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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome in another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Chandler Roam along with Tyler Stafford, coming to you

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Speaker 1: after the Houston Astros sweep the cooked Arizona Diamondbacks here

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Speaker 1: in Phoenix at Chase Field. The Astros currently own the

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Speaker 1: best record in the American League as of this recording. However,

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Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays are in the process of dismantling

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Speaker 1: the defensively inept New York Yankees at the moment. So

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Speaker 1: if and when the Blue Jays closed that out, I

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Speaker 1: believe they will be tied for the best record in

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Speaker 1: the American League. But notwithstanding Tyler, the Ashers put their

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Speaker 1: seventeenth player on the injured list on Tuesday. We will

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Speaker 1: talk about that in a little bit, but they sat

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Speaker 1: Jose Altuve and Cam Smith on Wednesday. Their lineup was.

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Speaker 2: Wait, don't look, that's gonna be my first segment. Don't

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Speaker 2: pull it up.

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Speaker 1: I don't even think that's a I make a joke

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Speaker 1: all the time, like, oh, this is a split squad lineup,

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Speaker 1: Like I think the lineup they ran out today that

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Speaker 1: And they somehow got eleven hits, took fifteen at basket

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Speaker 1: of runs in scoring position, and won four to three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I also watched the game. First off, let's

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Speaker 2: say this was the Bryce Matthews series. That was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Great look at swing. I mean, all swings look good

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Speaker 2: when you're hitting them four hundred feet, I think, but

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Speaker 2: those in particular. I really like the way that he

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Speaker 2: also played really good defense. That double play that he

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Speaker 2: He made a really good play up the middle today too.

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Speaker 2: He's looked good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think to the the thing about Bryce, and

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Speaker 1: I tried to write it on Tuesday after he had

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Speaker 1: his or Monday after I had his two homer game.

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Speaker 1: You know when they brought him up. When they brought

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Speaker 1: Bryce Matthews up, no one in the organization did much

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Speaker 1: was quote unquote ready Joe a spot up. It was

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Speaker 1: pretty glaring, you know, Joe. On the day that Bryce

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Speaker 1: Matthew's debuted at Dyke and Park, you know, there was

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Speaker 1: thirty five forty media members there. Hometown kid. It was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be like a celebratory, real thing, and Joe

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Speaker 1: Aspota was very like kind of calmed everybody down. He's like, hey, guys, like, look,

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Speaker 1: it's a big day for him, big day for the

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Speaker 1: Astros Youth Academy, big day for the city. But just remember,

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Speaker 1: like this guy's not a finished product, Like there's a

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Speaker 1: go get him before he was ready, but we think

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Speaker 1: he has the makeup and to overcome that. And I

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Speaker 1: think you're seeing it. Look that he is not probably

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Speaker 1: ready to play every day at the big league level.

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Speaker 1: He is here because they have no one else, but

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Speaker 1: the tools are there. The bat speed has always been

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Speaker 1: like he walks a good bit. But where he's got

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Speaker 1: He hits it very hard and it goes very far,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just watching him for a couple of games,

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Speaker 2: it's very clear, like, yeah, there are better players than

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Speaker 2: him right now, not on the Astros there they're all gone,

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Speaker 2: but you know there are there are certainly better performers.

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Speaker 2: But the ceiling that you can already tell is there

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Speaker 2: with just the tools that he has, like with what

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Speaker 2: But you know you got me saying Swift on here.

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Speaker 2: This is yeah. I say that. I was at the

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Speaker 2: Eras tour ruled so fun.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what were the what were the what were the

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Speaker 1: secret songs? Not the secret songs.

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Speaker 2: I they were for They were like deep cut early ones.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know it, but it was one about her

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Speaker 1: Marjorie, Marjorie great song, it's a great, it's a well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everything she writes is fantastic, but like that

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Speaker 2: We're gonna lose everyone. But I was also there on

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Speaker 2: the night you probably even remember. I was watching it

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Speaker 2: I noticed it in the moment. I was very proud. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: if you're still here five minutes in, I have a

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Speaker 2: fun game that we're gonna play. Chandler, you were in Phoenix.

