Pat Murphy's new richer contract, Jazz hypes 50/50 club, Four more years of Freddie Freeman?

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Speaker 1: Charging about.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what Pat Murphy good for him an extension, And it's actually not even an extension.

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Speaker 3: Aj.

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Speaker 2: It is a brand new contract for Pat Murphy, the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. It is said to be let's see here, with a club option for twenty twenty nine. It adds two years onto his contract, guaranteed eight point nine to five million in new money, makes him one of the highest paid managers in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 3: So Todd, let's start with you.

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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy is a guy people seem to love to play for, and it just speaks to what the Brewers and Mark Antanasio think about him going ahead and giving him a new deal before the season starts.

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Speaker 3: What do you make of it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is fantastic.

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Speaker 5: You know, you hear a lot of players getting big deals, and now you're seeing managers getting big.

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Speaker 4: Deals too as well. He's a players coach man. This guy.

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Speaker 5: He's funny, he's witty, but ultimately he's serious at the times that need be a lot out of his players. I never got to play with him or for him. Excuse me, I would have loved to. I played for some really good managers, but this guy he's an old soul. He loves the game and he respects the game. Like I said, he wants a lot out of you, and deservingly so good for him. Man, there's not many good managers out there. This guy right now, he deserves it, and I'm happy for him. And hopefully the Brewers understand, the players understand that this is a big step for them to keep stepping up and winning their their divisions, because guess what, He's not going anywhere anytime soon.

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Speaker 2: A Jay under Pat Murphy's tutelage the Brewers one ninety and one thirty four. He's a baseball rat, a grinder kind of guy. Old school mentality obviously came up of course in the college ranks with ASU and Notre Dame. I believe, and these guys just like to be around him, and the Brewers have rewarded him for it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and if had success back to back manager of the Year, back to back ALE Central titles. They won the most games baseball last year with a team that many people didn't think was going to do a whole lot except.

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Speaker 1: For Eric Kratz.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's great to talk to. He's engaging when you talk to him. He's intelligent when you talk to him. He's also funny when you talk to him. He's sarcastic at times, but he knows how to communicate with people, and he knows how to connect with people. And I think that's what being a big league manager is all about. And he has his thing and he has a way that he wants this team to play. And the Brewers give Matt Arnold and the Brewers' front office a huge pat on the back. Also, they have molded this team into a team that Pat Murphy wants. It's not just let's go slug, let's go hit homers. Murphy's about small ball times and they do hit home runs, but he wants to take the extra base. Played great defense, pitch really well. And I said this last year when we talked about it a lot. The Brewers almost shocked you the way they played because when he went in there for a three game series and they swept the Dodgers for the whole year, right, but the Dodgers got him the postseason. But they had a way of because it was so different than what so many other teams did, where they bunt and they'd hit run and they'd steal bases, they'd take the extra base. They just put so much pressure on all the other teams. Teams weren't used to it, and for those three games, it just whoa. When you're in the middle middle of a long twenty you say your twenty games twenty days, and in the middle of that is three games of the Brewers and you're not ready for it. It's shock teams, and good for them for finding a different way to do it with obviously not the highest payroll. But they always pitch, they always play defense, they always run the bases, and they put the ball in play.

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Speaker 1: They've been a good team.

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Speaker 2: And you never hear the Brewers complain about anything small rod team, that type of thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't seem like they.

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Speaker 1: Do, though.

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Speaker 2: They seem to be in the mix, certainly in the hunt every single season in the National League Central and have made it to the postseason more times than not over the course of the last decade. And I tell you what, Todd will talk about this in terms of managerial salaries, there seems to be a new trend that these guys are finally starting to make some actual coin. Because of course you had Craig Counsel with then the Brewers and obviously now with the Cubs. The Cubs given him a five year, forty million dollar deal, so about an eight million dollar average value in terms of that salary. Dave Roberts, of course, recently March of twenty twenty five, that new contract was for twenty twenty nine average slightly over eight million for Roberts. Of course, the manager of the Dodgers, and then Alex Cora on a contract are twenty twenty seven seven point three million, for a total of twenty one point seventy five. So it seems like the managers, the good ones anyway, are starting to be paid as such.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 5: Think you're seeing a trend here a little bit too. And I'm actually for it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I would love to hear what AJ thinks, but for me, they're ex players. These guys played the game, they understand the game. They're going to know how to control the game too as well. I had a guy in Dusty Baker who absolute gem of a guy, absolute gem of a coach.

