Mets dugout pitch-calling experiment, Aaron Boone is not analytical? Grayson Rodriguez injury update

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and happy Friday, everybody. Welcome to fowl Territory. That is Eric Kratz. I am Alana Rizzo, pinch hitting for Scott Braun, who is going to be back on Tuesday. Happy to be with you, guys, Thanks for being here. Don't forget to check us out at hashtag ft live and you can buy merchant foul Territory shop dot com. Eric any big plans for the weekend?

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Speaker 2: Big plans I got. We got a baseball game. It's going to be seventy two degrees up.

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Speaker 3: Here on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I have a rule when I quit playing baseball that I would not go golfing if I went on my own, but if somebody asks me, that's the only time I go golfing.

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Speaker 3: So I got.

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Speaker 2: Invited to go golfing Sunday, and my wife said, of course you can go.

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Speaker 3: Nicely.

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Speaker 1: What a nice wife. Seventy two degrees. I am jealous. We are still in the high thirties, low forties here in Massachusetts, so I am jealous about that. All right, guys, it is time to charge the mound at presented by Fox one. We appreciate Fox one being a partner with us, So what do you think about this being a former catcher yourself. The Mets, apparently eric are calling pitches from the dugout. Apparently they're taking a page out of the Miami Marlins book. Quote. Hey Castillo and Alden Gonzalez, who write for ESPN, said the Mets are experimenting with dugout relaying pitch calls to the catcher. Now take us back to how typically you would have a pitch call relayed to you when you played, and tell us more about what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, for me, I would call the pitches. Whether the pitcher liked how it's going the game or not, they would shake off. So that's the traditional way it's always going. You're reading the swings, you're looking at the situation. You're also remember bring all the numbers in your head. You build out your own scattered report. You remember, oh yeah, how did that picture face this guy in his career? Is it one at bat? Did he have twenty at bats against him? And so all that goes into the decision that now is on a pitch clock. So we heard from the Marlins the Marlins are doing a Hey, we're calling the pitches. But we've also heard from their pictures that if they don't want it, they can shake it off.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much Lee Way.

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Speaker 2: Augustine Ramirez, a catcher for the Marlins, will have in saying Okay, maybe I don't like that call, or maybe I'm already have something in my mind. I haven't heard enough of that, but we know from the pictures. I think Tyler Phillips was on he said, you know, if you don't like it, it's a suggestion and you can shake it off. The Mets, I think are going what I would consider the next tier down, which is something that I think is has been done. I think it's been done in different places. This is because you sit there and you go. You don't have all the answers as a catcher. Some catchers would say, yeah, you just throw, you just throw whatever I call. I never was a fan of that because I was always looking at it like I'm giving you a suggestion. I want you to feel comfortable with the pitch that you're calling, and this pitch is what I'm seeing and reading, and you know what, if you give up a hit on the pitch I call. I want both of us to have the same ownership on it. So when you add in a third party from the dugout, my issue is, what are you seeing from the dugout that I'm not seeing from the field. Now, I'm not seeing from this hitter. Now, I'm not seeing from the pitcher, and how he's throwing on, what his cutter looks like that day, a slider looks like that day. They're just looking from the dugout. They go to the iPad and they go forty three percent sliders in a two to two count. Okay, we're either going off of that or we're like, oh, this guy can't hit a slider, so we're gonna go rate to it.

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Speaker 3: They're working on the numbers, you're working on the vision. So to me, the.

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Speaker 2: METS, I kind of like it a little bit, But you're really towing the line there, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think it just adds another wrinkle, another level of communication, another layer. Rather, I think ultimately it is the picture's decision as to what he wants to throw. He will end up having to own it if it is the wrong picture and he is shaking you off. But doesn't it just add another layer of perhaps confusion lost in translation type of situation. Why do we need to get calls now being relaid from the dugout. Do you not trust your catcher enough? Are you relying too much on analytics? What is the other side of this coin.

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Speaker 2: The other side in the negative sense, or I mean in the other side, the other side is that you're just going by the numbers, and just going by the numbers is all find and good.

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Speaker 3: The numbers are the numbers for reason.