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Speaker 2: You were physically present to watch the Astros today. I

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Speaker 2: watched a good bit of it, unless my boss is listening,

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Speaker 2: I was working the whole time, but I wanted to

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Speaker 2: play name that astro. Today's lineup edition. I wanted to see,

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Speaker 2: can you, off the top of your head, remember what

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Speaker 2: the Astros lineup was today?

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Speaker 3: Me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Tremmel let off?

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Speaker 2: Okay, where's he playing center? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Hit second? I don't remember who hit second? Kartini hit third?

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Speaker 1: Karantini hit second?

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Speaker 1: I cannot. I was literally there.

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Speaker 2: Watched the whole thing. There's no way I could do this.

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Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to test you.

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Speaker 1: No, Like I mean, I was next.

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Speaker 1: Christian Walker, d h caught he hit clean up? Was

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Speaker 1: Was Dubon hitting sixth? It was Chaz hitting seventhe Chaz

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Speaker 1: Is that Cooper Hummel? And then did Dubon hit ninth?

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Speaker 1: Short hit ninth?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Oh, Shaye Wickham. Everybody is everybody

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Speaker 1: Twitter was just people b I t hing that that

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Speaker 1: Shay Wickham didn't play. Shy Wickham play today? Is everybody happy? Uh?

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Speaker 2: That is the best team in the American League as

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Speaker 2: we record this podcast. We are both you know, ostensibly

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Speaker 2: professionally watched this team, and we could not get through that.

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Speaker 2: No chance could I have done as well as you.

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Speaker 2: I've impressed you got as much as you did. But

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Speaker 2: I mean, what more can you say about this team?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like it just you know, people just keep coming. Jason

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Speaker 2: Alexander is gonna be here tomorrow, right He'll be pitching.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna turn into Brandon Walter type, who is apparently

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Speaker 2: it's crazy. How do they keep I know we keep

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Speaker 2: saying this, but I don't understand how they keep doing this.

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Speaker 1: I've run out of words. I'm paid, I'm paid to

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep pointing back to culture. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: something just about that there is some juju, there's some

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Speaker 1: They didn't play poorly those first two games. They lost

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Speaker 1: Like that's unsustainable, Like every now and then you're going

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Speaker 1: Tyler, we got to get to an injury. Of course

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Speaker 2: get him. That's he can easily make it a month

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Speaker 2: and a half just running on caffeine. I did that

435
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 2: every semester in college?

436
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: What age did you start drinking coffee?

437
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 2: College? I I also worked at the newspapers. I was

438
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 2: just up all night and then had to get up

439
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 2: in the morning. So it took me a while. And look,

440
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, it took me a good bit to

441
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, I can drink this. I don't like

442
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 2: hot drinks a lot, but now I just drink black

443
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 2: coffee because I'm too lazy to do anything with it.

444
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: That's so bad of you. Thank you? Do you wanna

445
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: do you want to frightening? Uh?

446
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 2: I was gonna guess, like seven, that's why there's there's Well,

447
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 2: that's what you've burned. That you are the reason camp

448
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,919
Speaker 2: Smith has never tried a caffeine. He looks at you

449
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: and like I hadn't smiled in like twenty years. I'm

450
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 2: not drinking caffeine, but for that first year, oh five

451
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:40,160
Speaker 2: year old on caffeine. Good lord, I tell your parents

452
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 2: a special thank you tonight. As someone with a five

453
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 2: year old, If anyone gave that child caffeine, I would

454
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: lose my mind.

455
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Speaker 1: So so Alicia's not making coffee for Livy like this.

456
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Speaker 2: Goodness, No, we got it.

457
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Speaker 1: The one time I met Livy. She was. She was

458
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: pretty wound up.

459
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Speaker 2: She is like that twenty four to seven she is,

460
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 2: I mean, just full sprint. So yeah, don't don't give

461
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: her please.

462
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll make sure of that. Speaking of coffee,

463
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: Lance mccullors has a blister. That's that is the greatest

464
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: transition we have had in this podcast. Lance mccullors is

465
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Speaker 1: back on the injured list with a blister on his

466
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Speaker 1: right finger. We don't know which finger it is. We

467
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: don't know much about it because Lance flew back to

468
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: Houston after he was put on the injury list on Tuesday.

