WBC 2026: Giants Star Luis Arraez Dominates & Team USA Update | Thompson 2 Clark

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is Thompson to Clark and we are right smack dab in the middle of the world baseball classic Team USA is playing right as we are recording So we'll pay what we're going to keep an eye on the game though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll probably be meaningless for us to give Play by play reports considering that the game will be over by time the spotcast comes out But what we're going to keep an eye on it just because we care

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so I guess the first thing to talk about is I wanted to update folks on how things are going because I think by this time next week we will already be near the championship game right is the championship of the WBC is what date.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is going to be I was just looking at the schedule because I was looking at some stats and all that good stuff, but I'm thinking it's going to be the next round of quarter start on Friday the 13th and those are one of the nominations.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so that's this coming Friday, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this coming Friday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So next time we are on, we should be in, let's see, the final is going to be on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, the final is going to be the day that we're recording next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're working next week on Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the final.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So baby, maybe we mixed that up a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll figure that out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it because, well, the, do you know what time the final is going to be on?

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[SPEAKER_00]: 5pm Pacific.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wonder if I wonder if we could go after though that that kind of convinced us with our schedules a little bit Yeah, well we'll figure it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll it'll be fun though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and so then What I wanted to do is I wanted to give people an update on how the the pools are doing because You would think how many years has the internet been around for us now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh god, 30, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you shrink this information to be a little bit easier to figure out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, the, so I did find some information here though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so this is comes from the MLB.com website.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to go pull by pool and give the latest information, though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, there are games going on as we are talking right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So pool A, nobody is advanced yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Puerto Rico Cuba and Canada is still alive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two out of those three will will play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Cuba and Puerto Rico are playing as we record.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe so, yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I've got the Mexico USA game on, but that's a good call.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I should probably, I should probably two screen this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think what happens is,

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[SPEAKER_00]: More than likely, the winner of Puerto Rico and Cuba clearly is going to go on to the quarters, but I think probably has the inside chance to also be the first team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one tiebreaker is head to head, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they would probably clinch the top seat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Canada is still, is still hanging in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Canada then has to play Puerto Rico on Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's gonna be tough game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, in pool B, that is where the team USA exists and they are off to a 2-0 start, trying to go 3-0, playing Mexico as we speak.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mexico is also 2-0 and didn't they like 15 run Brazil or something other than I believe so?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then Italy is also two and oh, so that makes things pretty interesting and it almost makes this this Mexico game kind of must win for Team USA they play Italy on Tuesday

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what that means is that Brazil and Gray Britain just got beat by everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that was a poor Brazil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they, you know, they do have, they do have some good players and, and they did put up a battle in a couple of the games, but yeah, own four, you have get, gets you a ride home, but at least they got through their, they're qualifying, made it into the pool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: tough draw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, great Britain is no slouch either.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They, you know, they had a lead on the United States for the first few innings as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, still, still TMO say just put it on them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of how it goes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, with the United States team, kind of start to get going, start to get going as close game early, but then they, there's just too much firepower.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's too much in the bullpen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the key, too, as a lot of these countries just don't have the bullpen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have, I mean, United States.

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[SPEAKER_01]: drew what nine walks or something in the first game against Brazil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So something like that, that's just going to get you sunk.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you have, if you don't have the bullpen and you don't have guys with control and they're coming in and not throwing strikes, that's going to be a big issue, especially if you've got hitters like Kyle Schwarber at the play to you make a mistake to him and he's going to crush it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he doesn't even have to extend his bat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This has dropped his hands.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's pretty much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, that's just, you know, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when you look at the lineup, everybody goes, oh, you know, the United States have an all-star team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They do, but when you look at the lineup, that is not the best of the best at each position.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: The United States could have drawn even better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when you're looking at, Bucks do is a great player.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not doubting him, and he's in all stars, well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But there are better center fielders that you could have in this, you know, on this USA team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, hey, it's still, you're fielding who you got and they've got a team out there that's just, you know, crushing competition right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then you've got to deal with,

