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Speaker 1: Good evening, Ladies and gentlemen, are good morning. If you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this the following morning, whether you're going to work,

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Speaker 1: whatever you're doing. Hello, Hello, we are back live. We

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Speaker 1: have not been live here on Massa Territory for a

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Speaker 1: little bit because we've been working on some things over here.

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Speaker 1: As you can see, well, if you're with me here

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Speaker 1: We have made some changes over here. We have really

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Speaker 1: And then I'll show you some other things throughout the

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Speaker 1: show here tonight. Again, very excited about everything going on.

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Speaker 1: So if you are listening in audio format, listen. I

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Speaker 1: know you might love your podcasts, but come on over

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Speaker 1: to YouTube and come check out what we got going

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Speaker 1: on over here. Very excited, very excited. But you know

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Speaker 1: what else I'm excited about, Ladies and gentlemen. You know

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Speaker 1: what else I'm excited about. We're getting closer and closer

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Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty sixth season. I can't wait. Listen.

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Speaker 1: I know we got the World Baseball Classic going on,

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Speaker 1: even close. I need my Red Sox baseball Listen. I

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Speaker 1: love all these guys on the Red Sox performing well

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Speaker 1: I see you in the chat. I'm beast two weeks

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not the same rama Field spring training

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Speaker 1: last year, right with Alex Bragman, Raffi, you know, Tristan

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Speaker 1: back to it here, shall we. And I see in

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Speaker 1: the chat TD twelve eighty eight you're saying absolutely no

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Speaker 1: way Duran batting third. Well, listen, I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: just simply take a look at the numbers from last

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Speaker 1: year with Duran, I'll pull them up here for you.

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Speaker 1: Batting third last year over twenty five games, I was

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Speaker 1: right hitting two sixty six. And then if you take

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Speaker 1: a look at the on base as well as the slugging,

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Speaker 1: he had a three eighty four on base batting third

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Speaker 1: last year and a four to seventy nine on the slugging.

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Speaker 1: He also had a two thirteen ISO, which is very good.

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Speaker 1: And at one thirty eight WRC plus all batting third.

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Speaker 1: So I'm completely comfortable going with Duran batting third right now.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes in nearly going, but

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Speaker 1: he has proven to be good in that spot. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the WBC. These guys are absolutely going off,

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Speaker 1: and we actually have a game going on right now,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that in just a second here,

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Speaker 1: But uh, I put up a tweet here today I

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Speaker 1: posted some of the numbers. We took a look, and

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Speaker 1: I took a look at some of these numbers here

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, these guys are going off. I'll

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Speaker 1: just go to the tweet here and taking a LOOKXI.

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Speaker 1: So this doesn't count the games that are going on

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Speaker 1: here today. I posted this the small but coming into today,

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Speaker 1: Jaron Duran five for ten with three home runs, a double,

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Speaker 1: and five ribbies for Team Mexico. Yoshida six for twelve,

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Speaker 1: two homers and six RBIs against Japan. And granted, I

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Speaker 1: know it's not gonna be you know, not every games

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Speaker 1: going up against Schiens and schoobl right. Of course, there's

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Speaker 1: definitely gonna be some lower level pictures in the mix.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, I'm as glad to see these

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Speaker 1: guys are hitting well. You know, Roman Anthony had the

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Speaker 1: home run last night as well, four for eleven overall

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Speaker 1: five Ribbies. Will you're three for twelve for Venezuela, three ribbies.

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Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras as a couple of RBIs, said he had

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Speaker 1: a couple of hits in the warm up games to

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Speaker 1: the WBC. He actually had a couple of home runs

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Speaker 1: off my potato brain remembers correctly. And nay Een he

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Speaker 1: actually homered off of Schooble for for my homeland, great Britain,

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Speaker 1: if you don't know, I was born in England. But

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Speaker 1: nay Ian he six for nineteen with the home run

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Speaker 1: off of schoobl driving in the run. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of these guys are hitting great, man, they are hitting

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Speaker 1: very well. Nice to see. And again, sure you got

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Speaker 1: some lower caliber pictures in the mix here, of course

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Speaker 1: you do. But I mean what I mean, would you

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Speaker 1: rather them just kind of do whatever against these guys

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Speaker 1: or would you rather see the really good numbers against

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Speaker 1: those kind of guys. They're doing exactly what they should

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Speaker 1: be doing against those guys. So hey, whatever, this is

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Speaker 1: their warm up here for the for the regular season, so,

