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Everyone has a loss. There's a no hitter. A team is playing in Sacramento. Let's talk.

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball, presented to you by seat geek. My name is Jake Storelli PERSON. His name is Trevor Plouf PERSON, BBD behind the dish. Over a week into the baseball season, luckily that packed house in Flushing GPE's got to seethe Mets get their first win and the Tigers get their first loss, that everyone's in it now. Every fan base knows what it feels like to get that in and out of the way. Trevor Plouffe PERSON, how are you doing, man? I'm a little mental health check. Well, everyone on the YouTube right now, I currently look like a cursed image threw onthe Jamboy Reds jersey, a gift from Tucker Barnhart a couple years ago, a big Johnboy ORG media guy, now on the snakes. I was looking like a bat boy because I was wearing my Yankees ORG jersey with a Yankees hat. Going opening day in a little bit at the stadium, so excited for that. Treve PERSON, I've seen a lot of, oh God, and I just said everyone's got to win, everyone has a loss. That's not true. That's not true.

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Not everyone has to stop you there, but. Wow. Okay, well, we just lost all of our

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our Marlins listeners, but we've kind of been mad at them ever since that Jazz Chiz PERSON and Mickey Row thing. But Treve PERSON, you've been getting dragged by our social team, dog. Are you okay? Yeah, like, what started that? I like i must have somebody mad and who's

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running it let me just tell you something you know that's not tay jack is that is that kyle like what's going

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on i'll check dude when they get hot on something they just they don't stop i think it's kyle

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you know he's got all his little minions coming after me it's fine i can take it i can handle it

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i would like some highlights of my career post.

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You do have highlights, too.

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Yeah. Yeah, you were an average player.

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It's just as much good as bad. Thank you, B, B, B, B.D. You look like Aaron Boone PERSON right now.

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If he went through his closet and just put on some shit.

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Remember?

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Can you do, like, the strike-up thing?

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There's that picture. I'm doing it. I can do that. How we doing picture I'm doing it. Can do that. How we doing? I'm doing great, dude.

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It's early morning app.

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I guess it's only 15 minutes earlier than usual.

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But I don't know, man. Like baseball's hot. I'm excited. The season's kind of like,

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so I guess not in full swing yet. But I think there's enough to diagnose a few different teams. My twins are struggling offensively. So I'm going to get in there and maybe make a call and say, hey, guys, this is what you got to do. No, I'm never going to do that.

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Shout out Dick Bremmer PERSON, though.

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Shout out Dick Bremmer PERSON. My guy got the TV broadcasting booth at Target Field named after him, and he threw out the first pitch to Joe Mower PERSON.

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It really was a nice ceremony for him, so I do want to actually give him a shout-out. So there it is, Dick PERSON.

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Hey, and how about as we're giving shout-outs?

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The Central Division's currently pulling their weight. I'm happy for you. And, like, there's, I don't know, I'm hoping that becomes a conversation of this season, is that we went through this off-season and it was like, man, the NL Central ORG,anyone can win it. The AL Central, your Twinkies PRODUCT are the favorite, and then everyone else can get involved, basically. And I don't know. I'm hoping that we ignored the fact that I do think a lot of these teams got better than last year.So if the NL Centrals ORG can be balanced but a step up, I think the product of baseball, like, any given night, you can kind of look at 15, 20 ball clubs that got some, I don't know, maybe hope is just too much in the air for me right now. You need everybody, listen up,

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this is a little PSA announcement, okay?

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Everyone needs to stop talking crap about the central divisions.

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Okay, like yes, like any division, they might have a

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bad team or two at the bottom. But like, that is everywhere. Okay, there's some good teams there. And let me ask you something. How did Eno Seris pick the pirates to make the playoffs this year?

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What is going on with him? Why does he know things that nobody else knows?

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Eno PERSON always knows, bro. Yeah, they...

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Miss you, Eno PERSON.

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If they keep this hot month going,

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they'll just need a little more

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because they did do it last year.

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Begin of draft kings.

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I got a request out to CAA ORG.

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Okay.

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To use their Dodger Stadium FAC tickets.

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They're very nice.

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Okay.

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Yes or no, that's the bet that I get them.

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Oh, well, CAA ORG, uhAA depends who's coming to town. Well, I'm trying to go with the Padre ORG series. That's the, uh, uh, on a weekend.

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Hmm.

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Padre's weekday.

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What time is that game? Padre's weekday, I think I got you.

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I said Saturday or Sunday.

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You gave them options, so that's good.

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That was, uh, yeah.

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It gets Sunday.

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The ticket game's always so funny, man.

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I, I had a buddy.

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It's supplying demand.

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Okay, a little business early on.

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Someone was like, hey, Yankees game Saturday night.

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The weather's bad and it's the final four is on, especially like Yukon GPE, that my buddy basically was already in, like, so, hey, I got tickets to work.

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Anyone want to go?

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And everyone was like, kind of not, man.

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Like, let me know in the summer.

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Like, God, and I'll see you there.

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Let's talk some National League ORG baseball, please.

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Please. Treve, your CAA Los Angeles Dodgers ORG. They sweep the San Francisco treat, the Giants ORG. And I think we're going to hear this a lot this year, man. Because the first game, Mookie and Freddie combined for five hits. The second game, Mookie and Freddie combined for five hits.These guys are out of control. Otani PERSON homers in the last game. They even hit a, they beat Logan Webb PERSON, and they've kind of had Logan Webb's PERSON number a little bit, and they beat them, and this is kind of gross to me, a Ryan Brazier opener with our guy, Ryan Yarber PERSON as the bulk guy.My goodness. The Dodgers ORG did what Dodgers do. They sweep the Giants. We'll talk about that one a little bit. My Cincinnati Reds, they take two out of three from the Phillies, a tight one in the first game. We're going to Buenos Contos GPE. And there's Spencer Steer Grand Slam in the 10th inning. That'll about do it, huh?The first Reds ORG Grand Slam and extra since? The Todd Father, Todd Frazier PERSON. Bryce Harper followed that up with a three-home or day. Love that. Ricardo Pinto PERSON, drive to the game. You're pitching the final four innings, dude.That's some fun. And then the Reds ORG took it in the rubber match. Six hits, five of them, extra bases. And how about Frankie Montas PERSON? Twirling the damn pill in Cincinnati GPE. A little rain in that one. There was a lot of rain all around the league. The Cardinals and your Padres teed it up for three. And the Cardinals took the first two games. Gippy, seven innings to earn runs. Yep. The boy. The boys. Cadres teed up for three, and the Cardinals took the first two games. Gippie!Seven innings to earn runs. Yep. The boys were hitting off of knuckleballer Matt Waldron in that first game. The second game, the cards take. Wilson Contreras, his second day with a two-run homer. We like that from the catcher spot.The Padres ORG salvaged on the last one. Joe Musgrove PERSON pitching. Kyle Higishioca PERSON. My guy, he throws out two base runners. He hits a home run. How about that from your backup guy behind the dish?And congrats to Jackson Merrill, his first show, Homer PERSON. Cubs sweep the Rockies ORG. This might be another thing you hear a lot this year. We talked about Imanaga's debut a little bit in the midweek episode. They had a little opener follower with some alliteration on the final game. Luke Little opens Ben Brown PERSON with the bulk, babe. They get it donethere. Christopher Morel keeps hitting homers. I saw him on a list of, I think it was Bel PERSON, or who was it? Chris Bryant and someone else for most homers in 200 Cub ORG games or whatever. That's a bad stat. Here's a good stat. The Pittsburgh Pirates stay hot, hot, hot. They take two out of three from the Nats ORG. They take the bread games. Marco Gonzalez PERSON does enough while that lineup be hitting. The boys are getting on base, I think, at like a 381 clip early on this year. And then Martine Perez, 6.2 to earn runs.While Brian Reynolds and Connor Joe's been doing a lot of hitting this season, Pirates, they get their first loss, but they are six in one and feeling good about it. Eno Seris PERSON always knows. And that's what happened in the national. Why does Eno PERSON know things? Dude, I...Oh, stuff plus. You know, what?

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Maybe we'll save this for an August episode, but maybe we'll build out our front office. Oh.

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I just watched Moneyball with my kids last night.

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Yeah, how'd that go? They loved it. They loved it. Yeah? Really? My daughter's like, is he going to get fired, Daddy?I'm like, maybe they should fire that. The sequel's gonna suck

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do you think him and John Henry actually sat down at Fenway FAC and had like a coffee and talked about Bill James PERSON and dinosaurs

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like I don't know

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I think once you're that level

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and you're that kind of deep in it I don't know I don't know sound off below't know. Sound off below. Trev, I mean, the two, you know, we're trying to get a little more topical because we, again, peeling back the curtains. You guys know your team better than us.There's times when we're talking about game two between the Reds and the Pirates that we kind of felt dumb because we're just reading a box score. So we want to hit some big topics. Dodgers are a big topic and they're going to be all season. They give the Giants ORG the business early on.Two, five, four games to wind it down. And I know I think we might be hearing a little bit about Mook Man PERSON later. You know, I don't want to give anything away. But I don't know. Anything you want to hit with your Dodgers ORG? Or anything that's not obvious with these Dodgers ORG?Well, I'll say about the series.

