Orioles sign Chris Bassitt, Phillies cut Castellanos & beer apology note, Muncy & Kiké deals w/Dodgers

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Speaker 1: Try it out.

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Speaker 2: Chris Bassett got paid.

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Speaker 3: He did good for him eighteen and a half million bucks, thirty six years old. He proved to be quite valuable for the Blue Jays in the postseason, and it was cool to watch a lot of people root for Chris Bassett. Really good teammate, gamer, bulldog. He can start, he can come out of the bullpen. Look at the Baltimore Orioles. We've given them their flowers and we will continue to do so. The rotation added Shane Boz from the Rays via trade. They signed up Zach Eflin again, and then they already have Bradish Rogers and Kramer.

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Speaker 4: Good, dud Feees, good, dead Peece somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Els fans wanted fromber Ranger, but it didn't happen, so they pivoted.

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Speaker 5: No, he's a good pitcher, good He's got a lot of value. He takes the ball. You see his innings in the last five years. He can pitch in the bullpen. If you need to shoold, he could be effective like he was in the playoffs for the blu Jesus past year. He's smart as hell. When he talked to him, he knows pitching. He's like adding another coach to the Orioles and that can still pitch.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't listen.

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Speaker 5: No one year deal is a bad deal, So excuse me. But eighteen and a half good for you?

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Speaker 1: Chris Bassett? Wow?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: And he has a career two O six e er against the Yankees. That's probably awesome that he's in that division and he gets to face those guys a decent amount of times, and they may run a six man rotation like, I don't think that's like gone over the days where it's like, you know what, six guys, Probably somebody's getting optioned down, Like no, I think I think they hope they can keep Shane bos healthy. I hope they can. They hope that Bradish can return to his you know, top three cy Young type of status. Can Trevor Rodgers duplicate his last fourteen starts? Like, there's a lot of stuff in this rotation that really votes well for a six man rotation. I don't see anybody on this list that I'm saying, you're really getting undervalue if he doesn't start every five days. To me, if he had never gotten hurt, Bratish would be the guy Bradish was really showing what he like he could be a number one. But I really love this this signing. I mean, Chris Bassett knows how to pitch, and when you have elite teams in the American League East, you can't outstuff them. You have to be able to pitch. You have to be able to hit locations, different spots, know where weaknesses and strengths are, and I think that's what Chris Bassett does a great job of.

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Speaker 3: At least one hundred and seventy innings in twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Five, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Thirty plus starts with an ERA under four in every season except for twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he sounds like he's pretty good too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah underweight, give me his whip.

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Speaker 1: A riffle frippleof who is his whip?

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Speaker 2: Plus e r A.

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Speaker 1: I don't hate.

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Speaker 2: Analytics being the Internet troll, I.

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Speaker 5: Know, I don't hate analytics at all. I think analytics are very useful. I just think that I can watch Chris Bassett and know he takes the ball every fit day and know he's valuable, and know he's a good guy in the clubhouse. Because people always say he's a good guy. We've had him on the show. He's a great interview. I don't need analytics to tell me.

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Speaker 2: That I prevent runs when he's on the mound. And does he give you innings?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, all of what curials need, by the way, correct.

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Speaker 5: The Orioles definitely need innings because they every time, it's like every year, their whole starting rotation seems to go down. So they need a durability guy. Here he is. You need a guy with quality innings.

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Speaker 1: Here he is. And you need a guy that knows how to pitch in the al East. Here he is.

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Speaker 2: Is he going to strike out the world?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: But I actually did go to his stat cast page average exit ble last year eighty fifth percentile.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because he goes like twenty pitches.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he throws a lot of pitches and he gets a good chunk of ground balls, gets weak contact.

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Speaker 5: Man, he used to be the human rain delay he's got he's had. He used to pitch so slow, and the pitch clock helped him more than anybody. It probably did help him because it was like, oh man and he and now he has the PitchCom so he can do it. He calls basically his own game, which is great, but man, he used to take forever ever, ever, ever.

