Rangers Bats Did NOT Travel In LOSS vs Tampa Bay Yesterday

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Stop me. If you've heard this before, Rangers didn't have
enough offense in their game last night, How come nobody
stopped me? Yeah, it happened again. We talk about it
and try to solve it. Next it's the DLLs Rangers Podcast.
Thirty two times yep, thirty two times. That statement has

(00:23):
applied that the Rangers didn't score enough runs. But still,
these one run scoring games are just so repetitive and annoying.
Hi thereon, Welcome into the All DLLs Sports Studios. Welcome
to the DLLs Rangers Podcast. John Radigan, Jeff Wilson, the Profit.

(00:46):
Elijah Smith is over there too, and we're glad to
have you join us. Share your frustration. We're feeling it too.
There was a lot to be frustrated about in last
night's game, and we talked yesterday on the show, Jeff
about maybe the first thing that you know again and
maybe this is something that really does give the Rays

(01:08):
a home field advantage. But it was like spitting rain
the entire afternoon and then finally when the clouds opened
and there was a deluge. There was an eighteen minute
rain delay, But eighteen minutes I mean for me, and again,
having done so many games when we would have rain delays,
and I had to what we do, what we call,

(01:29):
you know, rain delay theater. We're talking at least an
hour when it happened so often there, it's like, well
throw a little dry stuff down on away we go.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, it was pretty interesting. And John denez had told me,
you know, when we talked about it yesterday, how he
was kind of helping them transition to the new ballpark.
He told me that they were going to back up
their start times to try to avoid these afternoon early
evening rain showers. So I mean a seven thirty start.

(01:58):
It is unheard of basically in baseball these days. And
they still weren't able to avoid the rain. And uh,
you know, I think I think yesterday when I looked
at the forecast, there was there was some rain in it.
But I'm not sure if tonight's game will be affected.
But it's you know, the Rangers never at home play
in the rain.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
No. And then the truth is, you know, from spent
having spent many a road trip in the Tampa area.
Of course, then we played in they played in the
Dome Stadium. It rains every afternoon. We know that. But
to John's point, to j D's point usually by the evening,
you know, and again in the in the ever so

(02:39):
dark and dingy Suncoast Dome or whatever tropic cano field,
whatever we call it these days. Uh. I every once
in a while I just walked to where there might
be a window to see if there was still light outside.
You know, that place was just so dark. It felt
like it was midnight all the time, and you usually

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around game time. Yeah, it was fine. You know, it
was sunny out there. I'm sure it was hot and humid,
but it was sunny. Yeah, not last night.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, And uh, the forecast raining now and they expect
it to end until at rain through four pm, so
it should it should be an on time start. I'm
sure that they do have a tarp and you know,
I think we saw it yesterday's. Yeah, they're gonna do
their best, but it's, uh, you know, it's just different,
and I don't know, it was rainy for both teams.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
It was, but again they they deal with it a
lot more.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, and and really the thing that got a you know,
the game got away from the Rangers in the in
the sixth Malley and that long had bat with with
Yanair Diaz that that really kind of unraveled him. And
then Jake Latz came in wild, wild pitch then you know,
a little tapper that that's kind of no man's land

(03:57):
for Burger and nobody's covering first, you know, scored a
run on a throwing air that you know, on a
double steel situation. So it was a messy inning and
and you know, the Rangers, as we know, can't have those,
They just can't. They have to be they have to
be as close to perfect as possible. And as Bron

(04:17):
Watson used to say, there's no perfection in baseball, No,
and teams are going to do this. And the Rangers
had that an ending like that against the White Sox
a couple of weekends ago and ended up costing them. Uh,
those are those are those are rare? Those haven't They
haven't had those a lot, right yere, But those are
things that are going to have. Of course, as we

(04:37):
talk about pretty much every day, they've had, the offense
just disappear and that continues to be the problem and
will always be the problem until it gets straightened out.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, and the reality is even without that sixth inning,
and then of course without the late home run that
made it five to one. But even without the sixth
of the late home run, okay, you know, they hit
u a disappearing home run to take a one nothing lead.
I don't think anybody at the Major League Baseball Office,

(05:07):
any of the umpires, nobody on the TV crew, nobody
in the damn stadium saw where that ball went. It
got up into that misty, cloudy stuff and it was gone,
and they called it a home run and they reviewed
it and it didn't seem to take very long to review.
Just not sure what happened there.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, and I don't know. At least they hit it
hard and hit it deep. Yeah, you know, hey, close
enough get rewarded. You know, how about a Rangers hit
or try that? Yeah, it might have worked.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
You should have been bombing them all at that point
up into that misty sky. But in any event, the
point is the Rangers then only scored one. So the
best we would have done without that sixth inning would
have been a one to one tie and or And
I did enjoy seeing our boy Cody Hoyer in there,
but boy, he gave up. He gave up a bomb. Yeah,

(06:03):
but you know.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
That's kind of why he's there. And you know, a
roster move. At least one roster move's coming today with
with Rocker coming off the io, well that'll be a
you know, a Valdi I guess has been on the
al But Rangers still have to have to clear a
roster spot for Rocker. And and you, poor Cody with
an Eye might might draw the short straw, you know.