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Speaker 2: There's a large sample size, and I am a big proponent of it. But a season can sway on one pitch or another. I heard the twenty eighteen when the Red Sox won the World Series that in one of their post season leading up to the regular season the nineteen regular season, the people from and I don't know exactly who all said it, but it was directed towards the pitching coach, pitching staff, you know, pitch calling people on the big league team. A group from the analytic department said, if you guys would have listened to exactly the pitches that we had on our sheet, you would have had a half a run lower team ERA for the season, to the point the Red Sox that year led the league in ERA. If I'm not mistaken, if they if they didn't lead the league. They were top three in twenty eighteen and they won the World Series. So you could not have had more success than what they had. But analytically they look at it and they go would have been half a run less. And I don't one hundred percent agree with that, because there's situations when Chris Sale goes out there and his slider is not exactly the way it normally looks, you're gonna have to work in more heaters. You go out there in a situation where Chris Sales faced player X and he's had success, and the numbers would say, yes, you need to throw a slider, but history would say if you throw a slider in this situation, he's gonna slowly work the batter into an ability to hit his pitches. And so that's the give and take, that's the push in the pool, and ultimately the one of the things that you said, Alana, is what I'm fearful of. When you used to make a bad pitch call, or when when you used to give up a hit, you'd come in as a catcher and go into the dugout and the pitching coach would sit down there, he put his hand on your leg and be like, what were you thinking right there?

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Speaker 3: What's the deal?

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Speaker 2: And as a catcher, as a young catcher, you sit there and you go, oh man, sorry, like yeah, and then the pitching coach kind of gets back on you and gets back on you, gets back on you, and ultimately it's the result of the pitch. And ultimately, as a catcher, when you take that next step as a pitch caller, you look at that pitching coach and you go, you know what, if you can do better, why don't you call the pitchers Because I'm out there trying to make the best decision. And that's when the pitching coach knows that the catcher has taken that next step, graduated to that next step of I'm confident in my decision because of this. So it's less about the pitch that you're calling and more about the reason you're calling it. And when you're only calling it from the dugout, the reason you're calling it is because you got it on your computer.

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Speaker 1: Eric, what about the element of feel? You look at your numbers and I can understand that there is a place for saber metrics. I can understand there's a place for analytics in the game. But let's say you're looking at your sheet and you're saying, all right, this guy has this type of average against a slider blah blah blah, and a two to two count or a three to two count, you should throw it here. What if your pitcher that day didn't have the slider in the bullpen session, couldn't transition it to a game. The slider's not working for whatever reason, you have to go a different off speed pitch, or you're just relying on the fastball to figure it out. How much does feel play a part in this? I can understand that they said, Okay, if you want to shake us off, if you don't want to use it, that's fine in terms of our suggestion when we're relaying a certain call. But as the catcher, you know what your pitcher has working that day. I would imagine feel is a huge part of what you're putting down or putting in your PitchCom or whatever it is. In this day and age.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is feel, but it's also you better get it right. You better get it like your look at it. You go into Colorado, we had Cliff Lee and Roy holiday On in the same rotation. Cliff Lee had a great cutter. He would throw his cutter all the time, and his cutter would sink that one the one day that he threw in Colorado when I was there with him. So it was it was sinking or it was staying straight. So you're like, I can't call the cutter because you want to call the cutter in to be able jam guys up inside. But if that stays out over the plate, that's dangers. Roy Holliday, great sinker, also a good cutter. His sinker was cutting. His cutter was sinking. So you sit there and you go, you're looking over and you go, what do you want me to throw?

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Speaker 3: Oh? A cutter?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. But a sinker right here is what the cutter is. So how can you you know, you're already working those things in your head. You're already talking to the picture in between innings. So I think it's something that the feel is so important. It's so important to be able to say, Okay, this is our game plan. Holy crap, we just gave up a first pitch triple. What do we go to now?

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Speaker 3: Not?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, now it's a second hitter. Analytically, it doesn't really matter who's on base when you're calling pitches. Well it does because you have different guys that have different approaches. When there's different situations, and so you have to have that feel and it's a constant feel, and I just I'm not completely against it. I'm just wondering how the person calling the pitches from the dugout is going to also have that feel without talking in between innings, which you're doing anyway, without somebody calling the pitches.

