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00:00You know, John, I wonder if I could highlight two guys. Let's call them the killer bees.

00:05You know, when you watch from a distance, and I think we're people, we try not to be myopic and

00:10just care about the two New York teams. We both work at the network. We're talking about all 30

00:14teams all the time. But obviously, while based in New York, we're at a lot of Met and Yankee games.

00:20We are familiar with the work of Chris Bassett. He was a starting pitcher for the Mets. He's been

00:27a very, very good, consistent, durable starting pitcher for a long time. He's got in the bullpen,

00:32and he's helped influence games this postseason. I think he finally gave up a hit as a relief pitcher

00:38yesterday. He's been strong. And the other guy who stood out for me because he has some high-end

00:43skills, the stuff he could do well, he could do really well, is Addison Barger, who's got a great,

00:48not a good arm, a great arm. He threw a guy out in game three and really has some thump in his bat

00:56and plays hard and seems to play smart. It kind of feels to me like the best of that secondary

01:02group you were mentioning before of the Clements and the Lucases, et cetera. If you want, go there,

01:07go to the guys you like. But those two have stood out for me as kind of rising to the moment. If you

01:12believe the Dodgers have better talent, you need players on the Blue Jays to rise up. And those two

01:18guys feel like something to me. Yeah, I mean, their complementary players have been better,

01:22no question about that. Barger is a guy with terrific talent. He was a guy who was made to

01:26be a ballplayer. He understood it like in the eighth grade, his family built a, I don't know if it was

01:31a stadium, but a field in the backyard. I don't know how big the yard, it must be pretty big.

01:37When he was in ninth grade, he was homeschooled. That's a tough road to take, right? I mean,

01:43you could be homeschooled and not become a major league player, and then what do you do? But he did it,

01:49and so give him credit. He does swing from the heels. He doesn't really have a two-strike

01:52approach, but he's very talented. He hits the ball very hard. He throws it unbelievably. I think

01:58he had a 98-mile-an-hour throw from the outfield the other day. So he's very talented. Passett,

02:04I talked to him after the game about whether he now wants to be a reliever, and he reminded me that

02:10he came up as an elite reliever and transitioned because he could do starting, and he thinks it's

02:15more valuable to be a starter in the long run. So he'll be back as a free agent, as a starter.

02:21But, you know, he's been great in the pool. You're right. He's given up that one hit. I think eight

02:26strikeouts in six innings, something like the eight or nine. And, you know, that's been a great move.

02:31I look, Toronto, their front office was kind of under the gun coming into this year, and they didn't

02:37make, you know, signings that were all stars, right? Santander is now hurt, but he had a terrible

02:43year. You know, Jimenez has been good at shortstop. He's obviously a terrific defensive player, but he

02:50hasn't had a big year. Hoffman now hot and doing great in the postseason, but he didn't have a big

02:55year. So, you know, it's come up great for them because all these guys who are complementary players

03:01are really playing well.