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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Hammer Territory podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is episode three six on. Name is Brad Roland

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined on this Sunday evening in our normal

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Speaker 1: time slot like a warm blankets.

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Speaker 2: His name is Scott Coleman. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 3: Hello Brad. It is good as always to see you.

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Speaker 3: And it's good because we had baseball games this weekend,

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Speaker 3: and we now have baseball games every weekend from now

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Speaker 3: until the end of October roughly pretty much. Man, it

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Speaker 3: means the winter is always long. You know, you get

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Speaker 3: the highs of a baseball season, I guess last year's

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Speaker 3: case the lows of a Brave season, and then you

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Speaker 3: get the long winter and then the build up to

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Speaker 3: spring training. But two Braves games this week that we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk about, and I mean, how many games

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Speaker 3: are the Braves gonna play now and November one spread?

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Speaker 3: Hopefully like two hundred.

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Speaker 2: Or something like that.

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Speaker 3: When you consider in playoffs and regular season and spring

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Speaker 3: training and all that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: I would prefer many many games to your point, more

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Speaker 1: than the allotted regular season amount would be nice. After

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Speaker 1: what happened last year to the Braves, we should say

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Speaker 1: at the top of the show. By the way, if

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Speaker 1: you are a new listener or recurring listener, we are

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Speaker 1: Hammer Territory. We cover the Braves all year round. We

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Speaker 1: are part of the Thol Territory network of podcasts. And

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Speaker 1: you know I'm playing a road game here. Forgive any

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Speaker 1: weirdness in the in the background. I got some eyeglass

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Speaker 1: glare on YouTube. Here we are, Scott. I am excited though,

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Speaker 1: to debut a new segment on today's podcast. So let's

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Speaker 1: mix it up Engineered by Fast and All. Okay, Scott,

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Speaker 1: you said it already, but the Braves have opened spring

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Speaker 1: training baseball a lot of excitement about that. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we have poked on many a time about how it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: the first couple the energy level drops a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But hey, this first weekend was the high. Was the

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Speaker 1: They were actually on TV more than they usually are

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Speaker 1: I lay that out for you, what exactly strikes you

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Speaker 3: So I think the most interesting note that we got

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Speaker 3: did confirm that Ronald Acunya Junior is going to lead

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Speaker 3: but it's just that level of energy that it feels like,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three MVP just waiting for you. But the

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Speaker 3: other interesting note, and we should say it was just

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Speaker 3: it's not set in stone. The fact that both Baldwin

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Speaker 3: But interesting that at least for today, it was Acunya,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is definitely I think as far as practical takeaways,

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Speaker 3: He's not going to make insane diving catches in the outfield.

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Speaker 3: I think you Streemsky showed he's going to do some

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Speaker 3: hopefully it's just a sign of things to come, and

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Speaker 1: I agree and you know, other than that, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: But for a your ace is pitching on the first weekend,

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Speaker 3: I was almost say, like three more starts and then

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Speaker 1: One of the things that everybody's always looking at this

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Speaker 1: when your ace is just like I'm good, I'll be

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Speaker 1: you know Ben Gammele, who's a non roster in by Tea,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Drake Baldwin did homer I believe was the only

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Speaker 3: runner to score on Sunday's game. Correct, Yeah, but hey,

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Speaker 3: good good to see Drake. I mean, everybody around camp

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Speaker 3: just raves about Baldwin, his approach on the field, off

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Speaker 3: He was so good as a rookie it almost feels

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Speaker 3: reckless to just think that he's going to be even

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Speaker 3: better in year two. But seven months from now, if

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Speaker 3: you're telling us that Baldwin was even better in year

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Speaker 1: No, I mean it would be nice. I wouldn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: but would be uh encouraging. So we won't go through

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Speaker 1: When Baldwin homeward on Sunday, everyone got the round of

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Speaker 1: jokes like the Bridge I'm never going to lose because

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Speaker 1: they were up one nothing, and then they lost eight

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Great Fruit League, everybody, I was gonna say.

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Speaker 3: The Braves played the C squad other than Mike Yastremsky

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Speaker 3: to their A squad as good as you can basically

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Speaker 1: I agree, and we'll see if it happens in the future.

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Speaker 3: do much of anything super well, not Joel around yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you know, not Choe. I think he's best served

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Speaker 3: playing hopefully one, he's healthy, which was something he battled

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Speaker 3: last year. But hopefully healthy and able to I mean

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Speaker 3: maybe become a catcher. That was something that made the

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Speaker 3: rounds with Nacho. But my I mean again, I think

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Speaker 3: Mateo would be like eighty percent that he's on the

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Speaker 3: opening day roster. It's not a guarantee, it's it's a

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Speaker 3: less enough money that if he goes one for forty

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Speaker 3: and he's being a you know, pain in the ass

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Speaker 3: in the clubhouse, then I could see them moving on.

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Speaker 3: But anything short of that, I think Mateo is very

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Speaker 3: likely going to be your back up middle endfielder.

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Speaker 2: So I don't want to speak for you.

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Speaker 1: I think we are pretty much projecting the twelve guys

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Speaker 1: we just said to make the team, and just as

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Speaker 1: a refresher, Baldwin, Heim Olsen, Alby's Dubon, Riley, Akunya, Harris, Ustremsky, Profar,

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Speaker 1: Eli White and Mateo, those twelve. If you listen to

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Speaker 1: what we said before, that means you only have one

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Speaker 1: more spot because y'all can carry thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Realistically you could carry more, but they probably won't.

