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Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)
Jimmy O'Brien
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Whoa necklace, necklace exclusive. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to another player profile and projection here on talking to Yanks where we've been bringing you an episode of day every day until opening day. Today we're talking about 25 year old as Waldo |
| 0:29.4 | Cabrera, the glove man. He can play play anywhere he can do everything |
| 0:35.9 | Struggled at the plate last year though and hoping to remedy that he's from Venezuela. He was born on March 1st, just celebrated a birthday. |
| 0:46.8 | On his Wikipedia it says New York Yankees number 33, thought to change that back. That was just a spring training goof, wrong Jersey for a day. |
| 0:56.0 | So whoever's updating his Wikipedia, that was quick. |
| 1:00.0 | But you jumped the gun. He's not number 33 Jake number 95 so 95 |
| 1:05.9 | 95 as kids a resource had changed everyone was excited. There's kids on the wiki |
| 1:10.5 | They're quick Os Waldo Alberto that's fun cabrero yeah dad is Leabardo so hey leab, hold on his brother, Eliardo, Leibaldo, and Leibaldo. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | So, O's, have you met him? It's a fun family. |
| 1:32.0 | The O's all around. That's what we're doing man. |
| 1:35.8 | Yes, Waldo Cabrera came into last year after a rookie season, basically with the first hack at the left field job it is funny to see that the |
| 1:47.2 | numbers ended up in in a place we begged for last year 740 oPS a 108 oPS plus in his age 23 season comes back the next season |
| 2:00.3 | plays in 115 games 330 plate, and it just never clicked. |
| 2:05.1 | A 574, OPS, it was ugly, he felt from the left side like a ground out to second almost every time. |
| 2:14.0 | He ended up playing pretty much everywhere except catcher. |
| 2:19.2 | Um, so that's impressive. |
| 2:26.6 | And yeah, there's almost no expectations. We did a lot of conversations like should we do we think he's even going to be on the team like |
| 2:30.8 | he would benefit from getting some at bats seems like he's pretty |
| 2:34.8 | firmly placed in the play everywhere probably pinch run a bit roll pinch run and spell people on defense. |
| 2:45.0 | He had a stretch in the middle of the season that wasn't bad last year. |
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