Fair Territory: New Shohei Ohtani rules? Konnor Griffin extension, Under-the-radar teams

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna take you through the baseball world.

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Speaker 1: In the next twenty six minutes or so. Alana, we have a lot to talk about as always.

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Speaker 2: And let's start with the biggest story on the game. Show Hao Tani.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ken, Great to be with you as always on this Thursday. Let's get into the lead powered by Game Changer. More on Game Changer in a moment you're talking about show Heyo Tani, Ken, Should he have more time to warm up? This is a topic of conversation, but you have a great explanation.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he should have more time, and he gets more time because in innings, when he is participating offensively, he needs more time to get back.

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Speaker 4: To the mound.

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Speaker 1: Now, what happened yesterday in Toronto got some attention because you saw early in the game George Springer kind of asking the umpire Dan Bollino, what was going on, and it looked like he might be complaining. But I was told by two people directly involved this morning that Springer was not complaining at all. He was merely asking for clarification that Otani indeed gets more time beyond the normal two minute break between innings. So this was not a reprise of the World Series last year when in Game seven John Schneider, the manager of the Blue Jays, was definitely complaining about Otani taking too much time to get out there. This was merely a case in which the Blue Jays are in this case, Springer wanted clarification.

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Speaker 2: No big deal there at all.

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Speaker 1: Now, the bigger question with Otani for me Alana is something he said after the game yesterday about.

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Speaker 2: Not feeling so great on the mound.

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Speaker 1: He was vague about it. He didn't say anything was physically wrong. He just said I didn't feel my normal self. Pictures go through this all the time. Nobody feels one hundred percent in all thirty starts, or whatever a pictuer might make. But it raises the question that one we've been all asking, can this guy pitch enough this season to win a cy young he's already getting ample time between starts?

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Speaker 3: Is this uncharted territory? Ken? I wanted to ask you, we talked about it earlier before the show. I mean, this is a situation where this is a unique player. I mean, we don't have a player that plays on both sides of the ball to the level that show, Hey, O Tani, does I mean is this just a going forward basis. We're just going to have to wait and see.

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Speaker 1: Relative to the time between innings, it seems to me that's been pretty much addressed, and yes, in certain cases, umpires are going to give him the grace that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was talking about after yesterday's game. Basically, there are practical elements here. If the guy needs more time on a little bit more time, as long as he's not abusing it, and in Game seven last year it was borderline in my opinion, But as long as he's not abusing it, that's fine. Now, as far as what I think you're asking about relative to can he sustain a full picture's worklowly going forward, he's done it before, and he's placed well on the side young voting before. But of course he's getting older, he's coming off a second surgery.

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Speaker 2: It's been some time now.

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Speaker 1: But the question of whether he can sustain an end still be ready for the postseason, which is all really the Dodgers care about, that is a fair question, and it's something that Alani are absolutely right about. It is uncharted territory, and we don't know if Joe hae Otani is going to be able to do this to the full extent that maybe fans want to see, maybe even the Dodgers want to see.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, he's still.

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Speaker 1: Pitched yesterday extremely well. No earn runs in six innings, one run.

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Speaker 2: Overall, this guy is.

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Speaker 1: Just absolute marvel, remains that way, and honestly, it's going to be fascinating to see just how he handles everything this year, as it's fascinating with him every year.

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Speaker 3: Ken, Before we move on here in the lead, one quick question for you. Do we have collective amnesia when it comes to this in the fact that NL pitchers were also batters until very recently? Are we thinking about that side of this coin.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we should be, and you're absolutely right, Alt, and this is not exactly something new in the game, new in recent.

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Speaker 2: Years, because of course now both leagues have.

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Speaker 1: The DH But I don't remember if this was ever an issue in the past. But if you've got a picture on the basis wearing a protective shin guard or whatever, he might need a little bit more time. It's the umpire is thinking practically here and just trying to do the common sense thing. And that applies to Autani as well. You don't want to rush him or anything like that. There have been complaints in the past. I imagine that it will be in the future if indeed he pushes the issue.