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And you know when Chris Spartan comes back, Cody with
an Eye is going to be a candidate if he
survives this one. So, but that's why he's here, Guys
in his position, you know that just that's just kind
of the way things go.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
And they know it.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
They know it. I believe he has options though, So
now that he's on the forty, you know, they don't
need to clear a I don't need to clear anything
for him.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
He should be able to get on a shuttle.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, hop hop a plane and go join the the
round Rocks in Salt Lake Cities where they are right now.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah. So I see a Galica Champ there in the
chat already mentioning Laz. And we've got Laz on the list.
We might beg to differ. I I Gallica Champ, I
can blame Laz for anything, I mean this guy, Like again,
mister umpire, we did not come to this game and

(07:23):
pay our good, hard earned money to watch you ump
But Laz wants to be the show oh man.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
And he's probably now that Joe West is often to retirement,
Las Diaz might be the the showman, the leading showman
of the umpiring crew. You know, I can't really think
of a guy who makes it about him as much

(07:50):
as Laz does. And so you know, these guys know
it coming in, they do, you know, and it's kind
of like the way where's the hat? You know, he
kind of puffs up and just just it just there's
this a whole little thing about him. And and when
you throw on top of that, he's not good, you know, right,

(08:12):
He's that's that's the other thing. He is not a
good umpire. And and you can be a bad umpire
and like Sebbee Buckner is a bad umpire, maybe the worst.
But he's nice, yeah, and like and like they can talk,
the teams can talk to him, the players can talk
to him and and not you know, fear of getting
thrown out. Whereas Laz you can't say anything. He's always

(08:37):
looking for a fight. And he was looking for trouble.
If you guys follow umpire scorecard on the Twitter. Uh,
he was ninety percent overall accuracy eighty but only eighty
four percent on called strike accuracy. So he called some Yeah,
called some strikes that were balls.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
And there were and then look that one did go
both ways. And to Blake's point, you know, you hate
them not adjusting to the strike zone. Usually I do,
but in this case, what the hell was last d
as the strike zone? There was a ball that I'm
pretty sure it was. I think it might have been
when Lats was in there, but whoever, there was a

(09:21):
ball thrown to a left handed hitter from the Rays
that was at least seven inches off the plate. Called
it a strike.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, no, it's on here on the on the screen.
It's barely on the screen. It barely fits, right, It's
so it was so bad, Yeah, you know, and you
know there are the last year when why at Langford
had the run in with Angel Hernandez, I'm not a
run in. Angel just screwed him over.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, the it was.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
It was rated as the like worst call in the
history of umpire auditor or whatever the account was. And
I'm gonna I'm going to guess that this one is
is right there with it, because it was it was
well off the.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Plate, and maybe it was still Malley because I do
remember thinking when I saw it, seriously, maybe the rain
got in his eyes, you know, like so maybe it
was early enough in the game that that that egregious
call happened that that I was even I don't like
the guy, but I was even sitting there trying to
make excuses for him in that case. But and that's

(10:28):
the other thing. I just felt like he right at
the point that the rain really starts to come. He's
the one that makes the call whether or not they
stopped playing.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
If he's a crew chief.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, oh your good point. I think he was,
because ultimately I think he did. Yeah. And and uh,
I just felt like he waited too long.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
He might have you know, and and you know, but
again it's the same for both teams. But you know,
these guys are they're just driving us crazy. Andy Fletcher
is another one who who makes it about him. Uh yeah,
he's terrible, you know. And he you know, he and
Jacob Graham got into it in Detroit. So there there's

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another one.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
That's good point.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
But and and JP. Crawford had had a deal with
him in the last couple of days, maybe over the weekend,
where he got called out on a pitch that was
way off the plate and then and then JP started
to argue a little bit and got run immediately. So yeah, here,

(11:31):
here come the automated umps. Here, here have the challenge.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
When the Fletcher game that when it was in Detroit
and uh as as as Jeff mentioned, and and de
Gram was obviously disgusted with him, and we talked to
Boach about it the next day and and he was saying,
I barked at the guy the whole game, and then
he goes but so did they. He goes in and
pointed over to the other dugout they were barking at

(11:57):
him too. And Eric Nadell in the in the little
gathering of media that we had there, I said, here
come the robots, you know, And that's that's essentially, you know,
it seems like what's going to happen. And maybe to
the extent that Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball want this,
They're they're letting uh these umpires, what give them just

(12:19):
enough rope to hang themselves?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Kind yeah, you got to do it. They and you
know there was that story by the athletic talking about
it and how the umpires heard. You know, they don't
like it because they're going to feel bad. Will be better,
You're damn right, you know. And if it's so hard
nowadays with the boy the pitches move that you can't
do it, and then I would I would want ultimately,

(12:43):
I would want to be get the thing right. That's
their job. It should be an ego as a job,
you know, the ultimate goal is to make sure everything's
as right as possible. And how about the first space
out the other day and and the I can't remember
if it was the against the Cardinals or the or

(13:04):
the Blue Jays. The first base an't missed like three
calls that they reviewed, you know, and he missed like
two in an inning. And there's a check swing that
he missed that they couldn't review, but it was and
that helped that actually benefit the Rangers. It's just like, yeah,
how you know, how do you miss three calls at first?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
And generally not and it and they were like quick
overturns to It's not like they had to like study
it for four minutes. So I just you know, there
are guys who need to swallow their pride a little
bit and recognize that they're getting paid. They get these
guys don't get paid like five hundred dollars a game
good money. Yeah, and they you know the umpire rooms.