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Speaker 1: One other thing about this before we move on and welcome in Susan Slesser, who is a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle covering the Giants. What about this do you fear if you do that, perhaps it will allow a younger catcher to continue to second and guess themselves and not take the next step in their own development of calling pitches. If they're so reliant on someone calling pitches in the dugout laying those pitches to them, are they going to be willing to take a stand and take the next step because of fear of making a mistake.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's either way. That's either way you're you're gonna if you're calling them on your own, you feel you're gonna have that fear that you're gonna make a mistake. If you're getting them from them, If you're getting from the dugout. You're gonna have to learn to be like, no, I'm saying this with my chest, I'm calling this pitch. I don't think what you're calling is the right call because you have to step out on a limb and say I think this is best and ultimately the game is played on the field. Ultimately the game is played on the field, and there's there's a there's also a value that I can't quantify, but I think teams might be able to what pressure does this alleviate from some of these younger catchers who can also hit. To me, I couldn't hit. Everybody makes fun of my war, my batting average, all that stuff. I wasn't as good as a hitter as the two teams we're talking about. Francisco or Augustine Ramirez both really good hitters. So does this take some of that onus off of them and get them ten extra hits fifteen extra hits during the year. I don't know, but if that's the case, there is a value to that too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess it depends on what it is that you're looking for. One Mets player described the dugout sign as a suggestion so the Carlos Mendoza and the Mets working through it. See what they do in terms of transitioning that to the regular season. Well, this episode is brought to you by Fox One. Fox one is now live stream all your Fox favorites together in one place, from MLB postseason to NFL on Fox to Big Noon Saturdays. With Fox One. You'll get it all live. Start your seven day free trial today offers our subject to change. Go to Fox one for complete terms and conditions. Fox One streaming.

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Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, that's what he said.

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Speaker 4: That's what he said.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 4: That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: We're bothcome me back alive. The foul territory. Bobashet is embracing the New York Spotlight. Aims to be quote, one of the best players in the game. I love this about him, and it continues eric about I am capable of being. This is in the athletic I am capable of being. I don't think you can say the best player in the game, because that is subjective, but I can be one of the best players in the game. I love that. I love that he wants to be that. Understanding the big stage that he's in. He always said he wanted to play on the biggest stage. He didn't necessarily think it was going to be New York as a kid. He was thinking more you know, World Series, WBC, those types of things. But you've got to have that attitude. I think you've played in New York, You've got to have that attitude if you want to embrace what the expectations are.

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Speaker 3: I don't think New York can affect him. I just I just feel like he was.

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Speaker 2: We interviewed him the other day when we were at Mets camp, and like, I just think there's a different confidence swag in there that I think other players maybe sometimes lack, and that's what affects them in New York because you have to be confident in yourself. But you have to be confident in yourself to be one of the best players. And when he said that, he was honest, like, look, the best player in the game is Shoeo Tani. It's everybody else after Shoho Tani. And to be one of the best players in the game, you have to do something better than everybody else. And to me, he he, I mean, he's gonna he's gonna lead the league in hits at some point, in the next three years. Maybe this year he knows how to hit. He has a hit tool, whereas batting average might not be super high because he doesn't walk, but maybe these walks go up this year because you know he's around the guy watching, a guy like Juan Soto. But part of the reason he gets so many hits is because he's able to make contact with so many different pitches and he's able to hit those balls hard still where other guys make weak contact and they're getting out. So could he be one of the best players. Absolutely. I think he's had four two three four seasons where he's gotten MVP votes, so yes, he's in that category. Does he want to get in the top ten and MVP votes, Absolutely, But the only way that happens is if he stays healthy and his team is winning, because he will be a central focal point of this team. Juan Soto's the guy, but he will definitely be a central focal point and if they're winning, that means he's doing good.

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Speaker 1: But I love what his former manager, John Schneider of the Toronto Blue Jays said about him, because I get that sense. And I don't know Bobashut personally, but He said that he's always very quiet, but when he speaks, people listen. People knew he had a lot to offer. He was very meticulous with what he said and how he said it, when he said it to players, to the media. That's what I love about him. He doesn't just speak to speak. It's like, I know, perhaps a lot of the people listening and watching don't remember the commercials about Ef Hutton. I don't even know if you do, Eric, I'm older than you. But it's like when you know, when if Hutton talks, people listen. That's what I feel like Bobashett is. He's not a guy that has to talk a lot, but when he does talk, people are paying attention. It's that quiet confidence that I like about him.