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Speaker 1: He used to shake the same pitch off, like you know, you know you've had you have those guys that you know they kind of want to mix it up a little bit, like ooh, you know, I do want the fastball, but you called that first, so let's go back to it. Make it look like I'm going to something that I didn't think about, Like that's it. I saw an interview He's like, yeah, you know, I sometimes I just didn't feel it when the catcher first put it down, but it was it was definitely a rain delay, and I think he used it to his advantage sometimes too. But I was interested to see when he he got the pitch coom if he was gonna shake himself off, like look down at it and m okay, now, yeah, this is what I want. But he's very very methodical, very intelligent guy.

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Speaker 2: He's a thinker.

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Speaker 3: So now, do we feel like the Orioles off season is complete?

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Speaker 4: Who's left zych Allen?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if they want to add yet another picture, but it appears as if they're not doing anything.

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Speaker 2: This is it. I'm just saying, like, do you feel.

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Speaker 5: About what they did this year. They made some bullpen signings which they needed. Yes, they made some pitching signings which they needed. Pete Yeah, I was gonna say they brought him Peter a Lonzo, which they needed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I like what they did. Now is it enough to compete with Toronto, New York and Boston.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 5: But it steps in the right direction. And they're spending some money and one year deals are not bad.

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Speaker 3: And they are getting bit with some injuries early on in camp. Jackson Holliday is not going to start at the year and we talked about this yesterday. Encourage you to check out yesterday show if you want injury updates. But it sounds like it'll be weeks, not days, so he'll miss some time there and they are gonna be careful with a young player like that. Also, Jordan Westburg is and oblique. It shouldn't affect opening day, but you don't like to see it. You know, you like a clean spring training, ajay. You know what I love about Hello Fresh, the variety. Every single week, I can choose from over one hundred recipes.

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Speaker 5: Got ten million. But he's happy place where they have a chance to win every year. He loves it there. Listen, you don't always need every dollar. And if you're happy in a place and they want you there, and you can sign this deal and this might be his last year, we don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean he might, he might not be right.

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Speaker 5: But this adds two more years to his deal, possibly three more years, because you have twenty six and then twenty seven and then possibly twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Why would he not take this two years seventeen? Like if he gets it, it's one year ten or two year seventeen. Fine.

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Speaker 5: People are gonna say, oh, he could maybe get more on free agency, but he also couldn't maybe get more on free agency.

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Speaker 2: Also, he was the classic case of grass isn't always great.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and he's really happy, and he's been great as a Dodger, and they've won two World Series, he's won three. I mean, geez, they have another chance this year. They're always gonna have a chance.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he was a step out of baseball. Right, he's a great resurrection story. Where did he begin his career?

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Speaker 4: Oakland?

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Speaker 2: Oakland?

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Speaker 1: Well they're not they're athletics.

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Speaker 2: Now resources are a little different.

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Speaker 3: So he goes from Oakland to the Dodgers, who help him become a thing and a very valuable member of a championship team. Gratz, he says, Yeah, I'm good. I'm going to stick with this guy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he's also thirty five and a half years old. Right now, are what are after this year he'll be thirty six. What are thirty six year old position players getting on the market?

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Speaker 2: Squeeze?

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Speaker 1: Is it more than is it more than ten million? Yeah? I would say so. But this locks him into a place that he really likes. Every time he comes on, it seems like he's got another kid. So he's growing his family, and he's growing his family around all these guys that he's been playing with. I'm sure his wife is friends with the wives. I'm sure you know he sees the other kids growing up. You know what the Dodgers treat people really well, I get it. The rhetoric has always the Dodgers just pay so much money. That's why they That's why they treat people. Well, I promise you go into their training room, you go into their their travel, you go into everything. They treat people really well, what is that worth? Would Munsey have gotten fifteen million on the open market? Is that worth five million dollars? It's his choice, it's nobody else's.

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Speaker 2: And he's not the only one. Key k is back, he announced.

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Speaker 5: The I mean, is this like the biggest non story of all Like he wasn't going to come back.

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Speaker 1: It's not fair.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Well he's gonna do what retire? Why he can still play?

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Speaker 2: I know, I don't know. You never know with Kik's not fair. He can do other things. What get we don't know yet, not revealed.

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Speaker 3: He broke the story so early that everybody's scrambling to see what the numbers are unless they've been posted in the last permission.

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Speaker 2: No, no, okay.

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Speaker 1: Then see only if you're looking at pirates just.

