Ernie Clement
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555 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2022
last heard 6 Jul
Ernie Clement’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So Valenzuela will not play much when Kirk comes back.
It's still possible.
As he's mentioned, the team is fighting for every win, is in a difficult spot competitively, and may just get to a point where they say, who are our best players?
This season matters.
We need to do it that way.
But the pinango move that just happened
kind of reveals their mindset on these things.
And I would be surprised if Heinemann goes, but I would have been more surprised if you said it to me, you know, two weeks ago, three weeks ago.
It's only becoming more possible that Valenzuela stays.
You can make a case that, listen, if you DFA Heinemann and you keep Valenzuela, people say, oh no, now you only have two catchers and you're in trouble.
You could make a case that Heinemann is reaching the sort of area where just the veteran catchers that you can find on waivers or in a completely inexpensive trade like the Lenin-Sosa type deal, that player available isn't enough worse than Heinemann that it's that much of a problem that you're losing one catcher from your organization.
And have some time for that.
Yeah, they have Willie McIver from the Rockies organization.
So maybe they see him in that realm where he's a AAA slash third catcher type that they actually believe in.
It's early to say how the organization feels about him.
The organization has always felt fairly positively about Tyler Heinemann, probably more than consensus.
They keep acquiring him.
But that is an argument I have time for.
The idea that, like, listen, you can lose Heinemann from the organization and
And whether it's McIver or whether it's another veteran catcher you kind of find on the scrap heap, you're not necessarily losing that much.
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