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The Giants ORG are a dang good team. Like, they're going to be a good team. They just run into, they ran into a buzz stop. And the Dodgers ORG are kind of buzzing right now people are you know they're at home for the home opener and and they're going man i mean yes we know about the top three of the lineup uh but the complimentary pieces have been really good as well and you were on to oscar the signing early on he'sbeen doing his thing they've been getting good pitching performances i mean james pexton PERSON i saw him i didn't know who was pitching. I went to the game. I was, oh, James Paxon PERSON's pitching. And I was talking to my buddies. He's not going to, like, he'll throw a little bit.And, you know, we'll see how far he can go. He goes five innings.

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Yeah, five innings, fucking zero earnings.

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Five walks.

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Five walks, too.

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So he had the bullets. Yeah.

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Like, they just kind of have a little bit of everything

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going on right now for them it's it's really it's really incredible to watch because people say oh like i think the word that people use to describe their lineup is relentless and it kind of just feels that way like somebody is going to get you yeah and like if it's like a tight rope back man like you have to be on your game one through nine. Like you can't, you can't give in in any certain any because it'll snowball on you.That's really what it feels like watching this team. Yeah.

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And I, you gave me a little credit there for Tay Oscar PRODUCT. You know, Teosker PERSON did get, I think 24 and a half milly this year. So I,you know, probably not my deep. But it wasn't under the radar signing. It really was. Well, that's the thing. You know, I think, 24 and a half milly this year, so I, you know, probably not my...

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But he wasn't under the radar signing. It really was.

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Well, that's the thing. You know, I think him and, you know, were him in Soler PERSON in similar buckets? Like, I think Soler PERSON has a little more pop potential, but Teoster can kind of play the outfield every day. That Teosker took a one-year dealand is kind of betting on himself, and it currently looks great. You know who got the save in that last game for the Dodgers? Denilsson Lamett PERSON. That's a name, you know, not to go full OB-W-Wan. That's a name I haven't heard around these parts in a long time. But if I see a name like that in the Dodgers ORG bullpen getting some outs, that'll, that'll scare you a

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little bit. I think I saw someone tweet, he's got like two clean appearances, and everyone just tweeted like, all right, Dodgers ORG did it again. That's messed up.

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Yeah, right. The stats that we have on our page that just is exactly kind of encapsulating what teams that face the Dodgers ORG are going to have to deal with is they've scored five runs, at least five runs, in all nine games they played in this season. It's a problem.That's a problem.

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We're talking about the Blue Jays ORG going

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how long without a freaking hit.

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Yeah.

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And here are the Dodgers scoring five runs in every single game. They're going to be a problem. We know that. And I think I took the under on their win total, and that's freaking me out a little bit.

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But, you know, long season ahead. Yeah, I always go on my lineup depth ramps. And, you know, when I talk about my Cincinnati Reds ORG, I'm like, how about Jake Fraley in that six hole? And then I'm looking at Tay Oscar and Muncie PERSON, and it's like well the DodgersDodgers season rolls on and yeah if you're the Giants like Jungle Lee PERSON's been hitting a Solair hit a little bit Patrick Bailey PERSON so

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I don't know I think they have a squad there they're going to be okay

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anytime I think you come away from a Dodgers ORG series you kind of got to wipe that and be like all right let's let's hope we get something better next time. Trev, how about, I think I found my way to make this a little more topical with the other National League ORG games. Because all of them do have a central team. The Reds, the Cardinals, the Cubs, the Pirates.

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They all won.

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Wow, how about that? And, hey, we only have the data we have right now. We have seven or eight games from these teams. And I don't know. I guess I gushed a little bit at the start of the show, but I did tilt my head last night,and I was like, when I did the Pirates, TPP, I was hell-bent on taking the under because I need more unders. And then I looked at the lineup, and I was like, when I did the Pirates, TPP, I was hell-bent on taking the under because I need more unders. And then I looked at the lineup and I was like, okay, like I kind of believe, like the Pirates lineup felt like it got better. The Reds ORG had a sneaky, nice little offseason.I think they spent over 100 mil. And they got a year older. The Reds ORG got better. The Cubs ORG, you know, they've got a bunch of top prospects. They went out. They got better.The Cardinals ORG had to be better, right? So I'll pitch it to you wide and see where you want to zoom. I think the pirates have kind of taken a little bit of the headlines because they're off to another hot start. But I'm, Treve, you have me drinking a little Central Kool-Aid PRODUCT.

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The Kool-Aid's good in the Central FAC, man.

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You talk about, you know, the Reds go into Philadelphia GPE. They take two out of three, you know, Frankie Montas PERSON. What does he bring to the team? You know, he's healthy. You know, he's throwing the ball really well. The line there was five and two-thirds with one earned run.I mean, this is against a very good Phillies ORG lineup. If he is healthy, then you got, you know, you got yourself a rotation.

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Andrew Abbott PERSON went out and had a good start against them as well. Like, I think that's the thing that we always question. Like the offense, even with all the injuries that they've had, like, it's still there. And you asked that question last night. Like, what should we talk about? One of the replies was, let's talk about the twins trade for Tyler Malley PERSON and who they gave upowie not that the twins necessarily needed more position players I feel like they do have enough at the big league level and the AAA ORG level but you know their offensive start a little bitand here you know you got freaking Spencer Steer PERSON hitting a Grand Slam and Cardinstein Strand PERSON hitting a walk off home run it's like the Reds ORG are going to be fun to watch all year I think Montas PERSON is a huge hugeplus if he can you know just be healthy people forget how good this guy can be I believe

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2021 was in the big year 2022 he had a good year with the A's ORG before getting traded over to your Yanks

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and then you know he's following the sunny gray pattern. That's what people are saying.

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Yeah.

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So that's a big, that's a big plus for them.

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As far as the pirates go, like they're kind of like doing it in all facets, man.

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Like their lineup be hitting. We got a lot of guys contributing up and down, which is nice to see again. Like, you know, it's early in the season, but we're getting a lot of good performances offensively, defensively, like they've improved a ton. Just having O'Neill Cruz back at shortstopis used for them, a full season of Triolo at second base. Like, they got dudes that can go do it. So I think that coincides with, you know, the pitching's been good. The bullpen's been really good. And here we are. Like, again, atides with, you know, the pitching's been good. The bullpen's been really good.And here we are. Like, again, at the beginning of the season, talking about these pirates who I think, like, the way they've been winning has kind of, like, been the most sustainable way. Like, it's just kind of been coming from all sorts of different areas on their team. Like, we did look at the roster. We did say, okay, it looks a little bit better. It looks a little bit different. But you got to go out and play the games. And so far what we saw in the preseason we're seeing show up on the field early on. So it's really, it's nice to see, man. And right now, you couldn't guess who's going to win the NL Central ORG. And I love that for baseball.

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No, and I think it hit a sad, it hit a little bit of a sad note at times last year because you were looking at, well, outside of the Brewers ORG, like again, the Brewers deserve respect. They've been a well-run organization and they are four in one, so we'll get to them. But yeah, Pittsburgh ORG's getting on base, currently leading baseball and getting on. The Reds are first in Solminton GPE. I guess that's the other fun start.These teams kind of play different brands of ball. That if they can continue to stay elevated, I think that's really good for baseball and a fun watch. Like the Pirates have been on base and bullpen. The Reds ORG, you guys know I love their lineup depth. And I think, you know, we saw it with Texas last year that there's a point where Texashad nine MLB ORG starting pitchers on their roster that you knew. And that's where the Reds ORG are kind of a light version of that, where, you know, they got some guys healthy. They've got some guys in AAA ORG. I think Lodolo PERSON is rehabbing right now. Like, you know, Richardson pitched a little bit for them last year.That, hey, if Montas PERSON clicks, cool. And then if he gets banged up or has a rough week, then it's kind of onto the next guy that they have options to pitch, which I think that's part of my new regular season formula, have a lot of, have good offense and then have pitching options and something will figure itself out.Again, I don't think that's too analytical. Yeah, I think that's...

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Give a little love to the Cubs ORG.

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You know, I know it's the Rockies ORG, and we're always going to say, oh, it's the Rockies ORG, but you go and I believe it was the home opener, right? This, uh, this, uh, yeah, we got the, the electric pyrotechnic show, which, oh, yeah, yeah,

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that was, that was something to marvel at. You know what, though, like, if I'm a ball player,

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I don't want sparks just flying a little of place when I'm running out. Okay, put those,

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get it away from me. Nice. It's way from me. Baltimore does massive flames.

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I don't know why.

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I feel like I saw so many home openers in Baltimore during my times, and they put like flames out there. Like big dog.

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Here's the starting pitching the Cubs put out there against the Rockies ORG.

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Shoda, I mean, my guy, my pick to win, NL rookie of the year,

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went out and carved them up

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in some really tough weather. Nine Ks. The strikeout stuff from him has been nuts.Javier Assad PERSON, who's like such a fun watch, six innings pitch zero and runs. And then they usean opener and then had a bolt guy and between Luke Little and Ben Brown PERSON, five innings pitched one earned run.We're doing it, people.

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Yeah, I am going to put the slightest Rockies ORG asterisk right now, because my God, it's been a tough, tough go for my rocks there. But we got Rockies opening today. Kelsey Wingard on the sideline, yeah, there's the, for those on the YouTube ORG, there's the Cubs ORG Pyrotechnic show, which is, uh, yeah, it's almost, it's almost why bother a little bit, but hey, that's, uh, that's fun.Uh, Rocky's opening day. Everyone have a blast. Beautiful day in Colorado ORG. I saw Kelsey PERSON's, Kelsey's parents were out supporting their daughter, so.

