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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"newt barr" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Camp, if there hasn't been a ton of that coming out of the red Sox camp, and we talk about pitching staff, certainly starting staffs that are in danger of not being able to take the ball every time. The Red Sox will be the first team you'd present and say, look at the names. And if this was 2015, then you had Paxton and sales in Kluber, yeah, they'd have a real, really good team with really good arms, but it's 2023. Things have gone well for them. I don't think Alex Cora ever, as a manager, puts a team out there that won't give it a 100%, but do I get off a pessimistic bandwagon that the bleacher tweet sent in? Look, baseball's about hope and faith. You should always have that as a fan, but I think realistically, you know, the Red Sox are not a team that's going to win 95 games. Doesn't mean they could surprise us, but I would probably still lean on the side of pessimism than it would optimism, but also put nothing past the value of Alex Cora and the chemistry and all the things that you need intangibly to win. The question is, do they have the players that are good enough to do it? Yeah, I told you the story last week of one of my conversations with Rafael Devers. When he asked me, how good do you think will be? And I said, I don't think it would be very good, but the most important thing this year is that you guys come together. You know, I folded my fingers together and that way I said that was the way it was in 18. That's the way it was in 2021. And my feeling was they were in a better place emotionally when we were around them last week, Carl, you know? I agree. You just felt like as opposed to last year when they had just, I'm sure the players just heard about the Bogart's offer, which was embarrassing. One third of what he eventually signed for with the Padres, you know, Trevor story had just signed a lot of uncertainty among the players about who was coming, who was going, there is a different feel around that team. Before you go, how cool is it to see Shohei Ohtani just put on a show every day, it feels like that this is a precursor for one of the most amazing seasons we're ever going to see from any player. I hope so. You know, again, the WBC is a really, really phenomenal, unique event. And when you can see the enthusiasm and I watched the game this morning from the fans over there, which we were exposed to during our Korean baseball exercise. And to see him high fiving, you Darvish and being on the same team and the red Sox sending their new investment to that team and they're tipping their caps to each other, et cetera. It's very cool. I just don't, I don't know that it translates to major league baseball because it major league baseball to me it feels like that guy's gonna kill us if we pitch to him. I know we can't prevent what he does on the mound, but you've got to pitch him carefully. He's so dynamic. He's such a unique player. He is the most well rounded player on the planet and may go down in history as the most well rounded baseball player. We've ever seen. So the WBC stage to me, if this ends with team Japan, maybe facing the United States, the sign me up all day, all night, every day, all year. I'm being on that. And one guy who is off to a great start in the WBC is large nude bar who you and I talked to before he took off. We were in the Cardinals camp. Boy, this looks like the perfect launch point for a young player, Carl 'cause he's having so much fun intense at bats and Ted's atmosphere, all the other Japan players are doing the grind the pepper things that he showed. It's pretty cool. Made a great catch in the game that was played this morning. So I could see large new bar absolutely taking off from this event. There's a lot of cardinals that I think are prepared to take off. I mean, that's the one thing that being with the Cardinals and doing their game in spring, they're not all the same player, but many of them are of the same age and seem to have the same potential. Which is sort of a sky. Newt Barr is one of the exciting players as is Donovan as is Gorman. The names go on and on. Exactly. Jordan walker. That's the beauty of the Cardinals right now, and it's great to see the last thing you'd say about the WBC and somebody like newt Barr performing or ohtani going over to Korea and performing the team that the United States has built, which is better than any all star team that's ever been put together offensively. Is the universal language of this sport. It's such a reminder that you can play this across the globe and the number of people that would be interested in attending the games in having a real sincere authentic interest in the games and the players to me is it blows away every other sport. And the world baseball classic, like the little league World Series, reminds us that baseball is still, it may not be the current national pastime. It is, to me, the world's past time, and I'm sure soccer people will put up a fight against that. And that may be legitimate one. But relative to football, relative to basketball, baseball, steel is the one that resonates to me. And I know soccer is similar, but baseball shines when the WBC has played. All right, have fun and I will talk to you next week. Hi, buddy. See you guys. Thanks.
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Gorman, Nootbaar homer as Cards beat Nats 6-2; Soto 1 for 4
"Nolan Gorman in Lars nubar hit back to back homers in the 6th inning of the Cardinals 6 two win over the nationals The redbirds led three to one until Gorman smacked the two run Homer off loser Annabel Sanchez Newt Barr's blast chase Sanchez St. Louis scored three in the third on a pair of ground outs in a wild pitch Miles Michael is allowed two runs in 7 innings for the cards who have their first winning streak in 13 days Then that's hit a pair of sacrifice flies but were zero for 9 with runners in scoring position I'm Dave ferry