(13:47):
You've been in. The umpire room at the park takes
care of those guys.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
And that's and there's one of those every ball every ballpark.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
So these guys have a pretty nice thing going and
they need a little help. Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like Jeff said, be better, not for all of them,
but for some Las included.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay, more coming. We've got lots more to talk about.
There was some good that happened on the first day
that they were in Tampa. We'll talk about that. We'll
talk about the return of someone who actually made a pleasant,
if not triumphant return. It's all coming up next. It's
the d l As Rangers Podcast.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I gotta tell you, John, I really enjoyed that Frosty Oh, Mandy, Yeah,
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around forever, it has, I mean, it was you know,
Dave Thomas, you know, and you know, but it didn't change.
It hasn't changed for a number of years. Now they're

(14:52):
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My god, that one I had yesterday with the Oreos
was so good. I didn't eat the whole thing because,
you know, getting a little weight watching your girls figure,

(15:13):
watching my figure. But you guys are going to absolutely
love these things. And you know it's it's it's Wendy's.
And you know, Wendy's criminally underrated. I think in the
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up yesterday with a bud Light, so uh beat it
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(15:35):
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Speaker 1 (15:50):
And if you do eat the whole thing, I suggest
you just put on your Shady Rays and no one
will notice. Right, You're just now you're kind of invisible, right,
nobody is who you are? Right, It's like what whomy
Shady Rays as you know, my favorite. They have three
hundred thousand and five star reviews. I actually haven't reviewed them,

(16:10):
so let's say they have three hundred thousand and one,
because I would give them a five star review. Their
latest thing is to remind you that they have the
return and replacement policy. I'll never forget the time I
lost my shades first day in the destined at the beach,
got a new pair of shades, went in there in
the waves, and wave knocked them off, and off they went.

(16:31):
Man undertow took them out. I don't even know where.
So I was sad. If I'd had Shady Rais, they
would have replaced them. You should get yours thirty five
percent off Shady Rays use the code DLLs, all right.
So some good things that happened yesterday. Foremost among them
was actually something that happened off the field. And this

(16:51):
is as bad as the Rangers have been on the road,
and by the way, only the White Sox are worse
in the American League on the road. That's not company
you want to be keeping. Rangers fell to nine and
nineteen on the road last night. That's ten games under
five hundred.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
That's on the road.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
That's terrible. But one nice thing that's happened even on
these road trips, and we can only hope this one
doesn't wind up as bad as the last one. When
the Rangers won the sixth and final game in sort
of I mean, he can't really walk it off on
the road, but essentially in walk off fashion in Chicago, right,

(17:32):
they had to come from behind with like three or
four runs in the ninth inning to win the dang thing,
and that was to salvage a one to five trip.
A nice thing that happened on that trip, though, is
that Jake Berger got back to some of his roots
in Chicago and he visited with some people who were
out there who were you know, had a foundation in

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Chicago that was attempting to bring awareness to the same
cause that Jake and his wife Ashlynd are bringing awareness to,
and that is down syndrome. So yesterday or maybe the
day before one of the first two days in Tampa,
Jake and Ashland met with the people from Gigi's House.

(18:13):
And that's a foundation down there that's that's designed to
help kids and help families through you know, the struggles
that can be a part of a child born with
an extra twenty first chromosome and Down syndrome.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, you know, and and I believe you know the
season the Rangers first road trip was to Cincinnati and
the Burgers and some Reds players and went over there.
Some Rangers players went to a similar situation in Cincinnati,
and you know, MLB gives players a platform to do
some things, and it's really nice when when they take

(18:52):
advantage of it. I mean, this is a you know,
this is a life, life altering thing that happened to
the Burghers. Obviously having a baby change in your life,
but having a baby who's going to have some some
challenges growing up, and so they're embracing it. They're trying
to spread awareness. And Ashland and Penelope, they're the baby

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with Down syndrome, and then Brooks the older brother though
barely older. They've they've been back in Nashville. They're coming
back to Texas after this road trip. So it's just
it's just nice. It's just great. It's just great to
see and Jake is just as good a person by far.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Let's look at some of the photos from what they
were doing yesterday, and you see Raised players were a
part of this as well as was the mascot. But uh,
just great to see Rays and Rangers players, Uh, you know,
sort of combining forces for a really good cause. Is
that low ur low? That's okay, that's not low. That's low.

(19:53):
There they all are. But it's just it's just awesome
to see this kind of a turnout for a very
special cause, and obviously one that is so close to
the heart of the Burger family. So that's a good thing.
Another good thing. We were maybe a little surprised, I
think I was a little surprised, Jeff, to see that

(20:15):
Adolas Garcia was not in the starting lineup yesterday. But
he did. He did pinch hit, and again we weren't
there for the Boach scrum before the game, so I
you know, I hadn't I hadn't seen anything. Maybe you
saw it on Twitter that he was available to pinch hit.
I don't know. I did not see that, so then
when he did, I'm like, oh, okay, good, you know. Yeah,

(20:37):
but anyway, both those things then therefore surprised me.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, you know, and this is kind of I think
the plan. I think, I don't. I don't know that
he's going to be in the starting lineup regularly, and
when there are opportunities to use him off the bench,
they'll do it. He's going to be available to play.
He's going to be available, but they are asking him
to make the swing changes. So he's working on those,

(21:04):
but he also has to be able to successfully implement
them into game action. And it's things that he's done
in the past and and things that are are going
to focus on his strengths, you know. And and I think,
you know, it was put to me by by a
source that the swing changes he made are taken away