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Like, I want that relationship with Iowa GPE when she goes up.

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They have such a great relationship.

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That's why Kelsey PERSON's the best.

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That's why Kelsey PERSON's the best.

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Cards ORG pods.

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Yeah, that series kind of happened.

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Cards ORG got a couple pitching outings.

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That's what they were looking for last year.

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They've got an interesting little stretch coming out,

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surrounded by a couple off days, Miami, Philly GPE. And, yeah, it looked like the Cubbies ORG, I think they're going on the road to the Dodgers and someone else.

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No, Dodgers are going to the Cubs ORG.

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Dodgers to the Cubs ORG, sorry, and then they hit the road for San Diego, Seattle GPE. So let's, again, we're going to be finding out more about all these teams in the coming days. Let's jump to the American League ORG.

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I got one more thing on the Cardinals Padres ORG.

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There are a couple fun things that happened. You talk about Higgie throwing out two runners.

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I believe the first one was, who were the two runners? Beech, can you look that up for me? The first one, whoever it was, went in sliding feet first. And I was like, oh, that guy's not a base dealer. Like, you just don't.I used to slide in feet first. And I wasn't a base dealer.

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So I think that can go two ways. I think you're right. I think for the non-base dealer, base dealer. I do think if you're a legit base dealer, if you can do kind of the trade turner, just stay on the bag.

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I think there's a cool way to do it too. I believe the two guys are Donovan and Nolan Aeronado PERSON.

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Aronado PERSON not a base dealer.

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I think it was Aeronado that went in feet first,

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and I was like, I know the the feeling bro. You're like if I

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slide head first am I going to get there?

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Do I have enough speed to get there?

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If you're saying Lewis PERSON I don't know if that's your speed combo you want.

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But then also at the end of the game

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Roberto Suarez PERSON comes in or Robert Swartz PERSON comes in excuse me and

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Five outs I think. Five outs save and after game, there was the Musgrove PERSON quote. Like, it's really nice to have a guy willing to go out there. It's more than one inning. Like, a little shots fired at Josh Hader PERSON. My first take on it was, I don't know if he really meant that, or if he was just pumping up his boy for doing it.It kind of like, when I'm really thinking about it, it is kind of like shots fired there.

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Yeah, we, you know, Ryan Cohen is, he's a part of our, we now have a resident Padres ORG fan in the office. He's helping out with our socials.

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Kind of a hot boy, Ryan PERSON is like a little, here in there. Like a weird way.

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He's in there.

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He's a type for sure.

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He's a type.

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He's a type.

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Him and Jack Doyle PERSON are cousins. Yeah.

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You know, he had some comments about Hater PERSON.

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And I think Padres Nation ORG felt a little bit

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that, dude, I got checked this offseason. You guys know if I get called out, I'd have that little defensive short guy mechanism for a second that, like, you want to do this?

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And then, dude, Hater didn't, did not do one plus outings. And, like, in my head, that was one of the biggest perks of Hader PERSON. Like, hey, if you need a grindy five out finish, who else would you want? And that kind of wasn't in his bag. So I don't, I don't know if that was free agency. I don't know if his, he felt his performance got hurt by it.But, yeah, I mean, that's a shot across the bow.

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I think I remember at one point at being a thing that he kind of asked not to do it because he felt like if he can just be a traditional clothes or rack up some saves, that's what's going to get him paid. It did. And there was like people thinking, but he never said anything that like when he gets his payday, maybe he'll go back to doing that since money's gotten.It's in the bank. One more Cardinals ORG thing on those steals. The Aeronado one with the bad slide. Ali Marmold PERSON might have done the rudest thing he's done as a manager. He challenged the play unsuccessfully, so they just had to sit there and watch him slide for a while.It's Aranado?

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Don't do that.

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No one. Just pick the ball third, baby, and hit some homers. It's Aranato. Nolan, just pick the ball at third, baby,

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and hit some homers.

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And here's the tag. Lexus Diaz with a five-out save during the Nats ORG. Let's jump over to some American League ORG baseball, huh? America GPE. Yep. Speaking of a couple teams with Trev PERSON's fingerprints all over them,his Texas Rangers versus his Tampa Bay Rays ORG. Yeah, Trev PERSON, yeah. Rangers ORG, they take the bread games. How about it? Dane Dunning, a couple innings left, couple innings right, 6.1, 3 earned runs. Josh Young PERSON with a big game, but also an injury.I think he's going to miss a chunk of time. We don't love that. Adolus PERSON with a homer in that game. Led Zefflin and Esauk Paredes the next day put in some big boy efforts. And then Nate Doggivaldi makes it regulate seven innings. Shutout.Corey Seeger Homer PERSON. Yeah, that checks out. Rangers ORG get their business done in the trough, by the way. Not always an easy place to get it done over there. The Blue Jays and the Astros ORG, man. The Astros dominated 2.8 games, but they got two wins.The Blue Jays, they steal the middle game. Davis Schneider, Babe Ruth Schneider, takes one. Was that off a hater?

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Oh, boy, tough hater at Punt. Oh, yeah, and that first episode, first game,

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Ronel Blanco PERSON with the no-hitter. Welcome to the season, dude. Fun story there. We're going to talk about that. They won that game 10-0, and they took the final game 8. Oh, man, my guy the Basset Hound PERSON has been getting banged up a little bit early on.Yorda on Alvarez PERSON.

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Is our whole building shaking BBB? Is that an earthquake?

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We'll circle back on that. You feel that, right?

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Maybe building might be coming down. We'll check on that that. You feel that, right? Maybe building might be coming down. We'll check on that later. Chris Roses, Cleveland Guard Dogs ORG. They take two out of three from Seattle GPE. How do you like that? The Guard Dogs have been swinging the stick this season.Bone Naylor, two for four. Brian Rokio PERSON, sure, the bottom of the lineup, bringing the noise, and then J-Ram-Quon in that final game with some special pitching from Logan Allen and Shane Bieber PERSON. Mariners drop another series. Canzone homered in that first game, Julio Rodriguez PERSON made a couple catches, but guard dogs, that central hype train is rolling, but it stops rolling here for a little bit. The Baltimore Orioles, they go bread game.It's been a bread life. A couple walk-offs from the birds, that top prospect middle infielder for the Orioles ORG, Jordan Westberg PERSON walk off to run home run. He's like your fourth Orioles ORG top prospect. And then your Orioles ORG stud catcher with the walk off in the final game, James McCann PERSON. So the birds come at you in differentways. Royals fans, some good news. Alec Marsh shoved in the middle game and Michael Garcia, along with obviously Bobby Whip, but Michael Garcia has been going off early on for them. Trev PERSON thinks this is a budding rivalry. Maybe we'll talk about that. Probably not a budding rivalry, but how about the Sox ORG kid? They round off their West Coast road trip by sweeping the Oakland Athletics ORG.They handled their bidsness. That's all you ask. They blow them out in the first game. The second to 11 innings in that middle game and then a 1-0 full pension Piv and the Sox ORG bullpen. Hold on. It got a little scary late.Chicken Strips was pitching well for Oakland ORG. J.J. Bladay and Landjolier PERSON with some homers. But the Sox, how about it? An early West Coast trip to start the year? We saw some Trevor PERSON story signs. Rafael PERSON, the kid, is making some highlight real plays for them. Jaron, my goodness.He's all over the box score. Sox ORG, they get the sweep and they're winning early on, and that's what happened in the American League ORG. Yeah, we had an earthquake. Was that an earthquake? That's what happened in the American League ORG. Yeah, we had an earthquake.

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Was that an earthquake?

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That's what everyone on Twitter ORG's saying.

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That's nuts. I saw the camera shaking.

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Dude, the building was shaking.

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New York GPE has earthquakes.

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And I went to Twitter ORG and everyone said,

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whoa, New York City GPE earthquake.

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Does New York GPE have earthquakes?

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Maybe you got a pulse check from the office.

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See the level of panic out there?

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Like, what?

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I want you to be safe, but like if you like fell over or something and like something toppled behind you, that's kind of cool for our show.

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Dude, we were.

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I saw it.

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That's a little nutty, man.

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I don't know if I felt that before.

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Maddie Mass PERSON is in the room now are we fracking

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an upstate new york or something are you okay mattie how's the office dude it was like

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you can like when when this app comes out you'll i think you'll see it shaking whoa um

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i kind of like that also what hurt me just Justin Pennick PERSON was in our live stream lounge,

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which I can see out of the corner of my eye,

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and he did like a big guy bolt. Like, big guy doesn't like this.

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Imagine you dying in that outfit.

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If I die in this fit,

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I am Aaron Boone's PERSON favorite person. That's good news. Dude, earthquake eclipse? They would know who you are because you have your monogram on your... I would be easy to identify.So let's get away from that. Trev in the AL ORG, man, we gave this a little love in the midweek. We need to give it actually proper love now because we kind of didn't. Rono Blanco PERSON, no hitter.I know we, no hitters have been, they've been a little more prevalent that has taken a little bit of the punch out of them. But I'm not going to knock this dude, and he's got a cool story. And the Astros ORG in general, they kind of gave the Js the business in this series.So I'll let you go on that.