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Speaker 3: For the podcast people listening, I ask for permission to look at my phone because I check news all day.

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Speaker 4: You're an ask for permission guy, not to ask for god else.

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Speaker 3: You guys have a question ready for Robert. I wasn't ready. I played exactly to my point at the top of the show. This is how we find out information. I don't think it's on here yet. I don't see it.

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Speaker 1: I don't see You're an ask not ask for forgiveness kind of guy, Scott.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little bit of both.

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Speaker 4: No, you just asked for permission. You just sold yourself out.

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Speaker 2: Some would just say I'm a pain in the ass.

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Speaker 1: They don't. They don't have a spot for him. They're going to petition to the league in the least, probably gonna give him a twenty seventh man because they have Otani on the roster, and Otani's technically two people, so they get to subtract one person and they're gonna be the first team to ever have twenty seven active players. Like Key k is Key k personafies what the Dodgers are right now. They're a team that understands value might not have a fit right now, like where are we gonna find that bats, but understands that his value will be in the playoffs. His value is the depth that he gives to this team. And oh, another guy that wants to be there. They must be doing something right. It is so unfair. We need a salary cap.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers and team USA and Team Japan and WBC are ruining baseball.

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Speaker 5: But anyway, but who signed yesterday and deferred all his money or two days ago? Erlander Tigers are ruining baseball too, No, the Central Central that's right.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Anybody trying in life is ruining that particular thing.

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Speaker 1: Everything should be equal, everything should be equal, true.

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Speaker 3: Which takes me back to not No, I'm kidding all right, so I couldn't resist.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, you want to check your phone.

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Speaker 3: Screen, Agery, seriously, our next signing that actually just happened since the show started, Hernandez, No, there's another one.

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Speaker 1: Haulsey good. Good for him. He hasn't been on in a while. We need to have him on.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he loves to come on. I'm sure we can get him on. And I did get money for him, permission to check. Yes, one and a half million dollars over one year.

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Speaker 5: And listen, this is the Diamondbacks. He went there a couple of years ago. Remember he was in this in the trade. Diamondbacks got him from from Seattle, genos waras they trade.

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Speaker 1: It was both of them right to the Diamondbacks, wasn't that? How?

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Speaker 2: Gino?

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Speaker 5: No, I don't know something Anyways, Seawall got trade. Remember Seawall got traded from the Mariners of the Diamondbacks, and Scott was going crazy because he's.

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Speaker 1: Like, what are the Mariners doing at the time, But now he's back with the Diamonbacks. They must have liked him.

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Speaker 3: And we didn't know what the Miners were doing because they were not adding, they were subtracting weirdly. And then last year they added and it worked. Yes, yeah, nice signing.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery went back to the Rangers. Paul Seewald went back to the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks Rangers World Series. Again. That's what's gonna happen right now. Paul Sewald needs to stay healthy, needs to figure out how to get back on the field at a consistent basis.

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Speaker 4: He was great last year. People that don't know this.

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Speaker 5: Got he wasn't on the roster for the ds, right so with the Tigers. He was actually with the Tigers and they played the Mariners, and obviously someone that I know, So I was doing the series with Fox and I walked into the clubhouse and I kind of was hey, Paul, you know, and he always usually very talkative, and he kind of just blew me off, like walked away, and I was like, it's weird. And it was before game one, so like I didn't know exactly all the things that were going into what was happening.

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Speaker 4: And then the next day he came up to me was like, hey.

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Speaker 5: I'm really sorry, man, I just found out I wasn't on the roster and I was kind of a bad time.

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Speaker 4: I was like, look, man, it's all good, dude, Like you don't have to.

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Speaker 5: Like no, But it was very nice of him to go, like he kind of searched me out and was like, hey, I'm sorry that I blew you off, and I was like, dude, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 4: He's like I was kind of in a bad spot and I needed a moment.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm nobody.

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Speaker 4: I don't apologie.

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Speaker 2: It's also been there, I know.

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Speaker 5: So I was like I told him, I'm like, I've been there. I understand that. So it's not a big deal. Like I appreciate it more than you know that you came up and apologized. But was unnecessary, but it was nice that he did that.

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Speaker 3: These very good people rooting for Paul as he joins the Diamondbacks bullpen.