469
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: I guess from a from strictly just a roster construction

470
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Speaker 1: and a performance standpoint. This kicks a can down the

471
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Speaker 1: road for a little bit, because, as we talked about

472
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Speaker 1: on the last podcast, there were going to be some

473
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Speaker 1: conversations to be had with Lance mccullors after, you know,

474
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Speaker 1: when these guys were ready to come back, when Raghetti

475
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,959
Speaker 1: or Javier Garcia was ready to come back, the conversations

476
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: were going to maybe increase in difficulty. For now those

477
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: don't have to be had. Perhaps the blister impacted maybe

478
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: his last couple starts, you know, Joe A spotted did

479
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: say it's something that he had been dealing with a

480
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 1: little bit, and it flared up in the Mariner series.

481
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: I know there were there were Twitter doctors that tried

482
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: to say, you can't just be dealing with a blister

483
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: like you either have them or you don't. Well, pictures

484
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: get hot spots all the time, that's something, you know.

485
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: I think it happened to Max Free right before the

486
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Speaker 1: All Star break. He came out of a game, you know,

487
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: preemptively because he felt a blister coming on. Pitchers have

488
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: they just have certain places on their fingers, their hands,

489
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Speaker 1: pictures that are prone to blisters. They will get these

490
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Speaker 1: hot spots and they can feel them coming on and

491
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Speaker 1: they will stop themselves from throwing to basically, you know,

492
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Speaker 1: save themselves for the next few starts or the blister

493
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Speaker 1: doesn't pop. So you know, it's it's just another chapter

494
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: in a starcross season for Lance, and you hope it's

495
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 1: for his sake. You hope it's a it's a minimum

496
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Speaker 1: sort of thing and he can come back. After the

497
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Speaker 1: fifteen days. He will not back. He's not eligible to

498
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Speaker 1: be activated until after the trade deadline. So I guess

499
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 1: the Astros went into the trade deadline, you know, knowing

500
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Speaker 1: that that he won't be available, But I don't think

501
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Speaker 1: what Lance was doing or not doing was going to

502
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Speaker 1: impact what they were going to do with the dead

503
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Speaker 1: They need a starter, you know, whether he was pitching

504
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Speaker 1: well or not.

505
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we if we're in a safe space here,

506
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Speaker 2: we can all agree this is this is where we are.

507
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna it's probably it's probably good for everybody that

508
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 2: that he's out for a little bit. He he gets

509
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 2: a little rest reset, figure something out. You get three

510
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 2: runs through rotation of other guys to see what's working

511
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: what's not. You get some more clarity there. You don't

512
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:48,239
Speaker 2: have to make any drastic, season altering decisions of you know,

513
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: whatever was going to happen. Now it's like all right,

514
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 2: we get You get to kind of just see a

515
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: free roll for the next three starts of who's going

516
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: to be taking a spot, how they're looking, how the

517
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 2: rest of the roster is instructed after the trade deadline,

518
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 2: and then it gives you kind of a clean break

519
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 2: to come back in and go like, well, you know,

520
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 2: rotation spots are full. Now here's all the people who

521
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: are pitching well, or here's where we need you right now.

522
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 2: You know, whatever it is, I think it's probably for

523
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: the best for you know, you never want to see

524
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 2: somebody be injured. Obviously, that's not at all what I'm saying.

525
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: I'm just saying timing wise, probably okay.

526
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they can it's we're not trying to

527
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: be insensitive here, but this does, this does afford lance,

528
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of weeks to decompress, to to

529
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: kind of get a mental reset. I actually I talked

530
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: with someone in the organization that actually brought that up

531
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Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, hopefully this can be that

532
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: that that helps him out. And you know, he had

533
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: that a couple of weeks ago when he when he

534
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: sprained his foot in the weight room, and you know,

535
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: he had that same kind of reset period. Maybe this,

536
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,439
Speaker 1: maybe this is what he needs to to turn corner

537
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: and and you know, get a little bit clearer mind,

538
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: maybe go through what's been going on to see what

539
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: what can help him maybe turn this around. But yeah,

540
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: he will not be he will not be a part

541
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Speaker 1: of the rotation for the foreseeable future. Jason Alexander will

542
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: He is going to start on Thursday against the A's

543
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: at Dyk and Park and the series opener. They are

544
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: the Ashers are TBA for Friday, I'd imagine to be

545
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Gusto. But Ryan Gusto did throw a bullpen today

546
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: at Chase Field, which would indicate to me that he

547
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: will pitch on Friday, But who knows at this point.