(21:26):
from his strengths. And it's like I was told, and
I haven't done it yet, but to go look at
the Baseball Savant page in twenty three and where he
was hitting the ball at the most authority and compare
it to this year. He's just gotten away from it.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
And these are the swing changes that he voluntarily made
with the Bobby Witt correct hitting.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
They weren't Rangers changes. Okay, Now, they had suggested, hey,
at the end of last season, are like your bat,
you need to be quicker. Your bat's too slow, your
swing is too long, all right, So he went to
a you know a guy who works a Bobby Wit
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, he's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
But I think Bobby WIT's a much better talent than Adulas,
as good as a doulas as Bobby Wits better, and
are as good as a Doles can be Bobby Witz better,
And so they need him to to, you know, make
the changes and and you know the and until he does,

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I don't think he's going to be a regular. That
doesn't mean he's not going to start and not going
to play. But I think I think last night was
the opportunity to get him in there, maybe see how
how things are feeling, implementing the swing changes. And the
results were good.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I was about to saying that was my third surprise.
He had a hit in an RBI.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
He should have had a hit in his last set.
Bad them. When the end of the game, the first
baseman basically fell down and look, you know, look what
I've got. And uh so I think that it there
will be an opportunity for him to play regularly again,
but not until the Rangers see what they need to see.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
And again, last night was a glimpse right now, I
don't know you and I don't know if he was
who knows where the how those balls were hit, like
exactly with which swing? Right? Right, his old swing, his
new swing. They've asked him essentially to implement new old
swing changes right, basically go back to what worked, and

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and so that's what clearly he's trying to do.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, and you know, he he I don't know if
they've if they've said or else, right, you know, right,
And maybe they did, I don't know, But and maybe
the or else has motivated Adules to embrace the changes
and work on them and do his level best to

(23:54):
make sure that he can carry him into games. Maybe
it'll all come out, maybe it won't. DoLS doesn't talk
to the media a lot much, and this is one
of those things that unless there's a dramatic turnaround, probably
won't get a lot of information about.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
No, because Rangers management is good about that, which I mean,
you know, we'd we'd love for them to spill the
beams at some point, but they're they're really good.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
About throw the player under the bus. They don't do that.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
No, they never do. They never do and shouldn't really,
but we you know it'd be sallacious. I mean it
makes a good copy, right absolutely anyway, So that was
really good. And what was also on display last night
with Evan Carter back from the injured list was just
how versatile and deep this outfield core can be. Jeff,
I mean they put Evan obviously back into center field

(24:42):
that moves like Wyatt Langford over the left. And then
how about the play and really the job that Osuna
did in right field.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I mean he's a great defensive player. Yeah, you know,
I think they're I think the Rangers view him more
as a corner outfielder than a center fielder. And and
yeah he can he can play.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
And go get it. You can get it.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Uh and you just play so hard, you know. That's
that's something that you know, if you're not going good
at the plate, and not that he say he's not,
you can always bring something and help the team out.
Mario Marcus Imion has not been very good this season.
We can all agree on that. Yeah, but the guy
doesn't doesn't carry it into the field. He's still really
really good defensively, and when he's on the bases, he's

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a really really good base runner. And Adules, to his credit,
has been excellent defensively.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Maybe a downturn a little bit last year, but that
but this.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Year, yeah, he was he was not a good outfield
you know, he has the arm that kind of gives
the flash and and and you can overlook some some
mysreads or whatever. But he wasn't healthy last year and
he was a poor, poor defensive outfielder. He really was.
And uh, this year he's one of the best in

(25:55):
baseball and right field, maybe the best. So you know,
there's there's still that look. The guy feels good. He's
as healthy as he's been in a couple of years.
The defense is there when he's on the bases, he
runs the base as well, but the offense is missing.
But the Rangers want to take advantage of this. They
want to see what a healthy Adula Scarcia can do,

(26:18):
healthy like he was in twenty three. Right, So it's
going to be a work in progress. Probably this may
not be something that happens in a couple of weeks.
Maybe it does, but it's it's going to be an
interesting story to follow.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, And so there were I think back to back innings.
Maybe it was the same inning. There were two great catches,
actually back to back innings half innings. It was one
from Osuna out and right field where had to come
in and slide, and then won the very next half
inning in left field when Wyatt Langford came in to slide.
Wyatt's I thought was actually a better catch, And I

(26:52):
will say, to me, it looked like Osuna took a
little bit of a bad route. He started a little
bit to his right and then used to catch up
speed to get over there and catch that ball.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, I just know. I think I said this last week.
Like nobody's talking about how great why at Langford has
been defensively, especially where he started his Rangers' career. People
like saying, oh my god, he's just gonna have to
be a full time DH because they don't think he
can't play the outfield. And now all of a sudden,

(27:22):
he's like this great left fielder and they feel one
hundred percent comfortable putting him at center where he's been great. Yeah,
you know, and he has the speed and so does
a Souno soon it can go get it, and so
could if the time comes. Sebastian Walcott a great athlete
and a guy who we might have to get into

(27:44):
this a little bit more in the next segment. It
is just absolutely at age nineteen doing things that hadn't
been done since Fernando Tatists and Mike Trout were teenagers
in Double A. And the Rangers continue to believe that
he could be a major league shortstop. They have a

(28:05):
pretty good major league.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Shortstop signed up for a pretty long time still.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
But they're not concerned because Sebastian is such a great
athlete that if they had to say, you know, play
right field for a couple of seasons, that he could
do it. So there are options out there soon. It
could be an option for next year because I just
don't think Arcia is on the team next year. I
think I've said it before, just they're not going to
pay him the money and arbitration that the figure will

(28:30):
probably come out to. I don't know if that means
they trade him at some point. Maybe he gets hot
and they trade him. Yeah, you know, maybe they do
it in the off season. Maybe they just non tender.
I'd assume they'd want to get something for him, kind
to try and get something for him, or maybe they
can negotiate a deal or about the same money. So

(28:50):
we'll see. That's that's way down the road. But there
are options in the outfield.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, let's talk a little bit more about Sebastian Walcott.
I want to get into that also, so we'll get
to tonight's game and another young Rangers player who's developing
before our very eyes. We'll see what to expect from
Kamar Rocker when we come back. It's the DLLs Rangers
Podcast and it is.