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Speaker 2: Again, it's weird.

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Speaker 5: Though, why why will Mark Mark, who sits the spring training schedule, he didn't allow me to go to the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. There must be some beef with is.

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Speaker 5: It because I got Tory Leavello and Mike Haysen and Josh Naylor and all of them to come on last year?

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Speaker 1: That many interviews in Diamondbacks camp. Why don't you set up the Why don't you set up the spring training tour?

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Speaker 3: So now we're actually going to do a fight. Permission to check my tablet? He said, you're leaving before we go.

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Speaker 1: I'm there for ten days, Like, I'm sorry that I have to. I have to go see my daughter.

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Speaker 2: Well, we can play a game, kill another.

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Speaker 1: Team, kill another team.

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Speaker 2: Well, because you're loaded up for all the day, so you had to weekends to man, I got what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: If you want to time the back camp, we would have had to go backwards and you'd have to take a team out.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to? Do you want to?

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Speaker 1: There's not a team I want to miss, right?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I missed the d Backs of the Giant So that's fine. I actually really enjoyed Dinaonbacks camp last year. It was so windy. I don't know if you guys have talked about it. It was so windy that Mark had to hold the tent and he almost got blown away.

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Speaker 3: I do remember, yes, Jason Kidness, by the way, Oh nice pinch hitting for Diamondbacks and Giants camp. Nice right, Next signing Miles Michaelis one year, two point twenty five million Washington Nationals. There's some performance bonuses that can take them another seven fifty k.

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Speaker 4: You know why why spring training? He's from Jupiter.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, spring he's been with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: He had spring training at home.

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Speaker 5: Now he can fish and golf every day and he just has to drive like fifteen minutes south.

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Speaker 1: Then he's in Weston May.

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Speaker 2: He takes a golf cart to work.

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Speaker 5: But I mean he probably did a Jupiter when he was with the with the Cardinals, Yes, but he's a little bit too far south.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 3: That's a good inning theater, fun loving guy in a National's organization that's going to need some adults. It's a true team, you know. Next up, Oh, Ronald Decrinia Junior. I love anything that we can show from camp. So we've got a little something from Ronald, who hit the snot out of a baseball and batting practice and then said, quote, I'm healthy.

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Speaker 2: Now we're showing the video footage.

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Speaker 1: Do they have a highlight reel of him hitting?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 5: Oh, that's Andrew Jones. I was like, do they show highlight of you hitting while you're hitting? That's awesome that they did that. I have to call Tim Hyers and tell him.

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Speaker 2: That dig me video while you dig.

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Speaker 1: It's all. It's healthy.

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Speaker 4: Good bye, ay the way scratch.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if your teams you played for did this, but I was going through my garage the other day and I pulled out these old discs of they called them positive videos from when I was with the White Sox, and you can like plug it into it like a disc player, you know, like the little disc players that we all have that used to have that nobody has anymore like that.

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Speaker 2: You put the CD in yes, yeah.

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Speaker 4: And uh.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to watch it so bad. It was like two thousand and eight. They called it positive tape. It was on like the little disc I still wanted to watch. I had like four years of them, and I was like, man, I don't even watch these when I played. Why why do I have these still? I get them dig there's some Jim Rome when I did Jim Rome stuff back in the day. I have a bunch of discs fishing trips and stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's weird.

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Speaker 2: It's got them digitized and then we can show them.

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Speaker 1: I know what that means.

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Speaker 3: Well, then you get it put into the computer, so then you can watch it like someone takes one of the you know, VCR or a CD player whatever, and you can pay people to do that.

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Speaker 2: They're services that do that, and then they put it all on to the.

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Speaker 5: You know what else I also had to do was don't get into next yaw kicks. I don't know what that means.

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Speaker 1: When I was young.

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Speaker 5: So when I was young, used to have the DVDs, right, you had to carry so you had the actual discs. You could just have everything on a cloud. And so I used to have I bought a suitcase that I could take and I had so many DVDs because used to watch them when you're flu And I had a suitcase that had a zipper and you would open it up and there was two big of like the four hundred DVDs.

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Speaker 1: So people would come to.

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Speaker 5: Me on the planes like, hey, you got a movie I can watch I'd be like, pick So I'm like, you.