548
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 1: At this point, Tyler, it probably doesn't matter. They could.

549
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: I could probably pitch and I would somehow get through

550
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: five scoreless innings.

551
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: I think you would. I absolutely believe it. There's something

552
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: about the uniform right now, just and maybe this is

553
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: what they're they're telling people that the trade deadline of like, look,

554
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 2: pick anybody, I don't even care. They just have a

555
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: heat check where it's like you draw an him out

556
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: of a hat, send him over. It'll be fine.

557
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. I I do wonder though, like as you look

558
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: at the major league roster right now, and I was

559
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: thinking about this the.

560
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: Other day, I would prefer not to but go ahead.

561
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: Well that's kind of what I'm getting to. Like, they've

562
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: got they've got so many guys out, and none of

563
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: these guys are like eminently coming back. Like maybe Jeremy

564
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: Pania is close, but like I don't think Jorn and

565
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: Alvarez is coming back within the next week. Jake Meyer certainly, isn't.

566
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: Zac Parada certainly isn't. It's gonna be hard for them

567
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: to trade anyone like off the major league roster simply

568
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: because like they need them to play, Like they don't

569
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: have any bodies like. But if you if you were

570
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: to look at the roster, if you look at the

571
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: current major league roster, like, who tu sticks out is, Like,

572
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: if they're gonna have to move someone off the major

573
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: league roster, who do you think it would be?

574
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: I think it's any of the kind of three people

575
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: in the same boat outfield. I mean, again, these are

576
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: not people that you know, people are dying to get,

577
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: but it's you know, Hummel, McCormick, Tremmel, those guys are

578
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 2: all relatively doing the same thing. So that's where you've

579
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: got a little bit of depth. I mean outside of that, though,

580
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 2: you're right like that, I mean shay Wickhamb you know,

581
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 2: as another young controllable player that you've kind of got

582
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 2: duplicates of right now, the way that you're constructed, you know,

583
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 2: I think that's where you can trade from that major

584
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: league depth. But there again, there's nobody that another team

585
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 2: is saying, like, you know, yes, we want to send

586
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: you over a good player back, which is my point

587
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: of like trading for a bat, Like who are you

588
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: trading that you're going to get back anybody better than

589
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 2: what you're sending away? You know, I just I don't.

590
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: I know, there's a few like kind of fringe candidates

591
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 2: and you can package you know, some prospects and things

592
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: like that. I understand that, but the the the roster

593
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 2: is is so compressed with just guys that are kind

594
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: of okay to like pretty good. Sometimes it's like that's

595
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 2: who you're gonna get at the trade deadline when you're

596
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: not paying like crazy prospect capital, which the askers just

597
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 2: wouldn't and aren't capable of doing.

598
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 3: So.

599
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 2: I just I don't. I don't see a huge upgrade there,

600
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 2: especially because like you said, you only you probably only

601
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,239
Speaker 2: have like one or two guys maybe that you can

602
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: trade off the major league roster right now, and so

603
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna be only going to be able to

604
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: make one, maybe two trades to to improve your big

605
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: league roster.

606
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd probably say it's Chas McCormick that I'd probably

607
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: be like the guy that sticks out the most for

608
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. One like he has a major

609
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: league track record, like two years ago he had a

610
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: one thirty something ops plus and was like a very

611
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: good player. Injuries and and some under an obvious underperformance,

612
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: but injury have also hampered him the last two years.

613
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: He seems like a guy that I'm not saying Chas

614
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: is unhappy here. Don't do not missing true this Chaz

615
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,959
Speaker 1: is happy here. He likes Houston, he likes the Astros.

616
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: But he does seem like the kind of guy that

617
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: a change of scenery candidate, a guy that gets into

618
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: another place that that maybe could that could help him

619
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: playing every day, because he is not guaranteed every day

620
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: playing time here, not even on this current iteration of

621
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: the roster. But certainly not when Jake Myers is back.

622
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: Certainly not when Jacob Melton is back. You know, there's

623
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: not He's the fourth outfielder, and so you do wonder

624
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: if if he can get on a team where he's

625
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: playing regularly, maybe that helps him out. Also from a

626
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: just a maneuverability standpoint, like he's got one more year

627
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: of arbitration eligibility, so he's got some team control. He

628
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: is relatively cost controlled. He's making three point four million

629
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: dollars this year, which is not insignificant for an Astros

630
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: team that may have to move some money around payroll wise.

