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Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)

710 | Anthony Rizzo | Profile & Projection

Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)

Jimmy O'Brien

Talkin' Jake, Jomboy, Yankees, Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Yankees reunited with Anthony Rizzo on a two-year deal earlier this month. Can the Cubs legend be the first lockdown Yankee first baseman since Mark Teixeira? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.4

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1:04.0

If you subscribe you're entered to win a thousand dollars and you can watch all the leagues sports tournaments and teams that we are creating as we have fun over there. Jake it's Anthony Rizzo.

1:17.6

Tony Tony Riz how about it one of the Italian stallions that came over last year before the trade deadline Anthony Rizzo if you're a baseball fan you're probably super familiar with them.

1:30.8

Cubs world series four time gold glove three time all star platinum glove a silver slugger some incredible seasons with the Cubs.

1:40.8

Hits free agency this year there's a lot of first baseman some different rumors they bring back Anthony Rizzo when you bring up the baseball

1:51.0

Sava and some of that stuff you understand why really interesting sample for the Yankees Rizzo came in basically stole a series from the Marlins all by himself he had some COVID stuff.

2:03.0

And then yeah it was just it was ups and downs I know we're going to talk about foul balls more than any other PPP ever the defense which is supposed to be.

2:15.0

And all time calling card the guys got four gold gloves at first base like the guys in all time for his basement he had a couple weird moments with the yanks who knows the COVID maybe it's aptum I don't know yeah there's a lot of moving parts there.

2:31.0

And it's going to be really interesting how we compartmentalize all of it and what actually happens because he's you know he's on the wrong side of the hill now if we're being honest this is going to be his age 33 season turns 33 in August so it's 32 most the year excuse me.

2:47.0

And you know he finishes with a nice season it's just Anthony Rizzo if you compare it to his 2019 season it's a different level of ball player and it's art does he still have that can the Yankees tap into that.

3:05.0

And again that's where a lot of foul ball talk comes in a lot of foul ball talk I'm open this up and we've talked about this a lot so you're listening or repeat listener thank you've heard it first time in half his ex cubs team as a show on the job when we never called the compound they had him on as a guest and they talked about the foul balls and he said that the short portraits look so inviting to him he's he's aware that he had a lot of foul ball.

3:34.0

And a lot of foul ball home runs do you know how many home runs he hit last year Jake that had a projected distance of 300 or more.

3:46.0

How many home runs how many foul balls he how many foul balls he had that had a projected distance of 300 feet or more.

3:54.0

I have no idea I'm not going to guess. No guess I was going to go like 20 and I just saw you count and it looked like you mouth 15 at one point so I don't know I didn't mouth 15 okay it's 14 okay so you're close okay I mean if like half of those he can straighten out

4:14.0

imagine the numbers yeah and Jim it's not even this is where we're going to start salivating is even if it's not half of it's like three yeah like if three of them did he hit with the he's last year with the Yankees he ate home runs last year okay home runs in 49 so if it's 11

4:33.0

that's better I'm going to bring them up BBD I want to put my screen on just going to run through all of them so people can fully remember and I mean some go way foul and some are just barely foul but all

4:43.0

of them are just hit hard and then the crowd reacts a lot of them were like same at bats we were we were we that was pretty well we were at a game where it was like four

4:55.0

and a row that tails a lot at the end but I mean for a while it's there he just hit so many so yeah that's my ask it's good contact very much became a thing

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