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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Hammer Territory Podcast. My name is Sean Coleman.

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Speaker 1: Hope where you are and wherever you were listening, you

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Speaker 1: were having a great start to your week. And the

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Speaker 1: Braves once again actually for the third straight week, are

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Speaker 1: definitely getting off to a great start themselves. In this

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Speaker 1: time it's due to the offense and that's certainly a

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Speaker 1: nice change to things. Is my podcast partner, Stephen Tolbert

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Speaker 1: with me once again? Of course, thank you for tuning

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Speaker 1: into the Hammer Territory Podcast, part of the Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: family of podcasts. But Stephen, good to talk with you.

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Speaker 1: As always, listen, we've seen it for you know, the

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Speaker 1: start of three straight weeks. Now the Braves have now

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Speaker 1: officially won their fifth straight series. But this time, Steven,

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Speaker 1: it's the offense against a quality team that's really stepping

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Speaker 1: up and it's a great thing to see coming off

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Speaker 1: last week when the offense had its struggles.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up, Sean, Yeah, it's a nice change of

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Speaker 2: pace to give up some runs. You know, the bullpen

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Speaker 2: has not had a great night back to back nights.

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Speaker 2: To give up some runs and to cover that up

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Speaker 2: with offense, that's been the exact opposite of what we've

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Speaker 2: seen all year, where the pitching has been outstanding and

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Speaker 2: the Braves just can't scorny runs. So to have back

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Speaker 2: to back nights, you know, we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: it and talk about both games. But ten to six

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Speaker 2: last night, eight to six tonight. The Twins are a

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Speaker 2: very good offense. I mean, they're a very good offense,

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Speaker 2: and it's tough to especially in that ballpark, which is

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Speaker 2: a really good hitters ballpark, Like it's tough to hold

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Speaker 2: them to two or three runs, like you got to

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Speaker 2: be able to score. And ten runs last night, eight

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Speaker 2: runs tonight. A lot of contributions up and down the lineup,

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Speaker 2: a lot of guys. You know, it's not just one

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Speaker 2: or two guys. It seems like everybody's coming up with hits.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's coming up with decent at bats. Yeah, just great

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Speaker 2: to see. Great to see the offense actually win a

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Speaker 2: couple of games where the pitching maybe didn't have their

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Speaker 2: best stuff, and that's been It's a nice change of

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Speaker 2: pace from what we've seen pretty much the rest of the.

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Speaker 1: Year, and we've talked about this offense throughout much of

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Speaker 1: the season. Steven, it's you know, not just the fact

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Speaker 1: that the home runs have not been there like they

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Speaker 1: were at the record setting pace in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: It's been the different layers. At times, it's been nearly

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Speaker 1: worse production when it comes to get known base obviously,

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Speaker 1: the the consistent struggles of the Braves being able to

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Speaker 1: do any sort of damage with runners in scoring position.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's just any way that you look. This

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Speaker 1: offense has struggled, you know, on multiple levels. But over

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Speaker 1: the past two games they've really been able to find

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Speaker 1: six access some multiple levels. Of course, you had the

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Speaker 1: home runs on Monday nights, and then overall over the

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Speaker 1: past two nights we've been productive with runners in scoring

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Speaker 1: position nine out of twenty two. We were productive early

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Speaker 1: in the game as well. That's what's really stood out

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Speaker 1: about this This team is truly felt like what we

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Speaker 1: saw last season, and against the quality team, it is

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Speaker 1: such a nice change of pace. It goes again to

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Speaker 1: show that while we talk about how good this Brave's pitching,

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Speaker 1: you know, could be a difference maker in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: It's a reminder that even with all the injuries that

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Speaker 1: we've experienced, this offense steal has plenty of firepower when

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Speaker 1: it can go in, especially when it can find multiple

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Speaker 2: Well, and it starts with the like it starts with

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Speaker 2: the big guys, like it starts with medals and you

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Speaker 2: and I have talked about this at nauseum at this point.

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Speaker 2: I actually wrote about it for Battery Power this week.