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Yeah, first I love that this was Joe Espada's first manager win was a no hitter. They had to really get it done for this guy. I'm happy for him there. But Ronel Blanco PERSON is, yeah, it's just a great story. I think people probably have heard most of it by now because this did happen, you know, a little bit ago. But this guybackstory with him wasn't really going to make the team or even the roster get a couple of injuries you know Verland PERSON or Akiti so he ends up in the startingrotation I think he just had a baby a couple days before the season so he's kind of like riding that high

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making the roster having a baby and then all of a sudden that high, making the roster, having a baby. And then all of a sudden you get here and the guy throws a no hitter on 105 pitches, almost has the Maddox, only walks George Springer PERSON twice. That was the only base runners he allowed. And just a masterful game. They were calling him Ronel Cambio Blanco because you start throwing that change up a lot more this year.

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But this dude was an afterthought down there in the DR GPE.

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He signed at 22 years old for $5,000 because a scout saw him when he was scouting

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Julio Rodriguez PERSON.

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I love those stories, right?

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One, he was practicing baseball during that time. He was also working at a car wash, like to make ends meet. I just, I love stories like this. And Chris Rose PERSON asked me, like, what does this mean for him going forward?

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Like, what does a note hitter do for you?

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Chris Rose PERSON asked you that?

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Of course.

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Of course.

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The worst best questions ever.

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I'll tell you what it does.

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It gives you opportunities, man.

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Yeah. Like he's going to get an opportunity either to stay in the starting rotation for the Astros ORG, you know, he's going to have a few more starts here, obviously. And then, you know, when the injuries or the people come back from the injured list, like he'll have a spot because he's shown that he's been able to do it while making adjustments.

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Like he's, I like that he's made meaningful adjustments and like reaping the rewards of that. So, I mean, the guy was, it was awesome to see and I'm happy for him. And 22 years old signing,that's like unheard of in the DR GPE. You're talking about guys that are typically signing much younger, 16 to 18 years old. This guy has just kind of like paid his dues and all of a sudden now we're getting the no hitter and man, like, look, he's in the record booksforever now and I love that for him.

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He, uh, yeah, I mean, I was just, I was on a little bit of a, you know, Houston ORG's rotations, not what it looks like. We're always wondering, teams can't last forever.It's never happened. And here's, here's Ron El Blanco PERSON.

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How many times have we said that about them? Like,

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all of a sudden, Framber Valdez PERSON just showed up and was like, oh, here's their ace for the foreseeable future. Like, it's crazy, dude.Yeah. Yordon PERSON goes off in the final game.

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Kyle Tucker's been going. These are your Houston Astros ORG.

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I guess is there any Blue Jays ORG commentary that you want to add? They're currently three and four. I mean, they just, you know, they just played Houston ORG. The offense has been struggling a little bit. I don't know. I guess is, again, still very early in the season. Is there anything you're seeing or concerning?

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I mean, yeah, the offense struggled this series for sure. And I mean, I don't think that's going to be the case over 162. A lot of people can bat me on that. I'm like, I think the Blue Jays ORG offense has a potential to be pretty damn good. And some people say, well, have you been watching the games? And I'll say to them, it's still very early on in the season.I do love that they snuck out one win. That means something.

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Schneider with the two-run jack off a hater. And before that at bat, it was Justin Turner PERSON. I was watching this live. And Justin Turner was 0 for 10 with 5Ks against Hater PERSON. And he worked to walk.

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I don't even think he swung the bat in that at bat. I think it was like a five-pitch walk. And he gets on and Hater hangs a slider to Schneider PERSON. And he hit the shit out of it, man. Babe Schneider PERSON.

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So look, I mean, look, it's a bad series for them.

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Is there a baseball term? You shut out twice, you get no hit, but you salvage one game, and I think you just keep it rolling.

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Is there a baseball term for if you get a walk without swinging the bat?

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Because I feel like we need that.

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Just don't take.

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The pedestrian walk? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I like it. Yeah, I don't know.

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Blue Jays ORG, I guess here's what I'll say. The formula, one of the things I loved about the Blue Jays was their bullpen and two of the guys on the back end are Romano and Swanson, and they're both currently on the IL ORG. So that has changed their bullpen depth chart a lot. They got a hit. And, you know, after seven games, I'm not saying the Blue Jays ORG are going to hit this this year because I think they're going to.Uh, but that lineup does get a little thin on the back end. So, uh, I don't know. Let's see, Blue Jays at the Yankees ORG. I'll get a look at them in person today, Seattle GPE. And then, uh, let's check in. They get a little Colorado at home, uh, in about a week and a half.So that can, uh, that can help the stats a little bit.

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How about Justin Turner casually hitting 318, 423, 636 for a one daughter? Who would have thought? Everybody.

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Stay's hitting. Stays hitting. Travis PERSON, the other, well, we got a couple topics in the AL ORG. I guess, socks pitching. I think we might be talking about that a little later on.And there is the slightest Oakland A's ORG caveat here, but Boston ORG, that's the question.

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Are we talking about the pitching later or now?

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Let's talk about it later then. Okay. Do you want any A's ORG, well. Do you want any A's... Well, do you want any A's Sacramento talk?

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I'm so confused on when we're talking about the Boston Red Sox ORG pitching.

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Are you talking about it? Not later.

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Okay, then let's talk about it now.

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Okay. I was like, what are you talking?

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I didn't think you were. I don't know. No, no, no. Oh, no. Well, dude, we both need to just... I think at least I do, need to say, I'm sorry. Okay.To the Boston Red Sox ORG pitching staff? Or like, I don't know what they say.

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You're an Andrew Bailey PERSON guy now, right?

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Well, I didn't, look, I think going into the season, you kind of looked at the rotation,

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you got guys that definitely have stuff and could get the job done. But I think there was a lot of question marks in it. You know, like, yeah, Bayo PERSON's been a hell of a starter in his young career. But like, you know, we haven't seen him do it too often. And we've seen ups and downs from him. Same with Pavetta PERSON.We've seen this guy dominate. We've seen him get blown up. Like there's a lot of, there was a lot of variation, I believe, and how, you know, this season can gowith their starting rotation. You got, you know, a guy like Whitlock who's just been, you know,back and forth between the pen and starting. You know, I actually like Carter Crawford PERSON, watching a pitch.It's like kind of my nightmare. The way he throws the balls, like all turkey jerky.

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Yeah.

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But they've dominated this season. I mean, they've been incredible. I believe this is starting pitchers and relievers combined. They have a 154 ERA.

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I mean, their third in starting pitcher ERA and their first in bullpenny R.A. right now. You're Boston Red Sox ORG, man.

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They have a, I mean, they are crushing it.'re crushing it so so you know how is this getting done? Is this just a byproduct of who they're playing? Is it just an early season thing? Well I think you can maybe point to some of that but they do have a new pitching coach a guy coming over from the Giants ORG who really revamped the Giants pitching staff Andrew Bailey

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kind of like widely renowned is one of the new kind of stars in that department.

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And he's got some interesting kind of quotes and ideas about how to approach the game of pitching. He's, he had an interview, and he was talking about, like, relating pitching to boxing. He said, a lot of people will say, you're pitcher's best pitch is they're like a well-located fastball. He goes, I of people will say your pitcher's best pitch is they're like a well-located fastball. He goes, I don't necessarily know if that's true.He's equating a fastball to a jab.

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And jabs have to be well-located, well-placed to do

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damage. He goes to win a fight. You need haymakers. You need to throw your best pitch. And he's saying the haymakers are more like off-speed pitches. Okay.

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Like your best off-speed pitch.

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So it's using your fastball tactically to set up your haymakers essentially.

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Now, I guess that's all kind of just like fun quote stuff to say, hey, let's throw off-speed a little bit more often because hitters have a problem with off-speed. But like it's really made a difference in the pitching staff. Like for instance, um, with Nick Povetta PERSON.Last year he threw his four seamer 50.6% of the time. This year he's throwing it 32.8% of the time. Because he's brought his sweeper up from 5.4% to 26.4% and his cutter from 17, or from 7.8% to 20.7%. So like we're using the pitches more tactically. So yeah, you can say he's just throwing more auspy pitches,but they have a plan behind it. It's not just like when Sunny Gray came over to the Yankees

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and they said throw your slider more or your curb bowl more. No, this is like, hey, let's use it. Let's sequence it into it. It's not just throw it all the time. Let's like figure out ways to do it. So you have that example.

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Cutter Crawford, I talked about before. Four Seamer last year, 39.1 percent. Four Seamer this year, 23.8 percent. He barely threw a sweeper at all last year, 6.8 percent. He's done that the most of any pitch, 36.9 percent. So the sweeper's been introduced and like this whole jab haymaker thing. I kind of like the analogy, to be honest with you. And it's really proven to be fruitful for the Red Sox early on the season. And I always say this.Like you can have improvements come and sometimes that's just baseball and you're just in a good spot and things are lining up for you but when you're making meaningful adjustments and those improvements and come those improvements come i think there's more staying power in that so andrew bailey's maybe going to have all of us eating crow this season maybe this maybe full pension piv ORG is finally going to win that sye young uh you know like they they the armed talent there. Now if they're like using their pitches differently and correctly, like this, this could be something to monitor.

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Best K to walk ratio in the Biggs LOC right now. Hey, if the socks can pitch. Holy cow, the ALE East. Holy cow.

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They got some, you know, like, stories healthy, so he's playing a better shortstop. Ceyton in Centerfield GPE has made some really good catches.

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That helps your pitching staff, too. They got a guy that can go out there and get it.

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Outfield defense.