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Speaker 2: But that wasn't the case yesterday in Toronto.

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Speaker 3: All right, don't forget guys, get those questions in for Ken. We're gonna have Grill and Ken coming up momentarily. But another bit of news. It was expected, but it has finally happened. It is official. The Connor Griffin extension with the Pittsburgh Pirates a record, a team record, nine year, one hundred and forty million dollars deal. Good for the Buckoes, good for Griffin Ken.

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Speaker 1: That's what I wrote about Alana in The Athletic and the reason I say it's good for Griffin.

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Speaker 2: It's obviously good for the Bugos. We know that they've locked the guy up for nine years. Great. It's a team that loses its stars generally.

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Speaker 1: But for Griffin, it's a little bit different than some of these other extensions that we see for young players that occasionally you'll hear griping about from player representatives, agents, union people, whatever. And the issue with Griffin was always going to be, Okay, he'll sign a deal, but when will he become a free agent and when will he be able to really cash in? And with this deal nine years, no club options, he'll be a free agent after the age twenty eight season, entering the age twenty nine season, that should be a pretty good situation for him because it's still young enough to get paid in a big way. So with Griffin, clearly he wanted the long deal. He also wanted a sufficient guarantee, and he got a really good deal in that regard as well. The RB years are pretty close to current market value. The free agent years maybe a little bit below where he ultimately might have been, but he did okay.

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Speaker 3: A great extension for him. Certainly. You like those that benefit both sides of the equation, all right, Ken, I don't know that the Rangers, excuse me, the Pirates are surprising anybody, but there are some teams that continue to surprise. The first place, Texas Ranger sweeping the Mariners your first topic of conversation there.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I like the Rangers, and I like what Skip Schumacher has brought to that team kind of a new energy.

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Speaker 2: And it's not a knock on.

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Speaker 1: Bruce Bochie, of course, he won a World Series with the Rangers. But sometimes change can be good. And Schumacher definitely is a younger, different kind of manager than Bochie, and he is injected.

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Speaker 2: Some different energy into that team. There's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: Now. The other thing about the Rangers that you have to like is da ground Evaldi lighter and the rest of that rotation. I'm missing someone, oh, Mackenzie Gore, who was brilliant again yesterday. So their rotations in really good shape. They believe their offense will be better. They face some really good pitching so far, and yes they're a little worried about Jack Peterson.

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Speaker 2: But the Rangers have a new way.

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Speaker 1: About them, a new look about them, and if indeed their offense is as good as they think it's going to be, then they are a playoff contender.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Ken.

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Speaker 3: When we talked about the NL Central before the beginning of the season, we talked a lot, of course about the Chicago Cubs with the addition of Alex Bradman. We talked, of course about the Milwaukee Brewers, who seemed to be at the top of the division every single year. We weren't talking too much about the Reds. They're surprising some folks a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit so far, I would say Alana for sure, and the entire NL Central actually is a bit of a surprise. All five teams are five hundred or above. Only division like that right now. And the Reds, even though they're not really hitting, they're twenty eighth in the league and runs per game right now. They have, like the Rangers, a very strong rotation even without Hunter Green right now and no Dola. So I do like where they are, and I always like the fact that Francona gets generally the most out of his teams, so they're a team that in that division can be a factor. Now it's a really interesting division. The Cubs probably have the most talent, the Brewers probably are the best team, The Pirates are coming, they're better than they've been, and while the Cardinals are rebuilding, at least they've been competitive so far. And then of course we're talking about the Reds. So it's going to be interesting to see if one of the lesser clubs, the Pirates or the Reds, lesser in recent years, can ultimately stand up and challenge one of the better clubs, the Brewers and the Cubs.

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Speaker 3: Know if a lot of folks even remember the Reds were in the postseason last year, I mean, this is not a isn't isn't trying to go for it. How much of their success do you think, especially this year, perhaps is the Terry Francona effect.