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Speaker 1: So thirteen. That means there's a battle of sorts for

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Speaker 1: the last spot until Kim returns or Kim you know,

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Speaker 1: I think probably Murphy just slides into the Hime spot

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Speaker 1: when he's back. But we'll see you said already Nacho Alvarez,

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Speaker 1: Brett Wiseley. They have some those are the forty man options.

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Speaker 1: There are some non forty man roster invite not sorry,

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Speaker 1: non roster invite guys in spring training that are at

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Speaker 1: least notable enough to mention some of which have real

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Speaker 1: big leg experience. Kyle Farmer, Dominic Smith was signed in

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Speaker 1: the last week, ten days, something like that old friend

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Speaker 1: Luke Williams, who is better known for his pitching at

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Speaker 1: this point perhaps, but he's still a utility guy there.

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Speaker 1: Jose Azakar, you've been gambled up, but earlier on the

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Speaker 1: podcast and then your other catcher options, Trump, Samuel Leone, whatever,

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Speaker 1: do you have a thought on who might have the

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Speaker 1: cleanest route to the roster from that group?

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Speaker 3: So I have two players in mind who I think

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Speaker 3: could be the twenty sixth man here. One of them

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Speaker 3: actually is by way of Mark Bowman, MLB dot Com

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Speaker 3: beat reporter, but Bowman opined that with a month ago

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Speaker 3: in spring training that Kyle Farmer might be the front

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Speaker 3: runner for the final bench spot. We won't spend twenty

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Speaker 3: minutes breaking down Kyle Farmer, but Farmer, thirty five years

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Speaker 3: old and infielder, was legitimately pretty good for a few

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Speaker 3: years with the Reds and the Twins. Farmer was atrocious

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Speaker 3: year with the Colorado Rockies. But I mean literally everything

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Speaker 3: about the Rockies last year was bad, And as a

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Speaker 3: veteran player, I can't imagine that Farmer was just chomping

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Speaker 3: at the bit to go out and play when you're

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Speaker 3: fifty games below five hundred on Memorial Day. So Farmer

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Speaker 3: was interesting. I think he has a chance. Veteran guy

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Speaker 3: could go and play all the probably all the infield spots,

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Speaker 3: maybe shortstop in a pinch, but you probably wouldn't need

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Speaker 3: shortstop to be covered with Jorge Matteo on the roster,

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Speaker 3: and he can hit a little bit. The other player

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Speaker 3: who was interesting is Dominic Smith. Do you remember in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty we had the nerf balls that pitchers were

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Speaker 3: throwing and hitters just went absolutely insane for two months

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Speaker 3: during the pandemic season. Dominic Smith had like a one

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Speaker 3: thousand OPS in the COVID season, was genuinely one of

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Speaker 3: the best hitters in baseball with the Mets. He's been

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Speaker 3: nowhere close to that since then. But he's a left

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Speaker 3: handed kind of first base DH pinchhit only option at

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Speaker 3: this point. But dom Smith a legitimate hitter. He hit

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Speaker 3: lefties well last season, had like an eight hundred OPS

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Speaker 3: in sixty games against I'm sorry, he hits righty as well,

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Speaker 3: so I could see dom Smith also being kind of

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Speaker 3: a veteran bench bat, which is frankly something that Braves

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Speaker 3: don't have a ton up on their bench.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they don't have the definite go to

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Speaker 1: first pinch hitter off the bench, like maybe they will

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Speaker 1: on days when Scripty's not starting, Like if they're going

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Speaker 1: to face a lefty, you have the right hand, you

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Speaker 1: have the option off.

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Speaker 2: The bench to face a righty with your Scrimski.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, I think maybe when Murphy comes back,

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Speaker 1: you'll have at least one of Murphy or your strem

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Speaker 1: Ski available to be your number one guy. But beyond that,

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Speaker 1: like it is kind of you know why, it's just

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Speaker 1: a guy. I mean, he's talented enough, he can run,

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Speaker 1: not like a professional hitter type necessarily, you know, same

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Speaker 1: for Matao is not only a to be able to hit.

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Speaker 1: So there is a room for a bat first guy.

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Speaker 1: We even talked about this a couple weeks ago before

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Speaker 1: Marcelo's gonna sign, Like they could have signed like a

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Speaker 1: d H type bat for cheap enough, and maybe they

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Speaker 1: still could. I mean that's not like I wouldn't rule

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Speaker 1: it out necessarily. Maybe that's Dominic Smith, maybe that's you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever they want to do there, or they could go

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Speaker 1: with depth and me out if Ben Gamble's good, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be blown away by that. Like there are options

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Speaker 1: unless the twenty twenty version of Dominic Smith comes back.

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Speaker 1: There isn't like a non uh you know, a non

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Speaker 1: risky or non I don't know. There's always a ton

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Speaker 1: of sex appeal here, like we gotta say, but they

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Speaker 1: have they have professional baseball players that are available to them,

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Speaker 1: even if it's not you. I'm not, I'm not never

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Speaker 1: been a big nacho guy. If he's your last player

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Speaker 1: on the roster, like that doesn't bother me at all.

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. I mean again talking about the twenty sixth

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Speaker 3: man here ideally not having to be used a whole lot,

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Speaker 3: but there are some real talented major leaguers who should

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Speaker 3: be able to contribute somehow. It's honestly just gonna kind

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Speaker 3: of come down to who want Weiss and the coaching

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Speaker 3: staff feel like they can deploy the most and how

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Speaker 3: you can use them the most. Maybe they want someone

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Speaker 3: to little more speed because in extra innings you're going

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Speaker 3: to be pinch running more. Maybe they wont a left

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Speaker 3: handed bench bat, which is probably more dom Smith's type

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Speaker 3: of role. Maybe they won another utility type, which is

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Speaker 3: probably where Farmer comes into play. I mean, there's all

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Speaker 3: kinds of options here, and you know what it's. It's

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Speaker 3: it's one of the few true camp battles on the

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Speaker 3: hitter side of things, whereas on the pitching side there's

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Speaker 3: definitely a few more battles to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 3: It's really it's really the only one borring a Jonaheim

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Speaker 3: flame out. It really is only one spot available. If

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Speaker 3: we're being honest. It seems like so.