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Speaker 1: but also ladies and gentlemen, the World Baseball Classic, of course,

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Speaker 1: is going on right now. We have about another week

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Speaker 1: or so until we get to the final pool. Play

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Speaker 1: is going to be wrapping up here, so right now,

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Speaker 1: We've got the WBC on for about another week or so,

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Speaker 1: so let's get to it now. Masa we had, We've

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Speaker 1: been talking about Masa for how long now as a

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Speaker 1: possible trade candidate. Could there still be a trade of Masa.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to completely rule it out. I would

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Speaker 1: say it's probably more unlikely at this point. I know

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Speaker 1: you might be thinking, here, how is he going to

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Speaker 1: work into the mix? Right? I'm not Again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: ruling it out. I think anything could happen. But core

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Speaker 1: has been talking so highly of him, and Corey even

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Speaker 1: just said not too long ago, he's not surprised with

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Speaker 1: what he's doing in the World Baseball Classic because and

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Speaker 1: he even made a good point. Remember back in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, that first half of twenty twenty three, he

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Speaker 1: was one of the best hitters in baseball up to

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Speaker 1: that point, and then he started running into these injuries,

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Speaker 1: and you know, when guys get hurt, man, it's so

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Speaker 1: hard to get back to consistency, especially if things just

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Speaker 1: aren't feeling great. Right. Definitely has the ability, but you

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Speaker 1: kind of just wonder, where does he fit into the

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Speaker 1: mix where you know, when you got the four outfielders

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Speaker 1: Duran Anthony probably gonna be sharing the d spot, where

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Speaker 1: does Masa work in? So that's why I'm not completely

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Speaker 1: closing the door on a trade. Guys we did have

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Speaker 1: we'd got a couple of teams out there that maybe

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Speaker 1: could use one more bat. I'll talk about them, but

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Speaker 1: Buster only here. He actually put up a tweet. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this was a few days ago. He put this tweet out.

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Speaker 1: He said, Masa is going to be making eighteen point

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Speaker 1: six million this year and next year. On paper, he'd

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Speaker 1: seem to be a good fit for the Astros with

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Speaker 1: their need for a left handed hitter and the smaller

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Speaker 1: left field in their home park and any deal involving

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Speaker 1: Yoshida would probably have to involve a financial adjustment. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to the Astros and well,

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Speaker 1: let me actually talk about Buster's tweet. First off, I

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Speaker 1: do find it interesting when someone puts kind of like

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Speaker 1: a tweet like that out there, because he's not necessarily

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Speaker 1: saying the Astros are interested. But a lot of times

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Speaker 1: you'll have these guys put something out there if they

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Speaker 1: have heard something, even if it's like something small. My

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Speaker 1: guess is maybe Buster did hear something out there and

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Speaker 1: he just thought, you know what, I'll put out a

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Speaker 1: like a scenario kind of a tweet. A lot of

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Speaker 1: guys will do that. With the Astros, you know, you

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Speaker 1: go back to the est sac Paratus talks. Obviously they

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Speaker 1: went for Caleb Durban. There were still people even saying,

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Speaker 1: could the Red Sox still go make a move for Paratus? Right,

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Speaker 1: there were still some kind of very low rumblings about

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Speaker 1: that situation. Right, if you were to send someone back

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Speaker 1: like Duran, you still could. If you were to send

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Speaker 1: back Duran an Esak Paradis trade, I mean that works.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you got your outfield and then Paradis is your

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Speaker 1: your DH Basically you still have to figure out what

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Speaker 1: to do with Masa at that point, but that scenario

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Speaker 1: could still work. But you go back earlier, when the

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Speaker 1: Paradis talks are first coming up, there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of people bringing up Jared Duran as a guy you

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Speaker 1: could send back. But then we had reports at the

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Speaker 1: Astros they wanted will your or Bray. The Red Sox

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Speaker 1: don't want to move will you R Bray, which isn't surprising.

