725 | Kyle Higashioka & Ben Rortvedt | Profile & Projection

Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)

Jimmy O'Brien

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

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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With Gary Sanchez traded to Minnesota, the tandem of Kyle Higashioka and Ben Rortvedt look to platoon behind the plate for the Yankees. What is the best-case scenario with this duo? Presented by SeatGeek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.2	Hello and welcome to another Talking Yanks player profiles and projections.
0:43.2	Two players on this episode brought to you by SeatGeek.
0:46.5	My name's Jimmy, his name's Jake BBD in the corner.
0:49.5	We are talking about the catchers today.
0:52.8	We have combined them right now.
0:56.9	Segascioca and the new guy Ben Wortvet as the two catchers platoon situation.
1:05.5	There is one fun conversation to be had about this that BBD and some writers and Twitter
1:10.8	people brought to my attention recently that I'm now a little interested in that.
1:15.2	This is also another kind of frustrating episode because the Yankees have straight
1:20.4	punted offensively in this position and they're valuing defensive runs saved.
1:26.2	A stat that half a baseball doesn't even care about and others are, yeah, but it will
1:31.5	change next year and the Yankees are living and dying on it and saying we care more about
1:36.0	defensive runs saved than defense than offensive runs scored.
1:39.9	DRS over RRS from the catcher position.
1:44.3	Oh yes.
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