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Speaker 1: It's one of the two.

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Speaker 3: All right, Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back, believe it or not.

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Speaker 3: At the time we are doing this podcast live, we

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Speaker 3: are just nineteen days away from pitchers and catchers, which

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Speaker 3: to me, it's like a holiday. It's like Christmas. Twenty

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Speaker 3: four days away from full squad workouts, and twenty eight

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Speaker 3: I'm probably not going to do a post game for

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Speaker 3: the first spring training game because it's a weekday, but

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Speaker 3: one lunar cycle. TK. Are you ready?

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Speaker 4: I'm ready. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 5: It's been a long offseason, a lot of changes to

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Speaker 5: the roster. This is going to be a different Yankees team.

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Speaker 5: But I've pretty much now said goodbye to the twenty

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Speaker 3: I feel like some of these statistics that they're projecting

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Speaker 3: So we'll we'll talk through all of these, but you know, first,

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Speaker 3: you're out there in La So I just wanted to acknowledge,

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Speaker 3: like you've been dealing with all the fires and stuff.

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Speaker 3: How's everything out there. I'm really had chance to talk

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's rough, man. I'm glad you're hanging in there

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Speaker 3: if you ever need to come back east. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: because we're gonna talk about fangrafts. Every year they project

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Speaker 3: of those episodes where it's probably better. I highly recommend

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Speaker 3: thought for sure they would have Jazz Chisholm going thirty

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Speaker 3: I think they're underestimating how much power he's gonna is

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Speaker 3: Totally fine, sign up, sign up for right now, one hundred.

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Speaker 5: Play solid defense, give me, give me twenty five bumps

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Speaker 3: As far as Anthony Volpi goes, what would you project

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Speaker 5: Here, Well, I will say if Volpi just left the

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Speaker 4: I mean, this was a guy that we were holding on.

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Speaker 5: But again, this is a guy who was like a

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Speaker 5: I think the starting outfield is all pretty much pretty light.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: We need to be hot for the playoffs. Like there's

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Speaker 3: To be honest, I agree with you. Look I see

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Speaker 3: So thoughts on that, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Louis Hill, they got him in a sophomore slump. I

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Speaker 5: think four one nine is way high. I'm totally in

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Speaker 5: agreement with you. I think are low threes, maybe even

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Speaker 5: a high twos. If he goes off to a really

435
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Speaker 5: hot start, He's got ace potential. His his problem is command.

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Speaker 5: They have him at an almost eleven percent walk rate.

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Speaker 5: I'm rounding up there. So that's obviously way too high

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Speaker 5: for a starting pitcher. If that's gonna be the case,

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Speaker 5: if that's what he does, I think that as he ages,

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Speaker 5: as he learns, and also, you got to you gotta

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Speaker 5: think about it this way, right, he's a young, impressionable pitcher.

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Speaker 4: There's value in.

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Speaker 5: Being around guys that have done it with a high

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Speaker 5: success rate in the league.

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Speaker 4: Cole now freed.

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Speaker 5: Even Rodin's had a lot of success in the league

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Speaker 5: in the past, so just being around those guys I

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Speaker 5: think is valuable just to learn Matt Blake good pitching coach.

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Speaker 5: I don't see a four to one to nine. I

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Speaker 5: think that's way too high. I do think Louis Hill

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Speaker 5: will just kind of pick up where he left off

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Speaker 5: and just continue to be good. I think now he's

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Speaker 5: used and now he's pitched a full season pretty much too,

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Speaker 5: so I have a little bit more confidence there with

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Speaker 5: stretching him out and hopefully if he gets the command down. Dude,

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Speaker 5: we're talking top five in the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. My one thing with Louise Heel, I think he's

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Speaker 3: gonna have a more evenly like paced season. I don't

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Speaker 3: see him having the you know, lights out first two

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Speaker 3: months like he had this year. I think it will

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Speaker 3: be more you know that the league's seen him once.

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Speaker 3: It'll be more him having to make adjustments, the league

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Speaker 3: making adjustments, you know, like at normal pitcher where you

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Speaker 3: rattle off two or three good starts. Maybe I have

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Speaker 3: a one that's not so good, but maybe you don't

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Speaker 3: get bombed. Right. I think that he can probably win

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Speaker 3: fifteen games three ERA, but it's gonna be a lot,

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Speaker 3: you know. I don't see the stretch where he's eleven

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Speaker 3: and one with a one point eight like he had

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Speaker 3: last year or whatever it was. So just because he's

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Speaker 3: you know, league seeing them. So that's where we're at.

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Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a look at the bullpen. Now,

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Speaker 3: the bullpen again, era is a little bit higher than

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Speaker 3: you would like to see. I think they will do

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Speaker 3: better than this. They got Luke Weaver at three point

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Speaker 3: six to eight. I think he's a lock for two something.

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Speaker 3: Devin Williams at three point two zero. Again, he was

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Speaker 3: a sub too. He's projected as the best relief pitcher

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Speaker 3: in baseball by the Shredder. But they also had Bobby

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Speaker 3: Witt Junior as the fourth best shortstop. I think WIT's

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Speaker 3: the best shortstop. Jake Cousins three point seven to nine.