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Speaker 2: Let your bat speak. I guess you let your bat speak. And anybody anybody that says, oh man, that guy talks a lot, he seems really confident, it's not true at all, Especially in sports. The loudest guys are usually the most insecure guys. Not all the time, not all the time. Sometimes it's just personality. But the confident guys don't need to talk a lot. They don't need to say, they don't need to have this like voistous like appearance. Even they just go out, they do their work because they know what it takes to succeed. And I think he definitely, he definitely owns that. And if somebody knows him as a professional, it's Johns. John Schneider coached him at different no way. I think he managed him at a bunch of different levels in the minor leagues with the Blue Jays, and then he became He was a coach when bo first got called up, and now he's been his manager for a few years. So if there's somebody that knows him and Vlad, it's my roomy, John Schneider.

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Speaker 1: What about the protection that he's going to get in the Mets lineup versus the protection that he had in the Jay's lineup. How do you think these lineups compared to talking about getting them, you know, having the most hits, getting some of the most hits, most walks, those types of things, having the different lineup around him, How do you think this lineup will serve him better? If in fact you do, maybe not.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think it depends on where he's hitting in the lineup. And without making a mistake, I am not one hundred percent sure where he's going to hit in the lineup.

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Speaker 3: If he's going to be.

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Speaker 2: In front of one Soto, behind Juan Soto, I think it'll manipulate some of his numbers. If you're hitting in front of Wan Soto, I think you have of the opportunity to get strikes. And with Boba Shet, a guy who does not walk. To me, my scattered report is I need to make him expand, expand, So sometimes you got to go higher than high with your fastball. Sometimes you're just up in the zone. He can still contact that you're just two inches off the play. With your slider, he's able to make good contact and go with that pitch. But when you have if he's hitting in front of Endor or in front of one Sodo, they don't want they don't want you. They don't want to face Juan Soto with a runner on base. They don't want to face Vladimir Guerrero with a runner on base. Those are two guys that can do damage and control the strike zone so well. So to me, the more pitches he gets, the more hits he's gonna get. And because he's he's never gonna really walk. And you big Lee pitchers do not want to go way out of the zone and walk a guy who doesn't walk. But if he's hitting behind those guys, if he was hitting behind Vladimir Guerrero, I'm not sure what the lineup construction was or is going to be for the Mets, then those RBIs are going to go up. Then you're talking about a guy with a hit tool like that that can go to all parts of the ballpark, that can get those hits with runners in scoring position. You're talking about last year, if he didn't get hurt, one hundred plus, one hundred and ten plus RBI guy, he could do that for the Mets. That is where That's where I think his his abilities hitting. It's kind of like a chameleon. It kind of depends on where he's at in the lineup.

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Speaker 1: I feel like so many topics of conversation Eric the last couple of years, maybe even the last three years, was that the window for Vladimir Guerrero Junior and Bobashet we're closing playing together, and then it became the distraction. Perhaps maybe that's not the right term, but then it became the conversation of well, Vladdie's locked up are they going to also lock up, but well, obviously that didn't happen. He is now a New York meant for the foreseeable future. How much can that help him not worry about like he knows where he's playing, he knows where I am. He doesn't have to worry about am I going to be here next year? The the contract talks and those types of things. How much can that help?

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Speaker 2: I think it can definitely help. And I don't know that necessarily hurt Bo this past year. I think it was the year before when, from what I heard, the conversations were already happening about extensions, and maybe his feelings got hurt during that time. All that beside us, all that behind us. This is essentially still a one year deal. Like this is bobashek goes out and has the year that won he wants to have, the Mets want him to have, and the league wants him to have because he can be a star in this league.

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Speaker 3: Not a superstar, but a star.

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Speaker 2: Then he's gonna go back out on the market and he's gonna get an even bigger contract, but for a longer period of time. So it's really a win win for him. So there could still be that pressure of ooh, I'm going back out there. Oh, you know, how does this season if I start out slow? How does this affect my essential free agency?

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Speaker 3: We'll see.