631
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: If Jim Crane doesn't want to cross the lectury tax,

632
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: so getting some of his money off the books could help.

633
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's probably the most obvious one. I would

634
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: have said, you know, Mauricio Dubon makes a lot of

635
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: sense to me, but again, they just he's not going anywhere,

636
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: not that they can't. And there was a world where

637
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: if Jiner Diaz was a better offensive player and they had,

638
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, someone other than Saysar Salazar that could they

639
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: could come up as a backup, that Victor Carrottini could

640
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: be in that same boat. But Victor Carrottini's like hitting

641
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: second heart out. Yeah, some of the best of thats

642
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: on the team.

643
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: So I will say for some like bigger swing trades,

644
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that this is remotely on their radar,

645
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: but you do have a couple of guys that if

646
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 2: you were trying to get somebody with maybe like two

647
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 2: years of control or you know, something like that, you

648
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 2: could certainly see pieces of like Ryan Gusto or even

649
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Speaker 2: like Colton Gordon, you know, guys like that that are

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Speaker 2: like young, controllable starters who have been pretty good. I

651
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Speaker 2: think Gusa would probably be more valuable, but guys like

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Speaker 2: that where you're trading Withay, a guy you know, very

653
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Speaker 2: similar last year to like the Kakuchi trade, where you're

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Speaker 2: trading away a guy that's like, yeah, this guy's probably

655
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Speaker 2: gonna be a four or five starter for a few years.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be pretty good, but you can upgrade

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Speaker 2: this year to like a two or three. I could

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Speaker 2: see them making a trade similar to that if there

659
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Speaker 2: was somebody like that worth giving up six years of

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Speaker 2: control of somebody like Gusto.

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Speaker 1: And also remember too that like when you're when we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the starting pitching, like they they should, and

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Speaker 1: I think they are planning on Like Sarraghetti is going

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Speaker 1: to pitch all year next year, Christian Javier is going

665
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Speaker 1: to pitch all year next year, Lauis Garcia is going

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Speaker 1: to pitch all year next year. I have Hunter Brown

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Speaker 1: coming back. They've got you, like Lance mccullors will be

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Speaker 1: back next year, like he will be on the roster

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Speaker 1: and he is a starting pitcher. So I mean you

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Speaker 1: start to look at it and like they do have,

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Speaker 1: like their core rotation is all already there for next year, right,

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Speaker 1: so they could afford to trade from maybe that surplus

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Speaker 1: right now that you don't see as part of their

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Speaker 1: playoff rotation that you don't see maybe as part of

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Speaker 1: the rotation when they're at full strength. That would make

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. But there is one other thing

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Speaker 1: that I think we should discuss when it comes to

678
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Speaker 1: starting pitching and trades and kind of who they're targeting.

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Speaker 1: Tyler, we're both smart adults here, so we can say

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Speaker 1: pretty confidently that farmervel Does will not be an astro

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Speaker 1: next year. Like correct, are we we know that right?

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Speaker 1: Like barring something completely unforeseen, barring Jim Crane doing something

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Speaker 1: that he has never done in his ownership tenure, farmervel

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00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: Els will not be an astro next year. They will

708
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Speaker 1: need to replace him. They have Hunter Brown who is

709
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Speaker 1: ascended into acehood this year, so that will that will

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Speaker 1: help Christian Javier, as we just talked, Christian Avire Luist Garcia,

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Speaker 1: Spins Arigatty. They'll be back, but you know they probably

712
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: are going to need to go get like an established

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Speaker 1: like not not Ace. I'm not talking about you know,

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Speaker 1: going to the like the top of the market if

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Speaker 1: they need to, because the right right. So I do wonder, like,

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Speaker 1: when you start to look at starting pitching at the deadline,

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Speaker 1: do you look at a control a guy with a

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00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: year of like, not a rental. Do you look at

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00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: maybe someone with another year of control, because you are

720
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: going to be bracing for Fromber's expected departure. And I mean,

721
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: let's be honest here, like you don't wish injury on anyone,

722
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: and you don't predict injury, but the way the sport

723
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: is and the way pitching is nowadays, like you have