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[SPEAKER_01]: the Dominican Republic, and then you got to deal with Japan, which those are the polls you're about to get to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so pool C. Japan clench the top seed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Korea is the second seed, which is pretty interesting, because Korea also had two losses, but it was a three-way tie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, over Chinese Taipei and Australia careers win over Australia earlier today is what actually got them into the second spot in pool sea and Japan is also a juggernaut like we talked about, but they actually struggled against some of these teams struggled to the point of where you're like, oh.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The game is actually close, right versus, you know, I thought Japan was going to, you know, just jump all over some of these teams, but those games were pretty competitive and, you know, Korea gave them a scare a little bit of a scare as much as you can, but, you know, when you have Otani, like hitting grand slams and stuff, you're like, I mean, that's pretty ridiculous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, first game with a whole thing, and he hits a grand slam, but please stop it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, in pool D, we have the Dominican Republic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They clinched a quarterfinals birth by beating Israel Monday, and they can clinch the top seed with a win against Venezuela on Wednesday, Venezuela also clinched a quarterfinals birth based on DR's win, and they can clinch the top seed by beating DR on Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and right now they are playing Nicaragua.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe is it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so they have to win that game and then beat DR That should be an exciting game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So What was pretty cool?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you saw any of the Dominican Republic stuff, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, the home runs and the celebrations and the jumping all around like that stuff was was really fun like you know if it was, you know, Matt Williams on the other side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wouldn't have been too happy about that some of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can officially say at this point, the game has passed him by.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, uh, junior comonero, just like, but basically after he got past first base, it was how many hop steps, cheers, fist pumps, flexes, can I do before I get to home play?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That dude, I know you had a big year last year, but oh my gosh, he may he may have a giant year this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brian Brian and JJ's buddy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to put together a dynasty league.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so the only experience I have was something like that in baseball is the league that we that I've been playing in with you since gosh, how when did that league start?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that league started in 1998, but I think you joined around probably around 2000, 2001, 2002 somewhere in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we've been playing that league for all these years, and we get to keep a few guys this league that they that they just were just were drafting in it right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's I think I think you keep everybody like you can like you do you can like drive this you can like drop five players at the end of the year just so that you can draft new players but it's it's incredible because like I'm drafting certain guys and I'm like wait a second how long is this guy and I actually play for the rest of his career like what's going on so you're not drafting any 35 year old well so so here here's what happened so the Royals they have this young catcher Carter Jensen

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the idea is that Salvador Perez is still going to start, but Jensen will play a decent amount, because they also do it like Salvador Perez has played so many games over the his career.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so they want to give him a break.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I drafted Carter earlier, even though more than likely, Perez's stats are going to be better this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just the idea that I'm going to have Jensen forever and but then I drafted pres later in the draft as his backups I can just have both guys to see because I'm just trying to test what this thing is going to be but you know going back to like common arrows just like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we'll have this guy for 10 years, geez, you know, that that's what I like about our league because you can keep four players, but you can't keep them more than two consecutive years in a row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it kind of gives you a chance to like, so I had

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ellie Delacruz, I think I picked him up early in his first season or when he came up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you can have him for that year and then you can keep him for two more years after.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you draft a guy in our league, that's not your keeper until the next two years if you want him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it also kind of gives you a chance to like so I have to put L. E. Delacruz back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So now somebody else gets a chance and less he follows to me in the draft draft draft and then I get him, you know, I get to draft him and two more years, so I could have him for six years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of you can kind of work it as a dynasty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So so yeah, so then, you know, as as we'll get this weekend, we'll actually get to the quarterfinals, which would be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Team one in one of the pools playing team two team two and then you go like that across the board and yeah it's going to be pretty good because you know the one thing we were talking about is team Puerto Rico.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't even have their full squad because of all those insurance issues and yet they're still.