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Speaker 1: There was a rumor last year from some execs eric according to a report on bleacher Report, that the Mets clubhouse last season was a bit of a show, a bit of a shit show, if you will, gripping the Mets clubhouse and offseason moves quote, it was a disaster. At least one MLB executive believe that the Mets had must have must have had serious issues after letting Pete Alonzo walk, Brandon Nimo go, Jeff McNeil is gone, obviously. Do you think bobashett with this, you know what he just said about wanting to be one of the better players in the game can bring some new energy, new light, kind of help with those clubhouse troubles of fact, if they were, or as the new guy in there, are you not even trying to mess with that? And what's going on between perhaps Soto and Lindor and all of those things.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot, I mean, that's a lot going on. It's a lot to ask a guy who we just spoke about it. He's kind of introverted, he's kind of quieter, So I don't think the Mets are necessarily looking for him to be the leader. I think the Mets, if they had clubhouse issues last year, are looking to make the clubhouse feel more more together and less individual. Can you do that with superstars like Lindor and Soto? Can you do that with a whole cavalcade of new guys coming into the clubhouse. That's tough because you're like, Oh, the clubhouse vibe is gonna be so much better this year, Like how do you know? How do you know it will be? Like Pete was a guy that had been there for a long time. Did he not get along with Juan Soto? Did he not get along with Francisco? Like we haven't heard that stuff. We haven't heard, you know, who was complaining about what or why this was said. I have a hard time believing that they had a clubhouse issue, except for the fact that they didn't make the playoffs. So anytime you don't make the playoffs, just like we talked about Team USA with WBC, Oh, they looked listless, they looked lifeless, Like I have a hard time believing it it's just you saw this team every single day like fighting for their life, fighting for the fact that they're trying to make it to the playoffs. And maybe there was a little bit of a riff because the pitchers weren't going.

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Speaker 3: Deep into the games.

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Speaker 2: So then the bullpen guys are like, oh, great, our starters, we can't stay healthy because our starters aren't making aren't making, you know, getting their innings. And the position players go out and score three runs, and the starters give up four runs, and then the bullpen starts giving up runs, and so then the position players and the pitchers have a riff.

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Speaker 3: There's a riff because you're losing the year before you're winning.

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Speaker 2: You beat the Phillies and you move on in the playoffs and you're like, everything's great. We love pumpkins, OMG, Grimace all that stuff.

00:24:50
Speaker 1: Injuries do suck, and it looks like it's happening to Grayson Rodriguez again. Eric he's dealing with some arm sore, as Kurt Suzuki calling it dead arm. Still a chance he's ready for the season, which by the way, starts in six days if he feels better in the coming days. But they're monitoring him, but could be an IL candidate. This is a guy that had so much fanfare coming up and he just can't seem to stay healthy. That's a bummer for Rodoricuez and obviously for the Angels.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's worse to not know what the injury is, like the dead arm. People go through dead arms. But in this day and age, everybody, every pitch, every throw is always on radar, on track, man on rap, sodo, whatever it is, and so it's like.

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Speaker 3: Is everything okay?

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Speaker 2: He is only throwing ninety two in his bullpen andy last week he was throwing ninety four. Your arm just is never going to feel one hundred percent and so arm soreness or dead arm. A lot of guys would go through that and you're like, what is like my arm just hurts for some reason. It's like we'll point to it. It's like, well from my shoulder down to like my wrist, like because you're throwing more and more consistency, with more intent. So hopefully it's not something that he's trying to compensate with because something else is hurting. But take it easy if you only make twenty six starts and Grayson Rodriguez season is a successful season, Like, we're not looking for Grayson Roriguez to throw thirty two starts two hundred innings, which when you look at him physically, you go, yes, that's what he could do. But if it means missing a start two or three, like, get it to the point where he's one hundred percent when he's out there.

