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Great, great weekend of games, brawn, pullar, and crats with you for a little Monday FT,

and we're going to talk to the man of the weekend during this show, Joe Adele,

if you're a podcast only listener, Apple Spotify, wherever you'll get that episode, probably

the next day, just for you to know we break those episodes up. I like to remind people from time to

time, but you can always catch everything full live thing on YouTube, also if you're in the Chicago

area on marquee, great to see you both, and also we made a little announcement last night.

So KP, you guys recently launched your show of Bluebird Territory,

and have a rival bird, Birdland Territory, in the American League East of the teams remaining

that we don't cover consistently. This was the most requested, so we are excited to announce the

launch of that show, former Orioles All-Star Brad Brock, joining Steve Majuski and Tim Barbalace.

So we're excited to have those three. They know the Orioles back in front left and right. What do you

think of the logo, KP? I was going to say that's the thing I'm jealous the most of. The crab on

home plate is a great touch, and obviously the iconic brick building, tremendous logo. Wherever

came up with that, they nailed it 100%. That's like the epitome of Baltimore right there.

Crab cakes and football. That's what we do. Well, I guess crab cakes and baseball now, right?

Crab balls and baseball is what we do. Yes. Last year maybe not as much baseball after the first

month and change, but I know the team has been off to a slow start. I'm less concerned about this

team than last year's team. Is it going to be a fight? Will they make the playoffs? I don't know,

but we're going to talk to Steve later. He's going to join us. We'll congratulate him, and then he'll

give us the whole lowdown on the first week and change of games for the Orioles. One other theme

this weekend that I think was overshadowed by Joe Adel, which is nice, was injuries. We had a ton

of injuries compared to say the prior weekend. So we're going to start with one here.

Okay, we'll start with Mookie Betts. So he leaves Saturday's game. They thought maybe it was from

an AB. He tweaked his back. He walks. He scores on the Freddie Freeman devil. Boom. He's out of the

game. It's like, all right, back might not be too bad. Maybe we'll take a series off. He's about

to go play up in the turf in Toronto. Nope. It's an oblique, a right oblique for him and the standard

for that's 46 weeks. Dave Roberts, Dodgers manager, said he was hesitant to put a timetable

down. He thinks that time missed could be less than that. Katie was all over the story all weekend.

You can hear her on Dodgers territory this week, but KP your thoughts on the Dodgers losing

Mookie Betts for perhaps a month and more. Yeah, first of all, kind of interesting that's an oblique.

It's typically an oblique is something that even the people watching on TV could notice, right?

Normally it's synonymous with the swing and you see guys grab their side and

you pretty much know immediately they've done something to their oblique. The fact that it kind of

happened within the game that it didn't happen on a particular swing or that he didn't indicate

that it happened on a particular swing and said that it was a back tightness or feeling in his back

is a little interesting and it'll be curious to know if you speak to the media or it comes out,

you know, how the injury actually happened, but I mean if the Dodgers, if there's a team that

could kind of overcome losing their starting short stuff and a superstar like Mookie Betts,

the Dodgers are built for this, you know, and maybe perfect timing, you know, insert Miguel Rojas,

going back to Toronto, you know, I think he recently talked about never being booed in his

career and I think he's probably going to get booed pretty heavily, you know, it's oh so

familiar in Toronto, Blue Jays and Blue Jays fans everywhere's mind what he was able to do in

game seven and what eventually helped lead his team to back-to-back World Series title. So

it's a tough blow for Mookie Betts because you know, he just never really got his best foot

for it last year. Obviously played tremendous shortstop last year, which is incredible given

how great he was as a right-fielder to kind of step into that role and be arguably one of the

best defensive short stops in the game, but offensively after the, you know, trip to Japan and

the illness and losing all the weight, he just never really got back on track and he talked about

how hard he worked this off season and felt like he was going to be the guy we've expected Mookie

Betts to be it's kind of a tough blow for him, but the Dodgers are built to kind of overcome

something like this for a short period of time. Yeah, they're definitely built to overcome it and

McGill Rojas can play shortstop at the big league level. Do you want him to play 162? No, but the

fact that they have high-sum Kim and it's really working out well for him that they sent him down

to the bushes to trip away to get at Betts. So he's been playing the entire time, he's continuing

to rake just like you raked in in spring training and I thought he should have made the team

like it's just another case of where they have incredible depth to be able to step in and

not play every single day at short, not play every single day at second, but spell Freeland a

couple times, spell McGill Ro a couple times and by the time Mookie comes back the team will

feel like they probably never missed a beat and then they get a possible future Hall of Famer

and Mookie Betts back and it's something that I saw a bunch of people once he went on the I.L.