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Speaker 1: A real live battle, and we'll follow it over the

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Speaker 1: next month and we'll have a probably essentially more accurate

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Speaker 1: prediction in four or five weeks when that's actually going

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Speaker 1: to be happening down the stretch. Okay, Scott, in a second,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the pitching side, and there is some

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Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, let's talk about the pitching staff. There's some locks,

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Speaker 1: as their word with the hitting staff all those things,

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Speaker 1: but there is some genuine certainty, so dealer's choice bullpen first.

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Speaker 2: A rotation first.

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Speaker 3: We have talked about the rotation a lot, so that's

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Speaker 3: why I asked that question because about every single day

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Speaker 3: of our lives, it is about the rotation right now,

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Speaker 3: which is understand Yes, so let's talk about the bullpen.

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Speaker 3: I think this is a group that could be really good.

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Speaker 3: And there are a couple of spots, one or two,

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Speaker 3: maybe three jobs up for grabs this spring.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think there are five total locks and another that's

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Speaker 1: probable as a lock. So the total locks again, health permitting,

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Speaker 1: Ryce Louglesias, you have, you have Robert s Warez, so

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Speaker 1: they just paid big money to Tyler Kinley who they

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Speaker 1: brought back on a real contract, Dylan Lee who has

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Speaker 1: proven to be good. Aaron Bummer everybody hates, but Aaron

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Speaker 1: Bummer is making real money and as a real reliever.

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Speaker 1: He's not a great one, but he's a pretty good one.

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Speaker 2: He'll be on the.

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Speaker 1: Team barring a trade or an injury. And then you

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Speaker 1: have Joel Is it Yoel? I think it's Yoel Pie

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Speaker 1: ups right. He's making about two and a quarter million dollars.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't guarantee him to be on the roster, but

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Speaker 1: it is more money than anybody else is making. That's

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Speaker 1: up for grabs, and if he's decent, I have to

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Speaker 1: imagine he'll be the bullpen Opey.

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Speaker 3: Clearly the Braves sees something in Piomps. He was really

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Speaker 3: good with the Brewers a couple of years ago, and

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Speaker 3: I mean the Braves actively went out and acquired him

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Speaker 3: last season when Milwaukee cut him, which maybe isn't a

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Speaker 3: ringing endorsement, but the Braves clearly see something here. And

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Speaker 3: then Pioms talk that I guess last off season was

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Speaker 3: not a normal one for him. He had some stuff

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Speaker 3: going on, some travel issues, wasn't fully healthy. So hopefully

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Speaker 3: with a normal off season now Pioms is able to

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Speaker 3: get back to closer to the picture he was with

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Speaker 3: Milwaukee a few years ago. I would agree. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I would say it's like ninety percent, ninety five percent.

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Speaker 3: I mean two and a quarter million dollars. You're not

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Speaker 3: just looking to give it away. I mean sure, if

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Speaker 3: Pioms has a forty ear in the spring, maybe it's

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Speaker 3: just not I mean, if he's if he's velocity's down

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Speaker 3: and he's just awful. But short of just a total

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Speaker 3: train off the track situation, I think that six is

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Speaker 3: basically locked in and it could be a really good

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Speaker 3: top six, especially if you get a bounced back season.

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Speaker 3: From Aaron Bummer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there are five actual locks. Piomps is

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Speaker 1: the probable one for all the reasons you just said.

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Speaker 1: From there, there's some uncertainty that has to do with

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Speaker 1: the rotation, like how many starters are they going to

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Speaker 1: carry is a question that should be asked and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about in a second. Could be as many as six.

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Speaker 1: There was some talk about six men rotation today, which

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Speaker 1: are maybe it was yesterday. I have my eyebrows raised

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Speaker 1: because they don't have enough starters as it is, so

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Speaker 1: having to get six is more than I would want

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 2: But hey, that's part of this. So if they were

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Speaker 2: to carry a long man.

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Speaker 1: Or another starter, let's say Joey Wentz for example, who

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Speaker 1: is like maybe the maybe the most likely option for

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Speaker 1: that for that kind of role on the roster, that

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Speaker 1: is a bullpen guy. But is it a you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. There are forty man options that are interesting enough.

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Speaker 1: I think Dylan Dodd is the first name that I

648
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Speaker 1: would mention. Dylan dot was sneakly pretty good last season,

649
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: has good underlying stuff. Is a lefty, has an option

650
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: that's key. Alex is very very big on taking advantage

651
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Speaker 1: of minor league options, even if it's going to hurt

652
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Speaker 1: the team on the first week of the season. So

653
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Speaker 1: there's Dylan Dot. You have Ian Hamilton, who they brought

654
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Speaker 1: in this off season on purpose, like went out and

655
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: got Hayden Harris, ad interesting prospect. It was up briefly

656
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: last year. He had Day's bell still kicking around up

657
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: and down as he was last year. You have John

658
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Speaker 1: Carlos Laura who is a prospect favorite from the guys

659
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Speaker 1: that we know and has a really talented guy, but

660
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Speaker 1: it's still young. You got Roli, MNO's, Hunter Stratton, Danny Young.