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Speaker 1: For somebody eric that has not been blessed with height, this next story kind of made me pause for a second. So look at this. Joe Pompleano tweeted, We're going to see a lot of height changes this year because with the rollout of ABS automated balls and strikes, MLB is now measuring each player's height down to the millimeter. Gavin Stone of Gavin Stone, Gavin Luck's just absolutely shrunk. What are we doing? Look at this the process, super strict guys, no shoes, no hats, knees exposed back against the walls like you're a prisoner. And to account for potential shrinkage, I was in the pool throughout the day. MLB is even requiring all its teams to take measurements between ten am and twelve pm local time on their appointed day. What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Cratzy all right, we're not talking about shrinkage on the show. Okay, So what we are going to talk about, though, is the fact that women lie and men lie, and the thing that they lie about is their height, and it's pointless. For my entire career, I thought I was six foot four and then I went on to this electronic it's not a scale. It's a scale, but it's also it measures your height. It is not like there's no cheating. They had you set out all the parameters there, and because of the lump on top of my head, I was I was listed at six foot five inches and I'm like, well, this sucks. That means my strike zone is gonna be bigger. Obviously I didn't stick around for abs all the stuff in the minor leagues that ended up happening. But yeah, you can't lie about your height, Like, don't lie about your height. Nobody, nobody wants to, you know, show up and be like, hey, I'm six foot two. My name is Gavin Lux and you show up and you're like, what you're not? I don't think it's on purpose. Like look like we take this as we take this as gospel that when we pull up on baseball reference that Gavin Lux is six foot two, Like.

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Speaker 3: What does it matter? Like who put it in? Was it an intern that put it in?

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Speaker 2: Is there, like is there an FBI agent that's making sure that that's exactly what his height is. I mean there's a guy. There was a guy in the Red Sox organization. I think his name is Gonzalez. I was just talking to their player development guy. He grew like three or four inches and put them fifty pounds within the last year and a half. Like there's a little bit of a change. I think Christopher Sanchez, his height had been listed at like six foot or six one.

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Speaker 3: I think now he's six'.

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Speaker 1: Six so it's a heck.

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Speaker 3: Spain that's.

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Speaker 2: THAT i mean from the time you get drafted at seven sixty or signed at sixteen years, Old, yeah things. Change but also it's like like you put down the wrong birth, Birthplace like you're not going to go into your own baseball reference and change. It it's not like high school basketball where you go how tall are? You six foot six foot? One the whole team everyone's over six foot and you get there and you're.

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Speaker 1: Like that IS i wonder if any of these people that happen to be on dating apps if the people that are looking at the app dating apps are smart enough to cross reference what it actually what their height actually. Is when it comes to the, abs they're, like wait a, minute you, said on Whatever bumbleton or whatever the hell they, are you're six to, two but on this it says you're five to. Seven wait lie about their. Height i'm assuming you're saying women lie about what age and.

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Speaker 2: Weight not Even i'm not going to touch women weight at, all but women wear makeup to cover up what they actually look.

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Speaker 1: Like that's, listen, Listen, Linda, Listen. Linda we had this conversation the other day about why that has to be. Done don't even get me started on the on the on the people that are so mean about women that age and guys just get. Distinguished Kevin garnett had to be listed at six to eleven because seven footers Were OH i, Know, now everybody in THE nba is like seven to, one seven To it's. Bananas it is. Bananas and everybody In Major League baseball throws a bazillion miles an. Hour all, Right so Apparently Aaron boone said that he is the least analytical manager in THE Al. EAST i had to laugh at, This, eric BECAUSE i feel like analytics has taken over The yankee, way and you would know better THAN, i having spent time there in, pinstripes and perhaps the team as an organization, is But Aaron boone is saying that he. Isn't The yankees saw the lowest percentage of pitches from right handed hitters versus left handed pitchers among ALL mlb. Teams it wasn't just a one year. Blip over the past three, Seasons, eric The yankees had the worst right handed platoon. Advantage it is a stat that Makes boone believe he is the least analytical manager in The Al. East what say, You, WELL.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: I Say Aaron boone should come on and we'll talk about. This but obviously that's not his choice all the. Time but ANYWAY i, WOULD i would lean to the side of agreeing with. HIM i would lean to the side of agreeing with him BECAUSE i really think he's going out there to put the best players out. THERE i think some of this platoon advantage stuff kind of his roster construction, Too like you're not sitting there and, going, oh, well you, know we have this this player for this. Situation it's like some other teams. Do AND i would say of The American League, EAST i would. AGREE i would, AGREE i mean The rays and clearly the analytic quote unquote. Darlings but to, me whoever takes advantage of the, platoons, like is that really where the success?

00:32:25
Speaker 3: Is?