He shouldn't have been doing all that stuff that he was doing with Sensei. I forget what his

last name is, but the trainer, Yamamoto's trainer, that's not what happens. All you're doing is

unless you're doing something that's going to hurt your body, all those exercises are helping you.

So maybe it's not as bad as it was originally going to be, but it wasn't the throwing the

javelin or having Sensei on his shoulders or anything like that. It was just something that happens

and this is what happens when you have an older team, you get injuries like this, but the Dodgers

are built for it and it's totally fine. Also, bleaks are from swings, right guys? Generally?

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if you talk to any kind of athletic trainer, it's some other deficiency. I'm not saying that he was

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well, you know, your hips are not rotating in this. There's an imbalance somewhere. Your obliques

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I want to remind everyone about the path for the Dodgers last year. KP can tell you firsthand from

watching many Blue Jays games. Well, and especially watching them up close against them in the world

series. Dodgers were not dominating Toronto in that series, but also let's go back even further

KP. The Dodgers didn't even get themselves a buy last year in the postseason. Again, I know that

they ended up on top, but you certainly are playing with a little bit of fire. So that's all I want

to add is we have these conversations about how good this team can be in the regular season. Are

they going to win 110 games like we talked about last year and me, rats, AJ were all very adamant

that this team is going to go through adversity just like any other ball club. We can get into

Rokisizaki in a minute too, as he looked terrible. His fastball commands mess doesn't look like he

has a three-pitch repertoire right now. So he's looking more like a reliever unless he fixes things.

Point is it's not the perfect team. I know it looks much more perfect than many other teams and they've

built themselves well for the postseason, but they're waiting for Blake's snow to come back. Now Mookie

goes down. They're going to go through some issues and I don't think they're necessarily going to

blow away the competition in the regular season. I don't think they need to either. I think this

team has got their eye on postseason baseball and when you do a year in and year out and I was

fortunate to play with the Dodgers for a short amount of time and just listening to their conversations.

At some point, yes, do they want to win the National League West? Do they want to secure a

buy in the first round? Absolutely, but not at the risk of their health, not at the risk of

overextending some of their guys. There's a reason we haven't seen

back-to-back World Series champions in a long time. It's extremely difficult to even just make

the postseason year in and year out. It's almost impossible to get to the World Series back to back

years and then ultimately win it like the Dodgers did had been done in a long time. So yes, this team

kind of looks like the perfect team, this super team on paper, but much like when I was in Atlanta

and they were winning division after division. At some point, I don't want to say you get a

accustomed to it or used to it, but I think your priorities change. They're no longer concerned

about hanging NOS-TAV chips up in Dodger Stadium. They're trying to hate World

Hang World Series banners and if it takes them a little bit of a bumpy road to get there because

ultimately they do feel like they're one of the best five or 16s in the National League regardless

of what they go through. They just want to get into the postseason and then once the postseason

comes around, then they hit that gas pedal when they go.

Yep, and they do get to try some guys out. I mean, one of the issues crats that you'll have for

the team like this is playing time. So now Alex Friedland gets his chance to play somewhat regularly

at second base until guys like Tommy Edmond eventually come back. You know, Kike Hernandez is

eventually going to come back. Of course, Mookie will come back maybe in a month or so and then on

the other side, Kim gets a chance. How many teams would have cut Kim in spring training and sent

him back to AAA in baseball? How many teams do you think maybe? Not paying them 12 million over

three years. No chance. You can have a position that you're like, okay, this guy's leaving here

in the next few years. We'll bring him in. I get it. He's going to make three million in AAA.

No, nobody would have. Especially with the spring training, everybody's coming out of spring.

This guy or that guy didn't have a good spring. So it's fine that they sit on the AAA.