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I was calling for a gold glove for this guy. We're talking it up here, people. people the red socks are hot in the streets raphaela duran and uh o'neal in the outfield i talked about that a little bit and their offense hasn't gone yet like their their offense has been duran um and uh o'neal basically so

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socks chrishton cossis PERSON is still out there just sunbathing. And I just, I, like, part of me wants to hate on it, but I just can't. This guy's just like, I'll do whatever I want to do. I'm going to go out and lay and soak in the sun and ground my feet on your grass.

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Play good. Things take care of themselves. Orioles ORG have a new home run handlebar from your guy, Colervin PERSON? Do you need to look into that? Is that,is that you? That's what do you mean? Is that me? I mean, he's your guy. He's your fishing buddy.

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I mean, I didn't tell Cole Irvin PERSON to get handlebars and to do the celebration. They always got something nutty up there. They're having fun in Baltimore. There's a bunch of freaking kids bawling out, dude. They're all like, we're all going to get paid very soon. do the celebration. They always got something nutty up there. They're having fun in Baltimore. There's a freaking kids bawling out, dude. They're all like, we're all going to get paid very soon.New ownership, let's go. Let's just have some fun. Their minor leagues are balling out.

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They're hitting Big Boy runs.

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Don't talk about minor leagues.

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Couple walkoffs and, hey, Royal ORG fans.

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Jackson Holiday and Paul Skeens PERSON are not ready for the big leagues people.

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Royals ORG fans.

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You got another Cole Reagan's PERSON nasty start, and I don't know.

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Will Smith PERSON kind of blew.

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Hey, you were in all these games, Royals ORG.

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You were in all these games. Treve PERSON, we kind of got a juicy aisle, so let's get through that as well.

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Shout out Guardians ORG for banging the ball around the park, though.

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There'll be some guard dog love coming.

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Okay.

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They are banging the ball. Speaking of banging the ball, how about your New York Yankees ORG? They take two out of three from the snakes. Red games. Luis Hill PERSON, the young pitcher, got a fun little fastball. He has a nice first start.Anthony Volpey 4 for 4. Are you kidding me? Kid looks like jeats. Judge PERSON breaks out of his slump with a homer in the last game. Zach Gallen PERSON was nasty in that middle game. And they got some nice offensive performances.Christian Walker, Blaze Alexander PERSON. Extra innings in the last one, 11. Couple runs scored in each inning got kind of ugly. Game ended with Scott McGuff PERSON hitting. That's right. Reliever Scott McGuff PERSON had the last that bad in that final game. The Los Angeles Angels, they sweep the Marlins ORG.Okay, Halos PERSON, stay involved. Why not? Tyler Anderson PERSON with a big start. Mike Trout, two homer game, and the longest homer of the season. Holy cow. He pissed on one. And so did Taylor Ward in that last game. How about your guy Miguel Seno PERSON? With a couple hits, a couple runs scored in the office. Marlins ORG, uh-oh. And even worse news offthe field, Yuri Perez PERSON, T.J. See ya. How's my Side Young Draft? They don't care about that. They care about getting a win. Detroit Tigers and the New York Mets ORG. A lot of rain. They end up getting a doubleheader in Thursday and a couple extra inning games. Tigers ORG blow them out in extras the first game. Things are getting Metsie PERSON, but they get a win in that last game. Jose Butto PERSON? Budo PERSON?I think Budo PERSON.

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Yeah, I bet.

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Pete Alonzo PERSON homers to get it done. Tigers, they take two out of three out. Gio Orchella, the most happy fellow, Reese Olson PERSON, twirling the pill in that first game. Chicago White Sox and Braves, they played two. Again, Rain. Braves blew them out in the first one. Chicago White Sox and Braves, they played two. Again, rain.Braves blew him out in the first one. White Sox ORG, behind some nice pitching, you might hear about. They get the win in the second one. And then Brewers and Twins, they also split two. Twins and the Brewers ORG' perfect season. Louis Varland, your guy guy, Treb PERSON.Bryce Terang PERSON has been going nuts. We talked about him in the midweek. Alex Kirillow four-hit day. Ryan Jeffers, a four-R-B-I day in that last one. Tereo PERSON, my God, the young man, he gets his homer on the board. Two game splits, you know we hate that.So that's what happened in the aisle. Nice, puppy.

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What are you drinking there? What kind of latte you got?

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I've been on a... I've been mixing in Dunkin ORG a little more recently. I didn't really... I had some old Dunkin ORG points racked up, so I've been drinking Duncan PRODUCT for free, which is a nice way to drink any coffee.And I, uh, I had it an espresso shot, and I normally been going medium, but I got the large today because I'm going to the big house, going to the stadium. I got to be shot, and I normally have been going medium, but I got the large today, because I'm going to the big house, going to the stadium. I got to be on, you know? I'm a man of the people.I heard Paul O'Neill's got the first pitch, but he gets caught up in traffic.

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Earthquake. Earthquake? Well, you know, I have media credentials, Trev PERSON, so. You're sitting in the press box?

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I'm just going to cover the game.

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Get my tweets out. Trev, I don't think Yank Snakes PERSON has a big topic. Yanks have just been hot. We kind of covered that early on.

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Let me ask you a question on that, though, because we did get a Scott McGuff PERSON. The Storelli Bowl EVENT.

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People are calling that. Okay. You got him batten there. It's because all these things happened. The Storelli Bowl EVENT. People are calling that. Okay.

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You got him batten there. It's because all these things happened, Catelle-Marte shifts from D.H to second base. So they lose their D.H. Let me ask you this. Why not just put a pitcher in the outfield?And not lose your D.H. I guess does that mean anything? I wasn't watching this game. I don't know where they were at in the lineup, but to me that makes more sense than giving up your G8 PRODUCT.

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It's an interesting question. If you have a pitcher that you think can, you more likely have a pitcher that can track fly balls than can get a hit.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I guess that guy will have to hit eventually too.

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I don't know where in the lineup they are.

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It was sixth in the lineup and it got to that spot, which is kind of tough.

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But also, I don't know if you got a fly ball to the outfield and your pitcher looks bad or they get hurt.

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You're getting questioned either way.

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And I don't know.

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Here's one thing I know about pitchers.

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They can catch fly balls.

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That's what they've done for a long time.

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It's ShagbP.

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I mean, they used to ShagbP. A lot of teams don't even... Whoever's most flexible.

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No, it is, though, dude.

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And I know you're not going to like this,

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but taking a pitcher from off the bench, like, on an off day,

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to you're going to be playing the outfields. Like, have they stretched? Like, what... I don't know. You're just, you're playing a little bit of a dangerous

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game there either way and and it's soft it's soft it's soft i know it's soft for also my question is

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scott mcuffa PERSON hitter like in college or something so why is it him we were researching live

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so he was in the game pitching and then we were doing like oh who are they going to make hit um

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and then i think someone found out he was like five for 13 in the minor, so it's kind of a

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perfect storm. Trev PERSON, the hitter in you, if you saw the last pitch he was rung up on, I felt bad for Scott McGuff in the Story Ellie Bowl EVENT. It wasn't necessarily given a shot.

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No.

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He followed one off.

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That's tough. Another thing, just part of that decision, like Marte PERSON goes to short. I think they didn't have like short stops and maybe they're prioritizing that. Having a real guy short.

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There was an injury.

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So it, you know, hands got forced a little bit. And Tori was out of the game already. Also after the game, we missed this a Yankee ORG fans, but there is a base open for judges double. And they were like, hey, Tori, should you have walked judge? He's like, yeah, probably. I've been thinking about that one.

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Marlins ORG done or finished, you were saying?

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Dude, it's actually depressed.

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Go look at their baseball reference page. It's actually very depressing to look at, which I'm going to pull it up and out because I want to depress myself one sec. Oh. I think you need to give credit to the Angels ORG a little bit here for what they were able to do. Like they've had some really good starting pitching, um, come out. And I talked to Chris Rose about this a little bit. You know, after the second game of the season, they were 0 and 2. And Ron Washington PERSON, you know what he did? He called a little team meeting.Instead, we're putting a squash this right now, guys. Get over the two games. Let's go on. They've won four games since. They beat the birds, re-Detmers. I had a great start against the Orioles ORG,and then they went into Miami GPE and swept them. But if you're looking at Miami GPE, they have... Oh, my God. One person with an OPS plus over 85. they have oh my god one person with an OPS plus over85 offense ain't been going is Jake Berger PERSON who's decimated yes Jake Berger PERSON they've been decimated by starting pitching injuries the Yuri Perez PERSON news absolutelysucks dude because they've been very careful with him and they've tried innings limit starting pitching injuries. The Yuri Perez PERSON news absolutely sucks, dude, because they've been very careful with him and they've tried ending's limits and all these different things and it's still happening. I don't know what the solution is there for the TJ stuff,but, I mean, they're just like in a bad spot right now. You can't lose four starters out of your rotation and have your offense go cold and think you're going to win games. I mean, that's the recipe for 0 and 8. Plus you got too much talk in the media, man. Let's just stop talking to the media or like just go back to cliche stuff and findyour business, get it right, okay? Like things are just not good down there in South Florida LOC.

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Yeah, like, I don't know. We do this a lot if if the Marlins ORG we're winning and they were talking to the media we wouldn't care it just does

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feel weird when I would care this is nothing they're talking about it's stupid it's hey they

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figure it out quick because two gamer at St. Louis FAC I don't know that is what it is

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at the stadium for three and then they host the St. Louis, I don't know, that is what it is, at the stadium for

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three, and then they host the Braves ORG. So like, I don't know. If you don't start figuring something out quick, we talk about having the good month and how that can anchor your season. The bad month can, I don't know. I don't know. This was a playoff team last year.