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Nicole at least I am oh yeah, and she sends
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the Rangers are gone for ten days, so they're not
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you know the other two teams are done playing the
Wings Actually we're the first team that came up on
my most recent correspondence with Nicole. But in any event,
you know, what came up here? It is Nicole, thank you.

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Speaker 2 (31:08):
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Speaker 1 (31:11):
Okay, we may go see little Baby after the postgame
show if we get done on time.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
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they're very K poppish.

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Speaker 2 (31:33):
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Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, that was fun. That was back in the eighties.
So you're too young to remember that. Chefsnot I had
the record, did you? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
All right. So let's talk a little bit more about
Sebastian Walcott, because I know you've you had a conversation
about him, a long one with with people who know,
So like, where do where does the organization feel he

(32:00):
is right now? Developmentally? I mean, everybody of course is
clamoring for this guy to be here, and that'd be wonderful,
but it wo'd suck, right because I mean again, back
in the day, everybody got fifteen hundred at bats at
the minor league level. He's not going to get to that.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
No, but he's and they're not gonna It would take
a he will go. He will have to go to
Triple A and he'll have to be good at Triple
A before the Rangers consider him this season. Now, I
think Triple A is not far away, and he will
be nineteen when he gets there. I remember his birthday
is March fourteenth. Wow, So he is a young nineteen.

(32:41):
He will, you know, and he'll be a young twenty
next season and then I don't I don't know that
he reaches the major leagues this year. I think that
he's young and but but the thing that I think
impresses the Rangers is the way he's matured the past
couple of years. Not physically, but you know, as a

(33:04):
teenager just pointed out to me. I talked to Ross
fencer Maker about this. When he was in the Bahamas
playing he didn't really play a lot of baseball. You know,
he played on some travel teams because he had family
in Florida and so he could play in some of
those games and did, but like at sixteen or even

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before then, because these kids in the Dominican now in
Latin America are getting with their trainers their buscones at
like twelve, you know, and seeing good, good pitching from
their peers are a little bit older. And so you
could make the argument, I think Ross was doing that

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that Sebastian has not played as much baseball as like
a kid from the high school baseball draft kids who
are signed in Latin America. So he's still learning, but
he already has advanced ability to recognize pitches. He has
tremendous power. And the one stat that that MLB dot

(34:13):
Com dug up, it's called excuse me, isolated slugging percentage,
which is slugging percentage minus batting average, and sebastionis right
now it's two thirty something are it's two hundred, which
is good. Only in the last handful of years have

(34:35):
there's only two players who have been better than Walcott,
Fernando Tatist Junior and Mike Trout. And these were at
that and so and and really this pretty good company.
That's kind of unfair because it's so early in the season.
Check back in a few months and it could it
could be better than those two. But anyway, that's the

(34:57):
company that that he's been keeping you. Last year he
did something that only Fernando Tatiss and Jackson Churio, the
young star for the Brewers, had done in the last
fifteen years by a teenager in the minor leagues. It's
remarkable stuff. He has a huge arm, his defensive range.

(35:17):
I don't know if you guys saw a play he
made over the over the weekend. It was a Jeter
like in the hole jump and throw. You know, when
Elvis Anders type play guy was out. You know, they
want him to be better. If the routine plays, which
is something that Elvis Anders struggled with coming up, but
they just feel really good about it. And the strikeout

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to walk ratio right now it's about two to one.
They're thrilled with that he's improved that from last season.
So this is just a guy who has the chance
to be And Baseball America came out today, if they're
updated top one hundred prospects lists, he's at number six.
The MLB dot Com story yesterday was like, who's going
to be the next number one and Walcott was one

(36:00):
of their candidates. The point is this is this is
a talent, and Baseball America Today said that if everything
comes together the right way, he continues on this development path,
he could be a five tool player.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
So I mean that's that's pretty good stuff. He does
have to watch out for the breaking balls. Those are
still tripping him up a little bit. But again he's nineteen.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, and that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
And Adulas is thirty three and still getting tripped up right,
exactly breakable.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
And so along those lines, though so young and relatively
even compared to other nineteen year olds inexperienced at baseball
as there have they weighed in on sort of that thing,
and I know it's something that Ross loves about Evan Carter,
that is baseball like Q. Right, Have they weighed in

(36:46):
on where Sebastian stands in that department?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, I mean it's it's good stuff, good instincts.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
And it's just now refinement. Yeah, I mean there's still
some development to do, like making the routine plays. Yeah,
you got to you got to make, got to make
You can't be a can't be a short stop doing that.
He can't be anything doing that you know, you can
be DH, but you know he can run too. I mean,
he just has it all and it's exciting. You don't