661
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Speaker 1: All those guys are on the forty man and just

662
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Speaker 1: to say this out loud, they could pretty easily add

663
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Speaker 1: somebody else from another team over the next month. Relievers

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Speaker 1: become available and not for a large price a lot

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Speaker 1: of the time. So anybody in that I would just

666
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Speaker 1: put my Dodd's the guy I like the most of

667
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Speaker 1: this group. That's my personal opinion. Anything any other thoughts,

668
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Speaker 1: you don't have to group me on Dodd, but that's

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Speaker 1: the he's the name. I'd be like, Hey, the problem.

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Speaker 1: The problem though, is he has an option and Alex

671
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Speaker 1: Alex is not afraid to use an option.

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Speaker 2: Sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, options are not a good thing this time of year. No,

674
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Speaker 3: it's interesting. I would be curious to know if the

675
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Speaker 3: Braves want to carry three lefties to begin this season,

676
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Speaker 3: then perhaps Dodd or Hayden Harris or an outside edition

677
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Speaker 3: would kind of get a small step up on the competition.

678
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Speaker 3: I agree wholeheartedly. I think Dylan Dodd if you were

679
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Speaker 3: trying to win game one of the season and your

680
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Speaker 3: whole season depended on it, then I would put Dylan

681
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Speaker 3: Dodd in the bullpen. But he might get squeezed off.

682
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Speaker 3: But regardless, I think Dodd will find himself pitching in

683
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Speaker 3: Atlanta plenty this upcoming year. In that same article where

684
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Speaker 3: Mark Bowman opined that Kyle Farmer would be the final

685
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 3: bench bat, Bowman thought that Ian Hamilton, the offseason addition

686
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Speaker 3: from the Yankees, would have probably a small leg up

687
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Speaker 3: because he does not have options. Similarly, Hamilton very good

688
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago with New York, but was

689
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Speaker 3: bad last season. I'm sure the Braves see something in

690
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Speaker 3: him that they like, and he will get every chance

691
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Speaker 3: to win a spot again. It might come down to, though,

692
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Speaker 3: if the Braves carry five men in the rotation or

693
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Speaker 3: six men if the Braves carry six starters, And part

694
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Speaker 3: of the reasoning behind that was the Braves open up

695
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Speaker 3: with thirteen straight games and then nineteen games the first

696
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Speaker 3: twenty days. So once the season gets going, I mean

697
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Speaker 3: strap in, We're gonna have a lot of Braves baseball.

698
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Speaker 2: It's the opposite of last year.

699
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Speaker 1: Remember last year we spent a lot of time in

700
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Speaker 1: the winter saying, hey, they don't win it a fifth

701
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Speaker 1: starter for a long time. This year they need a

702
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Speaker 1: fifth starter, and maybe more so not ideal. The schedule

703
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: was actually a lot a lot softer opponent wise than

704
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: it was last year. But the grueling nature of it

705
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: is worth keeping in mind, especially if they want to

706
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Speaker 1: carry six starters, so that it's just simple math. If

707
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Speaker 1: you carry six starters, you got one less reliever.

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Speaker 2: That's that's all it is. Oh, you already said.

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Speaker 1: The name James James Karenshak earlier in this podcast. He

710
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: is probably the most notable non forty man relief option

711
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Speaker 1: that they could carry. If they like what they see

712
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: you've got. You've got prospects too, I know people like

713
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: Blake Broke, Blake Brook Burke Halter. That's hard to say

714
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Speaker 1: out loud for some reason. But again, the way that

715
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Speaker 1: Alex operates if if he hasn't if he has someone

716
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Speaker 1: that he likes with no options, he's going to keep

717
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Speaker 1: that player and send the guy down. But has an

718
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Speaker 1: option that's to spend like operating mindset, which means maybe

719
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Speaker 1: you'll see Burke Halter or John Carlos, Laura whoever later

720
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Speaker 1: on versus the actual first week of the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know there's daz Meel Hernandez is a

722
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Speaker 3: fast because the idea of days Bell is really good,

723
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Speaker 3: but he's just never shown that he can be a

724
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Speaker 3: consistently effective reliever. I know he had a pretty low

725
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 3: ra for a while last season, but everything under the

726
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 3: hood for days Bell was scary. Like he throws really hard,

727
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 3: but he doesn't get that much swing and miss and

728
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 3: doesn't rack up a ton of strikeouts. You would think

729
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Speaker 3: a guy who throws the way he does would get

730
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Speaker 3: a ton of strikeouts, but he just doesn't. He issues

731
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Speaker 3: a lot of walks. He started to give up home runs,

732
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Speaker 3: but I don't know. I mean days Bell, He's clearly

733
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Speaker 3: has the arm talent. If he can kind of figure

734
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Speaker 3: some things out, We'll keep an eye on him, you know,

735
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Speaker 3: John Carlos Laura. We talked about him briefly. I mean

736
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Speaker 3: he is electric. I mean, if he can throw the

737
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Speaker 3: ball anywhere near the plate, John Carlos Laura is going

738
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Speaker 3: to be a really effective major leaguer. But that's probably

739
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 3: easier send than done. He walked a ton of hitters

740
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Speaker 3: in the minor leagues last year. But an interesting name,

741
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Speaker 3: to be sure. And then you know, as you said

742
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Speaker 3: off the top, there's always a chance that hector Ners

743
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:01,959
Speaker 3: is floating out there.

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00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: Oh, don't do that. Don't do that to me on

745
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Speaker 2: a Sunday and night I was.

746
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: I was so excited, I was feeling good, and now

747
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: like just instantly twenty percent lower on my mood, just immediately.

