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Speaker 1: He's going to pull a catch all. Hello, how are

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Speaker 1: you welcome back? Friday, December twentieth, It is ten thirty

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Speaker 1: at night, and we got some breaking Yankees news. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of an odd trade, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to take a minute to kind of talk through it together.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees have traded Jose Trevino, who was their starting

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Speaker 1: catcher to begin the season last year. Platinum Glove winner,

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Speaker 1: great clubhouse guy, great defensive catcher. They have traded him

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Speaker 1: to the Cincinnati Reds for two players. Fernando Cruz, a

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Speaker 1: relief pitcher who is thirty four years old, has immense

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Speaker 1: strikeout stuff. We'll take a look at his stuff real quick.

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Speaker 1: He has an unbelievable split fingered fastball. He also throws

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Speaker 1: a good cutter. He gets a lot of whiffs. He's

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Speaker 1: in the night ninth percentile in fifth percentage strikeout percentage.

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Speaker 1: He's got great extension. Six two, two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: seven pounds and as you see, one hundred and nine

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Speaker 1: strikeouts in sixty six and two thirds innings pitched. He

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Speaker 1: appeared in sixty nine games. Very nice and good chase percentage,

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Speaker 1: good fastball velocity, good expected batting average. Again, So the

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Speaker 1: split finger fastball I think is great. He throws it

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Speaker 1: a little bit slower than most pitchers. You know, to

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Speaker 1: see the average from a right handed pitchers eighty six

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Speaker 1: and a half miles an hour. He throws his eighty

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Speaker 1: one and a half. So sometimes I guess a splitter

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Speaker 1: if you if you throw it a little bit slower,

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Speaker 1: it can have a little bit more tumble. I'm not

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Speaker 1: an expert on splitters, but it is an effective pitch.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of pitchers who've had success with

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Speaker 1: it in the major leagues. And he also throws a

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Speaker 1: cutter fastball doesn't blow you away. It's ninety four points,

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Speaker 1: so you know about average for a relief pitcher. But

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Speaker 1: I like this pick up. His numbers were not great

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Speaker 1: last year three and eight, four point eight six, but

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Speaker 1: something tells me that the Reds were not using him correctly.

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Speaker 1: So this could be one of those guys that the

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Speaker 1: Yankees turn around. Now ask for Jose Travino. It's clear

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Speaker 1: that he can still be a starting catcher somewhere in

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Speaker 1: the big leagues. Obvious obviously, now that's gonna be Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: But Austin Wells really is the Yankees new starting catcher,

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Speaker 1: So Travigno was gonna lose some playing time. So the

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Speaker 1: Yankees also got back Alex Jackson in this trade. Now

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Speaker 1: he did not have a lot of playing time. He

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Speaker 1: is twenty eight years old, going to be twenty nine

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. Hey, happy Christmas and birthday at the

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Speaker 1: same time. Zero point four war so not effective, pretty counterproductive.

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Speaker 1: But he's a backup catcher now, a one twenty two average,

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Speaker 1: three home runs. I don't know much about this guy.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen him play. He's been now with Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays, and apparently the Red so heaps bouncing around.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of like a modern day Aercrats journey even catcher,

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Speaker 1: just moving from place to place. Now we've got some

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Speaker 1: questions about Jose Travino's contract. Now that's a good question.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees could be clearing up some payroll here as

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Speaker 1: they try and maneuver themselves to be under the luxury

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Speaker 1: tax or the final luxury tax, the Steve Cohen Tax.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a look at his salary if I can.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what it was, and I'll get back

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Speaker 1: to you. But I like this move just because I

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Speaker 1: think it's a move that makes sense for both sides.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees get a relief pitcher with some upside, the

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Speaker 1: Reds get a really solid defensive catcher, and the Yankees

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Speaker 1: get a replacement backup that can, you know, just fill

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Speaker 1: in when Austin Wells needs a rest. So it looks

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Speaker 1: like Jose Travino made two point seven million last year,

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Speaker 1: so not a ton. But I don't I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's really a money move. I think it's more of

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Speaker 1: a baseball move. Yankees are getting an arm that can