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Speaker 4: He understood, Hey, you know, Frise, we're gonna give you a day off here, Mike, all right?

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Speaker 1: Cool?

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Speaker 4: Well, he knew it.

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Speaker 5: In my mind, it's like I want to play every game, but he understands the grind and he understand And I think these ex players, and you know now, managers coming into the league here have a name for themselves not only from playing, but now from managing. And I think the more ex players we can get to manage it better in my opinion.

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Speaker 6: Agreed, But Pat Murphy didn't play. Pat Murphy was a football player. Does you know Pat Murphy played football.

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Speaker 4: Player?

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Speaker 1: I agree, man, I think players.

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Speaker 6: I think players give the best insight to the game and understand the game better. And they got away from that for a little while, and some organizations are still away from that. And I have no problem if you didn't play in the major leagues or have a nice career that you can be a good manager.

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Speaker 1: I think you can.

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Speaker 6: It just gives you a little one extra notch of credibility to players when you've done it, you did it for a long time and you were a successful player.

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Speaker 1: It helps.

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Speaker 6: It just gives you a little bit more respect, a little more cachet with the players. But I'm happy managers who get getting paid more. Now they need to figure out a way to pay coaches more, not only just the managers, but all the coaches down because for people inside the industry, they know that coaches don't get paid nothing.

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Speaker 1: They get paid they have the worst schedule, They have the worst schedules. They have to be here, you know, for seven o'clock game. They get here like some guys get there like ten in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Are there talking to Chris Woodward yesterday, who obviously is a base coach here for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and we were talking about the fact he lives in Santa Monica. I'm like, my god, that's so hard to get to Dodger Stadium. He's like, I leave my house at ten am. You know, they get their schedules are crazy, Their pay is not good, and I would love to see them get paid more as well. But you were talking, you and Todd were talking about, you know, the fact that major league coaches, major league managers the experience factor and the respect factor. So does that mean in your opinion, guys in Asia, I'll tee you up first on this. Do you think Tony Vittello with the Giants will have a tougher hill to climb because he wasn't a major league player and he's coming from the college level.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, again.

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Speaker 6: I don't think that you have to be a major league player to be a good major league manager. There's been people that have proven that. But I feel like you just have a better understanding from day one of what it takes. Now, Tony Vaitel is going to have to be a quick learner about how the major leagues work because he's never had to do one hundred and sixty two games in one hundred and eighty days or whatever it is, plus run a spring training, plus handle guys going up and down, plus handle the front office, plus handle a bullpen for that long, plus handle personalities that long.

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Speaker 1: He's done it.

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Speaker 6: He's done it for fifty to sixty games, which is, you know, a nice run. But Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday off, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, use the same pitchers on Friday, Saturday Sunday, use your different guys in the midweek games. Whereas this is twenty games of twenty days. How do I make sure the bullpen's good? Now? He made some good hires in people, But you can't. It doesn't mean you just can't be a good manager. It just means again, there's just a little extra respect from players when you talk to other players. It's like, you know, reporters when they talk to other reporters that are on the grind every day, Hey, I know what you're going through well as a player, when you look at guys and you say hey, I as people you say hey, I know what you're going through and you've been through it, so it just gives you that it's not a big deal. It is now we're making it into I should say.

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Speaker 5: And I think the biggest thing that probably in his mind is expectations, so he's probably thinking of his mind, I gotta do this, I got to make sure here, I gotta do that, And hopefully that's not the only thing he's thinking about. I would like for him to come in be his own man, and come in and be a manager and do what he does best. I know a lot of things he did at Tennessee were awesome. It's going to be a different type of atmosphere now, you know, not the raw rack kind of stuff, which I don't I don't mind it all. College baseball is great with all that stuff, but he's got to understand he's going to be with professionals and I think the biggest thing in.

