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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.

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Happy Thursday.

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This is another Thursday episode.

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We're coming at you now three days a week.

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I've got Kenji with me.

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We're going through some league news today.

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So nothing crazy noteworthy in terms of game news or anything like that.

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But there's some really interesting things that we wanted to touch on.

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Some injuries, some people that are coming back from injury.

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And then Kenji's favorite talking point, he's been on me all day about this, Roki Sasaki.

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So I'm not even going to dilly dally.

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I'm going to jump right in.

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Kenji, Sasaki pitched yesterday.

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How do you make you feel?

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It went a lot better than I expected.

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And I watched him pitch in the WBC, but to me, the splitter looked better at spring training

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than it did during the WBC to me.

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Like there were some of those splitters that he threw that kind of blew me away.

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Just how much movement it had.

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And then you watch him pump 99, 98, 97.

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It's pretty special.

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And to think that he could, he's only 23.

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His fastball, I did notice a bit of movement more than I was expecting as well.

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I remember he backdoored a righty hitter.

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He threw a fastball.

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I think it was a four senior.

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I threw it outside and kind of slightly tailed inside just enough to hit the corner of the

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strike zone.

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And I thought, oh, that's what I was talking about.

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He needs that.

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He threw a two seam or a sinker.

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I don't know.

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I've tried to figure it out.

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People say it's a four seam.

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People say those only he throws four seam split finger slider is what I've heard.

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But I can't seem to figure it out because we don't have any advanced stats.

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But well, I have some advanced stats for you that I've found while I've been looking this

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up.

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So for those who don't know, a splitter is a pitch that is designed to essentially like

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the bottom falls out of it so it drops really steeply to hitter.

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So they see it.

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It's called tunneling where you like a pitcher tries to throw the ball out of the same spot

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in his release and a splitter essentially follows kind of the similar path as a fastball

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looks similar in grip, but the bottom just falls out of it.

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It's eight to 12 miles an hour slower than a fastball on average.

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And the bottom falls out of it.

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It's intended to be a very low spin pitch because you're trying to get the ball to drop

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as much as you can.

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That's why they really like stuff it between their index finger and your middle finger.

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That's what she said.

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And so essentially, his splitter has extremely, extremely low spin even for the major leagues.

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They said, I'm looking at Major League Baseball put out an article said it has spin relative

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to a knuckleball because it's just a spin killing splitter.

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It's crazy that the bottom just drops straight out of it.

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So it doesn't necessarily dance like a knuckleball, but the bottom falls out of it.

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It's such like a dead ball.

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So you're expecting that 98, 99, but then you get this like 80 something mile an hour

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just bottom falls out of it.

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So it's filthy.

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I mean, he's got the potential to be phenomenal, but we knew that.

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But then we kind of talked about this.

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The big thing I've been saying is he's a super straight fastball sometimes.

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I guess I can't say it's every time now because I did see some movement.

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But I did see that straight fastball on an 02 count right down the pipe.

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And I wasn't really sure.

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I was watching, I watched it twice over and I was watching where Will Smith commanded

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the ball and it looked like he was holding it inside, inside fastball, which I was a

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bit confused about.

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But while you'd go inside fastball with a really straight fastball on an 02 count, that

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kind of caught me off guard.

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He did shake off, I think a splitter or a slider.

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He did shake.

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So Sasaki did shake off Smith on that 02 count.

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Which is good.

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It takes some guts to shake off this early.

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But I don't know.

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It was a weird place to call a pitch.

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I would assume you'd either want it high in or low away, just in one of the corners.

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And after that, it took a couple more pitches for him to get the batter out.

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He was pretty obvious he wasn't going to go fastball after that.

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Or if he did, it's just he shook him out in the end with a nice splitter.

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But overall, it was really impressive.

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It seemed like players were pretty shocked at what they were seeing.

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And it's exciting to see how he gets implemented to that rotation.

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I did hear that he's going to be starting game two in the Tokyo series.

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That's awesome.

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I mean, why would he not?

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It's great for him.

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Which I'm stoked for the Tokyo series.

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We're going to talk about it in a minute.

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But I want to emphasize how crazy this splitter is.

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So in the history of the Statcast era, which goes back to pre-2016, history of the Statcast

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era, they've been tracking RPMs on pitches, velocity, all sorts of advanced metrics.

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Roki Sasaki, the pitches that he threw in spring training, those splitters, the lowest

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spin rate of any splitter in the major leagues ever since Statcast has been tracking metrics.