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They've lost a lot since that.

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Shout out the Angels ORG, though.

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Your guy Taylor Ward PERSON, who you pointed out,

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that's kind of like your guy

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that could change things in that Angels ORG lineup.

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He's been going off.

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Obviously, Mike Trout PERSON's been going off.

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Logan O'Hoppy PERSON's doing his thing. But, yeah, they begin some good pitching performances, man. Kind of excited about these halos. Man, that... I said they could be in contention. I said they can be in contention this year, and I actually meant it.

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There's some stats out there that aren't pretty, but here they are. I think they're in first place. Your first place, Los Angeles GPE, Angeles. And they're teeing it up against the Boston Red Sox ORG, baby.

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So let's, one of those teams is going to be feeling pretty damn good in a couple days, which both, I think, fan bases were skeptical. We've done a lot of central tigers and brewers are hot. I don't know if any of those are really topical, and I think we're highlighting some guys coming out.

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I'm sick of the tigers already. They're too good. You're over it. Nice. Yeah, they're too good. I don't want

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them challenging my twins for the sensual. You see, I know we can do this almost every year and every day, but did you see the Torkelson checks swing that they got called? Angel PERSON, my guy? Your guy,

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Angel. That's tough. That's infuriating, man. It It's tough But the Tigers ORG have been a really fun watch

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Um

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And bullpen's absolutely nasty

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Um Scoobl's been nasty

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Like everything we kind of Here it is I was shocked Like I knew it was going to be bad Because it's Angel Hernandez ButOh Trev PERSON that's not even...

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Did he say it was a foul ball or a swing?

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They said it was a swing. Sheesh, bro. I mean, the bat... Pointed at you, dude. The bat doesn't come over the plate. That's insane.

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That's insane. Oh, yeah, I mean, Tigers ORG had the sweep, and I don't know how Pete Alonzo hit that ball ball did you see the pitch new york metz baby we're back it's insane what he was able to do um yeah tigers are scaring me a little bit i gotta be honest with you okay

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or no bullpen era is 059 or something at one point um i'm glad the Mets ORG got their dub. I know people, it's obviously an easy joke. I pull the joke sometimes. That's when 13 innings without a hit. It was awful weather.The double header, so the stands were empty. And then Jolly with a little optimism on Twitter, and then I think you kind of came back at them.

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I said, get back in the box. Yeah, I was texting Jolly. I said, are you still in that box? Because you should be after they lost the first game. How about, like, they had a combined no hitter through what in that last game, like almost eight innings, seven innings?I met's went 13 without a hit.

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Yeah, across a couple games. And then the no hitter in the second game was broken up in the eighth.

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In the eighth, right? Okay. Did you see the hit? It was the second game was broken up in the eighth in the eighth right okay did you see the hit it was Bader PERSON like blooped one in to left field Mark Kana

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Mark Kana PERSON's getting some

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still a Met

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getting some still a Met ORG allegations

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no stop

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absolutely not Mark Kana feels no affiliation to any team because he was a beloved Met

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affiliated to himself, but I think you've got to die for that ball. Just, even if it's just a show dive. Maybe he was just trying to keep it in front of him because of the score.I don't know. Mark Cannon PERSON. We'll reach out.

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One of, if there's like a cop between weird bad first step. I don't know. Okay. And the twins.

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Got to start hitting the ball.

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Brewers. Central. Trev PERSON, no, it's essential.

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Traveling.

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You go first.

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Okay.

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I like that.

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I went first last time. That's better. I am giving some love to Sayah Suzuki PERSON. Sayah had a couple big days at the office. Wednesday he was three for five, a homer, four RBI. Six for 12, two homer, six RBI in the series versus Colorado ORG.And I know I've been throwing up Colorado ORG asteris myself. But I'm more so I just wanted to highlight SEA because Trev PERSON, we've done a lot on international players. We talked about them in the midweek. And then Sayah Suzuki, you know, when the baseball season's going on, you get these tidbits that kind of get stuck in your head.Remember Seah got like half benched for a week last year? Like just the Cubs ORG lineup was deep. They had a bunch of outfielders and they couldn't find a spot for SEA ORG. I think there was an injury or something happened a week later. Sayah PERSON ended up back in the lineup and he went nuts. That Sayah Suzuki last year, 138 games had a 285 batting average, a 357 on base,and an 842 OPS. Last season, that's a full sample size. He took a step up from his rookie year to that, and he's been balling this year that I saw a couple Cubs ORG people putting out, and it's one of my favorite phrase, because it's a phrase that gets ruined if you use it too much. it now, and it's one of my favorite phrase, because it's a phrase that gets ruined if you use it too much.But is Sayas Suzuki PERSON, one of the most underrated players in the game, and he's off to a hot start, 972 OPS on the season, obviously early. But like we talked about with these international guys, maybe they need a little more credit. Maybe it's not, are they clicking, are they not clicking? Sayah, you know, career 121 OPS plus since he's been in the show. So Sayah Suzuki PERSON, and part of these NL CentralCentral have more talent than maybe we're thinking. He's been bawling to start this young season, and I want to highlight that for the Cubbies while I'm wearing a Reds ORG jersey and a Yankees ORG hat.

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I love that. Yeah. Good for you. Thank you.

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You're just a man wears many hats? Yeah. Does that make any sense? Yeah. You know, I like watching say a play.

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I like watching him hit. And I do believe, I don't know about the most underrated player. I don't know about that. I feel like he gets plenty of love. You know, sometimes you get overshadowed with the, you know, a couple international, you know, especially the guys coming over from Japan GPE,you know, this year, Yamamoto PERSON, a lot of talk about him, but say it's a huge part of what the Cubs ORG are trying to do. Yeah.

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Like right in the middle of lineup, doing his thing.

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And you're right, man. Like 121 OPS Plus is nothing to sneeze at in the major leagues.

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No, and if he's, you know, we talk about players getting exposed or seen, and other times players get better, and if he's getting better.

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He's getting better, yeah.

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Where are you going?

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The on-base percentage is something that I like to look at, you know,

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with a guy who, you know, first couple years in the big leagues, you know,

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what are you going to do there?

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336, 357 last year, 379 right now. I think that's the best indicator of are you actually getting better? Your plate discipline is getting better. You're getting the pitches in the zone. You're getting your pitches that hit more often. And the slugging has gone up too.I mean, he is like literally getting better in all of the categories that's a good thing that's nice to see if you're a co ORG's

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fan because he's locked up until when to 2028 yeah they gave him a contract listed at 511 no chance

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right you're listed at 511 i want to know because i mean say is pretty like yeah but if you're

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actually 511 you put six foot.

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I'll send half the text.

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Yeah.

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How tall is Seya PERSON?

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Hey, Happer PERSON.

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Sayah listed...

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511.

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True?

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Thoughts?

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Thoughts.

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Okay.

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What do you got, Treb PERSON?

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My standout performer is a guy who got drafted in 2020 and made his Major League debut in 2020, which is always fucking crazy to me because I spent a lot of time in the minor leagues.

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Garrett Crochet against the Bravo. Sevenings pitch, three hits, one earned run, eight K's one walk. Now he's had two starts this year.

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The first one against the Detroit Tigers ORG, he went six and he's pitched with one and run, eight strikeouts. So he's got back-to-back starts. He's got 13 innings pitched on the year, 16Ks, one walk, and he's only given up two earned runs.And against, like, you know, the Tiger's offense hasn't been great to start the year, but they're not like a, they're not the Rockies ORG. Yeah.

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But then to do it against the Braves ORG is a whole different thing.

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So I think it's cool, like, he wanted to be a starter. Chris Gatz PERSON, you know, was like, all right, open-minded enough to say, let's do it, let's approach this off-season, like, what's build you up?Let's see if you can be a starter. And now here he is looking like an ace. Like that's just, that's nice to find. And are we going to be seeing this more often with guys with high end arms? We're seeing Jordan Hicks do it and having success with the Giants ORG. Usually it's kind of like the other way. Like, hey man, like you didn't really work out as a reliever or a starter go to the bullpen it's really not often we see guysespecially with established bullpen arms he's been in the bullpen for a couple years Hicks PERSON has been in the bullpen for a couple years go back to being a starter I think that's very uniqueand he's been able to do it he hasn't necessarily changed much of the pitch usage. I think he did add a cutter in. But he's just kind of that guy. I mean, he's had all the armed talent in the world.Now he's just stretched out. And now it has me thinking, like, who else is going to do this? There are a lot of guys that throw cheese in these pens and they're nasty. Like, you know, I talked to Chriser before uh one of the dodger games i saw him down the field he's he's kind of like a roving instructor with the with the dodgers right now and we're talking about jordan hicks and he's like man what a genius contract for the giantsto do this with hicks so i believe he's making like something like 11 million dollars a year average and he goes think about it upside here he's a he's a he's a he's a he's making something like $11 million a year average. And he goes, think about it. Upside here, he's a two starter, you know, like a top end rotation starter.

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You kind of said that. Not to flex, slight flex. You kind of said that like Archer PERSON. That's how Archer PERSON talks. He goes, you know, think about this. Upside?Yeah, you're right.

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Two-star. I think I might have just, like, quoted him verbatim. I don't know. Love me some arch. So, upside is he's a two-starter, and you have him at $11 million a year.But worst case, you send him back to the bullpen. He's a high-leverger leverger lever, making $11 million a year. Yeah. Like, kind of like, are teams going to be following this model a little bit more?Like, why not?