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Speaker 2: But the Braves need medalson to be awesome. And he's

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Speaker 2: had a really good series. He's actually had a really

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Speaker 2: and you know he's carried that over into Minnesota. You know,

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Speaker 2: Solaier's back, Michael Harris is back, Ramon Loriano, who's been

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Speaker 2: unbelievable what Maryfield had a five eight game yesterday. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's up and down the lineup. I mean, Gie Orchella,

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Speaker 2: Marcelo Zuna is still there. Of course, it's just up

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Speaker 2: Maddelson and jorgece Soheilaire take them. In my opinion, it's

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Speaker 2: great that you're getting these other contributions from Loreano and

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Speaker 2: been there all year, but it's gonna be those big three.

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Speaker 2: And if Matt and Matt Olson is the key again.

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Speaker 2: We've said it a bunch because he's left handed, he

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Speaker 2: helps so much against the right handed pitchers. If he

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Speaker 2: If he can do that, then you know with this

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Speaker 2: pitching staff, and this pitching staff is still very good.

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Speaker 2: I know they haven't had or the you know, the

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Speaker 2: starters have had a pretty good series, but the bullpen

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Speaker 2: has not had a great series. Some of that is

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Speaker 2: from overuse, to be fair. But if if the offense

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Speaker 2: can wake up, if Matt Olsen can be Matt Olson again,

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Speaker 2: along with Ozuna and Solaer and these other guys can contribute,

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Speaker 2: you know Ozzie will be back, hopefully pretty soon. We

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Speaker 2: said it last time we talked. I think, but like

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Speaker 2: this team can still accomplish a lot, like this team

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Speaker 2: can still go a long ways in making the playoffs

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Speaker 2: and even into October. If if Matt Olson in the

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Speaker 2: offense really starts to pick up the pace and helps

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Speaker 2: out what is still one of the best pitching staffs

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Speaker 1: And let's talk a bit, you know, before we you know,

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Speaker 1: dive a bit further into the offense. Let's talk a

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Speaker 1: stand out against a team that we were just talking

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Speaker 1: about right before this podcast started and Steven, you know,

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Speaker 1: Brad and Scott mentioned it, the Twins. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think it's always surprising, you know, every year the Twins

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Speaker 1: once again they have one of the top offenses in

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Speaker 1: Max Freed and Spencer Schwellenbach have done very well. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Freed only went five innings, swelling Block only four point

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Speaker 1: he dealt with some control issues coming back from injury

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Speaker 1: I would say this, you know, jeffs Onto ESPN dot Com,

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Speaker 1: Steven I would say there are a few pitchers out

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Speaker 1: Max Freed. That could be a great motivating factor. I

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Speaker 1: know that Max Freed likely is more likely to move

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a really I mean, you know, we saw

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Speaker 2: So the fact that he came back out was huge

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Speaker 2: This is a really really good offense. Like you said,

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Speaker 2: people don't I think probably a lot of Brace fans

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Speaker 2: And for Max to you know, I think he went five.

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Speaker 2: great to see against a really good offense. Are really

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Speaker 2: good hitters, you know, I've heard hitters talk about how

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Speaker 2: an amazing batter's eye. Hitters are extremely comfortable there. There's

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Speaker 2: that was super impressive for Max on Monday.

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Speaker 1: again really over the past few weeks is the fact

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Speaker 1: that one of either with Marryfield or Ramon Loriano, and

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Speaker 1: to a bit of a lesser extent because he's just

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Speaker 1: been here for a shorter amount of time Gio or Sola.

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Speaker 1: But between Maryfield and Loreano, either one of them or

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Speaker 1: both of them are stepping up and having big moments.

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Speaker 1: It seems like every single night. Of course, Monday night,

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Speaker 1: Mierfield had you know, five base hits, you know, just

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Speaker 1: an outstanding performance from him. He's kind of found a

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Speaker 1: bit of a home for right now at the top

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Speaker 1: of the order. But I first want to focus on

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Speaker 1: Ramon Loreano of Stephen. One thing that that that I

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Speaker 1: looked at in his time with the Braves is that

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Speaker 1: right now he's moving. He's connecting at nearly a nineteen

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Speaker 1: percent clip when it comes to barrels, like nineteen of

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Speaker 1: the balls, ninety percent of the balls that he's put

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Speaker 1: in play as a member of the Braves have been

