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Speaker 1: Hi doing everybody. Hello, Hello, Welcome to an emergency episode here.

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Speaker 1: Was not planning to go live today. Obviously we do

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Speaker 1: the post game every single night, but this is big news.

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Speaker 1: I had to come on here and talk about this.

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Speaker 1: Tristan Cassas is out for the season, a ruptured patell

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Speaker 1: attendant and his awful news. Prayers going out to Tristan Cassas.

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Speaker 1: It's very unfortunate, very unfortunate. You know, this is a

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Speaker 1: guy who's shown a lot of potential over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, a lot of promise, right, He's dealt

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Speaker 1: with his fair share of injuries over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years now, but when he's been on the field,

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Speaker 1: he's shown a lot of promise. This is a guy

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Speaker 1: who I think has the potential for thirty to forty

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Speaker 1: home run per year kind of power wherever you know.

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Speaker 1: He It's just it's just terrible news. It's terrible news.

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Speaker 1: But with a Betel attendant rupture, you are looking probably

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Speaker 1: around six to twelve months of recovery time. It's different

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Speaker 1: from an ACL tear. I'll break that down in just

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Speaker 1: a second, but there is absolutely no way he comes

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Speaker 1: back this year. You're looking at next season at some point,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether that's the beginning of the year, next year,

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Speaker 1: maybe even the middle of the year. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see what the future of Tristan Cassas

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Speaker 1: is going to be, you know, with the Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: But the question is what do they do now? What

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Speaker 1: is the next best option? Well, they have made a

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Speaker 1: couple of moves here corresponding to Tristan Cossis going on

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Speaker 1: the IL. He was put on the ten day IL.

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Speaker 1: He's eventually going to get transferred to the sixty day.

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Speaker 1: But the Red Sox did make a move here bringing

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Speaker 1: up Abraham Toros. So let's get to what the Red

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Speaker 1: Sox put out here, and uh as we can see

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Speaker 1: first basemen Tristan Kassas on the ten day injured list

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Speaker 1: with a left patella tendon rupture, Abraham Toro getting called

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Speaker 1: up to the major league roster, and uh now, really

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Speaker 1: quick before I get to Abraham Toro, just explaining the

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Speaker 1: difference here when it comes to the battel attendant. So

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Speaker 1: you know a cl you know you've heard, you've heard

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Speaker 1: of those a lot, right guys tearing their ACL That's

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Speaker 1: a ligament, right, ligaments connect bone to bone when it

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Speaker 1: comes to a tendon, they connect bone to muscle, so

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Speaker 1: you are looking at a quicker recovery time, usually with

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Speaker 1: long as an ACL tear. Now when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox here right, bringing up Abraham Toro. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they brought him in this past offseason. You know you're thinking,

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Speaker 1: ends up being some depth. But this is why you

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Speaker 1: make these moves. You can never be too sure, you know,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the depth within the organization. Now,

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Speaker 1: Abraham Toro in his career, he's been a guy there

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Speaker 1: was I thought there was a lot of potential with him,

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Speaker 1: you know, go back what four or five years ago,

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Speaker 1: But really over the last couple of years he hasn't

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Speaker 1: last night when we were talking about options, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're wondering, how the heck did Tristan Kasas you know,

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Speaker 1: rupture his Patel attendant. In case you missed it, yesterday

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Speaker 1: People were thinking at first it was the right because

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Speaker 1: that's not really going to get it done. But with Toro,

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Speaker 1: He said, well, extra play this year. Let's see what

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Speaker 1: I never want to, you know, wish you know, negativity

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Speaker 1: But I'm not fully expecting the best from Toro. Now.

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Speaker 1: You know, last night when we were coming up with

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Speaker 1: So that's why I think they went with Toro here.

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Speaker 1: Toro doesn't have a lot of experience at first base

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Speaker 1: I was talking last night about the possibility of Rafael

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Speaker 1: always say never say never right now in the immediate future,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Raffi will be an option there. This

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Speaker 1: Junior just played him recently, right, he was a third

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Speaker 1: going blank, Kevin Nucleus with the Red Sox, right, many

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Speaker 1: third basemen have moved over to first base. I think

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Speaker 1: not gonna say he'll be a gold Glove first baseman

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Speaker 1: But we'll see. Could this be the long term play.

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Speaker 1: If it is, it's not gonna happen anytime soon. I

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Speaker 1: take some ground balls at first base, right, kind of

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Speaker 1: work on it, pregame for the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: few weeks. We don't even know if this is an option.

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Speaker 1: At this point, we're I'm just speculating here. I'm basically playing,

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Speaker 1: who knows if this is even an option. I don't

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Speaker 1: So you know, who knows. We don't know what could

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Speaker 1: Nine to nine? Super chat? Really appreciate that, my friend,

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