00:32:25
Speaker 2: Like what happens if you have a guy like LIKE i hit better against right handed PICTURES i faced right handed. PITCHERS i am a right handed hitting, Better so why would you put me in when it's a left handed hitting when a left handed throwing. Pitcher WHEN i don't fade WHEN i don't hit, well only it's. Lefties SO i think just the like general, ooh you need a better platoon advantage doesn't always. Play AND i think that's where The yankees find value in players because they sit there and they, Go, okay this player might not necessarily do as well against right or, right left on, left but there's an advantage throughout the entire season for him to be on the. Team AND i think that's they had the best offense in baseball last year, Statistically so what he's doing is. Correct BUT i think a lot of the decisions pregame are very, analytical just like they are with any team that wants to.

00:33:22
Speaker 3: Win The phillies are very.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: Analytical The rays want to win and they have a lot of analytic. Decisions The dodgers have a lot of analytic. Decisions you, know everybody. Does but in the, MOMENT i think the best managers don't necessarily just lean on.

00:33:38
Speaker 3: Analytics look At Dave.

00:33:39
Speaker 2: Roberts Dave roberts made decisions to pitch his starting pitchers when they're supposed to be a team that have just a cavalcade of, relievers and they won The World series the year before with, that and The yankees' that's what the best teams. Do they let their manager make decisions in game to win that particular.

00:33:56
Speaker 1: Game, today we are checking out the most bet to lead THE mlb IN RBIs, tickets specifically most tickets in sports betting refers to the side of a wager that has the highest number of individual bets placed on. It what do you think about the names on this? List, eric most bet to lead The Major League baseball made to Lead Major League baseball IN.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: RBIs i, mean the reason we're seeing these numbers is plus three thousand For Vinnie, pasquentino a tremendous. NUMBER i, mean the opportunity to get plus two thousand From Nick kurtz is. Incredible like to, me there's there's a ton of. Value and people will, say, well what About Aaron, judge what About Pete? Alonzo their numbers are. SMALLER i didn't look them. UP i almost was able to get them looked. Up but these are the these are the most bet on guys because the value is. There AND i think everybody on this list at for, SHOWHEY i think and Maybe tucker just BECAUSE i think they're going to be losing out together with them both being on the, list there's other guys that drive a lot of runs. IN i Think Nick kurtz And Vinnie pasquinino are the ABSOLUTE rbi dudes on this team THAT i think they. Have there's a ton of value with both of those, guys AND i, think really the values In Nick kurtz AND i might actually put that in here right, now because they're playing half their games In sacramento and that place the ball. Jumps you see ten to ten to thirteen games every single.

00:35:34
Speaker 1: Night, yeah that's. Insane do you think the Past guentino numbers have? Anything because he's coming right off of THE wbc at plus three thousand OR i think that's just all from what he's done so.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: FAR i think if you look at what he's, DONE i think if you look at what he's done in his, career HE'S i, mean he should be a perennial one HUNDRED rbi guy and he's. Been he's started out, slow you. KNOW i think another guy on this list could Be Alec. Bohm he's another guy that had ninety seven RBIs and back to back, season so there's value.

00:36:06
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00:37:32
Speaker 2: THERE'S i guess there's little. DETAILS i love that HE'S i love that he's making fun of himself kind of about, it BECAUSE i remember in school anybody that had transition. Lenses and you're much older THAN i, Am, alana so, wow maybe, Maybe but the transition lenses they were the best because the people would come INTO i have glasses. Here the people would come inside after being out at like recess when we were in, school and they'd come in and they'd be, like the transition lenses look like, this oh what they like pull him.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: Down and then they can't see. Anything so it's funny that he's.

00:38:06
Speaker 2: Looking you, know he's wearing sunglasses on the mound when the last PICTURE i remember wearing sunglasses.

00:38:12
Speaker 3: On the mound was K.

00:38:13
Speaker 2: Igawa he had a blue glove and he made his one of his first or second starts with The, yankees and he had sunglasses, on And i'm, like is that? Allowed but then there was Also Jesse Jesse.

00:38:29
Speaker 3: Jesse.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: Sanchez, no he just he just. Retired it was my one of my one of my. Teammates, gosh darn.

00:38:35
Speaker 1: It he's on every he's On Jesse, Chavez he's been on every.

00:38:38
Speaker 3: Team, yes thank, you thank.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: You he had some like a little bit darker, glasses but he always wore his. Glasses but true sunglasses and transition, Lenses i've never seen.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: It good. Phrase.

00:38:49
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