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Speaker 1: Hard to know exactly, and really, first things first, it always comes down to players. You have to have the players, and their pitching is really intriguing. Their young pitching, Chase Burns, well, Andre Rabbit's not even so young anymore. But the entire group, it's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately, Francona, as I said, gets the most out of his clubs in an usual sense. Not always that way, of course, any team has disappointing years. But I trust him to do that. I think we all trust him to do that. Now the question becomes, are they going to hit enough? And Matt McClain is back, that's big for them. He was a catalyst a couple of years ago they got hurt. Wasn't the same last year him? Dela Cruz. Now with the addition of Aohaneo Suarez, they have a little bit of a more offensive look about them, but they haven't really shown that so far, so that's going to be the question. And south Stewart, I have to mention him as well. This guy is one of the better rookies in the game.

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Speaker 2: I overlooked him a couple of weeks ago. Some Red fans jump me.

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Speaker 1: I apologize that Al Stewart is in the conversation.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you got that off of your chest. Reds fans give Ken Rosenthal a break. Another team can that might be surprising some certainly surprising me. The Colorado Rockies at five hundred. That may not seem like a big deal. But this is a team, of course, that had a horrific year last year. They're at six and six right now, and they're not the last team in the NL West.

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Speaker 2: Ken, imagine that.

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Speaker 1: And with the Rockies, it's a new era obviously with Paul de Podesta and Josh Burns, and they're going to do some things differently in the fat and then in the past, and what they bring is an outside perspective. For too long, the Rockies were insular and they just relied on their own people, and that's fine.

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Speaker 2: There are some great people.

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Speaker 1: In that organization, as there are in every organization.

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Speaker 2: They needed new ideas.

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Speaker 1: New thoughts, and deep Pedesta and Burns bring that. And I'll also mention their manager because the players speak highly of him, Warren Shaeffer, longtime guy on the staff. They elevated him to replace Bud Black. He looks like he can be one of the better young managers in the game. As he goes forward, we'll see and we'll see how they play. The pitching is always going to be challenged in horse Fields, but they have some interesting young players tofar. Certainly is an emerging star. I'm anxious to see how it goes. Really not so much this season, but in the years to come, because conquering Corsefield as a team is considered the biggest challenge any club faces, conquering the situation that the Rockies are in deep, Podesta and Burns are up for that challenge. I'm sure Schaeffer is too. And we'll see if they can have some new answers, because no one really has had sustainable answers to this point.

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Speaker 3: And I can appreciate the fact that Dick Montfort has kind of passed those reins to his son, Walker Montfort, who has worked his way up in the in the system there and has perhaps a new perspective on things in Colorado. All right. The lead is powered by Game Changer, the number one youth sports app that helps you coach smarter, connect, live and replay the action. Learn more at GC dot com. Now let's get into Grill and Ken Okay Ken. Our first question is from Nick Hoist one for seven. Why are so many young players getting these contracts before they even enter the league? Obviously, Connor Griffin had played a couple of games before they made this official, but he's not the only one in terms of rookies getting getting some some long term money, if you will, Nick.

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Speaker 1: A lot of fans have this question, and it's an understandable one because a lot of these players have not done anything yet. But the thinking is, and I wrote this a couple of weeks after the cold Emerson extension and just had this thought, and it's not really a radical thought. Teams only do this because they feel it's going to be to their advantage that ultimately they'll be getting players at below market rates, that the players will outperform the contracts and give the teams surplus value. That is the motivation. For the clubs in every one of these cases, that's.

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Speaker 2: What they want.

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Speaker 1: So does it always work out? No it doesn't, but more often than not it does. From the club's perspective, and of course from the player's perspective. They take these deals because, hey, you've got lifetime security before you've even done anything.

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Speaker 2: It's a pretty good situation of being I.

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Speaker 3: Love this because we don't always get to peel the curtain back when it comes to you. Obviously, you're incredibly professional. But I love learning more about Ken Rosenthal, the person versus, in my opinion, Hall of Fame reporter. Who was your favorite Major League Baseball player growing up? This is from Video Game Nation twenty six.