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[SPEAKER_00]: playing pretty good baseball and like you mentioned like with some of the teams you're like oh my gosh like there's some really good players on this team and yet because they don't have the depth of some of these other teams then you know that they're not as good you had texted us Stuart Fairchild former giant

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[SPEAKER_01]: That dude hit two bombs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, well, that's the thing is it's based on the competition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, who are you playing against, or are you playing against, you know, a team from like Italy with a pitcher who's never sniffed the minors, but he's a big deal in the Italian leagues.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, and then you played in the majors and you played in Dublin, AAA, and you faced some of the best of the best.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you go up against that guy and you're dialed in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, look, Louise rise, hit two home runs in a game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's going to hit to a home runs the season or that's, yeah, and, you know, the kind of the cool thing is, you know, the thing about it is like, sometimes I forget that you can just pretty much throw on the TV and there's going to be baseball on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm like, I don't think it's on right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm working and I'm like, oh my gosh, what happened?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I just like, oh my gosh, I got thrown the TV just to kind of just keep the noise in the background of the baseball games going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the players, the Giants players who are across the board, Logan Webb, obviously, he, I think first pitch of the game in the first game, he gave up a jack, but settled down, four innings, one hit, one earned run, six strikeouts, so he looked like in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, the way that he pitched, it was like, like, we might as well start this season tomorrow, like he can go seven, you know, like he just, he's just like a consistency meter for like the entire team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the giants, their best player, that you pitchers versus players will always have the argument, but kind of their leader, and you don't see too many starting pitchers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like the leader of your ball club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you want your shortstop or your center field or to be the team leader or your catcher, like Buster was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's kind of the guy and he just goes out there and he's like spring training, WBC, I'm just gonna deal like right out of the gate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he was awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have like you mentioned, arise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And who's playing right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So these stats may not be completely up to date, but I'm taking this from Grant Brisby's article from this morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Arise, five for eight, two doubles, two jacks, seven RBI.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like, you know, when you think of him hitting, like you see certain strokes in your like, okay, that's like a bloop shot because he hit it where the defense wasn't in, like he didn't really swing that hard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a couple swings in there where you're like, this dude's trying to go yard, and he just flipped that ball out into right field over the fence.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a little bit of a pessimist when it comes to some of the players that you bring on, like, you know, we'll talk about this this weekend or at this week more than likely, but the 49ers picked up Mike Evans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I look at his age and I'm like, oh, man, 32 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the only playday games last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know the nighters have so many issues with injuries is the guy but then you look over the course of his career and you're like well if he can actually replicate one of his previous years before last year like it's a really good deal and so when when you know we talked about a rise and I was like oh you know we'll see how is he gonna fit in the offense but as we've learned a little bit more about him

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as, you know, how can you not be in love with him raking the ball in WBC?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, okay, if, you know, he's not gonna be this hot, but he does things that hitters on their team do not do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's going to carry over into the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully, you know, hopefully it'll rub off on some of these guys and they can see like, oh, man, you know, rather than swinging out of my ass on this, you know, this swing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe all I have to do is make solid contact to that, and actually get hit here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, and that's a good point too, because when you talk about Mike Evans, and then you talk about the Rams picking up Devante Adams last year, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are known coaching staffs taking these guys on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're like, oh, they're going to squeeze something out of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not, I mean, as a Rams fan, I see Mike Evans going in the honors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm, I'm like, well, that's a little worrisome, yes, because Shanahan's going to do something with him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to, he's going to get him involved, and he's going to make him probably a better player, even at this age.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now,

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[SPEAKER_01]: arise coming to the giants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the whole thing with this coaching staff as we aren't sure what this coaching staff can do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, when relief pitchers and starting pitchers would come to the giants back in the day in the Gabe Kapler era, we knew, oh, okay, the pitching staff is going to be able to do something with these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have a track record now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen what they can do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They can take a gossman, they can take all of these guys and kind of flip them around a little bit, desclafani, wood up to no good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They can make those guys turn into something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know yet what this coaching staff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's kind of the thing with a rise.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those two home runs, him raking in Venezuela was that being with men's our new hitting coach from Toronto just a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that rubbing off on him?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to find out as the season goes along.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be exciting because then after a couple of seasons we're going to say, that's a hitter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: who we could take tweak a little bit and instead of a 290 guy with 20 home runs, maybe he's a 310 guy with 30 home runs because we can do that with hitters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's going to be interesting to see as we go along.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... Jose buto two innings for team venezuela one strike out Harrison bader team is real two for nine with a jack and two rb i jung who leave for for thirteen two runs rb i walk and he made a great diving catch uh... in that was it today or yesterday's game and uh... to to help them when it when a ball game and