748
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Speaker 1: It's just we we really should have known that when

749
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Speaker 1: hector Nerus came out of that that was basically the

750
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 1: beginning of the end, was it, not, Like I remember

751
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: vividly at the time people accusing us of being hysterical

752
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: about how Mabbie were and I think we were right.

753
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 2: We were score one, yeah, score one for us.

754
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It was that's the time I liked to By the way,

756
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 1: if you're somehow a new listener or a new Brais fan,

757
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: just look up last year's opening day. That's all we'll

758
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: say about that. So yeah, I mean there's a lot

759
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: of uncertainty. This is probably the hardest one to project,

760
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: just because what do you want is basically the question.

761
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: If it's fell out the bust bullpen, Dylan Dodd would

762
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: be in my bullpen like for sure, but that's not

763
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Speaker 1: always the consideration on day one, week one, So Dodd Hamilton,

764
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Speaker 1: I would love if Karen Shot got it together. That's

765
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: that's a real arm. If you could figure it out,

766
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: that's a real arm in the past. And if you

767
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: want to go young like no one's gonna be upset

768
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: to see Hayden Harris in the opening day bullpen, that

769
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Speaker 1: means he that means he's look good in the spring,

770
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Speaker 1: and he's a talented guy. So a lot of uncertainty.

771
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: Probably less satisfying answer, but uh, I think it's just

772
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Speaker 1: out of necessity because bullpen's like the last thing you

773
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Speaker 1: want to project even a month from now.

774
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Speaker 2: Will I be confident in what's gonna happen in the bullpen?

775
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 2: Probably not?

776
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, I will say though, I do

777
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 3: think this could be a really really good bullpen. Oh yeah,

778
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 3: Like Rice E Iglesias was so good once he figured

779
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 3: things out after the first just awful two months, and

780
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Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see what Robert Swarez can do

781
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: in the late innings as a weapon to help kind

782
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 3: of bridge the gap. And he could even be a

783
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Speaker 3: closer at some point. Dylan Lee, assuming his shoulder is healthy,

784
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Speaker 3: Dylan Lee has been effective basically every day he's been

785
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 3: in the Majors. Let's hope that six months away for

786
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Speaker 3: Aaron Bummer has calmed down whatever he had going on

787
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 3: in his shoulder. Last year, Tyler Kinley was the man.

788
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 3: I mean for a bizarre trade at the deadlines, like

789
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Speaker 3: why on earth are they trading for Tyler Kinley? Like

790
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 3: the season's over, but they saw something And if there's

791
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Speaker 3: one thing last year notwithstanding, I think that Alex in

792
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 3: the front office deserve the benefit of the doubt. They've

793
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 3: had a really good bullpen. More times than not. They

794
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 3: have invested heavily financially in this bullpen. I think this

795
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Speaker 3: could be one of the better groups in the National League.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

797
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Speaker 1: I've had them as a top ten bullpen in the Majors,

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Speaker 1: which means roughly top five in the National League and

799
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Speaker 1: room above that. I mean, if everybody's where they could be,

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Speaker 1: it could be a great group. And I think it's

801
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Speaker 1: probably going to be a good group at least and

802
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: hold on site and we'll follow that, of course throughout

803
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Speaker 1: the spring. Okay, Scott, in a second, let's talk about

804
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: this starting rotation and our favorite topic.

805
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: In recent days.

806
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: After a word from a partners, Scott, let us discuss

807
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: our favorite topic.

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00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 2: It is the starting rotation.

809
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: We're going to do a short version, I promise everyone,

810
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: because we've been talking about this ad nausea. If you

811
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: want more on the rotation, I promise you. There's a

812
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: lot of talk about it in our archive over.

813
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: The last few weeks. For obvious reasons.

814
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Speaker 1: As a table resetter special Swallenbach is out for a

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00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: long time. How long we'll find out out for a

816
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: long time? Hurst and Waldrop, who probably wasn't gonna be

817
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: on the open day roster anyway because he has options,

818
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: but as a candidate, he's going to be out for

819
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: a while.

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00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 2: We'll see that means between those two things.

821
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Speaker 1: And we'll avoid the rant the Braves not adding a proven,

822
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Speaker 1: full on major league starter this winter.

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Speaker 2: I roll here.

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Speaker 1: They have a somewhat clear cut rotation right now, but

825
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,720
Speaker 1: with one or two notable exceptions. So they have four

826
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Speaker 1: guys we are calling I think we can I can

827
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Speaker 1: speak for you. We are calling locks for the rotation

828
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Speaker 1: because Alex essentially said the same thing on the record

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Speaker 1: only a few days ago, Chris sale Well, Special Strider,

830
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: Ernando Lopez, and Grenholmes. Barring injury or barring a trade

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Speaker 1: or a signing or something, those four guys are in

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Speaker 1: the rotation first week of the season right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And I was thinking about this earlier. I think

834
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Speaker 3: Bryce Elder is probably pretty close to a lock.

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Speaker 1: I think if Bryce okay, I generally agree with you,

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Speaker 1: my lock bar is high. Yeah, if they don't add

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Speaker 1: someone from the outside, I will be surprised if Bryce

838
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Speaker 1: Elder is not the rotation. That's kind of that's the

839
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Speaker 1: cover my own self and my own thoughts version of

840
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Speaker 1: what you just said. I think we're probably on the

841
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 1: same page. They could still I'm not expecting get anymore. Honestly,

842
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 1: they could still trade for someone. They could still sign someone.