I said, Kim, I think he hit 409 or something in spring training. He was ready to go. If you're worried

about that kind of thing, but very few have that. Very few have that luxury and the reality is

how much they're paying him isn't that much. People are like, oh, great. You see, they had all this

extra money. Now look who's playing shortstop and second base form. Mickey Rowe, he was plenty

available for quite a few years to be able to go out and be had by plenty of teams. High sun,

Kim is not making that much money. And Alex Freeland, I think, is still on the minimum. I don't

even think he has a year of service. If he does have a year, it's not that much more than a year.

Right. So yeah, some of these guys are more bargain-bin shopping, but it gives you the depth. That's

the whole difference maker during the regular season. KP, there are plenty of talented players

in the minor leagues. Often they're not ready yet to contribute. Here, let's use this example.

The angels are known to call players up very quickly, right? The Dodgers often put young players

in a position where it is really tough to find playing time. There's a reason for that because

when you lose Mookie Betts, can you replace a player with another player who should be on a major

league roster already? And that's where Kim comes up and they're able to have the Rowe Haas Freeland

situation going on. Yeah, I mean, when you're trying to win championships, sometimes you have to

make some tough decisions and pay some guys like Kim to be in the minor leagues, but ultimately,

they know what's going to take more than 26 guys in order to get to where they want to go.

It might not be some of those guys that maybe are deserving to be on the team at the very beginning

of the season, but it's going to take an army of guys and what the Dodgers do is they go out and

they acquire guys and they make it very difficult in order for their young guys to get a chance in

the big leagues because typically they go out and acquire the best players at all the positions.

And every once in a while, you run into a situation where you've got a guy on the injured

list in Tommy Edmund and it allows a young guy an opportunity to go out there, establish

himself, get his feet wet. And more than likely, that guy just comes, becomes trade bait for,

you know, down the deadline where they feel like they need to go out and, you know, maybe add a

bullpen arm or a starting pitcher. Just think about some of the guys that have in AAA right now.

They have guys that consistently are up there and winning PCL MVP's every season year,

every year and they can't sniff the opening day roster. Maybe they get an opportunity at some

point due to an injury, but they have so many talented players in their organization and then

you think about teams like the angels that rush their guys to the big leagues and, you know,

if you're a young guy getting drafted by the angels, it's got to make you smile year to year

that you know you're going to get an opportunity to come in and have a chance to move through the

system fairly quickly, but you see how these two organizations are run, you know, one team is,

you know, considered a laughing stock of the league and, and one team is going for a three world

series in a row. Hey, and on the topic of playing time crats curious to get your thoughts on

Roki Sasaki, the numbers run prevention wise, we're okay from the first outing. I mean, he's still

looked shaky if you actually watched. He was terrible in spring. Who cares? You can throw a spring

start out. That's fine. As long as the player produces and looks different in the regular season,

it looked like more of the version of Roki Sasaki from spring training over the weekend.

Obviously, they're going to give him a lot of a lot of leash here. They're going to give him a lot

of opportunity. You don't, you don't, let's see, his stat line, five hits, three walks,

five case, and five innings. So that's encouraging, but you don't get 90 pitches when you have three

walks, five hits, and you give up six runs. This is a Nats team that is going to struggle for the

most part besides CJA Abrams Lyle and James Wood, and the fact that he wasn't able to command it

enough to stay away from, to stay away from damage, but also to be able to throw the ball in the

zone enough. It's confusing to me because he was not a finished product, and I was confused that

they didn't have him just continue to work on the things that he needed to work on that they

talked about. The Dodgers talked about the fact that third pitch, developing that third pitch.

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I was just going to talk this week about how I felt like this was a light year from spring training

to the start of the season for injuries to big names. I felt like it was a light year,

pitching injuries, Tommy Johns, the whole thing, and then all of a sudden this weekend just hit us

like a ton of bricks. So we're going to talk about Soto going down Trow, we're going to talk about

Hunter Brown, among others that we'll try and get to Alejandro Kirk. Let's start with Juan Soto.

That's the most recent from a news perspective. KP, I don't know if you've ever dealt with a calf

before, but he's out with the calf. Met's fortunately actually blew up on offense for the

couple games while he's out, but they're going to miss him now for two to three weeks. He had said

he felt better the first night after. He comes back, shows up to the ballpark, people think he's

going to be in the lineup, but the calf can kind of sneak back and bite you again. You usually see

guys miss time and doctors and trainers. I just know this from covering the sport for a while.