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Speaker 1: All right, Video Game Nation twenty six. I was seven years old when the Mets won the nineteen sixty nine World Series, and don't do the math that makes me sixty three. When the Mets won the nineteen sixty nine World Series, my favorite player.

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Speaker 2: Was a guy named Ron Swoboda.

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Speaker 1: He was my first favorite player and he was the one I don't know on the Mets that I just identified as a guy I liked.

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Speaker 2: I liked the Mets back then.

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Speaker 1: Mets fans, interestingly enough, think I hate their team now, No, it's just my job.

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Speaker 3: So next question, Okay, this one from Jeremy from Boston. I think he's actually actually from Woosta. On the heels of the City Connect announcement today, Which team has the best City Connect uniform in baseball? Can I don't even know if you saw them, had the opportunity to take a look at him, But this is basically City Connect a two point zero three point zero. Any thoughts there is one from Baltimore. It's be more.

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Speaker 2: This is please make more money. That's what the City Connect uniforms are. And I understand that. And MLB does some cool and creative things.

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Speaker 1: Not just with the uniforms but with the videos that accompany the announcements.

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Speaker 2: They're really good.

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Speaker 1: But I haven't taken a look in depth at the uniforms yet. I've had other things regarding the actual game on the field that I've had more concerns about.

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Speaker 3: All Right, I liked the Wisco ones for the Milwaukee Brewers Wisko, and I also like the Pirates ones. I thought the new Pirates every Pirate uniform that has ever come out, I've absolutely loved. There's just something about the way the pirates go about it that I absolutely love, all right, Clint from La, how much did the Blue Jays need that? When over the Dodgers can perhaps just more from a mental perspective than anything.

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Speaker 1: I would say for an April game, it had more meaning than most. But with the Blue Jays, the key thing is, well, two key things. One they've got to hit. They have not hit to their capabilities yet. And two they've got to play cleaner baseball. They're in a situation now when they have a rotation and entire rotation on the injured list, five starters on the injured list, and some are in better conditions than others, and some will be back, and of course Boden Francis won't and Cody Ponce won't.

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Speaker 2: But to be the team that they want to be, the team that.

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Speaker 1: They were last year, they have to play clean and they have not done that for the most part, and they've got to be better offensively. O Komodo essentially replaces Bashett. It's largely the same cast. Of course, Barger's heard a little bit, so it's early. I don't know that we can judge the Jays yet, and I don't know that even it's fair to look at them like we would in a normal season, because they're coming off an incredibly emotionally draining World Series. I know it's a new year, but there's an adjustment. I'm sure that takes place with these guys. And while they're all professional, of course, extremely professional, and they go about their business the right way, the hangover effect, to me, it seems like it might be real.

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Speaker 3: Mark Spiroh and Ross Atkins getting extensions. You have to love the fat to Ken that this team spent money in the off season putting it back into their product. I appreciate Toronto for doing that. There have been a lot of injuries Ken, in terms of decimating starting rotations around baseball. Let's talk a bit about the Houston Astros and Christian hobby Air exiting early with the shoulder issue.

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Speaker 2: What do you know, this is troubling.

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Speaker 1: And Christian Javier, of course, a hero of the twenty twenty two World Series, goes Tommy John a little bit after that and then he misses his time. Now he's back and he still has not been the same picture. And now he is on the injured list with shoulder problems. And that is alarming because the Astros just loves Hunter Brown for an indeterminate amount of time. The Astros did a good job in the off season building up the depth of their rotation. They acquired Mike Burrows, they signed Am I, they brought in Ryan Weiss.

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Speaker 2: They have enough bodies.

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Speaker 1: But obviously as these injuries hit, it becomes problematic.

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Speaker 2: And that's where they are now, all right.

