
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: years of big league service time, Like, yeah, there's no,

976
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: he does not have options left. So again, like it's

977
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: neither to say sar salads are he has no options

978
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 1: left either. And that's kind of why we're in this position.

979
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: That's why they're in this position is you know, whomever

980
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: they choose, they're probably going to lose the other guy.

981
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I had imagine salads are we get

982
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 1: claimed off of waivers by a team that could maybe

983
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: give him a longer runway and give him, you know,

984
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: a chance to play a little bit, but I don't know.

985
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, a lot of there's a lot of

986
00:48:58,360 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: backup catcher scrutiny.

987
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 4: In the next if they don't, if they do nothing

988
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 4: with Christian Vasquez, he just goes to sugar Land, right

989
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 4: because he's already on a minor league kind it's not

990
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 4: like it ends at the industry. It's not one of

991
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 4: those like you get an invite to camp or whatever.

992
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: Okay, So this has been very convoluted, and I understand

993
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: if you're still listening to this, like Gods.

994
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 4: God asking the I'm asking the questions. All of us

995
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 4: are thinking, God.

996
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: Bless you if you're still listening. What makes Peter Lambert's

997
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,959
Speaker 1: situation different is that he can opt out of his deal.

998
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if Vasquez has that in his contract.

999
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: The only reason I brought the Lambert thing up is

1000
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: because it's been brought up to me by a couple

1001
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: of people that he hasn't opt out in the at

1002
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: the end of his deal. And I don't think the

1003
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: Astros want to lose him because with the way he

1004
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: has been pitching. They not only see the way he's

1005
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: been pitching, other teams see the way he's been pitching

1006
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: and he would probably end up on someone's forty man

1007
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: or twenty six man if the Astros, if he opted

1008
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: out of this contract. So I don't think the Astros

1009
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: want that to happen. So that's he's given up. He has.

1010
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 4: He's given up thirteen hits and nine innings, struck out

1011
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 4: seven and walked four. Like, yeah, he has a one

1012
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 4: E r A.

1013
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you.

1014
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 4: I thought I was going to look this up and

1015
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 4: he was going to have seventeen strikeouts and nine innings

1016
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 4: or whatever. But I bet his FIP is like five.

1017
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: They've changed a lot with him. He used to be

1018
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,919
Speaker 1: he used to go If this sounds familiar, no disrespect.

1019
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: He used to go in. He used to go inside

1020
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 1: with the fastball. Now he goes up with the fastball,

1021
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: and there's a lot more four seamers and not two seamers.

1022
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: If this sounds familiar, it is the Astros calling card.

1023
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: So he's uh, he's changed a couple of the things

1024
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:41,879
Speaker 1: that they've done with him.

1025
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 4: But yeah, we'll worry about that when I have to.

1026
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Same thing with

1027
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: Christian Vasquez, who will be the most scrutinized player in

1028
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: camp the next nine days, which will make for great

1029
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: podcasting content. All of your Christian Vasquez needs here. You

1030
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: can follow me on x Chandler Underscore Room for that insight.

1031
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: You can follow Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford for puns

1032
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: about Christian Vasquez. If you so choose, please rate and

1033
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: review us on Apple and Spotify. Please like and subscribe

1034
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: to the YouTube channel that really helps us out. We'll

1035
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: be back later this week to talk about Spring Breakout

1036
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: game that's on Thursday with some of the Ashers prospects,

1037
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll get someone on that's been watching the

1038
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: prospects to come tell us how they've looked on the backfields.

1039
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: We'll have that later this week, and then we're getting

1040
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: closer to opening day, so we'll be back soon. But

1041
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: until then, thanks for listening.

1042
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 4: Somebody let jose al to Ve hang out in the

1043
00:51:34,960 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 4: dugout with his friends or I'm going to be very upset. Bye,