It's usually emphasized guys to take a little extra time because it can really linger if you don't.

Yeah, unfortunately, I never had a calf injury in my career, but I've definitely heard stories of

guys who may feel a little something in their calf and they show up the next day and they feel

great. I mean, that's the beauty of MRI machines. Maybe it shows something, maybe it didn't show

something, but to your point, calves can be very tricky. It's not worth risking an actual tear in

the calf. It could be a little strain. It could be a little inflammation, but I think the met's

made the right decision not having one sodo try to push through this early in the year.

It can be a tricky thing and hopefully it's only two or three weeks because, you know,

obviously the met's lineup, but baseball is on a better place when one sodo's playing.

Maybe he won't go 40-40 this year. Maybe that's calf injury. We'll slow him down a little bit

on the basis, but for everybody who online was like, bossy, they score more without him in the lineup.

Like these, you must just be a terrible teammate or something like that. No,

this dude, the met's, the pirates, the Yankees who have whatever lineup he's in,

he makes the one sodo makes them better. So yes, they won him the rush back, but no,

they shouldn't rush him back because you don't want this to linger, especially the fact that

he's out in left field. He's on it every day. It's not like he's deaching. So,

and in three weeks, when it comes back, we'll have more consistent weather. I think some of

these injuries, obviously hit by pitches, eh, whatever, but some of this stuff is the inconsistent

weather. Hey, we played yesterday with 80, now we're playing tonight and it's 54 degrees.

It's a little cooler. So yeah, this, this is a tough time of year and it's good that they're

going to take it, take it, decide if they're just going to be a little bit more cautious with it.

Yeah, I mean, he's one of the best hitters in the sport and now they're going to miss him

for most of a month, most of April, if not all of April. That's not good. Super consistent.

Yeah, it's okay, but it's not good. I mean, it's not good for a team that's going to be fighting

for a spot in a very good national league in general, right? We're looking at some teams that are

off to some hotter starts. Like, I'll throw one out there since we want to have time otherwise.

And the reds look really good after a strong weekend. Their pitching staff looks ridiculous. That's

the team that jumped over them last year, late in the season. I think they're going to be a threat

again in a wild card spot. So just things to keep an eye on. You got to be careful. You can't

lose one for the long term, but they'll be without him for two to three weeks. It sounds like

Mike Traut's going to be okay, but he got hit by a pitch and crats.

This happened, I would say even 10 to 15 years ago and beyond, you know, before that,

there would have been a good old fashioned brawl in the Mariners Angels series. They pitched

inside a lot to him and it takes a lot for Traut to say anything mean about someone. He's a

super nice guy and even he was like, Hey, here's the quote. We know they're trying to get me out,

fastballs up and in. So it's just frustrating. You know, if you can't control it up there,

you shouldn't do it. So it is what it is. Who's the guy? Who's the guy that you're not going to

let beat you in the Angels lineup? Mike Traut. So when you go up there and you say Mike Traut has

been since 2014 when we faced him in the playoffs, you've got to elevate him. You've got to,

you got to just across, elevation across, because one, he's not going to swing at it if it's off the

plate. Two, when he swings at it, that's where he does less damage. He fows a lot of those balls

up. To me, I think as a player, he's learned over his career to be able to let those go, but then

also to do more contact, do more damage up and away. So they've started to come in and if he's

the guy that you're not going to let beat you, especially when you're playing close games like they

were this series, every game was one run and you know, deep into the game, you're going to miss.

You're going to miss in. Sorry, like that, that's part of it. If the Angels don't like it,

they should have been retaliating after a woo did what he did. To me, you have to go to the

Mariners best hitter and you have to do the exact same thing. I'm not saying you go head hunting.

That's not what I'm saying. You got to move their guy because they moved your guy or else,

they're just going to continue to do it. And I think that's what they did the rest of the series.

Well, they did go after Julio, didn't they? Or I mean, at least it appeared that way on

what was it on Friday? No. I could be off there in the Wu game.

No, well, the Wu game was yesterday, right? Sunday, you will hit him, right?

No, Wu came, yeah, early, early in the series though, he came up and in, that one was scary,

and then he hit him up and in. I think the next pitch. So I thought the Wu game was the

Friday game. And then you're right, you're right. We'll pitch Friday. Yes, sorry.

