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We are talking about Isaiah Kiner Falefa aka Izzy aka IKF aka Kiner aka Kalefa aka Hawaiian hustle aka the physical king Jake. How you doing?

James Pbd everyone tuning in this is another one that I think Jake electrical supplier seven years ago will be tuning into this episode to find out

about this guy and let's be honest we're all going to be finding out together we can look at the stats page which we've all been doing but until we see it in pinstripes day to day

there's going to be a lot of mixed motions about this you guys have probably seen if you didn't see our vlog from our Arizona spring training trip when the trade was announced

a lot of mixed emotions a lot of mixed emotions and I don't know I'm interested to see where we land because there's some things we like right defense a bit of speed that's what we've been looking for a guy that doesn't strike out some of the stats outside of that get a little scary so it's how good is that defense going to be how does it feel on a day to day basis and the other thing

that might end up being unfair for I KF is he is not an elite hitter is not a great hitter he hasn't been an average major league hitter and it'll be baseball MLB baseball that's a little redundant Jake

so it's it also could be one of those things like if this Yankees top the lineup that we've been getting excited for if they're clicking an I KF is playing some short stop and mixing in some speed every here and there we could really like that

but if the rest of the lineup goes cold and we're going to start circling names I think he's going to be one of the names that we circle because is track record compared to some of these other guys compared to a Donaldson compared to judge stand like we're talking about different worlds of hitters so I mean compared to what geo had done the past couple years so that's where expectations in this time of year with baseball are really tricky

so we're going to try to temper them and hey I'm I'm kind of walking into this like I hope this dude I hope I have to take back some of my words about this guy I was going to give just like a like a formal warning up front he's having a good spring training spring training is the line of eternal optimism a lot of Yankee fans that I've seen on the Twitter sphere and the red it's in the you out and about are getting themselves very excited about as a kind of flutter we saw in the last time

so people were like putting me in the lead off spot watch confusing me so just like upfront Jake and I are very down on Isaiah kind of fluff up happy as always to be proven wrong root for the people that wear pinstripes I hope that he's a crowd favorite wins us over and has his moments we don't see how that can happen and just so there there you go like that's I just want to like there's some players we are way more popular

positive and the crowd gets upset on us because they're they're down and we're up we are down and some of you are probably up and this episode's going to come off whiny or whatever like is definitely people like you guys are so negative and down but man am I like I can't believe this was the move he did overhaul his swing sure the sign of someone who's a good hitter

maybe it works out he's not a shortstop didn't come up through the miners being a shortstop didn't come into the major shortstop is a position where you

100% of the people that play shortstop in the minor leagues and then reach MLB as a shortstop like 20% of them stay there he's doing the opposite journey

which you don't see rarely which is super impressive like it if there's anything we should be complimentary of and what we've heard of he is an incredible worker he played catcher just to get a chance to play major league baseball

like he wasn't a catcher like growing up he saw that there was a catcher opportunity he started to play catcher so he can make the big leagues he makes the big leagues he does enough the

Rangers through him at third base he was so good there he won the gold glove very impressive that they said we think this guy has the range in the arm to play shortstop he did and some of the numbers really did like him last year as a hundred and 56 game

every day shortstop yes so the range incredibly impressive it is not a lot of players do that yes it is impressive that he's got the ability to play everywhere

but a bona fide short stops bona fide shortstop it comes up as a shortstop stays a shortstop they were moving them around in the minors he caught like 40 games that catcher in the miners he was into third base when he got the double a and was just utility guy because he's a glove first guy

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