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Speaker 1: miss bats. He is a right hander, and the Yankees

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Speaker 1: are still, you know, lacking lefters. I got some comments

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Speaker 1: about my collar. Here is this is my laying around

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Speaker 1: at Friday night at ten thirty shirt. This is not

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Speaker 1: my live studio shirt, but it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: But I agree with Alex kreen here who says that

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Speaker 1: Cruz has an upside. Anybody who can miss bats at

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Speaker 1: this rate, anybody who can get one hundred and nine

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Speaker 1: strikeouts in sixty six and two thirds innings is somebody

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Speaker 1: I want to see more from now. His groundball rate

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Speaker 1: and his hard hit percentage are are not good. That

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Speaker 1: He also walks people. He's in the seventh percent tile.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, it could be that the Yankees

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna throw the fastball at all. Right, His

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Speaker 1: fastball run values in the thirteenth percentile, but his off

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Speaker 1: over and over again. The Yankees also acquired Mark Lighter,

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Speaker 1: but it could be that's a sign, I think in

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Speaker 1: a direction the Yankees may be going, which is trying

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Speaker 1: to acquire more split fingers, more change ups. Devin Williams,

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Speaker 1: you see from arm injuries over the years, and there

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Speaker 1: was just a report on this in MLB that guys

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Speaker 1: who throw who chase velocity are the most likely to

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Speaker 1: injure their arm. That's the most common denominator in arm injuries,

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Speaker 1: extreme velocity. Any pitchy coach will tell you that the

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Speaker 1: change up and the split finger fastball are safer to

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Speaker 1: throw than the the four seam fastball, just less stressful

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Speaker 1: to do. But you know, it could be one of

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Speaker 1: these things where you get the bonus of getting strikeouts

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Speaker 1: and you've got a guy who possibly won't have as

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Speaker 1: much arm trouble. So we'll see. It's just my little

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Speaker 1: hypothesis there. Let's take some some more comments here. Drew

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Speaker 1: Thorpe says Texas Rangers and the Yankees trade incoming. If

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Speaker 1: that's so, and we don't know for sure, then maybe

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Speaker 1: Nathan Lao or Nathaniel Lao is or low I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure how you pronounce it lower Lao could be in

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Speaker 1: the mix. He's the first basement I've had my eye

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Speaker 1: on him. But yeah, I don't see anything about that yet,

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Speaker 1: anything about a impending Rangers trades. So hunt Toff says

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Speaker 1: when he left East in the bullpen, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: ahead and agree with you, but look just looking at

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Speaker 1: this guy's baseball savant numbers, even though he's right handed,

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Speaker 1: one hundred plus strikeouts and sixty six innings that's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Hector Cruz says Ben Rice could be a backup. Well,

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Speaker 1: that would necessitate us getting a first basement. Right now,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees are still shopping for a first baseman. Nothing

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Speaker 1: as of yet has broken there. Christian Walker signed today

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Speaker 1: with the Houston Astro, so he's out of the mix.

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Speaker 1: There's been some talk about Carlos Santana I'm not a

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Speaker 1: big Carlos Santana guy. I get he had a decent

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Speaker 1: still just the two thirty eight hitter. I want a

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Speaker 1: I know he hits home runs. Honestly, I'd be ok

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Speaker 1: Dominges in center, go get Santanderer for left. That might

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Speaker 1: be the best scenario for the Yankees. Or you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you get a third baseman as well. Bragman, You're

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Speaker 1: gonna need a couple of infielders. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people don't like Bregman. We've seen some talk about Aeronatto.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a little bit over the hill. But

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Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff will settle into place over

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Speaker 1: the next few weeks. You got you gotta imagine. But

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Speaker 1: in case you're just joining and I see we have

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Speaker 1: over one thousand, over eleven hundred watching on YouTube. Now

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Speaker 1: the trade is official. Yankees received Fernando Cruz and Alex

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Speaker 1: Jackson and the Reds receive Jose Travino. So there we go.

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Speaker 1: That's the deal. Not a huge impactful deal, but you know,

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Speaker 1: has potential depending on how Cruz pitches and what kind

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Speaker 1: of year Travino has with the Reds. But thanks for

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