When they went after Julio, I didn't think, I didn't think, I don't know. I didn't think that was

necessarily, like the Mariners are good pitchers, the Mariners are good pitchers, they're making a

concerted effort to go in on trout. And you have to be up, no matter what, you never go down.

Trout just drops ahead to it and does damage down there. Whether he's going to be 50 years old or

when he was a rookie, that's where he's always done damage and will always do damage. And

you just, you can't allow that to happen. And you've got to be able to

retaliate sounds bad, but it's more like, hey, you're protecting your guys.

Yeah, and X-rays were negative on the hand. So that's good. We'll find out if there's more to

the story in terms of missing a little bit of time. Next up, KP, we need your insight here as the

man on the Blue J show and covering this team all year, Alejandro Kirk goes down, hand first

thumb fracture that is left thumb for him, not throwing hand, but still they're going to miss him

for what it sounds like four to six weeks. I mean, as Chrissy, I mean, it's probably worse that it

happened to his catching hand than his throwing hand. I don't think there's a, you know, a body part

more valuable to a catcher than his, his catching thumb, the way catchers are taught to work

underneath the ball. And for someone who's had multiple thumb surgeries and thumb injuries in

his career, it sucks. It takes a long time to get that confidence and that strength back.

And granted, I'm only using an outfield glove to be able to work underneath the ball. It's going

to be, it's going to be some time. And I think the bigger concern more than the fracture is they

said there was a dislocation when it happened. And more than likely for my experience when there's

a dislocation, something shifts in there. And that's usually a ligament, right? And I'm just,

I think today, Monday, he was supposed to be going to see a specialist actually in your neck

of the woods, Chrissy, maybe you should drop by and get some insight info, like wait outside

the hospital and get the early report on what's going on with this thumb. He's up there in

Lehigh Valley, seeing a hand specialist right now. But I don't think there's anyone more valuable

maybe except for Vladimir Guerrero to this team success, what he does behind the plate with the

pitching staff. He's also the guy I believe when push comes to shove. He is going to be the guy

who ends up hitting behind the bloody because he offers the most consistent approach in that

bats throughout the season. It's a tough, it's a tough loss for the Blue Jays.

Spot on. I'm not even talking about what he means to the team. I'm going to talk about what he

means to the pitching staff because the lineup, yes, we know what he does, but that pitching staff

keep, like there's so much value that he adds. Tyler Haneman had an incredible year. He's going to

have to really step up and be a huge part for this time that Alejandro's out. But my issue is

exactly what KP said, not the fracture. So many times we have fractures, breaks, they have surgery,

the bone heals stronger than it was before. We're good. When your thumb dislocates and you have to

catch, I wore a thumb guard my entire career. I don't know if Kirk wears a thumb guard. I'm sure

he will, but those thumb guards essentially, essentially it goes right into the thumb of your

mitt. Here's the, here's the thumb side of your mitt. So when you put it in there, you're essentially

extending the entire thumb portion of your glove and a lot of the pain comes from this area when

a sinker comes in here, crunch gets you. When you're constantly getting hit, hit, hit, hit, that thumb

guard alleviates that. Well, he doesn't come back 100%. Even if it's like he's 95% and he feels it,

one game of catching, let's say 150 pitches are thrown, he might catch 110 of them. It's like pushing

on that spot. It's pushing on that thumb. That will, that will bring his receiving numbers down.

That will bring his ability to then maybe grip the bat quite as quite the same. You know, there's

a lot of things hand injuries and feet injuries are a bigger deal in baseball than a lot of people

think and your thumb for catching is so important. And so he needs to be 100% healthy in that

dislocation part. I think it's going to possibly keep him out a lot longer than just a fracture will.

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Okay, next up a shoulder issue for Hunter Brown, not great crats. This was a top three guy for

Saiyong last year. Felt something in the shoulder during the throwing program on Friday and so he

goes to the injured list for now for Houston. That's their guy. I mean he's a top three top five

starter in the American League. 102 pitches and his first start. Is that what we're going to blame

this on? The fact that he threw more than any other starting pitcher in the game. This guy is

supposed to be the horse. To me, I hope that narrative gets completely debunked but he's on

IL. He's on the IL with the shoulder and as a horse, you have to be healthy. Can he pitch

through things? Yes, and I'm sure he tried on Tuesday. I think that's when he pitched,

but he wants to just hearing him talk and hearing people in the organization talk about him.