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Speaker 4: His mind maybe or our minds, is expectations.

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Speaker 5: So understand, you're gonna have to take the good with the bed as a manager and ride that wave until you know, you find they find a way to lose a ballgame.

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Speaker 2: Todd, what's going to be the biggest thing for him to realize quickly? Do you think might be one of the bigger hurdles that he's going to have to transition from.

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Speaker 3: The baseball level. Obviously at a high level.

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Speaker 2: They won the National Championship, but to the big league level of things are very different between these whitelines.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's managing different ballplayers. You know, it's gonna be hard to mold every single guy to what you expect. And that's the part of those expectations I'm talking about. You know, you got your big names, Let those guys be Let them, you know, be the leaders of the team, and just understand there's going to be a lot of different things you can't control going out there, but you can control, you know how what you want out of your players. You know, you can control making sure everybody's on time, doing their due diligence.

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, you're gonna have.

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Speaker 5: To take the good with the bad because it's going to be a different type of managing. And you got to understand not everybody is the same in the major leagues.

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Speaker 1: I also tell you he doesn't get to pick his players here. He doesn't get to He.

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Speaker 6: Went out and recruited, right, He recruited thirty five guys right nowadays, But Posey gets to pick them and they who they draft. And there's players that were already there, so you don't get to pick your players in there. They can be there for Raffie Devers as a long term contract, right, So he can't just say, oh, you got to transfer. I don't like you, We'll go find someone else. Doesn't work like that in the big leagues. You can't just have always a new shuffle coming in. So that's going to be fascinating. Plus the other thing the other day, remember this, the where he corrected all the media people after that.

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Speaker 1: You got it.

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Speaker 6: You need those guys on your side, right, And he didn't really get on them, but he was just like hey, first press conference, he's like, hey, I want to sit down and explain, guys, you got this wrong, Tony.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's really nobody really cared that much.

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Speaker 2: He's certainly not used to having to address the media twice a day. I mean, that's something that's very different. No other sport does that, except for baseball, where the manager has to address the team twice a day. Oftentimes it is said that they will have to rip the jersey off of your back before you, guys are ready to give it up. Freddy Freeman kind of has a timeline Fobby and Ardaia, who writes for the Athletic Covers the Dodgers. Freeman again today floated the idea of playing four more years, which would lead him to retired at age forty after twenty big league seasons. He said this yesterday during his press conference. Didn't want to open a campaign for another contract. He's signed through twenty twenty seven, but added he would like for it to come in Los Angeles, so aj he has a two more years left on his deal here and then, of course he did that say that yesterday. He was not going to talk about a new contract and want to talk about an extension as of yet, but he would like to finish his career guys, as a Los Angeles Dodger.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that happens.

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Speaker 1: I hope it does.

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Speaker 6: But then Alana comes to the real question Hall of Famers, does a Dodge, Dodger or Brave.

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Speaker 3: He goes in as a Dodger.

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Speaker 1: He won a World Series in Atlanta, has.

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Speaker 3: Two with La, and he's going to have.

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Speaker 1: Such hard he's gonna have two more before he so in the next two years, he's gonna win two more.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be here for another four. I do believe they will sign him to another contract to finish his career here.

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Speaker 1: If he gets four, then yes, he definitely goes in.

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Speaker 2: He's going in as I don't think he goes in as a Brave because the Braves didn't bring him back.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 6: I also remember playing with him with the Braves, and all he wanted and all he ever said was I just want to win a World Series like you've done.

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Speaker 1: And now he's got three.

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Speaker 6: So Freddie, I don't feel sorry for you at all, So don't give you that anymore.

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Speaker 3: I really believe he goes in as a door.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 6: I mean, if you know, he's got a chance to get to three thousand hits and he's gonna play until he's forty one. Minute ttil I was. I mean I was turning forty in the offseason that year. So good for Freddy Man. If he can do this and keep playing at the level he's done as long as he stays healthy. His family wants him to do it. He lives right there in California. He's he's from right there in California. He loves it in California. So good for you, Freddy. If you can do this, go get him.