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Speaker 1: barrels now, without a doubt, the highest of his career,

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Speaker 1: one of the best marks in baseball since he joined

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Speaker 1: the Braves. He once again is a great example of

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Speaker 1: Atlanta being able to adjust the overall approach of a

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Speaker 1: player who had previous success elsewhere, and then once they

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Speaker 1: came to Atlanta, they're able to find a way to

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Speaker 1: allow for them to be productive once again. But that

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Speaker 1: really stands out to me. To me, that shows that

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Speaker 1: the numbers that he's putting up, I'm not necessarily saying

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Speaker 1: he's a guy who's going to sustain a one forty

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Speaker 1: WRC plus throughout the rest of the season in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but there is some you know, legitimate, underlying, you know,

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Speaker 1: proof that the numbers he's putting up are really there.

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Speaker 1: They're they're they're they're you know, valid in terms of

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Speaker 1: how good he's doing. What have you seen that just

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Speaker 1: makes you think, okay right now? Obviously solet because of

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Speaker 1: his bat Michael Harrison the second, because of his overall

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Speaker 1: game right now, Lariano truly is one of our three

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Speaker 1: best outfielders. And it's because of the fact that he's

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Speaker 1: just making such good quality contact at the plate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he hits the ball hard, like his

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Speaker 2: like if you look at like his average exivelocity, like

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Speaker 2: his sad cast stuff. It's it's not like elite elite,

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Speaker 2: it's not up there in like the Aaron Judge. You know,

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Speaker 2: people that know about this stuff, like Matt Olson is

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Speaker 2: a guy that just destroys baseball's he hits the ball

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Speaker 2: so hard. He's not in that he's not in that group,

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Speaker 2: but he's kind of like that next group down. I

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Speaker 2: think his average TV this year is like ninety one

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Speaker 2: miles an hour, which is very good. It's very good.

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Speaker 2: That's that's that's crushing the ball on a regular basis.

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Speaker 2: So he's got like the raw skills that you look

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Speaker 2: for in that regard. You know, he's never been a

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Speaker 2: huge he's not a huge plate discipline guy, which has

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Speaker 2: always been the thing that that's held him back a

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Speaker 2: little bit. He does strike out quite a bit, but listen,

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Speaker 2: he had three more hits tonight. He's got like a

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Speaker 2: one forty WRC plus. Since joining the Braves, he's been

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Speaker 2: the best outfielder not named Michael Harris jog Hilaire. You know,

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Speaker 2: I tweated this tonight, but I think they should just

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Speaker 2: go away from the platoon honestly and just let Loriano

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Speaker 2: start every game. And he's been hitting righty hiss an lefties.

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Speaker 2: That double hit in the tenth any of the night

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Speaker 2: off Duran, who was throwing one hundred and two miles

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Speaker 2: an hour. You know, he roped that double into the

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Speaker 2: right center field gap for a bit what turned out

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Speaker 2: to be a very big two runs, since the Twins

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Speaker 2: ended up scoring two in the in the bottom half.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's impressive, and honestly, the abats he's putting

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Speaker 2: up are so much better than what anything Kelnick has done. Really,

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Speaker 2: I mean really, going on like two or three months

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Speaker 2: now with kel Nick, Kelnick has been Kelnic's been pretty disappointing,

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Speaker 2: if I'm being honest, kind of an all ass, you know,

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Speaker 2: all fastest of the game. He he made up for it,

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Speaker 2: but he had that play in the tenth where he

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Speaker 2: he should have scored on the double from Ozuna. He

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Speaker 2: got kind of stuck at second. He wasn't sure what

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Speaker 2: to do. He did end up scoring on the next

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Speaker 2: the next hitter and actually made a pretty good play

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Speaker 2: to score on that ground ball from Olsen. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: Kelnick's just he hasn't been very good for a long time.