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[SPEAKER_00]: if you ever watch like tennis players where they can swing a racket and make it look like they're like trying to smoke a ball past somebody, but then it actually hits like top spin or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like Jung Hulie put the reverse top spin on one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he took the hardest swing and he just like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: with his hands lofted it over the third basement, and I was like, man, how do you do that with the baseball bat?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he looks like he's having a blast, and he looks like the way that he plays for Team Korea is kind of the mad chaos that I would hope that he could bring to this team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like just like the energy and the hair flying around and you know he doesn't die for a ball and it's like this graceful thing like he dives and it's like aggressive and violent and things flying all over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see that with the giants you know like let's like but do you because I I get worried when I see well yeah there's a worry risk but a risk of injury but

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, like, I want him to take on this identity of like to during the big leagues.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, it doesn't matter what these, these teams think of you or these, whatever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, go out and and be Team Korea, Junghul Lee because that version of Junghul Lee, especially with the manager that we have, can you imagine?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to preach that, and then you look at a guy like Bader who's built for violence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that guy is built to go out and dive and tumble.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think maybe some of that is going to rub off on Jung Hulie too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to see all of that, and we've seen Elliot Ramlos do the same.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, all of our starting outfielders are in the WBC right now, which is crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little bit scary because you're like, okay, you're our starting outfielders, we, we, we might have a defense this year in the outfield.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's, let's take it easy a little bit, but I, but I get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do want to see a little bit and, and, and, and, jungly is going to have to be aggressive and right field.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, he watched, yeah, as play for a couple of seasons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's going to have to be that type of guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, was, yes, was pretty aggressive out and right field making plays, um, especially the one that comes to mind is the one where he flew into the fence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, flew into the, you know, the netting I should.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I remember what was when I saw that play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was absolutely amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, yeah, we're, we're, we're definitely going to need to see more of that having the, you know, worst analytical defense in the outfield last season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for the guys who are struggling a little bit, Elliot Romos, like you mentioned, for Team Puerto Rico, you know, he is one of our starting out for their Susan WBC.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's over seven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: three strikeouts he hasn't really put it together yet and a poor Tristan back game one comes in to With runners on an immediately gives up a jack.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, it is just really cool to see that these guys are You know that they're just out there like it it's not like

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you sort of it's sort of like a global all star game in a sense, but it does tell you that, you know, the giants do have talent and they have guys who are playing across all these different teams, they have a global.

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[SPEAKER_00]: baseball club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And while, you know, Matt Chapman, if Team USA wasn't so stacked, and maybe they were like, hey, we want a late inning defender, he probably would be on that team too, but they just need him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was on, I think last time they played, he was on that team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So lots of really cool stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I did see Camilo out there to see Camilo out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I didn't see him yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't seen any of his highlights or were they low lights?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know yet because I haven't seen the highlights that I saw.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was in a manning machado video that that MLB wanted to cut up, which was like manning machado two great plays or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Camilo was pitching in one of those games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I got to see him and I didn't note was him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: until I saw the delivery and I was like, wait, I noticed that guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know who that guy is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell you, saw how relaxed he was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, he was relaxed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, I amped up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Balls coming from like half below his ear with movement.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you know, I hope he has a good season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can say that because he's in the American League and it doesn't bother us, but, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, we may see him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We may see him the first, you know, that's true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we have seen early in the season when he's been in those situations, high pressure situations early in the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of been all over the place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I remember his delivery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like it may take a little while for him to get fluid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we open against the Yankees.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a few seasons ago, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and he was rough to watch man on the mound because he it was the first year the pitch clock wait was that was that yeah was that the gamer didn't lose you know start a short stop in that game no no no no no because this was like the first game of the season it was um oh god what's his name started at shore Lucy on it was supposed to be our starting shows oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I forgot I forgot Nick Ahmed not there you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Nick Ahmed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he was our starting choice up, but then but Camilo came in and he was just lost because he had a pitch clock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was slow on his delivery anyways and we thought, oh well, you know, he got used to it in spring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't get used to it in spring and it was kind of a mess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sort of be interesting because