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Speaker 1: Buddy and Todd.

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Speaker 2: He said yesterday during the press conference that he was very irked that his batting average last season did not start with a three. And he said, and I asked him, how irked were you? And he said that it really bothered him because if he's hitting three hundred, it means he's getting on base, it means he's driving his teammates in. And while we may not pay a lot of attention or put a lot of value in batting average anymore, it matters to him. So an opportunity for him to have a kind of a comeback year. Obviously he was very banged up last year, so comeback season offensively for him.

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Speaker 3: And he's still chasing three thousand hits.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and now before I go on, I want to go back to that forty comment.

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Speaker 5: I just turned forty. I can't see myself playing more than a week and any I don't know how these guys do it. I mean a week might be pushing it because I know the next day I'm going to be in trouble.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I love that about him. It did irk him.

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Speaker 5: I think anybody would take what he has done, even when he's injured. I never batted over three hundred. I think two seventy three was the highest I ever did. Guys don't understand average with guys that are older, are big, are key. I still think it's something that needs to be blown up a little bit more. I believe if you have a good batting average, what does that mean. For one, you're getting on base, for do you're helping your team out? And for three, power numbers are probably in there too, so for most people. So for that love that about him. I hope he gets over three hundred next year. I hope he stays healthy. He's great for the game. I would love to see him play until he's forty. I think that would be fantastic, And I don't think he's gonna slow down man. He's big in stature, he works hard, his swing is beautiful. Everything about him, you know, maybe the defense a little bit, But I just think the way he goes and if he stays healthy, he's going to be pretty good for a couple more years.

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Speaker 2: Todd, do you think he finishes his career as a Dodger? Do you think the Dodgers, you know, find a way to give him those extra two years so he can finish his career here.

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Speaker 5: I do, just on the fact they brought Clayton Kershaw back. I think it's one of those things where they if you produce and you have fun, and fans love you and the brass likes you, which we've seen, I think ultimately, why wouldn't you bring him out. He's a team guy, he's a leader, and you don't see that aj. You don't see that too often anymore either. Clubs don't like the older guys around. They want this young crop coming up and age and Freddie will teach these young kids the rights and wrongs and everything else that goes unseen during baseball season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 2: We will start the segment with a comment Todd, and I will defer to you since you are a Yankee lover. Jazz Chisholm says that he is going to be the next member of the fifty to fifty club. And for those that don't know what that is, that's fifty stolen bases as well as fifty home runs, a club that Shoheo Tani invented. Okay, I love the confidence. I love that, But Todd, he weighs about fourteen pounds. I'm not certain that Jazz is going to be the guy to get fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 3: What say you?

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Speaker 5: I can't believe you said that. That's incredible. Yeah, you're you're a woman of your word. Listen, he HiT's fifty to fifty. That'd be awesome.

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Speaker 4: Man. I I love jazz Chishlm. I do love jazz Chishlm.

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Speaker 5: This is so hard to do, though, Jazz getting thirty thirty would be absolutely incredible.

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Speaker 4: Sky's the limit for the guy, but it is.

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Speaker 5: Listen, it's gonna be very hard to reach for anybody, So not just Jazz, but for anybody in baseball right now, it's gonna be very hard to do. I always like to set my goals high, but that is really really high set right there for the big dog and I we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Make thirty thirty last year. He did make thirty thirty. He didn go thirty thirty last year, thirty one. That was his career high.

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Speaker 6: That was his career high in Homer's and he did have forty stolen bases one year. So he's gonna have to make a huge jump from thirty.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety homers.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he's got a career, He's got a one hundred and eight career homers. So for him to hit fifty, he almost I mean he's half of almost half of his whole career total.

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Speaker 1: So that's a huge jump. And the fifty careers sould I hope he does.

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Speaker 4: I hope he does.

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Speaker 1: I mean I hope he does too.

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Speaker 6: That would be that would be incredible. I just don't know that it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: I just I mean, that's a lot of goal. I love the confidence, though.

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Speaker 1: I mean you want.

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Speaker 6: I also thought I was going to hit sixty and steal sixty bases one year, but it didn't happen, Todd, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was because they wouldn't give me the green light to steal the bases, so I lost my confidence for the sixty homers.