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Speaker 2: And again, this is the time of the year where

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Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter what what role you were supposed

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Speaker 2: to have, Like the guys that are playing the best

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Speaker 2: need to play, and the guys that are, you know,

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Speaker 2: your best players need to be on the roster and

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Speaker 2: they need to be in the lineup, and Loreanno's just

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Speaker 2: been better than anything Kelnick has done for a long

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Speaker 2: time now, So I would I would. I would have

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Speaker 2: Loreano starting just about every day, honestly, you know, unless

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Speaker 2: there's a really tough right hitterer on the mound and

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Speaker 2: you feel like Kelnick maybe has a better advantage, I

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Speaker 2: let Loriano play and just let Kelnick be the guy

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Speaker 2: that comes in for Solaire later in games. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's been unbelievable. I mean, he's been truly a one

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Speaker 2: forty WRC plus for a guy that you picked up on,

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Speaker 2: you know, from the trash sheet pile in June. Is

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Speaker 2: is incredible, incredible work by Alex and you know, he's

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Speaker 2: really saved the Braves back. And I know he's had

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Speaker 2: some bad plays defensively, I thought he I think he's

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Speaker 2: cleaned that up a little, but he's not actually a

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Speaker 2: bad defenders. He's great, a doubt in his career, better

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Speaker 2: than what he's shown with the breaks. But the bat

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Speaker 2: has been so good and that's what the Braves have needed,

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Speaker 2: you know, most of the year, with as bad as

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Speaker 2: their offense has been. So now Lorian has been awesome,

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Speaker 2: and I would play him a lot more quite honestly,

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Speaker 2: going forward until kel Nick's until Kelnicks starts showing any

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Speaker 2: signs of.

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Speaker 1: Life, and then of course, you know what Mayfield. You know, again,

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Speaker 1: the thing that has stood out about him in recent days,

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Speaker 1: despite you know, his five hit effort on Monday, is

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's now at the top of the order,

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Speaker 1: and he's a bit different, you know, style of being

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Speaker 1: at the top of the order. He's a bit more

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Speaker 1: old school in terms of you know, the contact, high

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Speaker 1: OBP guy versus whom the Braves usually had their their

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Speaker 1: high OBP guys like Akunya and Celaire. But you know,

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Speaker 1: with both a Kunyan and Celaire, you've also got the

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Speaker 1: you know, the dynamic bats that you know, put the

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Speaker 1: ball on the ballpark at any given moment as well.

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Speaker 1: That's not Mierfield's game. But Stephen, we've talked about it

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Speaker 1: multiple times this year, just how much it would you know,

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Speaker 1: improve the Braves overall offense if they could just get

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Speaker 1: it gou at the top of the order who can

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Speaker 1: get on base and for right now, that's why I'm

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Speaker 1: okay with with Mirfield being at the top of the

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Speaker 1: order versus like maybe a Michael Harris or another option

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Speaker 1: like that. I know Selaire obviously would be a great

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Speaker 1: leadoff option, but Solaire kind of is, you know, your

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Speaker 1: best potential option. He's not Austin Riley, but being kind

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Speaker 1: of that hig Obb high power option you could bat

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Speaker 1: in the second spot, Selaire's kind of the best option

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Speaker 1: that you have to put in front of Ozuna as

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Speaker 1: well as Matt Olson. So again, Mierfield doesn't is not

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Speaker 1: as dynamic a bat when he makes contact as other

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Speaker 1: leadoff options that the Braves have had over the past

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Speaker 1: couple of years. But right now he is getting on

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Speaker 1: base at a consistent clip that clearly is making a

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Speaker 1: big difference for this Braves offense. And so I think

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Speaker 1: that as we move forward, you know, even when Ozzy

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Speaker 1: Albias comes back, I think that as long as Mierfield

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Speaker 1: is getting no base at around a four hundred clip,

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Speaker 1: I think it makes sense to put him up at

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Speaker 1: the top of the order. The results that we've seen,

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Speaker 1: you know, over the past kind of a couple of days,

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Speaker 1: I think that speaks to it. It's just nice to

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Speaker 1: have that consistent on base option at the top of

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Speaker 1: the order.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually kind of funny with you know, if

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Speaker 2: you look at Loreano and Maryfield, how how kind of

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Speaker 2: polar opposite they are. I mean, you know, Mayfield is

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Speaker 2: a you know, high walk, low strikeout, relatively low damage

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Speaker 2: hit or you know, he has one of the weaker

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Speaker 2: average ECX of velocities you'll see from a Major league regular.