(37:17):
want to get too excited, you know. And I you know,
I think a lot of people go back to the
twenty three team or like, hey, you give Evan Carter
like spark. Maybe he could, but he's got to get
to triple A first, even though Evan only spent like
a week there. But you know there's also at the
same time, don't really need to rush him, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Nope, they might need to. They get back in this
thing like they did in twenty three. They kind of
needed Evan and H and that all worked out fine. Tonight,
they need to be better than they were last night,
at least offensively, and they'll do it with Kamar Rocker
back on the mound for the Rangers tonight. Jeff, And again,

(37:56):
if you just look at the pitching matchup and you
see Kamar's ten era or whatever it is, you think,
oh boy, Rangers are in trouble tonight. But he's been
either really good or pretty bad in his major league
starts so far this year. And he was beyond really good,
like fantastic in his rehab starts right.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
And yeah, a lot of numbers are skewed in the
first first month. If you have a you know, a
special if you're a reliever, you go out there, you
could have you know, seven of eight scoreless outings, but
in one, in the one you gave up six runs. Well,
your ere is not going to be very good, right,
And so that's part of Kamar's deal. But as we've
talked about, he feels like he's got his body back

(38:39):
in sync and is with you know, everything is right mechanically,
and so that in theory, should mean that he's going
to command his fastball and that his slider is going
to be a devastating pitch. So you got to see it,
you know, I don't. I don't think it's you know,
time to duck and co. You know, if you're watching

(39:02):
tonight's game, you can you can watch it with both
eyes open and not be too scared. He seemed pretty
relaxed and confident the other day when we were talking
to him. He did he was kind of joking with this,
which is rare. Actually, Yeah, and he hadn't been that
way early earlier in the season. He just hadn't been
so maybe that's a sign too, sure if you want

(39:25):
to read into that stuff. And by god, that's what
we do.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Well, that's our job. Yeah and again, and none of
it really means anything until he gets out on the
mound and starts facing especially those major league hitters. Again,
I do think that there is a there's something to
a how he feels, b how they feel, meaning the
opposing team when he's at the minor league level. He

(39:49):
was so dominant at the minor league level last year,
both Double A and Triple A, and he's been that
way so far this year. Did he make a rehab
start at each level? Won a Double A one at Church,
but I thought and he was dominant in both, right, Yeah,
so somehow, you know, he's so much more dominating, dominating
at that level and you want, man, let's go do

(40:10):
it here and he really honestly, you know, he had
seven strike ups in his first start at Seattle that
was a pretty bad offensive team last year. I don't
think he's been dominant yet at the major league level. Now.
He's young, and he's he's gonna have many opportunities to
do so. He's got the skills, he's got the stuff,

(40:32):
he's got the size, he's got the athleticism, but it
takes a while to get adjusted to major league baseball.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Yeah, his second home start this year was really good.
I mean, the first one wasn't bad, but on he
struck out one guy that was against Tampa. Yeah, and
I think the next one was against the Angels, and
he just pitched into the seventh and was pretty strong
and and and looked good. I think we we in
the media went ahead and called it the best start
of his career. Sure, he's only had like e eight

(41:02):
league starts, and I don't know if he can really
count the three last year because he wasn't pitching deep
into the game. So it's, uh, it's all there though,
you know, I mean the when when he's healthy as
he is now, the Rangers believe that they have something
special on the stuff side, but also just the competitor

(41:22):
that he is, the pres the mound presence, that he
has all those things that scouts love Kamar has, and
so that's that's kind of the package you're looking at. Uh,
he seems very unflappable. You know. You get him out
there and and all kinds of things gond be happening,
and it seems like his heart rate stays the same.

(41:42):
It's and it's a unique guy. With his dad a
football coach, so he grew up around pro sports, but
not necessarily professional baseball. He went to college, could have
gone pro right out of high school. Has has had
a long winding road too, you know, this has been
a unique road to get to this point. But getting

(42:03):
back to our original point here, John, just in our
conversation with him Sunday and the things he said looking
at what came out of the rehab starts, if he'd
had two bad rehab starts, he wouldn't be starting tonight. No,
that's right, you know, And I think honestly, if Nathan
Ovaldi wasn't on the injured list, they wouldn't. He wouldn't
be starting tonight. He'd be starting probably today at for

(42:25):
first go around Rock. So he's earned this and the
Rangers feel like they've seen something that they can I
think will translate well tonight against major league hitters.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, there's no doubt. The Rangers' preference was to have
him do one more rehab start, mostly just to get
stretched out. The question to Kamar was, my gosh, you've
you've shoved right you've been dominant at these two minor
league starts. What more can you prove down there? And
he's kind of like, I don't know, and he's right,
except stretching out right, just kidding. And then so we

(42:59):
asked Poach about the same thing, and at that point,
Nathan's ile stay had not been made public. I'm not
even sure at that point. I know at that point
Boach knew they were considering it, but I'm not sure
he knew which way it was going to go. And
he was like, well, we'd like to have Kamar make
one more start, just to stretch him out right.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
And yeah, at the time it was the thought was
a vall. They would start yep tomorrow, but you know,
put him on the il safe move yep, and it
allows most of the rest of the rotation to get
that extra day's rest. I think all of them did.
So it just kind of made some sense for the
whole team and for the long term, because again, the

(43:42):
Rangers do expect that they will be a contender.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah, still expecting that. Everybody around here just basically hoping
that hopes Really not a strategy, but what else can
we do at this point? More coming up it's our
cleanup segment. We'll hit some of the questions as well.
We'll fly through things and clean up and talk with you.
The chatter is next. It's the d l As Rangers podcast.