843
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 1: If they don't do that, if it's this roster, I

844
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Speaker 1: don't see how they don't have Bryce Elder in rotation

845
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Speaker 1: based on what they seem to think about him, which

846
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: is more than I do. But also he has had

847
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: a rubber arm to date. He's always seems to be

848
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: available to pitch, which is a huge actually genuinely a

849
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: positive for Bryce Oldor is that he has been able

850
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: to pitch and he's had that's very helpful and out

851
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: of options, all those things like especially if think it's

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00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: a six, and we talked about this, say ago, but

853
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: they might carry six starters if they do that, Bryce

854
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: Older is an absolute lock if they do that.

855
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 2: It but even if it's five, is.

856
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: There a world in which he has a rough spring

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Speaker 1: and he gets passed by Joey Wentz or he gets

858
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: passed by Martine Perez. Sure, that's possible to me.

859
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 2: I think with the.

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Speaker 1: Way the Braves have operated for a long time, if

861
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: it's close, they're gonna go to Bryce Older among those

862
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: guys because Bryce Older is the is the reliable option,

863
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: and look reliable is not always good because sometimes he's

864
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: reliably below average or worse, but he will pitch and

865
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: there is some utility in that. Plus one last time

866
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: on the show, he has no options, so it's a

867
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: put up, her shot off on Bryce.

868
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that really just comes down then to do

869
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 3: the Braves want to carry six starters for the first

870
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 3: month or so of the season, and they could even

871
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: like do a hybrid thing where technically they have six starters,

872
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 3: but you go game by game and right like, you

873
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 3: don't know, right like, if it's funny, how like a

874
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 3: rain out can cause all kinds of problems, or even

875
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 3: just a bad start. If a pitcher only goes two

876
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 3: and a third innings and it's just clearly not having

877
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 3: it that night, well that kind of screws some things

878
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 3: up in your bullpen and everything like that. So my

879
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 3: hunch is that they are going to carry some combination

880
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 3: of either five starters and a designated long man in

881
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 3: the bullpen, or they're just going to come out and

882
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 3: say flatly they have a six man rotation to start

883
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 3: the year. But in games one, two, and three of

884
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 3: the season, if it's Joey Wentz or Martine Perez, or

885
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 3: maybe they throw us a curveball and surprise us with

886
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 3: like JR.

887
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: Ritchie, who's drawn a lot of Rave reviews, I would

888
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: be so excited about that. Yeah, it does not seem

889
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: to alex like, but I would.

890
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 2: I would be excited.

891
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where I'll take my analyst hat off

892
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: for a little bit and say if they if they

893
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: full good up about Jr.

894
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 2: Richie and they want to put them in the rotation

895
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 2: opening day, cool, Okay, Yeah, I'm in man, sign me up. Absolutely.

896
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean sure, there's a little bit of unknown,

897
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: but it'd be exciting for sure and would add even

898
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: more talent to this this roster. If they want to

899
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 3: call on Richie or Didier Fuentes is also probably in

900
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 3: that mix. But again, because of the roster manipulation that

901
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 3: you have to have early in the year, you can

902
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 3: easily have Jr. Richie and Diddy or Fuentes in Gwinnette

903
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 3: for however many weeks, and both of those guys, I

904
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 3: promise you are going to have their names called it

905
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 3: some point between opening day and the last day of

906
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 3: the season. My guess would be Bryce Elder as your

907
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 3: fifth and then either Martine Perez or Joey Wentz as

908
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 3: your sixth slash longman in the bullpen. You get through

909
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: the first couple weeks of the season, you reevaluate, you

910
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 3: see where everybody else is that and then you go

911
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 3: from there.

912
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're on the same page. We said

913
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: the name Carlos Carrasco earlier, no thanks, but he's around.

914
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: Jose Suarez is very not support of Carrasco, but like

915
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: a guy that I think is pretty fringy, has some

916
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: interesting below the line metrics, but like as not seemed

917
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: to be by any of the reporting to be really

918
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: in the mix for major week starter early on. So

919
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: I think the rational projection, which is what we're trying

920
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: to do. We're inserting some of our opinions as well,

921
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: but a rational projection, I think it's got to be too.

922
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,240
Speaker 1: Probably two of the three of Elder, Wentz and Perez.

923
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: I think Elder is number one of those three based

924
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: on just reliability and all that stuff. So I have

925
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: to say someone like Wentz in particular in Perez, it

926
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: might be heavily spring reliant. Like if Martin Perez looks terrible,

927
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 1: they'll just shake his hand and say thanks for being here.

928
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 2: Like that's a.

929
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: Veteran guy who I like that signing. It's it cost

930
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: them nothing. It's a you know, minor league deal for

931
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: a guy. But if he looks bad, it's like, no

932
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: no harm, no foul, thanks for thanks for showing up.

933
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, Wentz was on the team last year.

934
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: I think Wes has got a little bit more reliever

935
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: utility potentially.

936
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

937
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: They're not sure what they're gonna do there, but at

938
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: least it's I can see joy Wentz being in the

939
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: bullpen like it's just a reliever on the team because

940
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: he was at the bullpen before some other places. Elder

941
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: I think is going to be. Man how bad would

942
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: he have to be in spring mhm, I think it

943
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: has to be pretty bad.

944
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 3: It would have to be so bad that the Braves

945
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 3: would move on from a guy who has an e

946
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 3: ray in the mid fives over the last two and

947
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 3: a half calendar years.

948
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: But but you say that they they have treated him

949
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: like he's better than that whether we whether we agree

950
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: or not, they do like him more than his era

951
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: would indicate. That's what I'm saying, Like he has to

952
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: be fair, right to be fair to Bryce. His under

953
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: lying stuff is better than his era. How much better

954
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: is debate. But I think that while I've piled on

955
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: plenty with Bryce Elder, he does have real utility as

956
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 1: I think you should be like your seventh or aph

957
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: starter versus your fifth starter. But like there is some

958
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: utility there and maybe he play up in the bullpen.