He wants to take it to that next level. He wants to be a 32-33 start guy,

approach 200 innings and this is tough to see this early in the season but hopefully

it's precautionary and he's able to come back and be the guy that the team needs him to be in

that horse that's going to give them seven innings every time out. One more team to hit.

The Cubs losing two starters in the past few days. Cade Horton, who was hurt to end last year

and early talk, is optimistic from Cade Sharma, who covers the Cubs for the athletic and

for Northside Territory. He said it started in his wrist and got tight in his forearm so they

wanted to be proactive. They put him on the IL and then during the show, we learned that it's a

left bicep stream from Matthew Boyd that puts him on the injured list. That's retroactive two

a few days ago, April 3rd. Javier Cade is called up to be a nice depth option, but KPRD

two big starters going down for the Cubs and their starting rotation IL starts to look really

good in a way that you don't want it to look. Steele has been on the IL for a while now. They're

missing a lot of talent. Yeah, it's it's unfortunate. I think some blame is going to be throwing

at the WVC, of course, because we have to blame something, right? But yeah, with Horton too,

I mean, the cratsy touchstone at two, it's just some of these injuries honestly just kind of

add up and some people are going to point fingers in a lot of different directions. You know,

the preparation has been training, maybe the lacos, you know, build up during spring training,

but a lot of these pictures and players are getting hurt in cold weather cities. It's difficult

when it's warm one day, cold one day, the body has a hard time adapting and it's it's tough early

on in the year. How quickly things can change crats. We were on Friday talking about the

Mets losing to the Giants in Lendora had a couple issues, mistakes, and then all of a sudden,

the Mets win three in a row to take down the Giants the rest of the way over the weekends. We had

by Tello's first ejection, Matt Chapman has I think four errors. Was it now on the weekends or not

on the weekend, sorry, on the season and then on the season and then had the stolen base attempt and

the ninth that that really hurt. And then here's the Giants offense for you. And this is where I'm

going to defend Tony by Tello haters because there's random ones all over the internet right now.

They're three and seven. They're four games under and their offense is ranked really poorly in

a number of spots that don't necessarily have to do with ballpark like barrels where their last

barrel percentage lasts and then the expected stats too. I mean, I guess that was that was kind of

that was kind of Tony's reasoning for getting thrown out because of his arguing that

he didn't run inside the first baseline on that play. Incorrect. Like he definitely was

should have been called out because he was running inside the baseline, but

that's so busy that's so busy. It's a busy offense. And I guess the you know 10 10 game sample

size. Absolutely. I mean up until the Nat series, the Dodgers, the Dodgers top of their order

was not hitting very well. So Philly's top of their order were not hitting very well. The

Mariners who added a big piece in the offseason, the top of their order wasn't hitting very well.

So teams go through this. The issue is what has always plagued the Giants is offense.

And they kind of doubled down this offseason getting Luis Arise and saying you know what,

it's tough to find power here. We already did that in May last year when we got Devers. So we'll get

Arise and Arise has had a great start to the season. It's just a it's it's emblematic to the fact

that this team can't make mistakes like Matt Chapman making four he'll go a whole season without

making four heirs. Let alone 10 games. They can't have a guy get thrown out stealing second

base. But the reason you get thrown out stealing second base and you're down by three is because

you're like we aren't scoring any runs. We got to push the envelope. So it's it's it's it's here

in there for the Giants right now. And they're not playing very well. And it's a tough division.

Box corner time more from the weekends. KP did you see this play from Mani Machado who has soccer

skills in Fenway? Yeah, I mean I think Mani's reputation outside of his teammates is why this is

a big deal. Is it not allowed to intentionally kick the ball? No, but there's a way players have

done it. It's actually a very smart play. And if you ask his teammate who hit that ball,

he's very thankful because for people at home who may not know when a runner interferes with the ball

and play, the guy who is hitting is awarded a base hit. So this is the ultimate team move. Not only

for his teammate who gets a hit there, but he potentially saves a double play right there too. But

I think it's a big deal because Mani Machado has his reputation outside of his clubhouse,

you know, as a dirty player and has done something's potential that has allowed that reputation to

be something that people talk about. But everything I've heard from people that have played with Mani

say he's the greatest teammate, he's a hard worker, and they love him the death. So it's a

non-issue to me. I think it's a great teammate play by Mani Machado. I'll clean it up a little bit

here KP. It was actually a pick off. He was on first and they tried to pick him off at first.