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Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot of upside with him. He has

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Speaker 1: more control and they're paying him less. Just that is

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Speaker 1: what it is. But even go back a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, the Red Sox they opened up extencsion talks

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Speaker 1: for Willier, so you know they like Willier, they don't

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Speaker 1: want to give him up. Duran obviously he's been on

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Speaker 1: the trade block forever. So I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: still gonna happen at this point. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: you still you could still make it work, right, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Now. Could you do something

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Speaker 1: with Masa? Well, you know, if you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: Astros right now, it's interesting, right because you have yourd

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Speaker 1: on as your DH. I don't think they should move

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Speaker 1: him out of the DH spot. Just keep him as

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Speaker 1: your DH, don't put him out in the field. So

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Speaker 1: Masa he would have a hard time getting djabs. Well,

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Speaker 1: then you think about left field. They also just made

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Speaker 1: the move for Joey Liperfido and they got a lot

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Speaker 1: of They got a lot of young outfielders in the

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Speaker 1: mix right liperfdo cam Smith who they got back in

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Speaker 1: the Kyle Tucker trade. You got Zach cole in here,

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Speaker 1: even have someone like Bryce Matthews, So you do have

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Speaker 1: a lot of young guys in the mix of the

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Speaker 1: outfield spot. If you were to get Masa, he would

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Speaker 1: be your everyday left fielder, and we've all seen how

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Speaker 1: that goes for Masa out and left FI. It's not

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Speaker 1: a great option. Right, But if the Astros thought, okay,

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Speaker 1: we think he could be a left fielder here, you know, yes,

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Speaker 1: you got the green monster in Boston, right. You know

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Speaker 1: in Houston they have the small left field as well,

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Speaker 1: they got the Crawford boxes. So I don't know, you

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Speaker 1: could see a scenario where maybe they feel okay about it.

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Speaker 1: Could you make it work? Sure? I feel like I

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Speaker 1: don't know, But then the money comes into play. But

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Speaker 1: that also is something Houston has been comfortable with in

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Speaker 1: the past. They've taken on money, all right, Carlos Korea,

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Speaker 1: justin Verlander, so you know they bring these guys back,

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Speaker 1: of course, but you know they took back money if

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Speaker 1: the other team was willing to eat a good chunk

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Speaker 1: of it. So that could be a similar scenario with Masa.

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Speaker 1: Another team that I've seen people speculate about are the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves because Jackson Profar just got suspended for a

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Speaker 1: full season. I think it's for a full season. I

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Speaker 1: saw that it was gonna be like a challenge or something.

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Speaker 1: Unless I miss something. I imagine he's gonna miss the

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Speaker 1: entire season because it's his second second positive test for

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Speaker 1: peds Jackson Profar. My goodness. But if you look at

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Speaker 1: the Brave situation here, you'd think, you know, maybe they

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Speaker 1: could use someone there. They've done trades before the Red Sox,

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Speaker 1: look at Chris Sale where there was money involved. Could

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Speaker 1: maybe that be a possibility. I don't know. And the Braves,

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Speaker 1: they do have a lot of lower level pitching in

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Speaker 1: the mix. I wonder if you could work out some

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Speaker 1: kind of a deal there. I don't know. That's more

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Speaker 1: so speculation. I've seen people wonder about that. Not necessarily

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Speaker 1: like a bona fide report by any means, But you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got a couple of teams out there that maybe

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Speaker 1: you could do a deal for. But you know, when

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Speaker 1: you've got money involved, it's tricky. You know, you gotta

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Speaker 1: find the right deal. I mean, hey, you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: one of those teams. But I just wonder if the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox they do just go with what they got

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Speaker 1: here into opening day Masa. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: we can look at all the deficiencies. But when healthy,

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Speaker 1: when right, he is a very good hitter and things

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Speaker 1: seem to work themselves out. If someone goes down, then

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe that could open up an opportunity. You

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00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: never know, all right, and maybe you just hang on

637
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,280
Speaker 1: to Masa as long as possible and until a team

638
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: is really looking to add a bat. I don't know,

639
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: but based off of how he's looking in the WBC,

640
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: that's definitely not gonna hurt his stock whatsoever. He looks healthy,

641
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: he's looking good. Could we maybe see something We've got

642
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks here. I don't think it's impossible,

643
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: but because of the money, I'll say it's probably less likely.

644
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: We'll see, though, we'll see. Moving on hereving on, just

645
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: to kind of go over a few spring training news

646
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: and notes. I know we've already kind of talked about

647
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: a few things here, but you know, kind of just

648
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: looking over some of the numbers here, kind of just

649
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: looking at, you know, what's going on. I did mention

650
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: the fifth spot in the rotation. I do think this

651
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: is Johan Oviedo's job. I think he's just looking really good.

652
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: You know. Sure, again, you got a lot of guys

653
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 1: in the WBC. You know, a lot of these pictures.

654
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: They're not going against like full strength lineups by any means.

