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00:00But they are sort of telling Cardinals management we're in it to win it.
00:04Craig, you know what?
00:05You're right.
00:05No one thought we would be in this position.
00:08And now that they're in it, they want more.
00:11This is a team that I think comes July or August,
00:17you would improve to a point where you say, okay,
00:19this is what we feel like.
00:21This is who we know can do what and this and that.
00:24But it happened a lot earlier.
00:26And so right now they want more.
00:29They're aggressive.
00:29They're hungry.
00:30The question was going to be, are they going to be buyers or sellers?
00:35I think they're probably going to be buyers right now.
00:38I mean, and they have some assets that I know teams were looking at early.
00:43You know, you have Ryan Helsley who had led the league in saves last year.
00:46You have some other guys who you could probably move and get something for.
00:50But right now they like what they have,
00:54and they're probably going to look to add if they continue at this pace.
00:56I think the key claims is maybe those players,
01:01specifically the pitchers are the ones that we went into the season,
01:04really not knowing what they would be.
01:06And they have definitely outperformed what we thought they would in
01:09Libertor and Fetty.
01:11Sonny Gray is kind of always who he is.
01:13Pellante has been okay.
01:15Miles Michaelis has had a very big rebound from his April start.
01:19And so, I mean, I don't know if this is sustainable claims.
01:22Why would the Cardinals sell?
01:23They're going to have to add to this.
01:25Well, I agree.
01:26You know, I thought the key was what Miles Michaelis has done.
01:31He's in the last year of his contract,
01:33and he didn't have a very good season last year.
01:36You can ask him, and he'll tell you the same thing.
01:38He's given them a chance.
01:39And this is a guy who always takes the ball every fifth day.
01:43He is a guy that is a leader in the clubhouse for a lot of different reasons.
01:48And what he's done is given them a chance every night he goes out.
01:52Libertor, you thought, was going to be a good pitcher.
01:56You know, he was a former first-round pick by Tampa.
01:58And now he's taking the ball, and he pitches with such confidence.
02:03Pellante was a guy who was really good in the second part of last season,
02:07so you would hope that he was going to continue that.
02:10Fetty was a guy you thought you could be good enough where you could trade him
02:14for something because he's in the end of his contract.
02:17So it's been one of those situations where everybody thought
02:21they were going to be good, but not this good.