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Speaker 3: You got Ian Hamilton three point four to seven, and

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Speaker 3: Fernando Cruz at three point three zero. I think if

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Speaker 3: you get three point three out of Fernando Cruz with

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Speaker 3: a thirty one almost thirty two percent strikeout percentage, damn,

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Speaker 3: I mean I'll sign up for that. In a second.

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Speaker 5: Thoughts on this, Yeah, I think they're pretty light again

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Speaker 5: on the on the bullpen, it seems like they're kind

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Speaker 5: of underestimating the pitching performances I think as a whole overall.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I think Weaver.

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Speaker 5: I mean, dude, that's that's nutsack we're talking about. Come on,

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Speaker 5: that's Randy. That's Randy right there with the wheelbarrow. Three

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Speaker 5: six I think is way too high. Again, Devin Williams,

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Speaker 5: that's literally one of the best closers in the game.

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Speaker 4: He's been for his entire career.

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Speaker 3: I got I got something, I got something to say

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Speaker 3: about their projection. And this is just a little shout

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Speaker 3: out to my man, Bob Josh the bit outside Jeah,

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Speaker 3: just a bit outside rest in peace to Bob Youcker.

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Speaker 4: Rest and peace, man.

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Speaker 5: But uh yeah, I think they're a bit They're a

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Speaker 5: bit kind of off there. Devin Williams is literally top

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Speaker 5: three closer in the game, lock arguably number one. I

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Speaker 5: don't see an era with the number three as the

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Speaker 5: first number for him, right, Fernando Cruz, I think that's

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Speaker 5: probably about right. Jake Cousins, maybe a little off, but

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Speaker 5: just about right. But Weaver, Weaver and Williams to me

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Speaker 5: are kind of the most egregious, like what are you doing?

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Speaker 4: Like that's not off?

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Speaker 3: I agree with you. I agree with it, so I

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Speaker 3: know I said we wouldn't do this, but like win

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Speaker 3: total for the year, Like right now, what are you

513
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Speaker 3: thinking for the Yankees? Just we won't hold we won't

514
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Speaker 3: lock you in on this, and don't bet your life

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Speaker 3: savings on this people watching, because there's still time for

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Speaker 3: things to change over the next several weeks. But let's

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Speaker 3: just throw out a couple of numbers here. I'll let

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Speaker 3: you go first. Where are you at right now?

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Speaker 5: This is with what they currently have on the roster.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if there's another move coming before spring training.

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Speaker 5: Let's just have that caveat and as presently constantuted right now,

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Speaker 5: I want to say ninety five wins.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go light, I'm gonna say ninety one. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna say about ninety one. I think the pitching is better,

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Speaker 3: but their offense has taken a step back without Soto.

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Speaker 3: Sodo had an eight war last year. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be very difficult to replace. And until we see

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Speaker 3: Domingez do it in the regular season, until we see

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Speaker 3: VOPI take that next step, wells take that next step.

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Speaker 3: I just can't. I can't say they're better than last year.

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Speaker 3: I've got to see it. Although, although to be fair,

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Speaker 3: a lot of our losses last year were because of

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Speaker 3: Clay Frickin Holmes thirteen blown saves or whatever. It was

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Speaker 3: gonna say that, yeah, take it away, take it away.

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Speaker 5: I was just gonna say that that if Clay Holmes

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Speaker 5: didn't blow those saves, the Yankees probably have a better

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Speaker 5: record than the Dodgers, and you got four games at

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Speaker 5: the Yankee Stadium. So I was literally, literally just gonna

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Speaker 5: say that that the difference this year is that you

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Speaker 5: got Devin Williams top three closure in the game.

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Speaker 4: That projection, to me is just wrong.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna lose some tough games that it's baseball season,

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Speaker 5: but I think ninety five wins is fair. Replacing Soda

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Speaker 5: will be really difficult, but I think that their lineup

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Speaker 5: is more well rounded now. The lineup last year, although

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Speaker 5: the top of the lineup was amazing with Judge and Soto,

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Speaker 5: it was very top heavy as well, like once you

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Speaker 5: got outside of them, it started to drop off pretty quickly.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, you're gonna need the young guys to perform

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Speaker 5: to step up, but I think ninety five is fair.

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Speaker 4: We'll see what they do with the deadline.

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Speaker 5: We'll see if there's any more moves to come before

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Speaker 5: spring training starts. But I think that's like a very

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Speaker 5: very reasonable number to ask. And then there are some

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Speaker 5: teams in terms of like threats in the American League,

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Speaker 5: because the American League is weaker than the National League

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Speaker 5: at the moment. But to me, dude, like there are

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Speaker 5: a couple teams where no one's really talking about them,

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, they they might be a little some something.

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Speaker 3: I think Guardians are going to be difficult once again.