655
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: But when you're looking at the stuff of hold on

656
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: one second, I gotta fix one little thing. There we go,

657
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: There we go again. We're still working out the kinks

658
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: over here, ladies and gentlemen. But and when you're looking

659
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: at the stuff of Oviedo this spring, the fastball is

660
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: looking good, breaking stuff is looking good, and the command

661
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: is looking good. That's I think the big thing is

662
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: is he throwing strikes. That's what the Red Sox want.

663
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: And if he has the good looking fastball, the good

664
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: secondaries to go along with it, and you made the

665
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: trade for him this offseason, sending a top one hundred prospect.

666
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: I think with Oviedo at this point, I don't see

667
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: why he wouldn't be the fifth guy. I mean, obviously,

668
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, Peyton Totaly's look good, you know, just in

669
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: his last appearance against the Yankees. Fastball is looking amazing.

670
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: The secondaries are looking a little better, but I still

671
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: think there's more room to work on the secondaries there,

672
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: so I think triple A probably makes more sense. Connolly

673
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: early he's been looking good too, But again it's more

674
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: so you don't need to rush these guys, right, especially

675
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: if you needed someone that's a different story. But you

676
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: have Oviedo, So it's kind of like a just a

677
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: great scenario for the Red Sox where you can give

678
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: those guys time and there's not really a ton of

679
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: urgency to a spot. So I think you just send

680
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: those guys down. And then there's also, right the control

681
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: you got all the you know, if you call him

682
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: up at a certain point. We saw that with Roman

683
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: last year, right, there was the whole thing about, oh,

684
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are not calling them up because they

685
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: want to get that extra year of service time You know, well,

686
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: the same thing you can apply here with totally in

687
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: early so I could see that coming into play, but

688
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: it works in the Red Sox favor. So I do

689
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: think Oviedo is going to be the guy. You know,

690
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: if I'm looking at, you know, the bullpen. One guy

691
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: that's actually been looking really good so far as Tyrone Guerrero,

692
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: guy with big VLO. He's a veteran guy. He's someone

693
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: that's bounced around for a little while. He went Overseas

694
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: last year or one overseas a few years ago. I

695
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: think he had some injuries along the way. But you know,

696
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: it's a big guy with with some VLO there. He's

697
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: got some extension. He's six foot eight, I don't want

698
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: to say some extension. He's got a lot of it.

699
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: Some of the Red Sox like they like just these

700
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: big old dudes. You know, could this be a guy

701
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: that ends up working his way into the mix possibly

702
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: for this bullpen. You know, that's pretty much it for

703
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: the bullpen. You know, I want to look at the

704
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: rota getting back to the rotation. These guys are just

705
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 1: getting their work in crochet. He pitched the other day,

706
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray. He pitched against the Tigers today. Look fine.

707
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: I give up a couple of runs, one of them

708
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: was unearned. These guys are just working through their uh,

709
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: working through a normal spring. Ranger Suarez, he's in the

710
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: WBC BAO as well. Bo's looking all right over in

711
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,959
Speaker 1: the WBC, by the way, So nice to see him

712
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: starting to get into a bit of a flow again.

713
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: For the lineup, there's not really a ton going on.

714
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: It's whether or not Marcella Meyer is going to be

715
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: at second base. You're looking at someone also for the bench.

716
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: One interesting story to pay attention to is is Matt Thie.

717
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: This is a guy. You know. It's funny because I

718
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: had someone comment this a little while ago. I believe

719
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: it was a hot take. But look out for Matt this.

720
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: You know, he's not gonna do a whole lot with

721
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: the bat, but he's a guy I think that could

722
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: maybe be challenging Connor Wong for this backup spot, for

723
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: the backup catcher job. Now, if we were to go

724
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: over to statcast, you take a look here. Now, he

725
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: doesn't have much of an arm, he's not much of

726
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: a framer by any means. But his guy that moves

727
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: well behind the plate. Let me zoom in a little

728
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: bit for you. A guy that does move well behind

729
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: the plate. He had five blocks above average last year

730
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: that was in the eightieth percentile. So a guy that

731
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: moves around well. And you know, if you look at

732
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: Wong last year when it came to that, you know,

733
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: Wong he was not great defensively behind there. And you know,

734
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: if you are going to compare the arms, Wong's arm

735
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: wasn't all that much better than this. So this is

736
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: where I'll take a look. Here at the numbers so far.

