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Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)

Jimmy O'Brien

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	All lighter, Jack lighter.
0:14.8	Hello, and welcome to another player profile and projection here on Talking Yanks.
0:20.2	We're bringing you an episode today every day until opening day.
0:23.1	We did judge.
0:24.3	Now we're doing MLJ.
0:28.1	Mark Lider Jr.
0:30.3	Right-handed relief pitcher.
0:32.0	They traded for him in the middle of last season because they needed more strikeouts in the bullpen.
0:36.8	He also came with years.
0:38.6	So they got him for this year and next year.
0:42.2	What's his role going to be?
0:44.3	I think he's one of those guys where Viville will find out.
0:47.5	He's one of these relievers where he's not locked into back end and he's not locked into staying the whole season.
0:52.6	It's kind of one of these Victor Gonzalez, Ferguson cats where he can go the Wondi
1:01.1	route and become a guy.
1:02.9	He can go the Victor Gonzalez route and become a former.
1:08.5	I think it's a wide range of what Mark Lider Jr. can do for us.
1:14.5	He did have some big moments in the postseason.
1:16.5	We're going to watch those reminisce a little bit.
1:19.2	We're going to do the baseball reference projections.
1:21.7	We're going to do the over under.
1:24.1	And we're going to talk about his gusto.
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