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Earthquake. What happened?

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They just did one of those like emergency alert phone things about the earthquake from 30 minutes ago, which I don't, who's that helping?

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I don't know they do that for earthquakes.

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Yeah, I don't know if we want to mark it down for a midweek episode or something,

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but I've been changing my thoughts just on the whole starting pitching world.

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And I know that was a big topic, and it's how do we get back to that?

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And it's not fully flushed out, but I don't know, man.

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Like you mentioned Jordan Hicks PERSON.

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When you see Garrett Crochet PERSON doing this, it's like it kind of feels like we've been giving up on guys too early to be starters because going to the bullpen is also a win just like you laid out with jordan hicks like hey if you go out and you get out there you can make a fine career of that but um i don't know starting pitchers are still that's the ticket that's what that's what gets people in the ballpark, so I don't know.

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We are going to be,

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this is my, my, my, uh,

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my look into my crystal ball into the future, okay?

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Everyone's going to be the same.

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It is not going to be starters. It's not going to be the years. You're just a pitcher. You're a multi-inning pitcher. Maybe we have the rare occasion. I'm talking maybe like, you know,five, six years in the future. I think teams are going to start thinking like this is what I'm saying. Everyone's just a multi-inning pitcher. Some guys may prove to be, you know, a little bit longer than that. You know, but I think those guys are kind of a dying breed. So maybe we'll have some guys still trying to go six, seven.But I think we're going to have a whole team full of guys that can go three or four innings pitched. And then maybe we have a couple high end relievers still to come shut the game down at the end because I do believe that still is a different animal. I believe ending the game is still different. Talk to any pitcher.They'll tell you the same damn thing. So my belief is we're going to see more of those guys where it's just like, you're just a pitcher. Like starting pitching is kind of going to be out. And we'll have like eight guys in our eight of the 13 that can just throw like three or four innings.

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Yeah, I've messed around with this like theory. I think you're still going to need starting pitchers that can go because that can reset everyone

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like that's one of the that's kind of one of the key things to guys um but yeah i think i think bullpen

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if you're an edwin dyes or a hater and you're going to give us that one inning we can do that if you're everyone else you better be able to go three and i it's kind of funny like all the analytics and stuff we had to baseball, that's kind of what baseball was.

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Like it was a closer and a setup, man. And then if you were someone else in the bullpen, it was like, be ready to throw. And all the starters were ready to go a buck 10 and nine innings if you need it. So I think it's funny that we're probably going to progress back to that with all the numbers and nerds that got involved in the game.

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I think we're... Sorry, nerds. I feel like starters were trying to go seven, eight innings every single time they were on the mound back in the day. I think we're not getting going back to that. I think everyone is going to want to pitch three innings, three or four innings.

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And then teams can, it's a way for teams to mitigate cost too. It's like, right. Like it all kind of like makes sense. Like in the future, this is the way we're going to go. And maybe that's the path to like not having so many arm injuries. I don't know, man.

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It's a discussion.

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Just thinking out loud here.

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Maybe another one for another day.

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Hey, why didn't Zach Gallen shoved against the Yank PERSON?

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Kirolov PERSON went nuts.

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Zagallin PERSON is the most underrated player in baseball.

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Hey, and Jose Ramirez PERSON share that title, okay?

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Awesome. Hi, why aren't you talking about Austin Riley and Jaron? Hey, there's a lot of stud players that had big weekends, but talking baseball is maybe most electric part of each episode.

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That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco GPE. Treb PERSON? That's hilarious.

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All right, we're going to start up with this series. You spoke about this man, this big, beautiful man. Jorge Saler, against the Dodgers ORG. You went five for ten, a double, two homers, three ribbies for a 500 batting average. That's what five for ten is. Nice, nice math there.Jaron, nine for fourteen. That boy, fella. Two ribbyes, three runs, four stolen bases. Okay. Jake, what's nine for 14? What's the average there?Just do it in your head. That's also 500. Yep, crushed it. 750. Brendan Donovan PERSON, six for 10, a double a homer, two ribby's five runs.Two hit by pitches for a 600 average in the series. For the week, this is the one you want to be on, people. Bobby Witt PERSON. Our freaking guy. My, you asked who was going to, I was DMing on Instagram. It's Bobby Witt all the time. And he responds to me. So thank you, Bobby PERSON, for making an old man feel cool. 12 for 28. Five doubles, a triple, two homers. Only two ribbies. Two stolen bases, three walks.Garrow Crochet PERSON just talked about him, man. 13nings pitched. One walk, 16Ks. How about this guy? Who is this guy? New York Yankees reliever Ian Hamilton PERSON?

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Is he good?

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Might be asked to do a lot more

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because Johnny Lou Isaaca PERSON just got hurt.

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But yeah, he's... Five and two-thirds and three games pitched only one hit, seven-kays, no walks, me like you that, Poppy PERSON. When you get the Kays and no walks, that gets my thing moving a little bit. Speaking of moving, Cade Smith, Cleveland ORG reliever. Four and a third innings pitched, one hit.Nine K's and only two walks. And that, my friends, is who is in Fuego. I love it, Trev PERSON.

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Good for Soler PERSON getting out of the gates. And Bobby Wood Jr. PERSON, man, during that Sayah PERSON talk, we talked about getting better. Bobby Witt last year, 30 homers, 49 stolen bases, an 813 OPS,and a big second half. Picture all the, picture those numbers ticking up. I mean, that's 35 homer, 60 steals. Like I, you know, we're getting into a Cunia territory with a shortstop. So, uh, I'll drink that Bobby Wood Cullet. I'm glad he responds to you, man.That's, uh, that's nice. That's nice. It is nice. Slump watch, not happening yet. Not sure if it's going to happen at all. I did see some big ofer numbers out there. I won't throw anyone under the bus, Chris Bryant PERSON.

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Rendon. Anthony Rendon PERSON? Rendon's been getting cooked. What's going on with this guy? I try to defend him in the off season. I don't know. I thought Ron Washington PERSON was going to light a fire.

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Anti-fire. Some of the, like, Shenoul PERSON was in college since his last hit or something. The non-Peadmancer.

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I think his last year was July 4th.

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Is that true? America GPE.

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I missed a lot of time. I do think the I.L.

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is an unfortunately important segment, even though it's my least favorite segment so far. Al Thomas PERSON for my snakes. He gets banged up. Corby and Carroll PERSON sliding over to center. Josh Young PERSON, like I mentioned.Big piece missing on the hot corner for Texas ORG. Jason Hayward for the Dodgers ORG. See some other veterans getting playing time for them. Both McGills PERSON? Tyler and Trevor McGill PERSON.

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That's tough, man.

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Mom McGill PERSON is not happy about that.

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Their family is bummed.

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Matt Carpenter PERSON, we don't like that,

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and Victor Robles for the Natanels ORG.

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So that's kind of,

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and like I just mentioned, Jonathan Loisiga PERSON,

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Yankee's set up man this morning. He's a right flexor strain, which could mean a chunk of time.

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You see the Boone PERSON quotes on it?

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He says very concerns. Certain things that's significant.

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That's usually, and the MRI. Yan PERSON said significant. He says significant. That's usually...

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In the MRI. Yankee ORG code for a bad time.

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Immediate 60 day.

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I will tell you our talking baseball code for a good time.

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Awards.

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I mean, Rocky's opening day.

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Kelsey Winger Awards.

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And what could be better than MLB ORG 9 innings?

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You're watching baseball.

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You might as well be playing baseball in the palm of your hands with MLB ORG 9 innings. Wide variety of game modes, from league mode to live PVP, over 2,000 player cards to collect. You know they got some of the historical guys in there. Bob Gibson, hello, Eddie Murray, switch hitting, Dennis Eckersley, and Mo Rivera PERSON to shut down the game. If you need that true nine innings. Download and play MLB 9 innings 24 today with the link in the description.Give it a look. If you like baseball, which you're currently listening to talking baseball, there's a chance that you're going to like MLB 9 LAW inning. So go download it today. I will bat lead off as Trev PERSON dished that off before. And you were out of the screen for a second.So I'm going to do my award. Fine.

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I was ready, though. I'm going to do my award. Fine, I was ready, though.

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I'm going to do the waiting for the next single award. It's going to a pitcher, but it's encompassing some hitting that was referenced earlier as well. And because I'm waiting for the next single from my guy, Justin Bieber PERSON. Like, when's the next track? I need the next Beaver summer hit. Meanwhile, Shane Bieber, two games started, 12 innings pitched,how zero earn runs in Trev PERSON. I had to double check this. 20 strikeouts from Shane Bieber PERSON. And just a reminder, what's something we love here at talking baseball. We loves a contract year. Oh, walk year, baby.So Shane Bieber, Cy Young PERSON, in the bag, and he's come out two starts, zero earn runs, 20Ks, and 12 innings. So I wanted to highlight the beeps, because, you know, he can be a star in this game and one of the best pitchers, and we talk about Cleveland ORG pitching a lot. We love a contract year.And he's been waiting on the bench because he's been watching his team hit some singles and a lot more. The guard dogs have been bopping trep. Is there a little A's ORG asterisk? Yes. Does there need to be an A's Mariners asterisk?Because the Guardians and the Red Sox ORG, who have played both of those teams, have been lightened up from both sides of the ball. I don't care about that yet. I care about what you've been doing. And the Cleveland Guardians third in runs so far this year.How about that? So a shout out to Shane Bieber PERSON highlighting him and Guard Dogs fans. I did want to give you some love. Quan Jimenez and Ramirez PERSON have been going off. That's the top of their lineup. And then they've been getting some games from different guys. Tyler Freeman filling in, Rokio, Bo Naler. So the Guard Dogs, who had a really tough offensive season last yearand then they shut down all their pitchers. Shane Bieber PERSON is back in shoving. That's a guy we thought about they were going to trade a lot because of his contract year. So the guard dogs getting it done on both sides and give me that just, when that Justin Bieber summer jam hits, man.I mean, that's just different. He's just that guy. I can't wait, man. I mean, that's just different. He's just that guy. I can't wait for summer.