737
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: Let's see what's going on with this. Let's see what

738
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: do we got going on here? That's not there? Oh,

739
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: there we go, there we go. So with Thiss now

740
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: again this spring, he's not, you know, going crazy by

741
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: any means. He's only hitting two twenty two. He's got

742
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: a few hits, but he's also showing a decent ability

743
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: at the plate, working the counts. He's drawn a few walks.

744
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: He has an on base of three sixty four this

745
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: spring so far. And uh, again, do you necessarily need

746
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: your backup catcher to be a guy that's going to

747
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: be hitting home runs left and right? No? But with

748
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: Thiss I can't help but wonder a guy that's got

749
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: a better arm, or sorry, not a better arm, but

750
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: he moves well behind the plate. Wong's arm isn't really

751
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: much of a difference maker in there, at least for

752
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: me and this. While there's not going to be a

753
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: whole lot of impact there with the bat, he's a

754
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: guy that can at least get on base for you.

755
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: So you kind of wonder that if maybe this could

756
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: be a guy that could end up taking the backup

757
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: catcher spot. I don't know. And he's a lefty, you know,

758
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: so you would have a righty lefty combo. I don't know.

759
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: I don't think it's for certain that this is going

760
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: to be the backup catcher. But he is making interesting

761
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: I would say, and there are some qualities there where

762
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: you could see an improvement, especially with how he moves

763
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: behind the plate. It's something there. Now. The one advantage

764
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: I think Wong has is he just knows the pitching

765
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: staff so well. I think that is an intangible that

766
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: not a lot of people talk about. But uh, you know,

767
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: maybe Thiss who knows how that's going. You know, we'll see.

768
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: But Cora, he did say that, you know, thisa is

769
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: looking pretty good this spring we'll see how it goes. Now,

770
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: there is an interesting clause in his contract if he

771
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: ends up not making the team. There's something there. I

772
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: think Chris Catillo reported this today that if he ends

773
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: up not making the team, another team can pick him up. Right,

774
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: he has that worked into his contract, so he could still, Like,

775
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: if he doesn't end up making the Red Sox major

776
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: league roster, he could still go to the minor leagues.

777
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: But if there's an opportunity for him to be on

778
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: a major league roster, he could do it. So pay

779
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: attention to that. Maybe that comes into play where the

780
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 1: Red Sox are like, you know what, we like this guy,

781
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: let's just put him on the major league roster. I

782
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: don't know something to pay attention to. Also, I want

783
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: to highlight here a guy that has been going crazy

784
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: this spring. Holy cow, braiden Ward. Have you guys been

785
00:43:55,840 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: paying attention to braiden Ward this spring? Holy cow, this

786
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: guy is going off. I know it's just spring training.

787
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: We've seen many spring trainings where guys are just on

788
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: absolute fire, But holy cow, this guy is just looking

789
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: ridiculous this spring. So far, he's hitting four fifty five,

790
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: five sixty one on base for eighty five on the slugging.

791
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: He's not really gonna be much of a thump kind

792
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: of a guy. He's a speedster, makes a lot of contact,

793
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: puts the bat on the ball. He's got seventeen stolen

794
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: bases of this spring. This guy's going crazy. He's also

795
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: drawn five walks, five walks, seven strikeouts. But this guy

796
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: is something. Now do I expect him to be on

797
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: the major league roster for opening Day? No, But this

798
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: is a guy. Where go put him, you know, at

799
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: Triple A, get to get his work down there if

800
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: an injury happens. I know we talked about that with Masa.

801
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: But you know, let's say a situation works itself out.

802
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: You know, could this be a guy that ends up

803
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: maybe coming up and helping you some point. At the

804
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: very least, he's gonna be a guy that can cause

805
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: havoc on the base paths. He's gonna give the He's

806
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: gonna give a lot of headaches to pictures out there.

807
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: So look out for Braden Ward. You know, he's been

808
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: a guy that he's been in the minors for a

809
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: little while. He was drafted back in twenty twenty one.

810
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 1: He's already twenty seven so, you know, I'm not sure

811
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: where his career is gonna be when all of a

812
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: sudden done. What you know, what kind of numbers he's

813
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at when all his sudden done. But

814
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: this is a guy that maybe could help out the

815
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: Red Sox at some point this year. We'll see that

816
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: would be fun to see that kind of speed. But again,

817
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: a guy that has a ton of speed makes a

818
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: ton of contact. Yeah don't And you're seeing more of

819
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: that in today's game. We'll see how that goes. Christian Campbell,

820
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: let's take a look at him. You know, I don't

821
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: think really anything has changed on him necessarily, you know,

822
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: still working through all the adjustments that he's made, you know,

823
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: going back to last year, not having an amazing spring

824
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: by any means, but the swing is looking a lot

825
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: more simple. He did homer off with Justin Verlander a

826
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: little while ago. You know. Overall, though the numbers aren't amazing,

827
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: hitting two oh six ops at a five ninety six,

828
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: but I think the metrics swing they're looking better. But

829
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you just got to put

830
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 1: at triple A to start off the year. I think

831
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: with Campbell he still got it. He still has to

832
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: work on a lot of things, so don't really expect him.