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Speaker 2: You know, he he does his damage by taking a

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Speaker 2: lot of walks, by kind of looping balls over the

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Speaker 2: infield for singles. He'll gapple on every once in a while.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, the the exact opposite is Loreano,

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Speaker 2: who strikes out a ton, doesn't walk a lot, but

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Speaker 2: he does a lot of damage when he when he

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Speaker 2: puts the ball, when he puts the bat on the ball,

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Speaker 2: he hits homers, he hits doubles, he hits the ball

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Speaker 2: really hard. And the Braves have had, you know, success

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Speaker 2: with both of these guys, and they're really quite opposite

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Speaker 2: from one another. So but yeah, I agree with you.

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Speaker 2: You know, I guarantee you that's that snit's thinking is.

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Speaker 2: You know, Maryfield gets on base, he takes a lot

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Speaker 2: of walks, he sees a lot of pitches. It's not

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Speaker 2: a bad guy to have it the top. You know,

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Speaker 2: once you lose Riley, it's tough to put so lair

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Speaker 2: there because then you know there's a gap in the

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Speaker 2: two hole, and SOLEI probably makes more sense batting second.

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Speaker 2: So then you need somebody in the you know, in

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Speaker 2: the leadoff spot. I like Mayfield there. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: a twelve percent walk right out of the leadoff spot

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Speaker 2: is never bad. And and he had a five hit

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Speaker 2: game again on Monday, so he can't get his hits.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna hit the ball hard, but he can't

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Speaker 2: get his hits. He can get his singles, he can

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Speaker 2: get his walks, and he's got enough speed we're out

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Speaker 2: of the leadoff spot. That is valuable. So yeah, these

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Speaker 2: two guys specifically have been I mean just godsense. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the Braves would not the Braves would be dead in

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Speaker 2: the water without these two guys coming in and contributing

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Speaker 2: the way they have. You know, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: these two guys are gonna get the the Jack Peterson,

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Speaker 2: you know, Adam Devall, Eddie Rissario love that those guys

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Speaker 2: get from twenty twenty one. I guess it'll depends on

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Speaker 2: what happens in October. But these guys have been every

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Speaker 2: bit as impactful in terms of the regular season, at

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Speaker 2: least about helping the Braves stay above water waiting for

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Speaker 2: Matt Olson to get going and some of the other

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Speaker 2: offensive guys to get going. These guys have been crucial

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Speaker 2: and they've been unbelievable. And kudos to Alex for making

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Speaker 2: the moves, and credit to these guys for coming in,

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Speaker 2: getting a second chance on the on their season and

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Speaker 2: taking advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of taking advantage of opportunities, that's exactly what the

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Speaker 1: Braves need to do. On Wednesday eleven and four, twelve

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Speaker 1: and four, you know, over the past you know, two

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Speaker 1: weeks plus five straight series wins. That is great. That

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Speaker 1: is awesome to see from the Braves, especially, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming right after you know, the the disastrous weekend against

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Speaker 1: Colorado obviously in the mixed there you also at loss

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Speaker 1: austir Riley. It's just been great to see how this

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Speaker 1: Braves team has responded to adversity over the past couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. But the New York Mets, you got to

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Speaker 1: give them credit. They're continuing to play good baseball against

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Speaker 1: quality opponents. Right now. The Philadelphia Phillies are doing the

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Speaker 1: same thing against the Houston Ashers. The point that I'm

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Speaker 1: getting at is is that as good as the as

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Speaker 1: the Braves have been playing, yes, they've made up they

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Speaker 1: they they've expanded their you know, last spot in the

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Speaker 1: wild lead over the Mats over the past couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks as well. But the Braves need to get this

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Speaker 1: series sweep with their best pitcher on the mound on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: especially before going to Philadelphia for four games. Chris Seal

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Speaker 1: on the mound in Minnesota. You know, it's a setting

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Speaker 1: that he's you know, familiar with, you know from his time,

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Speaker 1: you know in the American League. You know, this should

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Speaker 1: be going into this series. This clearly was, you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel the matchup that the Braves probably had to

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Speaker 1: feel the most confident about. But as good of a

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Speaker 1: series win as it is, you know that that's great,

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Speaker 1: But this needs to be an opportunity for the offense

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Speaker 1: to once to again get an early lead and then

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Speaker 1: let Sell do his work. The Braves could really use

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Speaker 1: a series sweep against Minnesota, and you have to feel

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Speaker 1: confident they can get the job done with selling the

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Speaker 1: mound and again the offense going at the clip.