724
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: to plan that at least two guys that you come

725
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Speaker 1: into camp with that you think are going to be

726
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: in your starting rotation are going to get hurt and

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Speaker 1: miss a majority of the season. So I do wonder

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Speaker 1: if that changes their calculus a little bit if they

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Speaker 1: can get if they have enough AMMO and enough prospects

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Speaker 1: to get a starter, with a starter that is controllable.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if that is entering their mind that they

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Speaker 1: are going to have to trade not only to make

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Speaker 1: this team better, but to make next year's team and

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Speaker 1: then maybe even the next year's team better after that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that makes a lot of

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Speaker 2: sense for them. Like you said, there's you know, there

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Speaker 2: is some kind of surplus of those back end of

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Speaker 2: the rotation guys like we talked about, You're gonna have

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Speaker 2: Arragetty Garcia Javier, but then you've got your Guso's, your

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Speaker 2: Brandon Walter, you know, guys like that. Not to mention,

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Speaker 2: you know, uh Uloa, Migueliola. Yeah, okay, right, another guy

742
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 2: that's like could be a very attractive trade piece and

743
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Speaker 2: somebody that you know, obviously you want to keep around.

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00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: You're not just giving him away. But if you can

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Speaker 2: get a year and a half or two and a

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Speaker 2: half years of a guy that you're penciling in as

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Speaker 2: like a number two, number three starter, I think that's

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Speaker 2: certainly worth uh looking at for for sure.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny how like this time of year works.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was hilarious to me watching Bryce Matthews'

751
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Speaker 1: two homer game in the first game here, and immediately

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Speaker 1: all of my social media is like well, does this

753
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Speaker 1: make him untouchable?

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Speaker 3: Are they?

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Speaker 1: Are they going to trade him like he's untouchable, now

756
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Speaker 1: get two homers in a game. I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: That's not how it works. Look, Bryce Matthews is their

758
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Speaker 1: best prospect. He's their best prospect, and he is Dana

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Speaker 1: Brown's first draft pick as a general manager. So there

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Speaker 1: is some allegiance there. There is some affinity for him.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they like him a lot. He is going to

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Speaker 1: play second base for this team for at least a

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Speaker 1: foreseeable future until maybe whatever happens at the deadline if

764
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Speaker 1: they get someone more established in here. But you know, also, Tyler,

765
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Speaker 1: like you got to remember this is they they have

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Speaker 1: not really cared about that the last couple of deadlines.

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Speaker 1: This is a team right now that is in they're

768
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Speaker 1: in penance over prospects mode. Like they they don't like

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Speaker 1: they traded Drew Gilbert a couple of years ago for

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Speaker 1: Justin Verlander. Like Drew Gilbert was the was the first

771
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Speaker 1: round pick, was the best prospect out there, and they

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Speaker 1: traded him. They traded Ryan Clifford, They traded Jake Bloss

773
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Speaker 1: who was their best pitching prospect. Like they have they

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Speaker 1: have shown they have precedent to trade from the top

775
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Speaker 1: of their farm system if they see something that they want,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think what also needs to be

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Speaker 1: talked about is who is the last prospect that they

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Speaker 1: traded away that you're that they're kicking themselves about that.

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Speaker 1: That is just like, oh, man, like, I can't believe

780
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Speaker 1: we let that guy get away.

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Speaker 2: I can think of too one. You paid nineteen million

782
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Speaker 2: dollars to come back. So Josh Hare was a rough one.

783
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Speaker 2: Uh Teoscar Hernandez too, right, really, you know, but you're right,

784
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Speaker 2: it hasn't been you know, really recently. I mean there's

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Speaker 2: a what's the guys? What's the guy on the Red Sox?

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00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 3: Now?

787
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Speaker 1: Oh, will Brave right?

788
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: Like another guy that's like, okay, that probably shouldn't have

789
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 2: done that.

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Speaker 1: But well, let's also remember that they didn't have to

791
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: do that, right because James Klick had a trade agreed

792
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Speaker 1: to with the Cubs Wilson Contrero's for jose A Peti

793
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Speaker 1: and Jim Crane and Dusty Baker nixed it, which forced

794
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Speaker 1: Click to pivot to acquire another catcher, Christian Basquez, who

795
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Speaker 1: they ended up giving up. Will You or bred You?