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Roki 519 RPMs, Emmanuel Ramirez, 577 RPMs, and Logan Gilbert, who already is a wipeout

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splitter, 589 RPMs.

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So Roki, it's tough to quantify how much a 70 RPM difference makes, but all you need

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to know as fans is it's filthy.

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And they've got a map here where they plotted where the pitches are going.

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And typically you'll see a lot of pitchers throw changeups, and changeups are kind of

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well known to the bottom falls out of it.

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It either goes straight down or drops to the arm side of the pitcher.

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So if you're throwing, if you're right handed pitcher, the ball kind of fade away down and

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in to a right handed batter.

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If you're a right handed pitcher, vice versa, if you're left handed.

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The advantage Roki has is his splitter is moving both ways.

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So not only does it like, yeah, so not only, and that's part of the really low spin is

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not only does the bottom fall out of it, but it can move to the right.

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It can move to the left a little bit.

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So it's tough to like sit on that and be like, okay, if he's going to throw a split, it's

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going to be middle in.

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You have to, you have to now protect against the outside splitter too, because you don't

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know where it's going to go.

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It's a filthy, filthy, filthy pitch.

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I think a lot of it has to do with his arm angle too.

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His, his big body, long arms.

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I don't know how to describe it, but cause he has an overhand.

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Um, yeah, it's only you and I can see what I'm doing, but it's an overhand and I've always

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been a fan of, I'm a bigger fan of overhand and uh, I like a nine, what's like a 90 degrees

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like a three quarter.

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Like I'm a bigger, I don't, I'm not a big fan of a three quarters angle.

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I'm always a big fan of overhand.

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I think you can do more pitches like Tyler glass now, for instance, his slider, um, or

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whatever he calls it, I think is really his arm angles really overhand.

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I've always thought, or at least they move a bit more differently than what most people

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do, but that's just my personal opinion.

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But I'm, uh, it was exciting to see, um, it was positive.

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It was encouraging.

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And, uh, we'll see how he does.

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I'm sure he'll pitch one more time in spring training and then he'll be pitching the Dodgers

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in the Tokyo series.

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I mean, I don't want this to go to waste either.

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Uh, chase petty, who was a first round pick last year of the Cincinnati reds also threw

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in that game.

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And I watched both rookie siloed and petty siloed petty look good.

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He gave up a homer to Mookie, but it's clear the difference that there's even with like

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a first round pick chase petty to 23 year old or however old rookie is like, there's

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still a significant gap.

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You're like, okay, rookie is much more polished and maybe that's his time in the NPB versus

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time in like division one college, but like rookie still, you can just tell he has that

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little bit of an edge on him.

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So thrilled to see him in the big leagues and healthy and what a prospect, huh?

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Fantastic.

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Unbelievable.

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Um, and that's, that's rookie Sasaki.

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I wanted to say, if you guys haven't seen the trailer for the Tokyo series, go watch

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it.

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It's a, it's pretty sick.

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Who was a demon slayer?

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They got to come in the slayer theme.

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It was pretty, it was really well done.

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I remember last year's was pretty dope too.

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Um, for Korea.

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This year's awesome.

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So go check it out.

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Go check it out.

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We're going to get, we're going to break down the Tokyo series as it gets closer.

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On this weekend's episode and then into next week, we're going to be like drilling down,

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but I'm excited.

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I mean, we're two weeks from baseball, from actual like games that we can watch and that

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count towards regular season, which is thrilling.

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If that's all you got on Roki, then I'm going to rattle off some injury stuff.

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Let's hear, let's hear what's going on in the league.

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Okay.

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So I'm going to start with the O's because we're a fair weather podcast and I'm, and

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I'm a dire podcast.

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Non-biased fair weather podcast.

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Uh, of course, Felix Baltista made his return to big league action after 500.

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56 days, something like that.

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He came back and he was hitting upper nineties.

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He still got the good splitter, which doesn't have the same RPMs as Roki does, but his

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is still also very good.

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Fantastic.

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And so that was really great to see Felix back on the mound.

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O's need him desperately.

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I've been on it all off season that the O's last year, they won 91 games.

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Of course they had Corbin burns, they had Anthony Santander, but they didn't have anybody

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on the backend.

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They had Craig Kimbrell in the backend.

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They still found a way to win 91 games and they had a losing record in one run games.

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I think Felix and the way that him being back will trickle through the rest of the bullpen

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is going to really help the team as a whole.