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Yeah, and there's you know what I'm saying, They're not
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Speaker 1 (46:17):
Okay, so yesterday as we cleaned things up today, I
think it was yesterday, maybe we brought it up. Monday
was the debut of Jack cagleone, the teammate of Wyatt
Langford at Florida, who you know, had a little bit
longer of a stint in the miners than Wyatt did,
but not much longer. And in fact, I saw one

(46:40):
thing on the Twitter machine the other day that said
he made it to the major leagues in the Kansas
City organization faster than any player has since Bo Jackson.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Bo Jackson bingo.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah, Bo Jackson, Well you're too young to remember him.
Look him up. That he was good. He was the
best two way player ever, maybe going back to the
best two way athlete Thorpe of our time. Yeah, you know, sorry,
no offense to Deon Sanders. Yeah no, no, no, he's better
than If.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Bo had stayed healthy, he would have been a Hall
of Famer in both sports.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah, keg leone hit. Uh he was zero for five,
but he hit at least three of those balls really hard,
and every and everybody commented on just how relaxed he was,
just how comfortable he was in that place. So everybody's
feeling pretty good thinking that this this is uh, this
is going to be sort of wyat Langford two point zero.

(47:36):
He's going to stay up and he's he's going to
have success. So uh, you know, good for him. You
like to see young guys. And I'll tell you what,
that's a young team. Now. You had you know him
into the Bobby Wood Junior and they are They are
one of only three teams with less runs scored than
the Rangers. Yeah, yeah, so they need a burst off, right.

(47:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
The Giants shook up their roster this morning. No no
hot prospects coming up, but in their moves, they designated
Sam Huff for assignment, the former Rangers catcher slash prospect,
who I love. I love Sam.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
I never quite made it though, did he mad?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
And you know, the Rangers who lost out on Tucker
Barnhard is the elected free agency. Maybe they can resign him.
I don't know, Maybe they need to consider old old
Sam because there is a lack of catching Debthard organization
right now. So we'll see what happens there. But yeah,
I mean the Giants, the John Shay, they're they're a

(48:37):
great beat writer tweeted out the other night the all
all pitching, no no offensive Giants. I was like, I
feel you, John.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah a big time. I feel you big time, yeah,
one hundred percent. Uh So our own North Texas is own.
Max Muncie is having a research in so offensively and
lo and behold, this dude is the opposite of souper Jeff.
He's gone to the spectacles. Oh he wears glasses and

(49:06):
does superman like thing things, unlike Clark Kent, who you know,
whipped the glasses off and put on the UNI in
a phone booth and all that. Max Munsey is completely
He's trying not he's trying to say, well, it's not
the glasses, it's all the hard work I've done. But
he had a stigmatism and he got glasses and he
wears him in the games and he looks different. But

(49:28):
the point is he's he's hitting well well. Worked for
Ricky Vaughn in Major League. Yeah, and you know the
Rangers had a minor league who you guys remember JP
Martinez who was struggling from Cuba and he was struggling
and struggling and struggling, and then all of a sudden.
He had Lasik surgery one offseason. The next year he

(49:49):
goes back to Double A for the third season. I
think he's in like three twenty. Yeah, And I talked
to him about it and he said, you know, he
explained in Spanish Jonathan Ornellis was my train that he
had Lasik surgery.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
I was like, well, damn, that's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
That's a huge deal.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Absolutely, yeah, you know, I believe. I believe Greg Maddox
had Lasik surgery at some point in his career. Mike Maddox,
if you guys have seen shots of him the last
six weeks, he's had a variety of glasses, a lot
of them darkened because he had cataract surgery. Oh apparently
Bruce Bochi had it in the off season a couple
of years ago. But it's like a two step procedure,

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so they had one step, then you got to wait,
and then you have to have the second step. So
I think Mike is at the end of his eye journey.
But it's you got to see the ball to hit
it right.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
That's exactly right. Yeah, especially in baseball. That's one of
the things Mark macklamore always told me. You know, he
was blessed with just like really good vision. Like he'd
go to the eye doctor and the doctor go, man, like,
you've got the best twenty twenty I've ever you know,
like they could just there was a there was a
level of almost perfection in his eyes. And truly believes

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that's one of the reasons he was able to make
it to Major League Baseball and stay as long as
he did nineteen years. So okay, so how about poor
Paul Skens.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Oh that poor guy.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
This poor guy, yeah, I say poor. Yeah, let's take
a look at a tweet we saw today. Whoever, Donnie
is there hard to feel bad for a guy dating
a model and will one day sign a half billion
dollar contract. But folks, the pirates have made it possible
at quick. Aside on dating the model, did you see

(51:34):
the video from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model on the
runway thing? And she gets to the end of the
runway like all because she's a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model
like all the others you know that gals walk down
to the end and turn around walking Yeah, yeah, yeah,
she gets to the end and I mean goes pay
I'm down into the splits Oh boy, she's a gymnast too,

(51:54):
as we know Livy Dunn. So yeah, that's that's so,
that's the model the half billions, no doubt or it
won't come from the Pirates, but it'll come from somewhere.
And the reality is, I think so in the last
five games he has not he's allowed one run or

(52:17):
less in five straight games. The Pirates are two and
three two and three. That means in three of those anyway,
they've scored zero and we're look, we know we're throwing
stones here, but but zero. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I think he's allowed nineteen runs this year and their
pirates have lost nineteen earned runs. And the Pirates have
lost eight of those eight of his starts. It's yeah,
it's sure to be frustrating, obviously, And hey, Paul, you're
looking for a shoulder to cry on, call Nathan Valdi