796
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Speaker 1: And Emmanuel Valdez. So yeah, they could have kept like

797
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: there was a world in which they kept Willior a

798
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Speaker 1: brad You and did not continue.

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Speaker 2: I mean those but you're right, it doesn't happen often.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but that's also kind of the story of prospects.

801
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 2: Like even looking around the league right now, there's not

802
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: a lot of guys that you look at, you know,

803
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 2: and just go like, I can't believe that this team.

804
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 2: Let you know, there's only so many of those. Obviously

805
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: there are those exist, then you remember them forever. I

806
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 2: mean the Astros. I heard the story my entire life

807
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: of the Jeff Bagwell trade. That was like part of

808
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 2: a ritual growing up. You know, those things happen, but

809
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Speaker 2: it doesn't happen at a frequency where if you trade unproven,

810
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 2: high ceiling talent for proven control of a couple of years,

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Speaker 2: especially when you're in a championship window like the Astros

812
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 2: are right now. They're not having to just collect lottery

813
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 2: tickets like they were ten fifteen years ago and just

814
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 2: hope that if you have one hundred of them, fifteen

815
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: of them will hit it one time and you can

816
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 2: have a really good team. They're not in that mode anymore.

817
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 2: They're looking for little pieces for the next year or two,

818
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: and then you assume that you've replenished prospects at that

819
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Speaker 2: point and you can do it again and just go like,

820
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 2: all right, we're trading six years of this guy for

821
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Speaker 2: two of this guy. But because the team is constructed

822
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 2: so well, you can take that risk and see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Because again, the absolute worst case scenario when you're trading

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Speaker 2: for proven talent that performs well. Obviously we talked to

825
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Speaker 2: Jeff Luno about the Carlos Gomez trade. It doesn't always

826
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Speaker 2: work out that even the guy you're trading for performs well.

827
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Speaker 2: But assuming that they do perform well, the worst case

828
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Speaker 2: scenario is you watch another guy you know outperform for

829
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Speaker 2: four more years than you had the other guy anyway,

830
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Speaker 2: and then they're gonna be a free agent. So you know,

831
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Speaker 2: it's not it's not that big of a risk when

832
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Speaker 2: you're getting good talent back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And like, we can the Golden Era start in

834
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen or twenty seventeen, You when is your line

835
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Speaker 1: of like when the Golden Era started?

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Speaker 2: Fifteen is when it started, then sixteen doesn't count, but

837
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Speaker 2: fifteen set it all up.

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Speaker 1: For sure, Okay, so it started in twenty fifteen. That's

839
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Speaker 1: when they made the Gomes fires Hater trade in fifteen.

840
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Speaker 1: So we are talking about ten years, like well, nine

841
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Speaker 1: trade deadlines and ten years. And we named three prospects

842
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: that they should regret trading, one of which they didn't have.

843
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: We talked about will your Braid, like they that was

844
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: a that was a dysfunctional setup that got will you

845
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: or bray you traded that.

846
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Speaker 2: And they didn't even draft Hater they traded for him.

847
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so you're talking about they regret trading three

848
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: prospects in ten years. Keep that in mind as you

849
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 1: know the next eight days unfold and as you start

850
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: to hear you know of guys that could be in

851
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: pact potential trade packages. Please keep in mind last year

852
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 1: how everyone wanted to tear down the ballpark when Joey Loperfido,

853
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 1: Will Wagner, and Jake Bloss went to Toronto. And I think

854
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: all the Bloss is hurt, but I think Wagner and

855
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: Loperfito were both on the Blue Jays currently but certainly

856
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: not playing super prominent roles. But I mean they're role

857
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: players that they're on the major league team and Toronto's

858
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: playing very well, but it's not always as bad as

859
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: you think. And just just remember that, remember, like, because

860
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Speaker 1: it was just so funny to everyone's immediate reaction was

861
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: to be happy for Bryce Matthews. It was, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: does this mean they're not going to trade him? And

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Speaker 1: it's okay, guys, like even if they do trade him, like,

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Speaker 1: let's let it play out. Let's let it, let's see

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Speaker 1: how it works. But very rarely, and as as we

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Speaker 1: just talked about, very rarely is it that you're going

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Speaker 1: to be very burned by a prospect that you trade away.

