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00:03 - I would say Cody Ballinger seems pretty uniquely
00:06 not ready to handle New York.
00:08 I mean, the thing with the Dodgers,
00:10 what they made it sound like,
00:12 and I mean, look, if this is not accurate,
00:14 if they came out and the reporting letter was different,
00:17 but what it sounded like with the Dodgers
00:18 was that it was like he almost had the yips.
00:21 He had like a mental block with hitting.
00:23 It wasn't that he was hurt,
00:25 although he did suffer a couple injuries
00:27 after his MVP season that I think limited his power output
00:30 a little bit, but the way it always sounded to me
00:33 was that this dude was pressing, he was in his own head,
00:36 he was changing his swing, he was changing his launch angle,
00:39 he was doing all this stuff
00:40 and just it really wasn't working.
00:42 And I buy that because a guy as good as Ballinger
00:46 going to like, I mean, I think that last season
00:48 with the Dodgers, he was striking out like 35% of the time.
00:52 He was like hitting like 190.
00:54 He would still make good contact sometime
00:56 'cause he's incredible at baseball,
00:58 but it was just his whole approach at the plate
01:00 got messed up.
01:01 Then he goes to play in Chicago.
01:03 It's like, no one cares.
01:05 You don't have any expectations.
01:07 Anything you do good is fine.
01:09 You know, everyone's just there wriggly to hang out.
01:11 Like it's just, you're just having a good time.
01:13 Not gonna be that way for the Yankees, right?
01:15 There are no good vibes.
01:16 There are the vibes with the Yankees are always bad.
01:19 I mean, their vibes can be bad in a 90 win season.
01:21 They're really bad in a 75 win season.
01:24 I actually, I mean, if I was Cody Ballinger's agent,
01:27 I would be saying,
01:29 I don't know if this is the spot for you, honestly.
01:32 Although I think you're right.
01:33 It does sound like that is where he's gonna go.
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