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I got a nice tan.

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The body's like not exactly where I want it to be, but I have been hitting the gym a couple days in a row. I'm getting back into it, pop. Shane Bieber PERSON made, I'm an adjustment guy. Made some adjustments. Last year got crushed by lefties.

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So, you know, how do I fix that?

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Well, he started throwing his change-up a lot more.

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He's a drive-line guy.

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Went there this off season,

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ticked up his fastball velocity a little bit. But the pitch usage has been interesting.

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He's actually throwing more four-seemers, 35% last year, 41% this year. The big thing is the change-up. Went from three-and-a-half, basically like non-existent last year. He started at 13% of the time. So he's using it to get those lefties out. And theslider changed a little bit. That's gone up from 20% to 24%. Cutters, kind of the pitch that's taking the biggest hit. So I like when guys go and they have a plan. Okay, this is what's going wrong. How do I fix that? What's the equalizer for our lefty is to change up?He goes, starts throwing that more and he's had success. The strikeouts are up. He's looked dominant. Whether he's there all year or not, it is yet to be seen.But it is nice to see him back. I like, I mean, he's a pitcher, man. Like, it's nice to see that. And shout out Stephen PERSON vote.Is vote the reason these guys are winning?

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Uh-oh.

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I like that, though.

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I do like Shane Bieber PERSON. Santa Barbara Goucho PERSON, right? Ooh, I can double check. Hold.

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Pretty sure. I'll give it to you for now. Yeah. Er, wait. Yeah, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara. Santa now. Yeah. Or wait. Yeah, Santa Barbara GPE.Santa Barbara GPE.

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Okay.

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Where are you going, Treb PERSON?

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My award is called Slang That Dang. Award. Okay. And it's funny. You know, like I coach, you know, a youth team. And I hear these kids talking and all the things they're saying.I think the biggest word that, like, young boys say, this, like right now is bruh. It's bruh everything. I was on my, I was on the phone with my good friend, Ollie Linton, a CA ORG agent.

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He said he talked to you a little bit.

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So he shot you a text. And we were talking about kids. And I was asking how his kids are. He's like, man, like, he's like, I think I'm a good dad, but I'm, I think I'm more like just an older brother. And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, well, I kind of travel a lot right now.So when I get home, like, I just want to do all the fun things with my kids. He's like, so I just like play video games with them.

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We like watch movies together. He's like, I'm like like play video games with them. We like watch movies together. He's like, I'm like a cool older brother.

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And he goes, and they just don't really respect me at all. Right. And I'm like, what do you mean? He goes, well, my, his youngest son, his name Zion. And he said, he goes, Z baby doesn't even call me dad. He calls me Ollie PERSON.So he said, I'll come home, But hey, Ollie PERSON, what's up? He's like, I don't really know what to say to this kid. You know, okay? And then he's like, you know, and then Kingston is his other son. And yes, Ollie is Jamaican. So Kingston is balling out playing some balls. So I was like, how's that going?He doesn't listen to me at all. I was like, I had the same thing with Teddy PERSON. Teddy PERSON does not want to take really instruction from me.

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Right. And he says, Kingston is always saying,

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Dad, you're doing too much. Dad, you're doing too much. Pause. And I'm like, how old is he?

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What is he talking like? Pause is crazy. It's all pause or bet. And I'm like, oh man,

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because Teddy PERSON says that to me all the time. Bro, okay, bet, bet, bet. So I've been hearing that a lot lately. You know who else's been hearing bet, bet, bet a lot lately? That freaking major league offensive leaderboard.

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It's littered with bets, just like these youth out there saying, bet, bet, bet, bet. Major league offensive leaderboard is littered with bets. This dude,

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Mookiee PERSON bets, what are we doing, people? If you aren't

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paying attention to this, please pay attention, okay?

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Mookie PERSON leads all of baseball and wins above

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replacement. This guy's played nine games.

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Baseball reference has enlisted at one and a half war. Kyle Schwaber had 1.4 war all last year.

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Think about that. Through nine games, right?

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Okay. He leads in batting average at 485. He leads it on base percentage at 595. He leads at slugging at 1.091, which means, of course, he leads in OPS at 1.6. He leads in plate appearances, runs scored, hits, total bases, home runs, RBIs, walks walks just down the list

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all mind you

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while playing middle infield mostly shortstop spent 10 years as an outfielder winning gold gloves now he just switched over so that's really impressive to me the offensive stuff like the home run he hit off Logan Webb is crazy Logan Webb PERSON is crazy.Logan Webb PERSON doesn't give up homers, especially on a pitch down in the zone like that. Mookie PERSON can do whatever he wants. And I think that's kind of where I want to end my award is people think this is so easy for Mookie PERSON. And maybe it is easier for him than it is for a lot of different people. But he came out and said, look, shortstop is not easy. and it's not going to be easy and i did see him pregame working with miggie row PERSON out there taking ground balls trying to get better at a new positionwhere i know he's going to floor she's already doing it offensively that's the the leaderboard littered with bets is kind of what i wanted to go with here but this guy is putting the work in to be a star shortstop at the big league level after playing 10 seasons in the outfield. It is unheard of. Please pay attention to what this guy is doing. I think he's going to win the NL ORG MVP because of what he's doing.And oh yeah. By the way, after he was out there early taking ground balls, this is Mokey Betts PERSON, mind you. A superstar in L.A. He came over to the people that were on the field for batting practice and signed and took pictureswith every single one. He even stopped and said, hey, did you get one? Is everyone good here? Before he went back into the dugout. This guy is a superstarin every single possible way you could use the word. And I just want people to make sure they're paying attention to this guy. Bet, bro.

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Yeah, that's a, I, there is a clip I did on Waken Jake WORK_OF_ART that got a decent amount of run. And you can just see how twisted up I am because I'm rooting for Mookie Betts always. He's a generational ball player. He's awesome. He's Marcus Lin PERSON-Bets MLB, right? He's over 30 playing shortstop for the first time and that's almost that's almost something sacred in its own right. Like you don't do that. You don't do that. I've completely flipped on it because I want Mookie PERSON to succeed. And I think he's going to. And like you said, he might do more than that.He might win the MVP. And this is, I'm not doing this for a clip, and we won't clip this part. But if he does this, Trev, if Mookie Betz has an MVP WORK_OF_ART-esque type season from shortstop at his age and he keeps this rolling, like, he's, he has an argument for one of, like, best ball player all time.Yes. And that's kind of eye-opening. Because it's, yeah, it's Mookie PERSON bets, he's good, MVP, and, you know, great right fielder and all this, when you start mixing in shortstop and second base, and I don't know, you know, we do our all-JM team and we have the util spot. You know, maybe the easiest cop out of all time if Mooky PERSON keeps us up is like, if you'rebuilding an MLB team and you have a util spot, Mooky PERSON gets that. I don't know, man. He's doing things that haven't been done.

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I think this could go down if he continues this pace and wins the MVP WORK_OF_ART. I mean, obviously, he's not going to 1.6 sit, but, you know, he has a career year offensively while moving to shortstop full time or middle infield. He's going to play second base when McGee Row PERSON play short or whatever.

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Mostly shortstop. It's going to go down as one of the most impressive seasons that we've ever seen in this sport.

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Being able to do that. And I really, really mean it. Talk to people that have played the game how hard shortstop is. And to do it at his age after not doing it for so longand still playing offensively the way he's been playing, it's going to go down is one of the most impressive seasons we've ever seen in the game. I think this is one of the most impressive episodes we've

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ever had. I also, we love baseball guys. John Boy Media just tweeted it out. J.J. Hardy PERSON causing drama in Chandler, Arizona GPE because he's building a baseball field in his backyard, and it's a two-minute local news clip. And that's just awesome.

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I love J.J. Hardy PERSON so much.

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That's just awesome.

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JJ PERSON, I want to come take ground balls to you.

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Let's turn some just for old times.

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Oh, the boys.

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A little, hey.

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A little, you know,

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coming across the bag. A couple average. A little, uh, you know, coming across the bag.

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A couple average white,

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uh, white dudes playing middle infield.

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Okay. Okay.

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Uh,

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don't see it too often.

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Trevor Plouf PERSON,

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enjoy your weekend.

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Enjoy the baseball.

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I hope everyone enjoys the baseball.

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Uh, I hope there's no more earthquakes, I guess. Um, God, there will be Monday with talking baseball, baby. Chicks.Thank you. Shout out Kelsey Winger PERSON. Let's go, Kels PERSON. Get those boys rolling.

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Let's get a dub.

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Let's get a Rockies opening day, Dub.

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You ever answered my question?

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Do you think CA ORG isn't going to come through on the tickets for me?

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Maybe Sunday.

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Yeah.

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Come on, Nes PERSON.

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It's early in the year.