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he comes in in a safe situation, we're jumping way ahead, but if he comes into a safe situation, it's opening night, it's Netflix, it's the only game, and it's in San Francisco.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the fans are going to be too kind with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he starts walking, if he walks the first batter, I think the fans are going to be on him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a little bit nuts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that that that that that is not something I thought about just with how and not that opening days necessarily high pressured because the manager should be like dude, we got 161 or these things not that big of a deal, but they are eventizing this game specifically on Netflix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there is probably some some added well, and and you don't win if you're vital or you don't want to start out your first game in San Francisco on opening night with a loss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, you're going to be pulling every string to get that W, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And win that series because

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[SPEAKER_01]: they play Wednesday night, they don't play Thursday, but then they play Friday and Saturday and Saturday night is the Saturday night Fox game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they've got two marquee games of their first three matchups and he's in the spotlight as the new manager who came from college and nobody's ever done that before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to be dying to get those wins, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: if Camilo might be a little overwhelmed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What does that say about Walker?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, after reading the article today in the athletic, by Baguerly, great article, awesome quotes by Sergio Romo talking about kind of the same situation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were drafted late.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They throw the same type of slider.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Walk, walk, walk, a bright throw is about seven or eight miles per hour harder than Romo did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think almost maybe even 10.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, it's quite possible, but you know, that I have confidence that, yeah, you're gonna see some yips, he's a closer, you're gonna get that, but if he can turn it around and learn from that, he seems to be in a good head space.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's gonna be interesting to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Walker's gonna be in a better spot because again, Walker's at home in front of his fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: new manager, new pitching staff, new pitching coaching staff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's going to be fun to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, there's a play at the play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who was running?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That guy was the slowest runner that I've ever seen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what was happening there, I mean that was very much a Wilmer Flores type of round around third base for USA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, it was rough running, rough was on the move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, whoever that was got.

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[SPEAKER_00]: gunned at home plate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I forgot to mention at the top of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If all went correctly, we changed our podcast intro music for the first time, and I don't know how long, I don't know how long we've had that introduction on the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Five years, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Five years we've been doing this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Brad put together a little arrangement for the intro music, so we've changed it up and hopefully you enjoyed that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's, that's an original piece.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I toiled on it, I worked hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't play any of the instruments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all digital.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of these days, I'm going to learn how to play like an actual, I can play the ukulele, and I used to be able to play guitar and clarinet, but what do you think of the ukulele, and you guys jam?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's just up to hell.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like five miles away from here, so yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's uh, we don't have too much talk about today, but the one thing we wanted to end on was just thoughts, I mean, because the giants are, you know, just like last year, they're kind of on fire in the cactus league, but it's really more about these decisions that they're going to have to make on guys and I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you got it, you, if you're of a teller your first time and you're looking at all of these spots and you're like, oh, man, I'm sure he's got his thoughts on what he wants to do already, but he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to say that stuff now, because it will disincentivize some of the guys who are playing really well, but you got somebody like Brennan who you were really high on coming into the spring training season and he's playing really well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want that left-handed fourth-out filter, that's your guy, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then you got mottoes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you want that fourth-out filter to be a right-handed here, you probably don't want it, but if you don't put him on the team, then you lose him, possibly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Karnasione's fate is probably tied to whether or not the giants keep Bryce Eldridge on the club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say it's like a decision has been made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just looks likely or that he's going to start in AAA then on the big club and you know even Kruko

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Krigot, who did he talk to?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Talk to Bruce Jenkins or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was like, whatever you do with him, he's got to play every day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if he does go to AAA, it's because they have to play him every day, he'll play first base every day, he'll get the reps. And then you'll probably see him soon thereafter, as long as he hits, if he comes up to the big league club right now,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that he plays every day, especially against lefties.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They may, you know, that you, you sort of may be, you may have to sit him against lefties or some of the harder lefties, specifically, because you've got to win ball games up up in the big leagues.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that'll be interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then how do you pronounce Victor's last name?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think he's making, he's making a name for himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Barracoto.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's he's hit in the ball really well and Washington's enjoying his his slickness with this defense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, here's the thing about Eldridge that I keep going back and forth on and in my head because because I do hear that a lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if he does stay with the club, he's going to have to play every day at some point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he is going to have to play every day against lefties and he did he hit it or a rocket off of a lefty the other day was it a triple I think he hit a left handed triple off of a lefty just ripped it 111 miles an hour so the problem right now is you've got devours

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[SPEAKER_01]: So whenever he does play every day, it is going to have to be against lefties.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that this season?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that next season?