(52:52):
or Jacob mcgram they can, they can, they can help
you out.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
But yeah, you know, do.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
You remember when a US Open I don't remember when
it was, but uh, spief wanted. It was in Seattle
and he he beat Dustin Johnson who missed a putt
on eighteen or something like that, and everyone's like happy
for Jordan and I feel for Dustin Johnson. And then
they showed Paulina Gretzky, who was wearing a shirt that

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a button up shirt that she didn't bother the button
let's say the top four buttons, okay, and and I
was like, you know what, old old DJ is going
to be just fine. Yeah, he's gonna be just fine.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Sorry about the missed pot, but yeah, but yeah, you're
gonna you're gonna land on your feet over here. Uh
and by the way, the myss putt still rendered him,
you know, two million, right instead of four or five
to win that thing. But anyway, uh so that's Paul Skeins,
you know, like you said, it's hard to feel sorry
for him. Uh So, we we've got this video of

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a bullpen catcher, and Jeff and I have known bullpen
the bullpen catchers at the Rangers organization for years. I
just saw I hadn't seen Josh in a long time,
and I saw him when I was on the road
in Detroit. I didn't realize he's not bullpen catching anymore.
He's kind of a special assistant but still traveling with
the team. But bullpen catchers are generally players, former players,

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who maybe even got to a high level for the
longest time. When Bobby Witt Senior was on the team,
his brother Doug was the bullpen catcher for the Rangers. Yeah,
and so, but there's always a bullpen catcher generally, guy
ers have two. Yeah, they have three, well two because
Josh isn't one yet, but joshin you can step in, yeah,
he can step in. But yeah, so they have three essentially.

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But here's what it looks like to be a bullpen catcher.
Pretty cool. And that's framing. By the way people glove
down ball up boom, see you that's what's what they
mean by framing, and it gets to make sure that
that ball lands in the umpire's eye in the strike zone. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Yeah, even the bullpen catchers.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Yep. So that's pretty cool. Uh. I just I think
it would be the hardest I mean, even just doing
what we just saw. Now add a batter in there, right,
I mean, to me, it's the hardest job on the field,
not to mention all the balls that you take off
the gonads and everything else right off the grundle watch. Yeah,

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uh so, and now this and then we're gonna get
to questions. How about this glow in the dark baseball.
This is I can I love all right? Now, watch
watch when the cat slides, he kicks up like pig
pen stuff. You know, I don't know how they do that, Jeff,

(55:49):
I don't know. Pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Henry has a ball where it lights up and so
you can play catch at night.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
It's hard though, anyway.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
I bet it is hard. And I've seen never tried
the night golfing. Now, the ones in Saudi Arabia where
they're lighted, I'm sure I could figure that out, But
the ones with the glowing ball, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Yeah, I've I've flown into Phoenix and at night time,
and there's a course in Tempe that's not far from
the Old Well where where Arizona State plays. This game's municipal.
I think it's called municipal. It's where the a's used
to train. But yeah, I've never really been tempted to
try that.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, no, me neither. No enough balls. As Rarety is
wondering what's our best guests on how to get the
offense going consistently?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
I wish I had one the little things.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Yeah, just small ball. Yeah, that's move runners.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Over until you can until you can do the other stuff,
go back to basics. Ultra modern double O seven has
been very hard on Rangers player development, specifically with Light
Langford and Evan Carter. I would say that they're not
finished products. He's asked me to go look at why

(57:08):
It's numbers since Brett Boone was hired. And it just
so happens that the Rangers game notes hit my inbox
to day. Why it is slumping? There's no question about it.
What it was? It here it is, here we go,
here come the numbers. The numbers say, god dang it.
They don't take god dang it. Well, they do kind

(57:29):
of say, dog gang it. Whyatt he is over his
last thirteen batting one seventy four in the last twenty
three games. He does lead the team in home runs
five homers in his last twenty games, so I guess
when he's hitting homers, he's doing damage. But I get
your point. I don't think it's a player development failure

(57:52):
just yet, and we gotta let's give him a little
more time.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
And Trash may be a little strong. Trash is a
little I think Trash is a little strong.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
It's all good playing, good defense, and when he's on
the basis he's doing great things, so I would not
call him trash yet he hasn't played great. And then Evan,
you know, he needs more at bats. That's you know,
it's hard to judge his MLB season to this point

(58:20):
because he just hasn't had very many at bats. So
let's let's let's hold off on that calling them failures
and that the Rangers are going to destroy them. I
think ultimately with Evan, it's going to come down to
his health.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Right.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
You know, this is also a guy that didn't play
last year basically and lost a year of development time.
So have a have a cocktail ultra. Let's let's let's
call a little bit Evan ultra.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Why not? Yeah, all right, so that'll do it for
us today tomorrow. Remember we're here after the game. So
right now, I think we're scheduled to be on at
nine fifteen, but who knows. You know, it could be
a little sooner, could be a little later, depends on
how long the game takes and or if there's a
damn rain delay, which I suppose is always possible since

(59:08):
they're playing outdoors in Florida this time of year. We
do thank you, though, for joining us today. We always
have fun chatting with you and talking Rangers baseball, and
you know, let's just see it. Maybe, just maybe they
can get them on, get them over, and get them in.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Jeff eh, what a novel concepts, See what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
We'll see you tomorrow for the DLLs Rangers podcast, All
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