WEEI Afternoon Show: Alex Cora on Jarren Duran
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00:00Well Jaron Duran had a big big night last night leading off with the home run had that great throw as well
00:05and he also made history as
00:07According to the Elias Sports Bureau the first player ever to have 10 triples 20 homers 30 steals and 40 doubles in a single season
00:14The ascension of him this year is something that I'm sure you'd take a lot of pride in
00:18Especially considering some of the adversity that he's faced. What can you say about Jaron Duran on a day like today?
00:25No, I mean as a baseball player is just
00:30fun to watch just
00:32Being the lead-off guy you you're in the dugout and you know from pitch one you expect
00:37expect something great to happen and
00:40the athleticism
00:42the the way he goes about it, you know is
00:45Second to none to be honest with you
00:48When the opposition is in awe of what he's doing that tells you a lot
00:53He's an impactful bat obviously running bases. He's done this for a few years
00:59But you know the the willingness to become a great defender I
01:04Give him a lot of credit, you know, he was below average three years ago. We remember the inside the park
01:11Flyball by Tapia fee two years ago. I think it was the day in Kansas City when he lost two balls in the Sun and
01:19now I think he's leading the league in defensive run saves in centerfield and
01:25It's
01:27Fun to watch the place yesterday, you know cutting that ball in the gap throwing out bloody at second
01:32Playing the ball off the wall to give it to Rafaela and get the out of the plate
01:37That that would never happen a few years ago, but he put the work
01:40There's a lot of people that help out to you know, we'll Venable who's in Texas now got him going got him
01:47Getting more athletic in the outfield move faster
01:51Kyle Hudson has been on top of him the whole time the last two years and you can see
01:56The the benefits of that and we're very I'm impressed
01:59I'm happy that we have them and this guy is going to be a good player for a long long time