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Speaker 3: You really think you're gonna steal sixty back?

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Speaker 1: No, no, a lot. That's kind of my point. But like Todd said, I like to set my goals high.

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Speaker 6: Just because they don't come true doesn't mean I can't make him come up, make him high.

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Speaker 4: Jazz is one for one today in the spring.

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Speaker 3: So was it a homer?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: No, it's zero zero in the sixth inning, so we had to get some runs on the board there. But listen to button this up. I love its confidence. I love where he's at. This is only a good sign for the Yankees. Be confident, be under control with what you say. Jazz, take off, big dog. That would be awesome for Yankee baseball, all right.

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Speaker 2: He also said that if Robot umpires were behind the plate and all calls were correct, he probably.

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Speaker 3: Have ninety to one hundred walks this season.

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Speaker 6: So but that's less times you swing, so therefore that's less homers that you can hit. So there goes the fifty homers. Yeah, you're walking. That's Barry Buns. When they started walking him two hundred and fifty times as homers went.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's saying he has a good knack for his own The best knack for his own person I've ever seen was Joeyvado playing. Just from playing with him, ball would be like that far off and all of a sudden like boom ball and he would get the call. I wouldn't get those calls. So yeah, good dude. Listen, this dude breeds confidence. And if you're a Yankee fan, you love every second of this. You hope he does this. He stays healthy and he goes out there and dominates. I'm not saying he can't hit ten homers in a you never know what can happen. But again, thirty thirty, what he did last year is incredible. Let's get to thirty five thirty five and then keep mentioning our way up.

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Speaker 2: You want the confidence and you can get away with that type of confidence if you produce though, Right.

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Speaker 6: He's just gonna jump from thirty thirty to fifty to fifty skip forty forty.

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Speaker 1: He's just gonna jump. He's just not good for him, man, I hope he does it.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what asually, skip, here's what the you have to hit forty before you get.

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Speaker 6: But what if he hits fifty homers, it's going to be fifty forty. See, so you never do forty four, Clona, you're ruining the story. But I hope he does it because if he does it, guess what he could give his own teammate, Aaron Judge a run for his money for MVP.

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Speaker 1: Then what would we do.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna go to Judge. Probably, Okay, I'm gonna Judge, probably.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Brutal injury update for the guys with the Baltimore Orioles guys, assuming he responds to treatment. We're talking about Westburg, it'll be interesting to see where he plays second or third.

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Speaker 3: Given the nature of his injury.

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Speaker 2: It looks like he has a part Marsehall tear of the UCL in the right elbow. Buster only tweeting this out and Jake Real as well. He's gonna be getting a PRP injection today per Orioles player but President of Baseball Operations that's the POBO GM, Michael Lias. Westburg will be out for all of April. Timeline is TBD after that, So let's first of all discuss what a PRP is, Todd. This is something have you had it in your career and explain to folks at home what a PRP is that injection.

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Speaker 5: And let me explain. I'm not a doctor, for one, but for two. When I had it, I had a PRP injection. So they took blood out of my hip. So when I was in Cincinnati or I forget where I was, I forget what t was on, they took blood out of my hip and put it actually into my hand. I had a hand problem at the time. Really good doctors over there, my man, Luigi, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: And they mix it.

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Speaker 5: They take the blood, they put it in this little cylinder thing, mix it around for a long time. They want to get all that blood moved around. I don't know what the specifics of it were, but it's new blood that forms that they put into the spot that's hurt, and that's supposed to help, you know, calm down and make it better and make it stronger, faster, and very painful, very painful for.

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Speaker 4: About you know, five to seven days.

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Speaker 5: I could put my hand in any position you want while I was sleeping, and it was pain everywhere.

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Speaker 4: And that was it.

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Speaker 5: You know, you can use PRP in any parts of your body wherever it's hurting. But again it's the procedure wasn't painful, but afterwards it took a little while for that to subside.

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Speaker 4: And it's just your own blood.

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Speaker 5: They say, your own blood is better than anything in the world that can help you out with ailments for sure.