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Speaker 2: That it is. Yep. I think they're eleven and four

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Speaker 2: in their last fifteen games or something like that, eight

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Speaker 2: and two in their last ten. They've won five straight series,

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Speaker 2: you know, all coming after that disastrous game in Colorado

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Speaker 2: where they blew in a nine to two lead in

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Speaker 2: the eighth inning. So yeah, great, I mean, obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: at the time, we talked about that that loss and

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Speaker 2: how maybe we'll look back and see that being the

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Speaker 2: low point of the year and maybe what gets them going,

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Speaker 2: and and so far it has. I mean, they haven't

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Speaker 2: lost a series since then. They've won every series they've played.

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Speaker 2: They've already won this series. But like you said, it's

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Speaker 2: time to get greedy with Sale on the mound. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's tough to be greedy and ask for a sweep

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Speaker 2: at the beginning of the series. But once you get

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Speaker 2: to the third game and you've won the first two,

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Speaker 2: you got your best pitcher on the mound. You've got

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Speaker 2: a guy pitching for the other team that is not good.

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Speaker 2: He's got an era in the fives. He's a you know,

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Speaker 2: a relative unknown. You know, this is time to be greedy,

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Speaker 2: especially since you know, obviously with Sale pitching tomorrow. That

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Speaker 2: means he's not going to pitch at all in the

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia series, So you know, the Braids are gonna play

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Speaker 2: the Phillies seven times between last series and this series,

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Speaker 2: and Sales not going to pitch in any of those games,

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Speaker 2: which is which is obviously a bummer, But that means

681
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Speaker 2: you got to take advantage of the fact that he's

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Speaker 2: pitching in the Twins series and try to get that sweep.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully they can do that tomorrow. Hopefully the offense

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Speaker 2: is awake. You know, this offense for the Twins is

685
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Speaker 2: very good. This ballpark is a really good ballpark to

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Speaker 2: hit in. You know, even if Sales on his game,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be tough for him to go seven innings

688
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: and give up one run like he's been doing. So

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Speaker 2: the offense got up to score. You know, the guy

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Speaker 2: they're facing on the other side is a guy they

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Speaker 2: should be able to get some runs off of. You know,

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Speaker 2: let's keep it up, Let's keep the offense going. Let's

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Speaker 2: not go back to sleep and depend on Sale to

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Speaker 2: throw a shutout to get a win. You know, let's

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Speaker 2: give him five or six runs and maybe even you know,

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Speaker 2: here's a crazy idea. Maybe even get like an easy win,

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Speaker 2: maybe like a you know, a blowout win that's you know,

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Speaker 2: eight seven, eight runs or something that's an easy win,

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Speaker 2: and to sweat it out in the eighth to ninth

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Speaker 2: and tenth innings. But yeah, they need to get greedy tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: especially with Sale not pitching against Philadelphia. Get greedy and

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Speaker 2: go for a sweep.

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Speaker 1: I think you bring up a great point about you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking about a series sweep. You know that

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Speaker 1: mentality is a bit you know, far fetched. It gets

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Speaker 1: a quality opponent like the Twins, maybe at the first

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Speaker 1: of the series, but you know, when you've won your

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Speaker 1: first two games, now you get your best arm on

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Speaker 1: the mound, it becomes a little bit more feasible to

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Speaker 1: be greedy. And the other good thing about it is, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: you know we talk about this week by week breakdown.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Braves being able to get four to

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Speaker 1: five wins every week. You know, if you can get

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Speaker 1: the win on Wednesday, that's three wins so far this

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Speaker 1: week against two teams right now that are clearly in

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Speaker 1: the playoff picture. That means, of course, you want to

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Speaker 1: you know, split her better against Philadelphia, but if you

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Speaker 1: can get a serious sweep versus the Twins. That means

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Speaker 1: you've only got to get one win against Philadelphia to

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Speaker 1: make this a winning week. I know the Braves want more,

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Speaker 1: but that just puts them in a strong position to

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Speaker 1: make it through a tough you know stretch in this

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Speaker 1: August and September schedule, and then the schedule lights up.