959
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: There's been people that are smarter than me. Scouts have said, hey,

960
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: there's a chance Price older would be a decent reliever

961
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: because his stuff can kind of play.

962
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 2: Up little bit more in that role.

963
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: Potentially, I don't know, but the fact that he has

964
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: no options really doesn't matter here. Perez doesn't doesn't either.

965
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: By the way, he's on a he's a he's my age.

966
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: Basically he's not that old. But uh, it's gonna come

967
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: down to spring on a lot of the stuff. But

968
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: I think really on starting pitching decisions and also hopefully

969
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: Grant Helms and Renald and Lopez are healthy. But like,

970
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: that's not guarantee you guys. I mean, I know it's

971
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: that goes without saying, but it really is worth emphasizing.

972
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: Those guys are bigger injury risks than than normal pictures.

973
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: And every picture's injury risk, and those guys are even

974
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: more so so a lot of vault and.

975
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 3: Probably not a total zero percent chance, And I want

976
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 3: everybody to not roll their eyes in the next ten seconds, baby,

977
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 3: Probably not a zero percent chance. They could still go

978
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 3: out and sign Lucas Giolito or Zach lttel. I'm I'm

979
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 3: not holding my breath anymore. I turned off Jeff Passon's

980
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 3: Twitter notifications on my phone because I'm just I'm done well.

981
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: Number one.

982
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 2: You hate number one, you hate Jeff Passes. Number two.

983
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: No, I will follow in the story if we have

984
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: listeners just coming back, and I know there are always

985
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: listeners that come back about this time of year. Saw

986
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: a week or two ago when Chris Bassett signed with

987
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: the Orioles, I gave my mea kolpa. I actually thought

988
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: the Braves were going to sign Chris bass like genuinely,

989
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 1: not like hoped. I thought they were going to do it.

990
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 2: I was.

991
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: I was in my mind of like, oh, they're gonna

992
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: c Syncrispas, like for like probably three or four weeks

993
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 1: before that, I'm like, oh, they're gonna Sachrispas.

994
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,320
Speaker 2: Let's be fun. And then they didn't sign christ bass

995
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 2: so uh.

996
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 3: And they did not make a re actionary move to

997
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 3: learning that Schwellenbach No and Waldrop are now out indefinitely.

998
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: And we've done plenty on that topic, but just to

999
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 1: say it, if anybody new, we don't agree with that mindset.

1000
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: We think we should have signed somebody or acquired somebody,

1001
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: even more so post injuries.

1002
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: But alex is.

1003
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: Doubled and tripled and quadrupled down, and perhaps that means

1004
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: that they feel he said this, I don't don't always

1005
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: believe what anyone says, alex Ra Otherwise, it's a good

1006
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: IDEVT to be healthily skeptical of front office folks in

1007
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: any sport, any team always. But part of the spin

1008
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: is that they think they have depth, and that means Elder,

1009
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: that means Whence, that means Richie and uh and Dittier

1010
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: down the line or whatever.

1011
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: We'll see.

1012
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: But I do think to your point where we started

1013
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: this conversation, Bryce Elder does feel I won't say Locke,

1014
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: but feels pretty darn likely based on the operation and

1015
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: the public comments from all parties in the world.

1016
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1017
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, So to put a quick bow on this conversation

1018
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 3: for the whole roster, now again, assuming everybody is healthy,

1019
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 3: assuming they don't acquire somebody in the next six weeks,

1020
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 3: assuming there's nothing bizarre, and let's let's knock on wood

1021
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 3: and hope everything goes well.

1022
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 1: One of the chances that no one gets hurt, Scott,

1023
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: it's it's five weeks. Someone's gonna get hurt.

1024
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 2: Come on.

1025
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 3: But as we sit here today, nearing the end of February,

1026
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 3: I think there's probably just one hitter position left, one

1027
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,479
Speaker 3: job on the bench available, and then two or three

1028
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 3: spots on the pitching staff, depending on what they want

1029
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 3: to do. That's not a horrible situation to be in.

1030
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 3: And we could shout to the clouds for the next

1031
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 3: however many days consecutively about not adding more pitching this offseason.

1032
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 3: I ultimately think it's going to be a real problem.

1033
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 3: Maybe it won't be Maybe, maybe Alex is gonna be right.

1034
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 3: Maybe he will get the last laugh, and the pitching

1035
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 3: staff will be mostly healthy, and they'll and Jr. Richie's

1036
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 3: going to be good, and Diddy or Funtes is going

1037
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 3: to be good, and they have enoughing bullpen and eventually

1038
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 3: they get Walder back or Schwallenbach back. And maybe we'll

1039
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 3: be wrong for the for the first time ever, Brad,

1040
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 3: you and I will be uh, we will be wrong.

1041
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: I think I've been wrong in the last thirty minutes

1042
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: on something. I'm sure I'm usually wrong about things.

1043
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 3: It's fine, YouTube will let you know about it. I

1044
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 3: promise you that.

1045
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: Whether whether we're right there or they are I can

1046
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: tell you that right now, Yeah, that's gonna happen.

1047
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 3: But we'll see interesting roster battles to keep an eye

1048
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 3: on for sure over the next couple of weeks. And God,

1049
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 3: let's cross our fingers that everybody stays mostly healthy.

1050
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 2: That is the biggest thing.