833
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't expect to be seeing him really

834
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,439
Speaker 1: for quite a while unless he just gets like red

835
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: hot at Triple A and then again an injury happens

836
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: or whatever. So I'm not gonna be paying much attention

837
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: to Christian Campbell necessarily, but we'll see how it goes. Also,

838
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: this happened a little while ago, Brendan Rogers. They did

839
00:46:54,600 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: bring him in a minor league deal. But you know, well,

840
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: I guess lost my train of thought. So they brought

841
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: in Brendan Rogers, but he had the shoulder injury and

842
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: now he's gonna be getting shoulder surgery. He's gonna be

843
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: out for the season. So not great. But at least

844
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: you brought in a lot of depth. You got Monasterio there,

845
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Speaker 1: he got Ikf there, of course, so we'll see how

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00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: that goes. But uh TD twelve eighty eight, Robbie, what

847
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: do you think about Patrick Sandoval first going to San Diego?

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Speaker 1: I did not see. I did not see that report anywhere.

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00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: Let me who reported that. That's another guy who you

850
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,720
Speaker 1: kind of wonder how he's gonna work into the mix.

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00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: I did not see this report anywhere or what or

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00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: was this a I just googled it. I think this

853
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,959
Speaker 1: was a prediction. What is this hold on? Never mind?

854
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: Jeim McCaffrey of The Athletic has said the job is

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00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: likely Oviedo's. Meanwhile, she expects Crawford to begin the year

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00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: on the cutter. Crawford to begin the year on the

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00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: injured list, while Sandival will be in the bullpen. I

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00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: forgot to mention that earlier when I was talking about

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Speaker 1: the bullpen. Could that be a long relief kind of

860
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: a guy, right like your sixth starter? I could see that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not seeing anything about Was this an actual report

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00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: or was this uh? Or was this like a speculative

863
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:43,479
Speaker 1: kind of a thing. Wei Afternoon Show? Huh? I didn't

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00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: hear that one, did they? Was it like an idea

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00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: that they brought up? Or was that something that someone

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Speaker 1: actually heard. I don't know. Anyway, Well, I'll keep my

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Speaker 1: eyes on it. Maybe there could be something out there,

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00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 1: but I think Sandival is your long reliever. Could make sense,

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00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, it gives him he can come in throw

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00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,720
Speaker 1: a few winnings, still kind of keep working his way

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00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: back right. Got the elbow surgery so I wouldn't. I

872
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: don't think that would be a bad spot for him necessarily.

873
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: But everybody, that's all we got, first show with all

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00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: the new looks. Let's actually go over here to this

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00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: screen and we're we're all done here for tonight, ladies

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00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Kyle USA not doing good. Well, I'm gonna

877
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Speaker 1: have to go check that out. We're gonna have to

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00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: get out of here and wrap things up. But everybody,

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00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: do you expect to start seeing some more live shows

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00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks here. We're gonna start

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00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: ramping things up as we get towards opening Day. Very

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00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: excited for it, very excited for it. Don't forget we

883
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: are gonna be doing postgame shows again this year, so

884
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: make sure you have notifications turned on all of that.

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00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: Very excited to do the postgame shows. So but still

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00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: getting used to everything over here, like I've said a

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00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: million times, But we'll have that all sorted out over

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00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. But again, have your notifications

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00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: turned on because we will be doing some live shows

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Speaker 1: talking about whatever's going on. Everybody, I'm out of here,

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Speaker 1: going joy the rest of your night. Go watch USA.

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Speaker 1: It's Italy. Right, they're playing Italy tonight. I believe that's Italy.

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00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 1: I think it's Italy. It is Italy. Oh Italy. They're

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00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: up three to nothing. I actually picked Italy to get

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Speaker 1: out of this pool. It's looking all right so far,

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Speaker 1: looking all right. Everybody. I'm out of here. Go enjoy

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Speaker 1: the rest of your night, and it's talk See next time.