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[SPEAKER_01]: The kid is only 21 years old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The power is going to get better and better as it gets older.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Command of the strike zone is going to get better and better as it gets older.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is at, I mean, he's struck out 10 times in 25 at bats in the spring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a lot of strikeouts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you're nearing 50% as a 40 something percent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the tough thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As a fan, throw them on the club and let's see him at first base and let's see him just crush the ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As a realist and as a general manager give more time in AAA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so you're right, I think it's going to go that way, I think Vitalos had something along the lines when he was asked that question.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said something along the lines of, yeah, let's see how the next couple of weeks go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know where he's going to be, but let's see how the next couple of weeks go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think what happens is, and his slugging percentage is over 900 right now as well,

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the next couple of weeks, I got about two weeks left of spring training.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the next couple of weeks, if the heat tears the cover off the ball and all of a sudden stop striking out, which I don't think this is going to happen,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to force their hand.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to have to keep them on the club.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And at least start them there and then they can send them down if they have to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And from all accounts that I've heard, that's not going to hurt his psyche.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not going to hurt him in the long run because he's the type of kid who can handle it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think at this point, they're kind of just sitting back and saying, make us make the decision to keep you up here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And as of right now, you're going to be going to triple A, but make us change our mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the pitching situation is kind of interesting because they recently, uh, just today, actually, they, uh, re-signed, uh, Lucaszi on a minor league deal, and we both were like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, like he's back and the reason has to do more with injuries than anything else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Reaver or is it reaver a rave or sad martine?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know the first name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is going to be out a couple of months with a hip flexor injury.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Eric Miller is also not quite ready to come back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got lower back stuff and Sam Hintgis has a shoulder and a knee thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so Matt gauges the only left-handed option right now on the 40 man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the reason for the Casey joining the club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was kind of interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: just it's like spring training is supposed to be the the time for these guys to be all healthy and it's kind of sucks to see them not healthy right now but that's kind of the breaks and you know not everybody has more than one or two left handers so that is also part of the deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think what's hurting right now, too, is that, you know, the giants we thought they had a lot of starting pitching depth that Wizz and Hutton has an ERA over 14 in the spring blade too well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got an ERA over 11.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those are kind of.

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[SPEAKER_01]: hurting the giants right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bird Song is up over 54.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's one and a third inning so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's given up seven hits and eight runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Only struck out one and walked three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of work still needing to be done with the young guys, the bullpen, the starting pitching, everything is just kind of,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, hurting at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, to get a guy like Luke Casey who's been there, he's pitching that ballpark, he's familiar with the team, not necessarily the coaching staff yet, but to have that, it makes you feel a little bit better as a fan, but also when you're looking at spring numbers, you're like, everything doesn't look great yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you got Ryan Walker,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Eric Miller is getting healthy and you got Lucacy and he got Bivins, but other than that, other than those four guys in the bullpen, it's kind of like, I, yeah, I don't feel great right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they expect Jason Foley to come back, but he's more going to be kind of like a summer guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously our guy Randy Rodriguez, he's probably going to be out for the whole year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and then also, um, I think, who's a Pogaro, Pogaro got hurt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He hurt his hammy, and so he will be out for a few weeks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So probably not going to be ready for opening day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, the pitching, the, the, the bullpen, all the sudden just has some, some issues with the entry-wise, do you have, like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: What would be your perfect five-man rotation coming into, coming out of camping into the season?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, my perfect five-man would be the five-man that we are hopefully set up for, and that's web, Ray, Rube, Houser, and Mali.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be the five-man rotation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If we can come out with that,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And those guys could last for a long time, midway through the season with no injuries, no missed starts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to give the guys into miners, birdsong, Wizz and hunt, all those guys, you're going to give them a tid well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to give them a chance to really own their skills, hone their skills, get, you know, get down to business, get some innings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that would be my ideal five, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not sexy, it's not flashy, it's not anything great, but I...