1051
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a sexy way to put it,

1052
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: but truly, spring training is like every day just hoping

1053
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: no one gets hurt. It really is the case, and

1054
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: people that work for teams will say that to you

1055
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 1: like that. It really is an exercise and just like

1056
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: holding your breath basically as guys ramp up, especially pictures,

1057
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: but even vision players like God get hurt. It sucks,

1058
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: but it's the reality of the situation, and the Bird's

1059
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: already had their fair share. Honestly, like Schwellenbach and waldrip

1060
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: balone is enough more than enough injury stuff that happens

1061
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: in the middle of February. But there's still a lot

1062
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: of baseball to be played between now and opening day.

1063
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: Hopefully everybody can get to the finish line of spring

1064
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: training and be ready to go.

1065
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 2: And if that's.

1066
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,479
Speaker 1: The case, we do kind of know what the roster

1067
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: looks like for the most part as long as they're

1068
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: not injuries. So knock on wood and we are you

1069
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: just said this, I'll say one more time. They we

1070
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: are disappointed in the lack of a started pitching investment.

1071
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: I had disappointed. Scott's disappointed. I know Steven and Chard disappointed.

1072
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 1: We talked about it a lot. Put it to the side.

1073
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: This is still a baseball team that's good, I believe,

1074
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: and both could be true at the same time, Like

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00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: they'd be better they had another pitcher, but they're still

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00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be good. And we'll save final

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Speaker 1: predictions for much later on. But like look at look

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00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: at fan grafts, Like if you don't, you might hate

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00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: fan grass but they have them as a number two

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00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: team in the National League. Like, it's not a bad

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00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: it's not a bad team just because they.

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00:51:58,400 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 2: Don't have a pitcher.

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Speaker 1: So I'm feel pretty good about things overall. Once my

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00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 1: rage was over about zacly Tail about being on the team.

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00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding about that.

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00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: But I'm feeling pretty pretty good as far as February

1087
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: twenty seconds concerned and going through the roster.

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00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 2: You would think it might be frustrating. It's not.

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00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: I think for me, it's like, oh, that's that's pretty good.

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00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. And

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00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: it's not the Dodgers, but like this is a it's

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00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: a good roster.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I will say I think his fans sometimes

1095
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 3: we get tunnel vision with our own teams, not just

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00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 3: with the Braves, but like I'm you know, I'm an

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Speaker 3: Arizona Wildcats basketball fan, Brad's a Michigan Wolverines basketball fan.

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Speaker 3: Like I said about and think about all the problems

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00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 3: that our teams have. But there's twenty nine other baseball

1100
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 3: teams that have all kinds of problems. Oh yeah, like

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00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 3: all kinds of them. So the Braves, you're not the

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Speaker 3: even the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: I know some Dodgers fans Now to be clear, I

1104
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: think they're maniacs. They think they have problems the Dodgers,

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00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: and they don't have problems. Come on, get out of

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00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: here with the Dodgers time problem. But it goes to

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Speaker 1: his point right now, you just said it, but are

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00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: two college basketball teams are two of the five best

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00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: teams in the country conservatively, if not better than that,

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Speaker 1: And you're right, like I've we text each other like

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00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: I'm worried about certain things, and you're about certain things,

1112
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 1: and that's that's part of the deal. You're always adjusting

1113
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: for like reality, like some teams have rich band problems

1114
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: versus you know, it is what it is.

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00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 2: But the Braves are still good. Will they be awesome

1116
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 2: this year? I have no idea. Last year we thought

1117
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 2: they'd be good and they weren't. So it's baseball.

1118
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel pretty decent about the team right now.

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00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: It's all we can be. It's all we can say.

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Speaker 1: If embry twenty second, Scott, And by the way, there's

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Speaker 1: more baseball to come basically every day.

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Speaker 2: Of our lives.

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Speaker 1: As you start this conversation, that Braves play a game

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00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 1: on Monday afternoon one oh five pm Eastern time. Tuesday

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00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: they play at one oh five pm Eastern time, and

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00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: every day after that basically, So stay tuned for all that.

1127
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: And we'll have coverage, not like game breakdowns every day

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00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: by any means in the spring, but observations, topics, news.

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Speaker 1: You can find it all here at Hamid Territory.

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Speaker 2: Scott. Anything else you want to say before we get

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00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 2: out of.

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00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 3: Here, nothing else to add. I will always give the

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00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 3: folks watching and listening to the show. A big thank you.

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00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 3: I know it's spring training, we probably have some new listeners.

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00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 3: We have also listeners who stuck with us from the

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00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 3: first day of the off season, So a big tip

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00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 3: of the cap to you guys and gallas for sticking

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00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 3: with us throughout the winter.

1139
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 2: And if you're new, welcome aboard.

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00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 3: We do lots of shows, generally aim for three weeks

1141
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 3: or three shows a week during the spring, but then

1142
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 3: once the season goes we have four sometimes five shows

1143
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,720
Speaker 3: a week. When the Braves play games that really matter.

1144
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 3: Of course, then we really get into the games and

1145
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 3: roster breakdowns and transactions.

1146
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 2: And all that good stuff.

1147
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 3: So we'll be here rainershine, and hopefully a relatively quiet

1148
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 3: spring training would honestly be a nice thing.

1149
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 2: I was love with quiet spring training, I really would.

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00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: Scott has set up, but please go ahead subscribe anywhere

1151
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00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:49,399
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00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,880
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00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,120
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Speaker 1: Roland and one more time at the show.

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Speaker 2: As a Hammer Territory.

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Speaker 1: All right, minutes all we have on this Sunday evening,

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Speaker 1: with more to com this week. Stay tuned and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you all next time.