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00:00All right, Phillies and Nationals, this should be a lot of fun here because again, this is
00:04a great pitching matchup to open up the season.
00:06Mackenzie Gore, he's an ace, ace for Washington going in, they're supposed to be better.
00:11We know Philly's rotation, it's Wheeler and Nola Thursday, and then I guess an off day
00:15and then Saturday.
00:17And you know, Washington will announce their rotation, but we know more or less the pitchers
00:21who are going to be involved in this.
00:22But look, Philadelphia has a lot higher expectations than just doing well in the regular season.
00:26It's got to be more than that.
00:28Yeah, I imagine, I think Philadelphia is the second best team in baseball behind the Dodgers
00:33here, playing a rough division with the Mets.
00:36I mean, I may not think the Mets will make the playoffs here, but it's going to be a
00:39good team here.
00:40Atlanta should be very good.
00:41And I imagine that the Nationals are an up and coming team.
00:44You know, I'm looking forward.
00:45I have a bet on James Wood to hit over 17 and a half home runs.
00:48I think he hits that easily.
00:49I think he hits, I think he hits that by mistake.
00:52And I'm being told by Sam that it's now 18 and a half.
00:54So people are right there with me, thinking that James Wood's going to hit those home
00:57runs.
00:58But once again, big man.
00:59He's going to hit that by, I mean, he mishits balls that are going to go out of the ballpark
01:02here.
01:03So I'm a big judge.
01:04James Wood guy.
01:05Dylan Cruz as well.
01:06Washington is not a bad team.
01:07They may not be a good team yet, but they are on their way up here.
01:10I think they'll compete more than we expect them to.
01:13That being said, Philadelphia should take care of business.
01:15Agreed.
01:16All right.
01:17In the American League, we've got the Red Sox taking on the Rangers.
01:19This should be a fun competitive series.
01:21Nathan Yovaldi back with Texas.
01:23Garrett Crochet starts opening day for the Boston Red Sox.
01:27How about that?
01:28Tanner Hauk will start game two for Boston.
01:30Walker Buehler, now a member of the Red Sox, he will start game three.
01:33Remember, they've got a couple of injuries there, Baio specifically.
01:37We'll see him eventually in the rotation.
01:38I really do think that this could end up being one of the more fun series to start the season.
01:44It's interesting, right?
01:46Crochets look great, by the way, could be a Cy Young, should be a Cy Young candidate
01:50in the American League, especially if he doesn't get, I guess, if the wall doesn't
01:55bother him or the green monster there in Fenway there.
01:58Yovaldi, they're going to need a big year out of him, Craig, because the rest of their
02:02rotation, really, Yovaldi's involved in this too.
02:05I don't know.
02:06All right.
02:07Where does DeGroff fit in this?
02:08I know they want to hold him back, so I don't know if he's going to pitch in one of these
02:10four games.
02:11He may pitch if they're playing Monday.
02:13He may pitch Monday there.
02:14Or because of the injuries, maybe they put him at the back end here where he goes Saturday
02:17or Sunday.
02:18Are they going to have Kumar Roker?
02:20He's the guy, by the way, who hit Tyrone Estrada, who broke his wrist.
02:24Is he going to be in the rotation?
02:25What's going on with Jack Leiter?
02:26You know, because they have so many injuries here, right?
02:28Bradford's out.
02:29They just signed Corbett.
02:31I can't see him pitching here.
02:32So I want to see where these youngsters are going to go.
02:34Who's pitching?
02:35Where's DeGrom going?
02:36You know, so this is one of the ones I am paying attention to.
02:39And also Walker Buehler.
02:40I'm a Walker Buehler guy.
02:41I want to see how he looks, his first start with Boston.
02:45And then the game that I'll be at on Thursday.
02:48As we get the pitching matchup, I think, of opening day in Miami, Paul Skeens versus Sandy
02:55Alcantara.
02:56Alcantara out for the season last year.
02:58He is back.
02:59He looked good in the spring.
03:01Paul Skeens is must-see baseball, must-see TV.
03:05And then George, it's like really true TBD from there for game two.
03:08I think game three and four, the teams know who's going to pitch.
03:11But game two is supposed to be Jared Jones for Pittsburgh.
03:15Game two is supposed to be Ryan Weathers for Miami.
03:18So I believe, if I'm not mistaken, because I am a little closer to this, that Connor
03:22Gillespie may end up starting the second game of the season.
03:28I think so.
03:29I think there's a...
03:30Unless they move everybody up.
03:31I believe that's going to be the guy that's going to fill in, at least for the time being.
03:35And for Pittsburgh, I don't even know.
03:37So it's going to be game one, ton of excitement, awesome.
03:41And then we go from that to, who knows, after that, in that series.
03:45But look, these are two teams that I don't think are going to score a ton of runs in
03:50the series.
03:51I think it's low scoring.
03:52Yeah, I think that's safe to say, all right?
03:56It's all about Skeens and Alcantara.
03:57I mean, this is a pitching matchup for the ages, right?
04:00Looking forward to it so much.
04:01We'll see how Sandy looks, his first start back from TJ, and I think he's going to be
04:04great.
04:05We know Skeens is going to be great.
04:07Runs will be at a premium, to put it nicely here.
04:10And then we already talked earlier in the show, what's going to happen with Jared Jones.
04:13I don't think it's going to be good news here.
04:15Maybe Mitch Keller pitches game two there for Pittsburgh.
04:17I think we were all wondering if Bubba Chandler is going to take Jones' spot in the rotation,
04:22but apparently not.
04:24Apparently not.
04:25Not the start of the season anyway.
04:26But that's what I'd be wondering, when they're going to bring up Bubba Chandler, who's another
04:29top prospect for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
04:31But this is all about game one and that fantastic pitching matchup.