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00:00to watch in the same way. Just a superstar to highlight or a
00:07player that might make the difference for their club. Who
00:10is that guy for you DRS? Yeah, teased at the start of the show.
00:14Somebody from the Atlanta Braves. Someone was like, okay,
00:16who's that going to be? Oh, it's gotta be, you know, Chris
00:18Sale at the top of that rotation. Well, there's another
00:20guy that's been dominant at the top of that rotation. It's
00:23Ronaldo Lopez. The reason I bring him up is the
00:26expectations for Lopez coming to the Atlanta Braves was just
00:29like a looksie. Maybe the guy can be a fifth starter. Maybe
00:32he can fit into our bullpen as a long relief guy. He's turned
00:34into one of the better pitchers in Major League Baseball over
00:36the first half of the season. If you get that same effort out
00:39of Ronaldo Lopez on the second half of the season, along with
00:42Chris Sale still being a dominant as he is, that's a
00:45formidable one-two puncher that you weren't looking at before
00:48the season started at all. You were hoping you were just going
00:50to get innings possibly out of those two guys, let alone maybe
00:53the best one-two punch technically outside of what? At
00:56Nola and Wheeler in Philadelphia in the National
00:58League. So, I want to keep an eye on here on Ronaldo Lopez
01:01because if you get the same, as I said, performance expectations
01:05out of the first half, they have in the second half and it carries
01:08over into the playoffs where now you line up with Chris Sale
01:11with like a two ERA and Lopez with like a two ERA. Why not
01:15the Atlanta Braves? Now, the reason I want to watch him is I
01:17don't know if he can hold up over the second half with the
01:19same expectations here and if he doesn't, that's certainly gonna
01:22put a little bit of a wrinkle here in what you think the
01:25Atlanta Braves can do down the stretch, but right now, he's my
01:27player to watch because if he's phenomenal, the Braves have a
01:30legitimate chance to maybe try to do some damage in the
01:32playoffs.