00:00breakout candidate that I think will be a front runner,
00:03if not the winner for National League Rookie of the Year,
00:05and Moises Ballesteros.
00:06I keep trying to tell people all this dude does is hit.
00:10And even though he's limited in terms of where he plays in the field,
00:13I think he's going to get regular at-bats at DH,
00:15and he's going to be a problem each and every day.
00:19Can you talk about your expectations for Moises Ballesteros this year?
00:25Yeah, he's really good.
00:27Moises has had a great camp.
00:30And, you know, as a hitting guy, I mean, that's how I made my money in the league.
00:36But he's a guy that falls out of bed and can hit.
00:39There's just no doubt about it.
00:42We were watching him the other day, I don't know, four or five days ago,
00:45take batting practice, and he was the first guy in the cage to start the day, right?
00:50And so John Mailey, our hitting coach, is setting up the machine.
00:56And he's got by Sarah, you know, like usually a guy just bunts and bunts the ball back at the
01:01all screen.
01:02And Moises is just swinging.
01:04Now they're trying to set the machine up, so it's not really right.
01:07And he's got the leg kick, and he's on time hitting line drive after line drive, three in a row.
01:12And I just started laughing at myself.
01:15And, you know, unless you do that as much as I did or, you know, guys are on the field
01:19every single day and really, you know, can understand.
01:25You know, there's no, like, trying to figure it out.
01:28And he just hung out three line drives, two over to shortstop's head, one over to second racer's head.
01:33And right on time, no idea how hard the machine was going to throw or what it was going to
01:39throw.
01:39And I just started chuckling.
01:41I'm like, this guy could just hit.
01:43It's just the way it is.
01:44So I'm with him, Marshall.
01:46I think he's going to have a great year.
01:48You know, you've got to keep him on the field.
01:51That's going to be one of the things, you know, because this is going to be a long season for
01:55him for the first time,
01:56that you're going to play this many ballgames, you know, over and over and over for any young player.
02:02It's a tough schedule, but he can hit.
02:09If he ends up being rookie of the year, the Cubs are going to go deep in the playoffs.
02:13There's going to be some good things happening on the north side, boy, I tell you that.
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