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Speaker 3: Would have been funny if you you got got insecurity one day and you're sir, open your.

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Speaker 2: Four hundred DVDs.

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Speaker 5: But this was back when on charter flights, right, so nobody.

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Speaker 3: You know how there used to be DVDs A goodbye with like some and go in the back of a movie theater.

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Speaker 1: To like New York and you.

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Speaker 5: Go to Canal Street and they'd be like and if you all, I'd be like, right when they came out, it's all that someone walks by and it hits the camera. It's like, oh God, I gotta fix it. Someone someone's walks stands in front of it.

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Speaker 2: You got people sneezing. I didn't got much sleep last night.

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Speaker 4: Okay, the fake box.

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Speaker 2: It's stay in your box.

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Speaker 3: This already went through the competition committee, the competition committee. If they really want something that's gonna happen, I mean, from a fan perspective, I'm like, okay, So they'll police this better.

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Speaker 2: Already was a rule.

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Speaker 3: They're just gonna get stricter with it and give you a warning and then an ejection. Because the new hip thing is pitch tipping, and teams spend all of their resources before the games to try and find pitch tips and then tell the.

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Speaker 2: First and third base coaches to do your best.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there's so many things to this, but first.

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Speaker 5: Of all, you know who's gonna hate this rule more than anybody, Someone like Joey Korra, because they're gonna have to stand in their box. And then if there's a runner on second that the guy likes to, they like to get like way down the line. So Joey core is gonna have to as soon as the pitch is thrown, he's gonna have to run down in case it's hit. And then he's gonna have to run back, and he's gonna run down and run back and run down and run back. Yeah, the first base coach half the time, I mean it's maybe it's changed a little bit, but half the time, the first base coach with nobody on base gotta stop watching his paws his hand right, he's like, and they're bullshitting with the LP have to. I mean they're not even like you always still watch them as the catcher, but they're like way down the line and they're just standing there with the little stopwatch and they're talking to the first base umpire buttering them up when they're.

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Speaker 1: Behind the plate. The next day, Oh hey didn't go.

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Speaker 4: Hey, no he didn't go.

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Speaker 1: He didn't go, right, No, no, hey no he said.

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Speaker 4: No he didn't go.

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Speaker 2: Those days are over. Fun's over.

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Speaker 5: I mean, but the third base coach, you know, if you're if okay, So if you're if you're I don't even know the third base coach with the Yankees is anymore. But you know, if you're the third base coach with the Yankees and Aaron Judge comes up and you're eighty four feet away and you can't move from that little box, heads up, boys, huh?

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Speaker 1: Heads up?

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Speaker 2: Bro I mismanaging?

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Speaker 5: Heads yeah, heads up, because like you know, you know, crass from that big Stanton comes up, the third base coach is out there in the first row of the box seats with nobody on base going. I don't want no part of this, man, I I don't want to get smashed by ball yep.

00:23:56
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's other things too, Scott, this is not, this is not This has.

00:24:00
Speaker 6: Been happening forever. This was happening before I was playing, when I got called up.

00:24:05
Speaker 1: Hey, watch watch the first base coach from the stretch or watch this or that, Like they're gonna look, they're gonna try to get the catcher signs. Okay, well that's like middle school ish, like you can't get the catcher signs anymore. But like you're gonna try to get the pitch tip for the guy who has, you know, come set, but he come you know, some closers come set up here. Well you can see it back through through his you know, between his ear and his shoulder.

00:24:31
Speaker 6: So it's been happening forever. Good job, major League Baseball. Like you are so on top of this, you're like thirty years too late. Like this has been something that's been happening, but because people complain about it, and it's like there's still gonna be other things.

00:24:47
Speaker 1: There's different angles. If you can relay and you know what pitch is coming, it's going to it's gonna continue to happen. But no, you're gonna have to let Luis Rojas move back. You're gonna have to let foco poco figaroa move back behind the box. When behind the coaches box, when Bryce Harper's up, when Kyle Schwarber, who absolutely snap hooks balls down the line, nobody's on let him move back, like you got to, like that's your safety to stand in the little fake box. A little happening, all right.

00:25:22
Speaker 3: Just be careful with the rules that Okay, I know they said the one exception. His coaches are allowed to move closer to the dugout or the stands for safety reasons, but moving up and down the line or towards the playing field won't be tolerated anymore.