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Speaker 3: Not the only one in terms of that Hunter Brown, of course, Zach Eflin and Kate Horton. How much does Zach Efflin issue prove to be problematic for Baltimore Ken.

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Speaker 1: Another team that has tried to build up its depth, and they have better depth than in the past, but they wanted Efflin to be part of their equation.

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Speaker 2: And it's crushing for Eflyn too. This guy's battled injuries.

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Speaker 1: He's had all kinds of problems over the years, and just when it seems he was back to being himself and when he is healthy he is a really good picture.

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Speaker 2: That is obviously something that's disappointing for him.

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Speaker 1: But for the Orioles, rotation has been their number one question and we entered the season again wondering if they had enough at the top. It's bratish, it's Rogers. It's bos they are okay.

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Speaker 2: But are they good enough? Now?

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Speaker 1: Dtan Kramer will step in for Efflyn, and they have some younger pictures as well that they can turn to. It just is curious or not curious. It's just a question that persists with them. And I forgot to mention Chris Bassett.

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Speaker 2: He's in the equation too. He hasn't started too well. I don't know. They're too worried about that. So the question that started the season is the question.

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Speaker 1: That remains, and again gets exacerbated by the Efflin injury.

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Speaker 3: Now doubt about that, Cad Horton out for the season. Ken for the Chicago Cubs, how do they deal with that?

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Speaker 1: Well, they've gotten two good starts in the last two days with boyd out two out of Assad and Colin Ray, so they too have tried to build depth.

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Speaker 2: It's a common theme here right Why.

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Speaker 1: Because pictures get hurt. It's the nature of the game today. It's the reality of the game today.

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Speaker 2: Now, can the Cubs.

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Speaker 1: Sustain it all year with Assad and Ray?

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Speaker 2: I don't know that they can.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they'll need to. Boy should be back in due time, of course. Horton is out for the season and that is a blow. But they've got still Ibrad Cabrera and Jamison Tyon and him and Naga and they should be okay. But I would not be surprised at the deadline.

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Speaker 2: And if they're looking for starting pitching.

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Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, dude, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, I love this part of our show because we get to compliment somebody that did something great this week. Whether it's an individual or an organization. Can go ahead. Who is your Dude of the week?

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Speaker 2: Joe Adele? In my goodness, I know it was Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: It's ancient history already, but that was one of the greatest defensive performances any of us has ever seen. The three home run robberies, especially the last one when he fell into the right field seats. It was a great moment for a guy who has come a long way and a guy who kind of brings a lot of light to the Angels. So Joey Dell due to the week, and man, that was just mind bottling what happened. First of all, to even get three chances to rob home runs, that's extremely rare, and then to actually do it, and to do it in the dramatic way that he did in a close game.

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Speaker 2: Joey Dell due to the.

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Speaker 3: Week, no doubt about that. I mean it could be due to the year. For that defensive performance, the best defensive game I certainly have ever seen. Even more so Ken He did it in front of Mike Trout and Tory Hunter, two obviously very good defensive outfielders as well. And let's give some credit to Kaylee Kay who took that amazing photo. If she doesn't have a deal with Apple by now, I'm assuming she used her iPhone to do that, she certainly deserves one. And that glove is headed to Cooperstown Joe Adele donating the glove to the Baseball Hall of Fame. My dude of the week is Walt Weiss, the Atlanta Braves manager, who I think could put on the pads Ken for the Atlanta Falcons. He took down Hojjes Soled, who used to be his own player. And again, let's not forget that Walt Weiss Uh is a he's in you know, he's he's trained for taekwondo or m m A and and those types of things. He is a man that obviously is a man of tremendous strength, and he was able to take him down. And Hoode Solid has a tremendous amount of respect for Walt Weiss and he actually said Solid did that. He was probably trying just to protect him and Walt Weiss. I texted him and I said, boss, move skip and he said, old guys can still have fun. Uh, you are my dude of the week for taking down that large human in hode Soled. All right, time now for our dork of the week. Unfortunately, Ken, there were a lot of people to choose from in terms of our dorks of the week. Go ahead, who is yours?