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Speaker 1: And who knows if you are burned by them. You

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Speaker 1: can give them ninety five million dollars to come back

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Speaker 1: and pitch the ninth inning and close out a game

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Speaker 1: in Arizona to give the Astros the best record in

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Speaker 1: the American League. And you know they will continue to

873
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Speaker 1: put that record on the line against the cityless A's

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Speaker 1: this weekend at Dyke and Park. They will face Luis

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Speaker 1: Severino on Thursday, who is very good not in Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: He is not good in Sacramento. Has been very vocal

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Speaker 1: that he doesn't like pitching in Sacramento. He is on

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Speaker 1: the trade block. He is a front end starter. He

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00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: has some pass dealings with Joe Aspata, a former couple

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Speaker 1: of years of a couple of years of control, a

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Speaker 1: former Yank, a former Yankee, just like Joe Aspata. So

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Speaker 1: he's got some familiarity there. The Ashers have long been

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Speaker 1: intrigued by him. I am not here to tell you

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Speaker 1: that that is happening. I'm not here to tell you

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Speaker 1: that that is even something that they've talked about. But

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Speaker 1: he is certainly someone that you should maybe keep your

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00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: eye out on. But you could say that about a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys right now on the trade block. Don't

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00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: don't believe everything you read this time of year. My

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Speaker 1: big I say this every year in free agency, and

891
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: I say this every year at the trade deadline. This

892
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 1: is the easiest way for people to throw blank against

893
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: a wall and hope it sticks. Because, let's face it,

894
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: like Dana Brown has been open right, they need a

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Speaker 1: starting pitcher and they need a left handed bat. It

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Speaker 1: is a dereliction of duty. If Dana Brown hasn't called

897
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Speaker 1: on every starting pitcher available, it's a dereliction of duty.

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Speaker 1: If Dana Brown hasn't called in every left handed bat,

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Speaker 1: that's out there available, So yes, you could get cheap

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Speaker 1: engagement if you put out there. The Ashers have kicked

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00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: the tires on Luis Severino, The Ashers have kicked the

902
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 1: tires on Joe Ryan, The Ashers have kicked the tires

903
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: on Andrew Heene. Well, I would hope they would have

904
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Speaker 1: because they are in the starting pitching market. They've kicked it,

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Speaker 1: like twenty of them.

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Speaker 2: How hard can it be to kick those tires.

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Speaker 1: They've kicked the tires on Cedric Mullins, They've kicked the

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Speaker 1: tires on Ryan or and of course they have. If

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Speaker 1: they haven't, then Dana Brown and his lieutenants are not

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Speaker 1: doing their job. So in the next eight days, just

911
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Speaker 1: just be careful what you read. Don't take everything with

912
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: such gospel. Don't take everything as like, oh my God,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Executives make a lot of calls this

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Speaker 1: time of year. They make a lot of texts this

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00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: time of year. As Jeff Luno told us, there are

916
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Speaker 1: deals that get to the one yard line and they

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Speaker 1: don't happen sometimes, including Bryce Harper. There are deals that

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Speaker 1: I've talked to people that work in media relations for

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Speaker 1: this team and other teams that the press release graveyard

920
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: that they have is pretty substantial. There there are deals

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Speaker 1: that get to the point where a press release is

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Speaker 1: written and then it's not sent out. So it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a crazy eight days. It's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of twists and turns. I don't think there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of activity until maybe the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Everyone I've talked to sounds like this is a pretty

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Speaker 1: slow moving market, mainly because there's a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: that are deciding whether they want to buy or sell

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Speaker 1: and that's holding it up a little bit. But expect

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Speaker 1: the activity to increase across the next week, and as

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Speaker 1: it does, we will we will be with you. We

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Speaker 1: will bring you everything that you need to know about

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Speaker 1: the Ashers at the trade deadline. You can follow the

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Speaker 1: Crush City territory socials and you can follow Tyler on

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Speaker 1: x that's how at Tyler C. Stafford. You can follow

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Speaker 1: be back on Friday during during a podcast and which

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Speaker 1: we will actually talk about some names. We will put

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Speaker 1: some names out there. We will talk about some targets

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Speaker 1: that make sense for the Astros, some some keep some

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Speaker 1: players that would make sense for both this season and

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Speaker 1: as we talked about, maybe next year. Until then, thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening and we will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Bye.