00:25:37
Speaker 5: The coaches boxes like this far off the bases, by the way, so I don't know how they.

00:25:42
Speaker 4: Can get closer to the field. They're literally like their baby.

00:25:44
Speaker 5: Is it two feet in? Is it two feet in? It's not both the two like the NFL or is at college football.

00:25:52
Speaker 1: They're gonna put them in.

00:25:56
Speaker 2: A phone boosts they're protected and they can't.

00:25:58
Speaker 1: They're gonna have it.

00:25:59
Speaker 5: And if the foul ball hits the phone with your out like Bana ball like they're gonna have, They're gonna have to find the most flexible coaches, so they can have both feed and they can still.

00:26:07
Speaker 3: Lean right now, it's like, yeah, being on the free throw line or something, they're.

00:26:11
Speaker 5: Gonna need Michael Jackson the nails in the ground where and he like you would like lean forward and back never he clicked his nail.

00:26:17
Speaker 4: Is shoes in the nails?

00:26:18
Speaker 3: Uh huh, that's where we're at. Can I just present one case on the other side? Don't you feel like it's become more of a topic as technology has gotten really good and AI can tell you the slightest anything and then you can find it I know the answer as well, tell the picture to counter that and figure it out and don't tit.

00:26:37
Speaker 5: We haven't even talked about that people using AI to find tips because that's all.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: They're doing, and they're doing that NonStop right now, I know.

00:26:45
Speaker 3: But it's not I mean before the game they figure that out right or even during but like it's not like they're using the AI on the field. They're just relaying, hey, we found something. AI program found something. It's really really slight. So the problem.

00:27:00
Speaker 5: Is like when guys for me, it was always like there's pictures of it put their glove up too high and you could see it from the first base coach, or you could see it as the runner stuff like that, or now you know the guys at second when they're all going, oh.

00:27:11
Speaker 1: Look at me, all oh, I got the pitches.

00:27:13
Speaker 5: They're all jumping around, yes, right like that that you can just combat that body kind of covering up a little bit.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: But people are saying that it's so high. They're figuring more out which.

00:27:23
Speaker 5: Everybody does something. It's sometimes just harder to tell.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: But does the first or third base coach having free reign right now and not really getting penalized cause them to be able to look in places that no one else can look.

00:27:36
Speaker 5: So you're saying when Aaron Judge looked at the first base coach at that time, he wasn't just looking at the first base coach.

00:27:41
Speaker 2: Aaron, come on the show and defend yourself.

00:27:43
Speaker 1: I'm not saying.

00:27:44
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you don't think that this is a good idea.

00:27:49
Speaker 1: Like what, It's fine, it's just not going to stop anything.

00:27:52
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's going to but you're against it or for it if it's brought up.

00:27:57
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it.

00:27:58
Speaker 3: A real competition committee where you could vote one side or another and it actually decides it.

00:28:03
Speaker 4: I'd say, sure, keep them in the box.

00:28:06
Speaker 3: Keep yeah, exactly, you might have to pay your first of third base coaches a little more.

00:28:13
Speaker 5: They ain't doing teams ain't doing that. Krat snows that answer. No, you're barely making it.

00:28:31
Speaker 2: Here we go, let's lap.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: What are we slap? Haven't what else came out?

00:28:43
Speaker 3: Nick Castillanus addressed an incident in Miami in a recent post.

00:28:48
Speaker 2: You guys saw this. You're allowed to look at your devices for a moment. Why we're not going to cover it?

00:28:55
Speaker 1: It's too small though.

00:28:58
Speaker 3: I wrote a piece of paper about how he admitted to bringing a beer out in the dugout, because I was gonna say in the clubhouse, in the dugout, he brought a beer in the dugout.

00:29:09
Speaker 1: So after getting taken out of the game, I don't know is he playing at the time.

00:29:15
Speaker 2: I don't know. Didn't the Red Sox rip shots before games in the dugout.