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Speaker 2: All right? This is not an extreme dork of the week. This is a very mild one from a guy who I trust.

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Speaker 1: Will I'm gonna be the DRK of the week again because in my view he is one of the better managers in the game right now for Clayton McCullough on Tuesday night, and he instantly regretted this, or not instantly as the game evolved.

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Speaker 2: He credited it took out.

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Speaker 1: Sandy l Contra with two with one out in the ninth inning, a lead, and the chance for al Contra to pitch back to back complete games and become the first pitcher to do that in eleven years.

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Speaker 2: Now, there's no crime in going to the bullpen, and if it had worked out, maybe we wouldn't have even been talking about it. But of course it didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins lost to the Reds in ten innings, and our consult was removed with first and second, two runners on and one out. As I said, he was still going strong, and our contreda said afterward that, you know what, I wish I had been consulted because the move was made before he had any say in the matter.

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Speaker 2: And Clayton McCullough owned it afterward.

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Speaker 1: He said, there are decisions that you make that don't necessarily work out the way you want.

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Speaker 2: That was one of them.

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Speaker 1: So it's a mild dork of the week, and guys say stupid stuff that's not so mild.

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Speaker 2: That's real dork of the week.

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Speaker 1: This one is more of a second guess and one that he openly acknowledged afterward himself. It was just a fascinating situation and of course get backfired.

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Speaker 3: Okay, my dork of the week is on the other side of the Walt Weiss equation. But for me, it's Rinaldo Lopez kN trying to punch solid with a baseball in his hand. I'm not certain what you should do in that situation. Maybe drop the baseball before you try to punch somebody. You'd probably be a little bit more effective. But that whole thing was just a little silly. It was kind of you know, the brew ha that happened in Anaheim. Both of those guys get suspended. I want to say that Ronaldo Lopez, I think was reduced to five games, Is that right? So he actually won't miss the start the next time, So I mean Soled won't miss the start the next time. So anyway, that is my dork.

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Speaker 1: Of the week.

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Speaker 3: All right, Ken, what about the possibility of a second straight rain delay if you will in your upcoming game. We're going to talk about that after the break. If you're watching on TV, We're going to see you next week. We'll have a couple more minutes for the YouTube crowd right after this. All right, if you're still with us, we appreciate you guys watching on YouTube. Ken, you are supposed to be doing what Boston at Saint Louis this weekend? Is that going to happen. I'm not trying to make you a weather man, but there is some weather in the outlook at sure, it looks.

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Speaker 2: Like there is a lot.

00:26:27
Speaker 1: And the only reason we even bring this up is because last week I was supposed to do the Cubs at the Guardians and that one was rained out.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: Now, this is my twenty first year with Fox. Twenty first year.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: I don't believe we've ever had two consecutive rainouts during the regular season. So we're looking at unprecedented, uncharted territory perhaps, But I am confident, even though I have had weather issues in Saint Louis before.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: I am confident this game is going to be played.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: We're going to see range of Suarez make us thirdd start for the Boston Red Sox, and if it doesn't happen, well, your screens will be without Fox Baseball Game at least the one from Saint Louis.

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Speaker 2: We'll have another game always a backup.

00:27:10
Speaker 1: Actually, we have an alternate game always and that goes to part of the country and the game I'm doing goes to another part.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, rain, rain or weather, weather go away. We definitely want to be able to get that game in. We appreciate you guys watching. Of course, that's it for us. Foul Territory is next. Rockies first Baseman G. J. Rumfield and the Athletics Owen Point, Dexter and Lev Weaver joined, Eric Kratz, Todd Frazer, and Scott Braun, and then Dodgers' Territory follows with myself, Clint Pasius and Katie Woo Brad Paisley joining us on the show too. Whoa my guy Brad on the show Ken. Of course, we'll be back on Monday with Fair Territory. Have a great weekend everybody, Thanks for being here by

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Speaker 4: Bye keep mos