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So I'm really glad Felix is back on the flip side.

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Gunnar Henderson has a right intercostal strain, which kind of puts his status for opening

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day in jeopardy.

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The Brandon Hyde and some of the reporters are being pretty cryptic about it.

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From what I can gather, it's the muscles in your rib cage area.

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And so a mild right intercostal strain can range from anywhere between a couple of weeks

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to a little bit longer.

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If it lingers, who knows?

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They're going to be super, super careful with him.

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He's like, I'm glad it's not an oblique.

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Yes, 100%.

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He is the pride and joy.

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And it was a really like strange moment that he tweaked it.

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So hopefully, you know, it goes away here in a little bit and he'll be all right.

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So but that's the, that's the deal with Gunnar Henderson.

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Need him back.

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I'm going to cry if he's hurt.

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Adolis Garcia, he is hurt.

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Now do you know exactly what he's hurt with?

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I can't remember what he was hurt with.

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I'm going to find out.

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I didn't even know he was hurt.

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Adolis Garcia has got a problem.

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Yeah, the size of his brain is what it is.

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He's got.

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Yeah, he he was scratched from the team's lineup yesterday due to a left oblique injury.

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It's being labeled as pretty mild and not quite a grade one from Bruce Bochy, which

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is good.

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But anytime you hear oblique, you get nervous.

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I mean, same thing with Wyatt Langford.

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Wyatt Langford has a mild and actual mild oblique strain.

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You're kidding.

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He does.

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He's expected to return to the lineup this week, but he does have an oblique strain.

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It's tough when you're this early in the season, you see a couple of these.

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Why would you play him?

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Let him rest.

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Speaking of obliques, Christian Walker has an oblique problem.

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Left oblique soreness for Christian Walker, which he missed some time last year for the

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D backs with left oblique soreness.

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So that's a big deal.

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Houston obviously gives him a large payday.

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You want that guy on the field.

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He's a big part of their lineup.

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Need him in there.

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Hopefully they were kind of in that period where we're now, I think three weeks from

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tomorrow is opening day.

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And so you're like, let's not push these guys.

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Let's just get their timing down.

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Like, let's not get him hurt.

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Let's make it to the start of the season.

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And so you'd rather this this kind of thing, this like oblique soreness pop up now rather

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than like the days before opening day.

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But a good point.

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But still, you never want to see it regardless.

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Yeah.

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Any takes on those ones before we before I keep going?

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Painful ones.

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But yeah, there's no point of playing them anymore.

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I don't think just because it oblique can come back immediately and just ruin you for

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a couple months.

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So I just just don't play them.

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I mean, they're going to be your starters anyways, all three of them, especially white

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Langford.

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You cannot have white Langford hurt if you're the Rangers.

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So yeah, you need I would I would I would I would I said them.

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Yeah.

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Sean Murphy for the Braves.

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He's expected to miss four to six weeks with the cracked left left rib that he suffered

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after getting hit by a pitch, which that's brutal.

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Never want to see that in spring training.

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Somebody getting hit and breaking a rib.

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So heart goes out to Sean Murphy.

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He'll probably miss opening day than he will miss opening day.

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So I mean, it's good news if you're one of the Braves backups, maybe you get a little

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extra time, something to prove yourself.

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But Murphy's the guy they need him back.

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And they are not the same without a functioning Sean Murphy in that lineup.

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The Yankees were competitive.

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The Yankees.

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Luis Heal is being shut down for at least the next six weeks after he got a high grade

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right latch train, which is a big deal.

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Clark Schmidt got it last year and he was out from essentially May until the beginning

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of September.

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So similar great.

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Clark Schmidt was out for a while.

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The focus for the Yankees, of course, is you want to be ready for October.

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So if there's any sort of silver lining, that's your silver lining.

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But you never want to see anybody go down with shoulder problems this early in the year.

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Joe Carlisle stand both elbows are broken for him.

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Who knows what's going to happen.

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And there's a there are a couple of notes here.

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DJ Lemahue felt a tweak in his left calf.

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They need to just cut him.

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I get that he's he's a legendary piece of the Yankees, but he's he's not going to help

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you win games.

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He's a he's he's he's just not it anymore.

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And just yeah, it's kind of you just get him off the team.

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Yeah, Jordan Walker for the Cardinals is kind of the funniest one.

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So there are two really funny ones I wanted to touch on.