So as he's getting back to the bag, he went to kick it. So do you still think it's a clean play

because it was really, it clearly wasn't going to get picked off, but do you think it was a

clean play because he tried to kick it and then or not tried. He did kick it and it went it went

away and he got the second. Yeah, sorry, sorry. I so like the clip of it, but I thought it was

coming off the bat. I didn't, I don't have a chance to watch every single game. I do apologize

for that. Of course. Do I feel differently about it? I think if it was on the base and maybe he

like knew he was going to be, I don't know. I mean, I think Mani's just a guy who goes out there

and has fun and I don't think something like this is like premeditated. I think you just have to

have like a ton of baseball instincts and yeah, maybe it's frowned upon, but I don't know. I mean,

it's Mani being Mani. I guess there's certain players. I feel like outside the clubhouse,

like I said, have a reputation of maybe doing things that people don't like. People inside

the clubhouse probably go, man, Mani's IQ was so high that he was able to do this on the fly.

I don't know. Is it a big deal? Probably not. No, I don't, I don't think it's dirty. I think Mani

has done some things that I would deem immature and sometimes dirty. This isn't one of them.

I mean, you can get pissed about it, but one, he put himself in the way to get hit.

Now, this should have been called by the umpire. Yes, it wasn't, but you really don't,

because it's not a badid ball, because he's not technically interfering with what's considered

a live ball. He could stand there and let it hit him anywhere. It just was a fact that he,

I don't know if I've ever seen anybody kick a pickoff. I've seen guys try to like slap the ball

out of people's gloves. That's dirty. I've seen guys go back into the base where the

fielder is on like a pickoff, like going back in their note. They know they're going to be,

they're going to get there early, so they make contact with the fielder, because it's not the same

as if it's a badid ball. You have to let the fielder field the ball. It's a very gray area. What he

did had it been slowed down, had it been something that could have been replayed. Yeah, the umpire

would have been like, no, this is not, you can't intentionally try to do it, but live, that's so

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Hard to see for an up and hard to kick for a player, I mean that's good. It's a really good player,

it is impressive. Yeah, you got to sacrifice your own body to do, it's not like a backpick from a

catcher doesn't hurt, right? So when you got to have the IQ to be like oh man and the instincts

to be able to do it and secondly yeah it's a little bit selfless because you know it hurts,

you know as you know crats, best arms on the field or behind the plate. No, outfielders,

you guys are the you guys are the prima donnas, you guys just don't get to warm your arms up,

we our arms stay hot so we don't throw it as hard as you outfielders.

Well I want to get to the outfielders, so one more topic here in hot corner, Roman Anthony,

this is from the weekend where Alex Corris said that he needs to work on his throwing and

his footwork in the outfield so you're seeing more, Sharon Durand playing out there right now and

less of Anthony, this is always that dynamic KP of how do you get better without playing time,

I know you can do things before and after games but what do you do if you're Boston and you happen

to be off to a two and seven star fanlar already booing and yelling sell the team and freaking out.

I mean I think the bigger issue is I don't think this needed to necessarily be public right,

Jared Durand a accomplished outfielder who's a pretty good player too like it's very easy to

sugar code it and say hey we just want to get Durand some some reps and left field,

Roman's been swinging the bat well you know he's gonna have to DH a little bit you know this is

kind of when we constructed our roster this is something we knew was a possibility we had a bunch

of outfielders that all needed to play I didn't think it was necessary for them to call out

Roman Anthony especially after you signed up for this long-term extension he's the potential

faceier franchise to to kind of call him out nine games in the season to me this is an issue

that probably should have been either discussed or worked on in spring trading not nine games in

the season. Yeah I don't I don't I don't get this I like a lot of the stuff that Alex Corra does

but I'll get why he had to had to say this like Jared Durand in 20 let's see that was 24

when he had his all-star season heat I mean he really made himself into almost a gold glove

outfielder he was playing a lot of center field obviously they got a gold glove outfielder

and say down Raphaela who came up last year and bumped him to left they have gold in right field

in will you're a brave so he could have just said Jared Durand is a better left-fielder than