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Speaker 3: And they just added Paul Seawell to that bullpen, which

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Speaker 3: is always tough. You know. I could see the Astros

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Speaker 3: if they get Bregman just being really really difficult again,

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Speaker 3: like bringing him back. You know, we'll see the Red

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Speaker 3: Sox taking a step forward. I think to yeah, the

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Speaker 3: Orioles are they are Orioles lost Burns, but they've got

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Speaker 3: some younger guys like they got Kolbe Mayo. I think,

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Speaker 3: who's Jason Deminge's biggest uh, I guess competition for the

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Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year award. So we'll see, we'll see

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Speaker 3: how it shakes out. Terrence, We're gonna say goodbye to Terrence.

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Speaker 3: Terrence appreciate it. We're gonna go take some voicemails now,

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Speaker 3: but uh stay safe out there in uh in California,

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Speaker 3: and we'll see you on again here soon, hopefully with

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Speaker 3: some news that the Yankees got another bat. We'll see

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Speaker 3: but TK, we'll catch you next time. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: get to your voicemails here. We've got a couple of calls.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with Cashman and the Dodgers here.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Derek, Steve calling from Farmington again. Derek, what is

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Speaker 2: going on with Cashman? The Dodgers are piling up all

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Speaker 2: stars or near all stars that he's still looking at

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Speaker 2: guys with high velocity in the bullpen with a five

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Speaker 2: and a half hour and run average hitters who are

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Speaker 2: very versatile, but they can only hit one eighty. Bring

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Speaker 2: back John Birdie. I know we had so many injuries

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Speaker 2: last year, but just kind of playing the Cubs and

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Speaker 2: how do we miss out on Iglesias. You know, Cashman

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Speaker 2: is resting on his laurels right now because he did

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Speaker 2: a little bit better than we expected, but he's not

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Speaker 2: doing well enough.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. There's a couple of things that

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to fire back at to allow me

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Speaker 3: to retort. I don't think jose Anglesias is the difference

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Speaker 3: between the Yankees and the Dodgers right now. Right what

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers are doing is crazy. I mean, I got

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Speaker 3: like three hundred and seventy three hundred and eighty million

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Speaker 3: dollars payroll or whatever. They're able to do that because

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Speaker 3: they made smart investments. There's the reason why the Yankees

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Speaker 3: wanted to show Hey, back in the day, it didn't

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Speaker 3: get them, but they basically own the Japanese market. Now

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Speaker 3: they're getting all that influx of money from Japan and

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Speaker 3: they're spending it. You know that the Yankees have the money,

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Speaker 3: they could go to that level. They do have insane

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Speaker 3: revenues as a worldwide brand. But I just don't know

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Speaker 3: that there's the players out there that Cashman could go

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Speaker 3: pick up that would make the difference right now to

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Speaker 3: get them to where you look at those two teams

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Speaker 3: and you say, well, the Yankees are better than the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: I just don't think that that can happen this year.

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Speaker 3: I just don't think that there's those players available. Do

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Speaker 3: I think the Yankees could beat the Dodgers in a series, absolutely,

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Speaker 3: but they're gonna need some breaks because the Dodgers are

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Speaker 3: a better team. So you know, we'll see. I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna kill Cashman. He had, he had a good winter

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Speaker 3: this year. I don't know there's much else he could

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Speaker 3: have done other than getting another infielder.

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Speaker 1: What's going on, Derek? Really appreciate the content you've been

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Speaker 1: pumping out during the off season here, uh three minute

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Speaker 1: ten and you know, the collaboration with Fell Territory has

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Speaker 1: been amazing for your fanel and just for you in general,

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Speaker 1: and it's been great. Something I just wanted to touch

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Speaker 1: on really quickly regarding the Yankees. First of all, you know,

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Speaker 1: I do hope they make that last infield move, but

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love the offseason they've had. They got a

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Speaker 1: top tier starter. Maybe a slight over pay, but at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, they're the Yankees. They could

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Speaker 1: handle it. If that's what it took to get it done,

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Speaker 1: then it was worth a slight over pay. I think

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Speaker 1: the Goldski contract and a hitting Jim, I think even

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Speaker 1: if underperformed, it hasn't been a year similar to last year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so the audience cutting out, you know, probably.

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Speaker 1: Twenty home runs at least seven thirty issue.

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Speaker 3: All right, So I'm sorry. I should have listened to

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Speaker 3: that more carefully. Maybe next time, don't call from underwater.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, gold Schmidt, I could you know, I could

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Speaker 3: see him being a solid pick up. I like the

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Speaker 3: steady force, professional hitter, good defender. I believe in in

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Speaker 3: Paul Goldsmith much more now than I did when the

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Speaker 3: Yankees got him, So the more I look into it,

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Speaker 3: I think that might be one where the Yankees hit.

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Speaker 3: But again, fighting father Time and Father Time is undefeated.

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Speaker 3: So all right, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 3: the show. Reminder two, like subscribe all that stuff. Only

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Speaker 3: a few more weeks until baseball season. So you know,

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Speaker 3: hasn't been a lot happening over the last several weeks.

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Speaker 3: But you know, let me know what topics you guys

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Speaker 3: So let me know what you guys want, whether it's

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