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Jordan Walker stepped on a sprinkler head and has left knee inflammation.

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Yep.

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So he has no he has no structural damage, but his knee is sore after stepping on a sprinkler

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head.

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Yep.

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I'm fully serious.

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Wow.

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Joe Jordan Westberg of the O's has a sore back for which he claims is the fault of a really

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soft mattress.

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He says he sleeps on a rock back home.

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But he got to the Airbnb in Florida and he said the bed is really soft.

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So his back's hurt.

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I know.

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I don't even know.

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You're Kenji's laughing.

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You guys can't see it.

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Kenji's laughing pretty hard.

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I know.

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So we got sprinkler heads and soft mattresses.

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Whatever.

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I sleep on a pretty soft mattress.

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I'm just going to be candid.

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I like a little soft mattress.

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I like a pretty stiff mattress.

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You like a stiff mattress?

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You wouldn't mind that.

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I sleep on a pretty terrible mattress.

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It's it's just springs, but I love it.

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You know, it's a guy I enjoy a little.

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I mean, I slept on the floor for two years.

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So I mean, like I'm used to kind of a tougher ground.

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But yeah, it's fine.

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Yeah, I mean, and there's other notes for players, notable players, but a lot of it

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is back tightness, nothing like super serious.

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Corbin Carroll lower back tightness.

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Rafi Devers is going to be back with he's going to get to get excuse me, going to get

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his timing back and he'll be playing this week.

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Yoshida is coming back from that labrum tear.

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Bayo's coming back.

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He's got shoulder problems.

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Let's see.

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Manny Machado has back tightness.

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Yeah.

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So the Colson Montgomery Big White Sox prospect has back spasms.

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So hopefully he can sort that out.

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I know that's that's always one of those you never really know.

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So a lot of a lot of people that are generally sore all around the league.

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But the silver lining for everybody is your three weeks out from opening day.

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Hopefully a raise enough time to rest up, get healed and then be ready for the big day.

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So yes.

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Yeah, you you you had a couple signings, right?

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You want to kind of cover as well?

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The bigger the biggest one is Jose Quintana to the Brewers.

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I thought that was a really good depth signing for them.

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He was great for the Mets last year.

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And he had some depth, some veteran depth to that Milwaukee rotation.

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They always find ways to just like turn out really productive players year after year,

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even though they might not be good elsewhere, but they come to the Brewers and they're great.

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And Quintana is one of those.

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Quintana is a journeyman been all over the NL Central, especially.

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And so it's good for the Brewers.

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I mean, I would have loved if the L's winning got him.

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I know Mets fans wanted him back through a lot of teams that could use it like a solid

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backhand left hander like that.

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Good for Milwaukee.

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Any other signings you wanted?

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Or you can think every team, but the Dodgers could have used them.

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Yeah, just good, solid picture to have him.

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He's not he's not an ideal fantasy pitcher, so he's not going to be the most popular pitcher.

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He does what he's supposed to eat those five or six innings.

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He runs a little couple couple runs, not a crazy K rate, but he gets the job done.

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And again, like you say, he's a great lefty to have and he always want veteran pitchers

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on your team.

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So I think it's a great move for the Brewers and I could see him being really productive

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for them this year and really helping them win games.

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Just to lose to the Cubs for the division.

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I have the Reds winning the division still.

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Don't forget that.

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Although I am a little nervous about my Mariners prediction for the wild card.

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I got to be honest.

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Justin Turner came out with some scathing comments about them.

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Yeah, that was funny.

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Make me a little nervous about picking them.

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Although Julio Superman, who knows?

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Big domper.

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But those are all our notes for today.

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Pretty quick episode.

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We're trying out some different formats.

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We're going fast.

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We're taking a little bit longer doing these drafts, trying to see what you guys like and

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what you guys enjoy.

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We're loving doing it.

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We're having a great time.

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Kenji, any other notes before we see these guys on Saturday?

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Who's going to be the best pitcher on the Dodger this year?

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Yamamoto.

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Okay.

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You heard her here first.

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Who do you think?

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I think Blake Snell.

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Yeah, that's a good answer.

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You can't go wrong, man.

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I don't want to say Yamamoto, but it's pretty hard to ignore what Blake Snell has done.

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They're all great.

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And just an awesome vibe of LA.

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I think it's going to be pretty good.

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Really great team.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Fantastic.

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Thanks for listening, everybody.

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We will catch you all on Saturday.

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We'll see you next time.