00:29:19
Speaker 5: I've been on a lot of teams that have rip shots. Yeah, there after trucks. Listen, there's a thing called rally beer that guys used to Yeah. I tell this story all the time. Brandon McCarthy got traded from the White Sox to the Rangers for John Danks. Thinking two thousand and six or seven or whatever. He goes over to the Rangers and listen, we had a bunch of dudes to drink. I mean, Mark Burley pitched the World Series after not drinking, according to him, although we all know he did. And they are starting pitchers, were like in the American League. They were like, I ain't pitching, so they have a drink, right. Brandon McCarthy gets traded the Rangers. He walks out like one of the first games. Sorry, Brandon, I love you, but this is a funny story. And he has like a drink like no big deal. Like he's like not not not even thinking it's a big deal. And Kevin Millwood's like, what's in the cup? Did and he's like a beer whatever, and he's like, we don't do that here. And Mark Carthy's like, oh, maybe that was just a.

00:30:08
Speaker 1: White sucks thing.

00:30:10
Speaker 5: But I mean, like guys used to chug beers a lot during games, Like it wasn't I don't know about crawds, but like when I first came up, it wasn't that big of a deal and it was a lot to kick in the Greenies because the Greenes when you drank alcohol made him kick back in. Right, So guys, it wasn't that big of a deal to see someone smoking a heater or drinking a beer like that wasn't a big deal. So I mean, times have it changed. I get it, and a lot of teams don't even supply alcohol.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: So right, but there's never a case where a player's out of a game he goes into the clubhouse pours a beer into it.

00:30:45
Speaker 5: After being taken out of a close ball game in front of my friends and family, and brought a presidente into the dugout and then sat right next to Robin let him know that too much slack and Samarius and too tight of restrictions in other and not conduce it to us winning. Shout out to my teammates and Howie, I'm assuming Kendrick for talk taking the beer out of my hands before I could take a sip. I appreciate you, guys. After the game, I went into the office with Dave and Rob. We aired out our differences and the conversation ended with me apologizing for letting my emotions get the best of me. I would like to note that I was ready. There's another back to share the details of the incident, this entirely the media the next day, but was instructed not to buy management. The punishment I received from my actions was the benching the following game. I love this game, I love being a teammate. I'm addicted to winning. I will learn from this, all right, cool.

00:31:35
Speaker 2: I'm totally good with that.

00:31:36
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that.

00:31:37
Speaker 3: Of all the things we've gone over for a while now that that one is pretty low on the totem poll, I.

00:31:43
Speaker 1: Made a mistake.

00:31:44
Speaker 5: I mean, it wasn't like he got into a fight and d he had a beer on the bench. Fine, out of the game, out of the game. He was already out of the game.

00:31:50
Speaker 3: Here's the theme here, guys getting pissed to getting removed from a roster, out of.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: A game and.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: They had a beer one time. All right, I'm okay it. I'm very okay with it.

00:32:01
Speaker 4: No problem it sorry, all good.

00:32:05
Speaker 1: If you want. If you want somebody who gets taken out of a game after playing I don't know what it was, four hundred and thirteen straight games and it's like it's cool, man, it's cool. Then I don't think you want that guy, like, you don't necessarily want that guy on the rosters, Like you you mess with the dog, you're gonna get bit like there's you can't have some dude who's a beast and wants to be out there every single day and then all of a sudden just be like, oh that's cool. You think my you think my range sucks? Okay, it's totally fine. You know, I'll be here tomorrow. Like that's not how that's people aren't wired that way. Sorry, this doesn't happen, thank you.

00:32:45
Speaker 5: There's an old quote and I don't know who attributed it to, and it was a manager and they'd be like, we got too many milk drinkers on this team.

00:32:52
Speaker 1: Give me some guys will drink whiskey and beer, right Like.

00:32:55
Speaker 5: That's an old baseball quote that has been around forever and I don't know where it started, but that was kind of the thing, right like, hey, like we got too which meant like we have too many guys that are trying to be perfect and not enough guys that'll just be themselves and let it rip and have fun.

00:33:10
Speaker 3: That's nick, screw it, Let's go up there and win this thing. Yeah, you know if everyone's playing tight.

00:33:15
Speaker 1: Two.

00:33:16
Speaker 3: That's where you see upsets and underperformance. So and that's a great point by Kratz twenty twenty four.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: Do you know how many games nic casianos but one?

00:33:26
Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty two in a sport where a ton of dudes get hurt