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Speaker 1: It lightens up a bit going into the first of September.

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Speaker 1: So if the Braids can get the job done against

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Speaker 1: the Twins, you can get this serious sweep. They'll be

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Speaker 1: writing some good momentum against Philadelphia to hopefully get some

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Speaker 1: good results there. It's just really good to see this

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Speaker 1: team not only bounce back again from the adversity that

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Speaker 1: they've seen, but also the offense start to pull its

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Speaker 1: weight and the offense start to be a reason why

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Speaker 1: they're having their success. Steven, as we wrap up this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Hammer Territory Podcast, anything else that you've

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Speaker 1: got to add coming off the Braves, you know, second

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Speaker 1: straight impressive offensive victory going for this week tomorrow. Again,

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Speaker 1: it's just good. It's fun to see this offense to

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of firing all cylinders once again. It's

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Speaker 1: always fun when when you can watch some good offensive

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Speaker 1: baseball league to wins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll close with the same thing that you know,

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Speaker 2: we sort of opened with and been talking about. It's,

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Speaker 2: in my opinion, it comes down to Maddlson. It comes

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Speaker 2: down to how good Matt Elson it is. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't expect him to be the guy he was

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Speaker 2: last year where he was an MVP candidate, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I do expect him to be a really, really good

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Speaker 2: hitter because that's what he is. He's a really good hitter,

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Speaker 2: and he's had a rough year, but he's you know,

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Speaker 2: he's looked so much better in the last few days,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I truly believe that if he if

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Speaker 2: he can turn around and be great for this last

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Speaker 2: month and even into October, that this offense can still

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Speaker 2: do quite a bit with him and Zunn's layer together

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Speaker 2: and Ozzie coming back soon and Michael back. So I

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Speaker 2: think it starts with Matt and he's been obviously fantastic

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Speaker 2: the last few games, and hopefully it continues.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that if you look over his

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Speaker 1: time in Atlanta, I know that Matt Olsen has had

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Speaker 1: you know, his streaky times. You know, he can be

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Speaker 1: frustrating to see him go as ice cold as he

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Speaker 1: has at times compared to the NBP caliber season he

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Speaker 1: had last year. But if you just look at his

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Speaker 1: three or two plus years so far in Atlanta, you'll

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Speaker 1: notice that when he plays in big games for the

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Speaker 1: Brakes against quality opponents, either if it's at home or

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Speaker 1: on the road, Matt Olsen delivers. You go back to

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Speaker 1: the twenty two playoffs against Philadelphia, if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: Olsen was one of the only ones that actually had,

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Speaker 1: you know, a pretty decent series. He's delivered multiple times

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Speaker 1: an away games against Philadelphia over the past couple of years.

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Speaker 1: He was huge in that end of the year series

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty against the Mets. Matt Olsen, whatever opinion

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Speaker 1: you may have of he has a very good track

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Speaker 1: record of stepping up in big moments against quality opponents

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Speaker 1: when the Braves need him the most. And he's doing

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Speaker 1: it once again. To Steven's point, go read his excellent

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Speaker 1: article over at Battery Power about the Braves needing Olsen

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Speaker 1: to be Olsen. If he could do it once again,

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Speaker 1: that could be a big, big boost. And I'll end

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Speaker 1: with this. I have said it before and I'll say

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Speaker 1: it again. If this Brave team can play like they're

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Speaker 1: playing right now consistently, you will find it hard for

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Speaker 1: whatever opponent that they face, at least in the wild

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Speaker 1: card round of the playoffs. If they make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: you'll find it hard for them to face an opponent

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00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: who's going to have a better one two combination than

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Speaker 1: selling free to the when it comes to the pitching staff,

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Speaker 1: or have a better one two combination of bats than

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Speaker 1: Ozuna and Olsen. So it would be really big for

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Speaker 1: Olsen to find his success. For Steven Tlborough, my name

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00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: is Sean Coleman. You can find Steven at b under

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