than Roman Anthony right now or he could have said Roman Anthony is going to be in the lineup we

got to figure out how to get the best lineup out there not like well he has to work on his footwork

and his throws too like KP you know left field in in Boston is not the easiest place to play and

if you haven't played there a lot have somebody who has played there a lot play that play that

position and then you know maybe work into the outfield on the road where you're you know you're not

playing balls off a ladder off a monster sign off of you know 305 feet from home plate type of place

yeah feels like they could have just used the WBC as an excuse like hey he didn't get a ton of

reps here in JetBlue Park and Fort Myers which kind of emulates Fenway Park right the the fact

that he missed a lot of time like you said all the right things like hey Jared Rand's been here he's

done it he knows how to play the wall a little bit you know we want to put our best defense of

line about there right now we feel like the Ransar guy in left field doesn't mean Roman's not

going to play but to call him out and whatever happened to having a I mean I know every bit of

information is out there but whatever happened to have a little bit of like strategic advantage like

now every time Roman gets the ball in left field you don't think all these other teams are going to

challenge his footwork and his throwing arm now like it just it's interesting because Outscore is

one of the best out there for him to do that I don't really I can't really make sense of it

hey reminder to everyone as we're talking about all the other shows across the FT network that

make us better as we have so many new family members joining the party here um cardinal territory

Ali Marmal guest episode just released last week Hilarious moment they called him during the show

this time they actually got him formally on the show without blitzing him so I encourage you to check

that one out um it's part of the FT network also somebody who frequently appears on this show

went on the paternity list so Pete Fairbanks getting ready I don't know did it already happened

oh yeah yeah his wife was induced I think it was yesterday morning or this morning whatever it was

congratulations to Pete I'm sure we'll get more news but there's Isaac Azude from our

myland showfish on first the interesting thing for me here too Crafts was how they had him start so

that he could get to the fam sooner they're like hey we're gonna get our ending out of you so if you

want to leave you got to start the game kind of genius I don't hate it like I go I go through this

a little bit of my high school team like I got some soccer players that have been going to soccer

tryout so I'm like hey I'm gonna hit you higher in the order today because you can only get two FF

but I'll get two FFATs out of you and then you gotta leave so like I kind of like it the marlins are

running a nice little uh travel high school baseball team there they got the hey you're gonna throw

you're gonna get a day off tomorrow but we expect you back Tuesday because your wife's giving

birth here in Miami okay right that's your late past KP first ending for you and also there was a

four hour rain delay it was a long day for the mylands and the Yankees on Sunday then you get your day

off you get your new kid and then you come back and you can go back to the later innings actually

they liked it too I mean you know they're they're playing well right now and they're like okay hey

let's make a compromise like hey I want you to be there for the birth of your child you know

that's a non-negotiable but how do we kind of how do we both benefit each other oh great idea

why don't you just be our opener and then you can hit the showers catch your flight make it home but

we're gonna need you back to close the game two days from now but enjoy enjoy the birth of your

your new child and maybe it helps to have a relatable front-off as exact Peter Bendix I think

is expecting a kid very very soon his first child so you have a little bit of an understanding

there and some creativity from a pretty creative front office I'm not any big league baseball player

minor league baseball player you do not ask to take off for your kids birth you tell them

I'm taking off when my kid is born this isn't an ask thing like you don't miss your kids birth

you

we don't have a lot of time but we do have time to say hi to Bobby Jr who's named after Bobby

Whit Jr he's a tortoise that Pat Murphy brought on the field and took out of his pocket during an

interview with Trisha Whitaker I mean crafts I don't even know what else I can say about your boy

Murphy I mean there's just I mean talk about the gimmicks if this was if this was the match people

be like people me I would be like oh it's too much but it's just it's just the game's a stick when

you're winning everybody wants a turtle when you're losing it's like let's just like who doesn't

like a turtle as long as it's not snapping turtle we're good to go yeah if you're if you're pulling

pancakes out of your pocket and you're winning it's okay but once again if it's a team that's

unsuccessful people run thin to that type of humor Pat Murphy and and the walker brewers kind

of seem to get away with whatever they want because they just keep winning all it do is win win win

no matter what it is fun on the way out here what you got I mean how can you how can you

steal three homers like three dingers from an offense that is not hitting dingers and come on

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