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Speaker 2: Apparently it's concentrated to contain a high number of platelets, growth factors, and proteins.

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Speaker 6: So most guys, especially elbow. The only one I've ever heard that's ever done this was Yama Mo or not Tanaka with the Yankees, right that needed Tommy John towards UCL and did the PRP and came back And probably yeah, right, that I know about, because those guys, even in the UCL, when they have the p r P, they still eventually have to get the surgery done the surgery done, so maybe this might be a short term fix.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing though, I mean, why why rip the b why just have it as a band aid?

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Speaker 6: I mean, well, because they figure if they can do pr PRP and get him back in a month or two months, it's better than HI because if he has Tommy John's gonna miss the whole season.

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Speaker 1: I guess Bryce did it? Didn't Bryce do it? Not have the he got through the season surgery? He never had the surgery.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Fact check us on that. I don't. I don't think Bryce he did PRP.

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Speaker 6: He missed one week DH the rest of the season, and then he got Tommy John in the off season.

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Speaker 3: What does this mean?

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Speaker 6: But Bryce also moved to first base and played DH. Jordan Westburg is a third baseman, second baseman, shortsw what utility guy? Right, So and there he had to throw, He's gonna have to throw. And their DH is Mount Castle or a lot And they now.

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Speaker 2: Don't have Jackson Holiday to start the season. And now they don't have Jordan Westburg to start the season. So what does this mean short term?

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Speaker 3: I guess for the O's they.

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Speaker 1: Need a third base. I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Somebody need to step up. They had all those prospects, you know what I mean. I was I was two years ago. I was the guy that was bashing them. Trade these guys away. Trade these guys away.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna get a lot of a lot of good.

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Speaker 5: Players in return. And they have a couple guys that are producing, but a lot of them. You know, you don't really hear about too much. And Mayo needs to step up. Man, he has to step up this year. But when you hear partial tear, it always worries me. I don't care if it's partial, if it's zero point one percent. Yeah, that's I've always believed in that. And again, I hate to say that, but I'm not a doctor. It would if somebody said, oh, you have a partial ligament spasm or whatever you want it partial, you know, knee separation, it's still a separation, and I don't know, man, and this stuff might linger, it might linger, and it could get you know, maybe they tell him, oh, it can't get any worse.

00:24:02
Speaker 4: Hopefully that that's the case, but I don't know.

00:24:05
Speaker 2: See, that's my concern is, like, if they do it as a band aid now just to get him back in a month, what if it, you know, continues to happen and then he still has to get the surgery, let's say mid season, and then he's out additionally for the year even further.

00:24:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agreed. I don't know. We'll see, we'll see if he can do it.

00:24:22
Speaker 6: But I mean, you know, Bryce Harper's the own who did it, but he dh Westbrook's not going to be their dh oh year.

00:24:27
Speaker 1: So he's gonna have to throw. No, it's not that's that's a major difference.

00:24:32
Speaker 6: You have to he's gonna play third base probably, and he's gonna have to throw across the diamond multiple times a game.

00:24:38
Speaker 1: You can't hide a third baseman.

00:24:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know it's it's a bummer.

00:24:42
Speaker 1: But Todd, think about it.

00:24:43
Speaker 6: If you played third and you had an army you couldn't throw with how many times every team would bunt? Every team would bunt. I mean, guys can well, but he'd just be like, just bunt it to him. He's gonna throw a couple of them away and not feel it, you know, I don't know.

00:24:54
Speaker 4: I don't know.

00:24:56
Speaker 2: Some other news for the Oakland Athletics.

00:25:00
Speaker 3: Timer.

00:25:00
Speaker 2: When I think of Bob Melvin, guys, I think of the Athletics, and he is going back to the club as a as a special assistant, if you will. Obviously he was the Giants manager for a time that didn't work out very well. So Melvin back with the a's right place.

00:25:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a Bay Area guy. He vanaged the Giants for a while.

00:25:19
Speaker 6: Like you said, I remember him being with the Oakland now Sacramento as and he's going to come back, and Billy being and him care united, and they had good teams of Bob Melvine's there, So I like this movie