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like McDonald, but I think McDonald, I don't want to see him in the rotation because then that means we have an injury, that means we have something that didn't go right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to be in the bullpen because he's going to earn his way on to the starting roster, opening day roster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think in triple A, him pitching every day, and I don't know what that's going to do, but he'll be there and ready because you are going to get, you always get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, a day or two before a start or the day of the start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm guys not going to be feeling good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Something's not going to be right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And McDonald's is going to be right there to be able to fill in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would like to see one of these other arms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: make it tough for Vitello.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I would like to see a Tidwell, he, I know he struggled the last, I think it was his last appearance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bird Song, he hasn't been what we wanted him to be in spring training.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wizard Hunt, he's figuring things out, I guess you could say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, nobody's like really putting the pressure it seems to jump into that spot and it's yeah, I kind of was hoping that somebody was if they put the pressure on though it would have to be the pressure on group because you can't those four other guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're immovable, I think, because of Houser and Mali, you sign those guys to be starters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, we don't have to be rude, but roots pitch in awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's a good problem, it's a good problem for sure, so, but yeah, the same.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would like to see one of those other guys, because right now, other than Trevor McDonald, I don't see anybody else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: making it difficult for Rube and pushing Rube and you want that, you want the camp competition, you want a guy to go back down to AAA saying, I deserved to be there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I fought hard and I pitched really well in the spring, but we're just not seeing that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you want to see from the, those outfield spots drew Gilbert's hurt?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't know what's going to happen with him, motto, send Karnasione, Brennan, like, what are you and then Schmidt and Koss?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know if they're going to keep both if they're only going to keep one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what do you want to see from that scenario?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so the outfield scenario, I do want to see Montos, the problem with Montos, I'm going to keep talking about this with people on social media, on blue sky, because I'm on there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I love to talk baseball on blue sky.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're on there, find me at Evans 5150 and we could talk some ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: what I keep saying about Montos is he's playing every day right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he looks great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's Montos, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: When Montos plays every day, he looks great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he makes the team, he's not playing every day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless there's an injury.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But even then, it takes him a little bit to kind of warm up and get going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Carnacione.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got the power.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got the matchability.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do I do really like Grant McCray.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know there's a lot that's been written about him lately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He does have what six walks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he went deep yesterday, six walks, four strikeouts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got the speed, he's got the power, nice article written about him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was bags, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that he could easily be a fourth-out filter, but the problem is Montos and Encarcione, don't have options, so we're gonna stop that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the hard part, is when you're talking, you know, roster build,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you have to factor in all of those, you know, the option issues, but but again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: if if you do want to go within Karnasio and Montose's worked his way into a good spot for the trademark it to because if you can get into a team that needs an every day out filter he could thrive he really could and the giants could get some return for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it benefits him that the WBC is happening and he's not playing on any of the WBC teams he's showcasing himself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I think I'd like to see Montose or McCray.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the athleticism.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like having a big lumbering out filter in NCarnocione with a lot of strikeouts, but massive power.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But again, we still haven't seen the power.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The giants are being patient with him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they probably want to see, well, what can he do when he's healthy and he's in there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: But again, a bad off the bench is he that type of guy?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the problem.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just too many questions with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that'll be it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when we come back next week, the world baseball classic will be the final at least will be in motion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe if Team USA is in it, maybe we will try and come back the next day or maybe even that evening, which because it would be great to talk about that final game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But all right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we are

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so we'll be back next week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But keep, uh, we will, we will figure out the, the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to be Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll just, it'll either be Tuesday or one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll figure out kind of how the maconations is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, um, just check out the YouTube page.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you watch us on stream, check out the YouTube page because we'll have that show, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And and that's how you'll know when we go live, but podcasts listeners are just like, yeah, it's in my feet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's in my feet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So This is true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so for Brad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am WGC when we see you piece out piece